Coffee and Concepts: "Theatre and Peace" The Center for Performance Studies is inviting you for a conversation with the Iranian playwright and theatre scholar Naghmeh Samini on Friday, January 31, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, at Hutchinson Hall 154. Naghmeh Samini's plays have been internationally produced. More than twenty of her dramas have been staged in Iran, France, India, Canada, and the United States. Her scholarly research explores the connections between Iranian drama and Iranian mythology. We look forward to seeing...

Native American playwright LeAnne Howe will be a guest at Coffee and Concepts next Friday, January 24, 2:00-4:00, at Hutchinson 154. On Wednesday, January 22, 6:00 - 8:00 there will be a staged reading of her new play Savage Conversations at the Henry Art Gallery, directed by School of Drama MFA Directing student Andrew Coopman . At Coffee and Concepts, LeAnne Howe will talk about her creative process and her sense of current developments in Native American playwriting.

This talk will focus on the manuscript's chapter on Seattle: on Seattle-based artists and venues including DK Pan, Sara Porkalab, Implied Violence, Annex Theatre, The Satori Group, and King Street Station, as well as the enduring, colonial role of the "frontier" in claiming urban space in Seattle.