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Cap tain's Doll is a curious,
entertaining fabrication
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WHAT'S view of love
triangle is humorous,
thoughtfu l and unique
By Bethany Gibbons
arts@barnstablepatriot.com
WHAT PHOTO
Nicole Halmos' Hannele and Stephen Russell's Captain Hepburn negotiate a difficult
romance in The Captain's /Mat Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre.
The
Captain 's Doll , at Well-
fleet Harbor Actors Theatre,
is a tidy, well-stitched piece.
Unusual scenes are sewn together to
create a tapestry of love in the mak-
ing. While Jeff Zinn's adaptation of
this D.H. Lawrence novella drags at
the outset , the production revs up
the off-kilter situational comedy and
the audience leaves smiling.
The scenes in the first act depict
the odd and somewhat cold rela-
tionship between married Captain
Hepburn and his mistress Han-
nele, a down-on-her-luck countess
seamstress. The set is dressed in a
palette of sage, violet and mahogany
and has the still, dust-gathering
quality of a deceased grandparent's
study.
There are vacuous, existential mo-
ments in this lover's nest in which
the air seems to have been sucked
from the room. A tired, grim-looking
Hannele, played by Nicole Halmos,
debates with her stiff, apathetic
Captain the nature of their affair,
specifically how much she means
to him. And how much he means to
himself. And whether he matters
at all. And whether or not anything
matters at all. You get the picture.
At one point Captain Hepburn ,
played by Stephen Russell, explains,
"It doesn't matter in the slightest
to the moon if I exist or not, so why
should it matter to me?" At first
glance, audience members may
wonder why this story should matter
at all to them. With a bit of patience
the situation will improve , as it does
for the play's characters.
The Captain 's wife, Evangeline ,
played with a fittingly strange ,
otherworldly quality by Lee Roscoe ,
descends on this German town to
find out exactly what her husband
is up to. She discovers the doll that
Hannele has made in the image of
her husband and the action begins
to heat up slowly. Abby Huston
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Symbolic squares in a blanket of hope
Innocence Quilt
comes to Cape Cod
By Kathleen Szmit
kszmlt@barnstablepatriot.com
E
ach evening that Christine
Spencer watched the news
and heard yet another story
about a missing, abused or mur-
dered child, the growing ache in her
heart deepened.
The story of Jessica Lunsford ,
the Florida child whose body was
found buried in the yard of a neigh-
bor, a convicted Level 3 sex offender,
was Spencer 's last straw.
Needing an outlet for her emo-
tions combined with a yearning to
bring awareness to the issue, Spen-
cer turned to her longtime hobby
of quilting, creating the first panel
in what has become the Innocence
Quilt.
"I had always wanted to do some-
thing for the prevention of cruelty
to children," said Spencer from her
Plymouth home. "When I heard
about [Jessica Lunsford], I was hor-
rified."
A friend encouraged Spencer to
make a quilt to send to the Lunsford
family. "Instead of doing one quilt for
one family, I decided to do a block for
each story," Spencer said. "Not just
for missing, but for all children."
Today, while the numbers of miss-
ing, exploited and murdered children
continue to swell, the quilt continues
to grow as well, with more than 21
panels. To bring the stories of such
children to the public, Spencer's In-
nocence Quilt has been traveling to
various locales.
On Monday the quilt comes to
Cape Cod Community College, where
it willbe on display to mark Domes-
tic Violence Awareness Month.
The project is important to Spen-
cer not only because she feels for the
families of missing and murdered
children , but also because she is a
survivor of childhood abuse.
Each square in the growing quilt
is one foot square and memorializes
a deceased child, or bears the name
of a missing child, or the name of a
child who has survived abuse. "Every
one [of their stories] has touched me
and made me cry," said Spencer, who
said that what keeps her going is a
strong faith in God.
She is also motivated by the cause
behind the quilt and has plans to cre-
ate Innocence Quilts for each state.
"If I live long enough, I will finish the
last one when I am 93," she said.
It is her hope to raise people 's
awareness to a point that , in time,
statistics on missing, exploited and
murdered children show a decrease.
"We've got to do a better job as a
society of protecting them," she said.
"All of us are responsible for every
child, not just the parents."
The fabric squares, Spencer notes,
are a means of communication for
children who can't do it for them-
selves. "These children do not have
a voice. They can't speak for them-
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CSI Cape Cod: Prints all over the museum
Historic and
contemporary
prints worth
investigating
By Britt Beedenbender
arts@barnstablepatriot.com
"Mixed Match," a monotype by
Carol Odell . winner of the 2004
Printmakers of Cape Cod award,
is one of the strikingworks inan
exhibition at Cape Cod Museum
of Art in Dennis.
Rather than hunker
down in your house
for the fall, go to
Dennis and see what's
happening at the Cape
Cod Museum of Fine Arts.
Three concurrent exhi-
bitions firmly establish
CMFA's ability to set the
standard for regional
art museums as it fulfills
its mission to preserve
the Cape's artistic
heritage while placing
it within an interna-
tional context
Underscoring the sig-
nificant place Cape Cod
artists have held over
the decades in develop-
ments in American art is
the exhibition of "The Art
Students League of New
York: Highlights from the
Permanent Collection."
In "Collector's Choice,"
the role of collectors as
preservers and teachers
through their collection
can be witnessed with
powerful effect. Form-
ing a bridge between the
other two collections and
the present is the juried
exhibition Printmakers of
Cape Cod.
Founded in 1875 by art
students dissatisfied with
the rigid curriculum of the
National Academy of De-
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THE WRITE STUFF
The Complete How
to Kazoo (Workman ,
$10.95)
We love nothing more
than signingthe praises of
good books. And when it
comes to noteworthy nov-
elty books, those praises
are usually accompanied
by music.With the case of
The Complete How to Kazoo,the salutatory sounds are
made on a plastic version of arguably the first musical
instrument invented in the United States.Don't expect
to land a job with the BSO or play your way onto the
stage of the Melody Tent as an opening act for, say,
Tony Bennett. Simply follow the concise, easy-to-fol-
low user's guide and practitioner 's manual (complete
with beginning and advanced instruction), and you'll
be beating to your own drum... of sorts. Included with
the book is a sturdy, plastic kazoo. Just put your lips
together but don't blow! Sing, talk, hum... But keep
the blowing to a sax player. That's lesson one.
ClassAct William
Haines: Legendary
Hollywood Decora-
tor (Pointed Leaf
Press, $95)
Part-timeP'town
resident William
Mann'sWisecrack-
erwasthe first (and
definitive) bio of
Haines, on of the
silentera'sgreatest
stars and one of its
first certifiedheart-
throbs. But Haines was gay - something he refused
to hide - and when MGM honchoes fired him. Haines
began a new (and much more lucrative career) as a
self-taught decorator. His work graced the homes of
Joan Crawford,Marion Davies, Constance Bennett, and
mega-watt socialites Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale
and Walter and Lee Annenberg; even in his death in
1973, Haines' legacy followed , with his associate Ted
Graber in charge of the decor of Ronald and Nancy
Reagan's private riddance at the White House. This
coffee table book is the price of a good steak dinner
(with wine), but the hungers of film fans and stylists
and interior designers will long be satisfied by the
intellectual text and more than 300 vintage and rare
drawing, illustrations and photos.
FOR THE RECORD
The Nightmare Be-
fore Christmas Spe-
cial Edition (Walt
Disney Records)
We can't think of
a better treat. Not
a mere "reissue" in
celebration of the
13th anniversary of
Tim Burton 's cult
classic animated
feature , this two-
disc set includes the
original score and 10 songs by Grammy and Emmy-
winning and Oscar-nominated composer-songwriter
Danny Elfman, while disc two contains nine songs
-five new versions of original soundtrack songs spe-
cially re-recorded by such alternative rock superstars
as Marilyn Manson, Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy,
Fiona Apple and She Wants Revenge; rounding out
the disc are four previously unreleased demo tracks,
"Making Christmas," "Oogie Boogie's Song," "Kidnap
the Sandy Claws" and "This is Halloween" -from the
singing voice of Jack Skellington himself, Danny Elf-
man. The Nightmare Before Christmas sets the holiday
worlds of Halloween and Christmas on a comic collision
course when the residents of Halloweentown try their
hand at "making Christmas." No wonder Disney is re-
releasing the film on the big-screen on Oct. 20, for the
first time ever in stunning Disney Digital 3D.
DVD QUICK PICKS
The Little Mer-
maid (Walt Dis-
ney)
Finally, the long-
'.nticipated eighth
addition to Disney's
PlatinumCollection
ishere makingquite
the splash - the bo-
nus tracks in this
edition include a
brand-new mak-
ing-of featurette ,
deleted scenes, a
backstage peek into
the world of Imagi-
neering, music vid-
eos, special effect
demos , and song
demos. We often wondered how Ursula ended up a sea
witch (some others callingthe multi-tentacled terror an
"octopus"); one of our favorite deleted scenes reveals
Ursula's real identity ... unless you've been basking
in a seaweed wrap all these years, Ursula is voiced by
the Cape's own Pat Carroll.
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