The Intiman in Seattle
It’s tough to be in the theatre business these days, and it’s even tougher to remain a theatre city, but Seattle continues to uphold the tradition. It’s been a rough season lately, for many years, actually, and it doesn’t look like it will get easier. Small companies are going by the wayside all the time, but places like The Intiman continue to roll.
They do it with great style, too, and enough to suggest that it’s not going to go away anytime soon. In fact, there are signs that this rough patch is over, or perhaps that the older theaters have learned to adjust. The offerings here have always been for small audiences, where the name is the Swedish for “intimate.” From the beginning, its mission to speak powerful truths in a language that only this art form can muster, has been an artistic rudder.
It’s served the city, along with the theatre community at large, as the recent production of ” Ruined ” is showing. The story of Congolese women could only be told in a small space, where the power of the tale can touch every audience member.
It is work like this that draws visitors to book a Seattle hotel and see what’s happening. There are smaller spaces, surely, and also larger theaters, and all of this adds up to an art form that’s very much alive.
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