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Holy Days
Holy Days

Fri, Aug 12

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21ten Theatre

Holy Days

HOLY DAYS is a slice of life play directed by Ted Rooney about a family struggling to survive on the Kansas plains during the Dust Bowl era.

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Aug 12, 2022, 7:30 PM – Aug 28, 2022, 4:00 PM

21ten Theatre, 2110 SE 10th Ave, Portland, OR 97214, USA

About the event

If a poem is a form of dense evocational shorthand, Sally Nemeth’s HOLY DAYS is a stage poem. It is uncommonly affecting — an elegy for the lost souls in the dying plains of Kansas, 1936, who clung to their blighted homesteads like bees to the poisoned hive. Set in Kansas during the Dust Bowl, this play tells the story of two farmer brothers and their wives struggling to make it through the drought and winds that hit the southern Great Plains during the 30’s, blowing away as much withered hope as dried-out topsoil … But the play is less about plot than quiet emotion and reflection … the deep hope Dust Bowlers had to draw upon to carry on.

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