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What's the kindest thing you can say about the Empty Space Theatre closing its doors after 35 years? It can't be this, in the comments section over on the Stranger's Slog:

Life is funny. One night you go to a play about some guy who has 5 days to figure out a screenplay for Gone With The Wind, another night the play's about some guy who has 9 days to figure out why he has 9 days left to live. In the first case, you end up with a collection of deleted scenes from The Producers. In the second case, you start with a refresher course in the Manhattan Project, and then it's down the rabbit hole.

The iron bars of smug do-goodery and significant social issues cannot contain the comic genius of Lauren Weedman. We tell you what, unless more than one North Korean missile is headed our way, you have no good excuse to miss seeing Bust at the Empty Space Theatre. We may have dropped a few pounds from laughter -- which we're stealing from the point in the show where she suggests to the orientation leader that volunteering in L.A. jails would shoot through the roof if, you know, it turned out to have weight-loss advantages.

We loved loved loved the site where the Empty Space used to have their little things over in Fremont. Yes, part of it was that we could walk there if we were so determined but Seattlest also thinks that it was just the perfect size for a...middling to struggling financially theatre company. There were maybe, what, a hundred seats in there? That's the perfect size.

With theater, Seattlest, as you know, is drawn to the fringe, the daring, mind-altering experience. And those with puppets. But we're excited about Tiny Ninja Theater because the idea makes us laugh until we risk public incontinence.