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Three
Roses
A performance
by actress Julie
Portman, with
the music of
Paul Reisler
In the compelling and inspiring one woman play, Three Roses, stories of violence and transformation, actress Julie Portman gives voice to the unspeakable, to the acts of violence endured by three young women. Each has consequently learned to survive by enclosing their unbearable pain in a secret box. Each learns to live, in the words of one, “by walking only forward.”
What is inside that secret box, and what will blossom anew, given proper light and loving care, is the defining theme of Three Roses.
Through impassioned storytelling, hope, humor, and mysterious, mythical dreams, all of it inspired by the true stories of these three women. Portman narrates their harrowing but essential look back, and the healing this brings about.
In the dynamic weave of drama and deeply moving stories set to a musical score performed by her husband, Paul Reisler, composer and founder of the music group Trapezoid, Portman’s initially reluctant narrator must become the three women on their journey through guilt, courage and transformation.
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