FOR OUR COMMUNITY

February 8, 2013

Two of Portland’s only East Side venues to be closed
Profile Theatre loses its home

Profile Theatre, currently in its 16th season, is losing its permanent home in the historic Theater! Theatre! Building in Portland’s vibrant Belmont district. The building’s landlord, owner of the Tao of Tea shop and restaurant in the same building, notified the company last week that its lease would not be renewed after June 30. Plans call for the two theaters in the building to be utilized for Tao of Tea operations.

“I learned of the landlord’s decision on closing day of The Road to Mecca, our highest selling, most successful production in over six years,” says Profile’s new Artistic Director Adriana Baer. “It’s heartbreaking that this community is losing two of its most valuable venues.”

“We have spent the last six months investing in improvements which would allow Profile to be better stewards of our venue, providing much-needed rental space for nomadic theater companies and music groups and much-needed earned income for us. We were looking forward to deepening relationships with our community,” says Matthew Jones, Profile’s Managing Director.

Theater! Theatre! Is also the permanent home to Theatre Vertigo. The theaters at 3430 SE Belmont have been producing home to: 24 Hour Plays, Action/Adventure, Theatre, Beat BangerZ, Black Tie Comedy Troupe, Classic Greek Theatre, CoToP Theatre, Curious Comedy, Dance Naked Productions, Fantastic Umbrella Factory, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Hoofers & Co., JANE a theater company, Jewish Theatre Collaborative, La Bodega Productions, Lights Up! Productions, Miss Bee Haven, Inc., Nomadic Theatre Co., Northwest Classical Theatre Co., Playback Theater, Portland Theatre Works, PSU TASO, Public Playhouse, Pyrogen Productions, Renob Control, Sowelu, Staged!, Stumptown Stages, The Phoenix Theatre Co., Theatre Vertigo, Traveling Lantern, Twilight Repertory Theatre, PlayWrite, Inc., The Attic Institute, US Jesco, and over two dozen teachers and individual artists.

Profile Theatre is embarking on negotiations for a venue in which to produce their 2014 Sam Shepard Season, and is moving forward with plans to open that season in January, 2014. Funding to support additional capital expenditures associated with the unexpected move will be sought.

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PLAYS  Cowboys (1964) The Rock Garden (1964) Up To Thursday (1964) Dog (1965) Chicago (1965) 4-H Club (1965) Icarus’s Mother (1965) Rocking Chair (1965) Fourteen Hundred Thousand (1965) Red Cross (1966) Melodrama Play (1967) La Turista (1967) Cowboys #2 (1967) Forensic and the Navigators (1967) The Unseen Hand (1969) The Holy Ghostly (1969) Operation Sidewinder (1970) Shaved Splits (1970) Mad Dog Blues (1971) Back Bog Beast Bait (1971) Cowboy Mouth (1971) The Tooth of Crime (1972) Nightwalk (1973) Blue Bitch (1973) Little Ocean (1974) Geography of a Horse Dreamer (1974) Action (1975) Killer’s Head (1975) The Sad Lament of Pecos Bill on the Eve of Killing his Wife (1976) Angel City (1976) Suicide in B Flat (1976) Inacoma (1977) Curse of the Starving Class (1977) Buried Child (1978) Seduced (1978) Tongues (1978) Jacaranda (1979) Savage/Love (1979) True West (1980) Jackson’s Dance (1980) Superstitions (1981) Hawk Moon: Short Stories, Poems, and Monologues (1981) Fool for Love (1983) A Lie of the Mind (1985) The War in Heaven (1987) Short Life of Trouble (1987) Hawk Moon (1989) States of Shock (1991) Simpatico (1994) When the World was Green (a chef’s fable) (1996) Cruising Paradise: Tales (1997) Eyes for Consuela (1998) The Late Henry Moss (2000) The God of Hell (2004) Kicking a Dead Horse (2007) Ages of the Moon (2009) Evanescence, or Shakespeare in the Alley (2011) Heartless (2012) A Particle of Dread (2013).

“All of us are born to burn.”

NoPassport theatre alliance and press in collaboration with Profile Theatre and other venues across the US and abroad present free script-in-hand readings of SPARK, a new play by Caridad Svich in the month of November 2012 to honor veterans of wars recent (Iraq, Afghanistan) and past, and to promote spiritual healing.

November 14, 2012

Obie Award Winning playwright Caridad Svich

SPARK tells the story of three sisters living in the U.S. caught in the mess of war’s aftermath when one sister returns home after serving in the Middle East.  What happens when soldiers come home?  When women of little economic means struggle just to make do?  At its heart, this is a story of strength, family, and survival in battle and at home.

RaChelle Schmidt directs Lava Alapai, Bobby Bermea, Chantal DeGroat, Anya Pearson and Ashley Williams

For more information about NoPassport and the national reading scheme, click here.

From the plays of Athol Fugard*

Afrikaans – one of the official languages of South Africa, developed from the seventeenth century Dutch

Afrikaner – Descendants of the original Dutch settlers who arrived in 1652

aikona – no!

baas – boss or master

bakgat – great

Bantu – official term for black South Africans and their language, disliked by black people

Base Camp Oshakati – principal camp of South African defense during the Border War; near the border of what used to be South West Africa and is now Namibia

Basutoland – territory of South Africa

boer – farmer

boet – brother; used to address a friend colloquially

bosbefok – rude term meaning “shell-shocked”

bosak – wild shit

braaivleis – barbecue

broek – pants; trousers

buitengewoon – out of the ordinary

Coloreds – defined in South Africa as anyone of mixed racial descent

dom book – passbook, ID book for black people under apartheid

Dominee – a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church; reverend or minister

donner – to beat up; bastard

dop – a swig of hard liquor

Dopper – strict religious sect of the Dutch Reform Church

dwaal – daze

eina – ouch!

ek is moeg – I’m worn out

gat – ass

gat-full – up to my ass

haai – no

handlanger – handyman

Here! – Lord! Christ

hok – cage for pigeons

ja – yes

japie – dolt; bumpkin

kak – shit

Karoo – a vast semi-deset region in the heart of South Africa; “karoo” is a Khol word meaning “place of little water”; few plants grow on the dry mountains, but farms thrive in the valleys and lowlands

kêrel – fellow; chap

kierie – fighting stick

klaar – finished; ready

klaarstaan – be ready or cautious

lekker – nice

location – township; black ghetto; segregated area on outskirts of town or city

naar – nauseated

New Brighton – a black ghetto in Port Elizabeth

ou – common mode of address to man or boy; chap

ou bollie – old man

oubaas – old man

outjie – boy; little guy

poephol – farthole

pondok – shanty

rand – South African money

se gat – ass’s

skeel oog – squint eye

skelm – rascal

skollies – bums

sommer – just; simply

staats – states

stoep – porch

suka – stop!

tjorrie – old, small car

veld – plains; countryside

verkrampte – narrow-minded

vervloekte – cursed

verneuk the baas – rip-off the boss

voetsek – rough commands to go, usually to a dog, offensive to a person, equivalent to “fuck off”

volk – people

* definitions collected from the works of Athol Fugard, published by Theatre Communications Group and Samuel French, Inc.