Arouet is accepting proposal submissions from playwrights and directors. If you have a play, or would like to direct a play that fits into our mission statement, please send your submission to roy@arouet.us We are interested in dynamic plays that…
The Music Of The Gene Pool
[quote]AT RISE: Lights come up on an empty living room, perhaps even while the audience is still settling in. The opening bars of Doris Day’s “Everybody Loves a Lover” blast.[/quote] And so begins Christi Stewart-Brown’s The Gene Pool. As the…
The Gene Pool Review Roundup
Nancy Worssam, The Seattle Times [quote]Playwright Christi Stewart-Brown has cleverly tied the universal to the particular in her funny but thought-provoking play, and director Roy Arauz has pulled together a gifted cast, capable of eliciting the nuances and layers within…
La Segua
La Segua by Alberto Cañas translated by Roy Arauz dramaturgy by Charles Waxberg Encarnación Sancho is the most beautiful woman in town. Convinced that she is a mythical segua who drove her first suitor mad, Encarnación becomes obsessed with the…
The Gene Pool: Designing the Set
One of the biggest challenges facing “The Gene Pool” was the set. It had to provide the comfort of a home, allow for the outdoor/motorcycle sequences, and be easy to build as we don’t have a shop to build in…
Seattle Times on “The Gene Pool”
You know what? It’s kind of exciting to get a good review from the Seattle Times. [quote]…director Roy Arauz has pulled together a gifted cast, capable of eliciting the nuances and layers within the script. It’s staged with minimum props…
The Seattlest on The Gene Pool
We are totally grateful for such a supportive review from The Seattlest, but we would like to point out that the following comment is totally inspired: [quote]It’s like King Lear lamenting, “Who is it that can tell me who I…
Broadway World Reviews “The Gene Pool”
Jay Irwin wrote a great review of The Gene Pool at Broadway World. So while Arouet’s examination of a family with same sex parents may not have provoked any epiphanies, the performances are well worth the trip. But maybe that…
“The Gene Pool” Featured on Seattle Gay Scene
We are grateful for Seattle Gay Scene for running the feature Arouet’s “The Gene Pool” offers LGBTQ theater for Pride month. They interviewed director Roy Arauz about The Gene Pool. [quote]Roy Arauz: To me the play is about how normal…
Sound Design for “The Gene Pool”
I have a pretty extensive sound library, but I ran into a roadblock when creating the motorcycle effects for The Gene Pool: all of my field recordings were of motorcycles coming or going, and therefor they always incorporated the doppler…