Verbatim Verboten

About the Show

Verbatim Verboten, the perennial invasion-of-privacy revue created by Michael Martin, is returning to Seattle. The show showcases re-enactments of celebrity phone conversations, private e-mails and freak-outs of all kinds.

A favorite with audiences from New York to Chicago to Minneapolis, Verbatim Verboten presents a cast of some of Seattle’s finest comic actors reading word-for-word transcripts of illicitly recorded conversations of the famous, the infamous and the downright ludicrous. Whether it’s a despondent Richard Nixon during the dog days of Watergate, a petulant Britney Spears whining backstage, an irate Spike Lee on a New York Times reporter’s voicemail, or the perfidious Enron inside-traders, Verbatim Verboten plumbs the depths of the national (and international) subconscious, gleefully exposing all its dirty thoughts & deeds.