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2023-24 Season
2023-24 Season
The Mousetrap
The Mousetrap
November 2023
November 2023
Agatha Christie's evergreen mystery play put eight equally suspicious characters in Monkswell Manor on the same snowy night.
As You Like It
As You Like It
March 2024
March 2024
The Public Theatre's musical version of Shakespeare's classic put the Forest of Arden right on the Isle of Vashon. This co-production with Drama Dock recruited a multi-generational cast to create a special event in Vashon's theatre history.
Museum
Museum
May 2024
May 2024
Tina Howe's classic saw 24 actors play more than 40 characters who pass through a gallery of a big-city museum. This sly, sideways comedy gave its audience a view of something larger.
2022-23 Season
2022-23 Season
ff: A fast-forward theatre history
ff: A fast-forward theatre history
December 2022
December 2022
Featuring "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet"
Featuring "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet"
Thornton Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" compressd 90 years of family history into 25 minutes. Tom Stoppard's "The Fifteen Minute Hamlet" captured the Bard in full sprint. Other pieces, and the debut of VHS's improv troupe, rounded out an evening of instant theatre.
Alice in WonderlandÂ
Alice in WonderlandÂ
March 2023
March 2023
This imaginative romp took two Alices on mysterious pathways through Lewis Carroll's world. Starting with three weeks of workshops, we created a version that Liz Shepherd of the Vashon Maury-Island Beachcomber called "a demanding, boldly physical, complex and comic show, one the students have embraced as a true ensemble."
Photos by Mick Etchoe
The Witch of Edmonton
The Witch of Edmonton
May 2023
May 2023
Student author Phoebe Ray reworked the 1621 play about witches into a modern take that blended humor with darkness. Following the original story freely, this retelling focuses on Elizabeth Sawyer, a woman of Edmonton so tired of being accused of witchcraft that she summons her familiar, a black dog named Old Tom, and lets the witchcraft commence.
Photos by Kuba Holuj.
2021-22 Season
2021-22 Season
The Wild i
The Wild i
December 2021
December 2021
Seven Vashon authors contributed seven 10-minute plays, directed by 7 local directors. The result brought the students of the Intro to Theatre Class to the stage and brought theatre back to VHS after a pandemic break.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
March 2022
March 2022
Sixteen actors brought Shakespeare's carnival of love, theatre, and mystification to life with a pop-up set.
A Spirited Manor
A Spirited Manor
May 2022
May 2022
In this world premiere of Kate Danley's Victorian-style "penny dreadful," a young widow follows a medium's message a bit too far, leading to an evening of horror and mystery.
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