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Dear Friends,

Join us for our 2022-2023 Season. Spooky Action Theater is excited and has a new sense of renewal and rebirth. With our performances and new works in action, we are adding community engagement events such as Art All Night and Theater Week. We are expanding our educational programs for not just our community’s youth, but for adults who crave educational talks and seminars. 

The season opener in September is Maple and Vine written by Jordan Harrison, followed by New Works in Action, our stage reading series in November 2022 and February 2023.

UPDATE
JUST ADDED to close the season - Sonnets for an Old Century by Jose Rivera, June 15-25, 2023.

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Maple and Vine
By Jordan Harrison
Directed by Stevie Zimmerman
​Sep 29, 2022 - Oct 23, 2022

​Big City dwellers Katha and Ryu have become disenchanted with their 21st-century lives.  The harder they try to figure out what happiness looks like, the more elusive it becomes. Then they meet Dean, from a idealistic community that exists in a permanent state of 1955. 

​They forsake cell phones and sushi for cigarettes and Chicken a la King, taking on new identities that challenge who they thought they were and who they might become. How far will they go -- how far would you go to alter your life in the pursuit of happiness? Speaking about his fictional Society for Dynamic Obsolescence, Harrison says, “The notion that less freedom could make you happy is a morally problematic idea...   I’m hoping that the audience thinks, ‘I would never do something like that...  Or would I?'”

Sonnets for an Old Century 
By Jose Rivera
Directed by Elizabeth Dinkova
​June 15 - 25, 2023

If you had one last chance to broadcast your story into the universe, what would you say?

José Rivera’s Sonnets for an Old Century captures the psychic residue of ten lives in ten intimate, searing encounters in the afterlife. In this immersive production, audience members journey through the landscape of each character’s mind to experience their most treasured memories, clandestine confessions, and climactic revelations. This experiential DMV premiere, which utilizes the full architectural potential of Spooky Action’s home at the Universalist National Memorial Church, offers a kaleidoscopic vision of the joy and pain of the human condition.