About halfway through Fucking A, a character named Butcher (John San Nicolas) delivers a language-bending monologue that lists every law his daughter has broken. The offenses range from the severe to the mundane to the absurd. They include homicide, jaywalking, and “leading men and women into cyberspace and leaving them there lost,” among many, many more. Butcher’s speech tells us that world of Fucking A is one where just about anything can be outlawed. Ironically,.
Shaking the Tree is a staple to Portland audiences. It's a theater company that both embraces classics and subverts them, where audiences can start from a place of familiarity before leaping into the unexpected. Housed in an unassuming SE Portland warehouse, it has produced memorable versions of Macbeth, and the Bakkai, in addition to inventive pandemic-era productions like Refuge, which was performed for "germ pods" in-person, but at a prerecorded distance. Therefore, while we are.