ONE WEEK ONLY | MAY 15 - 21, 2022
The Theatre Company is excited to announce the live Oregon premiere of The Thin Place by award-winning playwright Lucas Hnath, May 15-21, 2022. Presented in partnership with KEX Portland, The Thin Place uses the intimate surroundings of their downstairs Gym and Tonic space to help create an immersive exploration of the fragile boundary between our world and the one just beyond.
The limited, one-week engagement offers just 20 seats per performance to enhance the intimacy of the seance experience. Portland stalwarts Diane Kondrat and Jen Rowe lead the small cast as Linda, a veteran medium, and Hilda, a keen listener and observer who’s grappling with loss. This quietly chilling story crackles with spiritual vulnerability while it plays with perceptions of reality and the omnipresence of death.
Two years after pivoting to podcasts and films in the wake of national Covid lockdown measures, TTC is thrilled to return to live performance. The company’s inaugural production, The Moors by Jen Silverman, was canceled just days before opening in the spring of 2020. The Thin Place at KEX Portland now marks TTC’s first in-person production.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Linda can speak to the dead. Hilda wants to. The Thin Place is a 90-minute ghost story about what’s really going on in the part just behind and just a little above your eyes.
PERFORMANCES
Sunday May 15th - Saturday May 21th at 8:00pm.
Tickets on sale now via The Theatre Company
Tickets are $25. Limited seating of 20 per night.
ABOUT THE SPACE
KEX, which means “biscuit” in Icelandic, first started in 2011, when a businessman and a set designer met at an abandoned biscuit factory in a strange corner of Reykjavík while scouting a location for an upcoming film. Today, it is a design-focused space in Portland filled with salvaged
The Thin Place premiered off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on November 22, 2019.
Directed by Les Waters, the production featured Randy Danson, Emily Cass, Triney Sandoval
and Kelly McAndrew.
materials and pieces from around the world, and a 26-room social hotel where people from anywhere can gather to eat great food, hear music, and be inspired.
ABOUT THE THEATRE COMPANY
The Theatre Company enlivens our community by transforming found spaces with bold, theatrical endeavors. Founded in 2019, The Theatre Company set a rule. Always make theater in non-traditional spaces. Allow stories to pop up wherever there is an alchemy linking story, space, and spectacle together in the artistic sense while also linking audience members with local businesses and areas of Portland they may not have discovered. As lovers of playwrights who create rich worlds, complex characters, infuse their scripts with bold themes and a capacity for spectacle, it’s part of the fun; an invigorating challenge to discover a non-traditional found space to enliven with a theatrical endeavor. Story. Space. Spectacle.
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
Lucas Hnath’s work as a playwright includes A Doll’s House, Part 2; Hillary and Clinton; Red Speedo; The Christians; A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney; Isaac’s Eye; and Death Tax. His work has been produced nationally and internationally, including at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville/Humana Festival of New Plays, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Royal Court Theatre, and on Broadway at the John Golden Theater. He is a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and a resident of New Dramatists. Hnath is a recipient of an Obie, Guggenheim Fellowship, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Whiting Award, Kesselring Prize, two Steinberg citations from the American Theatre Critics Association, and a 2017 Tony nomination for Best Play.
ABOUT THE CAST
Diane Kondrat has been interested in spiritualism since, as a teenager, she was encouraged by a medium to channel her dead friend's spirit. THE THIN PLACE will be her first chance to play a psychic. Kondrat is a company member at Third Rail Repertory Theatre and with sketch comedy troupe, SPECTRAVAGASM. She was awarded a Drammy for defunkt's GIRL IN THE RED CORNER and was recently seen in BARBECUE at Portland Playhouse. Her performance of the solo show EVERY BRILLIANT THING (in person!) in Summer 2021 was the pinnacle of her Covid experience. Other credits include TRINKETS, GRIMM, as well as shows with CoHo Productions, Oregon Children's Theatre, and Profile Theatre. www.dianekondrat.com
Jen Rowe is the Artistic Director of TTC and has been following this script since it piqued her interest during development at the Humana Festival. Directing credits include: CAPAX INFINTI, a film by DeLanna Studi (TTC), VINEGAR TOM: A Podcast (TTC), TENDER NAPALM (Portland and Chicago). As an Actor, Jen has been seen at Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory, Profile Theatre, Third Rail, Portland Playhouse, CoHo Theatre, Milagro, and Oregon Children’s Theatre. She has been seen on GRIMM, THE LIBRARIANS, played in a band, and written/performed in local sketch shows.
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Design: Alex Meyer Production Assistant: Abigail St John Dramaturg: Jessica Dart
Sound: Scott Moore Producing Associate: Aaron Cooper Swor Graphics: Susan Bein
