RESILIENCE!
A 24-HOUR PLAY FESTIVAL FEATURING ALL AAPI ARTISTS Through Covid and an ever-mounting tide of anti-Asian hate, Asian Americans have gone through the wringer in the past two years. Well, guess what—we’re still here, persisting and resisting all your efforts to stuff us into boxes to define us. We’re striking back with our whole voice, creating 7 new plays in 24 hours themed around resilience, representation and better, bolder futures. Live-streamed performance November 13, 2021 at 8:00 PM PST.
SLOW COOKER UNLEASHED! PNW LORE
UNLEASHED IS BACK! LIVE & CO-PRESENTED WITH CAFÉ NORDO We’re combining our Unleashed program with Nordo’s Slow Cooker program for a festival of new works. We will co-present three brand new works by local playwrights of color, exploring Seattle myths, legends and folklore. These pieces will be presented in person at Cafe Nordo’s Knife Room space in February or March of 2022.
DEVISED SHOW: A SHOW CREATED BY PERFORMERS
JOIN OUR 2022-2023 DEVISED SHOW COHORT We’re launching a devised theatre group, designed for writing, developing and presenting new work in a collaborative format. Recruitment and development of the devising cohort will begin in Summer 2022 for a public presentation in 2023.
MIKU AND THE GODS
CO-PRESENTATION WITH ARTSWEST JUNE 2022 PFP will co-present with ArtsWest the world premiere of miku and the gods in June 2022. This piece was developed in our 2020 Unleashed festival, and we brought this piece to the attention of the ArtsWest band of Associate Artists and the ArtsWest staff.
We will be participating in ArtsWest First Look previews (which will give a behind-the-scenes look at miku and the gods) and more!!
SHE DEVIL OF THE CHINA SEAS
FULL, IN PERSON PRODUCTION IN AUGUST 2022 We’re presenting a full, in person mainstage production of an original, full length show penned by our very own Roger Tang in association with Theatre Off Jackson in August 2022. This piece was developed in our 2017 Unleashed festival.
Synopsis:
Shih knows one thing in life: survival. She clawed her way up from refugee using every means to support her injured sister. But when China’s pirate lord offers her a chance at something more, the sorceress Wu and her dark forces gather to destroy her before she can even accept…and fulfill a destiny from the gods!
Based on the real-life pirate who commanded the largest pirate fleet in history, SHE DEVIL is one part true history, one part action fantasy, and one Marvel comics, which equals full length fun on stage in the mode of SHANG CHI and BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, complete with pirate queens, swords and sorcery!