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November 3, 2004
Drama Puts
Face on Homeless
McMenamins St. Johns Dome
De La Salle
Theater.
"It's basically about main
presents 'The taining
compassion and the joy
of living despite poverty and
Cave Dwellers’ uncertain times. It is a play
Picture a homeless young
girl who runs into an aban
doned theatre to escape from
the noises of buildings being
demolished around her. Inside,
she finds an eclectic group of
homeless performers seeking
refuge from the bitter cold and
violence of the world.
This is how the play The
Cave Dwellers by Pulitzer
Prize-winning playwright Wil
liam Saroyan begins. The
drama, to be performed by the
De La Salle North Catholic
High School Theatre Arts De
partment, will open Friday at
about love, hate, destruction,
alienation and war, but espe
cially love,” said director
Gwendolyn Herrin.
Performances at the historic
McMenamins St. Johns Dome
Theater,7654 N. Delaware,
are scheduled for I pm on
Saturday, Nov. 6, Sunday,
Nov. 7, and Saturday, Nov.
13.
General admission is $6 or
$5 with a canned food item to
be donated to the Oregon Food
Bank. Advance tickets are
available at the school located
a, 7654 N. Delaware.
I Ainiierv Players and
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Dresent
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niS ^ c n o o t students Daniel Lower (from left) Brittany Barton, Nathanael
'Canteen' Welcome
IFCC play captures
town’s generosity
a
play in tw o acts by H.R. Long
"The spirit and gc, -rosit. f North Platte's canteen
workers should be kept shinu for al<
Id t,
Fri/Sat Nov 5, 6, 12 and 13, 7:30pm
Sunday Nov 7 and 14, 2:00pm
Tickc s:
515 general admission
$ 10 seniors/students
$8 groups of 10 or more
(with advanced reservations)
Cash, Check, and CC accepted
IF C C T h e a tr
5340 N Intersta
Portland, OR 9720
M g a Yellow Line
Killingsworth Static
o r Bus #7
For re serv a tio n s, call: 503 823.4322
Made possible with the generous support of
RACC and Portland Parks and Recreation
The North Platte Canteen, an original work by
H.R. Long opens Friday, Nov. 5 at the Interstate
Firehouse Cultural Theater, 5340 N. Interstate Ave.
Performances are scheduled at 7:30 p.m. on con
secutive Friday and Saturday nights and at 2 p.m on
two consecutive Sundays throug
The play captures the spirit and t
North Platte Rail Station workers in Nebraska anu
I the cor nunity members who turned their small
lobby into «
rm and lively canteen to welcome The North Platte Canteen is a story o f spirit and
droves of soldiers en rout *o many secret locations generosity during World War II.
of war.
Lone.artistic m torot umiere Plavers, losthis
The canteen became a short but n.u.
elconic.
eyesight in 199.,. ,.J piesents his
,ks with de
retreat, a haven for the never-ending stream of scriptive narration, live sound effects and music.
homesick military personnel that provided them the
These features will enable IFCC audience members
encouragement to get through the difficult times who are visually impaired to experience the thrill of
ahead.
live theater by making the work more audibly avail
Oregon writer H.R. Long’splay premiered as part able to them.
of Oregon's first American Association of Commu
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $10 stu
nity Theatres State Festival in 2003.
dents and seniors. For reservations, call 503-823-4322.