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Seattle Rep's Twelfth Night, which they're nerdily calling Twelfe Night as per the First Folio, is nearly shipwrecked by dull production design and the cast's inability to make anything of the esoteric wordplay that audiences once found witty, or at least clever. But the portrayal of life lived to excess is still gripping drama, and Frank X.'s steward Malvolio burns with a self-importance that veers from comic over-stepping to something much eerier. Tickets start at $15 ($10 for 25 and under).

Remember which pre-Socratic thinker said, "Time keeps on slipping into the future"? In Charles Waxberg's The Equation, time comes in sedimentary layers, a contradictory past unearthed month by month. It works, it doesn't work. But if you're going to see just one play this year -- and you want one that locates the roots of modern-day conspicuous consumption in the hand-to-mouth neediness of the Depression -- dig in.

Twelfth Night reminded us of that Capitol Hill party where you drink too much and spend all your time flirting with someone who puts you off and then later you see them begging someone else to take them home, but by then you just shake your head and stagger off to the Canterbury to meet up with friends.