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I'm in Control is a tight little temper fit of a show. As it is only playing for one weekend, PETE Presents invited our culture editor Suzette Smith to a rehearsal. Though she saw it in a brightly-lit basement, she thinks it works.
"I’m in Control Which Means Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen to Me" is the second mount of a production by PETE Presents: Portland Experimental Theater Ensemble's mentorship program, which selects projects and performing artists, and provides them with the benefit of PETE's experience and resources. It only plays for a weekend, so we were invited to a rehearsal—to sus out the vibe.
Who is an American? And what does it mean to be one? Those are questions that Cristi Miles, co-founder of the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, explores in a new production that's as much a poem as a play.