Licking The Plate
(World
Premiere)
by
Lynne Duddy, Lawrence Howard, Penny
Walter, Robin Bady and Rebecca Cohen
Fridays and
Saturdays, November
2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th,
2007
Happy
hour 7:30 to
8:00; curtain at 8:00 pm
Hipbone Studio, 1847 E.
Burnside, Portland,
Oregon (visit: www.portlandstorytheater.com)
$12
includes complimentary light snacks, beverages available for
purchase
Licking The Plate
Portland Story Theater and
friends open their 2007-2008 performance season with Licking The
Plate, a brand new collection of stories about
wanting it bad and getting it good; about breaking the rules and throwing
caution to the winds in our quest to find whatever it is that feeds our
psychic
hungers and nourishes our souls. Have you ever spent the night utterly
alone,
miles from the nearest outpost, huddled under your canoe in a fearsome
lightning storm? What got you through? Have you given every last ounce of
heart
and lung and muscle and sinew and courage and determination, to win not
just
the race, but your father=s respect and admiration?
These are stories about our deepest longings and most elemental needs.
Whatever
it is you hunger for, these performances will have you licking the plate
and
wanting more.
ABOUT Portland Story
Theater
Licking The Plate is
Portland
Story Theater's
eighth major production in
Portland. The
brainchild of Portland
narrative artist Lynne Duddy, PST was created to bring sophisticated
storytelling to an adult audience. Past productions have included
Love, Death, and Other Scary Stuff; All the Wrong Places;
Beginner's Luck;
Everybody's Got One;
Who Am I And Where Is My Coffee?; And
Then The Bed Broke!; and Always Say Yes!
Licking The
Plate features founding members Lynne Duddy and Lawrence Howard,
along with
acclaimed puppeteer Penny Walter, making her grand debut on the
storytelling
stage. Also joining them will be special guest stars Robin Bady (Nov. 1st
&
2nd), storyteller, actress, musician, playwright and director from New
York City, and Rebecca Cohen (Nov. 9th & 10th),
storytelling goddess and organizer and producer of Stories by the Sea
Storytelling Festival, from Newport,
Oregon.
Portland Story Theater | Storytellers
Lawrence Howard | Lynne Duddy | Penny Walter | Robin Bady | Rebecca Cohen
503-793-5484 tellers@portlandstorytheater.com
www.portlandstorytheater.com
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Dear friends and fans of
PST!
Portland Story
Theater
is back with a new season! We have a
new home at Hipbone Studio [www.hipbonestudio.com],
which is easy to find right over on 1847 East Burnside with lots of free
parking. And we are excited about our series of five new shows this
season,
more than ever before. Of course, we'll send you a reminder as each show
approaches, but here's a sneak peek at what's coming up. Save the
dates:
November 2, 3,
9,
10 ~ Licking The Plate with Lawrence Howard, Lynne Duddy, Penny Walter.
We're bringing in a couple of out of towners for this one. The first
weekend we
are bringing in Robin Bady, live from NYC, and the next weekend, its
special
guest star , Rebecca Cohen from Newport.
For more details, be sure to visit the PST website at www.portlandstorytheater.com.
Alton and Rick can't make
this one. But if you're in Honolulu, Hawaii October 12-14, be sure to see
Alton perform with the Talk Story Festival. [www.honoluluparks.com]
and you can catch Rick right here in town at the Tapestry of Tales
November
13-17 [http://www.multcolib.org/events/tales/].
Some of you probably saw Rick's
story, Border Crossings, as part of our Always Say Yes! show last Spring.
Well,
he recently garnered some great reviews at the San Francisco Fringe
Festival,
and has been an inspiration to all of us at PST. The rest of the season
will be
a series of solo performances, as each of us delves deep into our subject
matter in a one-man or one-woman show. All shows will be at our new home,
Hipbone Studio, the hippest performance venue in town.
January 11, 12,
18, 19 ~ Lawrence
Howard
Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic Nightmare
In January, Lawrence
will
tell the true, epic tale of
Ernest Shackleton and the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of
1914.
As some of you know, their valiant ship, The Endurance, was trapped in
the
pack
ice and crushed; Shackleton and his 28 men survived on the ice for over a
year
and endured incredible hardship. This is a story that is very near and
dear to Lawrence's heart, as he
and his father shared a lifelong interest in the Shackleton saga. He told
an
abbreviated version of the story several years ago to great acclaim and
has
been working on the longer, unabridged version ever since. This is a
truly
gripping story that will move you to the depths of your soul.
February 8, 9,
15, 16 ~ Alton
Chung
Okage Sama De
"I am what I am
because of
you." Caught up in the patriotic fever shortly after the bombing of
Pearl
Harbor, Nisei, second generation Japanese Americans, volunteer to join
the
100th Battalion/442nd Regimental Combat Team, the all Japanese-American
unit, to
fight in Europe in WWII. During their
journey from raw recruits to combat veterans they learn about courage and
honor, how to be part of a team, and the reality of war. Ironically,
while
liberating people from places like Dachau,
many had relatives incarcerated in American "relocation
centers." These
men fought against the enemy and against prejudice with courage and
distinction, leaving behind a rich legacy of honor for future
generations.
March 7, 8, 14,
15 ~ Rick Huddle
On Sale
Now!
Ever go shopping
even when you don't need anything?
Maybe you saw your friend's iPod and really wanted one just like it.
Maybe
you
saw the ad for the aerating cat water dish in SkyMall magazine. Or maybe
you
were bored, and a little blue, and just wanted a pick-me-up. Come hear
true
stories, pulled from man-on-the-street interviews, that explore and play
with
our reasons for shopping.
April 11, 12,
18,
19 ~ Lynne Duddy
dark matter
96 percent of the
universe is stuff
we've never seen. Everything on our beloved planet, all of the planets,
every
star, moon, asteroid, comet, nebula and gas cloud together make up the
visible
4 percent. Using the science of humankind as a metaphor for the human
heart,
Lynne weaves a tale through the darkness into the light. Just how much
does our
own darkness feed our light? And like the cosmos, does our knowledge of
the
dark matter increase our understanding of what we can see?
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