Portland Center Stage: Where We Belong

An Indigenous theater-maker journeys across geographic borders, personal history, and cultural legacies in search of a place to belong.

In 2015, Achokayis, a Mohegan theater-maker, moves to England to pursue a Ph.D. in Shakespeare, grappling with the question of what it means to remain or leave, as the Brexit vote threatens to further disengage the UK from the wider world. Moving between nations that have failed to reckon with their ongoing roles in colonialism, she finds comfort in the journeys of her Native ancestors who had to cross the ocean in the 1700s to help their people. In this intimate and exhilarating solo piece directed by Mei Ann Teo, playwright Madeline Sayet asks us what it means to belong in an increasingly globalized world. Learn more at pcs.org

Where We Belong
February 25 – March 26, 2023
On the U.S. Bank Main Stage, 128 NW 11th Ave Portland, OR 97209