Flawed, hard-boiled lady detectives and/or spies are lighting up teevees across the country right now—praise be to The Fall’s Detective Superintendant Stella Gibson, Marvel's Jessica Jones, Homeland’s Carrie Mathison, and OG Detective Olivia Benson. So it was only a matter of time before Action/Adventure Theatre, purveyors of youthful theater that appeals to those of us who watch too much Netflix (THESE THINGS EXIST!), entered the fray with their latest, the Portland-set Hawthorne, featuring antiheroine private investigator Anne Winters (Zoe Rudman). It’s a pleasant deviation from the theater company's serialized format, employing a mostly female cast and a number of subtle and less-subtle gender reversals to soundly fuck with the noir genre’s typically rigid sex roles, all while actively resisting the squeaky-clean, quirky-dumb depiction of Portland seen, you know, everywhere. MEGAN BURBANK