PORT ANGELES — The second weekend of “I Never Told Anyone (But I’m Going to Tell You)” will be performed tonight and Saturday at Studio Bob.
The series of monologues directed by Lara Starcevich, drama department head, are from this year’s Peninsula College Find Your Voice Festival.
Set at a wake in 1994 at a San Francisco North Beach bar, “I Never Told Anyone (But I’m Going to Tell You)” will be at 6:30 p.m. today and Saturday at the studio at 118½ E. Front St.
Sequim resident Tom Darter is providing improvised piano music behind the monologues. Darter, a composer, has played on Jerry Goldsmith film scores and arranged and adapted all the material on the Kronos Quartet albums “Monk Suite” and “Music of Bill Evans.”
Tickets will be available at the door for $10.
“Ask writers to tell a story they never told anyone (but they’ll tell you),” said this year’s creative director, Karen Hogan, “set the storytelling at a not-very-ordinary wake for a most unusual person and you get an evening of stories that will break your heart, then mend it with laughter.”
Out of the 42 submissions, the creative team narrowed the field to the 15 that are performed at Studio Bob.
One of this year’s writers, student Darryl Hayes (“The First Song”), found the experience particularly liberating.
“The very name of the festival, Find Your Voice, gave me courage to speak out loud,” Hayes said. “I’m prepared to dance a dance that gets others moving as this wave of enchantment gives way to freedom.”
For more information, email Hogan at karenl hogan@me.com.
