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ServingServing FairfaxFairfax AreasAreas ofof BurkeBurke Follow on Twitter: @ffxconnection on Twitter: Follow Classified, Page 17 Classified, George Mason University students Aaron Arenas of Virginia Beach, Alex Thomas ❖ of Severn, Md., and Meredith Forbes of Alexandria, watch as Food for Others of Severn, Md., and Meredith Forbes of Alexandria, watch as Food for Others workers unload the food they collected in a food drive at the university. The food drive pitted two freshmen classes, taught by Arenas and Thomas, against each other to collect the greatest number of items: Thomas’ class won, collect- ing 555 items, while Arenas’ class collected 549. The will be distributed to elementary school age children who are at risk of hunger on the weekends. Sports, Page 15 ❖ Entertainment, Page 12 TimeTime toto GiveGive News,News, PagePage 33 ESLESL TeachersTeachers InIn FairfaxFairfax HighHigh HighHigh DemandDemand News,News, PagePage 77 PresentsPresents MacbethMacbeth News,News, PagePage 22 Requested in home 11-25-11 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time Attention Postmaster: Attention PERMIT #322 PERMIT Easton, MD Easton, PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo by Deb Cobb/The Connection www.ConnectionNewspapers.comNovember 24-30, 2011 online at www.connectionnewspapers.comFairfax Connection ❖ November 24-30, 2011 ❖ 1 News Week in Fairfax Fairfax Dentists Give Fairfax High Presents Macbeth Discounts By Bonnie Hobbs Fairfax dentists Dr. Tara L. The Connection Zier and Dr. Riaz Rayek are offering a significant dis- airfax High’s upcoming production by Photos count on dental services in of “Macbeth” means business. Not order to assist people who Fonly does it contain stage combat need dental care in tandem with swords, staffs and axes, but spec- Bonnie Hobb with helping their commu- tacular special effects including blood, fog, py- nity food pantry. rotechnics and flying witches. Zier and Rayek are looking The Fairfax Players will present this to assist the people in their Shakespeare classic, Thursday-Saturday, Dec. community who have lost 1, 2 and 3, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 at s/The Connection their dental coverage due to www.fxplayers.org or $10 at the door. For job loss by offering dental group tickets, e-mail [email protected]. (Due services at a fraction of their to violent content, it’s not recommended for normal rate. For $39, pa- children under 13). tients will receive oral exami- “Senior English students study ‘Macbeth’ in nations, x-rays and dental class,” said Director Wendy Knight. “But we’re cleanings, with all proceeds tricking it out to make it the coolest thing The cast of “Macbeth,” presented by the Fairfax Players of Fairfax High. going to Food for Others. they’ve ever seen.” The community discount The cast and crew of about 40 have re- Banquo and Macbeth. don’t expect them. The costumes are histori- spearheaded by Zier and hearsed since September, and ZFX Inc. — “We’ve taken our spectacle in so many, dif- cal, but also fantastical, with flowing sleeves Rayek to benefit people in which engineered witch Elphaba’s flight across ferent directions — with the lighting, special and a red-and-black color scheme. This pro- need of dental care as well as stage for Broadway’s “Wicked” — installed the effects, flying and pyrotechnics — that the duction is so energetic, and the actors are bring- the local food bank will re- rigging for this show, too, and trained the stu- audience should be really wowed,” he said. ing depth to their roles, no matter how small. main in effect until Dec. 20. dents to “fly.” “And every actor will either wear or do some- We hope people will come to the show and say, For more information, visit Professional fight choreographer Craig thing cool.” ‘Oh, I never knew Shakespeare was so awe- dentistryfairfaxva.com or Lawrence created the blood effects for the Playing Macbeth is senior Mike Anderson. some.’” call 703-222-3245. wounded and dying characters. He also taught “He’s a lord, noble and a soldier, but he can also be indecisive — which PLAYING THE OLDEST WITCH is senior irritates Lady Macbeth,” Caitlin Tuohy. “We’re three sisters controlling Giveaway at said Anderson. “but once magically what’s going on in the show,” she he sets his mind to killing said. “We tell Macbeth he’s going to be king Fair Oaks Mall people, he does it, and he and also tell Banquo that his children will be Fair Oaks Mall will turn eventually goes crazy. He king. So we’re stirring up trouble and taking “Black Friday” green for 17 wants power, but his guilt away their free will by telling them their fates. lucky shoppers when it pre- over what he does to get it We also manipulate Lady Macbeth.” sents “The Great Gift Card plagues him throughout Calling her character more serious and ma- Giveaway” on Friday, Nov. 25. the show.” ture than the other witches, Tuohy said, “We’re Beginning the morning of Anderson’s enjoying his all creepy and chaotic, but the others are more “Black Friday, Nov. 25, shop- role, especially because of playful. And each witch will have a particular, pers will be able to register all the stage combat he makeup color. I’ll be green, Megan Cathro will to win a $250 Fair Oaks Mall gets to do. “The lines are be blue and Izzy Baucum will be purple. I’ll gift card. One winner will be hard and this is my first big also have prosthetics on my face. We’re really announced every hour on the role here, but Macbeth says weird and out-of-this-world, and it’s so much hour beginning at 6 a.m. and some strong and powerful fun flying in the air.” continuing until the shop- things,” said Anderson. Tuohy said the audience will be “awed and ping center closes that “He also spends a lot of impressed” with both the technical feats and evening at 10 p.m. time talking to himself. the acting. She said the actors are well-cast and With $4,250 in total Fair This play is really intense are enjoying their parts. Said Tuohy: “We’re all Oaks Mall gift card prizes, and dramatic, and the throwing ourselves into the acting, full-force, shoppers will be able to en- combat and special effects and it’ll show during the performances.” ter in person at the Fair Oaks enhance the intensity even Freshman Doug Klain plays King Duncan. Mall Customer Service Cen- more.” “He’s a good king and tries to help people, but ter, located between the In this dramatic scene from “Macbeth,” suspended the war between Scotland and Norway was Fountain and Grand Courts in air are (from left) Megan Cathro, Caitlin Tuohy SENIOR CHICHI tough for him,” said Klain. “He’s been betrayed and set against the spectacu- and and Izzy Baucum; in dresses are (from left) RAMOS portrays Lady by a Scottish nobleman who defected to Nor- lar 1,200-square foot Ice Pal- Chichi Ramos and Olivia Ballard; and swordfighting Macbeth. “She’s powerful, way. It’s a fantastic role and, as a freshman, I ace holiday display featuring are (from left) Mike Anderson and Harry Weger. queen-like, evil, manipula- feel honored to be part of this production. I Santa and the Ice Princess. tive and intrusive,” said like being the good guy, as well as the tragic Shoppers may also register the actors stage combat so they could portray Ramos. “She’s controlling and meddles in character who, for a few minutes, gets to be online to win at the play’s violence safely. people’s lives. Her ultimate goal was to become the center of attention.” ShopFairOaksMall.com be- “There’s a heavy-metal style of battle with queen, but she goes crazy when all the deaths Knight says the show explores some contro- ginning at 5 a.m. on Nov. 25. broad swords and shields,” said Lawrence. “The and blood she’s caused get to her.” versial things, such as witchcraft and violence. Winners need not be fights are visceral and percussive, and I’ve been It’s Ramos’s first evil character, but she loves It’s also taught the students about that time and present to win one of the impressed with these actors. I’ve given them the role’s depth. “I put myself in her shoes and let culture, “transitioning from the mythical and $250 Fair Oaks Mall gift complicated choreography and they’ve learned her emotions build inside me to create her char- magical to having more religion and government. cards. Drawings will be ran- how to perform it the same way, every time.” acter,” she explained. “I think of her as a snake It went from tribes to dynasties and royalty.” dom. Rules are available at He’s also coordinating the stage flights who waits, observes a situation and decides when She said there’s a reason for everything in the Fair Oaks Mall Customer which, he said, “give the story’s supernatural best to act. She’s sneaky and conniving, and I’m the play, based on the students’ research. And, Service Center or online at effects a visual punch and make them ethereal giving her those kinds of movements.” said Knight, “the students realize they couldn’t www.ShopFairOaksMall.com. and other-worldly.” An example, said Ramos says the audience will like “how the have the world now without the world that Lawrence, is when the witches float over witches appear in the background where you once was.” 2 ❖ Fairfax Connection ❖ November 24-30, 2011 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com News Average daily number of calls to Fairfax County’s Coordinated Services Planning (CSP) has steadily increased from an average of 297 calls per day in FY 2007 to 441 per day this year.