The show is an update of a previous production Schneider premiered two years ago in North Portland.Ī D V E R T I S I N G | Continue reading below 25 at Robinwood Station as part of Portland's Fertile Ground Festival of New Works, a multi-day event featuring locally created theater works. Schneider aims to capture these stories in a one-woman show, "displaced/detained/discovered," that debuts Jan. "It's usually very different than how they're represented."
"It's given me this incredible perspective on what's important to people," Schneider said. Since Schneider started the project 25 years ago, it has evolved into something far greater.īecause when you ask someone that simple question, you never know what the response will be. She'd ask the question to people on the streets - in America and other countries like Nigeria, Ireland, China and New Zealand - as part of an effort to document all of the dialects of spoken English in the world. For West Linn resident Eliza Jane Schneider - who, as an accomplished voice actor and dialectologist, knows how easily words can be twisted and tangled depending on context, tone and personal experiences - "What's going on?" has become something of a universal key into the minds of those she's met throughout the world. Marvin Gaye made those three words famous in a 1970 song that cried out against war, poverty and discrimination at home and abroad. Resident Eliza Jane Schneider, an accomplished voice actor and dialectologist, will put on one-woman show featuring voices of the displaced
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