Have you ever been mothered, smothered, loved or neglected by a matriarchal figure? Everyone came from a womb – right? So, everyone can relate. Wordstock, Live Wire! and Back Fence PDX thought it’d be a mighty fine idea to bring together six amazing performers from three different popular PDX shows to read and tell true tales — which promise to illuminate every angle of MOTHER!! Bring your mother, your mother’s mother, your brother, your lover, or your lover’s lover to this evening of stories, featuring host Derrick Brown and musical performances by Loch Lomond, as well as sweet treats from Saint Cupcake.
Did you change your underwear? Get your tickets HERE.
Take a look at the awesome line-up for the evening….
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Produced by Egan & Susan Danehy, & Megan Zabel
Next MORTIFIED shows are June 19th/20th, at the Someday Lounge at 8:3O – tickets are on sale now!
Mortified stars everyday people reading aloud their most embarrassing, pathetic and private teenage diary entries, poems, love letters, lyrics and locker notes… in front of total strangers. Witness “personal redemption through public humiliation” in a refreshing show that is equal parts comedic, cathartic and voyeuristic.
Sarah Hoopes - Is a data miner who dreams of becoming a wind farmer, a futurist who blogs fifteen years ago daily, and a homegrown Cascadia liberation sympathizer. Photo credit: Patrick Sullivan.
Greg Gasperin – Is a simple man who enjoys indulging in simple pleasures ranging from torturing unsuspecting natives of a small village in Northern Italy to talking smack about his grandmother.
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Produced by B. Frayn Masters & Melissa Lion
Next Back Fence PDX show is June 17th at the Mission Theater – tickets on sale soon – sign up for the mailing list!
Back Fence PDX is an evening with seven unique Portland people telling true, unmemorized, eight-minute stories based on a theme. Hosts Melissa Lion and Frayn Masters present these true tales of missed connections, strip clubs, odd religious upbringings and more at the Mission Theater in Northwest Portland.
Adam Arnold - Portland’s preeminent fashion designer, grew up in Kelso, Washington. His designs are born of dreams and memories, and nature in the Pacific Northwest. His clothing is one-of-a-kind and made-to-measure. He lives and works in Southeast Portland.
David Bragdon – Is left-handed like his mother Nancy is. In 1959, she gave birth to him on an island, called Manhattan, in a hospital on the banks of an estuarial waterway, called the East River. She had been elected a precinct captain in the reform Democratic Party movement and secretly hoped to have a son who might grow up to be someone like Adlai Stevenson. Despite those hopes David has not totally grown up yet and in some respects he is not like Adlai Stevenson. One respect in which he is unlike Adlai Stevenson is that he has been elected as President of something, but in his case it is President of the Metro Council in Portland. His interests include transportation, planning, and sound solid waste management practices. In addition to having a Mother, he also has a Father.
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Produced by Courtenay Hameister
True stories features poets, musicians, authors and more telling hilarious and heartbreaking stories live onstage. True Story performers have included Storm Large, Onion News Network writer Adrian Chen, and author Marc Acito.
Chelsea Cain – New York Times Bestselling author of Heartsick, Sweetheart and the upcoming Evil at Heart, as well as a contributor to British Elle, Ms. Magazine and The New York Times Book Review contributor.
Courtenay Hameister – head writer and host(ess) of Live Wire Radio, OPB commentator, freelance writer and recent contributor to the anthology What Was I Thinking?: 58 Bad Boyfriend Stories.
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SPECIAL GUEST HOST!
DERRICK BROWN – Author, paratrooper and skank magician who has performed extensively throughout the US and Europe. In 2004 he founded Write Bloody Publishing.
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AWESOME BAND GUEST
Next show May 25th at the Sasquatch Festival!!
LOCH LOMOND – This group of fine musicians works to effortlessly combine symphonic chamber pop with the most raw, visceral and expert melodic acrobatics, the co-ed sextet employs the distinct use of harmonic vocals, mandolin, theremin, bass clarinet, and all manner of exclamatory percussion minutia to foil the even more distinct and arresting voice of lead singer/multi-instrumentalist Ritchie Young.
