NOTE: “Today” and “tonight” refer to Friday, August 21.
PORT TOWNSEND — “Twenty Doctors from the Past,” the newest show produced by the local theater company Generation Goat Rocket — spearheaded by sisters Phina and Sophie Pipia — opens tonight and runs through Sunday only at the Chameleon Theater, 800 W. Park Ave.
A youthful cast brings the story alive at 7 tonight and Saturday night and at 2 p.m. both Saturday and Sunday.
Set in a moonlit laboratory filled with bubbling elixirs and strange, brightly colored experiments, the story follows a group of young scientists as they set out to crack a mystery.
The performers include Cyan Adams, Max Allworth-Miles, Trevor Barry, Juniper Cervenka, Zen and Zoe Cook, Melody Douglas, Zoey Ferens, Celeste Gardner, Hunter Havens, Diego Murray, Mariel Price, Fiona Skidmore and Mira Stewart, and since this is a Pipia Sisters production, “Twenty Doctors” also has funky folk tunes, shadow play and unexpected dance breaks to go with the narrative.
Tickets are $14 for general admission and $10 for children younger than 12 via 360-774-2965, brownpapertickets.com, or at the door 30 minutes before curtain.
Phina and Sophie, actors, musicians and directors from Port Townsend, created this show as their sixth all-youth production here.
It springs from the Pipias’ annual summer theater intensive, a program for actors age 7 to 16.
In these song-dance-acting intensives, Phina has said, students work on building confidence, leadership skills and developing their joy in theater.
The sisters founded Generation Goat Rocket in 2009 and have since produced musicals and other shows in Port Townsend and at festivals around the continent.
To find out more, see goatrocket.com.
