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<\/a><\/h2>\n‘NIGHT<\/em><\/strong>, MOTHER<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\nOctober 17-November 8, 2014\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nScript by: Marsha Norman \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nDirected by: Gavin Hoffman<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\u00a0<\/strong>Performances by: Jacklyn Maddux \u00a0&\u00a0Dana Millican<\/strong><\/p>\nWinner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and nominated for 4 Tony Awards following the legendary Broadway production,\u00a0Marsha Norman’s\u00a0‘NIGHT MOTHER,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>is an iconic work celebrated for its explosive specificity and cathartic force. The play begins with reclusive Jessie calmly telling her mother that she plans to kill herself at the end of the evening. In the real-time events that follow, Mama reasons, argues and begs for her daughter’s life as Jessie prepares the household and defends her right to end her own suffering.<\/p>\n“\u2026honest, uncompromising, lucid,<\/span>\u00a0pene<\/span><\/strong>trating<\/strong>,<\/span>\u00a0well-written, dramatic, and\u2026unmanipulatively moving\u2026<\/span><\/strong>It is as artfully designed as a sonata, rising in each dramatic movement until it arrives at its inevitable destination.”<\/span><\/strong>
\nNY Magazine<\/em><\/div>\n
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<\/a>\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Snowstorm\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\nJanuary 16 – February 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\nBy: Sam Gregory and Eric Nordin<\/strong><\/p>\nDirected & Choreographed by:<\/strong>
\nJessica Wallenfels<\/strong><\/p>\nMusical Direction & Piano Performance by:\u00a0<\/strong>Eric Nordin<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nPerformers include:<\/strong>Chris Harder,\u00a0<\/strong>Matt Kerrigan,\u00a0<\/strong>Jamie Rea,\u00a0<\/strong>Beth Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\nThis visceral, sonically vivid new\u00a0performance piece brings the classical piano music of Rachmaninoff to life through cutting edge physical theatre spun around a classic romance with magical elements of puppetry and mask. The power of music to connect, to ignite, and to heal weaves through this original fable by some of Portland’s most inventive and cherished collaborating theatre-artists.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026very talented Jessica Wallenfels and company\u2026stands out as a fine example of the kind of interesting, original work that could, someday, put Portland on the theater map.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
\nWillamette Week\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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<\/h2>\nGrounded<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nMay 1 – May 23, 2015<\/strong><\/h2>\nScript by: George Brant<\/strong><\/p>\nDirected by: Isaac Lamb<\/strong><\/p>\nPerformance by: Rebecca Lingafelter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nWith a meteoric rise including the National New Play Network’s 2012 Smith Prize and the Edinburgh Festival’s 2013 Fringe First award, George Brant’s\u00a0Grounded\u00a0<\/em>is a solo-play of Odyssean proportions. After discovering she’s pregnant, a maverick F-16 fighter pilot finds herself reassigned to the Air Force’s drone program, piloting a remote-controlled Reaper in Afghanistan from a trailer in the Nevada desert for a 12 hour day of war until returning home each night to her husband and daughter. This thrill ride of a play asks if there is a price to be paid for floating above the atrocities of war. Its shocking conclusion implicates us all.<\/p>\n“a spare, profane yet surprisingly lyrical string of words that invites us into the head of the swaggering pilot, whose work day involves killing from afar and home life includes a husband longing for her to unwind and a daughter who plays with pink ponies.”<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n
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October 17-November 8, 2014\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Script by: Marsha Norman \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Directed by: Gavin Hoffman<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>Performances by: Jacklyn Maddux \u00a0&\u00a0Dana Millican<\/strong><\/p>\n Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize and nominated for 4 Tony Awards following the legendary Broadway production,\u00a0Marsha Norman’s\u00a0‘NIGHT MOTHER,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>is an iconic work celebrated for its explosive specificity and cathartic force. The play begins with reclusive Jessie calmly telling her mother that she plans to kill herself at the end of the evening. In the real-time events that follow, Mama reasons, argues and begs for her daughter’s life as Jessie prepares the household and defends her right to end her own suffering.<\/p>\n January 16 – February 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n By: Sam Gregory and Eric Nordin<\/strong><\/p>\n Directed & Choreographed by:<\/strong> Musical Direction & Piano Performance by:\u00a0<\/strong>Eric Nordin<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Performers include:<\/strong>Chris Harder,\u00a0<\/strong>Matt Kerrigan,\u00a0<\/strong>Jamie Rea,\u00a0<\/strong>Beth Thompson<\/strong><\/p>\n This visceral, sonically vivid new\u00a0performance piece brings the classical piano music of Rachmaninoff to life through cutting edge physical theatre spun around a classic romance with magical elements of puppetry and mask. The power of music to connect, to ignite, and to heal weaves through this original fable by some of Portland’s most inventive and cherished collaborating theatre-artists.<\/p>\n Script by: George Brant<\/strong><\/p>\n Directed by: Isaac Lamb<\/strong><\/p>\n Performance by: Rebecca Lingafelter<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n With a meteoric rise including the National New Play Network’s 2012 Smith Prize and the Edinburgh Festival’s 2013 Fringe First award, George Brant’s\u00a0Grounded\u00a0<\/em>is a solo-play of Odyssean proportions. After discovering she’s pregnant, a maverick F-16 fighter pilot finds herself reassigned to the Air Force’s drone program, piloting a remote-controlled Reaper in Afghanistan from a trailer in the Nevada desert for a 12 hour day of war until returning home each night to her husband and daughter. This thrill ride of a play asks if there is a price to be paid for floating above the atrocities of war. Its shocking conclusion implicates us all.<\/p>\n “a spare, profane yet surprisingly lyrical string of words that invites us into the head of the swaggering pilot, whose work day involves killing from afar and home life includes a husband longing for her to unwind and a daughter who plays with pink ponies.”<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nNY Magazine<\/em><\/div>\n
\n<\/a>\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Snowstorm\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n
\nJessica Wallenfels<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nWillamette Week\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n<\/h2>\nGrounded<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
May 1 – May 23, 2015<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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