PDX Playwrights

It's the last day of the Festival Within the Festival as part of the Fertile Ground Festival! We want to thank everyone who's come out to see our shows and encourage you all to catch one of our five remaining new plays, including "Unlooping Penelope" by Silver Fagan.

Penelope, of The Odyssey, has somehow altered the fabric of time with her endless weaving and unweaving. Her all-too-familiar rhythms and repetitions are interrupted by the unlikely arrival of two modern q***r travelers into her mythic realm. With a multivocal language of poetic strangeness meeting and mixing with playful humor, this staged reading examines the ways women and q***r people respond to the threats of patriarchy, the complex legacies of family and friendship, and how we get stuck—and unstuck—in tangles of trauma and time.

See "Unlooping Penelope" today, Sunday, April 19 @ 5 pm at Chapel Theatre in Milwaukie.

Tickets are on sale now: https://fertilegroundpdx.ludus.com/show_page.php?show_id=200516858

Tickets are on sale now for our full lineup of Festival Within the Festival shows as part of the Fertile Ground Festival !

Our week-long extravaganza continues with "X&Y" by Genderbomb.

From the trans performance collective, Genderbomb, comes the premiere of "X&Y." Through dance and dialogue, the players get lost in the worlds of marriage, work, childhood, and war. Asking, where and how do we get stuck in the context of one another? What did your mother do for you? When’s the last time you called? And, most urgently, why, after all we’ve suffered and all we’ve seen, do we try to do it again?

See "X&Y" on Wednesday, April 15 @ 8 pm and Sunday, April 19 @ 6:30 pm at Chapel Theatre in Milwaukie.

Tickets are on sale now: https://fertilegroundpdx.ludus.com/show_page.php?show_id=200516853