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KATHRYN HOLLERMAN, a UNL theather major, inspects a prop of
Betty the Yetty’s baby. HoUerman is making her directional debut with
the show “Betty the Ye tty.”
at The Futz with ‘Betty the Yetty’
By Ann Stack
Senior Reporter
Take a big foot monster, a UNL stu
dent and an off-off Broadway theater
and mix them together.
What does that make? Try the
somewhat-politically correct play
“Betty the Yetty.”
Last night, University of Nebraska
Lincoln junior Kathryn Hollerman
made her professional directorial de
but at The Futz, 124 S. Ninth St., in
the Mission Arts Building.
“Betty the Yetty” is about a logger
named Russ in the Northwestern
United States. Russ finds himself out
of a wife and out of a job at the same
time when he loses his job to preserve
the forest and loses his wife to an en
vironmentalist.
“It’s about a man going through life
changes. His lifestyle and world around
him are changing,” she said. “It’s about
a conflict of saving nature, saving ajob,
saving a way of life. He goes into na
ture to solve his problems, and it’s there
he meets the yetty.”
A yetty is a mystical creature like
Big Foot but smaller, Hollerman said.
“Her name is Betty, and she’s an
endearing animal. It’s hard not to love
her,” she said.
She wouldn’t say much more about
the play, but she did advise that it
wasn’t suitable for children.
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There’s a lot of
oddness to the
show.”
Kathryn Hollerman
director of “Betty the Ifetty*
“There’s a lot of oddness to the
show,” she said.
The theater major said she has en
joyed professional directing im
mensely, and that the training she’s re
ceived in the theatre department has
prepared her for the real world.
“It’s very exciting to actually use
my training in the real world,” she said.
“I was very proud of the fact that the
department has prepared me to do
this.”
Hollerman said she found that she
had to do most of the tasks for the job
herself.
“You don’t have the support group
that you have at the university,” she
said. “There’s no lighting designer,
costume designer, set designer... I’ve
had to do a lot of it myself.”
Working with a cast mainly com
posed of people not directly involved
with the theatre department was a re
freshing experience, she said.
“They’re very busy people who do
it out of love,” she said. “Most of them
didn’t graduate from the theatre pro
gram, and they don’t know the terms I
use. It’s been a fun challenge.”
She got involved with The Futz
through her friendship with owner Paul
Pearson. She showed him the play, he
liked it and decided to give her a
chance to direct.
Although she said she’s loved di
recting and easily could do it the rest
ofher life, she isn’t planning on taking
any more directing offers because she
would like to concentrate on academ
ics. She said The Futz provided a great
training ground for her professional
debut.
“I love working for The Futz,” she
said. “They’re all so open-hearted and
kind. They love what they do and that
makes it very easy to work with them.”
“Betty the Yetty” opened Thursday,
and will show tonight and Saturday at
8 p.m., and next Thursday through
Sunday at 8 p.m. Admission is $10.
Hollerman said she wants people to
leave the play with a sense of hope.
“Change doesn’t have to be a bad
thing,” she said. “That’s what struck
me about this play. The world is chang
ing so quickly it’s scary, but it doesn’t
have to be. It’s an eco-fable for grown
ups.”
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