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Clackamas Print Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Artistntertainment 5 Idiots’ serve smart humor Polendey, Heather Ovalle and Peter Schweitzer. Also featured are veteran actors Jake Dannen, Daphne Starling, Matt Strong and Seth Wruble^fi. The cast is well suited to act’on a slapstick comedy because while they are very over-the-top characters, they are still believable and most importantly, likeable. During the performance, the audience could do very little to hold back their laughs. “Flaming Idiots” is a very funny play where everyone will find some thing to enjoy. This is the kind of play that even non-theater and theater people alike can go to and walk away satisfied. The play is directed by art ist-in-residence John Renner ¡le Steele ¡Clackamas Print jst week the Osterman itre in Niemeyer hosted “Flaming Idiots,” writ- by Tom Rooney and star- Robert Alsman and Matt lison. lsman and Morrison are fill entrepreneurs who quit jobs at the post office purchase a restaurant with- any business knowledge pt high hopes and dreams, ¡ther, they form an eccen- ctew to work at the restau- he play features CCC t performances by Mark Con tn bu ted photo Mark Polendey, Robert Alsman and Matt Morrison star in “Flaming Idiots,” a play about two entrepreneurs who aren’t business savvy. and runs for two hours with a 15 minute intermission after the first of the two acts. The play runs June 1 - 3 at 7 p.m. and the final performance is June 4 at 2:30 p.m. The cost is $10 for general admission and $8 for students and senior citizens. inng one act plays bring big laughs, absurdity ¡jo Stalnaker I Editor adience members will find selves laughing and scratch- heir heads after witnessing Free one act plays being per- ¡d this week. ie first performance is “In lain Air.” Written by play- it Ian Frazier and directed arah Griswold, this comedy famous impressionist artists ¡-Auguste Renoir, Claude t and Edouard Manet in a of wits as they paint each other, Madame Monet and a roost er in a garden. The play is inspired by Manet’s famous work “Monet Family in Their Garden.” Mike Ryan, playing the self centered Monet, works very well and he is especially effective dur ing his closing monologue. The chemistry between Matt Morrison (Renoir) and Nick Komafel (Manet) is brilliant as they throw insults back and forth to each other. Next up is “Fight Dreams” by playwright Alison Weiss and directed by Deidra MacKimmie. The play is both a comedy and social commentary on female sexuality. Daphne Starling stars as Dinah, a sexually frustrated woman that can only fantasize about having a dysfunctional relationship with her imaginary boyfriend Bradley (Robert Alsman). Starling and Alsman are great together as they provide the audience with big laughs. I must say, however, that Alsman really steals the show with his performance. The final one act is playwright John Glore’s “The Morpheus Quartet.” The play, directed by Mark Polendey, is a 10 minute dialogue between a First Violin (Deidra MacKimmie), a Second Violin (Robert Alsman), a Cello (Jake Dannen) and a Viola (Kelly Renee Miller). “The Morpheus Quartet” seems to be more like a piece of confus ing performance art then a one act play, yet it’s still enjoyable. The dialogue is very well paced and is humorous at times. I recommend paying close attention to this play to be able to catch everything that’s being said. The one act plays can be seen in the Niemeyer Center’s Osterman Theatre today at noon, this evening at 7 p.m. and Thursday at noon and are admis sion free. ‘Minds': must-read novel Lara Hedbar The Clackamas Print ISCOVER YOUR POTENTIAL ^COMMUNICATION STUDIES ■ BA PSYCHOLOGY CULTURAL & HISTORICAL STUDIES ■ BA RELIGIOUS STUDIES ICHELOR OF MUSIC THERAPY ■ BA SOCIOLOGY AU-ROUND ADMISSION ■ Custom degree plan option ■ Scholarships for transfer students ■ Professional certificates (IMMER TERM STARTS JUNE 26TH Work with an advisor, e-mail studentinfo@marylhurst.edu call 503.699.6268. [5 News & World Report BEST COLLEGES 2006 Number one in the Northwest for small classes" URYLHURST university MINUTES SOUTH OF PORTLAND ^west Commission on Colleges and Universities accredited '*00 PACIFIC HIGHWAY (HWY. 43) MARYLHURST, OREGON ,in8 students since. 1893. www.marylhOrst.edu 800.634.9982 This is not an optimistic, heart wanning comedy about a girl who has imaginary friends. And there are no happy endings, nor is there a pleas ant resolution. Devastatingly honest, ‘Divided Minds,” by Pamela Spiro Wagner and Carolyn S. Spiro, MD, is the true life account of the ravages of schizo phrenia, but with a twist it is written from fee perspective of twins. Pamela Spiro Wagner is the “smart” twin, the “talented” twin, the twin who was going to make the most impact on fee world. Carolyn, or Lynnie, is merely fee disappointing afterthought They struggle through out their childhood, each vying to break out in her own fashion, but it is only while they are both attending Brown University that their differ ences become blindingly obvious. Pamela, or Pammy, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, and has heard voices throughout her early teens. These voices lead her to believe that she is actually fee root of all evil, proved by her belief that she was fee one who killed John F. Kennedy - despite fee fact that she was a sixth grader in art class at fee time of fee shooting. Her disease, however, is hidden by her overwhelming shyness, and no one realizes until much later that Pammy has been experiencing severe auditory hallucinations for much of her life. Things only spiral downward from there. In and out of mental hos pitals and halfway homes, Pammy struggles just to survive from day to day, hearing hidden messages in fee radio ads and suffering from fee dead ening effects of her medication. Carolyn, however, suffers from her own set of challenges and has hardly enough time for her difficul- Divided Minds Twin Sister« and Their Jour ney Through Schizophrenia Internet Photo ties, let alone Pammy’s inopportune psychotic episodes. She balances her work as a psychiatrist, her marriage to a man she doesn’t love, and her house and two children, alongside frequent hysterical phone calls from Pammy wife her looming threats of suicide, and occasional drives to bring Pammy to fee next mental hospital Written in an engaging and fas cinating manner, it is difficult not to lose oneself in fee captivating side by side accounts of fee events that composed the sisters’ lives. Pamela, despite her illness, is an award win ning poet and author who speaks for fee rights of fee mentally ill in terms of humane treatment and insurance coverage. Pamela’s literary voice is ruthlessly revealing of herself, and Carolyn, while not a writer by profes sion, speaks wife compassion and honesty that tempers Pamela’s occa sionally disturbing recollections of feeir lives. ‘Divided Minds” is a book well worth reading, and provides insight into fee minds of fee chronically schizophrenic in a way that no one who has not suffered fee disease could do. Surprisingly coherent, fee book is difficult to put down. For anyone who is or was close to someone who has a mental disorder, Divided Minds” is a must-read. ‘Made' series puts hit out on HBO “The Sopranos” looks to end season on violent note N.P. Delzell The Clackamas Print Wife one episode left in an already up-and-down in-and- out “Sopranos” half season, who knows who’s next to get whacked, jacked or thrown out of fee family. Wife mad rumors floating around, this has been slated to be fee last season of fee “Sopranos,” so every episode counts ... or at least that’s what the television people say anyway. I believe they will come back for at least two more seasons of G’d-up mob stories to appease fee view ers. A lot has gone down in fee world of mob syndicate boss Tony Soprano’s life while my “Sopranos” column was on hiatus. Regular characters are either being set up for slayings or being shipped out to make room for guest appearances, as well as sub-plots that fell out of fee “Soprano’s” style feat most are accustomed to. During episodes 74-76 a lot happens, so get up on feangs and make fee most of your cable system. ‘The Sopranos” is on HBO Sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern, 6 p.m. western standard time. Meadow Soprano, Tony’s daughter who has been a regular character for most of fee last four seasons, has now flown off to California. The homosexual Capo was bru tally murdered for leaving fee family, Bobby Bacala (Steven R. Schirripa) was jacked for $3,000 while picking up fee vig for a certain loan sharking operation. During fee robbery Bobby barely missed a bullet and ended up wife cement fragments in his eye, sidelin ing him as a show regular for awhile. During episode 74, “The Ride,” things get back to nor mal as Tony and Christopher Moltisanti (Michael frnperioli) rob a group of bikers for a few hundred bottles of fine wine. The robbery ends wife fee men in an old-school “Sopranos” street shootout, wife Tony and Christopher mocking fee injured bikers as they roll off wife feeir unplanned score. These are fee moments when I get up, take a swing in fee air and do a little Soprano shake. Wife all this in mind, most people who have followed fee show for fee last eight years are now left wondering what will happen next. The cliffhangers that David Chase, writer/producer, is setting up are stellar but annoying at fee same time. This week is fee last in fee half season, so who knows what type of G-isms to expect?
