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This Week

A review of Theatre Vertigo’s production of Lukas Barfuss’s The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents

A discussion of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s creative process as it pertains to their production of Maria Irene Fornes’s Enter the Night

In some way or other, most of life is about sifting experience. This week, Eric and James examine synthetic and creative approaches to that activity. First, in their review of Theatre Vertigo’s latest production, they evaluate the chemically reimagined world of Dora. What value does this company’s bold, loose style lend to the re-processing of an existence, as a character exits her cell of sedatives in exchange for a world, confusingly, as it is? Then, Eric and James spend some time learning from Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s Amber Whitehall and Jacob Coleman. Your hosts were fortunate enough to attend the final rehearsal of the group’s current production, a play in which the quality of relationships is sorted out through both the content and the form of verbal and physical interactions. Now they sit down with these theatre-makers to converse about the process that evolved what they saw and heard. It’s an episode all about thinking bodies and curious minds.

Next Week

A review of Boom Arts’ production of Rodrigo García’s I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep Than Some Other Son of A B*tch

A discussion with actor and Theatre Vertigo Producing Artist Shawna Nordman

INDEX
0:31    Intro
1:30    Time & Oak
3:00    This week…
4:45    Fertile Ground reviews?
6:00    Next Roundtable:  Feb 9, 7:30p
6:20    Review of Theatre Vertigo’s production of The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents
20:40    Interview with Amber Whitehall and Jacob Coleman from Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble’s production of Enter THE NIGHT
1:09:32    The Calendar
1:10:57    Theatre Around the World!
1:15:27    Next week…