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The Good Doctor
Written by Neil Simon
Directed by Jane Fellows
Co-Produced with The Anonymous Theatre Company
ABOUT ANONYMOUS THEATRE: A play is selected. Auditions are held. The play is cast. The actors are sworn to secrecy. No one in the cast knows who their fellow performers will be, and they do not reveal their participation in the project to anyone. The actors rehearse one-on-one with the director. Then, on the night of the performance, the cast arrives in street clothes and enters the theatre as if they are members of the audience. They take their seats. They read their programs, chat with their neighbors, and in all ways behave like normal audience members. The house lights dim and the play begins, with each actor delivering his or her first line from the audience. The cast members discover one another’s identity for the first time, in front of a live audience!
ABOUT THE PLAY: In The Good Doctor, Neil Simon molds the stories of Anton Chekhov into exquisitely timed, often hilarious theatre, dramatizing seven stories which incorporate a wide variety of characters — a governess, a lady of the night, a blustering general, a wild woman with a nervous disorder, a man who earns money by “drowning,” and an actress. The stories, adapted for the stage, are filled with dry humor, surprise endings, absurdism.
One night only!
Sunday, August 12 at 7pm
at Portland Center Stage’s
Gerding Theatre
128 Northwest 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209 map