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East County
Beaverton
North Portland
Dembi (Kimberly Scott, left) and Adjua (June Carry!) find a book in the pocket o f the man (Danforth Comins) they've pulled from the sea in ‘The Liquid Plain,' now p i ay ini
at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Photo by Jenny Graham.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival wades in where angels fear to tread
It's hard to imagine a setting for a play more
challenging and complex than the slave trade.
It's a history that we as a culture carry in our
collective DNA; our very economic system
was built, quite literally, on the backs of human
beings who had been kidnapped and trans­
ported under unimaginable conditions into
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lives that explicitly denied their status as hu­
man beings. We have barely begun to scratch
the surface in our collective consciousness
about the implications of this past for our
present.
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