THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT
2/6 through 3/1 at the Spotlight Theatre
DIRECTED by
Brooke Totman
Starring
Sharon Lee McLean, Blaine Palmer, Jonathan Hoonhout, and Annie Kehoe
“So mUch Emotional honesty, you forget you’re watching a performance.”
BroadwayWorld Portland
“It firmly establishes [100 Lives] as a company that produces work that moves you deeply and refuses to let go.”
BroadwayWorld Portland
“This is a must-see production. Go with someone whose hand you can hold.”
BroadwayWorld Portland
Photo credit: Cat Plein
Review: The Body’s Midnight at 100 lives Repertory
This Is a Must-See Production. Go with someone whose hand you can hold.
It took about 10 seconds for tears to well up in my eyes during the opening monologue of THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT. They stayed there, occasionally spilling over, for the rest of Tira Palmquist’s exquisite play. This show is just the second production by 100 Lives Repertory, but it firmly establishes them as a company that produces work that moves you deeply and refuses to let go. Read Full Article
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#3 ‘The Body’s Midnight’ — 100 lives Rep
“There’s a new theater company in the Portland area,” is a phrase that hasn’t been spoken nearly enough in the past few years. Situated in the black box Spotlight Theatre in Southeast Portland, brave newcomer 100 Lives Repertory launched its inaugural season this past fall and now presents a tender, bittersweet and emotively raw road trip. ~ Lee Williams
DRAMAWATCH: “THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT”: LETTING LOVE LIGHT THE WAY
Can a play featuring a character who’s dealing with memory loss be hopeful, romantic, sexy and even funny? Brooke Totman says yes. . .Read Full Article
Winter theater guide: Road trips galore
Tira Palmquist’s cozy car tale literally falls into the lane 100 Lives has carved out for itself in its mission to bring “character driven-plays centered on the craft of acting to its intimate stage. Read Full Article
Meet the cast of
The Body’s Midnight
Sharonlee McLean
Blaine Palmer
Annie Kehoe
Jonathan Hoonhout
About the playwright
TIRA PALMQUIST
TIRA PALMQUIST is known for plays that merge the personal, the political and the poetic.
Tira Palmquist’s The Body’s Midnight developed through multiple workshops and readings in 2021 and 2022, including the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Boston Court Pasadena’s Playwrights Group, Palm Beach Dramaworks, LAFPI, and Trinity Street Players, before receiving its world premiere in spring 2024 in a coproduction by Boston Court Pasadena and IAMA Theatre Company directed by Jessica Kubzansky. The production, featuring Keliher Walsh and Jonathan Nichols-Navarro, follows a couple on a cross-country road trip complicated by a medical diagnosis and weaves together themes of memory, aging, and environmental loss.
Her other plays include Ten Mile Lake (Serenbe Playhouse), Age of Bees (NYU Stella Adler Studio, MadLab Theater, Tesseract), And Then They Fell (MadLab, Brimmer Street, New York Film Academy) and This Floating World.
