Geography Club (play)

Geography Club is a play by American playwright and author Brent Hartinger, based on his novel Geography Club.

This article is about the play. For the book, see Geography Club.
Geography Club
Written byBrent Hartinger
CharactersRussel Middlebrook
Kevin Land
Min Lao
Gunnar
Trish Baskin
Kimberly
Belinda Sherman
Brian Bund
Ike
Therese
Jarred
Nate
Date premieredSeattle FringeACT Festival 2004
Place premieredSeattle, WA, USA
Setting
Gunnar's room
Min's room
Robert L. Goodkind High School

Production history

Geography Club premiered as a staged reading in Seattle, WA at the third annual Seattle FringeACT Festival of New Plays in 2004, directed by Ilene Fins.[1] The Geography Club starred Brendan Callahan as Russel Middlebrook.

The play's production premiere was as the opening show at the first annual Northwest Playwright's Alliance Festival of New Plays in 2008.[2] It was directed by David Domkoski (who applauded the play for being both "good and relevant to what's happening to kids right now"[3]) and starred Galen Wicks, then a senior at Tacoma School of the Arts, as Russel. One review said that "Geography Club stands confidently on a cliff-edge of new theater: theater for young people, dealing with hot topics seldom dramatized. Weaving through the ultra-delicate intricacies of teenage identity, the play builds strong themes of friendship and belonging, just as well (or better) as its original form."[4]

Subsequent productions have taken place in Edmonton, Canada; Salt Lake City, Utah; and elsewhere.[5]

References
  1. 3rd Annual Seattle FringeACT Festival, Geography Club Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Nagle, Matt - Festival of Northwest Plays, Tacoma Weekly (14 February 2008)
  3. Ponnekanti, Rosemary - Tacoma’s new Festival of Northwest Plays celebrates local talent Archived 2012-09-13 at Archive.today, The News Tribune (19 February 2008)
  4. Ponnekanti, Rosemary - Heartfelt emotion, mixed acting in stage adaptation of “Geography Club”, The News Tribune (21 February 2008)
  5. Photo from the University of Utah production
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