Seattle Repertory Theatre Tries To Broaden Its Audience By Broadening Its Casting

The theatre has recruited actors from unlikely sources for “a roughly 100-performer production of Homer’s “Odyssey” with free tickets and only four union actors. Everyone else onstage has arrived via a yearslong conversation between Seattle Rep and nonprofits; homeless shelters; and social groups, from the Purple Lemonade dance collective to scruffy members of the Dead Baby bike-race club.”