by Jim Lynch
Adapted by Bryan Willis (with David Quicksall)
Directed by David Quicksall

September 14 - October 9, 2011
Previews: September 14, 15, 16
Opening Night: Saturday, September 17
Center House Theatre, Seattle Center

"...a soulful, fully engaging new adaptation of Lynch's ... 'Border Songs.'" --Seattle Times

"...a rewarding trip down a Washington byway less traveled."--Queen Anne & Magnolia News

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Evening shows begin at 7:30pm
Matineés begin at 2:00pm

Running time: approximately 2 hours 15 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission

Buy tickets online or through the box office: 206.216.0833.

Book-It welcomes Seattle 7 Writers! Learn more about this organization during the run of Border Songs in the lobby, or by visiting their website.

Watch the view preview for Border Songs and hear from the actors and staff!

Jim Lynch's second novel explores division--between the natural world and everyday human experience, between communities, and individuals. It's also a hopeful vision of the commonalities we can discover if we look at things just a little differently, the way Brandon Vanderkool--a 6'8" dyslexic, bird watcher who joins the Border Patrol--does. Lynch's masterful use of metaphor unlocks these divisions and commonalities and offers an extraordinary potential for a dramatic re-telling in the Book-It Style™. Border Songs is a 2010 Washington State Book Award-winner.

"A fascinating look at the confluence of small-town life, the global drug trade and illegal immigration, and it places Jim Lynch at the forefront of Northwest writers to watch." --Willamette Week

"Brandon Vanderkool, [is] the most fascinating, memorable, and human character in American fiction since Ignatius J. Reilly of A Confederacy of Dunces... Border Songs is a masterwork, and Jim Lynch, for my money, is our best new storyteller since Larry McMurtry: deeply in touch with the natural world, the absurdities of our era, and the hearts and minds of his unforgettable and endlessly surprising characters." --Howard Frank Mosher, author

Poster illustration by Terese Leiner and layout by Shannon Erickson.

'Border Songs' and more on Seattle stages 9/15/2011
--Misha Berson, Seattle Times

Border Songs @ Book-It
Whatcom County Library System

'Border Songs' - Book-It Repertory Theatre 9/19/2011
--Marie Bonfils, South Seattle Beacon

Book-It Brings Border Songs to 3D Life 9/22/2011
--Miya Cohen-Sieg, Queen Anne & Magnolia News

A Diamond in the Rough 9/22/2011
--Chelsea D., TeenTix

Colorful characters come to life in Book-It's 'Border Songs' 9/23/2011
--Misha Berson, Seattle Times

Quirky border patrol agent entertains in 'Border Songs' 9/24/11 
-- Miryam Gordon, Seattle Gay News

Book-It Rep's Border Songs: Pacific Northwest Reflected 9/24/11 
-- John E. Allis, Seattlest

Border Songs 9/27/11 
-- Alec Clayton, South Sound Arts Blog

Book-It Heads North for Border Songs 9/27/11 
-- Peter Sessum, P.S. I Love the Arts, Seattle PI Blog