Only Five Shows Left For The Imago World Premiere of FALLOUT

Carol Triffle, Portland's premier absurdist playwright, has penned a darkly stirring comedy called Fallout. When three characters are trapped in a fallout shelter, their identities slide from doom to zany, and all perspective of life is confused.

In Carol Triffle's new play does the title have multiple meanings? The FALLOUT of a nuclear shelter, the FALL OUT of love, or is it the FALLOUT of play structure itself?

Jackie Anne returns to a hideaway below ground with her friend Nadine, they discover that someone has been hiding and living in this shelter. Bobby, a Japanese American cousin of Jackie Anne has shelved himself away with pictures of Japanese women artists. We later discover that the artists are victims of Hiroshima.

Inside this harrowing environment flights of word play and apocalyptic fright skim through FALLOUT. Yet the piece treats its subject matter of doomsday in a nonchalant comedic demeanor dismantling or perhaps confronting death, destruction and our attraction to the end of the world.

In FALLOUT Triffle has put together three of her long time regular actors. Following their names is a list of Triffle original plays in which they appeared.

Kyle Delamarter (The Reunion, 2017; Francesca, Isabella, Margarita on a Cloud, 2016; Beaux Arts Club, 2013, Splat, 2011; Backs Like That; 2010, Simple People, 2009, Mix Up, 2007; Hit Me in the Stomach, 2006)

Danielle Vermette (The Reunion,2017; Splat, 2011; Backs Like That; 2010, Simple People, 2009; The Dinner, 2008, Mix Up, 2007; Hit Me in the Stomach, 2006)

Anne Sorce (Francesca, Isabella, Margarita on a Cloud, 2016; Beaux Arts Club, 2013)

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