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OCTOBER 5. 2007 jUStpUt.43 North Coast Seafood Festival / October 6-7 • Indoors at Tillamook Fairgrounds Saturday, llam-6pm • Sunday, 1 lam-5pm • • • • patriotism, the modern-day parallels of which are star tling. “Never in my life, except m the past six years or so, has [nationalism] had such a personal impact on my personal life. Never has it mattered so much. It affects my day-to-day existence, from finances to quality of life.” For Cliff, Sally and Berliners at the dawn of the Third Reich, often what felt safe was sticking with what they knew up until the point when change was suddenly too late to stop. “It’s about Playwright John Guare will attend opening night for Profile people dancing on the edge of Theatre's Six Degrees of Separation. a cliff and not quite falling over,” Ebb has said about Cabaret, to which Lewis partly what gets Paul off—spinning his knowledge, questions, “How do you know when you’re stand his cunning and his wit through an otherwise open, ing on the edge of the cliff?” genuine candor. “If you truly believe something, you can make someone else believe it,” says Mosley, or David Hampton, the real-life con man who adding some of his charm is being such a polar inspired John Guare’s play Six Degrees of Separa opposite from his prey. “He knows they view him as tion, the search for identity and belonging led him different, and there’s a charge to that.” to persuade more than one Manhattan elite that he A charge, but with his own, strange yearning was the son of famous actor Sidney Poitier, shrewd for connection, for which Ouisa Kittredge becomes ly deceiving his way into not only their homes, but Paul’s open door to another world. In the play she also their lifestyle. says: “I read somewhere that everybody on this Just as when Cliff meets Sally in Cabaret, a fasci planet is separated by only six other people. Six nating sequence of chance events tie Paul (Dennis degrees of separation: It’s a profound thought.” And Mosley)—black, gay, self-educated and poor—with following those seemingly impossible paths of the Kittredges (Karen Mason and David Bodin), connection can lead to a fascinating story, one in which truth is stranger than fiction. © wealthy WASPs in a cocoon overkxiking Central Park. He shows up at their door claiming to have been mugged. Duped into believing Paul is a college CABARET plays through Nov. 4 in Ger ding Theater classmate of their children, they invite him to stay at the Armory, 128 N.W. 11th Ave. For details call the night until his father arrives the next morning. 503'445-3702 or visit www.psc.org. When the startling truth about their houseguest is Six D egrees of S eparation plays Oct. 13 to revealed, the three begin what is described by Profile Nov. 11 at Theater Theatre, 3430 S.E.. Belmont St. as a roundelay of acceptance and rejection, joy and For details call 503'242'0080 or visit www.profile.org. fear and the degrees by which people connect and easily disconnect from others. Mosley sees his character of Paul as an astute TIMOTHY K rause is marketing director of Miracle showman wrapped in his own imagination. That is Theatre Group. Music • and dance from around the world • International food court featuring seafood Oregon microbreweries and wineries Marketplace of select Oregon Coast artists Adults $6 Saturday - $5 Sunday Seniors $4 • Kids (ages 6-12) $4 Call (503) 398-5223 or visit www.northcoastseafoodfestival.com , Sponsored in part by Headlight-Herald A WORLD OF FUN I’m. AVAILABLE, „ whenjjo^ are ’ ” Careful and energetic handling of all your home financing needs A X A ‘ 4 MORTGAGE Advocates 6700 SW 105th Ave., Suite 200 Beaverton, ()R 97005 TNI Free (877) 8269900 Fax (503) 297-0824 E-Mail: colleenw© mtgadux aU's.com www.mtgadvucates.com F PROFILE THEATRE S 2007 - 2008 SEASON Six D egrees of J ohn G uare “The theater is a place of dreams where you lay out the unconscious and make it visible. ” —John Guare > □ ¥ B y J ohn G uare John Guare In attendance October 13 and October 14 October 10 - November 11 Low Price Previews: October 10,11 & 12 Nov. 15, 16 & 17 © Nov. 18 © 7:30 p.m. 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Thurs. - Sat. @ 8 p.m.. Sundays © 2 p.m. profile Theatre Order online at www.profiletheatre.org or call 503.242.0080 All performances at Theater! Theatre! 3430 SE Belmont Street r* •
