Summer Festival | Theatre 33 | Willamette University

Lights in the SkybyRicky Zipp

Is a political satire about the blindness of power and the violent choice that human beings decide to make. It shows how a group of people can get to the brink of world destruction — literally — and still not learn the lessons of the past. Jimmy King begins his first day of work for a government office in Washington, D.C., that investigates reports of UFO sightings. As he adjusts to his new job, he learns that his boss, Lillian, and his co-workers, Whit and Maye, are covering up a secret alien encounter that could lead to the destruction of the planet.

PULLbySara Jean Accuardi

A group of teachers attend a gun safety training program designed for educators planning to arm themselves in the classroom. Over the five-day course, convictions are tested as they wrestle with questions about responsibility and what safety really means.

Be WitchbyRob Smith

All Kendra has ever wanted is to be a witch. Sadly, her magik (with a K), doesn’t make for the most solid career. Down on her luck and with nowhere else to go, Kendra moves in with her brother, Huey. The fun doesn’t last long and sibling tension grows as Huey tries to help his sister find a “real job” while running his business, paying all the bills, and most importantly, becoming the best bowler he can be. On the edge of losing everything, Kendra finally makes a breakthrough
and gets the attention of the local Magik Consul. Now if she wants in, she’s gotta go big, and she’s gotta do it the way Magik Consul says. Can Kendra achieve her dream without pushing away the one person who has always had her back?

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Crumbs/Migas by Rebecca Tourino Collingsworth

In a fictional Latin American country, two hungry children are orphaned by a U.S.- backed coup. Fifteen years later they return, a modern-day Hansel and Gretel, to follow what migas they can in search of their father. Revisiting the scene of the violence they survived, they discover a landscape of secrets and sacrifice they are only beginning to understand. Delivered through compact and electric dialogue, and leavened with compassion and even humor, Crumbs / Migas is a play about the grief and grace we encounter on the way home.

July 17 @ 7 p.m. (Lincoln Studio Theatre, Portland)
August 8 @ 2 p.m. (Capital Auto Pavilion, Salem)
August 14 @ 7 p.m. (Roger’s Rehearsal Hall, Salem)

Prodigies by Brook Bethel

When a new talented competitor appears at an annual youth piano competition, Isla, Benji, Kinsleigh, and Eden question their own competency and ability to keep up with the growing demands of being a prodigy. After Isla gets her period while practicing, she takes it as a sign that she should quit playing piano forever, and attempts to rally the other prodigies to question their own devotion to Bach. "Prodigies" is a play about labor, duty, and living on the excruciating precipice of being a teenager.

July 19 @ 2 p.m. (Lincoln Studio Theatre, Portland)
August 9, 7 p.m. (Pelton Playhouse, Salem)
August 16, 7 p.m. (Pelton Playhouse, Salem)

Majnun by Layli Rohani

Nearly a year after her mother has passed, Asal finds herself in a rut; she hates her job, her father has busied himself in his work and barely speaks to her, and she misses her brother who’s been overseas for quite some time. Depressed, fed up, and grieving, she decides to finish a painting she’s been working on since her mother’s passing, only to find it’s taken on a life of its own. Majnun is a story of family, overcoming grief, and finding our way to lost loves.

July 18 @ 7 p.m. (Lincoln Studio Theatre, Portland)
August 7 @ 7 p.m. (Roger’s Rehearsal Hall, Salem)
August 15 @ p.m. (Pelton Playhouse, Salem)

Con Con by Curtis Frye

As the first federal Constitutional Convention since the original descends on Washington, D.C., the city transforms into a high-stakes shitshow. Follow a team of political free agents through a labyrinth of burner phones, transactional loyalty, and the occasional bit of malware. Can the constitutional order survive when literally everything is up for grabs? Enter the blender.

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