The indie film “Fat Kid Rules the World,” which
co-stars Bainbridge Island’s Dylan Arnold, has
taken an unorthodox approach to promoting itself, including
screenings on the recent Van’s Warped Tour.
Now, director Matthew Lillard has booked the film
— an award-winner at SxSW and one of the fan favorites at the
recent Seattle International Film Festival — for a
midnight screening at another music festival, the Summer Meltdown
at Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater in Darrington (in the foothills
of the North Cascades). The film, about a misfit kid who joins a
punk band and finds acceptance, includes an original score by
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike
McCready. Arnold, who appeared in a number of productions
at Bainbridge Performing Arts and attended
Bainbridge High School, will be in attendance for
the screening before heading east for his freshman year at the
North Carolina School of the Arts.
The festival will have music going on several stages from Aug. 9 to
12, with “Fat Kid Rules the World” closes things out. Performers
during the festival include Blitzen Trapper, Vicci
Martinez, the Moondoggies, Kay Kay and His Weathered
Underground, Kore Ionz and dozens of others. Information about the
festival is available at summermeltdown.com.
Monthly Archives: July 2012
‘Summerplay’ 2012 will feature a half dozen new one-acts
First-time directors, a first-time playwright and several returning favorites mark the 10th edition of Changing Scene Theatre Northwest‘s “Summerplay” festival of new one-acts plays, the line-up for which recently appeared on the company’s Web site (changingscenenorthwest.org).
The capper of the festival’s first decade will be presented Aug. 31 to Sept. 9 at the Bremerton Eagles Aerie 192, 205 Sixth St., according to Changing Scene artistic director Pavlina Morris. Friday and Saturday performances will be at 7:30 p.m., with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m.
Playwrights John C. Davenport, Scott Gibson and Josh Hartwell, all of whom have extensive histories with the Bremerton troupe — who have been celebrating summer by producing evenings of original short stage works from around the country since their inception. At the same time, Darren Hembd, one of Changing Scene’s longest-tenured members as an actor, director and technician, takes the play-writing plunge with a show titled “The Playwright.”
Morris has doled out two of the plays each to two first-time directors, Jeffrey Bassett and Dray Young, and Samantha Camp, who’ll be making her Changing Scene debut. Bassett, one of the area’s busiest actors, just completed a tour-de-force run as Arnold Beckoff in Changing Scene’s production of “Torch Song Trilogy.” Young, another “Torch Song” veteran, is a CSTN regular. And Camp has worked on stages in Tacoma, Gig Harbor and Port Orchard, notably Western Washington Center for the Arts’ production of “Hot L Baltimore.”
Bassett will direct Davenport’s “Collector’s Edition” and “Airport Diner,” by Californian Carol Roper. Another California writer, Stanley Toledo, contributed “Introductions,” to be directed by Camp, who’ll also helm Gibson’s “Professional Eye-Opener.” Young gets the director’s chair for Hembd’s debut piece, as well as Hartwell’s “The Extraordinarily Mundane Adventures of Earth Boy.”
Seattleite Davenport and Colorado-based Gibson and Hartwell make up a sort of all-star team of providers of original material to the Bremerton-based fringe company, which is an offshoot of the original Changing Scene Theatre in Denver. Among them, they’ve had five full-length plays and a festival full of one-acts produced in Bremerton.
Another franchise player in the “Summerplay” pantheon, L.A.
playwright Mark Harvey Levine, is notably absent
from this year’s lineup. But Morris has hinted that an evening of
selected Levine one-acts might be in the offing in the near
future.
Film director Lynn Shelton visits Rose Theatre
Director Lynn Shelton, whose latest film “Your Sister’s Sister” has just been released, will visit the Rose Theatre, 235 Taylor St. in Port Townsend on July 16.
Shelton will attend the 7:20 screening of the film, then be available afterward for a Q&A session.
The comedy, starring Emily Blunt, Mark Duplass and Rosemarie DeWitt, was filmed entirely in Seattle and the San Juan Islands.
Information: 360-385-1089, rosetheatre.com
Changing Scene auditions “Summerplay” players
The Changing Scene Theatre Northwest will hold auditions for “Summerplay 2012: A Festival of New Works” on Tuesday, July 10 at 7pm at The Bremerton Eagles Aerie 192, 205 6th Street, in Bremerton. Readings from the Scripts. Needed are actors and actresses of all ages and types. Questions/Information: 360-813-1820 or find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Changing-Scene-Theatre-Northwest/351590453800.
