Votes-for-women activist pushed us out of the way.” That’s life in the Fertileįertile Ground ranges from A to Zed in the theatrical alphabet. Line,” one actor/writer messaged me the following day, “but a puppet and a The action was so fast and furious at my little café table that I’m sure I So maybe I exaggerate about the number of stories I heard. Matryoshka nesting dolls, there are festivals within festivals. Linestorm Playwright’s Lunchtime Reading Series (a coupleĪre actually in the early evening) at the Chapel Theatre in Milwaukie includesįree readings of ten new scripts, by the likes of such familiar names as Rich Greenhouse dance showcase, for instance eight for Daisyĭukes Shorts Night. Mini Musical Festival, PDX Playwrights’ Crazyĭukes Instant Play Festival, and the Groovin’ That’s because some programs have multiple short works: a half-dozen each for the The horde, “seventy-five shows, a hundred-twenty or more acts of creation.” In spaces scattered across the Portland metro area, although some shows haveĪlready begun and some will run longer – has, as Lane noted before unleashing Photo courtesy Fertile Groundįertile Ground – which runs officially January 30-February 9 The next line at the next table to do it all again.įestival director Nicole Lane, clanging the bell: time to switch partners and start again. ![]() The tabletop and launching into their three-minute schpiels before moving on to Pressed forward, slapping press releases and postcards and business cards on There I sat at my little assigned corner café table on the mezzanine of TheĪrmory, other little tables splayed out in a semicircle on either side as an invadingĬast of producers, directors, playwrights, actors, and assorted backstage types What festival director Nicole Lane likes to call “speed-dating the media” – and It was media night for Portland’s eleventh annual Fertile Ground festival of new works – Soft sells, hard sells, stories spun with Stories spun by puppets and sexologists and On a recent Monday evening I heard about 683,427 of ’em. ![]() ![]() There are a million stories in the naked city, and I figure
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