Alabaster in PDX
Through six public performances of the play Alabaster, combined with a large community painting party for all ages, and two workshops; the community in Portland is offered to learn practices of healing through art-making.
ABOUT: The play begins after a tornado barrels through a town leaving nothing but death and destruction, only June and her pet goats Weezy and Bib live to tell the tale. Do our moments of trauma define us? Can we heal through art? A Play about Women. A Play about Art. A Play about Healing.
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How Many Others
"How Many Others highlights verbatim accounts of the Russian war on Ukraine from four generations of Ukrainian-Jewish women and combines their stories with movement and visual media to shed light on sexual violence as a weapon of war. As we are invited into these women’s lives, pre- and post-Russian invasion, this documentary-style play draws on historical accounts of gendered violence to implore the audience to witness and rectify how history repeats itself."
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Untitled Elegy Play
Interviews collected and weaved together by Andrea Stolowitz
Staged Reading Directed by Willow Jade Norton
Twelve unrelated characters (played by 5 performers) gather to share stories of a pandemic. As individual narratives unfold, relationships deepen and a community develops. “Elegy Play” moves beyond an exploration of what was into an invitation to collectively imagine what could be. Length: 80 minutes. Cast: Five performers. Identities are fluid.
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Alabaster
NNPN Rolling World Premier, at Oregon Contemporary Theatre
By Audrey Cefaly
Directed by Willow Jade Norton
Alabaster is a poignant, darkly comic exploration of creativity, loss, and resilience. A play about women. About art. About Healing.
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MADAMA BUTTERFLY IN THE GARDEN
Eugene Opera Presents Madama Butterfly in the beautiful Owen Rose Garden. The show is excerpts from Puccini's Madama Butterfly, accompanied by string quintet and keyboard. This concert tells the timeless story of love, duty and abandonment that continues to thrill audiences today. Directed by Willow Jade Norton.
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LIFE- Virtual Production
Live virtual production with a cast of nine individuals, 13 to 70 years in age, LIFE was adapted to meet unique Eugene and the Lane Community College ensemble’s questions in this moment.
The play delves into topics related to the impermanence of love, the slipperiness of security, the evasiveness of meaning, and how it influences our lives in Eugene.
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