I've lived in Portland for four years, and I had a reason to visit downtown Hillsboro until last night when I went to support a friend (Sharon Beirmann as Luciana) in Bag & Baggage Productions' adaptation of The Comedy of Errors. This was the only play from Washington County to be included in the Fertile Ground Festival.
The show is being looked at by a couple different animation magazines who are interested in experimentation between live performance and animation. It's true that in many ways this production was like watching an old cartoon. Not only was this apparent by the brightly colored costumes, make-up and set, but also through the stylistic acting choices in the show. The backgrounds were gorgeous. They were designed by Frederick Gardner and painted by Scott Fassett in true Looney Toons style.
It was obvious right from the beginning of the show that Bag & Baggage is very involved in and proud to be part of the Hillsboro community, and that the Hillsboro community is in turn proud of having a resident theatre company. It warmed my heart to see a theatre suceed in reaching out and strengthening its local community.
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