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World Premiere: Reading to Vegetables

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Reading to Vegetables
By EM Lewis
Directed by Tina Polzin, PDTP 
Previews Wed, Jan 29 and Thurs, Jan 30
Opening Night Friday, January 31
Runs through February 9
Glenn Hughes Penthouse Theatre 

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The opportunity to bring a brand new play from page to stage is rare for student directors. With Reading to Vegetables, Tina Polzin, a student in our Professional Director Training Program (PDTP), will work directly with Portland-based playwright EM Lewis to create a Hitchcockian world of suspense on stage for the very first time. Inspired by Milgram’s famous “Obedience to Authority Studies” of the 1960s, this psychological thriller centers on a pre-med student, working as a research assistant, who poses as a coma victim. Her test subjects unwittingly share their secrets, and when a terrible accident occurs, the audience is left to decide who is responsible.

A post-show talk with EM Lewis will be held on Saturday, February 1.