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Phédre
by Jean Racine in a version by Ted Hughes
October 16, 2010 through October 17, 2010
Saturday October 16 at 2:00pm, Sunday October 17 at 7:00pm
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This performance, originally screened in June, 2009, features Helen Mirren in the title role.
In Phédre, Mirren plays a women consumed by an uncontrollable passion for her young stepson. Believing Theseus, her absent husband, to be dead, she confesses her darkest desires and enters the world of nightmare. When Theseus returns, alive and well, Phèdre, fearing exposure, accuses her stepson of rape. The result is carnage.
Adults and Seniors $20; Students $15; Group rates available
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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A Disappearing Number
by Complicite, Directed by Simon McBurney
November 6, 2010
Saturday, 2:00pm and 7:00pm
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A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too. The mathematician GHHardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of Cambridge during the First World War. Ramanujan looks to create some of the most complex mathematical patterns of all time.
We are all looking. The question is who can see.
Adults and Seniors $20; Students $15; Group rates available
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
December 18, 2010
Saturday, 2:00pm and 7:00pm
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Shakespeare's HAMLET, directed by Nicholas Hytner, featuring cast Rory Kinnear in the title role, David Calder as Polonius, Clare Higgins as Gertrude, Patrick Malahide as Claudius and Ruth Negga as Ophelia.
Adults and Seniors $20; Students $15; Group rates available
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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FELA!
January 29, 2011 through February 6, 2011
Saturday January 29 and February 5 at 2:00pm, Sunday January 30 and February 6 at 7:00pm
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Currently playing on Broadway, the Tony winning musical FELA! comes to the National with Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulpao-Kuti.
Adults and Seniors $20; Students $15; Group rates available
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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King Lear
by William Shakespeare
February 26, 2011 through February 27, 2011
Saturday February 26 and Sunday February 27, 2:00pm and 7:00pm both days
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One of the greatest works in western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human existence: love and duty, power and loss, good and evil.
Derek Jacobi portrays the aging monarch in the Donmar Warehouse production, directed by Artistic Director Michael Grandage.
Adults and Seniors $20; Students $15; Group rates available
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Frankenstein
by Nick Dear
April 2, 2011 through April 3, 2011
Saturday April 2 and Sunday April 3, 2:00pm and 7:00pm both days
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Danny Boyle’s production of FRANKENSTEIN, a play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley.
Adults and Seniors $20; Students $15; Group rates available
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekhov
July 16, 2011 through July 17, 2011
Saturday July 16 and Sunday July 17, 2:00pm and 7:00pm both days
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Also in the new season will be Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD, directed by NT Associate Director Howard Davies, whose recent productions of Russian plays (including Philistines, Burnt by the Sun and The White Guard) have earned huge critical acclaim. Zoë Wanamaker will play Madame Ranevskaya.
Adults and Seniors $20; Students $15; Group rates available
Location
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR 97204
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Announcing 20/20: Clearly a Bargain
Want that awesome Third Rail experience at a lower price?
For every
performance we are holding 20 seats in the first two rows. One
hour before curtain time (1pm matinees, 6:30pm evenings), we will sell
those seats for only $20.
First come, first served, so arrive a bit
early to be among the "lucky 20."
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