great attention to detail, and Paul D ouroum is
as m usical director has kept the m usic fresh
and quick. T h e y ! lave also put together a fine
cast
Randall Stuart as S eym our is a w onderfully
energetic little nerd. He is always trying hard,
but when he succeeds it is always by mistake.
This is the sort o f role that Jerry Lewis always
tried to play and make endearing, but never
succeded; Stuart has succeeded. The m usic
is a little too low fo r him in som e places, but
he m anages to speak/sing his way through
very well. Playing Audrey, the big g irl o f Sey­
m o u r’s little dream s, is M argie Boule. She is
about a fo o t taller, with high heels, short
trashy clothes, a blonde bouffant, and a vac­
ant, dingy expression. (Does she stare at the
do orb ell because she thinks it is a kindred
spirit?) B oule’s big eyes and pouty voice are
ju s t rig h t Sure, it’s caricature, but w ell-done
and enjoyable caricature.
F o r chorus we have C hiffon, Crystal and
Ronnette, set o f street-wise Andrews Sisters,
enthusiastically played by Brenda Phillips,
A nise Hall, and Julianna Johnson. M ost o f the
rest o f the cast is played very well by Randy
Knee, w ho is a very flexible face and good
co m ic tim ing.
And, o f course, the p la n t Audrey II goes
fro m houseplant size to taking up the whole
stage. She was constructed w ith ingenuity by
R obin C hilstrom and is m anipulated by
C hristopher W hitten (no m ean fe a t in itself).
A nd A udrey Il’s huge m aneating m outh is
w ell-coordinated w ith the voice provided by
M ichael Holliday.
plays Thursday
th ro u g h Saturday at 8:00 and Sunday at 7 :00
th ro u g h Novem ber 22.
Faithful Shepard
by Douge Martin
F o ol fo r Love by Sam Shepherd. Directed by
Tw ig Webster. S torefront Theatre.
Sam Shepard is a m aster o f conversational
dialogue, and at capturing the way his char­
acters w ould really speak. Twig Webster’s very
funny production o f
at Store­
fro n t Theatre is faithful to Shepard’s natur­
alness.
is an episode out o f a very
storm y 15 year old love affair between Eddie
Fool for Love
Fool for Love
and May (N ick Flynn and Victoria Parker).
Theirs is an old story o f you can’t live with ’em
and you can’t live w ithout ’em. They are ob­
sessed w ith each other, and as Flynn and
Parker play the obsession very well, the sex­
ual tension between them is constant and
palpable.
There are brief interludes (one m ig ht call
them rest breaks between rounds) provided
by the rem iniscences o f the O ld Man, (B. Joe
Medley). The O ld Man is integral in the story
o f E ddie and May, and plays a surreal and
im p o rta n t part in the action o f the play; he
interacts w ith Eddie and May (even though
he is not actually present) as a sort o f m an­
ifestation o f their obsession.
M artin, a large and dense possible suitor o f
M ay’s, adm irably played by Gary Brickner-
Schulz, provides a point o f contention fo r the
lovebirds(?), and an audience fo r the varying
versions o f the ir lives.
The m arvellous settings by Henk Pander
are replicas o f a tacky and surreal desert
m otel room . The exaggerated angles o f walls
and flo o r are good com panions to the skewed
relations between the characters. Excellent
lig h tin g and sound effects were done by Jeff
Forbes and B ill Reinhardt; the approaching
headlights and sounds o f cars were particu­
larly effective.
The actors and W ebster deserve special
cre d it fo r keeping consistent and believable
rural western dialects throug ho ut the
production.
is a delight and well
w orth seeing. It continues through November
15 at S torefront Theatre.
Fool for Love
Little Shop o f Horrors
Bernardo's, a house
of represssion
Nick Flynn in Fool for Love
Revenge of the Nerd
L ittle S hop o f H orrors by Howard Ashman
and Alan Menken. D irected by Greg Tam b-
lyn. Portland Civic Theatre Main Stage.
Little Shop o f Horrors, by Howard Ashm an
and Alan Menken, is the sort o f crazy m usical
com edy that Portland Civic Theatre does
b e st D on’t expect a message, there is none
(except perhaps do n’t feed people to plants
w ho talk), bu t you’ll have a lo t o f fun.
The plot centers on Seymour, the quintes­
sential little nerd, w ho works in a failing
flo rists’ shop on Skid Row, and on a strange
p lant that appears during a total eclipse o f the
sun. The p la n t w hich Seym our names Au­
drey II after the girl o f his dream s, brings fame
and fortune to the little shop and to Seymour.
There is only one catch; it w ill only eat fresh
hum an blood (or w hole bodies, it isn’t too
particular).
G reg Tam blyn has directed this horticul­
tu ra l
w ith a fast pace and
Sw eeney Todd
The H ouse o f Bernards Alba by Federico
G arcia Lorca. D irected by M icheál Griggs.
New Rose Theatre.
The stage is nearly bare. S m all benches
and hard, straight-backed chairs are the only
furnishings, the dingy stucco walls are un­
adorned, and the w om en are all dressed in
black. T his is
a
place o f stagnation and repression. W ritten
by Federico Garcia Lorca in the early part o f
ths century,
is a
view in to the lives o f w om en in Spanish vil­
lages, lives w hich are tig h tly controlled and
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