COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL February 24, 2016
Meet Dorian Perkey
Territorial Land Company welcomes
Dorian Perkey as a newly licensed Real
Estate Broker. Dorian was born and raised
in Cottage Grove. She is a graduate of CGHS
and of the University of Oregon. Her father
has been a local Real Estate Broker for over
25 years, so it would seem as though Real
Estate is in her blood. With ambition and
high expectations, Dorian plans on making
this a successful life-long career.
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'Parallel Lives'
uses comedy,
vulgarity to
offer a deeper
message
BY SAM WRIGHT
The Cottage Grove Sentinel
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ten a spectacularly original and humorous
play that no parent would want to bring their
younger children to. For the same reasons
adolescents should avoid this play, adults
should defi nitely see it.
Firstly, the play is extremely long. With
intermission, the 15 scenes and two acts
played out for almost two and a half hours.
Secondly, it’s thought-provokingly vulgar.
F-bombs and other colorful language are
frequently used. However, this shouldn’t be
a deterrent. The use of swears and curses are
very deliberate and do well to establish and
develop characters. Finally, there are myriad
complex dynamics that cover gender issues
and sexuality that children simply wouldn’t
understand.
'Parallel Lives' is not so much a play, but
a series of sketch comedy scenes that are
mostly unrelated to each other. However,
these sketches bravely explore the gender
stereotypes and cultural appropriation to-
ward genders. The entire play is casted by
two actors, Nikki Pagniano and Miriam Ma-
jor, who portray dozens of different charac-
ters throughout the play.
In the opening scene, Pagniano and Major
are portrayed as two angels sitting above the
world and discussing how to create man and
woman. They bargain and discuss what as-
pects of life to give which gender. They con-
Pagniano and Major brought dozens of characters to life in 'Parallel Lives.'
clude that since women get the gift of child
birth, it should have to be extremely painful,
and since men are left out of the process,
they are compensated with extra ego. It’s a
comical dialogue that sets the tone for the
entire play. The angels are brought back
at the beginning of act two to discuss how
their plans played out.
The rest of the play includes various
scenes of various lengths that attack various
different emotions of the viewer.
For example, one of the best scenes is of
two elderly ladies taking a women’s stud-
ies course attending a feminist production
called “Sister Woman Sister.” The two
women are consistent jokers and sound like
New Jersey grandmothers, but one of them
soon reveals her nephew has AIDS and how
much she cares for him and his homosexual
partner. It was moments like that where the
audience realizes that the comedy is just a
tool to portray a more emotional message
with aspects of compassion or even despair.
The penultimate scene portrays Hank and
Karen Sue, a couple at a country music bar.
An intoxicated Hank tries to repeatedly ask
Karen Sue to marry him. The sloppiness of
Hank and quick wit of Karen Sue provide
for a hilarious dialogue, but soon enough
the characters reveal their empty lives and
despair permeates the theater.
The writing is of extremely talented play-
wrights, and Pagniano and Major both lived
up to the task and portrayed every character
in the way they are meant to be portrayed.
The actors challenged the audience to feel
more than one emotion at a time.
"Parallel Lives" runs for three more pro-
ductions — Feb. 25-27 at 7:30 p.m. — at the
Opal Center downtown.
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the streams, providing food for
micro-organisms that in turn
feed juvenile salmon,” said
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Leonetti worked with the
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Rock Creek while Reedsport
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learning about fi sh biology and
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Reedsport Community Charter School students and
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