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Pretty much every convention holds a large banquet to conclude, or at least capstone, the festivities, and REPS Showcase is no exception. REPS, however, takes a bold and somewhat unusual approach - instead of holding the banquet in the same area as the convention, they instead held this year’s inside a local restaurant, again within walking distance of the Seattle Center.

I use the term, “bold,” because with any choice like this, there are always trade-offs. An area routinely used for wedding receptions isn’t necessarily perfectly suited for performance art…this required careful logistics and care in choosing the programs to be re-created during the evening’s performance. Although not everything went as smoothly as the organizers hoped, I thought they did an amazing job within the severe limitations of the restaurant as performance space.
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