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The Cake | Theatre Series

  • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts PO Box 52 | 565 Camano Avenue Langley, WA 98260 (map)
 

In Bekah Brunstetter's touching and topical dramatic comedy, a vivacious, conservative North Carolina baker named Della faces a crisis of conscience when Jen - whom she loves like a daughter - asks her to bake a cake for Jen's lesbian wedding.

SUMMARY

Della makes cakes, not judgment calls – those she leaves to her husband, Tim. But when the girl she helped raise comes back home to North Carolina to get married, and the fiancé is actually a fiancée, Della’s life gets turned upside down. She can’t really make a cake for such a wedding, can she? For the first time in her life, Della has to think for herself.

In the Media

“Brilliant... Powerful and meaningful... great writing.” – LA Post-Examiner

“The play's tight narrative construction is apparent from the opening scene, which immediately seduces us with Della's bubbly charm... What's refreshing and heartening about The Cake is its characters' willingness to face their differences and limitations head-on... This is us as we could be, if we'd all just try a little harder.” – Los Angeles Times

Friday, Oct. 18th | 7:30 PM

Saturday, Oct. 19th | 7:30 PM

Sunday, Oct. 20th | 2:00 PM

Thursday, Oct. 24th | 7:30 PM

Friday, Oct. 25th | 7:30 PM

Saturday, Oct. 26th | 7:30 PM

Tickets available:
WICA Star: $45
Standard: $30
Youth 18 and under: Free

Earlier Event: October 17
The Cake | Theatre Series
Later Event: October 19
The Cake | Theatre Series

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Whidbey Island Center for the Arts would like to begin by acknowledging that we gather on the ancestral homelands, originally known as Tscha-kole-chy (SHA-KOL-CHI) in Lushootseed (LU-SHOOT-SEED), of the Coastal Salish Peoples, on the lands of the lower Skagit, Tulalip (tuh·lay·luhp), Swinomish (SWIN-ə-mish), Snohomish (snō-hō-mish), Stillaguamish (still-uh-GWAH-mish), and Suquamish (soo-kwah-mish), who have lived in the Salish Sea basin since time immemorial and have hunted, fished, gathered, and taken care of these lands.

We respect their sovereignty, their right to self-determination, and we honor their sacred spiritual connection with the land and water.

Please join us in expressing our deepest respect and gratitude to the indigenous people of this territory and for their enduring care and protection of the land in which we currently occupy and share through the Treaty of Point Elliott signed by 82 tribes in Múckl-te-óh (Mukilteo) on January 22, 1855.