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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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