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Clackamas Print
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
A.iAtiilli:
Annual fair is full of crafty creatior
Right: Former Public Affairs
Specialist for Clackamas
Community College, Moma
Escrive, sells homemade jars
along side her husband Joe at
the the college’s Craft Fair on
Dec. 1 and 2.
Below: Janet Mallon Of Custom
Cranium Covers hands Tayla
Larsen one of her creative home
made hats to try on. Mallon sells
a variety of colors and a few
special for the upcoming holiday
season.
All Photos by Robert Crawford Cl
Above: Using graham
crackers, frosting, gum
drops and other candies to
apply the finishing touches
on her gingerbread camp
ground, Bailee Sanders, As
sociated Student Govern
ment Promotions Officer,
finishes up her art at the
Clackamas gingerbread
house contest. The event,
held by ASG Monday in the
Bill Brod Community Cen
ter, awarded three prizes
to the best creations.
Murder and love become subjects onstage in the one-a
Jess Sheppard
about a mother named Constance,
played by Jennifer Schwartzman,
getting ready to go out on a first
date and her 16-year-old daughter
The Clackamas Print sat named Sandra, played by Made-
down with one-act directors lynn Marcotte, is in the room sort
James Sharinghousen and Jake of prepping her for it. It’s a role
Whitten to discuss the produc reversal. Instead of the mother
tion that runs through Thursday, traditionally helping the daughter
Dec. 4.
get ready for a first date, it’s the
other way around.
Clackamas Print: What is
CP: What made you choose
your one-act about?
it?
James Sharinghousen: It’s
JS: I read it a couple years ago
about a young woman who finds and liked the story, and thought
herself being the witness to a it would be fun to try putting it
murderer disposing of a body, together into a show. I was also
being seen, and finding refuge attracted to the technical aspects
in a small bus stop. She tells her of it, since a little part of me is
story to a man who is already a “techie,” or theater stage crew
there, but a second man appears, (member).
and without remembering what
JW: I really liked the play
she saw clearly, or knowing who because lots of people’s parents
the killer is, she finds herself gave them grief when they tried
figuring out her last mystery. to go out as a teenager, and in this
It’s set vaguely in a 50s or 60s play the teenager really gets to
style bus stop somewhere in get back at her mom, and I think
the Midwest. The two men and the audience will really relate and
one woman make up the cast find the irony in it.
CP: What do you hope the
of veteran actors, all of which
were recently seen in Fortinbras. audience will feel about your
This is a very different direc show?
JS: Dread, fear, humor, shock,
tion for all three of them since
Derek Sweet, who plays Man suspense, remorse, intcftica-um,
1, is a next door neighbor type I want them to leave smiling, but
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with a creepy side. Kelly Miller afraid to!
is a woman in distress, and Chris
CP: What difficulties have
Carstensen is playing Man 2 as a you faced being a student direc
layman one shouldn’t trust. It’s tor?
all dark and yet a light J;one is
JS: This is the first time I
have directed something of this
given to the story.
Jake Whitten: My one-act is level and it has been hard. First,
called “Young Love” and it is I picked a tech heavy show, and
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with not knowing everything I’d
JW: I would like to.
need to know coming into the
CP: Why?
process, it was crunch learning at
JS: Who knows, maybe the
its finest Learning how to com next one will be so good I’ll need
municate my intent to the actors to buy scrapers for all the faces
comes in second, followed in that melted off from its awe
third by working with the script someness. That or it’ll be better.
and figuring out solutions, both
JW: I think it’s a great learning
tech and perfor
experience about
mance, to vari
a different aspect
ous problems.
of theater. I have
As long as I’m
a new found ap
“
Dread,
fear,
not dead or ster
preciation
for
humor, shock,
ile by the end of
directors. David
it all, it’s a suc
Smith-English
suspense,
cess for me.
makes it look so
remorse,
intoxi
JW: It has
easy and it re
ca - um, I want
been sort of dif
ally isn’t. Also,
ficult because in
in helping the
them
to
leave
this production
actors develop
smiling,
but
not only did I
their characters,
have to direct
it gave me a lot
afraid to!”
the show, but I
of great ideas on
James
had to produce
how to prepare
Sharinghousen
it as well. I was
for future roles
One-Act Director
in charge of the
as an actor my
set, the props,
self.
the lighting, so
CP: In your
that was a chal
opinion, what is
lenge. Also with this being my comedy improv?
first show I’ve directed, it was
JS: A free expression for those
sometimes hard to communicate little voices and demons inside
what I wanted out of the actors your head to say, “HELLO!”
regarding their subtext or vocal
JW: Comedy improv is a series
pattern choices. But I think they of forms that the actors on stage
have done a great job and I am perform without prior rehearsal
proud of this show.
of lines, while using a few basic
CP: Will you direct another techniques to make the audience
laugh.
show in the future?
JS: Most definitely, how can
CP: What do you like/dislike
you understand or utilize what about improv?
JS: It’s a lot harder to make
you learned unless you do it
it work really well than people
again?
think, and caught me
when I did it the first
year. I like the c
and the fun I ha
low performers, and
they bring to the table
worth it.
JW: What I like
improv is that you hat
be on your toes, ready
entire time you are oA
cause it’s so rapid fin I
paced. If you lose foe I
a second, you can en I
ing flat on your face. I
to have a quick wit, ba I
don’t really have time I
about what you are goi L
or do, you just have to
and hope the audience! 11,
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done well, it’s almost!» I
ing magic happen.
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CP: What first drei v|
join?
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insanely firn. We have k
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to hear the laughter, r
entertaining the crow! I
end, is what I love. S p
the laughter drew me L fee c
drawing-in-ray.
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doing this now, but w
joined,
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