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JANUARY 3, 2020, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A3 KeizerCommunity KEIZERTIMES.COM KHT sets 2020 season, auditions Keizer Homegrown The- atre will hold auditions for all its 2020 productions on Sat- urday, Jan. 11, at the theater at the Keizer Cultural Center. The auditions will begin at 10 a.m. and run to 2 p.m. The theater is located on the sec- ond fl oor of the Keizer Cul- tural Center at 980 Chemawa Rd. NE. Theater leaders and di- rectors will conduct the au- ditions. Auditioners should prepare a monologue of two minutes or less; the pieces do not need to be memorized. Directors will gather with ac- tors for cold readings; actors can read for all the directors, if desired. The troupe organizers rec- ommend that those who plan to audition download a form in advance at keizerhome- growntheatre.org/auditions. html. The plays chosen for the 2020 season include many roles for females. Shows in- clude Love, Loss and What I Wore, Steel Magnolias, The Rev- olutionists, The Book of Will, Bad Seed and Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some More!). Love, Loss and What I Wore, written by Nora and Delia Ephron, is organized as a se- ries of monologues with a cast of fi ve rotating women discussing relationships and wardrobes and how the two interact. Steel Magnolias, written by Robert Haring, takes place puzzle answers in the fi ctional northwest- ern Louisiana parish of Chin- quapin at an in-home beauty parlor where the women reg- ularly gather. It’s an explora- tion of the enduring friend- ship despite confl ict and loss. In The Revolutionists, writ- ten by Laura Gunderson, four revolutionary women lose their heads in a comedy set in 1793 Paris. The play decon- structs violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. Bad Seed, written by Max- well Anderson and based on a novel by William March, takes place in the small Southern town where a boy drowns during a picnic setting. Rho- da is a charming sweetheart, but her mother suspects it is a cover for something more sinister and the boy who drowned won the penman- ship award Rhoda felt she de- served. A rip-off of Hamlet hits the Globe Theatre setting in motion the story of The Book of Will, written by Tim Ocel. Members of Shakespeare’s acting troupe, the King’s Men, are incensed. To try to put an end to the plagiarism and save Will’s works for the ages, they hatch a plan to put it all down on paper, setting them off on a mad chase to fi nd all the bits and pieces to create the First Folio. In Every Christmas Story Ever Told, by Michael Car- leton, James FitzGerald, John K. Alvarez and Will Knapp, three actors decide to per- form all the Christmas stories and Christmas traditions from around the world instead of Charles Dickens’ holiday clas- sic for the umpteenth time. For more information about the plays, the season and auditions, visit www.keizer- homegrown.org. Namwali Serpell Visiting author reads at OSU Author Namwali Serpell will be taking part in the Or- egon State University’s School of Writing, Literature and Film’s Visiting Writer Series on Thursday, Jan. 9 from 7:30 - 9 p.m. at the Valley Library Main Floor Rotunda, 201 SW Waldo Place, Corvallis. Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. She will be talking about her work as a writer and her fi rst novel The Old Drift. On Friday, Jan. 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Lab Theatre in Withycombe Hall, 2921 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, Serpell will read from her and host a Q&A afterwards. Chess exhibit at Ford Museum The Hallie Ford Museum of Art is opening a new chess exhibition on Jan. 7 and will be there until April 26. The exhibition features approxi- mately two dozen chess sets from Asia, Africa, Europe and WE TAKE PRIDE in being staff ed better than any other senior living community Come See the Finest in Senior Living CALL (503) 390 -1300 1165 McGee Ct NE • Keizer, OR • VillageAtKeizerRidge.com the Americas that date from the 18th through the 20th centuries. While operating within a predetermined structure of the 32 game pieces, artists bring their own creativity and inter- pretation to each set, resulting in a wide variety of themes and materials. Created with wood, glass, bone and ivory, the sets include traditional designs, as well as abstract, non-fi gurative sets and narrative sets depict- ing mythological characters or historical fi gures. The exhibition was curated from the beloved collection of over 400 chess sets at the Ma- ryhill Museum of Art in Gol- dendale, Washington. Chess has a long history at Maryhill, going back to an early direc- tor, Clifford Dolph, who fi rst curated a chess exhibition in 1957; the exhibition proved so popular with visitors that it was extended twice and the museum began collecting chess-related materials. With the exhibit open, there will be fun events for the community like the Leap Day Chess Tournament on Satur- day, February 29. The tour- nament will be from noon to 4 p.m. and is free for anyone to attend. To register, call 503- 370-6855. There will also be Tuesday gallery talks with museum do- cents at noon on March 31, April 7, and April 14. This one is also free and open to anyone who wants to join. On Thursday, February 13 at 7:30 p.m. will be a lecture from Colleen Schafroth. The lecture is also free and open to the public.
