Just Wrought

Recovering playwright, once won a STRANGER Genius Award for theater. Now writing a bloated novel about… G-d help me! Theatre.

Tag: Fremont theatre

  • A Delicious Sampler of Sandbox Radio Live

    Sandbox Radio Live from Sandbox Radio on Vimeo.

  • To Hell With Love

    To Hell With Love

    Markheim’s just a half-fallen angel trying to keep his head down and walk neutral in The Show, but how long can that last with some other angel burning street kids on deserted Seattle stairways?

    Sam ain’t gonna like it.  And when Sam’s unhappy, nobody’s happy.

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    Come join Episode Three of SANDBOX RADIO LIVE!  “To Hell With Love” as the Sandbox Artists Collective records it LIVE! before a hopped up audience of devout Sandbox Radioheads on Monday, January 23rd at 7:30 at Fremont’s newest theatre, West of Lenin!

    Entirely new, fresh and certified locally grown, Sandbox Radio is written, produced and performed by some of Seattle’s hottest stage talent. This latest episode, “To Hell with Love” will include brand spanking new pieces by Scot Augustson, Vincent Delaney, Elizabeth Heffron and Anita Montgomery, plus Episode 3 of my noir-angel serial Markheim, poetry from Charles Leggett, and the sensationally seductive song stylings of our very special musical guest, Heather Curtis Mullin.  As an added bonus, the evening will also include a special  tribute to the “Poet Laureate of Radio” the late Norman Corwin.

    Members of the Sandbox Artist Collective currently scheduled to appear include: Eric Ray Anderson, Rik Deskin, Ki Gottberg, Sarah Harlett, Tracy Hyland, Darragh Kennan, Mik Kuhlman, Charles Leggett, Larry Paulsen, Dan Tierney, Annette Toutonghi, Kathryn Van Meter.  Original music will be provided by Jose Gonzales and the Sandbox Radio Orchestra: Charles Leggett, Dave Pascal, Dan Tierney and Rob Witmer.   You won’t want to miss this, and you won’t want to wait until the podcast gets posted.  Come see it LIVE! on Monday, January 23.

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    The details!

    Who:                The Sandbox Artists Collective

    What:              Sandbox Radio Live! “To Hell with Love!”

    Where:            West of Lenin (Located at 203 N. 36th Street, a few blocks west of the Statue of Lenin in the center of the universe, Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood.)

    When:              Monday, January 23rd  (house opens at 7:30 pm with a live music set, show starts at 8:00 pm)

    How much:    $10 suggested donation at the door, Reservations recommended!
    Available through brownpapertickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/218562

    Sandbox Radio is conceived, produced and directed by Leslie Law.

    Subscribe to the podcast of Sandbox Radio and listen to past episodes at the iTunes store by clicking here
     

    PS:  Yes you read that correctly: our very special musical guest is the one– the only!– the fabulously gorgeous AND talented, Heather Curtis Mullin.Heather rockin' out

  • Sandbox Radio Live: Episode Two- "Horror Show"

    Sandbox Radio Live: Episode Two- "Horror Show"

    Episode Two of Sandbox Radio is now available on iTunes chocked full of Halloween offerings for your listening delight and convenience.  Here’s what you’ll find.

    Act 1

    @1:50 “The Hands of a Girl” by Ki Gottberg

    @21:15 “The Back of the 358 #1” by Paul MullinThe lovely Leslie Law leads Sandbox Radio

    @22:35 “Markheim: Episode 2” by Paul Mullin

    @37:40 “The Back of the 358 #2” by Paul Mullin

    @39:10 “The Black Cat” adapted from the story by Edgar Allen Poe.

     
    Act 2

    @0:37 “PSA: Hanford Challenge” by Elizabeth Heffron

    @3:45 “Madame Flora” by K. Brian Neel

    @9:32 “The Request” by Vincent Delaney

    @21:50 “The Back of the 358 #3” by Paul Mullin

    @23:25 “Pipe Play” by Elizabeth Heffron

    @43:02 Finale/Credits. Music Director: Jose Gonzales

    (Sandbox Radio Live: Horror Show, was recorded at West of Lenin on October 10, 2011. The show was engineered by Christopher Stewart, mixed by Dave Pascal and Rob Witmer, and directed by Leslie Law.)

    Paul Mullin and Charles Leggett as Sam and Markheim

    For you true Markheim geeks I’m including the script of Episode Two below the fold.  Enjoy it while you can, ‘cuz “Things can always get uglier, right?”

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  • Sandbox Radio – Worth the Wait

    Sandbox Radio – Worth the Wait

    A bunch of us founded the Sandbox Artists Collective a few years ago “as a place for mid-career artists to explore their craft in the company of their peers.”  Unlike most assemblages of show folk, the Sandboxers weren’t in any hurrsandbox_radio_episode_01y to produce publicly as a group.  Most of us were already performing, writing and/or producing professionally elsewhere. We were not, however, completely quiet in our first years, hosting salons, like Playground in which four Sandbox playwrights wrote specifically for Sandbox actors.  Finally, however— and fully to the credit of Leslie Law’s leadership— the membership felt the urge to share what happens when we put  our collective mind into putting on a show.  The result was last month’s Sandbox Radio Live, Episode 1, available now in podcast here.

    On an individual artist’s note, Sandbox Radio Live has given me the opportunity and motivation to finally flesh out a project I have been percolating since high school.  For all that time, all I knew was that I wanted to wright a nasty noir angel detective saga.  Now you can listen to the first chapter of Markheim on the podcast, with the incomparable Charles Leggett starring in the title role of the reluctant semi-heavenly gumshoe.  Below the fold I am posting the script in case you want to follow along. 

    And be sure to attend the next episode of Sandbox Radio Live on Monday, October 10th at West of Lenin, the fabulous new theatre space in Fremont, when Markheim adjusts to life in the strange city of Seattle, and begins his search for the reasons that brought him here.  Special appearance by the fellow that Jesus Christ Himself once called “the Prince of the World.”

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