Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Condo Stories
In the latest edition of her quarterly-ish email newsletter, Marya Sea Kaminksi--actress, writer, director, Genius, and WET co-founder, just to name a few--shared some info on one of her upcoming projects. She's developing a monologue on a timely topic: Seattle's rampant condo abuse, in a work titled Condomillennium: A New Play About Fantasy and Real Estate.
I can count five cranes from the west-facing windows in my apartment. Over the past few years I have been blown back by the transformation of my neighborhood from small, dusty rentals to shiny, tall condominiums with half-balconies. These developments, coupled with the recent subprime mortgage crisis, denote the wave of change washing over our urban centers and the inevitable human stories being swept up in the undertow. Set in Capitol Hill and loosely inspired by the transformation of the Pike/Pine Corridor, Condomillennium will be a monologue play combining real human stories and absurd fantasies to build a theatrical picture of the evolution of our urban landscape and our instinctual need for space and home. I'll be starting my research with an extensive interview process this summer. Please contact me if you or someone you know might be a promising interviewee, or if you have any thoughts or suggestions for tasty material.
Marya's aiming to have the staged reading ready as soon as early next year. If you've got any stores to share for this project, you can contact her at maryasea (at) gmail dot com.
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