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. ..as a look into the past, Through a Portagee Gate feels neither sentimental nor syrupy. Its nostalgia is genuine and its characters authentic. It's a pleasure to see local history theatricalized with such obvious caring. Congratulations! --New Bedford Standard Times

The name in Portuguese means yellow, but... Amarelo, by Paulo Pereira, is pure gold. --Providence Journal ...as a look into the past, Through a Portagee Gate feels neither sentimental nor syrupy. Its nostalgia is genuine and its characters authentic. It's a pleasure to see local history theatricalized with such obvious caring. Congratulations! --New Bedford Standard Times Both plays dramatize the epic nature of immigrant assimilation with such heart and humor that, while the specific textures of New Bedford anchor these plays as capsules of a cultural moment, the dramatic action is universal to any audience with roots, namely, all of us. Pereira and Thomas excel at staging the uniquely American experience of negotiating one's integrity when pulled by the paradoxes of immigrant identity. These are the types of plays that have tableaux that linger well after the curtain falls. --Tom Grady, author of American Cocktail

. ..as a look into the past, Through a Portagee Gate feels neither sentimental nor syrupy. Its nostalgia is genuine and its characters authentic. It's a pleasure to see local history theatricalized with such obvious caring. Congratulations! --New Bedford Standard Times The name in Portuguese means yellow, but . . . Amarelo, by Paulo Pereira, is pure gold. --Providence Journal .. .as a look into the past, Through a Portagee Gate feels neither sentimental nor syrupy. Its nostalgia is genuine and its characters authentic. It's a pleasure to see local history theatricalized with such obvious caring. Congratulations! --New Bedford Standard Times

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PATRICIA A. THOMAS is a theater director, teacher, writer and producer who began her career in theater in the 1980s as a company member at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island. She has worked internationally as a theater director and teacher. In Boston, she wrote and adapted plays with young people, including Love & Mosquitoes, at The Teather Offensive, and Island of the Beholder, at the Boston Center for the Arts. Thomas is co-funder and Artistic Director of Culture*Park Theatre and Performing Arts Collaborative in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where she now resides. PAULO A. PEREIRA was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He earned a degree in Theater Arts and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he was involved in numerous productions as an actor, director, producer, and playwright. Amarelo, his first full-length play, opened in New York City in 1998. More recently, Amarelo was performed at UMass Dartmouth, produced by Culture*Park and sponsored by the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture. He resides in Merrimack, New Hampshire, with his wife Leah and their children.

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