Joseph Lavy as the Utah State Senator and Deborah Jacoby as his wife in the January 2014 reading of Jim Moran’s new play, Fangs.
Mark your calendars now for the next season of Sunday Salons!
- July 20 | The Farce of Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
- October 12 | Play TBA
- January 25 | 2nd Annual New Year New Play Reading Workshop | Submissions by PNW playwrights will be accepted in the fall for consideration.
- April 26 | A special, guest-curated Salon. Look for announcements about curation of this event.
And don’t forget to join us June 22 for the special Salon we added to coordinate with Odin Teatret’s livestream performance of Clear Enigma, celebrating its 50th Anniversary!
Regular Sunday Salons begin at 4:00 pm and end around 10:00 pm. The June 22 livestream begins at noon.
Full details can be found on each event’s page.
About Akropolis Performance Lab
Founded in 2000 by Co-Artistic Directors Joseph and Zhenya Lavy, Akropolis Performance Lab (APL) is Seattle's premiere ensemble-based theatre company. The ensemble practices rigorous, ongoing vocal and physical training and devises original work through long-form rehearsal process. APL's signature aesthetic, Theatre of Polyphony, is our original approach to crafting ensemble performance events that symbiotically interweave music, movement, and poetry to tell compelling and vital stories while reinventing the given spatial location and audience relationship to our art.
Company members include Annie Paladino (Associate Artistic Director), Catherine Lavy, Emily Jo Testa, Jennifer Crooks, Joseph Lavy, Margaretta Campagna, Matt Sherrill, Sara Kaus, Tyler J. Polumsky, and Zhenya Lavy.
The co-artistic directors' artistic lineage comes through the Central and Eastern European heritage of Meyerhold, Vakhtangov, and Grotowski.
Recent work includes Ecce Faustus (2016), The Glas Nocturne (2015), and Pomegranate & Ash (2015).
The ensemble hosts quarterly Salons and offers regular workshops in physical and vocal praxis.
Akropolis Performance Lab is a Washington State Non-Profit Corporation.