What Others Say About Us

Am I Turning Into A Fish? created by the ensemble

The Mercury says: "I hurried down to the Pacific Crest School after work on Friday to catch Sowelu Ensemble's new piece Am I Turning Into a Fish?" Read More»

Curse of the Great Eleven by Lea Floden (Review not available.)

Some Explicit Polaroids by Mark Ravenhill

Willamette Week says: "Sowelu snaps some strong shots from Mark Ravenhill's tough play."Read More »

Fen by Caryl Churchill

The Oregonian says: "Portland's Sowelu is known for its vivid physical approach to theater. England's Churchill is known for her ravishing spare language and sharp political bent. Put the two in the same small cage — the tiny Back Door Theatre — and you can expect some fur to fly." Read More »

Blue Night in the Heart of the West by James Stock

Willamette Week says: "British playwright James Stock's Blue Night in the Heart of the West is a stunning mess befitting its subject: America. It's the Book of Esther as told by David Lynch; a bleak and scathing revelation into the soul of New Canaan, which is as mythic as it is psychopathic — much like the Bible." Read More »

The Swan by Elizabeth Egloff

The Oregonian says: "Elizabeth Egloff's The Swan is a fairy tale set deep in the American heartland. In this complexly textured theater piece, Egloff spins a yarn in which the mundane and the marvelous are tightly intertwined — forming a unique blend that the Sowelu Theater company masterfully manufactures." Read More »

Headless by Lea Floden

Willamette Week says: "American culture has always been a balancing act between the puritanical forces of conformity and the unlidded voices of the individual. In a culture that has hypnotized the world with happy faces and happy meals, there remain Coney Islands of the mind, places of dissent and exile, places to be the freak in the herd." Read More>>

The Treatment by Martin Crimp

Willamette Week says: "Life as we know it has ended, and yet no one is able to grasp what has taken its place.... Slowly and steadily, the city seems to be consuming itself." —Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things. British playwright Martin Crimp chose Auster's quote as one of the ruling epigraphs for his play, The Treatment, which dares to cross the threshold from the past's verities to the present's cultural vacuum." Read More>>

Savage in Limbo by John Patrick Shanley

Willamette Week says: "The theater season begins with a dark comedy from a welcome new company." Read More>>

The Further Adventures of Anse and Bhule... by Tania Myren

Willamette Week news article: "A struggle in a post-apocalyptic landscape takes place in Tania Myren's new play, The Further Adventures of Anse and Bhule in No-Mans Land, which Sowelu Theater is premiering this month." Read More>>