BUTT KAPINSKY, LOON and More Set for CoHo Productions' Summerfest 2015 Lineup
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 11, 2015
CoHo Productions continues our summertime programing with the 4th year of CoHo Summerfest - a festival curated by Producing Artistic Director Philip Cuomo, featuring standout new and touring performances by innovative, inspiring, irreverent theatre artists. A hot new show every weekend for 5 weekends; see them all for a steal with a $55 festival pass.
Coho Theatre is located at 2257 NW Raleigh St. Portland, OR 97210. The festival runs tonight, June 11 - July 12, 2015, playing Thursday - Sunday. All performances begin at 7:30pm. For more, go to www.cohoproductions.org.
TICKETS:
$55 Festival Pass (includes 5 shows)
$15 per show ticket
$12 per show ticket for subscribers
SUMMERFEST 2015 LINEUP:
June 11-14
The Wildly Inappropriate Poetry of Arthur Greenleaf Holmes
by Gordy Boudreau
Lyrical. Lewd. Bawdy.
An evening with fictional 19th century English libertine poet Arthur Greenleaf Holmes's monstrously entertaining verse in a spirited celebration of the unscrupulous English language. This show is not for children, the dull-witted nor the morally indignant. http://www.arthurgreenleafholmes.com/
June 18-21
Butt Kapinsky
by Deanna Fleysher
Interactive. Shadowy. Silly.
No one said being a pwivate eye was pwetty...Butt Kapinski returns to Coho with this gender-confused film noir murder mystery. Join Butt in a seedy world of sex, sin, shadows and subterfuge as you play in a world of dark dreams and bad similes. An interactive comedic experience for grown-ups only.
June 25- 28
LOON
by Wonderheads
Kate and Andrew Phoenix
Wordless. Whimsical. Imaginative.
Acclaimed physical theatre company and mask imagineers the WONDERHEADS bring you a most peculiar love story that whisks a man to the moon and back. Delighted audiences ages 10-110 describe the magnificent mix of puppetry, mime, soundscape and mask-work as "pure magic" and "like a live cartoon" in this moving silent story.
July 2-5 (no show July 4)
The Peasant's Bible
by Dario Fo
Starring Matthew Kerrigan
Directed by Samantha Van Der Merwe
Subversive. Carnal. Improvisational.
Dario Fo, Italy's iconoclastic playwright-performer, forges incendiary wit and linguistic experimentation into provocative comedy. The Peasant's Bible is a collection of Italian folklore filtered through Fo's political jest, daringly staged by Portland theatre's dynamic duo, Matthew Kerrigan and Samantha Van Der Merwe.
https://www.shaking-the-tree.com/
July 7-12
Dead Horse Tavern (A Sea Shanty Cabaret)
by Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE)
Salty. Adventurous. Cabaret.
Batten down the hatches and clutch your grog tight - in the Drowned Horse Tavern drunken sailors meet to tell tales of shipwreck and lurking leviathans, to sing songs of adventure and loneliness, to whisper of the unfathomable sea within. PETE will spin vaudeville, live music and visceral performance style into a raucous evening of salty cabaret as part of PETE's The Journey Play Is The Whole Thing: A Constellation Of Art Events, Objects and Experience. http://petensemble.org/
ABOUT COHO PRODUCTIONS - For 20 years, CoHo Productions has pioneered artist led co-production as a model of creating theatre. Each season, CoHo solicits scripts and project proposals from Portland's community of theatre professionals and selects three to produce in partnership. The artistic vision is democratic, reflecting the tastes of the Portland theatre community from the ground up. Seasons are diverse and unpredictable; the sole quality nurtured and insisted on is excellence.
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