By: Bridey Heing Category: ART+FASHION Date: 27.Jun.2014

Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea

 

This week is your last chance to catch a performance at the 7th Annual Source Festival in Washington, D.C. The festival features 25 new works from around the country, including full-length plays and 10-minute series. This
year’s festival opened its three week run on June 6.

The final days of the festival provide ample opportunity to take in the full creative range Source curates. This year the program centers around three key topics: Mortality, Quests, and Revenge. The three full-length
plays, 10-minute series, and three Artistic Blind Dates explore these topics from various angles, inviting the audience to reflect on things like death and vengeance.

All three full-length plays will have final showings this week. Erin Bergman’s “A Bid to Save The World” asks what living means in a world without death. Nathan Alan Davis’ “Dontrell, Who Kissed The Sea” is a modern take on the classic hero-quest tale. Steve Yockey’s “The Thrush & The Woodpecker” introduces change and upheaval to a woman’s North Californian domestic life.

The festival’s 10-minute series will also run throughout the week, each titled and based on the three topics mentioned previously. Each performance features six ten-minute original pieces, providing a rounded look at the
central themes of the festival. The innovative Artistic Blind Date performances can be seen, as well. Playwrights were paired up and given six months to complete an original piece of work exploring one of the three themes.

A calendar for Source Festival can be found here, and tickets are available at the festival’s website. Source Festival runs through June 29th.