After 18 months, by far the longest break we've ever had, we're back! It's Monkey With a Hat On's 28th installment of the Portland Ten Minute Play Festival!
For Safety:
-Everyone involved in the play fest is vaccinated
-We limited tickets to half-capacity
-The first few audience rows will be left open
-We will space out audience members
-We will require masks
The Portland 10MPF is an event MWHAO produces three times a year and features new plays written, directed and performed by Portland artists - with a live musical act, Junglecorp, performing in-between each play! Every play is ten minutes or less and all are performed each performance night. It's a very fun, well attended event and there is nothing else like it in the city. We are theater for everybody: never turning away audience members for lack of funds and we have an open-door policy where anyone can submit a play or try out to be involved. These are your stories, Portland!
For our first play festival in 18 months, we decided to go with a theme that we can all relate to right now: Underdog.
In the Underdog 10MPF you will experience one woman's search for an enchanted necklace in a swamp behind a Walmart parking lot, a dystopian survivalist reality show competition between an outdoorsman and a valley girl, two mythological newlyweds who must face the bitter reality of the gods' will, a WWII French resistance fighter who takes refuge in a surly chef's restaurant kitchen, a new take on the complicated relationship between the Mad Hatter and Alice, and a man working from home trying to finish a project while his worst enemy gets in the way.
This play festival will feature music from the awesome local musical act Junglecorp - with their new, Underdog-themed rock opera story performed in-between each of the plays. Junglecorp leaves audience members thoroughly entertained and they are extremely excited to be back on the Monkey stage. Check out their music for previous play festivals, fun videos and connect with them at junglecorp.org
The Underdog Ten Minute Play Festival will run about 2 hours with a 15 minute intermission.
Start off your fall 2021 with a wildly entertaining, fun night of stories about hope, the struggle and pure grit: Underdog!