18 — Wednesday, July 7, 1993 —- North Shore News

NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

GORDON FINLAY flett) and Barry Shetion display their work included in the Seymour Art Gailery’s
latest exhibit, Discovery ‘93. The juried show runs to Aug.1 in the Deep Cove Cultura! Centre.

Arts Club Mainstage Theatre:

* Prelude to a Kiss: Charming fan-
tasy-comedy about the wonder
and confusion of love starring
North Vancouver actor Suzie

. Payne. Closes July 10, Tues.-Fri. at
8 p.m.; Wed, at 8:30 p.m.; Sat. at
6 and 9:30 p.m. - - .

‘A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline:
This musical review of Cline’s leg-
endary career stars Vancouver ac-?

" tor Marlane O'Brien. Previews july
13 & 14. Runs through to July 24.
Info: 687-1644 Ct
Granville Island Revue Cabaret:
The Wild Guys. jackson Davies
and company take off for a men’s
awareness retreat with vastly dif-
fering motives and wind up lost in
the woods. Held over to July 24.
Moves to Mainstage Theatre on Ju-
ly.27. Mon.-Fri. 8:30; Saturday at 6
and 9:30 p.m., with 2/1 perfor-
mances Wed. at 5 p.m.

Alf Grown Up. Award-winning hit
’. musical returns to the Revue
Cabaret. Stars Ellen Kennedy,
Bonnie Panych and Lori Valleau.
Opens July 27. °
Back Alley Theatre/ Arts Club
Revue Theatre: Theatresports
unleashes improv-mania. Program
includes Young and the Scriptless
(Saturdays at 11 p.m.) Alley Oops!
{Wednesdays at 8 p.m.); Turn
Styles (Thursdays at 8 ».m.); The
Comic Section (Fridays at 7 p.m.),
and Too Late (Fridays, 11:30 p.m.
at the Revue Club: Info: 687-
1644.) Lunch box theatre is back.
Mixed Doubles: Scenes from the

LOCAL BAND Urbana blew into Deep Cove over the weekend,

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NEWS photo P. rath

treating passerbys tv their melodious sound.

Game of Love runs to July 30. Dai-
ly at 12:15 p.m. Info:688-7013.
Firehall Arts Centre: The
Crackwalker. Performed at the
1991 Fringe Festival, award-winn-
ing playright judith Thompson
takes an intimate look at two cou-
ples. The play introduces people
we seldom encounter — those
who fall between the cracks.
Tickets: $14/10.

Malkin Bowl: Sweet Charity and
Carousel. Theatre Under the Stars
returns with two well-known
musicals. Robert McQueen
directs. Musicals run in :@pertory
from July 12 to Aug. 14 at 8:30
p.m. Tickets: $16/10. Info: 687-
0174,

Bard on the Beach: Theatre

under the big top is back. Popular
Shakespeare classics Romeo and
Juliet and Taming of the Shrew run
in repertory through the summer
months. All seats $12. Tickets:
733-1910,
Freddy Wood Theatre: You're a
Good Man, Charlie Brown and
What | Did Last Summer runs in
repertory for month of July. Phone
822-2678 for times and info.
Vancouver East Cultural Centre:
D.E.T, Boys High. Play tackles
controversial social issues, in par-
ticular education. This a capella
group, consisting of the D.E.T.
Boys High, performs the infectious
beat of traditional black South At-
tican township music. July 23-31.
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ainstage ’93 honors best

“FUNNY, _ PROVOCATIVE
and moving.”

Martin Millerchip
NOW REPORT

That’s how adjudicator Jackie
Maxwell. described the North
Vancouver Community Players’
(NVCP) production of Brian Friel’s
Philadelphia, Here | Come as she
wound up Mainstage ‘93 Saturday
night at Centennial Theatre.

Mainstage is Theatre BC’s pro-
vincial finals festival and this year
North Vancouver hosted 20
community. groups from across the
province in an eight-day whirlwind
of competitive performances,
_, workshop.” perfomances, scene

- developments, professional classes
and critiques.

NVCP and Prince George
Theatre Workshop shared the bulk
of the mainstage accolades Satur-
day night, evenly splitting eight of
10 production awards for their ex-
cellent treatments of two Irish
plays. ‘

But when the final curtain came
down it was the group from Prince
George who were awarded Best
Production for John B. Keane’s
The Field, while NVTP took home
the Burnaby Cent.-snial Challenge
Trophy for the reserve winner.

Darivrs Edgeler and Mark Gash
from NVCP shared the award for
Best Performance by a Male Actor,
just as they shared the challenge of
portraying the ‘‘public’’ and
“private’ halves of the lonely
boy Gar in Brian Friel’s subtle and
complex story of self-esteem. .

Two other trophies went to
NVCP.

David Mctntosh received the
award for Best Director and was
congratulated by Maxwell for his
“sensitive and thoughtful work
with the actors.”

And the collaborative efforts of
Laurie Findlay, Barbara Duffus and
Mike Holborn were recognized by
Maxwell for ‘‘authenticity in

' detail’ as she awarded them Best

Costumes.

Maxwell, artistic director of Fac-
tory Theatre in Toronto, described
Mainstage ‘93 as “a wondertul
week of extraordinary work’’ and
thanked ‘the hundreds in the au-
dience for their ‘‘kindness, en-
thusiasm, commitment and tal-
ent.”

Maxwell later told the News
that she had been impressed by
the willingness of participants ‘‘to
listen without ego to criticism.”

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