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August 24, 2009 at 5:05pm

Tonight: The Greatest Plays Ever Written by Nick Stokes

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Tonight as Origin 23 Coffee’s espresso machine hisses in the background, Nick Stokes’ greatest plays he’s ever written â€" Whiteout and The Sound We Make â€" will be read out loud. The plays will no longer be read just in Stokes’ head. Nope, at 7 p.m., in front of the coffee house crowd, Stokes’ greatest plays will be shared with the public so he may tweak them before his full production at Tacoma’s Old City Hall this November.

Stokes’ first greatest work, The Sound We Make, finds three homeless locals in Tacoma’s Fireman’s Park coping with the loss of a street legend.

The other great play, Whiteout, tells the haunting story of a man with no past and a woman with nothing but in a snowbound Montana motel.

Produced jointly as “The Greatest Plays Ever Written by Nick Stokes,” and made possible by a Tacoma Arts Commission TAIP Grant, the two, hour-long staged readings are free.

[Origin 23 Coffee, Monday, Aug. 24, 7 p.m., no cover, South Union and Sixth Avenue, Tacoma, 253.212.1503]

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