Willamette Rep warms up for its winter play.Byline: The Register-Guard Director Kirk Boyd has announced his cast for Willamette Repertory Theatre's Hult Center production of ``The Drawer Boy'' by Michael Healy Michael Augustine Healy, nicknamed "Hell Roaring", was an American captain in the United States Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor of the United States Coast Guard) who patrolled Alaskan waters in the late 19th century. USCGC Healy, commissioned in 1999, was named in his honor. , opening Jan. 26. Achilles Massahos and Wesley Bishop will play two aging World War II veterans, and Cameron Carlisle will play the young actor who comes to their farm to gather stories about rural life. Massahos, who played Dromio Syracuse in Willamette Rep's production of ``The Comedy of Errors,'' also played Alan Strang in a national tour of ``Equus.'' Bishop's credits include performances with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) is a regional repertory theatre in Ashland, Oregon, United States. The festival annually produces eleven plays on three stages during a season that lasts from February to October. , Folger Shakespeare Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. . This is his first Willamette Rep role. Carlisle played Duke Orsino in Willamette Rep's "Twelfth Night Twelfth Night, Jan. 5, the vigil or eve of Epiphany, so called because it is the 12th night from Christmas, counting Christmas as the first. In England, Twelfth Night has been a great festival marking the end of the Christmas season, and popular masquerading parties " and Tybalt in Lord Leebrick Theatre's "Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers die as teenagers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet] See : Death, Premature Romeo and Juliet archetypal star-crossed lovers. [Br. Lit. ," both staged last season. "The Drawer Boy" will run from Jan. 26 through Feb. 13 in the Hult Center's Soreng Theatre. The box office number is 682-5000. |
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