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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (May 18, 2011)
M ay 18, 2011 ®lf* $lortlanò (Obstruer PageAB ykrts V ENIfIIAISHtM Mystery Brings the Laughs SPLAT, an original comedy by Carole Triffle, plays Thursdays, Fri days, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. on May 19th through June 4th at Imago Theatre. Cinder Block, the lead character ofTriffle'seccentric musical, is learn ing French on her Rosetta Stone tapes when the voice on the tape tells her to do strange things. “Take your clothes o ff...m ak e me a sandwich and place it on the porch ...ru n around naked!” Says the voice on the tape, and then asks her to go to her basement where C inder discovers a dead body. To unravel the mystery. Cinder is joined by Detective Ink Blot, and it doesn't take long before the mur ders, and even the dead body, joins in on the tilted narrative and comic songs. SPLAT, is the fifth play in Carol T riffle’s series o f whim sical, off- kilter musicals examining smal 1 mo- ments and large tragedies in the comedic turmoil of a lead heroine. The play continues Triffle’s un conventional, non-linear approach to comedy and theatre, where things are never played out as expected, and song is interspersed not to ac cent the action, but more to flip it over. The Theatre is located on 17 S.E. Eighth Ave.Tickets are $8 and pur chased at Imago Box Office: 503- 231 -9581 or Tickets West outlets. Danielle Vermette and Robert Gaynrin ‘S plat’ opening Thursday, May 19 at Imago Theatre, 1 7 S.E. Eighth Ave. May flowers are the subject o f an art exhibit at Alberta S treet’s Bumble Bee Gallery. NEWMARK THEATRE PRESENTID BY Bumble Bee Celebrates Spring May is alive with vibrancies of spring; corals, fuchsias, violets, goldenrods, and more. Two art ists, Janet Loughrey and Curt Brandhorst capture those colors o f spring in their photographs, p a in tin g s, and co lo red pencil draw ings, at the Bumble Bee G al lery, 1723 N.E. A lberta St. Loughry is a nationally recog nized horticulture and landscape photographer based in Portland. Her work has been widely pub lished in books and m agazines. With a background in graphic d e sig n a n d 3 -D a n im a tio n , Brandhorst has returned to his roots as a fine artist and now spe cializes in paintings and colored pencil. A resident of M ilepost 5, an artists’ com m unity in north east Portland, he has collaborated with Loughrey on digital photog raphy projects since 2005. Many of his paintings and draw ings take in s p ir a tio n fro m h e r p h o to graphs. Eubank SPONSORED BY Hugh Mockwortti an d Josie Mendoza 5 0 3 -2 2 8 -9 5 7 1 WWW.OCTC.ORG