LOPEZ ORIGINAL THEATER PRESENTS
CLOUD 8
AT THE LOPEZ CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND THE ARTS
November 13Th & 14Th at 7pm
November 15th at 2pm
November 20th & 21st at 7pm
November 22nd at 2pm
Cloud 8 explores the bittersweet and sometimes tragic experience of coming so, so close to fulfilling our greatest dreams, the loss we experience as those deep longings slip through our fingers, and the unpredictable ways in which sometimes we get what we wished for, just not in the way we had anticipated.
plays
Friendly, rumpled Professor Hart-Meadows, an actor in what he believes is a rather dull play, decides to break the fourth wall and speak directly to the audience, engaging them in a conversation about clouds and beauty and the nature of reality.
Queer band “Top Shortage” is at a crossroads, and it’s time to have a serious talk about the future with their de facto leader, Scotty. Will she embrace her band’s messy realities to find the potential underneath, or will Top Shortage break up?
A devised physical theatre piece, told through original music, movement, dance, and puppetry. Enough explores the concept of being enough. Not meaning “good enough” or “skilled enough” or “successful enough,” but rather embracing the shadows within, our complexities and flaws, and becoming whole through that process.
In a post-apocalyptic world, two mothers with polar-opposite worldviews meet for the first time at the edge of a playground to watch their children play. Tensions rise as secrets are revealed. What will they choose: rugged individualism or community?
PLaywrightS
Barbara Lindsay
My first full-length play, FREE, won the NY Drama League’s 1989 Playwriting Competition and was given its premiere production in London in 1991. Since then, there have been more than 400 national and international productions of my plays and monologues in 33 States, 13 countries, and on every continent except Antarctica. Full-length play I-2195 won the Women in the Arts Award at UM St. Louis and was produced there in 2005. Short play HERE TO SERVE YOU won the 2008 Goshen Peace Play Prize. In 2011, I was Playwright-in-Residence for New Voices for the Theater, a two-week playwriting intensive for teens produced annually by SPARC (School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community) in VA. I am a fifth-generation Californian living in Seattle, WA, married to an amazing man, and ridiculously happy.
Monte Rozema
Monty Rozema (they/them) is a queer writer born and raised in Seattle. Their short plays The Sugarplum Smackdown ('24) and (Frog) Prince of Cats ('26) were written for and performed by Latitude Theatre, and their experimental work has been performed as a part of Washington Ensemble Theatre's Neo-Futurist extravaganza Scrambling the Goose ('24+'26). Their debut full-length play, Disappearance at the Leatherdyke Snowpicnic (Annex Theatre, '26), was a recent Gregory nominee for Best Original Script. Their one-act play, Don’t Tell Scotty, is premiering as part of Lopez Original Theater’s [26] production. They are also a two-time Pushcart nominee who has written short fiction for The Ugly Radio, Hallow’s Eve, Mania, Hash Journal, t’ART, Prismatica, and many more.
Brian Rick
Brian Rick found the stage when he was ten, which led to performing, directing, set design/construction, lighting, sound & makeup for numerous productions from educational, to community, to professional theater, TV & film. He graduated from a performing arts high school and has a college degree in theater. Brian is one of the co-founders of LOT and serves as Production Manager, Technical Director, Lighting Designer and sometimes Actor.
He is also the Director/Creator of Enough, an original work of physical theater, which found its inspiration through his personal journey of self-acceptance earlier this year. Starting out as I Am Enough, the play is a true ensemble piece, with ideas coming from all company members, and the story evolving through the rehearsal process. He is beyond grateful to his fellow “Nuffers” for their creative collaboration, their thoughtful devotion, and beyond all, their infectious playfulness. It definitely takes a “We” to be enough.
Meredith R. Perry
Meredith is a director and published playwright based in WA state whose emotional and darkly humorous works have been produced on both coasts. Placing the patron in a powerful position is a strong theme in Meredith’s work. Through suspension of disbelief, audiences have been transformed into a lake filled with human tears; a vast sea and an immortal, endless audience of bored patrons with better things to do. Lopez Original Theater has played a massive role in Meredith’s journey as a playwright, and they are honored to premiere their new short play, Big Mother, this season. Driven to theater as agitation, balm, and a vehicle for catharsis, Meredith is currently hard at work on their first full-length play.
In 2012, Meredith’s father, Steve Young, a long-time Lopez Island resident, actor, and Samuel Beckett scholar, built a barn with a large heated loft on his south-end property, intending to use it to rehearse community theater on Lopez. Today, to Meredith’s great joy, “Steve’s Barn” is utilized by Lopez Original Theater in every production.
Production Crew
Lighting design_______________Brian RicK
Sound by_____________Jesse Hammond
House stage manager____Wendy Stephenson
Costume design by_____Britney Westervelt
Sound design by____Meredith Raithel Perry
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Justin Jones, Noah Lutes, Kim Bast, Amelia Kent, Bill and Angie Clothier, Paper, Scissors on the Rock, Aaron Richardson, Blue Heron Bistro and Ken Kortge.