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    • _____ THE WOLF
    • SALT
    • MACBETH
    • THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
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    • MISS JULIE
    • WE'RE ALL MAD HERE
    • HEAD . HANDS . FEET
    • ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
    • A DOLL'S HOUSE
    • PASSION PLAY
    • SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
    • MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
    • ONE FLEA SPARE
    • WILDE TALES
    • FAR AWAY
    • THE TRIPPING POINT
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By Max Yu
Directed by Rebby Yuer Foster


Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm
​Sundays at 5:00pm
Shows begin promptly at 7:30pm & 5:00pm. No late seating.
*Recommended for ages 16 up
​Running time: 90 minutes (no intermission)
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“My phone is just a tool
it is just a tool 
to illuminate the world i dream of”


In A Different Reality She’s Clawing At The Walls​ is a play about human isolation within a vast virtual reality. The psychological repercussions of digital surveillance is explored through an ensemble whose codependency on technology brings them to the tipping point. Witness the sisyphean search for the unplugged mind, driven by the agony of technological isolation.

About the Playwright

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Max Yu is a first-generation Chinese-American playwright from the San Francisco Bay Area. He recently moved from Shanghai and is now based in New York. His play NIGHTWATCH won the 2019 Relentless Award, was a finalist for the Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, and was selected for the 2022 O’Neill Playwriting Conference. He is a current member of Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He was a member of Page 73’s 2021-22 Interstate 73 Writers Group. He is currently under commission from New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA), Atlantic Theater Company, Shaking the Tree Theater. His plays that have been workshopped and developed include NIGHTWATCH (O'Neill, Goodman Theatre), DISTANCE ABANDONED (Second Generation Productions), DRAGONFLY (American Playwriting Foundation), THE EDGE (Shaking the Tree Theater), and LITTLE RED (Horizon Theatre). He has taught playwriting at the National Theater Institute. His poetry and prose have been published in China in Spittoon and Babel. He is represented by United Talent Agency (UTA) and 3 Arts Entertainment. He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied playwriting under Sylvan Oswald. You can find him at @maxyuliang and www.maxyu.carrd.co

The Ensemble

Jane: ​Kiana Malu 
Jasper: Akitora Ishii
Brandon: Heath Hyun Houghton
​​Untitled: Alanna Fagan 

Creative Team

Director: Rebby Yuer Foster
Playwright: Max Yu
Stage Manager: Ped Dominguez
Assistant Stage Manager: Orlando Reyez Cabrera
Dramaturg: Emily Hogan
Composer: Lake
Director of Photography & Video Editor: Skye Stouber 
Video Production Assistant: Marcel Mawulorm Johansen 
Choreographer: Claire Aldridge
Set Designer: Samantha Van Der Merwe
Costume Designer: Wendi YuLing
Lighting Designer: Griffin Kiyoshi DeWitt
Audio & Video Engineer: Jared Jonas
Technical Director and Design Collaborator: Ree Seminole 
​Box Office Manager: Kai Hynes
Graphic Design: Andrew Palomo 
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In A Different Reality She's Clawing At The Walls is generously supported by our major donors; Ronni Lacroute, Jessie Jonas, Anonymous, Ellyn Bye, and the Rose and David Dortort Foundation. 
We'd also like to thank the foundations listed below, members of Shaking the Tree's Board, as well as many other individual supporters. To support this show, or any others in our season, please visit our SUPPORT page.

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Shaking the Tree Theatre is located at 823 SE Grant St.
Portland, OR 97214

Oue main office is located at 2136 SE 8th Ave
Portland, OR 97214

For our theatre: Look for the Big Blue Warehouse on the corner od SE 9th and Grant and enter through the gate.
​For our main office: look for the beautiful mural on the corner of SE 8th and Grant. Entrance is on SE 8th.


Major Funding provided by

Ronni Lacroute, Jessie Jonas, Anonymous, Ellyn Bye, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, including support from the City of Portland, Multnomah County, the Arts Education & Access Fund, Prosper Portland, the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation, the the Shubert Foundation, the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation, the Collins Foundation, the Oregon Cultural Trust, the Oregon Arts Commission, the Rose and David Dortort Foundation, supporting organization of the California Community Foundation, and the Multnomah County Cultural Coalition.
  • WELCOME
  • SHOWS & EVENTS
    • FORBIDDEN FRUIT
    • IN A DIFFERENT REALITY SHE'S CLAWING AT THE WALLS
    • TICKETS
  • CLASSES
    • YOUTH CLASSES
    • STT INSTRUCTORS
  • SUPPORT
  • CONTACT
    • FIND US HERE
    • WORK WITH US
  • ABOUT
    • WHO WE ARE
    • ACCOUNTABILITY
    • LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
    • CLIMATE ACTION
    • COVID POLICY
  • ARCHIVE
    • FUCKING A
    • MODELMINORITY
    • CHICK FIGHT
    • COMMUNITY IN CONVERSATION
    • FAMILY
    • 家 人 (JIA REN)
    • REFUGE
    • SHORT FLIX
    • BAKKHAI
    • ESCAPED ALONE
    • MADE TO DANCE IN BURNING BUILDINGS
    • _____ THE WOLF
    • SALT
    • MACBETH
    • THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE
    • COME TO THE TABLE
    • MISS JULIE
    • WE'RE ALL MAD HERE
    • HEAD . HANDS . FEET
    • ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE
    • A DOLL'S HOUSE
    • PASSION PLAY
    • SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
    • MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
    • ONE FLEA SPARE
    • WILDE TALES
    • FAR AWAY
    • THE TRIPPING POINT