Portland
Portland
"I resign myself to sleep in beds, real ones, from this point on..."
A play by Ruben Carbajal
Directed by Ian Rosenberg
Starring Will McCormack, Mary Wigmore and Ari Vena
Suite 710 Theater, New York City
October 1999
Ed, a young man adrift in life, moves in with Li, his ex-lover, in a small apartment in Portland, Oregon. Ed's strange encounters as a hotel room-service waiter punctuate the ambiguous intimacy with Li, as their murky past and true feelings become clear. A spare, tender meditation on the indivisibility of love and loss, Portland is sad and funny in equal measures.
The combination of Ian Rosenberg's elegantly evocative direction and a pair understated, graceful performances by Will McCormack and Mary Wigmore made this an OVO event to be remembered.
OVO's production of Portland earned OVO a major grant from the Frankel Foundation.
