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5 things to do this week: ‘The Mineola Twins,’ Jenny Conlee, and ‘Protocol’
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Profile Theatre presents Miriam Schwartz, Jennifer Lanier and Blake Stone in The Mineola Twins
Paula Vogel’s “
The Mineola Twins”
Profile Theatre will present the first in a series of five planned livestream performances for 2021. This production was written by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Paula Vogel and directed by Josh Hecht. The comedic play centers on a pair of twins who use mistaken identity to explore culture wars from the 1950s to the 1990s. Themes include women’s sexual freedom, and the fight for reproductive rights. One twin is “good” the other “evil.” One actor plays both parts and sometimes switches between them in the same scene. This is Profile Theatre’s first stab at producing a play featuring real-time performances during the pandemic.
March 01 2021
Other items include Oregon Zoo red pandas, Oaks Park Amusement Park and Cascade Festival of African Films.
Theater shows
• Triangle Productions presents a livestreamed show My Life As I Want to Tell It, a documentary about former Oregon governor candidate Gracie Hansen, March 4-20. It s an hourlong documentary about one of the most original women in the Northwest. It s voiced by Julianna Jaffe, who played Hansen in the 2014 musical Gracie a musical adventure. The cost is $15 for a 24-hour viewing. To watch: www.fiveohm.tv/triangle-productions/gracie-hansen.
• Profile Theatre presents Paula Vogel s The Mineola Twins via streaming March 5-21. The story: Identical twins battle each other through the years Myrna is the good twin and Myra is the evil twin. They re both played by Miriam Schwartz. It livestreams March 5-7 for $20. For more: www.profiletheatre.org/the-mineola-twins.
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The Holocaust Is Refracted Through a Family’s History in the Audio Play “The Berlin Diaries” Art that is about its own creation risks becoming claustrophobic, but The Berlin Diaries is expansive and funny. HOT MIC: Michael Mendelson and Miriam Schwartz voiced all the characters in The Berlin Diaries. (ARTISTS REPERTORY THEATRE) Updated February 16 He who forgets what he cannot change is happy. Those words are spoken multiple times in Andrea Stolowitz s play
The Berlin Diaries, but not because she believes them. She repeats the quote so we ll have time to ask whether it s true. Does forgetting equal happiness? Or is it merely a mask that hides pain without ever healing it?
New audio drama explores family’s lost and found stories: ‘Berlin Diaries’ review
Updated Feb 10, 2021;
Posted Feb 10, 2021
Miriam Schwartz and Michael Mendelson voice narration and multiple characters in Berlin Diaries, the latest audio drama from Artists Repertory Theatre.Shawn Lee, Artists Repertory Theatre
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A family is a collection of stories passed down through generations. Naturally, some stories get lost through time, branch out and grow distant from each other. Sometimes an unimaginable catastrophe slashes off swaths of branches all at once. And sometimes it’s our own family members who end the stories, editing them out. Artists Repertory Theatre’s latest audio drama, “The Berlin Diaries,” grapples with what it means to lose the stories of your family and what it means to find them again.