Harlequin Productions Presents The Language Archive

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Harlequin Productions stages it's shows in the Historic State Theater in downtown Olympia.
When:
May 27, 2016 @ 8:00 pm
2016-05-27T20:00:00-07:00
2016-05-27T20:30:00-07:00
Where:
The State Theater
202 4th Ave E
Olympia, WA 98501
USA
Cost:
$20 - $34
Contact:
Harlequin Productions

On May 5, Harlequin Productions opens The Language Archive by Julia Cho at the State Theater in downtown Olympia. This inventive and whimsical play looks at the way language may complicate love and the expression of feeling may find its ultimate form in the scent of baking bread.

George is a man consumed with preserving and documenting the dying languages of far-flung cultures. He is immersed in words but tongue-tied when his wife, Mary, announces that she is leaving him. Broken hearted, he turns to his current project: researching a dying language as spoken by an aged couple who are the last surviving speakers. Instead he finds them arguing in English over his claim on an airplane’s window seat and her cooking. Meanwhile, George’s assistant, Emma, has fallen in love with him but cannot find the words to express it in a way that he can hear. The Language Archive explores the way that words may stifle communication and how profound and incomprehensible feelings look for shapes that may not fit an archive.

SPECIALS:
Pay What You Can Night: May 11
Ladies’ Night Out: May 13
Pride Night: May 20
Post-show Talkback: May 15

RATING: Some strong language – best for teens and up

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