CAST Season Now In Focus
By Jim Bull
The CAST Performance Committee has worked hard as they have pursued the goal of selecting the shows to be performed in the coming year. The following is a brief synopsis of what you can look forward to in the coming months.
May 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 2007 - Lynda Dallman once again steps into the director's chair as she brings a revised scripting of The Diary of Anne Frank to the Columbia Arts Theater stage. Seeing the current production of the show at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival this past spring inspired her to take on directing a second show this coming year. There will be a display of Anne Frank related artifacts arranged for by Maija Yasui in the Columbia Arts Gallery in conjunction with this show. This may not happen at Columbia Arts as they need 3000 square feet to house the exhibit. The high school has offered to house the exhibit during the month of May if necessary. The art gallery is planning a show on Social Justice during the month of May also.
July 2007 (dates TBA) - Judie Hanel will direct The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler based on over 200 interviews with women from all over the world. Witty and irreverent, compassionate and wise, Eve Ensler's Obie Award -winning masterpiece gives voice to a chorus of lusty, outrageous, poignant, brave and thoroughly human stories. CAST will be partnering with local Soroptimist's for this show.
Oct. 2007 (dates TBA) - Richard Parker will direct Wit by Margaret Edson. In her extraordinary first play, Margaret Edson has created a work that is as intellectually challenging as it is emotionally immediate. The show won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Times for auditions will be published in local newspapers and
http://community.gorge.net/cast . For further information contact cast@columbiaarts.org
or call 541-387-8877. In addition to performers, help is always needed for
backstage work and marketing.