http://www.pcs.org/buried-in-the-middle/ This is Your Blog On Theater Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:43:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.pcs.org/buried-in-the-middle/#comment-3624 Queen of chaos Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:50:41 +0000 http://www.pcs.org/blog/buried-in-the-middle/#comment-3624 Portland seems the perfect place to spawn a true Rep. Company of National Merit. I'd love to see returning Actors in new and vaired roles uptstairs & downstairs at PCS, but the logistics & costs are huge for a LORT Theatre. So many actors return by inivitation to PCS anyway, it seems the company is half way there. I'll designate my next million towards an endowment for a core Rep. of players! Someday... Portland seems the perfect place to spawn a true Rep. Company of National Merit. I’d love to see returning Actors in new and vaired roles uptstairs & downstairs at PCS, but the logistics & costs are huge for a LORT Theatre. So many actors return by inivitation to PCS anyway, it seems the company is half way there. I’ll designate my next million towards an endowment for a core Rep. of players! Someday…

]]> http://www.pcs.org/buried-in-the-middle/#comment-3439 Willamette Week | Friday, February 1st, 2008 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:05:25 +0000 http://www.pcs.org/blog/buried-in-the-middle/#comment-3439 [...] While there's plenty that's rave-worthy about the production on its own, I think it's even more fun in conjunction with Beard of Avon, Amy Freed's nerdy farce with which it is running in repertory (PCS has nicknamed the project "b12"). I didn't like Beard all that much, but it's not that often that you get to see the same actors tackling different roles like you do here. Getting to know the talents and range of individual actors is half the appeal of ensemble companies like defunkt and Vertigo, and the same principal is at work here. I'd like to see more repertory work in Portland, but I understand why it's so rare—it's a hell of a lot of work. [...] [...] While there’s plenty that’s rave-worthy about the production on its own, I think it’s even more fun in conjunction with Beard of Avon, Amy Freed’s nerdy farce with which it is running in repertory (PCS has nicknamed the project “b12″). I didn’t like Beard all that much, but it’s not that often that you get to see the same actors tackling different roles like you do here. Getting to know the talents and range of individual actors is half the appeal of ensemble companies like defunkt and Vertigo, and the same principal is at work here. I’d like to see more repertory work in Portland, but I understand why it’s so rare—it’s a hell of a lot of work. [...]

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