Theater: Late Night at the Hothouse

Portland Gallery Playwright’s Group presents

The Men from The Girls

by Alisha Adams, directed by Odin Gustafson

Festival Performance Dates: January 23 at 10:30 pm

Venue: Hothouse on the Mezzanine, Gerding Theater at the Armory (128 NW 11th)

Single Tickets: $5. Call 800-494-TIXS or online at http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/Calendar.html

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The Men from The Girls was inspired by Decadent poetry, 1960's girl groups and classical Cynics. Alisha wrote the first draft during a residency at The Department of Safety, while questioning the human yen for punishment, tragedy and loss. Alma can't feel remorse, Dino can't die, and Delores just can't help herself. In the words of the Girls, "Tell me where is the fun, if the worst that can be has been done?"

Theater: Late Night at the Hothouse
Portland Gallery Playwright’s Group presents
It Takes All Shorts
by Marguerite Scott, Fred Stickley, Rebecca Frost Mayer, Brian Kettler, Claire Willett, Karen Alexander, Andrew Wardenaar

Festival Performance dates: Jan 22 at 10:30 pm
Venue: Hothouse on the Mezzanine, Gerding Theater at the Armory (128 NW 11th)
Single Tickets: $7. Call 800-494-TIXS or online at http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/Calendar.html

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It Takes All Shorts is the largest collection of short play readings by the writers from Portland Gallery Playwrights Group (PG2) in this year’s Fertile Ground Festival.  It includes six pieces that are either 10 minutes in their entirety or 10 minute segments of longer plays. With each writer choosing to present a piece of work that holds a lot of meaning to them, our offerings are incredibly varied.  While there isn’t a specific theme stringing all these plays together, they will take the audience on a journey both entertaining and moving, from musical to memoir to the macabre. The program will begin shortly after Portland Center Stage’s production of Snow Falling on Cedars lets out, allowing patrons of that show as well as those wandering the Pearl District easy access to some great new work.

Theater/Dance: Late Night at the Hothouse
Oregon Ballet Theatre and the Attic Writer’s Workshop presents
Incorporamento
by Gavin Larsen and David Biespiel

Festival Performance dates: Jan 24 and 31 at 10:30 pm
Venue: Hothouse on the Mezzanine, Gerding Theater at the Armory (128 NW 11th)
Single Tickets: $15

If language could move and the body could sing, then the result would Incorporamento, the unique collaboration between a poet and a dancer. In 2008, award-winning poet David Biespiel began writing a series of epistles—poems in the form of letters—to fellow poets, friends, and spirits from the past. Incorporamento is the fabulously choreographed sequence of dances in response to some of those letters designed by OBT principal dancer Gavin Larsen. The performance answers a profound question: Can two arts, one spoken and one silent, marry? The answer is, yes! This one-of-a-kind collaboration—between poet and dancer—will also include a post-show Q&A with the audience, moderated by Portland writer Dave Jarecki about how Biespiel and Larsen created the performance and muse on the relationship between the body of poetry and the poetry of the body.

Theater: Late Night at the Hothouse
Nomadic Theater Company presents
Alice in Wonderland
adapted by Conor Eifler

Festival Performance Dates:, Jan 29 at 10:00 pm
Venue: Hothouse on the Mezzanine, Gerding Theater at the Armory (128 NW 11th)
Single Tickets: $10. Call 800-494-TIXS or online at http://nomadictheatre.org/events.html
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Fall with us into the dark rabbit hole and try to keep your head from spinning in the dark, twisted world that awaits.  This new character-driven adaptation of the novel by Lewis Carroll features all of your favorite characters--Alice, the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, The Queen of Hearts--conceived in a new light.  

This script was commissioned by Nomadic Theatre Co (www.nomadictheatre.org) for its upcoming full production in Spring 2009.  Company co-founder Michael O'Neill will direct this highly physical and fantastical theatre show told with masks, stilts and the human body.

Working in a variety of physical theatrical forms--including clown, mask, puppetry, dance, stilt-walking and acrobatics--the Nomadic Theatre Co strives to entertain and educate people through non-traditional theatre in Portland, the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Theater: Late Night
Pulp Stages presents
The Go-Girls
by Anna Sahlstrom

Festival Performance dates: Jan 28 at 10:30 pm
Venue: The Brody Theater (16 NW Broadway)
Single Tickets: $15. Call 800-494-TIXS or online at http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/Calendar.html

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Amelia Beckett, aka Goddess of Discord, goes for what she thinks is a regular job interview only to be recruited into a super-hero team by lovers Joanna and Marianna.  Little do her new friends know that she is a member of the Cosmic Sisterhood and has a major problem of her own: her equally powerful sister who is off her medication and on the rampage against all of Los Angeles.  Into the mix comes Brian, a graphic novelist originally from Cuba, with abilities of his own.  And then there is Olga, the mysterious woman warrior from Brazil, who holds a terrible secret in her past.  These five join together for the battle of their lives because not only is LA in grave danger, the fate of the entire world is at stake.

Theater: Late Night
Pulp Stages presents
Pulp Sampler
by Jason Ferte, Jason Squamata, Phillip Meyer, Brad Bulchuno, Bill Ratner, Rich Rubin and Tina Connolly

Festival Performance dates: Jan 24 at 7:30 pm
Venue: The Brody Theater (16 NW Broadway)
Single Tickets: $15. Call 800-494-TIXS or online at http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/Calendar.html

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The Pulp Diction: Pulp Sampler is a part of the PULP DICTION series of live readings. Seven short plays. Seven playwrights. Three directors. Sixteen actors. And you.

Oh, and beer, a full bar, some good food, stories and songs about Vampires, Private Eyes, Superheroes, Drag Queens, Beach Babes, Psycho Killers, Avatars, Sex-Complexes, Drug-Runs and much more. All created and shapes by folks who make comics, write screenplays, voice cartoons, contribute to magazines, research on Fulbrights, perform in clubs, win the Oregon Book Award and, of course, love and dedicate themselves to Live Theatre.

Directed by Brian Allard, Jason Ferte and Megan Murphy. Produced by “Tall” Matt Haynes.

Special Guest Appearance by Bill Ratner, best known as the voice of Flint in the GI Joe cartoon series from the 80s.

It’s Pulp Diction. Want in?

Comedy/Theater: Late Night at the Hothouse
Bad Reputation Productions presents
Road House: The Play
developed for stage by Shelley McLendon and Courtenay Hameister

Festival Performance dates: Jan 28 at 10:30 pm
Venue: Hothouse on the Mezzanine, Gerding Theater at the Armory (128 NW 11th)

Single Tickets: $10. Call 800-494-TIXS or online at http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/Calendar.html

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First released as a film in 1989 and starring the late Patrick Swayze, “Road  House” tells the timeless tale of a bar bouncer with a mysterious past who lives by his own rules, a small town terrorized by a wealthy senior citizen, a sexy doctor, and karate. Debuting as a staged reading during the Fertile Ground’s Hot House series, “Road House: The Play!” is the magic that results from taking the original film script, putting it on stage, and adding original songs. For more information: http://badreputationprods.wordpress.com/

Theater: Late Night
Pulp Stages presents
The Re-Write Man
by Steve Patterson

Festival Performance dates: Jan 26 at 10:30 pm
Venue: The Brody Theater (16 NW Broadway)
Single Tickets: $15. Call 800-494-TIXS or online at http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/Calendar.html
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Frank Anderson is a rewrite editor for a wire service in 1953 San Francisco. A former WWII vet who worked as an armorer, he has nearly a two-year gap in his memory that haunts him. A trail of intrigue, spying, and the difficulty of discerning the real from the imagined, all churned together in 1950s paranoia, is set in motion when a femme fatale enlists Frank's help finding her cousin, and an "army buddy" of Frank's shows up---of whom Frank has no recollection.  Is anyone, including Frank's bartender or his shrink, who they say they are?  Is Frank who he thinks he is?  When people start to get tailed and guns start showing up, who can Frank trust?   Ian Fleming meets Phillip K. Dick in this thriller that is sure to leave you checking over your shoulder on the way home.

Late Night

The Pulp Stage Presents

PULP DICTION: THE NIGHT I DIED

by Matt Haynes (based on the serial by Adam Haynes)

Festival Performance Dates: Jan 27 at 10:30pm

Venue: Brody Theater (16 NW Broadway)

Single Tickets: $15. Call 503-205-0715 or online at http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/Calendar.html

"Jack, it's just one of those situations." 

Two stories. In the first story, a violence-obsessed man goes on a dangerous mission for the girl of his dreams. In the second story, a sex-obsessed girl goes on a dangerous mission for the man of her nightmares. These two journeys will lead to a reality-bending collision of time, space, and the beyond. Equal parts AMERICAN PSYCHO and MULHOLLAND DR., this shocking and hilarious play (based on the splatterpunk epic from the screenwriter of THE PLEASURE DRIVERS) will haunt both sides of your personality for days to come.

Late Night at the Hothouse

Double Diamond Productions Presents

Happy Anniversary

by Gary Corbin

Festival Performance Dates: Jan 30 at 10:00 pm

Venue: Mezzanine, Gerding Theater at the Armory (128 NW 11th Ave)

Single Tickets: $5. Call 503-312-1336 or online at http://garycorbinwriting.com/index_files/stage.htm

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Robert and Elizabeth were married for six years. One year after their divorce, they meet for dinner at their favorite New York restaurant, trying to salvage a friendship from the ashes of their ruined marriage. Arguments over the choice of wine, whether to share their food and Robert’s playboy past turn the dinner into disaster. Neverthless, Robert persists and the couple repeats the experiment on the fifth and tenth anniversaries of their divorce as well. Nosy waiter Anton, who serves them all three meals, punctuates their conversation with well-timed interventions guaranteed to elicit the most information he can gather – and outbursts from the frustrated couple