What
better way to launch a 25th birthday
season and introduce Portland to our two
renovated theaters than with this
utterly unique theatrical event that only Artists Repertory Theatre could
pull off? In it, two interlocking plays are performed simultaneously on
two separate stages with a single cast that dashes madly back and forth
and between the two theaters to make their entrances and exits.
In House a luncheon is being prepared. In Garden, a springtime maypole
fête is in the works. Shuttling between the two are a highly comic series of catastrophes and intertwined
relationships that will leave you literally gasping to know what might be happening just out of sight in the other theater.
Each play is charming on its own, but see both plays to fully
experience Ayckbourn's wild and glorious twin visions of
English country life.
Alan Ayckborn says of his twin plays: "[In House and
Garden] the leading actor in one play became necessarily
the small player in the other - thus pursuing a theme I had
long wanted to explore, namely that we are all of us walk-on
players in other people's lives."
Real life mother / daughter pair Vana and Eleanor O'Brien will work out their famial angst in the roles of Pearl and Izzie, a mother and daughter squabbling over the same (un)lucky man.
What
better way to launch a 25th birthday
season and introduce Portland to our two
renovated theaters than with this
utterly unique theatrical event that only Artists Repertory Theatre could
pull off? In it, two interlocking plays are performed simultaneously on
two separate stages with a single cast that dashes madly back and forth
and between the two theaters to make their entrances and exits.
In House a luncheon is being prepared. In Garden, a springtime maypole
fête is in the works. Shuttling between the two are a highly comic series of catastrophes and intertwined
relationships that will leave you literally gasping to know what might be happening just out of sight in the other theater.