April 26, 2017
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Building
the
Wall
A play about
what happens
if we let fear win
The Portland theater company Triangle Produc-
tions has joined other theaters around the county
in rolling out a world premier play about what
happens if we let fear win.
“Building the Wall,” is a terrifying and grip-
ping story, written by Pulitzer Prize/Tony Award
winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, about an
immigration round-up of unprecedented scale
and a declaration of martial law.
In a play that harkens George Orwells’ 1984
and the Nazi regime, the Trump Administration
has carried out his campaign promise to round up
and detain millions of immigrants. Now 2019, a
history writer interviews the supervisor of a pri-
vate prison as he awaits sentencing for carrying
out the federal policy that has escalated into the
unimaginable.
The illuminating drama delivers a powerful
warning and puts a human face on the inhuman,
revealing how when personal accountability is
denied, what seems inconceivable becomes inev-
itable.
Shows run Thursday, April 27, Friday, April 28
and Saturday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m. at Triangle
Productions, 1785 N.E. Sandy Blvd. in the Sandy
Plaza. For tickets and more information, call 503-
239-5919 or visit trianglepro.org.
photos by
t isha W allace
Gavin Hoffman (left) is a prison warden
who has been “left out to dry” by the
Trump Administration and Andrea
(Whittle) Vernae is a history writer trying
to figure out “why he did what he did” in
the play “Building the Wall,” a terrifying
and gripping production by the Triangle
theater group about what happens if we
let fear win.