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Steeped in African Consciousness
C ontinued from p age 2
with this week’s concert staging
of her Pulitzer-prize-winning play,
“Ruined.”
Part of the inspiration for that
play is “Mother Courage and Her
Children,” an anti-war play writ-
ten in 1939 by German playwright
Bertolt Brecht. Set in the Euro-
pean Thirty Years’ war of 1618-
1648, Mother Courage focuses on
a canteen woman with the Swed-
ish army who stops at nothing to
make a profit from the war and
loses her own children in the pro-
cess. Where Brecht’s approach is
purposefully stylized, distancing
the audience from emotions so
that they can make critical judg-
ments, Nottage sought to grapple
with similar material in a way that
navigates the characters’ emotion-
al lives and uses emotion to help
us see. Drawing from time spent
in Uganda, Nottage sets “Ruined”
in current times and tells the sto-
ry of Mama Nadi, whose brothel
serves soldiers and includes wom-
en brutalized by the Congolese
war.
Profile seeks to illuminate the
work of specific playwrights and,
in this instance, promotes under-
standing of Nottage’s work by
also exploring its origins. Audi-
ences will have the opportunity to
see staged readings of both plays
featuring the same talented cast of
mostly African American actors.
“Ruined” is directed by Portland’s
La’Tevin Alexander, and “Moth-
er Courage” is directed by Jamie
M. Rea, and concert stagings are
paired-down productions with
book in hand, allowing a focus on
the actors and the text.
This is the first time that audi-
ences will have the opportunity
to experience “Ruined” here in
Portland. It’s a devastating play,
steeped in African consciousness
and also deeply universal in the
questions it explores about suf-
fering, exploitation, and survival.
Pairing this staged reading with
Brecht’s work, interpreted by the
same cast, offers a particularly rich
opportunity to experience this ma-
terial in a way that does not prior-
itize the white gaze. And audience
members of color have the oppor-
tunity to see “Ruined” in an affinity
space as well; Profile invites peo-
ple of color and allies to meet for
drinks, snacks and music an hour
before the performance on Sun-
day, Dec. 8 and offers discounted
tickets that night. The two shows
will play in alternating repetitions,
Wednesday, Dec. 4 through Dec. 8.
What happens when we be-
come acclimated to strife and vi-
olence? What will we do to sur-
vive? When does courage become
exploitation? These two shows of-
fer an opportunity to sit with these
questions, as explored by talented
artists of color.
Darleen Ortega is a judge on
the Oregon Court of Appeals and
the first woman of color to serve
in that capacity. Her movie and
theater review column Opinion-
ated Judge appears regularly in
The Portland Observer. Find her
review blog at opinionatedjudge.
blogspot.com.
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