New Play About an 1880s Biracial Portland Woman Comes to PSU
By: Sally Henry Fuller Jan. 26, 2016
Dmae Roberts is directing a staged reading of this wonderfully crafted original play Deception by Portland playwright Nancy Moss. It's about a single, biracial African American woman in Portland who lives her life as a white woman during the 1880s.
It's a stellar cast with (clockwise top left) Gary Brickner-Schulz, Joe Gibson, Spencer Conway, Amy Newman, Damaris Webb and Wynee Hu. The play shines light on Oregon's racial exclusion laws, some of which were still on the books till 2000. This week only during the Fertile Ground Festival! FertileGroundPDX.org Show times are 7:30pm, Thurs 1/28 and 1/29 and 2pm on Sunday 1/31. Get tickets here! http://portlandstate.universitytickets.com/user_pages/category.asp?id=131 The Sunday show is followed by a talkback by Kimberly Moreland, author of African Americans in Portland.More about the book here: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738596198/African-Americans-of-Portland
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