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Flapjacks & Friends will support Marietta Community House Flapjacks & Friends: A Community Pancake Breakfast. The event will be held on Saturday, The Marietta Community House is a nonprofit organization Oct. 21, from 8 to 11 a.m. at the with a mission of supporting the Marietta Community House, community. Now you can support 264 W. Market St. The menu will that mission in return by attending include pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, coffee and tea. The breakfast was the brainchild of a new board member, said Joe Clark, president of the board of the Marietta Community House. “ We added board member Dave Sadler, and we were looking for ideas, mainly for community outreach,” Clark recalled. “He said, ‘Why don’t we do a pancake breakfast?’ This isn’t a big fundraiser, but it’s an outreach program.” Inviting people to Flapjacks & Friends are Several of the men Marietta Community House board members BY CATHY MOLITORIS
The cast of “August: Osage County”
“August: Osage County” provides a window into an American family BY CATHY MOLITORIS
ll families experience their share of drama, but how often do we have a chance to see the inner workings of someone else’s family up close? That’s just what happens on stage in “August: Osage County.” The play will be performed at Susquehanna Stage, 133 W. Market St., Marietta, on select dates from Friday, Oct. 13, through Sunday, Oct. 22. “The show is a window into a Midwestern American family,” explained Sarah Zahn, who plays Karen, the youngest of three sisters in the Weston family. “It explores what happens when tragedy hits. I think most of us can find something in it we recognize in our own families, and it can feel really
“Every emotion possible is represented at some point in this show. It feels very real.” a lot of love, a lot of humor and a lot of grief as well,” she explained. “It has it all.” The Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-winning play, written by Tracy Letts, takes place during the month of August in a small town in Oklahoma. Scattered family members have come back together to deal with a difficult situation.
“I would say this is a dark comedy,” said Cara Ditzler, who portrays Ivy, the middle sister. “It’s very funny, but at the same time, it’s like you’re watching a trainwreck almost.” Andi Hill, who plays Barbara, the oldest sister, agreed, adding, “We recognize ourselves in it. We see things that would happen at our dinner table. Every emotion possible is represented at some point in this show. It feels very real.” Ditzler noted that although the play is more than three hours long and is told in three acts, it moves quickly. “I was reading reviews of the Broadway production, and people kept saying, ‘It doesn’t feel that long.’ You’re not sitting there thinking, ‘When is this going to be over?’
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Join author Tess Gerritsen at Council of Friends event BY CATHY MOLITORIS
W hen she was a child, Tess Gerritsen couldn’t resist a good mystery book. “The first mystery novels I read were Nancy Drew books,” recalled the New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 novels. “I remember thinking, ‘I want to do that. I want to tell those kinds of stories.’” Becoming an author wasn’t a
straight course for Gerritsen, who will headline the Council of Friends of Public Libraries’ fall author event at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 9. “Being from a practical AsianAmerican family, my parents wanted me to do something more traditional for a career,” she said. She graduated from Stanford University and went to medical school, eventually becoming a doctor. Her desire for storytelling never faltered, however,
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