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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
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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.