Coming July 28 - August 2: Renata Friedman in "The K of D - an urban legend"
Key City Public Theatre hosts Pistol Cat Productions presentation of:
The K of D
an urban legend
A new 16-character solo play in a limited pre-New York run, starring Port Townsend native Renata Friedman at Key City Playhouse, 419 Washington St.
Shows: Tues. July 28 to Sat. Aug. 1 at 7:00 p.m.,
plus a matinee on Sun. Aug. 2 at 2:30 p.m.
Plus: Tuesday, Aug. 4 at
7:00 p.m.; Wednesday, Aug. 5 at 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 6 at 1:00 p.m.
Plus: Wednesday, Aug. 5 at 1:00 p.m.
Plus one more performance just added: Tuesday, Aug. 4 at 1:00 p.m.
Tickets are now on sale at The Rose Theatre
box office (or a half-hour before each showtime at Key City Playhouse).
General admission $15; Seniors/students $10. (Wed. July 29
performance is pay-what-you-will)
Show information at (917) 297-9545 or by email:
info@thekofd.com.
The K of D
an urban legend
WINNER of Seattle’s ACT Theatre New Play
Award 2006.
BEST PLAY OF 2008 – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“They’re called urban legends, those things that get started
when a bunch of people put
their heads together and talk real low and real fast….”
One actress brings an entire town to life in The K of D,
a summertime ghost story about a young girl suspected of
possessing a lethal skill. It begins one hot, sticky August in a
lonely corner of Ohio where the local teenagers witness some
peculiar occurrences around their small town...
Wickedly funny and delightfully chilling, the play offers up
an urban legend of the spookiest class, a small-town tale about
a frightened, dangerous girl, and how she comes to reckon with
her fearsome talents.
The K of D features a luminous new script by LAURA
SCHELLHARDT, and stars RENATA FRIEDMAN under the direction of
BRADEN ABRAHAM.
Port Townsend connections...
Last summer’s Seattle production of The K of D was funded entirely by 52 individual donors from Port Townsend, most of whom have been watching Renata onstage since she played Oliver Twist in OPEPO in 2nd grade. Several of the same people also flew to New York in 2003 when Renata made her New York debut at the New Victory Theatre, and there will be a small contingent headed to NYC in August. The Port Townsend community is entirely responsible for the play’s successes to date.
Seattle reviews...
“Laura
Schellhardt’s storytelling prowess is nothing short of magical, but it’s sublime acting by Renata Friedman and
inventive stagecraft that make her clever dramedy work so
well… Delightfully creepy… Under the steady hand of
director Braden Abraham, Friedman plays each character as if
it were the only one she really cared about. Abraham makes
sure that her bravura performance never distracts us from
the mood of a great yarn being told with style… Together,
playwright, director and actor are so good it’s scary.”
–– Seattle Weekly
“An engrossing and spooky coming-of-age story… Urban legends
continue, Friedman notes, because they’re more fun to
believe. I believe the fun Friedman offers here is
legendary.”
–– Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
“Remarkable… Schellhardt provocatively explores the
role of creativity in emotional survival… Describing Friedman’s cracked-mirror performance as virtuoso is hardly
adequate.”
–– Seattle Times