Sg: USAR EE SRR ES aed Pon preteen eee oat — Local playwright’s work to A DEEP Cove playwright’s work called Plantation de Sade or How to Poison Ivy will represent the area in a B.C.-wide 13.s*Friday. May 1, 1987 - North Shore News theatre fest in Victoria this month. Written by local playwright Maureen Robinson, 30, Plantation was selected ou: of a hest of other plays in a recent com; “tion for focal theatre companies. Set in a plant store, the p'ay ex- plores a budding but stunted rela- tion between two lonely people and collected a host of awards in the recent competition. “I think the best description is it’s about two people who are reaching out to one another,’’ ex- plains Robinson. ‘‘Their messages get confused because of (their) emotional blocks and they don’t get through the way they’re meant.”’ . Written over the 1986 Victoria Day weekend, Plantation marks Robinson’s third play since ‘‘way back’”’ in university, when she was irvolved with theatre. Working in a lighting store after university, Robinson let her writ- ing wane. Until, that is, a theatre company. she was involved with rekindled her love. “I started acting again; I started directing, again, then I started writ- ing again.’? When she started writ- ing again. she penned the play _ Pulitzer Pulp. After that came Nitebooth, / which collected a joint award with Plantation for the best actress in the recent North Shore zone’s fes- tival of local piays. “} think about it and think about it,’’ she says of her creative By STEPHEN BARRINGTON News Reporter process, ‘‘When I sit down to write I’m compulsive. I don’t stop until it’s done.”” Hammering out a new play titled Sunday Morning on a recently purchased word processor, Robin- son discovered the work had a life and a mind of its‘own. “The ending I had in mind was not the ending I ended up with,” she says. Her dog, Kaylie, often sits on her lap while she writes, lending her canine assistance to the cre- ative process. | Highlighting the best and ‘he brightest of local amateur and nigh school theatre groups, the recent festival featured a healthy range of varied plays. Quo Quo Lim Ta Ta Lo Theatre’s Nolo Contendre: The Death of a Table Leg took a joint award for ‘creative exploration of visual and audio content’? with the debute play Childbomb — Selected Works and Thoughts on the Tepic of War. . Argyle Secondary’s *drama department production of The House of Blue Leaves gatnered the award .for best costumes; the award for best set design went to West Vancouver Little Theatre for the production Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii. PIANO MUSIC FOR YOUR DINING PLEASURE PLAYING NIGHTLY SUN. TO THURS. 7 3 ~ wi La Belle Sole RESTAURANT 235 - 15th Street West Van Luneh Monday Fuday WOo3pm 926-6861 Dinnet Monday Sunday Sxl pm NORTH VANCOUVER playwright Maureen Robinson sits with her permanent fan — dog Kaylie — at Deep ‘Cove stage. Robinson’s work Piantution de Sade Or How To Poison Ivy will represent the North Shore at the theatre fest in Victoria later this month. (Make Mother’s Day at Le Meridien (and Grandmother’s too!) “SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1987 IN THE VERSAILLES BALLROOM FROM 11 A.M. TO 2 P.M. Make Mother's Day a treat for the whole family by letting us do all the work. You will be greeted with a sumptuously elegant buffer overflowing with all the delicacies Mother (and Grandmother) would aguic. O:her special treats include... Individual cake to take home Free Polaroid picture Spectal gifts for mother Cartoons for the children Roving musicians Adults $23.50 Children under 12 years $12.50 All gratuities included Grandmother's free! * Reservations confirmed upon prepayment. *Must be accompanied by offspring. maximum | per table. Bi MERIDIEN VANCOUVER 88 Burrard Surcet at Robson © (60-1) 682-5511 MA taste of Europe