Join us in conversations inspired by Lazarillo! Sponsored by Oregon Humanities and hosted by Miracle Theatre, this three-week series gives participants an opportunity to discuss three unique topics related to the classic Spanish text, La vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades. Here are quick summaries of each week’s free conversation that take place in our lobby café of El Centro Milagro (525 SE Stark St.); you can find complete details about the whole series online.

Cloaking Dissent ~ How do societal pressures influence a writer’s freedom? How do artists edit themselves in order to reach or not offend a wide audience? How long does it take radical new ideas to become acceptable? What ideas are not being shared because artists or their agents don’t think they’ll be appealing? More information

The Livelihoods of Lazarillo ~ What are the contemporary factors that affect a person’s socio-economic mobility? How do education, upbringing, wealth, etc., create real and perceived barriers that hinder an individual’s rise to success? What are some of the unspoken rules that define class and therefore advancement in our society? Which of these rules can be learned? More information

The Trials of Adaptation ~ Why and how do we adapt literature for modern audiences? How does an adaptation of a classic work, whether into another form or another context, reveal its relevant themes in ways that the original form cannot? What current media standards and audience expectations make adaptations of classic works necessary? What are the traps of creating adaptations? More information