Intiman Theatre, under the leadership of artistic director Bartlett Sher, continues its 2008 season with the world premiere of “Namaste Man,” an autobiographical play written and performed by actor Andrew Weems.
Previews begin tonight and the show runs through June 22 at Intiman Theatre in Seattle.
In India and Nepal, “Namaste” means hello and goodbye. Weems, the son of a U.S. State Department officer, was born in a military hospital in Seoul, Korea, and grew up in Zambia and Nepal, with brief detours to the suburbs of Virginia.
Weems tells the story of his unconventional childhood, in which he includes adventures and outsized personalities. Weems unravels the mysteries of his childhood, while also sharing his real-time life as an actor in New York. Throughout the show, Weems weaves in the underlying theme: his quest to understand what it means to go home. His traveling companions are characters he’s met along the way, including his mysterious mother.
The production is directed by Sher, who this year received a Tony Award nomination (his third) for his direction of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific.” The production garnered a total of 11 nominations and is now playing an open-ended run at Lincoln Center Theater in New York City. Sher, Intiman’s artistic director since 2000, received this year’s Julia Hansen Award for Excellence in Directing by the Drama League of New York.
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