Arts on the Couch…a collaboration between the Oregon Psychoanalytic Center (Outreach Committee) and the Artists Repertory Theater in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to further the understanding of psychoanalytic ideas through the rich and evocative media of theater, music, dance, and the visual arts. Community collaborations provide a "place" for conversations about any and all facets of the human condition as expressed through the arts. Artists Repertory Theater’s 2019-20 Season1515 SW Morrison • (503) 241-1278 • www.artistsrep.org
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Awards for Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan “astonishing, riveting, and almost literally shocking” – Steven Suskin, The Huffington Post
Awards for Isaac Gomez “countless moments of sheer theatrical beauty” - Ben Kaye, New City Stage
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart will be performed among the audience in a pub-style setting. Enjoy traditional Scottish pub fare, beverages, and (of course) whiskey for a nominal additional fee. Prudencia Hart is an academic scholar of traditional Scottish folklore and immensely dislikes all things pop culture, including her work adversary, Colin Syme. After a particularly long night full of draughts and drams at a pub, Prudencia gets lost in the snow-covered forest and winds up getting saved by a man who may have nefarious intentions. Bewitchingly exuberant, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart is a wild romp through Scottish ballads, karaoke mainstays, and devilish encounters. Awards for David Greig “satirical, absurd, a literary parlor game, a crazy surf through folkloric history, and a wild and celebratory slice of storytelling-as-art”
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Sholem Asch’s play The God of Vengeance made a splash on Broadway in 1923, when it was shut down after six weeks of running, and all of the actors were arrested on charges of obscenity. Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Paula Vogel weaves scenes of Asch’s play with the imagined conversations of the risk-taking company that brought the script to the stage. Indecent is a riveting backstage drama filled with music, the history of Jewish theatre, and stage magic.
Awards for Paula Vogel
2013 Inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame
1999 PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award
1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama (How I Learned to Drive)
1997 Obie Award for Playwriting (How I Learned to Drive)
1992 Obie Award for Best New American Play (The Baltimore Waltz)
LOOKING FOR TIGER LILY by Anthony Hudson directed by Michael Mendelson May 2 – May 31 at 2:00 PM Location: PCS: Ellyn Bye Studio Discussion after the matinee on Sunday, May 31st with Deborah Kass, LCSW |
Carla Rossi – Portland’s premier drag clown – has taken over Anthony’s life and Anthony would like it back now. Anthony’s identity is a confused tangle of Native American/white/queer, and Anthony grew up looking to the Indian princess Tiger Lily from Peter Pan for cultural guidance. Looking for Tiger Lily is a kaleidoscopic, funhouse trip, following Anthony’s quest to find validation as a real Native artist – where the artist and the muse can coexist.
Awards for Anthony Hudson
2019 Individual Artist Fellowship in Performing Arts from Oregon Arts commission
2018 Creative Heights Award from Oregon Community Foundation
2018 Native Arts & Culture Foundation National Artist Fellow in Artistic Innovation
2018 Inaugural cohort of the Western Arts Alliance’s Native Launchpad program
2016 Regional Arts & Culture Council Grant