2012 Portland Fertile Ground Festival: City-Wide Theater, Comedy, Dance, Visual Art, & Film Fest

January 19, 2012 — PDXPIPELINE

The 2012 Fertile Ground Festival begins today and runs through January 29th. The city-wide fest includes over 100 world premiere works at over 40 Portland venues including Artists Rep Theater, Portland Center Stage, Miracle Theater, Portland Playhouse, Action Adventure Theater, and many more.

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PDX Events: Our Portland Events Calendar and Ticket Giveaways
January 18-22: (I Am Still) The Duchess of Malfi @ Artists Repertory Theatre | World Premiere Adaptation of John Webster Classic
January 21-28: Big Plastic Heroes @ The Sanctuary | Portland Fertile Ground Festival, Stories of Misplaced Heroes (Win Tickets, $60)

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From Press Release:
Portland Fertile Ground Festival
January 19-29, 2012 | More info: fertilegroundpdx.org

Fertile Ground's fourth year shows abundant growth for Portland creative prowess!
More than 100 New Works
Theatre, Comedy, Dance, Animation, Events
50 Producers, 40+ Venues
¬Â¦and, as always, growing¬Â¦

In its fourth year, the Portland-grown Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Work continues to flourish planted in a town of prolific playwrights, abundant actors, innovative dancers, talented designers and adventuresome producers. With many returning companies as well as new producers, FG12 brings over 100 interesting and diverse world premiere works to Portland making Fertile Ground 2012 the lushest jungle of creation yet.

With 17 fully produced theatrical world premieres, 14 dance world premieres, and a myriad of workshop productions, staged readings, readings and events at all times of the day, Fertile Ground will be thriving on stages, nooks and crannies all over Portland for 10 days from January 19 to 29, 2011.

Shining out through the winter darkness, Fertile Ground offers an astonishing breadth of creative work for the stage, compressed into 10 of the darkest and wettest days of the Portland calendar. Close to every single major theatre company and many dance companies in town are participating, presenting new work as a world premiere or as a piece in development. In addition to seasoned producers, dozens of small, local producers, playwrights and choreographers are also choosing to offer their work for this collaborative Portland showcase festival.

Audiences will meet a people like a redneck Mormon thespian, a teenage commando, a grease monkey girl in a musical, teenagers in crisis, do-gooder State Department bureaucrat, fairytales that come to life, a boy with Tourette's, Galileo's daughter and many more. The festival offers inventive adaptations of seminal works like The Duchess of Malfi, They, Rapunzel and King Lear. Social and political issues are explored with true stories of the sex trade in Portland and homelessness, and with plays like Famished, CafÃƒÂ© Baghdad, Word.Voice., No Good Woman, B'aktun 13, Graceland, Paraguay and others. In the dance genre, fresh dance pieces populate the ¬Å“Groovin' Greenhouse,¬Â and Meshi Chavez and tEEth at White Bird offer completely new choreography. Also added to this year's breadth is Portland Animation Now! where local animators share their digital artistry.

Production descriptions, locations, times and ticket information vary; see festival website for details: www.fertilegroundpdx.org.

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