by Casey Landreth | Feb 25, 2020 | Fresh Eyes
Sympathy for the Devil Days later I am still enjoying the warmth of the whiskey and wassail from seeing The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. In my previous post, I observed the play is invested in the idea that how we talk to one another, the stories we use to make...
by Casey Landreth | Feb 25, 2020 | Fresh Eyes
Of Freedom and Folk Discourses Listening at the table, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart pops and fizzes with cultural specificity. The play opens with two dueling folk ballads—narrative poems meant to be read aloud to maximize their oral-formulaic techniques and...
by Casey Landreth | Feb 25, 2020 | Fresh Eyes
“As you can see,” Lava Alapai, director of School Girls, told us in the first design meeting, “we will have a set, and there will be a roof.” She laughs to herself and shifts back and forth in front of a TV monitor showing a rendering of the set, making us laugh too....
by Casey Landreth | Feb 25, 2020 | Fresh Eyes
I’m sitting in a rehearsal hall at this production’s first table read and I know nothing except the title: School Girls, Or: The African Mean Girls Play . I picked to write about this particular show on a whim. Like the few things I get to say yes to these days,...
by Casey Landreth | Feb 20, 2020 | ART Productions, Meet the Cast
Indecent by Paula Vogel, directed by Josh Hecht, and choreographed by Adin Walker A co-production with Profile Theatre, in association with Portland State University Opens February 9th Meet the cast! Michael Mendelson as LEMML Miriam Schwartz as CHANA Joshua J....
