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College stages maskless murder mystery
STORY BY BELLA VAUGHN
ASSOCIATE ARTS & CULTURE EDITOR
Clackamas Community College’s winter play, “Red Herring,”
was a murder mystery full of several characters based in the
1950s.
Theater director Jam es Eikrem explained the title.
“It comes from a phenomenon in nature, where fish will swim
off in a different direction to protect the rest o f the school,” he
said. “The fish drawing away from the predator.”
The show, which was staged from March 4 through March
6, was filled with mysteries and allowed the audience to help
solve a murder by the pier.
This play included 18 memorable characters played by six
actors.
The play starts off with Lynn McCarthy who is the daughter of
Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who happens to be newly engaged with
Jam es who is a scientist sharing secrets with the Russians.
The second couple the audience meets is Maggie Pelletier and
her boyfriend Frank, who is a G-man trying to solve a Soviet
case.
The last pair of lovers, if you will, is an older landlady for
the boarding house by the dock who goes by the name of Mrs.
Kravitz. The show then introduces us to her lover. Andrei'is
a Russian fisherman who is quiet compared to his love, Mrs.
K ravitz.
This play did a wonderful job considering that the six actors
e tch had to play three characters. It couldn’t have been easier, as
e tch of these characters had a drastically different personality
c )mpared to the next.
We had the opportunity to speak to the actors about which
c laracters were their favorites to play and why. Tegan Richards,
who played the wedding dress, clerk, said, “I loved the glitter
skawl and matching hat with a feather.” Richards also stated
that the most difficult part for her was “trying to differentiate
tike characters I play.”
Morghan Rash, who played the naive Lynn, said, “Lynn has a
lot of energy and it was difficult to keep up with.”
Despite the diverse personalities played by six amazing
afctors, the audience was able to really understand each and
ery one of them. D J Antlitz shared that he enjoyed “getting to
periment with accents” lie has never done before.
Clackamas Community College has done it again with this
phenomenal production, full of action, mystery and plenty of
lovable characters and this time maskless.
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“Lynn has a lo t o f energy and it was
difficult to keep up w ith.”
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— Morghan Rash
Alex Vue, above, plays Frank Keller, Top right; Traveler Gates, who plays Maggie Pelletier, talks
to DJ A ntlitz as James and Tegan Richards as Mrs. McCarthy. Bottom right: DJ A ntlitz as James
talks to Morghan Rash as Lynn McCarthy.
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