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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.
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