Category: Sofia Molimbi

Celebrate spring with us at Fertile Ground!

Read all about our offerings in the Willamette Week and Oregon ArtsWatch or watch our KOIN TV interview, and then get your FREE tickets here.

April 4-6, 2025 at Artists Repertory Theatre.

Junior Year Abroad

What’s better than one LineStormer in Salem?

THREE! Catch summer readings of new work by Sofia Molimbi, Sara Jean Accuardi, and Lolly Ward at Willamette University’s Theatre 33.

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GROUP, OR MARLENE IS DEAD by Sofia Molimbi: June 1-2, 2024

GROW LEARN PLAY by Sara Jean Accuardi: June 20-30, 2024

GONE by Lolly Ward: JULY 25-AUGUST 4, 2024

Bimonthly Reading Series: GROUP; OR MARLENE IS DEAD by Sofia Molimbi

Welcome to our first Bimonthly Reading of the year!

LineStorm Playwrights
in association with
Portland Center Stage 
and Artists Repertory Theatre
present:

GROUP; or Marlene is Dead
By Sofia Molimbi

Directed by Francisco Garcia

Featuring:
Marlene: Barbie Wu*
Professor Stump/Axel: Jimmy Garcia*
Leonore: Tricia Castañeda-Guevara
Ben: Chris Conner*
Carmen: Kate Ming T’ien Duffly
Stacy Ann: Eleanor Amorós
Stage Directions: Holly Richards

*Actors’ Equity Association

ASL Interpretation Provided by:
Ruth Nardecchia and Trani Morton

RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE

Sunday, February 4
5:00 p.m.

Portland Center Stage
128 NW 11th Ave. Portland, OR

SYNOPSIS:

“Group; or Marlene is Dead,” by Sofia Molimbi, is not your typical parenthood comedy. Set in modern day Portland, Oregon, “Group” follows the lives of five parents and two professors, who are all desperate to salvage their rocky home lives. Professor Marlene’s parenting class becomes an incubator that either kills you or saves you. This fast-paced tragicomedy is an honest portrayal of the struggles of relationships, divorce, fertility, and motherhood.