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IMAGO THEATRE
503.231.9581
17 SE 8th
Portland, OR 97214

 

 

 

 

SHOWS ZOOZOO MISSION GIBBONS PORT AUTHORITY AUDITIONS WORKSHOPS


 

 

IMAGO SHOWS

THE 2022-2023 SEASON

For tickets, contact Imago at 503.231.9581 or IMAGOTHEATRETICKETS.COM


 

PORT AUTHORITY


MARCH 8 to MARCH 24

McPherson is a master storyteller able to find humor, pathos, and interconnections in the most unexpected places. In a way, Kevin, Dermot, and Joe emerge as a collective Everyman. We're all searching for love. We're all the stars of our own tragicomedies, too. We all have a story to tell.

 

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MISSION GIBBONS


APRIL 12 to APRIL 27

Bugeyes, hippos with insomnia, arrogant anteaters, introverted frogs, paradoxical polar bears, acrobatic worms, self-touting accordions and tricky penguins fill the stage with wonder, awe and humor.

 

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RECENT PAST PRODUCTIONS


 

ZOOZOO


Dec. 8 to JAN 1

Bugeyes, hippos with insomnia, arrogant anteaters, introverted frogs, paradoxical polar bears, acrobatic worms, self-touting accordions and tricky penguins fill the stage with wonder, awe and humor.

 

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MY BEDROOM IS AN INSTALLATION


OCT. 6 to Oct 22

A nameless woman (Anne Sorce) struggles to get a grip on reality in a psychologically-boobytrapped room cohabitated by a talkative puppet, a mysteriously silent roommate, and a dancing coat. A Pirandellian fantasia with a cameo by King Lear, My Bedroom is an Installation delves deep into the loopiest subconscious. .

 

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THE SEAFARER
BY CONOR MCPHERSON


MARCH 9 to MARCH 26

 

Imago Theatre opens its 2023 year with Conor McPherson's acclaimed The Seafarer. Holiday drinks. High stakes poker. And, the Devil.

 

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Where's Bruno?
BY Imago's Carol Triffle


May12 to May 27

 

Triffle studied extensively with Jacques Lecoq in Paris, completing his pedagogical program. Drawing inspiration from Mr. Lecoq, Triffle places form and design at the forefront of theatre creation and infuses each production with an idiosyncratic physical energy. She wrote, directed and acted in Ginger's Green, which marked the beginning of a canon of 15 original music-theatre plays, including her last radio play titled The Lonely Vampire..

 

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LUMEN ODYSSEY


POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT SEASON

 

WORLD PREMIERE BY IMAGO THEATRE!

A metaphysical jaunt from earth to the outer limits of the soul.

 

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VOICEOVER


July 22 to July 30

 

VOICEOVER uses inner monologues in an extremist fashion to expose the muddled minds of a choreographer, his company of dancers, and a contrarian crew of jaded stagehands. As the performers stop and start a movement-based work that turns theatre inside out a la Pirandello. A collage of soliloquy, choreography, and theatricality, VOICEOVER pushes postmodern dance into circus hijinks as one unconventional cabaret act plays out in a hall of mirrors where the who, the what, and the where are ever changing.

 

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JULIA'S PLACE


 

JUNE 3 to JUNE 18

Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., one Sunday matinee on June 5 at 2:00 p.m.

 

WORLD PREMIERE! Comedic, provocative, an eyeful and a brain twist.

 

A stampede riff off Ionesco’s absurd classic Rhinoceros

 

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The Birds


By Conor McPherson
from a story by Daphne Du Maurier

Live - Nov 5th to Nov 20th


Conor McPherson's ingenious The Birds takes one of Hitchcock's most iconic fright flicks and transforms it into a tension-filled chamber drama in which four characters struggle to survive an ever-encroaching airborne apocalypse.

 

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Recommended for Mature Audiences ages 16 and older for language, sexual content and theatrical horror. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SHINING CITY


By Conor McPherson

Live - DEC 10-18 at 7:30


Live at Imago Theatre, 17 SE 8th | Only 5 shows! A chilling ghost story for the Holidays from Imago.

 

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Recommended for Mature Audiences ages 16 and older.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Lonely Vampire


October 22nd and 23rd, 7:30pm show

October 24th, 2:00pm show 

Meet in parking lot one half-hour before showtime for a pre-show drink followed by the indoor performance

$15 includes the drink  Imago Theatre parking lot & indoor theatre located at 17 SE 8th Ave


Don’t want Halloween to pass you by this year? Come wearing your favorite costume to Imago Theatre for a parking lot drink followed by an indoor 30-minute play The Lonely Vampire.

 

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Satie's Journey


October 9th at 7:30
ONE LIVE CONCERT ONLY!

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STREAMING ONLINE ON DEMAND
OCT. 19th to OCT.25th

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This new and adventurous music-theater work, from librettist Jerry Mouawad and composer Marisa Wildeman, resurrects the spirit of Erik Satie, a groundbreaking, eccentric, fin de siècle composer who shielded dry umbrellas under his coat (no matter the weather) and stacked two grand pianos in his apartment (for reasons unknown).

 

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The STRANGE Case Of NICK M


A Radio Play!

 

Co-produced by KBOO radio and airing on KBOO.


by Drew Pisarra


An experiment goes awry when 3 women work to rehabilitate a man who can only remember his last 30 seconds.

 

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HAPPY TIMES


A Radio Play!

 

Co-produced by KBOO radio and airing on KBOO.

 

Written and directed by Imago's Carol Triffle.

It might put a smile on your face but for all the wrong reasons

Check back shortly for me details on this upcoming show.

 

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Special K


Jerry Mouawad's strange, fascinating, and funny new play "Special K" mashes master playwright Luigi Pirandello's reality puzzles with vaudeville, tragedy and time hopping romps through the Black Plague of the Middle Ages and back to the dark year of 2020. Anne Sorce (The Black Lizard, Fallout) stars. “Special K” opens February 7 through February 22, 2020.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SOIRÉE #2


June 21-22

 

Leonard Cohen Is Dead- Jerry Mouawad's newest original mash-up where crime is acceptable and dead singers lead the world.

 

To Fly Again - Mad Max, Ionesco and Beckett are inspirations for Mouawad’s desert playground where "There is nothing to be done."

 

Pebble - Creator of The Reunion, The Dinner and Fallout, Carol Triffle puts up her latest work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IMAGO's 2019 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL


Three Original Works

 

Leonard Cohen Is Dead- Jerry Mouawad's newest original mash-up where crime is acceptable and dead singers lead the world.

 

To Fly Again - Mad Max, Ionesco and Beckett are inspirations for Mouawad’s desert playground where "There is nothing to be done."

 

Pebble - Creator of The Reunion, The Dinner and Fallout, Carol Triffle puts up her latest work.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TITLE AND DEED


AUGUST 10 to AUGUST 25

"Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart Generation" The NY Times

By Will Eno, Starring Todd Van Voris, Directed by Jerry Mouawad

“We are all embarked upon a strange, aimless journey from nowhere to nowhere — or to put it a bit more cheerily, from somewhere to somewhere else — according to the friendly sojourner in Will Eno’s Title and Deed, a haunting and often fiercely funny meditation on life as a state of permanent exile…. The graven imprint of Samuel Beckett is strong in Mr. Eno’s solo works” wrote the The New York Times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"LA BELLE"
Lost IN THE WORLD of the AUTOMATON


APRIL 6 - APRIL 29, 2018
A giant art work of a play with 100 moving parts that will engage you like no other show… Animated effects every 30 seconds... Steampunk finesse… Whimsical, dramatic and heartfelt… This is the new Imago and they are at their best!

 

“It's all wow factor!”

Lee Williams, The Oregonian

 

Recommended for ages 4 and up

 

 

 

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TO FLY AGAIN


MAY 4, 5, 6, 11 & 12, 2018

 

From Imago's Jerry Mouawad

ONLY FIVE SHOWS

 

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Recommended for 16 years and older

 

 

 

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FALLOUT


JUNE 1, 2, 3, 8 & 9, 2018

From Imago's Jerry Mouawad

ONLY FIVE SHOWS

 

More info to come soon!

 

Recommended for 16 years and older

 

 

 

 

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