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Cultural Center. The audience will be
socially-distanced and masks are required.
Seating is limited and tickets are $15 and
available at keizerhomegrowntheatre.org.
Chairs will be available, but the troupe
recommends bringing your own for max-
imum comfort.
Performers will be unmasked (all are
fully vaccinated) and have individual
microphones to overcome the occasional
passing motorhead.
Director Linda Baker said certain lines
from the play will hit an entirely diff erent
way in light of all society has experienced
in the last 15 months.
“The writer, Lauren Gunderson,
is phenomenal and her language is
Shakespearean and modern at the same
time. No one needs to worry about under-
standing what is being said,” Baker said.
“It’s funny and dark and there are nights
when this cast brought me to tears during
rehearsal. The whole production is so full
of joy.”
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the existing minor league stadium. The
fi elds would continue to operate at the
existing location for two years and then
shift to new fi elds at the stadium.
Existing Volcanoes employees would
take on the responsibility of maintaining
the fi elds, scheduling and marketing the
fi elds for youth and adult tournaments.
Some access to the Volcanoes’ indoor
training facility could also be provided
according to the proposal.
For Love of the Game also proposes
building a youth-league replica of Boston’s
Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox.
“Mini Feni would be the proverbial
icing on the cake making the complex a
must see, must go there, must play there
for folks across the western United States,”
the proposal states.
The Walkers propose working with the
city to open the replica stadium in time for
the 2022 season.
No plans for how concessions would
work are included in the proposal.
An addendum to the proposal provides
some additional details regarding repairs
to the existing park as plans to rebuild
unfold. Youth leagues would have access
to the new fi elds at least Monday through
Thursday, but public access to the fi elds
might be more limited than at the existing
site.
“The city can be sure of our commit-
ment as our reputation hangs in the bal-
ance and we will approach this as we have
the Volcanoes’ business over the past 24
years – under promise, over deliver,” the
proposal concludes.
The selection committee that evaluated
proposals was made up of City Manager
Pro Temp Tim Wood, Keizer Public
Works Director Bill Lawyer, Keizer Parks
Supervisor Robert Johnson, city coun-
cilors Kyle Juran and Dan Kohler, and
Dylan Juran, a member of the Keizer Parks
Advisory Board.
The two proposals the city received for
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together during dress rehearsals.
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we discovered new ones all the time.”
Kristin Andre, who plays Marie
Antoinette, said the message and the his-
tory conveyed in the play is only more des-
perately needed after a year of tumult and
upheaval.
“At the end, it’s about people coming
together. I needed this play on a personal
level. There are so many themes at work
about love and loss and friendship. It’s also
just a play about some bad-ass women and
that’s really, really great,” Andre said.
the future management at Keizer Little
League Park couldn’t have been more
diff erent.
The other proposal, from a group of
four Pacifi c Northwest tournament orga-
nizers, would have kept the park at its
existing location, but only one of the prin-
cipals would have had local ties.
The group planned to use draw on
connections with teams throughout the
region to schedule tournaments when
youth leagues are not using the fi elds.
Concessions would be subcontracted and
profi ts split between participating groups.
They hoped to organize Oregon Youth
All State Games, evaluation camps for
Fastpitch NW and submit bids to host
state championships for Little League and
JBO organizations. Sponsorships for fi elds
and even the facility name were listed as
possible revenue streams.
Within fi ve years, the group hoped to
investigate converting the park to turf
surfaces, which might have opened up the
window to year-round usage. That will not
happen for a decade under the Walkers'
plan.
The proposal included a letter of
endorsement from the presidents of Keizer
Little League, Keizer Cal Ripken/Babe
Ruth league and McNary Youth Baseball.
The submission from For Love of the Game
claims support from the same individuals
but nothing in the packet independently
supports that claim.
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Lemon Marin plays Angelle, the spirit
of revolution itself and the only fi ctitious
character in the quartet.
“One of the things that attracted me to
her role was that she is the only character
without an end date,” Marin said. “And I
think she knows that her spirit will live on
while these other women she is mother-
ing may not. I think there are even places
where she is fi ghting against it.”
For Jessica Cavanaugh, who plays De
Gouge, having a character based in his-
tory was an avenue to discovery. She and
Patterson both did a deep dive into the
history of the women they are portraying
and found out how much the playwright
packed into brief scenes.
“There’s a specifi c line from Charlotte
when she says, ‘The nuns were right.’ it’s
actually a reference to the time she spent
in a convent,” said Patterson.
“Then Olympe responds that nuns were
mad because ‘We decide who the heroes
are,’” Cavanaugh said. “That’s a reference
to Olympe’s anger at the church for the
way it treated children born out of wed-
lock – she was born out of wedlock. There
are so many lines that are a reference to
the lives these women lived and I felt like
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