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Radiant Theatre emerges
with a festival of women playwrights
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Sandra de Helen (above) is one of several scribes represented by Emergence: The Second
Annual Portland Women’s Playwright Festival founded by Anna Soderberg (below)
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enowned feminist U .S. playwright
to Portland to
tour for a year
Megan Terry once said: “The essential
with Tears of
core of theater is action. I believe in
Joy Puppet
taking creative action. What else is
Theater.
there to do?”
Anna Soderberg believes in creative action,
“Theater
has always
too. The founder of Portland’s Radiant Theatre
has made her ideals a reality. Two years ago she i been a mov
created a unique theater company with a mis
ing place,”
sion to "envelop and engage the audience and
says the 31 -
bring them happiness in a surprising way not
year-old. “ It’s
normally sought after in everyday life."
like a move
m ent.... It’s a
What this means to Soderberg is that the
vibration that
ater is a way to help change the world. The
happens.”
Washington, D.C.-bom Portlander has been
involved in the theater since childhixxl. She
Radiant’s latest vibration is Emergence: The
Second Annual Portland Womens Playwright
began directing in the mid-1990s at Source
Theatre’s One Act Festival and the Open C ir
Festival, a celebration of West Coast women
cle Theatre Ensemble in D.C.
playwrights that takes place July 17 to 19 at
C 0 H 0 Theatre. Admission for all shows is free.
She then studied at the Dell’Arte Inter
Soderberg says it’s high time more women
national School of Physical Theatre in Califor
nia, specializing in mime, clown, mekxJrama,
emerged in the field of playwriting and direct
dance and commedia dell’arte, a form of impro-
ing. One reason she cites is the need for more
visational theater. After graduating, she moved
strong women characters. “There just aren’t
ju s trrn ty a
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