The Fertile Ground Festival of New Works is a citywide, multi-week performing arts festival taking place in venues throughout Portland, Oregon and the surrounding areas.

This year's lineup includes site specific theatre, dance, solo shows, aerial performance, puppetry, and dozens upon dozens of brand-new scripts by some of Portland's most celebrated and prolific playwrights.

Schedule of Events:

5:30pm - PDX Playwrights: If These Walls Could Talk by Meg Wiles

If These Walls Could Talk by Meg Wiles

In a forgotten basement in a derelict old house lives Lucille, an ill-tempered ghost who has never been one for change. Kept company solely by the abandoned items of the past, Lucille clings to the contents, memories, and shadows that inhabit her room. When the new homeowners start gutting the house, Lucille is thrust into turmoil as, item by item, her fondest “friends” are being ripped from her. What can you do when the past is deemed unimportant, the present holds no place for you, and the future promises only unpredictable change?

Rating/Recommended Age:
18+

Performance Length:
75 minutes, no intermission

Location: The Chapel Theatre, 4107 SE Harrison St, Milwaukie , Oregon , 97222

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7:30pm - PDX Playwrights: Scenario at Chapel - Whippersnappers - by Donna Arasin, Stan Matthews, and Michael Meyers

Whippersnappers - by Donna Arasin, Stan Matthews and Michael Meyers

Scenario Selection at Chapel Theatre

We play many roles throughout life. Friend, parent, teacher, boss. Those roles can change in an instant. Old age is a time of life when a parent often starts acting more like a child – and their children, more like the parent. The result is sometimes drama, sometimes comedy, often both. Whippersnappers includes four plays that examine the changing dynamics of the parent child relationships as parents age. The plays are: Gonna Rain Like Hell by Stan Matthews, Baggage by Donna Arasin, Flint and Stone by Michael Meyers, and Momma’s Back by Stan Matthews. These pieces are among the most creative and daring new works by playwrights who participated in the Scenario workshop led by PDX Playwrights in collaboration with CoHo Productions. We invite you to check out these enthralling and thought-provoking acts of creation. Another wonderful and distinct set of four short works from Scenario will be presented at CoHo Theatre

Rating/Recommended Age:
15+

Performance Length:
75 minutes, no intermission

Location: The Chapel Theatre, 4107 SE Harrison St, Milwaukie , Oregon , 97222

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