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15 culture -------------------------------------- _we<l„e,aay, nov n, 2009 the clackamas print 5 ark comedy deals with family ■ Javierh Montero ■e Clackamas Print ■stopher Durang’s satirical, Kniedy, “The Marriage of ■nd Boo,” involves humor, |i and 'something for every- I link about with this show... I wlio’ve gotten divorced, i I who have crazy fam- Bbers, or things they don’t ■aid James Sharinghousen, ■vs the title roll of Boo. ■story is told over a period ■ decades, and is creatively I 33. mostly fast, scenes. By goes back and forth in Bough a series of extremely B and intertwined scenes, ■with the issues of divorce, Bating. alcoholism, illness ■course, a strange family B keep you laughing and ■about the characters. ■ sarcasm, humor and sad Bs. characters such as Bette ■will remind you of your ■mil), friends or possibly Buself. ■got something for every- Bere's a lot of comedy in it. Bs all points,” said Heather ■who plays Bette. She is “a loll she has so much going Mair, center, attempts to nave a talk during dinner with his grandparents, two of whom are dead, as he reflects on the choices they have made throughout their lives. ■ Brad Heineke Clackamas Print |of his many inter- ■monologues, Matt its to make sense of Bos around him. on in her head that she never really has one fluid thought.” The story begins with Bette and Boo’s marriage and is nar rated by their son, Matt, portrayed by Matthew Morrison, while he is growing up. As time progresses, the audience becomes aware that things are not working out quite the way they were expecting. “They do very screwy things,” said David Smith-English, direc tor of this production. Not only is there a series of stillbirths sifter Matt is bom, but Bette becomes somewhat obsessed with having kids and ignoring the one she already has. Boo begins to drink and his father Karl, played by Nick Komafel, is somewhat of an ass who addresses his wife, Soot, (Stephanie Pelto), with sar casm and cruel remarks. Bette’s mother, on the other hand, is a cheerful, yet dominating woman who refuses to let people talk about pretty much anything. Bette also has two sisters, Emily, porayed by Annie Scharich, who seems to be shy and apolo gizes quite often, and a bitter sister Joan (Athena Folk), with whom Bette does not seem to get along with. Paul, Bette’s father, had a stroke, and even though he seems sweet, nothing he says can clearly be understood. In hopes of fixing things, Bette drags Boo and other family members to see Father Donnally, portrayed by Derek Sweet, for counseling. The Catholic priest, who seems a bit foil of it at times, avoids questions by impersonat ing a strip of flying bacon and explains that marriage is not .to be played with, as he is powerless to do anything except “mumble platitudes to the stupid people who come to him with insoluble prob lems.” As Matt is growing up and nar rating the story, he tells his mother that God is not punishing her or people for any specific issues, but that instead, he thinks that “He (God) punishes them in general for no reason.” “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which is loosely chrono logical as well as biographical of the playwright, won many Obie awards back in 1985. The story is in part about “the life of the playwright, how he grew up, how his family treated themselves and him, and what the family did; they’re a very dysfunctional fam ily,” said Smith-English. Shows begin on November 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Osterman Theatre located in the Niemeyer Center on campus. For ticket pricing and reserva tions visit www.TheatreCCC.org or call (503) 657-6958 ext 2356. he Men Who Stare at Goats’ it’s more than a feeling I By Kayla Berge Co-Editor in Chief Irge Harrison as a Jedi, in the mid- Ithe army? Obi-Wan suffering from a |se of amnesia? The Dude as an army 11? Hold on, can we say “Epic”?! ■ be fair, “The Men Who Stare At I has its own good cast and charac- Inone which include that handsome I Georgie-boy. ■ever, the man who played Obi- lom Star Wars Episodes I-III (Ewan Igor) kicks off the movie with a ■reminder that journalists (my home lean have epic journeys (often dis- las “the hunt for the truth”) too. 1st part about McGregor’s character, filton, is that he has no idea what a Iis, thus leaving endless jokes at the Jlture fact that McGregor himself |n fact, a Jedi at some point in his Bregor (as Bob Wilton) retells the lithe rise and fall of the Jedi - er, |'wn: Jedi. This is to say a group of | Soldiers” led by The Dude. Well, w it’s General Bill Django, played ■ Bridges, but as soon as Bridges I °n to the screen with a four foot braid dangling from his head, who isn’t thinking, “Hey! That’s The Dude, man! ... Wait, in camo?” The Super Soldiers, aka the Jedi, were formed with the ideas of free love, world peace and the epic ability to kick ass with both weaponry and mind. This movie not only makes hippie-soldiers believable, but desirable. The Golden Boy of the: New Earth Army is none other than George Clooney playing Lyn Cassady, who looks remark ably likq The Beatles’ George Harrison during his days of finding his spirituality. However, what’s a starchild without a devious foil? The “snake-in-the-grass,” envious, double-crossing Larry Hooper (Kevin Spacey) is there to sabotage Operation: Jedi. This is mainly do to the fact that he isn’t top dog. I’m thinking that Spacey had a hard time letting go of John Doe (from Se7en) when he was reincarnated as a hippie for “The Men Who Stare At Goats.” Between LSD-spiked food, obvious pop culture throw backs, the Iraq War and Boston, “The Men Who Stare At Goats,” was not only A+ material, it was amaz ingly epic.
