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FEBRUARY 26, 2016, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5 KeizerCommunity KEIZERTIMES.COM MHS junior Best of Show Homegrown’s newest is Tony- By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes When Elizabeth Russell, a McNary High School junior, was given a photography as- signment with the theme of “refl ection” earlier this year, she came up with a unique take. She took her 13-year-old sister, Nicole, out into a fi eld on a sunny day and took a picture of her looking at her- self in a large mirror. Then, with a bit of Photoshop mag- ic, she superimposed that image over one of a gray day at the Oregon Coast. “Until we all saw that, it wasn’t something anyone was thinking of,” said Todd Lay- ton, McNary’s graphic arts and photography instructor. “Pretty soon everyone else in the class was trying some- thing similar.” Earlier this month, another portrait Russell took of her sister won Best of Show in the McNary High School art show at the Keizer Art Asso- ciation. Russell said she enjoys working with her sister more than anyone else. “She’s been a fun model to work with. My friends feel critiqued when they model for me, but she feels like I’m dolling her up,” said Russell. “I like capturing her happi- ness and the seriousness she can portray.” Russell began taking pic- tures before she landed in Layton’s photography classes. “I like looking back on the places I’ve been and I think places and people are beauti- ful,” she said. However, her work took on a new life once she was enrolled in an actual class. “I was forced to take pic- tures and that made me spend more time thinking about the pictures I took,”Russell said. “I started focusing on getting the best picture.” nominated Time Stands Still KHT productions, is making her Homegrown By ERIC A. HOWALD directing debut with the play, and chose this one Of the Keizertimes For Chris Torres, Keizer Homegrown The- specifi cally out of about 10 Tony-nominated atre’s latest production, Time Stands Still, is in- plays. “It was the most interesting because of the tensely personal. Time Stands Still is a Tony-nominated play by way the characters are portrayed. The dialogue Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies. The sounds like something you could overhear. They play is the tale of a couple, Sarah and James, who were so much more relatable and the relation- work together as war correspondents – she’s a ships are very vivid,” Pawley said. Pawley chose to go with a minimalist set – photographer, he’s a writer. Sarah is severely hurt in a car bombing and returns to the Brook- black curtains and spartan apartment furniture lyn loft she shares with James to recuperate from – in part because it gave her more leeway to work with the actors. her physical and emotional injuries. “I spend a lot of time on While James is content to be character work because I want away from the front line, Sarah them to be fully formed on misses the adrenaline that comes the stage, which is different for with the job. The pair’s editor community theatre because you also drops in with his younger, usually spend most of the time pregnant girlfriend from time to getting the staging right and ev- time while the couple tries to erybody to rehearsals on time,” sort out their confl icting emo- Pawley said. tions about their jobs and life KHT veteran Christa together. — Chris Torres Karschnia is playing Sarah. Torres, the stage manager, saw Stage manager Karschnia joined the cast in something similar play out in his recent weeks, but said a strong own home. “My dad went away to war and was suffering script has made it easier to dig deep. “The material in regards to PTSD is so good from severe post traumatic stress disorder when he came back. My parents tried to exist in a nor- and Sarah has to maintain a human connection mal relationship and it didn’t work out,” he said. while trying to shut it off. For this character, the “I fi nd this play to be incredibly beautiful be- trauma is everywhere,” Karschnia said. “These cause of how real and raw it treats the relation- are people dealing with things that those of us born on this side of the planet don’t have to deal ship between Sarah and James.” The play is being staged at Chemeketa Com- with. It’s not political at all, but it touches on the munity College’s Auditorium, 4000 Lancaster humanity of the inhumanity that’s going on in Drive, Building 6. Evening performances are other parts of the world.” Despite the sometimes heavy nature of the March 3-5 and 10-12 at 7 p.m. A matinee is slated for 2 p.m. Sunday, March 6. Tickets are story, much of the plot deals with relationships $15 and will be available at the door or can more generally. It’s not a play that leaves the au- be reserved by e-mailing keizerhomegrown@ dience feeling morbid, Pawley said. “I don’t want people to come out of it feel- gmail.com. The troupe is encouraging new pa- trons to come and check out the show, men- ing unhappy, but I would like them to come out tion it’s your fi rst time at a KHT production and of it feeling as though they’ve seen some of the issues they’ve heard about on the news from a you’ll get two-for-one tickets. Taylor Pawley, who has had roles in several new perspective,” she said. “I fi nd this play to be incredibly beautiful.” Photos by Elizabeth Russell Top: A self portrait by McNary High School junior Elizabeth Rus- sell. Above: Russell’s photo of Nicole, her sister, that won Best of Show in the student art show at the Keizer Art Association. Layton had high hopes for Russell’s entry in the art show. “She’s got a good eye, but she sometimes lacks confi - dence. For me, the art show award was the greatest thing ever. She needed that recog- nition,” Layton said. For Russell, who was Timber! out of town on the day the awards were announced, the award came as a surprise. “I was sitting in my aunt’s house when I got a text. I was super happy and very excited. Mr. Layton has told me I’m a good photographer, but I always thought that was just him saying it,” Russell said. 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