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| | Everybody
By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Riley Parham
May 10 – May 26, 2024
This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living. | Purchase tickets |
| | Blinking Eye Theatre presents The Seagull
June 14 - June 30
Tickets:
$30 Adult / $25 Senior / $20 Student
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov and translated by Michael Frayn is a dark comedy about the hilarious and painful pitfalls of unrequited love and obsession. Every character in the play grasps for the one thing outside their reach with a pounding heart and hungry eyes. Medvedenko loves Masha who loves Konstantin who loves Nina who loves the idea of fame that Arkadina clings to and Trigorin bemoans. It's that simple. The question is who will get what they want and who will end up holding a dead seagull?
Heralded as one of Chekhov's greatest works, The Seagull plays comedy and drama on a knife-edge.
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| | Riot Queens
by Mikki Gillette
Aug 3 @ 8pm (with a talk-back after the reading)
$15/ticket
synopsis: Riot Queens follows the lives of three young trans women in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco in the months leading up to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot of 1966, a queer uprising that predated Stonewall by three years. Dixie advocates for queer rights as a member of Vanguard, an activist group for street youth. Haley is a sex worker with a traumatic past who fears that the changes taking place will threaten the precarious life she's built, and Nina is torn between the life she can envision for herself, and the debt she feels she owes her community.
About Mikki Gillette:
Mikki Gillette is a trans woman playwright. She was named one of Portland, OR’s 25 Most Influential Artists by Willamette Week magazine. Her play American Girl was featured in American Theatre and was produced in April ‘23. Other productions include The Queers (Fuse Theatre ’22), My Perfectly Valid Objections (Salt and Sage ’23) and They Them Their (Fuse Theatre ’23). Mikki’s short Intimate Matters was published in Smith & Kraus’s collection, The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2023. She was a member of the Ashland New Plays Festival 2022 New Voices Cohort. Learn more at: mikkigillette.com. | Purchase tickets |
| | The Drag
By Mae West
Directed by Ravyn Jazper-Hawke
Sept 6 – Sept 22, 2024
Mae West’s examination of drag culture mixed with drawing room comedy. Funny and flamboyant, the play creates an unusual love triangle topped with a decadent parade and celebration of drag. | Purchase tickets |
| | Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A Musical Thriller
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Directed by Tony Bump
Oct 18 – Nov 10, 2024
An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, seeks vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett's luck sharply shifts when Todd's thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up... and the carnage has only just begun! | Purchase tickets |
| | Mimetic Desire
by Mikki Gillette
11/16 @ 8pm (with a talk-back after the reading)
$15/ticket
synopsis: When trans man Alec woos the partners of his friends, trans woman Mia, and trans man Danny - upending their college friend group - betrayal, envy and heartbreak swirl. The course of true love is anything but smooth in this tart, queer comedy.
About Mikki Gillette:
Mikki Gillette is a trans woman playwright. She was named one of Portland, OR’s 25 Most Influential Artists by Willamette Week magazine. Her play American Girl was featured in American Theatre and was produced in April ‘23. Other productions include The Queers (Fuse Theatre ’22), My Perfectly Valid Objections (Salt and Sage ’23) and They Them Their (Fuse Theatre ’23). Mikki’s short Intimate Matters was published in Smith & Kraus’s collection, The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2023. She was a member of the Ashland New Plays Festival 2022 New Voices Cohort. Learn more at: mikkigillette.com. | Purchase tickets |
| | Fezziwig’s Fortune
By Josie Seid and Sara Jean Accuardi
Directed by Josie Seid
Dec 6 – Dec 22, 2024
This play lifts Mr. Fezziwig from the pages of A Christmas Carol to tell a story all his own. Set after the jubilant Christmas ball where we meet young Scrooge’s benevolent employer in Dickens's tale, this story looks past Fezziwig’s merry smile to find a man who may be in need of a Christmas miracle all of his own. Fezziwig’s Fortune is an origin story about family, forgiveness, and the importance of what ties us together. | Purchase tickets |