Fertile Ground To Present UNDERGROUND LIVE! At PDX Playwrights Fertile Ground Festival.

Underground Live!, a one-act black comedy about grief, humor, music and friendship, will be performed at Milwaukie’s Chapel Theatre at 5:30pm on Thursday and Saturday, April 10th and 12th, as part of PDX Playwrights Fertile Ground Festival within a Festival.

Set in a cemetery where an aspiring stand-up comedian does his act before his father’s grave as a grieving ritual, Underground Live! explores how grief can be both solemn and joyous. Cody Thompson plays Nolan, honoring his dead, wise-cracking father with a death-themed comedy set. His performance is interrupted when Rebecca, played by Elliot Prince, visits the grave of her musician father for the first time and finds a windchime beside his tombstone she imagines to be his voice. Between punchlines, songs and tombstones she and Nolan mourn and forge a friendship, their sadness transformed when together they embrace the most meaningful qualities of their loved ones and take action that demands courage.

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