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Radical Roots
Run Deep
Play to strike a
chord with
Portland
audiences
Emma Joseph is heir to a leftist
family tradition, but when evidence
emerges that her grandfather may
have shared secrets with the Sovi­
ets, Emma struggles to reconcile her
disappointment.
“After the Revolution” by Amy
Herzog is extraordinarily written, full
of heart, humor and incredible por­
traits of the fictionalized Joseph fam­
ily-
The play closes the current sea­
son for Portland Playhouse and will
be performed beginning with a’pre-
view on Wednesday, April 30. Open­
ing night is on Saturday, May 1; and
shows continue through June 1 at
The Church, 602 N.E. Prescott St.
The play dramatizes revelations
in 1999 about Julius J. Joseph,
H erzog’s grandfather, who was
blacklisted in the late 1940s, and
their impact on three generations of
the Joseph family.
Several members of the real-life
Joseph family will attend the open­
ing night performance and partici­
pate in a talk-back following the
Sunday, May 4 matinee perfor­
mance.
“The Josephs’ history as activ­
ists passionately engaged in fight­
ing for change over
multiple generations will strike a
chord with Portland audiences,” said
the play’s director Tamara Fisch.
“Portland has a rich history of activ­
ism and radical politics (John Reed,
the founder of the America Commu­
nist Party, was bom in Portland!)
and I’m excited to bring this story,
with roots that run deep into
America’s past, to Portland audi­
ences.”
While the underlying history and
political issues are richly interwo­
Portland Playhouse closes its current season with Amy Herzog’s electric
political drama After the Revolution. The show opens with a preview on
Wednesday, April 30. Opening night is Saturday, May 1 and shows
continue through June 1
at The Church, 602 N.E.
Prescott St.
ven into the script, Fisch is quick to pointment that is an inevitable part rendered in the play are truly univer-
point out that “this is a play about of that process. The difficult ques- sal.”
family. In many ways, it’s about tions of family, loyalty, and disap-
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