Seattle Gay News
Issue 23, Volume 46, June 8, 2018
Arts & Entertainment
Seattle Opera’s O + E PNB’s “Love & Ballet” a thrilling adaption of Gluck’s an exceptional reprise Orpheus and Eurydice of great contemporary dance works and music
Magda Gartner as O and Tess Altiveros as E in Seattle Opera's O + E – Photo by Philip Newton
by Sharon Cumberland SGN Contributing Writer SEATTLE OPERA O+E AN ADAPTATION OF GLUCK’S ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE SEATTLE OPERA SOUTH LAKE UNION STUDIO Through June 10
Gluck’s heart-rending opera, Orpheus and Eurydice, has been a big hit ever since its first performance in Vienna in 1762. It tells the mythological story of Orpheus, whose trip into the underworld to rescue his dead wife, Eurydice, is helped along by Amore, the god of Love. In the Seattle Opera’s current chamber version, performed in their rehearsal studios on Terry Avenue, the myth is brilliantly transposed to the present, where Orpheus is
see O + E page 5
Wild Horses tells a 13 year-old’s tale
Wild Horses – Photo by Naomi Ishisaka for Intiman Theatre
by Miryam Gordon SGN A&E Writer WILD HORSES INTIMAN THEATRE (AT 12TH AVENUE ARTS) Through June 24
Allison Gregory has created a play that turns the idea of a short story, told around a campfire, into a visceral experience and a solo performance. She crafts a memoir told from the point of view of a woman
see WILD HORSES page 5
Pacific Northwest Ballet company dancers in Justin Peck’s “Year of the Rabbit” as a part of “Love & Ballet” – Photo by Angela Sterling
by Sharon Cumberland SGN Contributing Writer PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET “LOVE & BALLET” MCCAW HALL Through June 10 This program is a wonderful reprise of four recent works by contemporary choreographers that we’ve seen at PNB over the
last two years – Christopher Wheeldon, Benjamin Millepied, and Justin Peck. It’s important to bring contemporary works back within a year or two because a onetime viewing of new creations is not enough for audiences to learn and remember what was distinctive about an emerging artist. We don’t need to see “Swan Lake” every year, or even every other year. We know
see “LOVE & BALLET” page 4
Bigger conversations:
Truth, lies and the pursuit of immortality all collide in Bart Layton’s American Animals
American Animals – Photo courtesy of The Orchard
by Sara Michelle Fetters SGN A&E Writer AMERICAN ANIMALS Now playing
In 2012 director Bart Layton wowed people with his dynamic, edgily creative documentary The Imposter. The story of a young man who claims to be a grieving Texas family’s 16-year-old son who
see BART LAYTON page 6