CoHo Presents LIVE GIRLS Q&A with Discount, 7/18

This Sunday, 7/18, at 2p.m. will feature the hottest show Portland has to offer: we remove the veil of secrecy that surrounds a most intimate space: the locker room of a strip club. The play touches on domestic violence and sexual assault and challenges the biases of the legal sex industry. As such CoHo has arranged a special post-show question and answer session following the Sunday matinee performance. Joining us is: Crystal Tenty, representing the Sex Worker Outreach Coalition. Sarah Keefe, representing the Domestic Violence Resource Center. Natalie Schraner, specializing in the sex industry for the Portland Women's Crisis Line. Elisa Saphier, case manager for Sexually Exploited Youth with the Sexual Assault Resource Center.

CoHo Productions brings you its centerpiece summer co-production - the world premiere of Live Girls by Natalie Rose. This play offers a view of strippers and the world that you won't otherwise see. From the perspective of a fly on the wall in the locker room, a very private space where women prepare themselves, for reasons gradually revealed, to go onstage baring much more than their souls.

The cast gives their all in showing the back side of the entertainment industry, the legal part of the sex industry. Working from a script taken from the playwright's own personal experience, our actors bring out the real women behind the showgirls, and take you along with them into the depths, and to the empowering heights, of making their own way in a specialized world few of us really understand. Click the image below to learn more about the cast.

Tickets are $18 for adults, and $10 for students, educators, and 60+

We're more than aware of the taboos surrounding this play and the risqué content, which is why we feel we'd be remiss if we didn't spark a dialogue. Stay tuned for updates on our website for the dates of talkbacks with the playwright and cast opening and closing weekend. We'll offer panel discussions with representatives from agencies dealing with sexual assault, domestic violence and other related social services. We'll also cover the brighter side of the industry with professional exotic dancers and sex workers, in-theater amateur stripping lessons for the more adventuresome, sex-toy parties unlike any Tupperware-get-together you've ever been attended, and discussions with erotic couples counselors.
Advisory - should you have doubted it, this production of Live Girls contains plentiful adult language, content and situations, and partial nudity.

World Premiere Summer Passes Still Good!

What?! You've already missed a show or two this summer? No worries. There are still 4 different shows to see at CoHo before the season ends. Live Girls runs July 8-August 7;
Madder Music & Stronger Wine runs August 9-11;
the 24-Hour Plays perform on August 14;
and Fishing for my Father takes us out to just before Labor Day, running August 18-29.
Beginning today, we're offering a $40 4-show World Premiere Summer FlexPass. Buy one for yourself and see all 4 remaining shows, or share your pass with a friend.

All Seasons Are Good at CoHo!

There is still time to get your $5.00 discount on 2010-2011 mainstage subscriptions to CoHo's 15th Anniversary season. Order your $43 or $55 season tickets before July 31 to Heart Beatings (a world premiere musical - CoHo's first! - by local playwright Mark LaPierre); Kid Simple: a radio play in the flesh (a sound comedy by Seattle playwright JorDan Harrison); and reasons to be pretty (a beautiful conclusion to our season from Neil LaBute).

 

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