SEQUIM — When it comes to love, men and women don’t always speak the same language. Has it always been this way, even for the world’s first married couple?
Discover the answer to how Adam and Eve, through humor and tenderness, navigated the same challenges many couples face today.
Nationally known performers Ingrid Nixon and Jeff Doyle explore this premise in their performance of “The Lost Diaries of Eve and Adam” on Thursday and Friday, June 8, in the Gathering Hall of Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave.
Inspired by Mark Twain’s “The Diaries of Adam and Eve,” Nixon and Doyle put their own spin on the “original story” in the Pacific Northwest debut of their original work.
Thursday’s performance starts at 7 p.m. with tickets $15. Friday’s performance is at 7:30 p.m. with tickets $18. OTA members get $2 off.
Advance tickets are available at http://olympictheatrearts.org/OTA or at the theater’s box office, open Mondays through Fridays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 414 N. Sequim Ave.
It’s a new perspective on the couple’s experience of suddenly finding themselves in a relationship, raising children, and living life, all without any instruction manual, according to a news release.
“Adam and Eve were the first couple, the first lovers, the first parents, leaving a lot of room for miscommunication and funny misunderstandings,” Doyle said.
“We have taken Twain’s idea of diary entries and woven together a wonderfully funny and sometimes touching love story.”
Added Nixon: “This show is not designed to be a Sunday school lesson on the Book of Genesis, but rather examines the way things could have been between the first man and the first woman.”
Nixon, who grew up in Port Angeles, is an award-winning storyteller who performs for audiences around the world. Michigan-based Doyle is a storyteller, humorist and recording artist.
The two received a grant from the National Storytelling Network to develop the piece, which they co-wrote while living half a continent apart.
To stage the show they worked with storytelling mime, Antonio Rocha, who was a featured teller at the Forest Storytelling Festival in Port Angeles in 2017.
Nixon and Doyle performed the world premiere earlier this year in The Opera House at Howell, Mich.
While in the Northwest, they will also perform in Olympia at Traditions Café on Wednesday.
Future performances include the National Storytelling Summit in Kansas City, Mo., in July.
For more information, call 360-683-7326.
