Our Town

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When
Dec. 2–24, 2022
Days Vary, Times vary
Cost: Give As You're Able. Friends
Where
4319 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Portland, OR 97215

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

Fuse Theatre Ensemble presents Our Town, a metatheatrical three-act play that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1938. The play tells the story of the fictional American small town of Grover’s Corners between 1901 and 1913 through the everyday lives of its citizens. An American theater classic, Our Town investigates the nature of life, death, love, and simple pleasures while teaching us to embrace what we have before it is gone.

Fuse will continue expanding the Queer canon by examining this American Theater classic through a Queer lens. In the unique production of this timeless script (originally penned by an alleged closeted homosexual), actors from across Queer and gender spectrums will each play multiple characters deconstructing nearly a century of heteronormativity ingrained into its provenance, revealing its authentic, yet ephemeral, interior.

“Do human beings ever realize life while they live it?”

CW: death, suicide, alcoholism