OCTOBER 2, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
KeizerCommunity
Donations sought for
Bonded
by
uncertainty
all-male choir festival
KEIZERTIMES.COM
Male Ensemble Northwest
is seeking donations to cover
the cost of an all-day camp
for male Salem-Keizer School
District students interested in
singing.
MEN traditionally presents
four major festivals during the
school year across the Pacifi c
Northwest and McNary High
School will be hosting the
event this year on Saturday,
Oct. 17. Jim Taylor, director
of choirs at McNary, is part of
the MEN group.
The goal is to offer the
camp free to all participants’
and the MEN organization
has already raised $3,500 of the
$7,500 cost through booster
organizations at area high and
middle schools. MEN is now
seeking outside donations to
cover the costs of music for
each singer, a festival T-shirt
and lunch for all participants.
All music provided will be-
come part of the participants
school music library after the
festival.
All contributions are tax
deductible through the Mc-
Nary Fine Arts Boosters, a
501c3 entity, and the host or-
ganization for the MEN Sing!
A Festival of Song for Salem-
Keizer Boys and Young Men.
Contributions can be sent
to McNary Fine Arts Boost-
ers, Note: MEN Sing! S-K
2015, PO Box 21832, Keizer,
OR 97307. Contributions
via charge and debit cards can
be made by contacting Leah
Garro at 503-551-7392 or e-
mail, mcnaryfi nearts@gmail.
com
All donors will receive
complimentary seats to the
Festival Concert featuring the
Festival Chorus and MEN
from 4 to 5:30 p.m. on Oct.
17, in the Ken Collins Theater
on the campus of McNary
High School.
If unable to donate, but
interested in attending the
event, visit the McNary main
offi ce the week of Oct. 12
through 16, between 8 a.m.
and 4 p.m., to purchase seats
for the concert. Tickets are
$7 for preferred seating and
$5 for general seating.
If MEN is fortunate
enough to surpass its fund-
raising goal of $7,500, the fi rst
order of business is to reim-
burse the Title I schools for
their travel so that their bud-
get for other choral opportu-
nities is not impinged upon.
Fall festival Saturday
The Claggett Creek Middle
School fall festival will be held
Saturday, Oct. 3 from 10 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
The Keizer’s Got Talent tal-
ent show is scheduled for noon
and will feature kids and adults.
Admission to the event,
which is a fundraiser for the
CCMS PTA, is free. Games
prizes, vendors, food and a raf-
fl e are all planned.
Homegrown
stages Doubt:
A Parable
By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
If you leave the theater af-
ter a performance of Keizer
Homegrown Theatre’s Doubt:
A Parable uncertain of which
characters you believed, then
the cast and director have
done their job.
“I want people to have the
conversation that they have
when they watch Law & Or-
der and don’t hear the verdict.
Those drive me crazy, but this
world is so full of courtroom
criticism and we convict peo-
ple long before anyone sees
trial,” said Loriann Schmidt,
the play’s director.
The play opens Friday,
Oct. 9 and continues with 7
p.m. performances Oct. 10
and 15-17. Sunday matinees,
at 2 p.m., are scheduled Oct.
11 and 18. All performances
are at Chemeketa Commu-
nity College’s Auditorium in
Building 6 at 4000 Lancaster
Drive N.E. Tickets are $12
and available at www.brown-
papertickets.com.
If you don’t relish the op-
portunity to live in the gray
area of uncertainty, then
maybe you’ll be enticed by
seeing KHT founder, and
former McNary High School
drama director, Linda Baker
in her fi rst onstage role in
more than a decade.
“I saw the show in New
York and it took my breath
away,” said Baker. “I was
charmed and astounded and
the whole play resonated. I’ve
taught it in class and I’ve al-
ways wanted to be part of a
production.”
Doubt was written by John
Patrick Shanley and tells the
tale of Sister Aloysius, a Bronx
school principal in the mid-
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Jeffrey Watson, as Father Flynn, preaches from the pulpit during dress rehearsals for Keizer
Homegrown Theatre’s production of Doubt: A Parable.
1960s,who takes matters into
her own hands when she sus-
pects the young Father Flynn
of improper relations with
one of the male students. The
tale is told through the points
of view of just four charac-
ters: Baker’s Sister Aloysius,
Jeffrey Watson’s Father Flynn,
Amanda Watson’s Sister James
and Claire Clubb’s Mrs.
Muller, the mother of the
young boy in question.
Throughout the play,
which runs about 90 min-
utes without an intermission,
audience members are called
upon to reinterpret every-
thing that has gone before
leading up to a fi nal admis-
sion by one of the principal
characters.
Jeffrey said the uncertainty
in the script lined up nicely
with his view of the world.
“It takes courage to ad-
mit you don’t know some-
thing when being certain is
so valued in our society and
popular culture. It’s a natu-
ral tendency to make snap
judgements and we trust
ourselves to make sound de-
cisions. I like anything that
can call that into question,”
he said.
Amanda said she entered
into the script with one in-
terpretation, but came to an
entirely different one once
rehearsals began.
“It’s been a lot of fun be-
cause I can connect with
Sister James’s desire to please
other people. At my own ex-
pense, I will do something to
gain someone else’s approval
and she will do the same
thing and it gets her into a
tough spot,” Amanda said.
Clubb said her role is one
that’s been on her list to play
even though the opportunity
to do so arrived sooner than
she’d expected in life. She said
it was also nice to fi nd a local
role for a person of color.
“She’s a bit older than
me in the script, but she’s a
mother and I’m a mother.
She’s a black woman in the
mid-1960s and probably one
of the most powerless char-
acters in the show, yet she’s
trying to advocate for her
son and to help him fi nd a
future even if it’s at a really
high cost. Anytime there is a
character with that much at
risk, it’s a good one to play.”
Despite the seriousness
that accompanies the subject
matter, Jeffrey said he was ex-
cited to see if the cast could
live up to its own high ex-
pectations.
“If we do it right, it’s a
Rorschach test,” he said.
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Saturday Vigil Liturgy: 5:30 p.m.
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