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I once had hints of brilliance

The Mouse That Roared a comedy in two acts directed by Cheri Johnson and adapted by Christopher Sergel (1963) from the book by Leonard Wibberley (1955) will be held Friday, Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. The cost is $5 per person. Cast members shown in thisundated photo are: left to right, Jesse Pedginski, Jessica Calvin, Hannah Davis, and Aundrea Moulton. The Duchy of Grand Fenwick, founded by a roving band of English bowmen somewhere in Europe during the 14th Century, verges on bankruptcy. A California winery has produced a cheap imitation of the duchy's one export, Pinot Grand Fenwick. Duchess Gloriana the Twelfth (Madison Murrieta), Count Mountjoy (her scheming uncle, played by Zackary Misner), and David Benter (the loyal, but dim-witted leader of the Dilutionist Party played by Garrett Eady) hatch an audacious plan: declare war on the United States under the assumption that when Grand Fenwick loses, the U.S. will rehabilitate its conquered foe with economic aid and reparation. They choose Tully Bascom, a mild-mannered forest ranger (Jesse Pedginski) as the unsuspecting leader of the invasion force. Armed with longbows, the Fenwickian army lands in New York just as Columbia University's Professor Kokintz (Michael Slone) reveals discovery of the "Q-Bomb" to the President and Secretary of State (Hannah Coffman and Ella Stephens). This modern fairy tale's cast also includes student protesters, grape-stomping peasants, Fenwickian soldiers, a royal page, American tourists, a U.S. general, two Women's Army Corps officers, a nosy housekeeper, a matchmaking mother, and a White House administrative assistant (Jessica Calvin, Hannah Davis, Chase Kimbrell, Aundrea Moulton, Norrick McGee, Alicia O'Brien, Josette Renken, Liberty Rohn, Mariah Saari, Sierra Scott, Kassie Schilf, Logan Wik, and Mikaila Wolf).

Georg-Anne Phillips received the Best of Show award for "She's Come Undone" in the 2009 Kenai Peninsula Watercolor Juried Exhibition which opened Nov. 5. The presentation of awards came during the First Thursday artists' reception at the Kenai Fine Arts Center in Old Town Kenai. Artists from all over the Kenai Peninsula working in water media entered the annual exhibition.