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THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
February 19,1992
Wilson paints
'A Poster of the
Cosmos1
by Justin Rytel
Contributing Writer
“I don’t look like the kinna
guy’d do somethin’ like dat? What
does dat kinna guy who’d do som
ethin’ like dat look like to a cop,
huh?”
So says Tom in “A Poster-of
the Cosmos,” Lanfoid Wilson’s play
about a man charged with the murder
of his gay lover.
"I don't look like the
kinna guy'd do som
ethin' like dat? What
does dat kinna guy
who'd do somethin'
like dat look like to a
cop, huh?"
Photo by Owen Carey Photographty
'Coyote Ugly ' tickles the sinister
by Denise Myers
Contributing Writer
“God is a butt pincher!” ac
cording to Andreas Pewsey. The
Pewsey family doesn’t have much
to talk about out there in the middle
of the Arizona desert.
Director Alana Beth Lipp gives
us a peek at the warped lifestyle of
the Pewsey family in “Coyote Ugly,”
one of the productions in the Ore
gon One-Act Play Festival.
The Pewsey story begins one
hot day with an argument between
Andreas, the cranky mother, and
her physically deformed daughter,
Scarlett. The two argue over who
will answer the phone. Eventually
Scarlett screams obscenities into
the phone and slams it down.
Scarlett’s deformities go be
yond the physical. She has a nasty
habit of trapping rabbits and keep
ing their dead bodies in her room.
She also fancies her worthless,
drunken father, Red.
Incestuous tendencies run
rampant in the family. During a back, her fair white skin bubbling
visit from Dowd, the long-lost from the heat of the sun.
Pewsey son, Scarlett has her eye on
“Coyote Ugly” is a black
another conquest. This time it’s comedy that shocks the prim and
Dowd.
proper part of the mind with the
Throughout the play the Pewsey 1 horrible things this family does to
household generates weird and ■ each other, and tickles the sinister
disturbing situations. Scarlett de part with the bizarre lifestyle of
cides to get rid of her competition, this family. The Oregon One-Act
Dowd’s fair-haired innocent bride. Festival continues with this and a
She contrives a game that leaves companion piece, “A Poster of the
Penny alone, bound and blindfolded Cosmos” through February 23 at
in the desert. Penny crawls her way the Firehouse Theatre.
Editor's note:
Get 'Wrapped up in the intensity'
by Christina Vlassis
Contributing Writer
donned an article important to their
character.
“Aaahhh!” cried Fleance, as
Macbeth was ornamented with
he ran from the killers.
gold rings linked together, repre
He and his father, Banquo, had * senting his armor. Many of the other
been strolling and talking when men wore silver rings. The three
suddenly the sky went black and all witches brought out a set of black
that could be seen was light flash lead shackles, and the soldiers dis
ing from the weapon that smashed played the battle armor of the pe
Banquo’s head.
riod.
This scene is just one example
It is said that the witches of
of the mysterious evil found in Elizabethan England did not ap
William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” preciate the way they were repre
performed by the Tygre’s Heart sented in Macbeth. Tygre’s Heart
Shakespeare Company.
has done a terribly beautiful job
From the first moment the gate creating the ugly hags. Their in
opened, this was not to be just cantations and possessions are so
another play. The actors first ap real as to sent chills to the spine.
peared in featureless black cloth
Macbeth is played by Tracy
ing, but opened a trunk in the cen Conklin, who brings a new strength
ter of the stage, brought out and of desire and ambition to the role.
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Lady Macbeth, played by D.
Roberts, was vivid in her scene
where she attempts to cover the
murders. The confession scene is
heart-breaking. It is torturous to
watcher her abuse herself because
of her deeds.
The complete production was
fascinating to watch and, even
though I knew the plot, I was
wrapped up in the intensity of the
characters’ next move and how they
would perform it.
Macbeth opened February 7
and will run through March at the
Portland Center for the Performing
Arts Winningstad Theatre on Broad
way in Portland. This production
was directed by Patrick Page. The
makeup designer is Diane Trapp,
who teaches here at CCC.
YOUR
JLOCK IT UP!!!
The theatre department has al
lowed us to print these reviews as
a service to the community.
Character actor Steven Clark
Pachosa succeeds in stunning his
audience with this portrayal just as
he did last fall as the “inventor” of
the HIV virus in “Mixed Blood.”
Coincidentally^ this current one-
man show also has an AIDS theme.
The play takes place in a
Manhattan police station where Tom
sits at a desk in front of a micro
phone and tells of his incredible
ordeal. Tom graphically talks about
drugs, his sex life with Johnny and
the final bloody event that causes
his arrest.
Some audience members may
be uncomfortable with this type of
theatre, but for the open-minded in
search of a superb performance,
see “A Poster of the Cosmos.” It is
playing, along with “Coyote Ugly,”
in the Oregon One-Act '^estival
through February 23 at the Fire
house Theatre, 1436 Montgomery,
Portland.