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RECOMMENDED The Importance of Being Earnest @ Rendezvous Jewelbox Theatre. "In Earnest, meaning keeps coming into focus then slipping away before you can make heads or tails of it, but it's never boring, never arty and abstract for its own sake. In fact, in the end, Helsinki Syndrome's show comes off as sincere in a way Wilde never managed in his own work." [Read our review/profile] (Fri. 8 p.m. 2322 Second Ave. $12/$10, 21+)

"I think the thing is, we want to alienate people, but at the same time, we don't want to alienate people," said Rachel Hynes, sitting in the courtyard in from of Crawl Space Gallery last weekend. "Like, maybe I'd like to say: 'Come. If you want. We don't, like, care what anybody thinks, and if you don't like it, walk out. That would make me happy.' But then I'm like, 'Oh! That makes me sound so angry!'"

     

This last weekend at Theatre off Jackson, the Missoula Oblongata, out of Baltimore, got us revved up for what's looking to be a killer week of experimental theatre and performance. And yes, yes...we can see the eyes of readers rolling already. More performance art! Well, here's the trick--if there's one thing we took away from Missoula Oblongata's The 50 Greatest Ladies and Gentlemen, it's that, quite the opposite of what you might expect, the off-the-wall stuff is (often) more approachable than the mainstream stuff you'd get at the Rep or Intiman or the like.

Saturday at five o'clock we went down to On the Boards to catch the first week's Studio Showcase, part of the Northwest New Works Festival. The festival closes up next weekend with entirely different lineups in both the Mainstage and Studio showcases; more info here [PDF]. Tickets $14.

RECOMMENDED Northwest New Works @ On the Boards. The NW New Works Fest returns in top form! The first weekend features a lineup of top Northwest dance groups on the mainstage, and a cast of brilliant experimental troupes down in the studio, our favorite part of the fest. The studio showcase plays Fri. 8, Sat. and Sun. at 5. The mainstage performances are Sat. and Sun. at 8. Next weekend, the lineup changes, so this is your only opportunity to see some of Seattle's best performers, including Helsinki Syndrome, featuring former Seattlester Rachel Hynes, live from London. (100 W. Roy St. Tix $14.)

Last Saturday we spent a fair bit of the morning and part of the afternoon at On the Boards watching a preview of most of the studio shows from the upcoming Northwest New Works Festival, June 5-7 and 12-14 (, about the travails of a Chinese restaurant deliveryman stuck in a New York elevator. Umami Performance presents a semi-improvised dance work about a couple's difficulty sharing a home.