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Want All-Access? Buy Your Pass For The 2011/2012 Season Now!

All-access pass holders are entitled to one ticket to any TOJ co-production of the season and a full festival-pass to the annual Solo Performance Festival. We will also reserve you a seat when you attend!

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2011/2012 season

toj co-productions

swimming the list

(co-production with Susie J Lee)

fri/sat/sun, sept 23-25, 2011 pass

For one weekend only, Stranger Genius Award winner Susie Lee fuses dance, technology and live music to present an imaginatively intense and fantastical journey of creativity throughout a routine day. After sold-out runs two years ago, the Susie Lee Ensemble debuts this new work at Theatre Off Jackson.

"Neurotic, erotic, and electric..." Jen Graves, The Stranger

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sketchfest

(www.sketchfest.org)

oct 6- oct 8, 2011 pass

The 13th annual SketchFest is here! Celebrating sketch comedy from here in Seattle and all over the country. Featuring Pork Fill Players, The DK and Morgan Show, Barbara Holm, WTF, Ubiquitous They, Slow Children Crossing, and more!

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shadow odyssey

(co-production with Printer's Devil Theater)

thu/fri/sat, oct 13-nov 5, 2011 pass

Shadow Odyssey, the latest puppet extravaganza from Scot Augustson!

Shadow Odyssey is a bold, hilariously left-handed adaptation of Homer's great epic. In the hands of director Jennifer Jasper, this highly theatrical event will put the audience inside a tent as live silhouettes and shadow puppets tell the story of the hero's long journey home from the war and the people who wait for him.

Picture this: you walk into a dimly lit tent. You sit back in a chair or get comfortable on a pile of pillows. Then, the show begins: on all four walls surrounding you (plus the roof above) live actors in silhouette, shadow puppets and hand drawn projections interact to bring to life Shadow Odyssey. Visually it's a mix of ancient and modern images. Homer's themes resonate through the night: return from war, abandonment, longing for the past, the cruelty that good people are capable of and our tricky relationship with the dead.

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a guide to visitors

(co-production with agtv)

tues, oct 25, 2011 pass

all about AGTV: www.AGTV.org

Every other month, A Guide To Visitors presents a curated selection of real life stories. You know those stories you hear at bars or dinner parties, from friends or strangers? The ones that haunt you for days? We spend all month finding those stories and then present them to you. On stage, not by actors, but by the people themselves. Each month, you get a half dozen stories served up fresh n’ piping hot!

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naked girls reading science fiction

(co-production)

sun, nov 13, 2011 pass

Ladies, gentlemen, fans everywhere of ecdysial erudition, it is with utmost pleasure and quivering titillation that we announce:

SEATTLE'S NAKED GIRLS READING HAVE RETURNED!

Featuring celebrated, cerebral Seattle soubrettes: Miss Polly Wood, Heidi Von Haught, Jesse Belle-Jones, host librarian Elsa Von Schmaltz, and special guest reader Diva le Déviant! 21+.

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salon of shame

(co-production with salon of shame)

tues, nov 15, 2011 pass

All about salon of shame: www.salonofshame.com

We invite you to join us as we drink and exploit our younger selves for your entertainment! The idea is simple: Seattleites stand before you and read their middle school diary passages, high school poetry, unsent letters, and other bits of horribly shameful, and inadvertently hilarious adolescent writing. Founded in 2005, the Salon is cathartic for readers and hilarious for listeners. Everybody wins when it comes to embarrassment!

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ham for the holidays: a lard day’s night

(co-production with Dos Fallopia) pass

we/th/fr/sa/su, nov 23-dec 24, 2011

Starring Peggy Platt and Lisa Koch (Dos Fallopia)

With DJ Gommels and Michael Oaks | Directed by David Koch

Ham For The Holidays is back with the 11th edition of the cult holiday show, chock full of dysfunctional characters, tacky costumes, and more wigs than Lady GaGa. This year's show tackles religion, politics, and polka!

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THEBES

(co-production with Macha Monkey)

fri/sat, jan 20 - feb 10, 2012

By Kristina Sutherland

Directed by Alexis Holzer

In the small town of Thebes, where everyone knows everything about everyone,

a daughter¹s unexpected return home from war threatens not only her mother¹s

bid for Mayor, but the very fabric of the family itself.

not all clowns are bozos 4 (so you think you can clown)

(co-production with Ear to the Ground)

april 5 - 8, 2012

For the fourth year running Ear to the Ground brings another unique evening of break-your-heart-poignant to pee-your-pants-hilarious physical comedy and theatrical clown performance to Theatre Off Jackson. Featuring some of the region’s finest performers in the art of funny, this show will change your mind about clowns forever!

events & festivals

puu puu party 2011 (Fundraiser and Auction)

wed nov 9, 6pm

A not-to-miss evening of appetizers, cocktails, auctions, and puu puu-sized performances by TOJ regulars!

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solo performance festival

dates tbd

Every year, solo artists gather to show off their solo acting chops!

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guest productions

cityarts festival

oct 20 - 22, 2011

Theatre Off Jackson is hosting two performers as part of the 2011 CityArts Festival. John Osbold and Erin Leddy.

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lola’s house

nov 5 - 6, 2011

Project I-District Presents, Lola's House.

Nov 5th and 6th @ 2 PM.

An original stage play written by playwright Da'shauna Jimerson-Chalmers and Sundy Ballester. A telling story about family, the memories we share, and a legacy one comes to appreciate as we get older.

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