Edmonds Driftwood Players — Attraction in Edmonds

I wish I could give negative stars here. My teenage daughter was cast in a production of Les Mis this summer. She was extremely excited for the opportunity. Unfortunately, the whole experience went sideways. This is a close knit group and they circle the wagons quickly to protect their own. They treat the experience like a day-camp for the underage members of the cast.

One of the adult staff overseeing the underage cast was a long time former child member herself. She was obviously immature and she kept talking about her sex life in front of my 14 year old daughter. My daughter finally pointed this out to her which caused her, probably in an attempt to protect herself, to go and accuse our daughter of saying something inappropriate to her. The director called my wife and told us our daughter was being put on probation. We started our own investigation into what had happened but before we were able to sort it out, they trumped up a reason to remove her from the production and kicked her out..

As we continued our investigation, we found that there were others who had witnessed the interaction and confirmed what our daughter had said. We confronted the people above the director and were given an apology and offered a part for our daughter in another production. We were unable to make the schedule for the other production work as we had structured all of our schedules for the summer around the Les Mis production. We declined and said that the only thing we were looking for was that the person who had talked about her sex life in front of underage kids removed. We were promised that we would be contacted by the board about this. That contact never came and the person we were dealing with wouldn't respond to subsequent emails.

We have debated reporting this to the Edmonds police but are hesitant to ruin this foolish girl's life even though she didn't give our child any similar consideration. We may still do that but in the meantime, we want to warn anyone who might involve their underage children with this group about...

Community theatre has long been a love of mine. I used to go to the Edmonds Driftwood Theater when I lived in Edmonds but since moving away ten plus years ago, I had not been back. I so rarely have a chance to "get out" these days. My dear friend from out of town was visiting and we were trying to think of something interesting to do. We used to be in a drama group as teenagers and it popped into my head maybe she'd like to catch a play! She loved the idea and we went and it was awesome! The actors and actresses are still as passionate, the feel of the place still as intimate. Every play I had seen there in the past was intriguing and fun and "Bram Stokers Dracula" was no less amazing! It is an absolutely wonderful place to experience community theatre and I can't wait to catch...

We were gonna go to the Willy Wonka play, but it was canceled. We were gonna bring my grandma. When we got there, there was no one in the parking lot. We went to the door, and it said it was canceled because of a covid case. It also said that they sent an email to everyone who was going to say it was canceled, but we didn't. And once we were in the car, another person came into the parking lot. We went to tell them about the play being canceled l. Obviously, they didn't get an email either. After that we left. Since I didn't see the play, I'm not doing a 1-star review, but I hope this doesn't happen to other people. Hope I can come again to...