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FEATURE The Clackamas Print Wednesday, October 25,1995 Irkutsk love story inspires playwright Sorry Seymour Jon Roberts Feature Editor Irkutsk playwright Nelly Mathanova is an accomplished theater director, whose newest play From America With Love, is based on the true story of an American-Siberian romance. Mathanova visited CCC recently to promote her newest play. During the cold war, a man by the name of Silvio "Scotty" John Scolocchini, a retired World War II veteran, visited Moscow as a tourist. By luck he met Lydia "Lida" Maevskaya, an Irkutsk teacher and fell in love with her. Scotty wanted to marry Lida but she would not move to America. In those days marriages between an American and a So viet citizen were rare. Scotty would not let anything stand in his way. If Lida would not move to America he would move to Russia to be with her. He sold his home in Philadelphia, and moved to Irkutsk to marry Lida, despite the objections of lo cal bureaucrats. In Irkutsk, he made many friends and was given support by the open-hearted Si berian people. The married couple moved into a log cabin on the bank of the Angara-River in the best housing they could obtain at that time. This made Scotty unhappy; he dreamed of providing a proper home for Lida. He set about the task of mak ing their dream house. He worked long and hard for his dream. It took the nine remaining years of his life and he did not live to move into it. The house now stands as a monument to “the Irkustk American” and his love story. Scotty’s story is memorial ized in the play From America With Love. Playwright Nelly Matkhanova changed the name Scotty to Mario and Lida to Katya. The play From America With Love is produced by Irkustk Drama Theater and will be per formed in Portland from Oct. 26 through Oct.28. It will be per formed at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center on 5340 N. In terstate Avenue. Tickets cost $15 for General Admission, and $12 Amy K. Hanson Managing Editor The Spring production .of "Little Shop of Horrors" has been cancelled due to lack of enthusiasm. According to Barbara Bragg, secretary for Commu nications and Theatre Depart ment, there was lots of inter est. In fact, 24 auditions were scheduled for last week, six per hour, with an additional wait list. Only half of the scheduled auditions showed up to their assigned appointment, many without notice. Bragg said that she was re ally surprised and that many people had scheduling con flicts, between work and the 3 to 6 p.m. rehearsal times. The decision has not yet been made as to what the new play will be, but auditions will be Dec. 4. photo by Josh Kehler Lydia "Lida" Maevskaya and Irkutsk playwright Nelly Mathanova visit CCC promoting their upcoming play. Forensics off to strong start photo by Josh Kehler Guitarists Josh Millman and Michael Page of the musical group ‘The Mavens' rocked at CCC last Wednesday, Megan Friedow Staff Writer Clackamas Community Col lege offers a forensics program for those students who have an inter est or want to enhance their com munication skills, while compet ing against two and four year schools. The team has already made an impressive start as both senior and novice contestants used their unique talents. They place sec ond overall out of 33 contending schools, CCC being one of the smaller, less well known colleges. “The tournament went ex tremely well. It was a great learn ing experience for all the mem bers,” said Kelly Brennan, Direc tor of Forensics. “Not many people have an understanding of forensics, or even that Clackamas has its own team.” The last competition, both the senior and novice contestants made a strong showing. Nate Smith led the team with his per formance in the Parliamentary Debate and placed second out of 66 contending speakers. Liz Kinnaman took fourth in the nov ice Dramatic Interpretation and fourth in the duo Interpretation competition with Brian Everest. Erika Gurley, Jennifer Paige, Jesse Gnehm, and Jared Thatcher all proved worthy of recognition as they placed as well. Each of these students spe cializes in one or more of the fol lowing categories which'YMge anywhere from Persuasive Speak ing, Informative, Editorial Com mentary to Theater, Impromptu, Poetry Interpretation and Debate. There are both individual and duo competitions. The background experience of these students ranges from zero to many years. The tournaments offer a variety of levels and divisions depending on the students experience, so one is only competing against those with similar experience. “It was quite a change com ing from high school, and then competing at the college level, so it was a great learning experi ence,” said Erika Gurley, first year student. “Forensics offers endless op portunities and the skills devel oped will not only improve speak ing abilities, but assist in the in troduction of colleagues and prove beneficial in many aspects,” said Brennan. Not only will this im prove one’s personal perfor mance, but will introduce schol arship possibilities'as well. Clackamas has had a reputa tion to be a strong competitor at these past collegiate competitions, and as Brennan states, “I only hope to encourage further in volvement to those who have any interest in forensics because they would be an asset to our team.” Anyone interested is welcome to call Kelly Brennan, or attend his class on Monday or Wednesday at '2-4pm in M202. “When we are prepared, we will have the knowledge and the power that will give us the free dom to reach new heights. With this knowledge we shall not be bound to mediocrity,” said Brennan. Their next competition will be held Nov. 3 and 4 at Lower Columbia College in McMinville. CAN SMART DRINKS IMPROVE YOUR CRAPES? BE A lert and C lear M inded with W ake -U p “^■Orange-Cranberry “-Grapefruit “^Unflavored Add-In “^Wake-Up Caps Imagine being alert in a way that coffee or caffeine tablets just can't deliver. 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