MHS actors will take you to Almost, Maine
By ERIC A. HOWALD Of the Keizertimes Who do you call to heal a broken heart? Is it possible to recapture lost love? Do opposites actually attract? What happens when any of those scenarios play out? Those are a few of the questions pondered in Almost, Maine. The McNary High School drama department is staging a three-night production of the award-winning play March 20-22. Curtain time is 7 p.m. each night. Tickets are $5 at the door. The play is a series of vignettes connected by the theme of love and all the joy and ache it bestows upon those who fall in. Each of the students who landed roles in the production is taking on two separate characters in different vignettes. Senior Maddie Valish was first exposed to the play when she went to see a production at West Salem High School. “I fell in love with it. When it was announced we would be doing it, I wanted to be involved,” Valish said. In one vignette, Valish plays Gayle, a long-term girlfriend who begins to wonder if her lengthy courtship will ever be anything more. She makes a 180-degree turn for the second part. “I play Hope, who is going to respond to a marriage proposal that she didn’t answer years before,” Valish said. In one of the more gut-wrenching scenes, Where It Went, Emma LeDuc plays...
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