I love Portland Center Stage! It offers such creative and compelling programing – from Broadway warhorses with an edge, to edgy plays like last nights “How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found,” a great show concerned with the timeless theme of what it means to be alive.
It was our usual PCS date with before-the-show happy hour and appetizers at The Henry Tavern (not so crowded, but still loud and lively). The ‘studio’ performance was awesome – skilled actors presenting the US premier of this play in the small, arty space downstairs at The Gerding Theater at the Armory. I love this theatrical space – the people who brought it back, the bricks and trusses, the atmosphere, thetalented folks who bring it alive with art now!
Recently we saw the R. Buckminster Fuller play here, and that one left us a bit dizzy with dialog and science, but last night’s story of personal despair, and attempt to repair, only to be left alone in both the before and afterlife is the personal kind of tug and struggle that sticks with me and makes me wonder. About life, existence, happiness.
Well, I’m way to “here and now” to want to be gone, but we all have our moments, right!
Becky