Theatre Northwest announces “Pygmalion”

And they will be using a time-honoured tool of the playwright. Stage reading.

“The playwright will hire a director and a cast and bring in an audience,” explains Marnie Hamigami, Executive Director for Theatre Northwest. “It helps the playwright to see where dialogue works and where it doesn’t. Often something works on paper but when it’s spoken out loud by people, it sounds clunky, it’s not funny or it’s not moving or whatever.”

And in this day and age, play-reading is just the type of production that’s needed.

“At Theatre Northwest, we thought it would be a great idea to use in the COVID world because, in a play-reading, actors are literally sitting and reading the script. They’re not moving, there’s no blocking. They don’t have an opportunity to interact physically with each other.”

Tickets are on sale but, because of COVID, seating is limited.

by Cheryl Jahn

Theatre Northwest announces “Pygmalion”

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