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Past Productions
Extremities
The first play
ever produced by the
Twilight Repertory Theatre was William Mastrosimone’s Extremities,
a powerful drama about an attempted rape and its aftermath. The play
was presented in April and May of 2007 at Theater! Theatre! on SE
Belmont Street in Portland, OR.
Off
Book
Between January
10th and
February 2nd of 2008, Twilight Repertory Theatre
(known
then as the “New Group Theatre” presented an original play called
Off Book at the Shoebox Theatre. This
was the company’s
first play in the Shoebox, which they hope will always be their home
away from home.
She
Stoops To Conquer
The spring of
2008 was Twilight
Repertory Theatre’s first production of a class play. For this
auspicious occasion, the company chose to do Oliver Goldsmith’s
eighteenth century comedy, She Stoops To Conquer.
The play was
produced in relatively modern dress, using only cubes and benches for
a set, and with five actors playing 17 parts (19 if you count the
horses). Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man (1894) was George
Bernard Shaw's first successful play. The events of the play take
place in 1885-6, during and immediately after the Serbo-Bulgarian war.
It wasn't much of a war, and it was won, as the play indicates,
almost by accident by the inexperienced military of the new Bulgarian
nation. Shaw chose the setting of this little Balkan war to make
his point about the foolishness of romanticizing war. While he
was at it, he thought he'd just make fun of romanticizing romance at
the same time. The result is a household full of very silly
people.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Twilight Repertory Theatre’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
infuses theatrical motion with natural behavior. With focus on
acting, script and directing, and with as little attention to the
spectacle of theatre as possible, there is a limited yet artistic set
and few attempts at absolute “realism.” TRT’s rendition of
this modern classic mines humor and explores the multiple dimensions
inherent in a human relationship, exposing our vulnerable and
sometimes not so pretty humanity.
Parents and Children: six one acts by Portland playwrights
The concept for Parents and Children
came from a dinner one evening, where TRT Artistic Director John Duncan
and his friend Brian
Koch discussed what original work the theatre company might be
interested in pursuing in 2009. Koch remarked that he always found that
everything he wrote seemed to be about his family, or families, and
that the subject was the one thing that almost everyone had in common.
After that discussion and others within the company, local playwrights
were invited to submit scripts and the process began to take on a life
of its own. Death by Laughter
Death by Laughter is an audience participation whodunit that pokes fun at local institutions, characters and itself. Only the audience knows who really killed Dudley Deride.
Measure for Measure
Measure For Measure
is one of Shakespeare’s mature comedies, like Twelfth Night.
Although it contains the usual Shakespearian comic
devices, mistaken identities, people pretending to be someone they
aren’t,
clownish and drunken servants and idiots in office who mangle the
English
language, it also deals with mature content, in this case that most
modern of
mature content, sex. When is lust just a lot of fun and when is it a
sin? And
if it’s a sin, is it really deadly, or just kind of an “oops” moment?
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