Reminder: "Santaland Diaries" at Portland Center Stage

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Portland Center Stage presents an interpreted performance of their traditional Christmas offering,

"Santaland Diaries"

by David Sedaris

Darius Pearce as Crumpet the Elf at PCS

DATE: Thursday, December 13th

TIME:  7:30 pm; Deaf Theater Chat begins at 6:30 pm

PLACE: Gerding Theater at The Armory
               Ellen Bye Stage (lower level)
               128 NW Eleventh Avenue
               Portland, Oregon 97209

TICKETS: online at www.PCS.org  
                   (use promo code SIGN)

                   or call the box office  503-445-3700

INTERPRETER: Jayodin Mosher

Based on the true chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s Santaland display, this cult classic riffs on a few of Sedaris’ truly odd encounters with his fellow man during the height of the holiday crunch. NPR humorist and best-selling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers, and this production has become a Portland holiday tradition. 

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New Interpreting for Theater Blog Post at PCS

My recent blog post for PCS went out last Friday, thank you to the talented and wonderful Katie O!

You can read it by clicking on the picture below, which will take you directly to the post on the PCS blog.

"Interpreting the Bard" by Dot Hearn

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Reminder: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at PCS

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Portland Center Stage presents an interpreted performance of

Shakespeare's 

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" 

DATE: Thursday, December 6th   (*2* interpreted shows)

TIME:  * NOON and  7:30 pm
             *Deaf Theater Chat begins at 6:30 pm

PLACE: Gerding Theater at The Armory
               Main Stage
               128 NW Eleventh Avenue
               Portland, Oregon 97209

TICKETS: online at www.PCS.org   (use promo code SIGN)

                  or call the box office  503-445-3700

INTERPRETERS: Edwin Cancel, Pam Cancel,  KT Corlett, Krista Harmon

synopsis: As the royals Theseus and Hippolyta prepare to marry, four young lovers from their Athenian kingdom flee to the forest in the wake of parental disapproval. But in the woodland, these lovers’ lives are complicated upon crossing paths with feuding faerie royalty. As Oberon and Titania bicker over a changeling child, the mischievous Puck and his sprightly accomplices use herbal spells to hilariously complicate the love-mad quartet’s forest idyll.

When a group of local rustics rehearsing a play for the Athens wedding also seek the quiet of the forest, the spells and confusions wrought seem unlikely to ever sort themselves out. But this is William Shakespeare at his most magical and most imaginative, and with a little enchantment, as Puck says “all is mended.”

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PCS: "Santaland Diaries" interpreted performance

In December, Portland Center Stage will also be having an interpreted performance of their traditional Christmas offering

"Santaland Diaries"

by David Sedaris

Darius Pearce as Crumpet the Elf at PCS

DATE: Thursday, December 13th

TIME:  7:30 pm; Deaf Theater Chat begins at 6:30 pm

PLACE: Gerding Theater at The Armory
               Ellen Bye Stage (lower level)
               128 NW Eleventh Avenue
               Portland, Oregon 97209

TICKETS: online at www.PCS.org   (use promo code SIGN)

                  or call the box office  503-445-3700

INTERPRETER: Jayodin Mosher

Based on the true chronicles of David Sedaris’ experience as Crumpet the Elf in Macy’s Santaland display, this cult classic riffs on a few of Sedaris’ truly odd encounters with his fellow man during the height of the holiday crunch. NPR humorist and best-selling author of When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris has become one of America’s pre-eminent humor writers, and this production has become a Portland holiday tradition. 

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"Merge" interpreted at PCC this Friday

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"Merge" at PCC Sylvania PAC

"MERGE" is an original PCC Theatre and Dance program collaboration.

Interpreted Performance: Friday, November 16, at 7:30pm

Location: PCC Sylvania campus in Performing Arts Center
               12000 Southwest 49th Ave, Portland, OR 97219
Tickets: General admission $10; Students and Seniors $8
            *Reservations required : call 971-722-4323, leave your name, the date of Friday 11/16, how many people in your group, and your contact phone number. Seating is limited to 45.*

Have you ever wondered who those people are who drive by you so fast and are seen in glimpses on the highway? Ever been stuck in traffic and wondered who you're parked next to? This performance will use both the PCC Sylvania Performing Arts Center lobby and theatre spaces to explore what happens when a group of unrelated characters at various cross-roads of their lives start to merge while stuck in a traffic jam. This fun, engaging and unique PCC original production explores themes of community, identity and the nature of the threads that hold society together, and the obstacles that keep us apart. Mixing movement, acting, a labyrinth, sound, audience interaction, text, improvisation, and a very interesting staging of a traffic jam that includes the audience, this production will have limited audience of 48 participants per show, so reservations are strongly encouraged.

Choreography and movement by PCC Dance chair Heidi Dyer. Design by Dan Hays, co-written by Heidi Dyer, Dan Hays and (directed by) PCC Theatre Chair Patrick Tangredi

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*update* Theatrical Interpreting Preparation Series

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RID approved CEUs for the "Theatrical Interpreting Preparation Series" workshop as follows:

Up to 3.6 CEUs, Professional Studies, Content Level: Some, Specialty Area: Performing Arts, offered for this workshop through The Language Door, an approved RID CMP & ACET sponsor. Activity #0264-1212-01.

There are a few seats left if you are interested but have not yet mailed in your registration. You can drop me an email at the link to the right if you are interested and then follow up by submitting your registration and deposit before the deadline. The registration form and other information is included on the flyer, which you can view and download by clicking on the link "Theatrical Interpreting Preparation Series".

Many thanks to The Language Door for processing the paperwork and sponsoring this activity.
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PCS: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

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The next interpreted performance at Portland Center Stage will be

Shakespeare's 

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" 

DATE: Thursday, December 6th   (*2* interpreted shows)

TIME:  * NOON and  7:30 pm
             *Deaf Theater Chat begins at 6:30 pm

PLACE: Gerding Theater at The Armory
               Main Stage
               128 NW Eleventh Avenue
               Portland, Oregon 97209

TICKETS: online at www.PCS.org   (use promo code SIGN)

                  or call the box office  503-445-3700

INTERPRETERS: Edwin Cancel, Pam Cancel,  KT Corlett, Krista Harmon

*Purchase your tickets soon; the December shows do sell out!*

As the royals Theseus and Hippolyta prepare to marry, four young lovers from their Athenian kingdom flee to the forest in the wake of parental disapproval. But in the woodland, these lovers’ lives are complicated upon crossing paths with feuding faerie royalty. As Oberon and Titania bicker over a changeling child, the mischievous Puck and his sprightly accomplices use herbal spells to hilariously complicate the love-mad quartet’s forest idyll.

When a group of local rustics rehearsing a play for the Athens wedding also seek the quiet of the forest, the spells and confusions wrought seem unlikely to ever sort themselves out. But this is William Shakespeare at his most magical and most imaginative, and with a little enchantment, as Puck says “all is mended.”

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PCS: Spring Musical Change

Portland Center Stage has changed the final show of the season. It is still a musical, but it will be a world premiere of "Somewhere in Time." The date and time of the interpreted performance remain the same.

Interpreted June 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm

"Somewhere in Time"

On the Main Stage

Book by Ken Davenport
Music by Doug Katsaros
Lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz
Based on the novel and the Universal Pictures film written by Richard Matheson
Directed by Scott Schwartz

Somewhere in Time is produced by special arrangement with Davenport Theatrical Enterprises, Inc.www.DavenportTheatrical.com.

World Premiere

Young playwright Richard Collier has an encounter with a mysterious old woman on the opening night of his earliest success; she entreats him, to his bewilderment, to “come back to me.” Several years later, with his life and career in disarray, he seeks quiet and contemplation and checks in to a storied hotel from his youth. But his stay at the hotel turns into the journey of a lifetime as he unravels history—and time—to discover a powerful but perhaps impossible love.

The 1980 film of Somewhere in Time is a romantic classic, beloved by several generations of movie goers. This world premiere musical invites those who love the story, and those discovering it for the first time, to experience its magic with original music by Doug Katsaros and lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz, with book by Ken Davenport.

Deaf Poet Raymond Luczak to Perform

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...and it will be interpreted for the signing impaired...

SILENCE IS A FOUR-LETTER WORD: A Deaf Poet "chants"from his work 

From the Facebook event posting:

Silence is indeed a dirty word when Raymond Luczak performs his poetry in American Sign Language (ASL) not only from his five poetry collections but also from his poems published in RFD and other people’s work from his brand-new anthology Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience. The event will be voiced by Jake Sparks for the signing-impaired, and a spirited Q&A is sure to follow.

This is part of the Faeposium III, where this year's focus is Radical Faeries: New Frontiers.

Date:      November 10th, 2012
Time:      2:00 - 3:00 pm
Location: Bamboo Grove Salon 

134 Southeast Taylor Street               Portland, OR 97214               (971) 207-8476

This will be a great opportunity to see Deaf  Poet Raymond Luczak performing his work. Not to be missed!
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Theatrical Interpreting Intensive Mentored Workshop

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The second theatrical interpreting workshop will be in April 2013 and will be a more intensive mentored training. There will be a project play and we - no, you - will be going through the entire process of theatrical interpreting preparation, leading to the final event of the group of chosen participants interpreting a matinee of the play. We will meet twice a week as a group, which will include attending the play for rehearsal purposes.

Prerequisites for this workshop are

•  completion of the Theatrical Interpreting Preparation Series (TIPS) 
•  audition at the end of March (date and time TBA)

Additional basic information:

•  our first meeting will be the first week of April 2013
•  we will begin seeing the project play the week of April 9 (evening performances; there may also be opportunities to attend a matinee on a Thursday or a weekend day)
•  cost will be $200
•  CEU/ACET will be offered if RID approves application 

More information will be available in December.
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