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2009-2010 Season
The Lying Kind Nov 20 - Dec 13, 2009
American Buffalo Feb 12 - Mar 7, 2010
The Gray Sisters Apr 30 - May 23, 2010
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illustration by
Lee Moyer
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The Gray Sisters
by Craig Wright
April 30, 2010 through May 23, 2010
Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:00pm
Description
Third Rail has always been a big fan of Craig Wright, our most frequently produced playwright. Now he's a fan of us! After seeing our award-winning production of his play Grace, he offered to pen a script specifically for Third Rail's luminous actresses.
In The Gray Sisters, four sisters unravel their family's history, and in the process grapple with questions of love, loyalty, faith, and fate.
Join us as we introduce a new work to the canon of American Drama.
Single tickets $22-$29, Students $15 (plus ticketing fees)
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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NT Live: The Habit of Art
by Alan Bennett
May 15, 2010 through May 16, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2pm, and Sunday May 16, 7pm
Description
Our next screening of live-captured performance from the National Theatre, London, will be the acclaimed new drama from Alan Bennett, The Habit of Art.
The Habit of Art is as much about the theatre as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men - Benjamin Britten and W. H. Auden - and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion is spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first for twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, amongst others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.
The Habit of Art is recommended for mature audiences.
All tickets $20
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Cast:
Richard Griffiths
Alex Jennings
Adrian Scarbrough
Stephen Wright
Laurence Belcher
Philip Childs
Elliot Levey
Frances de la Tour
John Heffernan
Barbara Kirby
Danny Burns
Martin Chamberlain
Tom Atwood
| Artistic:
Director - Nicholas Hytner
Designer - Bob Crowley
Lighting Designer - Mark Henderson
Music - Matthew Scott
Sound Designer - Paul Groothius
Company Voice Work - Kate Godfrey
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"I can think of few plays that combine wild laughter, deep emotion and technical ingenuity with such bravura. The Habit of Art is a smash hit if ever I saw one… Alex Jennings is superb… Frances de la Tour, as the stage manager and Adrian Scarborough as the biographer Humphrey Carpenter, give performances of comic perfection." -- Daily Telegraph |
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