Just Announced : Insignificance by Terry Johnson

My work with Defunkt Theatre continues in the 2017-2018 season !This fall I will be directing Insignificance by Terry Johnson at Defunkt in my former home of Portland, Oregon.  and as Artistic Director-at-large I'm proud to announce our commitment to access and inclusiveness has never been stronger :

Beginning with our 2017/18 Season all individual show tickets are pay-what-you-can!  Accessibility is a core value at Defunkt, and we are proud to expand our pay-what-you-can policy to all performances.  We live and breathe for great theater, and we want the work we do to be available to EVERYONE.  Thank you to our generous longtime supporters for making this move possible.  Great things are in store in the year ahead: we will see you at the theater!

Read the full season announcement below!

Defunkt Theatre is pleased to announce our 2017-18 Season: 

NO HOLDS BARRED: 3 Portland Premieres
 

INSIGNIFICANCE by Terry Johnson    October 13- November 18, 2017

Directed by Andrew Klaus-Vineyard

Award winning playwright Terry Johnson imagines a 1950's hotel room in which The Scientist and The Actress (who look suspiciously like Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe) meet and discuss the universe, guilt, regret, America, and the meaning of life. They are interrupted by two Joes: The Senator and The Ballplayer (looking an awful lot like McCarthy and DiMaggio), who bring with them the menace and mayhem of the outside world. Co-Artistic Director Andrew Klaus-Vineyard follows last year’s celebrated production of HIR with this searing evening of theater that the London Independent says “transports us to the birth of celebrity culture” and “has a rare quality of timelessness about it" that has grown timelier with age.

THE PRIDE by Alexi Kaye Campbell

Directed by Sarah Armitage     February 9-March 17, 2018

Three actors play two sets of characters with identical names living 60 years apart.  In the 1950s Oliver hires Sylvia to illustrate his newest children’s book and an attraction develops between Oliver and Sylvia’s deeply closeted husband Philip.  In the present day, Philip and Oliver are a couple on the rocks due to Oliver’s resistance to monogamy and his emotional attachment to his best friend Sylvia.  Defunkt’s Executive Director Sarah Armitage directs this Olivier-award winning play which cuts back and forth between two eras to challenge notions of love, faithfulness, and the nature of liberation. 

GIRL IN THE RED CORNER by Stephen Spotswood

Directed by Paul Angelo  April 27-June 2, 2018

Halo has been knocked down: she recently got out of a terrible marriage and quit her dead-end job two weeks short of getting unemployment because her boss was sexually harassing her.  Her life changes when she meets Gina, a trainer at the local MMA gym.  As Halo begins to train, her inner warrior emerges, complicating her relationships with her mother and sister and challenging her image of herself.  Defunkt’s own Paul Angelo directs the West Coast Premiere of this extraordinary new play by Stephen Spotswood (In the Forest, She Grew Fangs).

Season Subscriptions are Available Now at defunkttheatre.com

And….

NEW TICKETING POLICY

Beginning with our 2017/18 Season all individual show tickets are pay-what-you-can!  Accessibility is a core value at Defunkt, and we are proud to expand our pay-what-you-can policy to all performances.  We live and breathe for great theater, and we want the work we do to be available to EVERYONE.  Thank you to our generous longtime supporters for making this move possible.  Great things are in store in the year ahead: we will see you at the theater!

Defunkt Theatre’s 2017/2018 Season No Holds Barred is made possible by support from Ronni Lacroute and Ellyn Bye.