Spider
The Impact Tour Edition
February 7–16, 2025
“in this spiderweb,
I see the world.”
"Baby Spiderman KILLED EVIL Spider!” blows up on YouTube Kids. A rogue program escapes the Simulation — in a video game called Awakenings. And a choir prepares to sing with one voice. When a school shooting reveals the delicate web connecting these events, the people tangled within it start to wonder: who’s to blame? Written by an alumni of the YP Company, this powerful new play about iPad kids, collective trauma, and what we trust AI to do will stick with you long after the final bows.
Originally produced by the YP Company in October 2023, this revised version of the script will tour local high schools after its premiere public performances!
"[The Company's] great work in this show bodes well for the future of Portland theatre, while the play itself gives me hope that the world of tomorrow might contain a lot more empathy and kindness than we have today... If you are a teenager, have a teenager, or want to know more about what it’s like to be a teenager right now, definitely go see it." —Krista Garver, Broadway World
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SPIDER
An original work by Madeleine Adriance
Commissioned by the Young Professionals CompanyAge restricted for 14 and up
Runtime: approximately 50 minutesContent Warning: this play has mature language and themes, and contains a dramatic interpretation of a school shooting.
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February 7–16, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pmTo request ASL interpretation services for a performance, make your request 14 days before the scheduled performance.
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$20 Adults
$15 Students$5 tickets available through the RACC Arts for All Program.
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New Expressive Works
810 SE Belmont St
Portland, OR 97214
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About the Playwright
Madeleine Adriance is a playwright, book writer, lyricist, and educator who grew up in Guatemala City and Portland, Oregon. She recently graduated magna cum laude with honors from Brown University, receiving a BA in Theater. Her plays include SPIDER (commissioned by the Young Professionals Company) and The Living Ones (Finalist, Lanford Wilson Festival of New American Plays). She has also written the book for the musicals Dendroo! and Cheesy Love Songs, both produced at Brown University. At Brown, she was selected to participate in the Graduate Playwriting workshop lead by Julia Jarcho, and her play The Living Ones was awarded a departmental production with mentorship from Lisa D’Amour. In 2023, SPIDER was named the “most impactful” show of the fall by BroadwayWorld. Honors include being a winner of the Horizon Theater New South Young Playwrights Festival, the S.R. Steinfeld Award at Brown University, and a Fulbright grant. madeleineadriance.com
Check out an interview with Madeleine about the show’s development with the Young Professionals here!
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