BROKEN BONE BATHTUB to Receive Portland Premiere

Siobhan O'Loughlin brings her intimate solo theatrical event various North Portland locations from JUNE 6TH-18TH, 2018.

BROKEN BONE BATHTUB is the award-winning immersive one-person play taking place inside a bathtub-in an actual home. After a serious bike accident, a young woman musters up the courage to ask for help, and shares her story, exploring themes of trauma, suffering, human generosity and connection. The audience (of 4 to 8 people at a time) takes on the role of Siobhan's close friends; listening and sharing their own experiences, and assisting the cast-clad artist in her very real ritual of taking a bath.

Broken Bone Bathtub plays the following schedule through June 18th (specific location given upon reservation):

SUNDAY: 2pm; MONDAY-SATURDAY: 7pm

Arbor Lodge/Kenton Border - June 6 & 18
North Portland/Delta Park-June 7 & 8
King-June 9 & 17
North Portland/Mississippi--June 10 & 16
Vernon-June 14 & 15

Fort Greene - Feb. 4

Broken Bone Bathtub has performed to sold out site-specific venues all over the world, received an Outstanding Solo Performance Award from The New York Innovative Theatre Foundation, and was named in the Top Ten Shows not to miss by City Pages Minneapolis, Best Performances in 2016 by DC Metro Theatre Arts, and ImmersiVe Theatre Shows to See by The New York Times.

Broken Bone Bathtub premiered in Tokyo, and has since been performed throughout Australia, Ireland, the UK, and across the USA-from Los Angeles to Baltimore, to St. Louis, Minneapolis and Orlando. In total, Ms. O'Loughlin has shared this immersive play in 5 countries, 15 cities, and nearly 291 different bathtubs. The show has been featured twice in The New York Times for 2016's: "A Surreal Dive Into Immersive Theater" and 2018's "The Kitchen is Her Stage." This Portland premiere will be O'Loughlin's 18th city, and her 350th performance of the show will take place during this run.

After a bike accident, leading to a broken hand, Ms. O'Loughlin began borrowing friends' bathtubs all over New York (since she only had a shower). Crafted from a set of Ms. O'Loughlin's journal entries after the accident, Broken Bone Bathtub is a testament to the kindness and generosity of her friends helping her take a bath, buying her dinner, leaving her wine and chocolate, getting her new bubbles, and washing their favorite warm bath robes for her to use. The theatrical experience stems from how much their openness, kindness, and generosity contributed to her healing, as well as a meditation on our many pathways to healing-through self, community, and the political movements around us that inspire us to keep going...even in tumultuous times.

Siobhan O'Loughlin is a Brooklyn-based writer, performance artist, and activist who tours her work internationally. She is the recipient of The New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, a grant recipient of the Network of Ensemble Theatres, and a 2018 fellow at Guild Hall of East Hampton. Siobhan has taught artist, activist, and theatre-making workshops from coast to coast, as well as abroad in Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom, and in Syrian Refugee camps all over Greece. She has performed her solo work throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, England and Ireland. She is a commercial and narration voice over talent, a Moth Story Slam Champion, and has been named a top ten Indie Theatre Artist in Baltimore, St. Louis, and Seattle.

Her full body of work, The Rope in Your Hands, Natural Novice, and Broken Bone Bathtub, all have toured nationally across the USA, and globally throughout the UK, Ireland, Japan and the Philippines. The Rope in Your Hands received five star reviews at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and in Washington, DC., as well as awarded Fringe Crush in St. Louis, MO. Natural Novice was awarded Best of the Fest at Charm City Fringe Festival in Baltimore, MD, and also the recipient of the 2014 Fringe Crush award at the St Lou Fringe. Both of these two shows have also been presented at universities, where Siobhan pairs the performance with a workshop in storytelling, civic engagement, and activism.