NT TAINM Up and coming Portland’s classic repertory theatre. The New Rose, is presenting one of Shakespeare’s dark com edies. A ll's Well That Ends Well, with Jane Titus in the role of Helena. Directed by Peter Fornara, A ll 's Well That Ends Well opens March 16 and runs through April 28, playing Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m. O pening night tickets are $ 11; all other perform ances are $8. One o f Shakespeare’s last comedies. A ll 's Well That Ends Well examines moral issues in a society with m oral problems. According to critic Jo h n C. Bean, Helena in A ll's Well m ay be the culm ination o f Shakespeare’s studies o f women. Bean says Helena is un questionably his m ost erotic heroine, a wo m an with m agically potent femininity. Helena, Bean says, creates a world in which sexual experience matters, and it matters m ost because it cannot be separated from the em otional and the personal. Helena is a w om an in love. Jane Titus, appearing as Helena, is one of P ortland’s busiest actors. She most recently played Ma Prama Rama Kree in the New Rose production Christmas at Juniper Tavern-, other roles include Natalia Landauer in The Theatre W orkshop’s / A m a Camera, Henny Berger in Aw ake a nd Sing, and Mrs. C hisolm in The Petrified Forest. Titus is an authoritative actor, she is always the charac ter she is playing. D irector Peter Fom ara's Shakespearen ex perience is extensive; he has acted in and/o r directed 20 Shakespearean productions, m any o f them as Director o f the Portland Shakespeare Company. Fornara most recently directed and acted in Sam Shepard’s Curse o f the Starving Class, one o f this sea son’s m ost successful productions. Bertram , the object of Helena’s affections in A ll 's Well That Ends Well, is played by Sam Mowry, with Alan H. King as his sidekick Parolles. Others in the cast are Renee Boutin, Ken C olburn, Lee Forest, Am y Fowkes, War ren Harshberger, Ira Howard, Eric Pedersen, Janet Penner, Rollie W ulff and Gaynor Sterchi as the Countess. Costume design is by Shaune W under; scene design is by Russell G uinn and J im Gilsdorf is lighting designer. ____________ALICE D. ELLIS___________ ATTORNEY AT LAW PARKINSON, FONTANA, SCHUMANN, JONES, ELLIS and STEENSON 415 N.W. 18th, PORTLAND, • 221-1792 NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOOD LOCATION GENERAL PRACTICE, INCLUDING: INJURY ACCIDENTS • REAL ESTATE DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE . CRIMINAL DEFENSE • POLICE ABUSE WE FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS _________ MEMBERS — NATIONAL LAWYER9GUILD 10 Just Out, March 16-March 30