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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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