a Theatre collaboration between
Island Shakespeare Festival and
Whidbey Island Center for the Arts

The Whidbey Repertory Festival (WRF) is about creating a space where our companies can delve deeper into what it means to be human from our own experiences and continue to figure out what it means to do theatre right now. It is a space where we can come together as organizations and as a community to grow, learn, and inspire.

Opening night will be a special event featuring a conversation with WICA’s and ISF’s Executive Artistic Directors, Deana Duncan and Olena Hodges! A wonderful entryway to Whidbey Repertory Festival’s first showing of After the War, Comes the Dishes by Jennifer Rawlings.

This Festival will occur over two weekends in March, from the 7th to the 17th, and will feature five theatre shows. We hope to see you here!

 

fULL FESTIVAL passes available!

Full Festival Pass (Standard): Entry to All Shows and Free Popcorn

Full Festival Star Pass: Entry to All Shows, Free Popcorn, and 3 Drink Tickets

Pass Holders Get Early General Admission Seating Before Every Show. 

AFTER THE WAR, COMES THE DISHES

Jennifer Rawlings is one funny mother

“After the War Comes The Dishes” …..battles of midlife, and finding what comes next.

Jennifer Rawlings has appeared on TV, in the film “I AM BATTLE COMIC” and in three TEDx talks. Using her humor as a way to tackle serious subject matter, she was named as one of the “21 Change makers of the 21st Century” by Women’s E News. She has performed entertaining the troops in over 350 military shows in dozens of countries including Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Bosnia. Jennifer’s powerful directorial debut: “Forgotten Voices: Women in Bosnia” received critical acclaim and screened at film festivals worldwide. prompted her award-winning solo show “I ONLY SMOKE IN WAR ZONES." JenniferRawlings.com

 

FLEABAG

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE

Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.

Rated R

 

GHOSTS OF SEGREGATION

WICA welcomes author and award-winning photojournalist Richard Frishman for a conversation and release of his newest book, Ghosts of Segregation. Throughout a 35,000-mile journey around the United States, Richard photographed and documented the racism he witnessed, then compiled all of it into his latest release in hopes of sharing the racial inequality that is often overlooked.

 

Gender Play, or what you Will

Trans/non-binary actor Will and the spirit of William Shakespeare embark on a joyous journey to reclaim the Bard’s plays in an original queer glory, inviting you to a 90-minute mystical celebration of self-discovery, tarot, and laughter.

 

THE MISS AMERICAN DREAM SHOw

Everything loved by the ol’ red white and blue is served up in The Miss American Dream Show with a heaping helping of satire and physical comedy. Join Sierra Camille as faux fox news cheerleader Blanca Fiberton as she delivers thought provoking snacks about immigration, romance, gun control, babies, dating, sex, and popcorn! Prepare to be saved by the Church Of All Screens and laugh your way through unsettling truths as Sierra Camille takes you away on a comedic political thrill ride.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.