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 themes, content, and language. It also references a school shooting, which is not portrayed in the play. Sound effects of gunfire are used in this performance.
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February 7–16, 2025
Fridays & Saturdays* at 7:30 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pmIMPORTANT: The Saturday, February 15 performance will be a staged reading of the original SPIDER script; runtime 90 minutes. This performance features mature language and content.
To 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 investigating the complex relationships between human and non-human beings: between “us” and the natural, monstrous, and divine. She grew up in Guatemala City and Portland, Oregon. In Portland, she has worked professionally as an actor, dramaturg, and assistant director with the Young Professionals Company, and as an assistant playwriting and acting teacher with Oregon Children’s Theatre. Madeleine is a Young Professionals Company alumni, working with the company from 2016–2019.
She is a Senior pursuing her BA in Theater Arts at Brown University, where she has received the Robinson Potter Dunn and the S.R. Steinfeld awards, as well as a departmental production of her full-length play The Living Ones. She is completing an honors thesis on ecological disaster in American plays, and has studied playwriting at the graduate level with Julia Jarcho and Lisa D’Amour. Check out an interview with Madeleine about the show’s development with the Young Professionals here!
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