Fractured fairy tales melded.Byline: The Register-Guard Director Rich Brown is not crying wolf when he says playwright Tom McCabe is onto something in the way he combines beloved fairy tales. McCabe, who wrote last summer's Mad Duckling Summer Theatre play "Goldilocks gold·i·locks pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) A European plant (Aster linosyris) having narrow sessile leaves and dense corymbs of small, bright yellow, discoid flower heads. and the Three Bears," this year has melded the stories of "The Three Little Pigs" and "Little Red Riding Hood Noun 1. Little Red Riding Hood - a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother " into a screwball screw·ball n. 1. Baseball A pitched ball that curves in the direction opposite to that of a normal curve ball. 2. Slang An eccentric, impulsively whimsical, or irrational person. adj. comedy called "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf The Big Bad Wolf (sometimes called the Big Ol' Wolf) is a fictional character who first appeared in the Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, Peter and the Wolf and other folk tales. ?" The show opens Tuesday in the amphitheater outside Robinson Theatre at the University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. , 1109 Old Campus Lane. "This play is filled with both quick wit and slapstick comedy bits as our poor, punk-rockin', hungry Big Bad Wolf is constantly outsmarted by Little Red and the Three Little Pigs," Brown says. "Filled with hilarious surprises like a goofy Canadian woodsman and Three Little Pigs based on vaudevillian vaude·vil·lian n. One, especially a performer, who works in vaudeville. vaude·vil  lian adj.Noun 1. comedians, this play is sure to entertain the whole family." Playing the Big Bad Wolf (now named Cornelius B.B. Wolf) is Kellen Terrett. Erica Smith is Little Red Riding Hood. Others in the cast are Maximillian McCal (Porky pork·y 1 adj. pork·i·er, pork·i·est 1. Of or like pork: a porky flavor. 2. Slang Fat or corpulent. ), Sarah Turnquist (Oink), Jana Schmieding (Bacon Bits), Alexander Pawlowski (Piedmont Pierre) and Katie Franz (Mrs. Hood/Grandma Hood). Besides Brown, who serves as director and artistic director, the production staff includes assistant stage manager Tyler Holden, musical director and composer Curtis Williams, technical director Lara Shimasaki, costume designer Wendy Browne, stage manager Travis Jones and set designer Steen Mitchell. "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" is the first of two summer plays for children being staged by the Mad Duckling Summer Theatre; the second is "Pinocchio Commedia," July 30-Aug. 10. Because of the construction on the nearby Lillis Business Complex The Lillis Business Complex (LCB) is a building on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon. It is home to the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business, and comprises the new main building (called Lillis Hall , shows will be moved inside Robinson Theatre on days when the noise would be a distraction. "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" will be presented at 11 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday and July 16-20. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Free short-term parking permits, allowing patrons to park in the nearby UO lot at 11th and Kincaid streets, will be available at the theater box office on performance days. Tickets are $4 each, or $3.50 for individuals in groups of 10 or more, through the Mad Duckling box office, 346-4192. CAPTION(S): In "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" Kellen Terrett (left) plays Cornelius B. B. Wolf, and the three little pigs are played by (clockwise from upper left) Sarah Turnquist (Oink), Jana Schmieding (Bacon Bits) and L. Maximillian McCal (Porky). BRIAN DAVIES / The Register-Guard Mad Duckling |
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