Polk County News
2A Polk County Itemizer-Observer • May 18, 2016
NEWS IN BRIEF
Sheriff patrols focus on seatbelts
POLK COUNTY — The Polk County Sheriff’s Office will partici-
pate in the national Click It or Ticket campaign through May 29
in an effort to save lives through increased seat belt use.
According to data from the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, 88.5 percent of passenger vehicle occupants
buckled up in 2015, but nearly 50 percent of occupants in fatal
crashes nationwide were not restrained.
Deputies will focus on highways such as Highway 22, High-
way 51, Highway 99 and Highway 18. This effort does not limit
enforcement to these highways, but these highways will serve
to link a “Coast to Coast” seat belt enforcement effort.
For more information: www.nhtsa.gov/ciot.
Shetterly named to OCF board
SALEM — Dallas resident Lane Shetterly
has been elected to serve a four-year term
on the board of directors of The Oregon
Community Foundation. Shetterly is a part-
ner in the law firm Shetterly Irick and Ozias in
Dallas, where he began his law practice in
1981.
Shetterly serves on the OCF Northern
Willamette Valley Leadership Council. In ad-
dition to the OCF board of directors, he
Shetterly
serves on several other boards of directors of
nonprofit organizations including Western Oregon University,
Legal Aid Services of Oregon, Oregon Law Center, Oregon Envi-
ronmental Council, and Salem Health.
Home sustained heavy damage in fire
DALLAS — Seven people were displaced following a fire on
the 900 block of Southwest Maple Street on May 8.
Firefighters were dispatched at about 7:25 a.m. to a report of
a house fire, according to Dallas Fire & EMS.
First responding fire personnel found the residence filled
with heavy smoke and fire coming out of one of the windows.
All of the occupants had already been evacuated.
Approximately 20 firefighters were on scene and worked
quickly to get the fire under control and prevent the fire from
spreading to nearby residences.
The home sustained heavy smoke, heat and water damage.
The residents of the home were assisted by the American Red
Cross.
No injuries were reported.
Dallas Fire & EMS was assisted by Southwest Polk Rural Fire
District and Polk Fire District No. 1.
The cause of the fire is being investigated by the Dallas Police
Department, Oregon State Fire Marshal's office and Marion Polk
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Imogen, played by Lindsay Spear, must decide between two suitors in Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline.”
Play mixes old, new, adds lightsabers
Western’s ‘Cymbeline’ set in 1980s high school for modern twist on old story
By Emily Mentzer
The Itemizer-Observer
MONMOUTH — It’s high
school in the ’80s, complete
with all the teen angst,
drama, romance, comedy —
and lightsabers — and
Shakespeare.
Shakespeare in the ’80s?
That is the vision of director
Ted deChatelet for Western
Oregon University’s produc-
tion of “Cymbeline,” opening
May 25 and running through
May 28.
The play is one of Shake-
s p e a r e ’s r o m a n c e s ,
deChatelet said, and not as
well-known as others.
Cymbeline starts out from
an argument between two
men, deChatelet said. The
two characters are impetu-
ous and immature, he said.
“How will a contemporary
audience relate to this?” he
asked himself. “High school.”
The play has a cast of 22
with a wide range of experi-
ence, from professional
actor and Western professor
David Janoviak, who plays
Showtime
What: Western Oregon University’s Department of The-
ater and Dance’s production of Shakespeare’s “Cymbe-
line.”
When: May 25 through 28. Curtain is at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Rice Auditorium, WOU’s campus.
Admission: General $12; students $7; seniors $10.
Cymbeline, to Edgar Lopez,
who plays Belarus.
While it isn’t Lopez’s first
time on stage, it is his largest
role to date — something
that came as a surprise to
the sophomore.
“When I saw the part I got
cast in, I said, cool, I don’t
know, I thought I was just
this regular hunter out in the
woods,” Lopez said. “As I
read it I was like, wow, this
guy is in the whole second
half of the show. I was not
expecting it. I am very nerv-
ous, but, hey, just take it one
step at a time.”
Lopez’s character has been
wrongfully banished by King
Cymbeline after false rumors
were spread. In retaliation,
Belarus kidnaps Cymbeline’s
sons and raises them as his
own out in the woods. His
character is tough and mean,
Lopez said, which is not like
him at all in person.
Off stage, Lopez is a calm
and quiet type, he said. On
stage, he will make a dra-
matic transformation — not
just in acting his character,
but in physical appearances,
donning a Mohawk and war-
rior paint.
Lindsay Spear plays Imo-
gen, the daughter of Cymbe-
line and a princess. While
Belarus is more of an adult in
the show, Imogen is all teen.
“She’s really funny and
kind of torn up because a lot
of things in her life have
turned upside-down,” Spear
said.
In teenage angst style,
Spear’s character spends a
scene listening to the Smiths
and dancing in her room,
feeling sad.
“It’s definitely something I
had to explore because I
don’t usually deal with grief
in a dark-humor sort of
way,” Spear said.
The play brilliantly mixes
the classic plot twists and
turns of Shakespeare set in
an ’80s high school. Instead
of sword fights, characters
are armed with lightsabers.
Even those who are not well-
versed or comfortable with
the language of Shakespeare
will enjoy it, Spear said.
“We hope the ’80s atheis-
tic kind of makes it more
clear, so people can relate to
it even if they might not
catch what every single line
might be,” Spear said.
The actors’ body language
helps, too, Lopez added.
“It’s Shakespeare plus ’80s
plus lightsabers,” Lopez
said. “You can’t go wrong.”
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