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JAW on this, friend.
09 June 2009
Associate Artistic Director Rose Riordan has just released the official selections for our 2009 JAW: A Playwright’s Festival. I'm very excited, both by the caliber of playwright this year's JAW has attracted and the breadth of plays, ranging from the anthropomorphic to the existential to the just plain hilarious.
The core weekend will be Friday through Sunday, July 24th through 26th, with 6 playwrights participating and all the usual coterie of theater fairs, performance labs and site specific performances to go with. The Made in Oregon series of Oregon-bred pieces will return July 13th through 16th. As usual, all JAW events are FREE and open to the public.
A few highlights:
I'm really intrigued by Naomi Iizuka's new piece (not least because the title is in Japanese) about the ways photography can both define and distort cultural exchange between East and West. Berkeley Rep is apparently also intrigued, because they have already picked the piece up for a world premiere in their 2009–2010 season. And since the last play to world premiere at Berkeley Rep ended up on track for a Broadway run, I’m delighted that Portland audiences will get first crack (so to speak) at this one.
Marc Acito's piece about the gay penguins at the New York Zoo (and some hawks and some... other critters) should also be fascinating (and funny). I've been watching with interest the way documented forms of homosexuality and homosexual parenting in the animal kingdom are being used to frame (or reframe) the debate about gay marriage. It will be fun to see Marc's take on the whole thing. Plus, I can't help but wonder if Marc and Floyd have ever considered... read more
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Be the scariest house on the block this Halloween while supporting PCS’ Promising Playwrights program.
18 September 2008
Let me introduce to you the Mud Man. This towering ghoul will be stationed in the lobby of the Gerding Theater throughout the month of October and will be raffled off to one lucky winner. Place him on your porch for Halloween and you’ll be the envy of every house on your street and impress every trick-or-treater who comes to your door.
Raffle tickets are $5.00 apiece and will be available through our box office. The drawing will take place on October 25th and the lucky winner announced. The Mud Man will be delivered to the winners house so they can scare up the neighborhood the entire week preceding Halloween.
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