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Friday, October 20, 2006
Artsy Catacombs
Posted by on Fri, Oct 20 at 10:44 AM
I checked out the Catacombs Project last night, this interactive theater installation put together by the Portland Art Center, Hand2Mouth, and Fever Theater, and let me tell you: it is plenty awesome.
While it doesn’t involve any actual tunnels, an impressive lineup of visual artists teamed up to turn the Portland Art center into a vision of Portland’s past. You meander through the big, creepy space, inhabited by performers who all have their own unsettling backstory, which they’ll tell you about if you ask- like the woman who told us that she’d been shot 22 times by police officers, or the sketchy tweaker guy who tried to sell us porn. Actually it was a lot like hanging out outside of the Portland Art center, now that I think about it… but I digress.
The place looks great, there’s a cash bar so you can grab a beer and while you wander around chatting up the performers (especially delightful since I have a theater-nerd crush on about half of both the Fever and Hand2Mouth ensembles)…. it’s definitely worth checking out. Just don’t go alone.
32 NW 5th, Fri-Sun, tours start at 8 pm, $10-20, More info here
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