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14/48 Projects, Action Figures Sold Separately: “Just because you’ve been one thing all your life, doesn’t mean you have to stay that way forever.” I stopped in on rehearsal for Play #7 first to hear about children’s toys who are self-empowered to escape their dire situation before their destruction. Sounds like Toy Story, which they even allude to in the play, but it’s more than that. Each character (Rainbow Dash, Barbie, and others) stands in for one of the different stages of grief. Denial/anger, bargaining, depression, testing, and acceptance. When you no longer “fit into the box” is it okay to let those dreams go and be something else?"
PictureZoey Belyea in Long Playing Record
14/48 Projects, Long Playing Record: "Alex Samuels (Mazen 2016) and Zoey Clane Belyea (Mazen) are acting out a wordless father-daughter relationship, scene by scene. Already I am feeling the tears start to well up, and they’re just reviewing and honing actions to tell each story in the scenes. It sounds like playwright Darian Lindle took playwright Wayne Rawley’s advice for a 2-hander play to heart. So far, there’s no dialogue, but I haven’t had a chance to look at the script yet. By having little to no words in a 2-hander, it ensures that the audience will receive everything the playwright intended for us to know. Songs featured so far: “Michelle” by The Beatles, “London Calling” by The Clash, “The Bells of Rhymney” by The Byrds." - Catherine Blake Smith, blogger for 1/48, Artistic Director of Annex Theatre
The 14/48 Projects, B-sides & Rarities, Saturday Morning Cartoons, The Lunar Sea of Golden Blooms: "The Pocket Theater opened its four week run of Saturday Morning Cartoons Saturday April 18th. With the tag line “Short plays inspired by ‘Toons written by families, for families”, it doesn't disappoint. With the playful atmosphere, children chattering and laughing, you are smiling before the show even begins.

Directed by Steven Sterne, the ensemble generates laughter from beginning to end. With skits that include parodies of Scooby Do, Speed Racer, and Ghost Busters, adults are drawn into the show with classic cartoons we grew up with. While a few skits are bit more obscure and reminiscent of Toy Story, and The Powder Puff Girls, the others are just as hilarious and entertaining for children and adults alike.
I couldn't help but feel like I was watching a Pixar production-  hidden meanings and innuendos that go right over the kids heads, but with childish humor that involves jokes and silly puns like “Scooby Doo Doo”. Also the pop culture references of Frozen, kept the kids involved with current cartoons.

In true Saturday morning cartoon tradition, old school cereal commercial jingles played between the skits. The hilarious cast, writing, props, and sets make for an enjoyable Saturday morning with the family." Drama in the Hood, Sarah Creech, April 23, 2015.
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The Lunar Sea of Golden Blooms, written with my children
  • iDiOM Theatre, The City of Crooked Teeth:  "I took a front-row seat at the iDiOM Theater to watch Seattle playwright Darian Lindle’s world premiere of The City of Crooked Teeth. I wasn't sure what to expect, other than the details I’d gotten from a short press release describing the offering as, “an f-ed up Alice in Wonderland meets Fraggle Rock-style fantasy epic.”
    While shows at the iDiOM tend to be rich with meaning, but spare when it comes to setting the stage, Crooked Teeth was anything but. A series of small staged platforms, in fact, contributed to what would turn out to be the depiction of a magical underground world that stretched on for miles. Care- fully placed shadowboxes added to the sense that what was happening on the stage wasn’t confined to the here and now... While The City of Crooked Teeth is serious in theory, there are also moments of pure hilarity in the believable world that’s been created within the dark cave that is the iDiOM Theater." Cascadia Weekly, Amy Kepferle, Nov 25, 2009
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The City of Crooked Teeth
  • Balagan Theater, Death/Sex Festival, Vampyre: “Vampyre, by local playwright Darian Lindle, opens in high camp with the seduction of a gorgeous ingénue by her voluptuous colleague on a dark and stormy night that turns out to be—surprise!—a movie set. Film and vampire/lesbian clichés abound deliberately, pilloried in SNL style, as a vampire educates his scene director on how the dark life really works, and on what every vampire really wants: a car or a job.” Seattle Weekly, Margaret Friedman, Feb 11, 2009
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Ballagan: Vampyre
  • Live Girls! Theater, The June Carter Cash Project, Jackson: Darian Lindle’s Jackson, directed by Shawn Belyea, skillfully weaves the stories of several phases of romance while sacrificing neither edge nor a sense of humor. Seattle Weekly, Virginia Zech, Wednesday, Sep 17 2008 
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Jackson
  • 14/48 Projects, Great Expectations- A Showchoir Musical: “Glee on crack. Downstairs, an Orgy of jazz hands, Chuck Dickens sez: WTF?” 14/48 blog
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Great Expectations! A ShowChoir Musical
PrimeStage Theatre, The Westing Game: "Darian Lindle's dramatic adaptation captures the true spirit of Raskin's story in an effective theatrical vessel, and her play will allow the book to reach a whole new audience of readers and theatergoers, both young and old." Terry Brino-Dean, Resource Guide, 2008

The McKeesport Little Theater, The Westing Game:  "At a time when many local theater groups have dissolved into memories, McKeesport Little Theater (MLT) has remained an active, vital part of the community providing excellent, live entertainment close to home. The group just wrapped its last production, The Westing Game, a Darian Lindle adaptation of  the mystery novel by Ellen Raskin. The stage play was an entertaining mix of mystery and mayhem that left the audience guessing until the end, who done it." In Community Magazines, Pamela Palongue, November 2013
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The Westing Game
Click here to see an odd little time lapse video of the premiere production of The Westing Game.
  • 14/48 Projects, The Cherry Orchard by Pavel Chekov: “It's the Nun, chicken, doctor, etc. play. It closes the bill tonight, so it better go big or go home. Not to hype it up, but it looks like it just might. The play contains the lines "It's my turn now, motherfucker" and "Pavel Chekov's The Cherry Orchard, by Darian Lindle." There is lots of slapping. Jane May has a long monologue (Godspeed, brave youth.)” 14/48 blog, A A G, July 31, 2009
  • Live Girls! Theater, Mud Angel by Joy McCullough-Carranza:  "...director Darian Lindle has found what's best about the script (the failures of ethnic authenticity, the queasy relationship between subject and journalist, the sadness of spouses who feel shut out from each others' lives) and the actors manage well, particularly Daniel Christensen as the conflicted Pablo and Heather Gautschi as Ana, his damaged childhood sweetheart. Despite the script's shortcomings, the two of us in the audience clapped extra loudly for the curtain call." The Stranger, Brendan Kiley, August, 2007​
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The Clockwork Heart
  • 14/48 Projects, Never Kill a Caterwauling Crane God (and other Life Lessons): “Can't help but give a shoutout to the cast of Never Kill a Caterwauling Crane God, and other Life Lessons. They just ran ALL OVER this theatre. I can't even count how many characters Stephen Hando played. FANTASTIC.” 14/48 blog, Amanda Lee, January 16, 2009 
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Never Kill a Caterwauling Crane God
  • Quickies, A Series of Unremarkable Events: "Darian Lindle's appealing "A Series of Unremarkable Incidents," … plays back the high-school memories of a woman deeply touched by a popular classmate's decision to come out of the closet at her senior prom." Seattle Times, Misha Berson, June 24, 2010
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14/48 Projects: A Series of Unremarkable Events
  • Quickies, A Series of Unremarkable Events: "A Series of Unremarkable Incidents by Darian Lindle is the second 14/48 origination that has been polished up. Becca (Andrea Nelson) and Jenny (Tricia Beigh) find themselves performing Romeo and Juliet in high school when too few boys try out for Drama. Though both of them are in competition for the hot boy on campus during prom, their jealousy takes them in a different direction." Seattle Gay News
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Quickies 11: A Series of Unremarkable Events
  • 14/48 Projects, The China Secret: “It's got stoners, warriors, a Kung-Fu master, a a blind-deaf sister and more. And did I mention that it's a musical?” 14/48 blog preview, Jess, July 23, 2011
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The China Secret
  • Fresh Goods Theatre, [SIC], director: “Director Darian Lindle … has done a fine job of conveying Gibson's wry suggestion that these fitful, frustrated people are, for better or worse, what it means to have friends.“ Seattle Weekly, Steve Wiecking, November 10 2004
  • "Absent any real sense of purpose, the three "friends" spend their time either: a) winding themselves into tight, self-involved circles or b) lusting half-heartedly after one another (Theo for Babette, Babette for Frank, Frank for Theo). Their warped worldview comes into high relief when upon the death of beloved neighbor Mrs. Jorgenson nobody has the decisiveness to call the authorities, and Mrs. Jorgenson spends days locked in her apartment, postmortem. Gibson leaves a lot of space in her writing for clever direction, which director Darian Lindle takes full advantage of. She wraps Gibson's percussive, wordy writing into a rhythmic, stylized package. Lewis, Bange and Von Spreecken have uncanny chemistry together, working Gibson's punchline-heavy script while maintaining a balance of tragedy and subtext against the comedy." Seattle Times, Leah Green, November 2004
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Dressed In Blood

  • 14/48 Projects, Cut Your Teeth: "A dentist and his new client and an oddly weighted medical chair that Jonah and Cole handled very well when it fell forward unexpectedly. Among other things they 'handled'.. ahem. Hot, sweet, and funny." 14/48 blog, Miss Devylish  
  • 14/48 Projects, Dressed In Blood: "This ghost-story of a play was about a man who meets a ghost, the ghost of a young woman dressed for homecoming who was murdered many years back. Touched by death, the man puts his trust in the ghost to save him. It ends with her reliving her murder from years back. Creepy, right?" 14/48 blog, Lindsay Carpenter 
  • 14/48 Projects, The Clockwork Heart:  "Loved this scene, loved this script and the crew was stellar. They really nailed it solidly at the 10:30 showing. Cripes, that was beautifully realized.  14/48 Playwright and theatre reviewer for the Seattle Star, Jose Amador