Portland Center Stage

Inside the Mind of Power and Celebrity

Posted by Kinsley Suer | 01 May 2009 | Comments (0)

THIS Sunday, following the 2 p.m. matinee: 
Formative Stages: Theater and the Life of the Mind
Now in its second year, this engaging series (copresented by The Oregon Psychoanalytic Center and Portland Center Stage) puts theater on the couch and the audience in the conversational driver’s seat with lively post- show discussions on issues, themes and lessons gleaned from the PCS season.

Flexing their considerable insights into human nature and the life of the mind, we’ve invited a  distinguished group of OPC practitioners to delve into the curious nooks and crannies that theater inhabits—from humor and mannered whimsy to the insatiable lust for life to the menage-a-trois between power, justice and truth, to idiosyncratic family dynamics and taboo — revealing that the world on the stage is truly a glorious microcosm of life.

Join us this Sunday, May 3 at 2 pm for FROST/NIXON and stick around as SCOTT MURRAY, M.D. gives us his take on the truth and lies,  the power-plays and the pity, the rehabilitation of character,  and the metaphorical boxing match between David Frost and Richard Nixon.

Discussions take place in the theater directly following the 2 pm matinees. Free with theater admission