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Lots of laughs in comedy
at the Coaster Theatre
Climate films debut in Cannon Beach
Haystack Rock
Awareness
Program
volunteer hopes
to make annual
event
Coaster from Page 1A
another Coaster play, “Fit to
Kill.”
“There’s no way to rehearse
without the set in place,” said
Mick Alderman. “It’s so phys-
ical — this is an action play.
The challenge for the actors
is that it all moves at a light-
ning pace. They don’t always
have lines — they have to cue
off stuff, listen and remember
what they are supposed to be
doing.”
He likened it to a crazy
inventor’s work. “With nine
people, it’s an amazing Rube
Goldberg process. If one per-
son is not where they need to
be at that moment, the whole
thing falls apart.”
By Brenna Visser
Cannon Beach Gazette
For two days in March,
the Antarctic came to Cannon
Beach.
Science and film enthusi-
asts came out to see the debut
of the climate films “Guli-
ya” and “Byrd 1933” at the
Coaster Theatre.
The films, which center
around scientific research
done at the south pole and
Guliya Ice Cape in Tibet,
were the first in what orga-
nizer and Haystack Rock
Awareness Program volun-
teer Cynthia Bryden hopes
become the Rockdance Film
Festival, an annual festival
to encourage through the arts
environmental awareness in
the Pacific Northwest and im-
proved health for the planet.
All donations went to benefit
the Haystack Rock Aware-
ness Program.
“I am an oceanographer,
marine biologist and geol-
ogist … climate change has
been a continuous concern
for me, our planet and all it’s
living creatures. I first saw the
film ‘Chasing Ice’ premiered
at Sundance and wanted to
screen that environmental cli-
mate film or something equal-
ly as good,” Bryden said.
Film Producer and Direc-
tor Pamela Theodotou, based
out of the Ohio State Uni-
versity Byrd Polar Climate
Research Center, was at the
showing and explained how
she blended her scientific
background with her passion
for filmmaking. Theodotou,
who has a background in both
biology and law, got involved
with doing film work for the
center after she had just fin-
ished her masters degree in
fine art in filmmaking. An
A play about a dying play
PAMELA THEODOTOU
Frayn reportedly dreamed
up “Noises Off” after watching
from backstage in 1970 while
Lynn Redgrave performed in
another farce he had written.
The title comes from a script
stage direction. It won awards
during its first five-year run
in London and has seen three
productions on Broadway, one
winning a Tony for Katie Fin-
neran. A 1992 movie version
starred Michael Caine and
Carrol Burnett.
Roles include a director
involved in a love triangle, a
stuttering leading man, an ac-
tress who misplaces her con-
tact lenses, a deaf actor with
a drinking problem and the
long-suffering stage manager
who tries to fix everything.
Coaster cast members are
Cathey Ryan, David Ridley,
Daric Moore, Katherine Laca-
ze, Katrina Godderz, William
Ham, Ann Bronson, Richard
Bowman and Thomas Ryan;
lighting operator Ryan Hull
also appears.
“It is the most challeng-
ing rehearsal process,” said
Moore, who has to race up
staircases, cope with door
handles falling off, and isn’t
the only one who slips on a
plate of sardines. “It’s like a
giant choreographed dance —
the whole thing depends on a
Admiral Byrd in a scene from “Byrd 1933.”
ecologist friend at the time
asked her to tag along to take
photos of her while she was
at the center, and Theodotou
instantly was enthralled with
polar research.
“I was enraptured with
what they do,” she said.
“Byrd 1933” is a histor-
ic film following the expe-
dition of Admiral Richard
Byrd, who, with a large crew
of men, sled dogs and other
various livestock, explored
the south pole for two years
in the 1930s. What makes this
film unusual, Theodotou said,
is that everything viewers see
is made from the original,
salvageable footage. Before
Theodotou’s project began,
the old reels were slotted to
be disposed of because of
its deterioration and possibly
safety hazards that come with
decomposing film strips.
“It’s uncommon to make
movies with such old film,
mostly because it’s a treach-
erous process to work with
it,” she said. “The cost is high
to conserve and preserve old
films.”
The other short mov-
ie, “Guliya,” was about
the “third pole,” otherwise
known as the Guliya Ice Cap
PAMELA THEODOTOU
Scene from “Guliya.”
in Tibet. Other than the two
poles, it harbors some of the
oldest ice in the world, as well
as serves a source of water for
more than 4 million people in
the region.
While Theodotou was un-
able to go on the expedition
herself due to danger and ca-
pacity, a research volunteered
to take the footage that view-
ers see on their screens — all
on an iPhone.
“You forget it was shot
on a phone the footage is so
beautiful,” she said.
This film centered around
one dangerous expedition to
extract an ice core more than
half a million years old. This
unusual sample has provid-
ed dramatic evidence of cli-
mate change such as a recent
and rapid temperature rise at
some of the highest, coldest
mountain peaks in the world.
“I hope (the audience) is
inspired, because that’s whole
reason I do work like this,”
Theodotou said. “It might
inspire them to embrace sci-
ence. It might inspire them to
understand climate change.
It might inspire them simply
to appreciate the aesthetic of
this kind of film.”
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PATRICK WEBB PHOTO
Three actors playing bur-
glars, left to right, Richard
Bowman, Thomas Ryan and
David Ridley, cause conster-
nation and some surprises.
IF YOU GO
“NOISES OFF”: A farce by
Michael Frayn, direct-
ed by Mick Alderman.
Some adult themes.
WHERE: Coaster The-
atre Playhouse, 108 N.
Hemlock St., Cannon
Beach
WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Fri-
days and Saturdays:
April 6-7, 13-14 and
20-21; 3 p.m. Sunday,
April 8
ADMISSION: $20 or $25
INFORMATION: coaster-
theatre.com
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or two.”
Thomas Ryan appears with
his wife, Cathey. “This play
is about a play that is dying,
it’s never coming together,”
he said. “At the ending of the
play, it’s chaos. We are so fa-
miliar with it that it doesn’t
matter what you say — you
just keep going.”
The Coaster production
features costumes by Judith
Light, with each character hav-
ing a color theme.
Alderman said friends who
attended other productions
have said it is the funniest play
they have seen.
“If you like to laugh, you’ll
like this,” he said. “At the first
rehearsal, the actors had barely
met each other and within an
hour they were in stitches.
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