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Live Nude Fear

Live Nude Fear
Lorraine Bahr/Ritah Parrish
May 07 - May 23
Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm

$12 general admission

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Daily 1pm-9pm

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“…brilliant with incident and detail, their careful mapping of character has all the depth of their acting. A world lives inside each of their performances.” – Willamette Week


Ritah Parrish and Lorraine Bahr are at it again. From the women who, together and severally, brought us “I Think He’s a Sociopath but the Dance is Saturday Night,” “Bite Down Hard,” “Bottomless,” “Single Women,” and “Thinking Outside My Box,” comes a new two-woman show, “Live Nude Fear!” Written by and starring Bahr and Parrish, “Live Nude Fear!” is a hilarious and stirring evening addressing, through monologues, scenes, movement and video, the role our fears play in journeys of friendship, solitude, aging, illness, loss and survival. Parrish and Bahr’s previous collaboration, BOTTOMLESS! has been described by Willamette Week as “bright, blunt and powerfully realized.” Described as “streetwise Ruth Draper’s, with an abundance of talent and energy to burn,” Parrish and Bahr combine evocative (and provocative) writing with a profound sense of humor, to delve beneath the surface of ordinary female experience to address both the most ridiculous and most elemental fears that challenge the core of all of us. Here in the “age of Terror,” what could be more fun?!

The show will include eight characters, ranging in age from 2 to 72, some will appear as evolutions of characters performed in their previous original productions, including Angry Tiger, Dixie, and Derira Chin. Directed by Jana Hamlin, with videography by Reuben Nisenfeld, and with surprise special guest appearances, Live Nude Fear! is primed to give you the laughing-gas route to self-forgiveness and, dare we say it, peace of mind.

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Thank You

Over 270 of you got delirious with us, on Saturday Night, in our almost one hundred year old firehouse and on the Patton Park Plaza . We danced, enjoyed good food, got our ‘homecoming pictures’ taken by Mishima Photography, and shared stories in the gallery. We inaugurated our new sculptural marquee/message center. We welcomed back old friends, and made new ones. Thank you to our presenting sponsors Wells Fargo, TriMet and Portland Parks and Recreation . Thank you to our volunteers, who went above and beyond the call of duty, serving food, wine and beer and cleaning up our messes. And to our Board of Directors who sold drawing tickets, greeted guests and danced till last call. A shout out to our entertainment – Sneakin Out, Jennifer Lanier, Melao de Cuba, Mark Durrow, Mark Hayes, Eleanor O’Brien, Dan Trujillo, Andrea White, DJ Funky Surround, and the Crazy 8’s. And finally, a special thank you to our hosts for the evening – Commissioner Charles Jordan, Susan Fatheree-Goodson, Michelle Harper and Mayor Elect Sam Adams, without your vision, hard work and advocacy, over the years, IFCC would not be here. Stay tuned for pictures of the event, brought to you by Jeff Amram Photography And we’ll see you at our Last Thursday opening of WORD.