Originally published Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 5:30 AM
'Smokestack' at ACT remembers bloody labor uprising
"Smokestack Arias" by Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb is at ACT Theatre Feb. 2-12, 2012.
'Smokestack Arias'
A song cycle inspired by an infamous, and deadly, labor uprising in Everett nearly a century ago makes its debut at ACT Theatre on Thursday.
In "Smokestack Arias," by local musicians Wayne Horvitz and Robin Holcomb, each song assumes the perspective of a different woman affected by the strike and the deaths of sheriff's deputies and Industrial Workers of the World (known as "Wobblies") in a shootout at the Everett waterfront in 1916.
The production uses just two performers — pianist Cristina Valdes and soprano Maria Mannisto. Experimental theater artist and choreographer Dayna Hanson directs.
Weekends through Feb. 12, ACT Theatre, 700 Union St., Seattle; $15-$22 (www.acttheatre.org).
Seattle Times staff
