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Clackamas Prir;
Visit ‘Naomi in the Living Room’
Jadon Trlpiett
A&E Editor
“Naomi in the Living Room,” is
one of two student-directed one-act
plays written by Christopher Durang
that will be playing at noon and 7 pm.
tonight in Niemeyer Center.
‘“Naomi in the Living Room’ is
about a very [eccentric] old lady,”
says Director Meagan Kowaleski,
continuing to say that Naomi herself
is a lady who “doesn't conform to
anything. She has so many personali
ties, it’s almost like she’s six charac-
tersin one.”
The effects of Naomi’s (Kelly
Miller) multiple personalities on those
close to her are manifested in her son
John (Jake Dannen), who comes to
Naomi’s house with his wife Johrma
(Lora Grant).
“It’s really kind of showing how
her son has been so mixed up that
he doesn’t really know who he is,”
Kowaleski said.
‘Naomi in the Living Room” por
trays the changes John goes through
during his and Johnna’s visit with
Naomi. According to Kowaleski,
John goes from ‘kind of like his
mother, to really transforming into
his wife towards the end of the play.”
John even comes out in women’s
clothing later in the play in a more fla
grant example of that transformation.
“He doesn’t want to not be noticed
in this world,” Kowaleski .said of
John. “He wants some kind of affir
mation that I believe he finds through
his wife.’
John’s wife is. very honest, open
and secure, and despite her quiet
ways, Kowaleski said “she can go
above those soft-spoken ways and
really reprimand where she needs
to.”
When asked how she got involved
in theater, Kowaleski described play
ing the witch in “Wizard of OZ’ in
grade six, going on to tell what she got
Adam J.Manley Clackamas [
Kelly Miller plays the title character in “Naomi in the Living Room,” one of two student
directed one-act plays that are showing today at noon and 7 p.m. in the Niemeyer Center.
from the experience. “I just loved the
idea of being able to portray some-
tiling to an audience, and have them
take that away and ... think about a
different life.”
Kowaleski has acted inmany plays,
including recent college plays “All
My Sons” and “Hot L Baltimore,”
in addition to others. “Naomi in the
Living Room” is Kowaleski’s direc
torial debut
“I wasn’t sure ifl was going to like
it, because I love being on stage,”!
Kowaleski about directing, “I J
being able to portray something,!
it’s just a work of art that you’re
to really show, where as the direct
kind of behind the scenes.”
Bottom-of-the-barrel dinins at Portland's Rock Bottom Brewer
Mike Kimberling Clackamas Print
The Rock Bottom Brewery, located on 3rd and Morrison in downtown Portland, is lacking in authenticity^
arid distinctiveness, making dining indistinguishable from dining at most other restaraunt chains.
Mike Kimberllng
The Clackamas Print
Rock Bottom Brewery is
an incompetent counterfeit of an
authentic Northwest brewery.
The atmosphere inside Rock
Bottom Brewery is a mixture of a
Shari’s-style seating minus being
overcrowded with the elderly, and
a pretentious décor tirât the brewery
does not properly pull off.
It has been said that one can tell
a lot about a restaurant by the caliber
of person that eats there, and this
is true even if the caliber of people
seated within is not consistent with
the genie of the establishment
The point is this: if you go to a
“biker bar” and don’t find any bik
ers, you’re not in an authentic biker
bar. This lack of authenticity is the
problem with most restaurants and
pubs now. Rock Bottom Brewery is
a great example of this.
The customers I found seated
around me as I ate appeared no dif
ferent than if I had been eating at
any other major food chain. For all
I could tell I was sitting at the Olive
Garden, or Red Robin.
Restaurant chains are a tine opi
ate to the cuisine-ignorant masses.
Some of them even have good - if
not predictable- food. Rock Bottom
Brewery cannot even claim to stay
up to par with the culinary expertise
of a hot dog street vendor.
My dinner party ordered a vari
ety of food including the standard
hamburger and fries,barbequéribS,
and a chicken salad. The hamburger
received an unenthusiastic shrug, the
ribs turned out dry and overcooked,
and the chicken salad was bland.
As for me, I pushed the limit by
ordering their alder-smoked salmon.
This proved to be the first time I
have ever not finished a piece of
salmon. Two words: cold and taste
less, even with the topping of mango
What kind of “Northwest res
rant” can’t cook salmon?
Answer: the kind of resl
rant that is not indigenous to
Northwest.
This brought me to a puzz
dilemma, because the brewe
beers were named after places
Oregon. There is the Morrison Str
Stout, the Sunny Day IPA and
Multnomah Porter. How could)
produce authentic Northwest h
but not edible Northwest food?
Rock Bottom Brewery is a hyt
chain that brings tasteless culrn
techniques and the predictable 1
taurant chain style atmosphere
regions around the country, w
relying on the regions strength!
stay afloat.
Their strategy may be to
talented local brewmasters to i
desirable brews and give tl
catchy local names, but like the
who always tries too hard to fit
Rock Bottom Brewery won’t in
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