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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2016
‘Grace and Glorie’: Poignant comedy is CAT’s meow
rowing revelations, come to an
understanding that, despite
themselves, they’ve been
enriched by one another, even
though Grace will never com-
prehend the pleasure of pro-
sciutto and brie.
When Eve bit that apple and
Adam took her cherry, life was
tossed in a turbulent whirl of
war and peace, passion and
grief, love and loss, and the
joy of artful plays like “Grace
and Glorie.”
In addition to the noise of
heavy equipment, incidental
mountain music complements
the terrific set across the
expansive stage, revealing the
interior of Grace’s cabin home
with walls of polished logs
stacked like books in a library
of folk aphorisms to keep
those idle hands busy.
Kudos to Sue Sweatt and
Tamara Szalewski and to
accomplished director Paula
Lindekugel-Willis for a grand
show. Cheers to David and
Rosemary Lauria for creating
the Class Act Theatre, one
CAT whose meow will purr
throughout this season and for
many more.
Enjoy this fancy feast
Fridays and Saturdays, Aug. 5
and 6 and 12 and 13, at 7 p.m.,
and Sundays, Aug. 7 and 14, at
2 p.m. CAT is at 509
Kingwood St. in Florence. For
more information, seek the
website at catproductions.org
or call 541-997-4815.
Theater Review
B Y B URNEY G ARELICK
C
hekhov has his cherry
trees, and Grace has
her apple orchard.
Sometimes life is the pits, and
sometimes it’s rotten to the
core. Whatever it is, it’s
ephemeral and it’s resilient,
even at the approach of the
Grim Reaper, whose scythe
blade is dulled by the compas-
sionate union of disparate per-
sonalities.
Class Act Theatre (CAT),
Florence’s newest stage for the
performing arts, has begun its
inaugural season, Aug. 5
through 7 and Aug. 12 through
14, with “Grace and Glorie,” a
play by Tom Ziegler.
CAT’s first production is a
dramedy or poignant comedy,
a sad subject rife with emo-
tion, balanced with laughter as
crisp and sweet as an apple,
especially the final words.
“Grace and Glorie” is a two-
person play with tour de force
performances by Sue Sweatt
and Tamara Szalewski, who
inhabit their characters with
exquisite skill.
Grace (Sweatt) is a nonage-
narian dying of cancer in her
log cabin cottage deep in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of
Virginia. She has unwittingly
sold her 500 acres for a pit-
tance to a shyster developer
COURTESY PHOTO
Sue Sweatt as “Grace” (right) and Tamara Szalewski as
“Gloria” in Class Act Theatre’s “Grace and Glorie”
who is building a resort. The
sounds of earthmoving
machines are palpable. But
Grace is happy to stay in her
home as long as she lives. She
is a hardscrabble, God-fearing,
illiterate redneck who swears
by a gospel quartet on the
radio, except she doesn’t con-
done swearing. Despite her ter-
minal cancer, she’s a feisty old
girl who doesn’t hesitate to
speak her mind.
Gloria (Szalewski) is half
her age, a sophisticated New
York business consultant who
doesn’t hesitate to break glass
ceilings. She and her lawyer
husband have exchanged the
fast lane for the rural hinter-
lands, where she is unable to
find comparable employment
and volunteers at the local hos-
pice. That’s what brings her to
a surprised Grace, who never
asked for hospice assistance.
But Grace wastes no time siz-
ing her up and christens her
“Glorie.”
Grace is mellow and witty,
compared to Glorie’s fast-talk-
ing, supercilious, humorless
hyperactivity. Glorie is an
alien in Grace’s country, but
Grace is fairly patient and
teaches Glorie the ways of her
world — building a fire in the
wood stove, fetching eggs
from squawking chickens and
improvising the best use of her
mother-in-law’s soup tureen.
Sometimes it’s hard to know
who is caring for whom!
The women share their lives
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We are proud to provide solutions to our
local business owners.
Master Recycler Program accepting applications
Lane
County
Waste
Management Division is offer-
ing a free course that provides
comprehensive training in
local solid waste issues. Hear
from local experts, tour local
facilities and learn why things
are (or are not) recyclable.
In Florence, classes will be
held Fridays from 12:30 to
3:30 p.m. beginning Jan. 13,
2017, and continuing through
March 10, 2017, at Lane
Community College Florence
Center, 3149 Oak St.
The Waste Management
Division hosts this course to
help Lane County residents
and businesses reduce, reuse,
recycle and rethink waste
habits.
Applications are available
at www.lanecounty.org/master
recyclers or by calling 541-
682-2059.
Completed
applications
may be submitted by fax,
email or regular mail.
The Master Recycler train-
ing course includes 35 hours
of classroom instruction: nine
consecutive Tuesday evening
Free Aug. 27 recycling event
a ‘black and white’ affair
The City of Florence
Environmental Management
Advisory Committee is
offering Florence residential
households free recycling
of tires, appliances and
propane tanks at Siuslaw
High School, 2975 Oak St.,
on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m., at the annual
Black and White Recycling
Day.
People can recycle: tires of
22 inches or less, at a maxi-
mum of 10 per household;
small and large appliances of
all kinds; and propane tanks
of 5 gallons or less.
The Black and White event
will not accept commercial
waste, such as vehicle tires,
commercial appliances or hot
water tanks.
The event partners with
Central Coast Disposal,
County
Transfer
and
Recycling, Lane County, Les
Schwab Tires and Potters Tire
and Automotive.
For more information visit
the City of Florence Planning
and Building at www.
ci.florence.or.us/planning or
call 541-997-8237.
classes, a Saturday compost
demonstration
and
two
Saturday multi-site field trips
to area solid waste and recy-
cling sites. Instructors are
local experts in solid waste
from business, government
and non-profit sectors.
The course is free for those
who volunteer 30 hours to
educate and assist their com-
munities in the year following
the training. Those who do not
wish to volunteer may pay a
small fee.
More than 850 Lane County
master recyclers have con-
tributed more than 37,500
hours of education and assis-
tance to local citizens and
businesses since the program
began in 2000.
In addition to attending
class sessions and tours with
local experts, all participants
enroll in Recycling 101
online. The R101 course was
developed for and by Oregon’s
recycling industry. Normally
valued at $50 to $75, R101 is
free for Lane County Master
Recycler students.
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PRIME RIB SATURDAY
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You will have the opportunity of free
tastings at a few of the stops during the
day, and you are welcome to purchase
additional libations. During our time on
the bus, we will have raffl e prizes, games,
snacks and lots of frivolity. As an added
bonus, transportation will be provided
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Florence Food Share’s fi rst annual Summer Spirits and Brews
Benefi t Tour is scheduled for Saturday, September 10th. Buses
will be leaving from the Food Share pantry at 9a.m. and will
head up to Newport to visit the Rogue brewery, distillery and
museum. En route to Newport, donuts, pastries and coffee
will be provided from Big Dog Donuts. From Newport, we will
be travelling to Corvallis to visit the Spiritopia and Vivacity
distilleries. Subway Sandwich Shop will provide lunch en
route to the next stop. After imbibing in Corvallis, we will make
our way to Eugene for our last stop at Ninkasi Brewery, where
dinner will be available for purchase.
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sure to call soon to reserve your seat on the bus! Thanks very
much to Banner Bank and Peace Health for being the main
sponsors of this event. All proceeds
benefi t our efforts to alleviate
hunger in West Lane County. Call
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Please join us:
SATURDAY, SEPT. 17TH
( register by Sept. 8th)
8:30AM-3:30PM
Hosted by Cross Road Assembly of God
located at 1380 10th St.
h is event will feature Beth’s dynamic storytelling and passionate
Bible teaching. Join 150,000 women around the world for this live,
global, internet streaming. It will challenge and encourage
women to grow deeply in their faith.
Dove-award winning musical artist Travis Cottrell will lead worship.
Register by mail or at the church
through September 8th.
Cost is $20 pp with lunch and snacks included.
Church oi ce: 541-997-3533 ( M-h , 9am-3pm)
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