Defunkt Theatre Sets 2016-17 Season

Timely and Timeless. Defunkt continues to enthrall and engage Portland audiences with a trio of unforgettable evenings that use the power of theater to explore the world in which we live. Buy Season Tickets Here

Hir by Taylor Mac
Directed by Andrew-Klaus Vineyard
October 7-November 12, 2016

Defunkt is thrilled to bring one of the most celebrated and exciting plays of the past ten years to Portland. As Christopher Isherwood of the New York Times writes "Perhaps no play this year inspired a greater sense of awe than Taylor Mac's audacious dive into the dysfunctional-family playpen of American theater....in his depiction of a semi-mad housewife with a transgender son, another son reeling from three years in combat in Afghanistan, and a husband whose disabling stroke has rendered him nearly speechless...." Defunkt's own Andrew Klaus -Vineyard directs this Portland Premiere from a unique, exhilarating voice in American theater.

Trifles by Susan Glaspell
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Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
Directed by Sarah Armitage
February 10-March 18, 2017

Two trailblazing classics combine to make an electrifying evening in which Defunkt distills America's history of racism and gender inequity into a scintillating exploration of the way we live now. Defunkt's own Sarah Armitage directs.

That Pretty Pretty (Or, The Rape Play)
By Sheila Callaghan
Directed by Paul Angelo
May 5-June 14, 2017

A pair of radical feminist ex-strippers scour the USA on a murderous rampage against right-wing pro-life conservatives, documenting their exploits online in explicit detail. Meanwhile, a slacker screenwriter named Owen tries to bang out his magnum opus in a hotel room as his best friend holds forth on rape and other manly enterprises. Paul Angelo directs this surreal, darkly comic play that The New Yorker describes as "variously a rant, a riff, a rumble - about our notions of naturalism, objectification, perversity, and beauty. " Also: Jane Fonda appears. With legwarmers.

"Terrifically exciting. Fantastic cast. Killing design and direction. Thank god for defunkt....the most exciting season in town"

Portland Theater Scene

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