Theatre Northwest - Still Life With Iris

Who are we without our memories? Are we the same person at all? Theatre Northwest’s season theme of “Identity” examines these questions with Steven Dietz’s fantasy children’s play, "Still Life with Iris".

The residents of the otherworldly Nocturno work overnight to make the ‘real’ world normal for the rest of us during the day – helping the sun to rise, creating clouds and lightning bolts; even painting spots on ladybugs. One night a mysterious man comes to Iris, a precocious young girl recently chosen to be the Fog Lifter, and makes her an offer she cannot refuse…but it entails taking her PastCoat – an item that holds the remembrance of things past for Nocturno’s individual residents. What will the loss of her past mean for her future?

The play received the American Alliance of Theatre Education Distinguished Play Award, and was the first play for young audiences to receive the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award.

“Still Life with Iris” will be held in the Studio Theater in the Ron Houston Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 22-24 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 25 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person and can be purchased ahead of time at the Cashiering Office, by phone at 660-562-1321, or at the door up to one hour before showtime.