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Vulgarity, sword fighting, swing
Ling and nudity: not 1he first things
L people think of when picturing
Leo and Juliet’ ’ - yet all of those
te can be found in the Osterman
kre as the two star-cross’d lovers
Lon stage tomorrow night.
n’ve seen this play a number of
Land always been a little disap-
fed in the outcome of it, and I
kered why,” said director David
k-English. “I didn’t [direct] it
tae I thought I could. I did it
king that there must be difficulties
Lplace because so many times it
pt quite work”
to indeed there have been dif-
kies. From trying to fill the many
k (Lord Montague was only just
[last Thursday), choreographing a
rthat is inexperienced in the ways
kordplay or simply trying to grasp
[tespeare’s writing, Smith-English
k the theater department has been
tabling.
Ilwas really scared,” said student
k Polendey, who is attempting a
fcspearian role for the first time
■ratio. “Memorizing lines has
L been difficult for me, and I
linot even fathom memorizing
lifer rehearsals started, though,
tndey said it became second
lit. especially when the cast
he opportunity to play with the
■rotis dirty jokes Shakespeare is
nous for.
[[Mercurio] is a dirty bastard,”
[Polendey. “There’s one scene
[the nurse ... we portray it as
fearape scene.”
“A lot of places want to tone
down ‘Romeo and Juliet’ because
there is a lot of graphic sexual
content,” said Travis Ferguson,
who plays Gregory. “We’re total­
ly playing it up, making it more
interesting for younger audienc­
es.”.
Adding to the appeal for
younger audiences are choreo­
graphed swoidfights, swing danc­
ing and even - however briefly
- Romeo in the buff.
“This is a real love story, but
it’s also a physical love stoty,”
Ferguson explained, noting that
Romeo appears naked to show
that he and Juliet did, in fact, have
sex. “If you see a high school do
it, or if you see another group do
it, they might just do the romantic,
beautiful side ofit But, you know
there’s just a real human element
that [Smith-English] is trying to
bring through here.”
Smith-English’s interpretation
of the play takes a different course
than the common Romeo-centric
versions American culture is used
to.
“It’s about Juliet,” said Smith-
English, citing Harold Bloom’s
Shakespeare: The Invention of the
Human. “If you’re going to be suc­
cessful in doing Romeo and Juliet,
you’ve got to remember it’s about
Juliet”
“It’s really more emotional that
way because you’re following this
character who found her love and then
lost her love. You see all those ranges
of emotions where she’s happy, sad,
confused,” said Jake Dannen, assis­
tant stage manager for the play. “It’s
just wonderful to watch, and Sarah
Wilson, who plays Juliet, does a fan-
«lleyball team excels in tourney
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Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Print
*“For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo” wrote Shakespeare. Colton
Ruscheinsky and Sarah Wilson as Romeo and Juliet in this fall’s production of the Bard’s classic play.
tastic job. It’s just wonderful to watch
her.”
“I don’t think people realize just
how young Juliet and her mother
are,” Polendey remarked. “Juliet’s
mother had her when she was about
15,andJulietherselfisnotquite 14...
Juliet is where [her mother] was when
she had her, and so it’s kind of a weird
situation for them. They’re all kind of
like children in a sense.”
Crowder (2)
Megan Koler
News Editor
sets the tone
during the ■
Chemek-
eta Crossover
Tournament.
The Lady
Cougars bust­
ed out with
a major win
over Walla?
Walla to win
the tourna­
ment. Please
turn to page
seven for this
week’s full
volleyball
coverage.
Tonight the
Cougars will
take on Linn-
Benton CC in
Albany at 7
p.m.
Contributed by Dick Clouser
Where: Osterman Theatre, Niemeyer Center
When: 7 p.m. Thurs. through Sat., 2:30 p.m. Sun. Performances
follow the same schedule for next week as well.
Admission prices:
Students & seniors - $8
Adults - $10
Experimental films showcase indie scene
flies high and
for balling
Volume 40, Issue 5
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2006
An experimental film screening
next Monday will offer Clackamas
a sneak peek into Portland’s indie
film scene.
“Northwest Edge: the End of
Reality is an anthology and DVD
that was edited and put together by
myself, Trevor Dodge and Lidia
Yuknavitch,” said English Instructor
Andy Mingo.
Dodge is an English instructor at
Clackamas, and Yuknavitch a local
short-fiction writer.
The screening of the Northwest
Edge anthology begins at 6 p.m. on
Mon., Nov. 13, in the McLoughlin
Auditorium. Approximately an hour
and a half in length, it features local
filmmakers, including Holly Andres
and Karl Lind, who will attend the
screening and speak on behalf of
their films.
“Holly is actually an artist and
has had some work in the Alexander
Gallery before, and some of her work
has graced the cover of The Mercury
and The Stranger,” said Mingo.
“Karl’s stuff has played in numerous
film festivals, and I believe he has
work jn the upcoming Northwest
Film Festival next week.
“What we have done is cre­
ate a hybrid text, where we have
an anthology of northwest experi­
mental fiction writers, but we also
wanted to expand it into fi lm because
there is such a huge revolution of
experimental film in the Portland
area.”
Mingo, Dodge and Yuknavitch
felt a hybrid of text and film was
necessary, in order to reflect recent
trends in independent filmmaking.
“We’re seeing the lines of tradi­
tional writing and film blurring in
many situations whereas, a lot of
times, filmmaking is being influ­
enced by writing and vice versa,”
said Mingo. “It’s really difficult to
represent that ... aside from giving
both mediums.”
There is an extreme amount of
diversity, even within the short list of
films provided in the DVD.
“We have everything from found
footage to short films, computer
animation to experimental narrative
shorts,” said Mingo. “It runs the
gambit, basically.”
The anthology is full of estab­
lished northwest writers, including
Stacey Levine, David Shields, Zoe
Trope and Kevin Sampsell.
. »
Any questions can be directed
to Mingo at 503-657-6958 ext.2803
or by e-mail at andym@clackamas.
A still from “Cat and Cake,” an indie film by Gideon Klindt made .
in 2003. It is one of several films featured in the anthology.