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The Clackamas Print
November 13, 20021
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Revolving relations caught in the kitchen
Staff Writer
The Clackamas Community
College Theatre Arts department
will end Fall term with their first
production of the year, “Crimes of
the Heart.”
Set entirely in the kitchen of the
Magrath
sisters*
home
in
Hazlehurst, Mississippi, “Crimes of
the Heart” by Pulitzer Prize-win
ning author Beth Henley is the dra
matic, yet humorous story of three
very different sisters coming
together after one goes off and
shoots her husband in the stomach.
At times very amusing and gen
uinely touching, “Crimes of the
Heart” revolves heavily on the
evolving relationship between the
three sisters, and how they must
work through their differences in
order to come to grips with their
dark past. And how to get on with
their lives.
With CCC Artist-in-Residence
Dawnie
Drebin
playing the
repressed oldest sister Lenny
Magrath, Jayne Stevens as singer-
tumed-mental case middle sister
Meg and Annie Rimmer as the
unflappable and pretty youngest
sister Babe, the first play of the
new school year could very well
end up being the most memorable.
Being a more challenging pro
duction due in large part to the
entirely dialogue-driven story and
the focus on the interaction
between the sisters, it would take
quite an effort from these young
actresses to do the play justice.
Nonetheless, play director and
Theater Arts instructor David
Smith-English has brought together
a very talented and energetic cast,
whose portrayals of the characters
are both inventive and thought-pro
voking.
All of the roles are very well
developed, and the differing levels
of experience among the cast mem
bers never becomes so obvious as
to detract from the play. The south
ern accents are never overdone,
despite the casts’ tendency to deliv
er their lines at an almost frenetic
pace. There are times though when
the show would have benefited had
they slowed down the dialogue a
little to give scenes a bit more of an
emotional edge, and there are occa
sions where just too many people
are speaking at once, making it dif
ficult to follow everything. These
instances never last long though,
and the overall energy of the cast
carries the show through the rough
stretches.
Also featuring rousing perform
ances by Tom Cavanaugh as lawyer
Barnette Lloyd, Sarah Elyse Rose
as the sisters’ cousin Chick, and
CCC’s own Life Science instructor
Robert Misley playing Meg’s ex
flame Doc, “Crimes of the Heart” is
set to run in the McLoughlin
Theatre Nov. 14-16 at 7:00 p.m.,
Nov. 17 at 2:30 p.m., Nov. 21-23 at
7:00 p.m., and Nov. 24 at 2:30 p.m.
General admission is $8, and
students and seniors get in for $5.
Eminem shines with
hardcore witty rhymes
Staff Writer
“8 Mile,” Universal Studio’s
next cash-cow, is sure to entertain all
moviegoers (17+, unless accompa
nied by an adult), regardless of their
hip-hop awareness.
Soap Box:
I have no respect for Eminem. I
think he misuses his gift of speech
and plants violent thoughts in
impressionable minds. Call it jeal
ousy. Call it whatever you like. I
wouldn’t spend a dime on his
records, regardless of the skill he
exhibits in his lyrics.
I wanted to see “8 Mile” so I
could tell all of you what a horrible
actor Marshall Mathers is and what a
waste of time it would be for any of
you to see this film.
The fact is that Mr. Mathers did
an excellent job in his portrayal of
“Bunny Rabbit,” and that this is an
important film for not only the hip
hop community, but for the millions
of musically-biased Americans.
Watch it, but realize that this was
set in a time period when gangsta rap
was the only known style of hip-hop.
(Not that any other type is prevalent
in modem society, but at least now, if
you know where to look it is possible
to find good hip-hop, i.e. Aesop
Rock, Anticon, Lyrics Bom, etc.)
Scope of the Screen:
1995 in the 3-1-3, Detroit rock
city to you and me. B-Rabbit has a
habit of droppin’ that slang. Not
uncommon, but the problem ain’t
the rhymin’ thang.
The trouble
comes from the fact that his skin is
white. That’s a sin in the city for the
M.C. fight. Rabbit battles for props
around the block, at the Shelter
(that’s the local hip-hop night spot).
But the words don’t come for this
young M.C. It appears stage fright
gets the better of he. With vomit on
his shirt, he heads back home, which
just happens to be on the “8 mile,”
the dividing line road.
On the one side suburbia, so rich
and clean. On the other, inner city,
hella gritty and mean.
Stuck in the middle is the place
where we find our friend. With a
crummy car and a crappy job, he is
just about at his wit’s end. What to
do when your voice just won’t come
out, it appears B-Rabbit needs some
thing to rhyme about. No doubt his
inspiration is that one special girl,
not that he rhymes about her; to him,
she means the world. He’s starting
to grow more confident. But just
when he’s ready, he gets thrown to
the cement.
M.C. battles, fist fights, rough
language, quick sex. Now it seems
that the plot isn’t so complex. It’s a
good story though, one you should
see. The only problem is the ticket
costs $7.50.
Meeter Beeter:
“8-Mile” gets a 8-out-of-10 on
the I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-an-auto-
biography-meter.
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