"For anyone who has been onstage or, especially, anyone whose job has been to support what happens on stage - designing and building sets and costumes and props and lighting and sound, directing, stage management - The Play That Goes Wrong is the manifestation of all the things you work to ensure never happens. Those who have made theater will most understand that pulling off a solid production of The Play That Goes Wrong requires an extra dose of the usual skill."
"Portland Center Stage' production doesn't miss a beat in missing all the beats. Co-produced with Seattle Repertory Theater and directed by Dámaso Rodriguez (the former artistic director at Portland's Artists Repertory Theater and currently the artistic director of Seattle Rep), it features a solid cast of pros familiar to Portland and Seattle audiences. The work is light on character and heavy on pratfalls; the skill is in the faulty execution."
"The play begins with a dead body that won't stay dead, and continues with props that disintegrate, inexplicably terrible on-stage kisses, comically overblown but committed acting, and seemingly unintended glimpses into backstage chaos. Actors are knocked out and replaced by backstage crew who then can't or won't leave the stage; line readings are mangled in ways that trap all the actors on stage in loops of repetition; pieces of the set dis"
The Play That Goes Wrong stages a production where every conceivable onstage mishap occurs deliberately. The performance generates nonstop laughter through props breaking, a dead body refusing to stay dead, pratfalls, mangled line readings, and backstage chaos bleeding into the action. The production depends on meticulous comic timing and technical competence to convincingly simulate failure. Audience participation includes spotting a missing dog and assisting with set adjustments. The Portland Center Stage presentation is co-produced with Seattle Repertory Theater and directed by Dámaso Rodriguez, featuring experienced regional performers.
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