Key City Public Theatre | Formerly Key City Players

1958 — 2008

Celebrating

50 Years!

Season and Ticket Information

Where's My Money?

The Twelfth Annual

Playwrights' Festival

As You Like It

Shakespeare in the Park

The Conference of the Birds

KCPT presents readings of literary works at the Pope Marine Building in conjunction with Gallery Walk — held the first Saturday of every month in downtown PT. PT Shorts is free and open to the public.

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2008 Season Sponsor: Port Townsend Arts Commission

2008 Quarterly Sponsors: William James Bookseller Insatiables

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Our next PT Shorts program

"A Night at the Foc’sle"

Saturday, Sept 6th — 7:30 pm in the Pope Marine Building

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PT Shorts joins “A Night at the Foc’sle”

Expanded Wooden Boat Festival storytelling program from 5-9 p.m.

Port Townsend, Wash.—The spoken word ships out with “A Night in the Foc’sle,” a special evening of nautical narratives this Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Pope Marine Building in downtown Port Townsend.

Join sailors, fisher poets and liars from near and far for a diverse program of classic and original ballads, sea stories, songs and more. It is part of the 32^nd Annual Wooden Boat Festival put on by the Wooden Boat Foundation & Northwest Maritime Center.

The free event is scheduled from 5-9 p.m. and incorporates the PT Shorts program presented monthly by Key City Public Theatre. At the regular PT Shorts time slot of 7:30 p.m., Capt. Wayne Chimenti will read W. Somerset Maugham’s classic short story, “Red,” a South Sea sailor’s tale of love, adventure, and disillusionment by one of the most popular British writers of the 1930s.

Chimenti, a resident of Marrowstone Island, is well known for the songs and stories he shared in the foc’sle (the sailor’s bunkroom) of the 1913 schooner Adventuress during his recent tenure as one of her captains. He is also sailmaker, a self-published author, and a raconteur whose performance is not to be missed!

Also on the Sept. 6 program are “Fisher Poets” reading their work from 5-6 p.m. (Erin Fristad, Dano Quinn, Nahja Chimenti, Wayne Chimenti and others), and “Greybeards Speak” from 6-7:30 p.m., in which several of Port Townsend’s master mariners tell their best sea stories in a circular storytelling session. The “greybeards” may include captains Bill Curry, Kit Africa, Al Nejmah, George Maynard and Dano Quinn.

Afterwards, head on down to the Festival grounds at Point Hudson, where there is no evening cover charge at Bar Harbor and the music and dancing goes until midnight!

Port Townsend (PT) Shorts is an ongoing free program of dramatic short readings of literary works by local actors, produced by Key City Public Theatre. This fall quarter of PT Shorts is sponsored by the Imprint Bookstore and the Port Townsend Arts Commission.

Catch PT Shorts during Gallery Walk on the first Saturday of every month at the downtown Pope Marine Building, a disability-accessible facility located at Water and Madison streets.

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If you would like additional information about our PT Shorts program or to find out about ways in which you can participate or sponsor this free community program, please contact our PT Shorts Program Administrator, Catherine McNabb.

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