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A&E _______________ L WedNEsdAy, M ay 50, 2001 TM e CI ac I ìamas P rìnt Friendships bring Think Ink, Winning Words of writers tears and laughter TAM OLIVER A&E Editor Nine writers received awards in the 2001 Writer's Club Contest. Elizabeth Miles, S. Myron Wright and Sarina Dorie won prizes for their works of fiction. Poetry awards were given to Jack Chitty, Tom Hogan and B.J. Anderson. For Creative Nonfiction, awards were given to Denise Browning and Bonita M. Richardson. S. Myron Wright and Donna Reitan won the drama awards. The writings have been com piled, edited and published in a Steel Magnolias tugs at heart strings DAISY BAIN Staff Writer Girls, if you are looking for a good place to take your date, this is hot it, I tried. If you are looking for something with action, this is not it. However, if you are looking for an emotional experience, than this is your ticket. Robert Harling’s Steel Magnolias is a humorous, and heartwarming story of friendship and love among six small-town women. The entire play takes place in Truvy’s (Cheryl Draney) salon where the women talk of town gos sip and the wedding of Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie, played by Amy Schnell. Throughout the dif ferent scenes, the audience watches as different characters develop in friendship and hardship. The play starts with Shelby hav ing her hair done for her wedding. Right away the cast introduces comedy with Shelby’s mother, M’lynn Eatenton, played by Yvonne Ingram, entering the stage with typical mother-daughter squabbles. Each of them throws funny sarcastic remarks with the help of the rest of the cast. Perhaps the funniest character of all is the colorful Ouiser, played by Christine Quinlan. Ouiser is an old shrewd lady who has been in a “bad mood for the last forty years”, and she lets everyone know it. After Shelby’s wedding, the story turns to wintertime and she announces her pregnancy to her small-town friends - all of who are happy with the exception of her mother. Shelby has a medical con dition that puts her in harms way if she has children, but Shelby wants nothing more than to have kids, and what Shelby wants, Shelby gets. Ingram does a wonderful job showing a mother’s worries and fears, and creates an emotional scene in the ending that brings some to tears. Though the laughter rolls with humorous snide remarks, charac ters also broaden their roles and heartache starts to take its toll. To say what happens next would be cheating you of a chance to see a well-known play such as Steel Magnolias. The admission is $4.00 for stu dents, $7.00 for non-students and senior citizens are free. You can see Steel Magnolias May 31 -June 2 at 8 p.m. and June 3, at 2:30 p.m. in the McLoughlin Hall Theatre. You may also see them on tour July 13-14, at 8 p.m. and July 15, at 2p.m. at The River Theater, 230 W Marine Drive (under the big bridge) in Astoria. For more infor mation call 503-657-6958, extension 2333 or call The River Theater at 503-325-7487. One-Act Plays McLoughlin Theatre June 5-7, Performances at noon every day 8 p.m. June 7 only The American Way by Lavonne Miller The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of Where Babies Come From by Christopher Durang Plays cast, acted and directed by Clackamas Community College students. Performances free MIKE POLLOCK / Clackamas Print journal called Think Ink The Win. Tom Hogan reads Montana Return, his prize-winning poem, at the awards presentation. Allen Widerburg, right, presented the awards. ning Words of the Writer's Club Contest by Amanda Coffey's ed iting and publishing class, WR- Aries: Your workaholic tendencies Sagittarius: You will enjoy trips that are very obvious this week. You might feel slightly tired and stressed out. 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