MAFIA: Plays
you can’t refuse
What does MAFIA mean to you?
To the Oregon Repertory Theatre (ORT), and
a number of its patrons, it means
Midnight-Affair-For-Intelligent-Audiences
“The Mafia productions allow our actors,
directors and technicians an opportunity to
stretch artistic muscles that often are not used for
mainstage shows," said Bob Webb, director of “A
Woman Alone,” the next Mafia production “They
are aimed at audiences who are interested in
experimental, off-beat and/or outrageous forms
of theatre ”
The series began in 1976 and did well finan
cially for several years, although the ORT's recent
move from the Atrium to the old Eugene Hotel has
since slowed audience attendance
While on the second floor of the Atrium, the
Mafia performances, showing at 9:00 and mid
night, attracted various groups from de Frisco's,
Cinema 7, and other nearby haunts, a fortunate
situation which couldn't be duplicated in the more
remote Eugene Hotel But the ORT is now ex
ploring new ways of making up for this loss of
audience, Webb said
Next season the Mafia productions will run
for one week only at 9 p m with 11 p m perfor
mances added onto the Friday and Saturday of
the run, as opposed to the two weekend schedule
they are now on “This will better enable us to
keep our publicity budget down by concentrating
our drive into one week instead of spreading it out
over two or three weeks," said Webb He added
that casts and crews would also be smaller than in
the past, thereby cutting down on production
costs as well
Webb is optimistic about the opening of “A
Woman Alone," and about its star, Jane Van
Boskirk
Van Boskirk, who is known throughout
Oregon for her performances with University
professor Edwin Bingham in “The Northwest
Woman,” is the sole performer onstage in “A
Woman Alone ” The play was written by Dario Fo,
whom Webb calls, "a somewhat crazed Italian
anarchist.”
The play concerns a woman who must deal
with being locked up in her own home by her
husband, groped by her brother-in-law (who is in
a full body cast), tormented by an old lover and
verbally abused by an obscene phone caller.
“A Woman Alone" will play tonight at 9,
Thursday at 11 pm, and Friday and Saturday at 9
and 11 p m Tickets are S3 50 Reservations may
be made by calling 485-1946
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