The Village Theatre in Issaquah takes the mega-musical Les Miserables and mounts it on a small turntable-like stage, spinning out an intimate, moving drama that captures Victor Hugo’s post-revolutionary France.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, you are about to see a story of murder, greed, corruption, violence, exploitation, adultery, and treachery
In Franz Kafka’s chilling novel The Trial, written in 1914, a respectable, unassuming bank administrator, Joseph K., awakens one morning – his birthday – to find two thuggish men in dapper suits having invaded his bedroom and placed him under arrest.
“No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living – even if it kills you.” So wrote humorist Sholom Aleichem, author of “Tevye, the dairy man” and other Yiddish tales, upon which the classic musical Fiddler on the Roof was based.
Mark Twain once wrote, “Success is not the destination, it’s the journey.” In their musical retelling of the author’s classic 1884 novel, “The Adventures of HuckleberryFinn,” through the jaunty, bluegrass-inspired score composed by the legendary country songwriter Roger Miller, the Village Theater hits Twain’s mark.
