The Fertile Ground Festival of New Works is a citywide, multi-week performing arts festival taking place in venues throughout Portland, Oregon and the surrounding areas.
This year's lineup includes site specific theatre, dance, solo shows, aerial performance, puppetry, and dozens upon dozens of brand-new scripts by some of Portland's most celebrated and prolific playwrights.
Schedule of Events:
7:30PM - LineStorm Playwrights Present: SMALL BITES by Accuardi, Block, Hyun Houghton, Lewis, Rubin, and Ward
Swing by for a bite of six sweet and savory short play readings by LineStorm Playwrights members Sara Jean Accuardi, Audrey Block, Heath Hyun Houghton, E. M. Lewis, Rich Rubin, and Lolly Ward.
Performance Length:
70 minutes
Rating/Recommended Age:
All ages
Location: Artists Repertory Theatre 1515 SW Morrison St Portland, Oregon, 97205
7:30pm - Great White Goes Down by Ajai Tripathi & Patrick Hilton
Over the past two seasons, audiences have marveled at the beauty, rawness, and candor of Ajai Tripathi’s Great White Gets Off and Great White Gives it Up. The final installment of the Great White Trilogy, Great White Goes Down, invites us to join Sandeep and Bert as they bring closure to their whirlwind relationship that has traveled the world and spanned centuries. Didn’t see one or both of the first two plays? That’s ok because we will be presenting those plays as special performances during the run.
Performance Length:
85 minutes, no intermission
Rating/Recommended Age:
18+
Location: The Back Door Theater 4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland, OR 97215
Rasputin by David Wagstaff
Since the early 1990’s, a faction within the Russian Orthodox Church has advocated for Grigori Rasputin’s canonization as a saint. I, David Wagstaff, the author and director of this one-man play “Rasputin,” offer my personal, yet secular, seconding of this move to canonize this much misunderstood and maligned holy man.
Performance Length:
60 - 70 minutes
Rating/Recommended Age:
18+
Location: 21ten Theatre 2110 SE 10th Ave Portland , Oregon , 97214
7:30pm - Moments of Reckoning - Works by Nancy Campbell, Mishelle Apalategui, & Timothy Krause
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