Amid growing concerns around consent, safety, and trust in our political climate, “The Bed Trick” by Keiko Green forces the audience to reckon with misinformation by magnifying the relationships between college roommates. This sharply-written show guides the reader...
The Bed Trick doesn’t want to suspend your disbelief, it seeks to challenge it. In today's vast sea of Shakespeare retellings, playwright Keiko Green is interested in dissecting the gaps of the infamous All Well That Ends Well. Green's take on the play finds all of...
In an interview with Chance Theater, playwright Keiko Green describes her play The Bed Trick as “Shakespeare in conversation with university consent culture” (Green 2023). The play came about as a reflection on Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well after Green...
Somewhere between Shakespeare and a karaoke night, The Bed Trick slips between eras and tones, asking what does it mean to be “okay” with sex, in all its dubiously consensual forms, and what does it mean to be rewritten by it? The in-show pre-show gave us Elizabethan...
Once confronted with the question of the ethics within All’s Well That Ends Well, they weigh heavy on Harriett’s mind, affecting her ability to work soundly on the show through rehearsal. Her director responds, in an attempt to disregard her worries, that the show is...
On the first Sunday of each month, the lobby of Artists Repertory Theatre (ART) in Portland, Oregon, hums with the scribbling of pencils and the tapping of keys as Oregon playwrights gather for community and inspiration. A new group called ARTwrite has been inviting...
By Luan Schooler Interim Artistic Director We're so excited to produce three bold new plays by women with strong Pacific Northwest ties this season! Building on the energy of last year’s all-premiere season of locally created plays, the year ahead features another...
I love theatre, from my first production at age 5 as a star bellied Sneetch to today as a 17 year-old with a myriad of theatrical acting, directing and writing experiences under my belt. I just can’t get enough of it. With high school graduation on the horizon,...
Tell us about the development history of this play! The very first reading of this play was in the lobby of Artists Rep’s old building during the 2018 Fertile Ground Festival of New Works, and now the World Premiere is in the lobby of the new building! How’s that for...
by Marilyn Stacey Your tax dollars at work keeping art alive! Today I delivered Artist Repertory Theatre's Legacy Quilt to the Oregon Historical Society. OHS is thrilled to become the caretaker and protector of this vital, living part of Portland history. The...
BY LUAN SCHOOLER For Artists Repertory Theatre (ART), the last year was an annus horribilis, a horrible year. Canceling the season was painful by every measure. What is a theatre that isn’t producing any plays? Gutted, that’s what. We spent the last 10 months mending...
by RaChelle Schmidt, Director of Performance and Partnerships PHAMEPHAME actors in rehearsal hall with Director Melory Mirashrafi, Sapience by Diana Burbano. Photo by RaChelle Schmidt .Our goal at PHAME is to help our students find those opportunities to take their...