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Wild as it Gets: Modern Adaptation of Comedy of Errors

The absurdity of mistaken identities has never been so Portland before. I, Estevan Munoz, was fortunate enough to be granted a free ticket last Friday night to the latest Post5 Theatre production, a re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s earliest and lightest works, The Comedy of Errors. It is a joyously rambunctious adaptation, directed and adapted by […]

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Theatre

No Blemish But the Mind

Admittedly, I’m not as familiar with Shakespeare as I’d prefer to be. Despite having taken a class on his work in my senior year of high school, my knowledge and recollection of it have escaped me similar to that of my Spanish. Three years studied,  six years unpracticed and I can barely construct a paragraph […]

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Festival

A Home For the Night

There is one scene in Saturday night’s Maybe it’s Because…(I’m So Versatile) workshop performance that made me remember something I hadn’t recalled in a while. It’s not one specific, singular memory, because the occurrence happened often, so I didn’t revisit a distinct moment, but the details came to me distinctly. In the show’s scene, a homeless girl […]