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Friday, August 28, 2009
Theater Onstage this Weekend
Posted by Alison Hallett on Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Theater season is starting to rumble into gear—there are two openings this weekend, plus one-night revival of one of the surprise successes of the summer.
The Cuban Missile Tango opened last night at Imago; the original work "crosses a Halloween night dinner party with the Cuban missile crisis," using movement and dance to explore, as I understand it, how seemingly mundane situations can have high-stakes consequences. Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th, $10
And at defunkt, Portland's other-weirdest theatre company, you've got Len Jenkin's The Country Doctor. It's described in their press release as being based on "Franz Kafka’s Ein Landzart," which is a pretentious way of saying that it's based on the short story "The Country Doctor." I'm curious about this one—defunkt recently lost a couple of longtime company members, including founding member and co-artistic director James Moore, making this is the first show of a new era. That's at the Back Door Theater, 4319 SE Hawthorne, $10-15 Fri-Sat, Sun pay-what-you will.
On Sunday night, Trek in the Park... at the Bagdad, with Atomic Arts' production of classic Trek episode Amok Time, followed by a screening of the new movie. That's $6, 8 pm, and I promise you it will be fun. (21+, btw)
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