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Ethel’s cookin’ show simmers
■Melissa Ballard’s rendition
of‘Cookin’ with Aunt Ethel’
offers a look at what’s inside a
black person
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
Aunt Ethel shows the audience
how to bake a “batch of Negroes” in
freshman Melissa Ballard’s inter
pretation of “Cookin’ with Aunt
Ethel” as part of the Black Student
Union’s Kwanzaa celebration.
The monologue is part of “The Col
ored Museum,” a play by George C.
Wolfe, and Ballard has performed it at
her high school in Portland and most
recently at the Nov. 21 celebration.
The scene is like a cooking show,
with Aunt Ethel standing behind a
pot and stirring in the ingredients
that go into a black person.
As Aunt Ethel, Ballard adds “a
pinch of style,” then a “dash of
flair.” Other ingredients are pizzazz,
rage, survival, humor and a “box of
blues.”
“I hope [the audience] under
stands just a little bit where some
black people are coming from,” Bal
lard said.
The director’s notes on the piece
call for the actress to wear a bandan
na on her head. Ballard opts against
wearing one because she thinks it
reinforces the “mammy” stereotype
of the servile, docile and jovial black
woman.
To Ballard the piece is a funny way
to convey what she called “complete
truths” about black people. Her per
sonal favorite line is: “Add some atti
tude. Oops! I put too much.”
She first found the monologue
when she was in an acting class at
Grant High School in Portland. Af
ter that she performed it at a black
Laura Smit Emerald
During the Kwanzaa celebration, Melissa Ballard, as Aunt Ethel, shares her
special cooking recipe with the audience, stirring imaginary ingredients into a pot.
history month assembly in front of
more than 2,000 people.
“At first I didn’t get it,” Ballard
said of her first read of the piece.
She read it again and realized it
was both funny and profound.
“It actually has a serious meaning
— a subtext,” Ballard said.
Because the subtext may be lost
on some, she usually asks people if
it offends them. She has found its
good message and educational qual
ities outweigh the risk of someone
missing its point or thinking it rein
forces stereotypes.
Her goal in performing the mono
logue is “maybe just to have a little
understanding.”
Just finishing her first term at the
University, Ballard is already in
volved in the Black Student Union,
InterVarsity, a Christian student
group, and is taking acting classes.
When asked about her combina
tion of a public relations major and a
love of acting, she laughed and said
she knew it was an odd combination.
“Acting is a release,” Ballard said.
“I can just come alive on stage.”
As for public relations, she said
she likes the idea of making “some
company look good.”
She said she also enjoys reading,
talking with friends and shopping.
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