NEWS photo Mike Wakefield
LEONARD Brett and Jim Jickting with two of their
pieces from Colour Concept: Still Life and
Landscapes, showing until Sunday at the Ferry
Building Gallery.
i tf c Jundarave
qa eres Realism and
Paintings by Margaret
Key. To April 11.
Ferry Building Gallery:
Colour Concept: Still Life and Landscapes, the painting
of Leonard Brett and Jim Jickling. To April 6. Painted
Surfaces, a two person exhibition by painter Carole
Arnston and ceramic artist Lewis Kryzkowski opens
April 8. Artist’s dialogue April 8, 12 a.m. and April 15,
7 p.m, Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Mondays. Info:
925-7290,
Leo Marshall Curriculum Centre, Artists for Kids
Gallery: Bugs, Birds and Beasts, Jack Shadbolt’s first
young people’s exhibition. Weekends, nuon to + p.m.
To April 26, Info: 987-6667.
North Vancouver City Hall: Kenneth Patrick Butler
presented by the North Vancouver Community Arts
Council to Aprif 17. Business hours
North Vancouver Museum and Archives: Fire!
Firefighting through the ages. April 10 to October 12.
Flumes, Historic photographs look at the role flumes
played in the transportation of shingle bolts to the mills
of Burrard Inler. ‘To April 30. Wednesday to Sunday,
noon to 3 p.m. Info: 987-5618.
Presentation House Gallery: Reader By The Window,
an installation by Jan Peacock and Ura Barth — Recent
Photographs open April 5. Artist’s talk by fan Peacock
followed by a reception April 5 at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday
to Sunday, noon to 5 p.m, Thursday to 9 p.m.
Information: 986-1351
Seymour Art Gallery: Discovery '97: The Darker Side.
Annual juried exhibition featuring the works of 40
artists from the Greater Vancouver area. To April 6.
Realistic Imagery. WN. painter Stuart Slind’s and
Quebec painter Mary Harman’s recent acrylics. April 9
to May 4. Opening reception April 9 at 7 p.m.Gallery
hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 12-4 p.m. Info: 924-1378.
Silk Purse Arts Cenwre: Reflections of Life in Realism,
portraits and laudscapes in oils by Michael Darantis to
April’6. Attractions of the East, photographs by Afsanch
Sadeghich opens April 8. Presented by the West
Vancouver Community Arts Council. ‘Tues. to Fri. It
a.m, to 5 p.m., Sat. and Sun. noon to 5 p.m.
West Vancouver Memorial Library Gallery: The Best
Dressed Cow Contest (main floor), Mother Nature (Or
Should 1 Say Father) Series (lower level). Acrylic paint-
“ings by Sharon Christian. Info: 925-74
West Vancouver Muscum and Archives: West
Vancouver Collects! Exhibition includes Coast Salish
baskets, West Vancouver Girl Guides’ mementos, and a
section on “modern” office technology (tura of the cen-
tury to World War 11). Closes April 9. Museum info:
925-7295.
Art-Scapes Galiery: North Shore artists Ann Mitchell,
Lewis Rich, Ann Hurst, Robert Florian and Wanda
Griffiths are featured as in-house gallery artists. For
gallery hours call 688-9197 or 922-3343
: ueen Elizabeth Theatre: West Vancouver artist Lil
Chrzan’s anobiographical female figures on display on
the mezzanine level! during the month of April.

Capilano College
Theatre: Mad Forest by
BCaryl Churchill. Ap
; 3-5, 10-12 at 8 p.m. and
April 10 at 12:30 p.m. Reservations: 331-9979,
‘Centennial Theatre: Bolero Amor. Caribbean, flamenco
and middl¢é Eastern dance. April 5, 8 p.m. $26. Tickets:
984-4484. Oklahoma! Presented by Windsor Secondary
School April 9 to 12 at 7:30 p.m. S15/11. Tickets from
the school.
Deep Cove Shaw Theatre: Three One-Act Plays pre-
sented by Deep Cove Stage including two local scrip
by Maureen Robinsen and Paul Fox. To April 5.
Tickets: 929-9456.
Hendry Hall: Or Town. Thornton Wilder's classi
small-town U.S.A. drama. Wednesday to Saturday, April
“11 to 26 at 8 p.m. Reservations: 983-2633.
Presentation House: Othelly. Way Off Broadw
adaptation of Shakespeare. To April 12
3474.
Arts Club Theatre: Tiirteen Hands. Carol Shield’s
memory play features N.S. actor Suzie Payne. Box
office: 687-1644.
Celebrities: Psycho Beach Party. N.V. actor Amy Reid is
featured in this spoof of surfer movies. Opens April 9.
Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. $10. Tickets:
331-9979.

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curtain
call

plays in three

nights and, regret-

fully, I id to
decline two fin ther invi-
tations! All of the shows
were well supported and
seemed to please their
audiences. Some weeks
it’s easy to believe that
live theatre is, in the
words of my wannabe-
actor-friend, Ross, “a
happening scene.”

So, where to ?

Proceeding chronologically
would take us out to the
Shaw Theatre for Deep Cove
Stage’s three one-act plays. It
would also highlight the pro-
duction [ enjoyed most this
week.

Deep Cove Stage has taken
the bold step of adding a pro-
duction to its season that
specifically affords new faces an
opportunity get involved. The
three one-acts allow new
Actors on stage, former pre-
duction crew members to step
up into the challenging
responsibilities of stage man-
agement and design and, most
importantly, new directo
chance to show their abi

Additionally, two of the
three plays chosen are written
by club members.

This type of developmental
work is often talked about at

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anpening

rarely happens in such a str
tured fashion. 1 applaud the

club for its ctfort and willing-
ness to take a chance on so
many “unknowns” at cnee.

Whar is even: more impres-
‘ the level of success
achieved, particularly in the
second of the three plays.

Customs, by one of the
grand old men of Canadian
theatre, Mavor Moore, is an
ordinary little play that moves
from the particular to the gen-
eral with a rather sudden and
Uneasy transition.

But Simon Fothergill, as
the traveller of uncertain ori-
gin, offers such a gem of a
performance that the pl:
almo.t works despite its rath
clunxy const: uction.

Great support work from
everybody in the cast
A. Lindsay, Ben Maifredi, Glen
Roald) and in particular from
Bill Tolson as the Customs
Inspector.

Directors Maur
Harwood and Christian
Obeck are to be congratulated
on their first club endeavor,
although I do wonder whether
the transition to the “universal
message” at the end of the
play might have been handled
differently.

where in the evening
things are more uneven.

Ported Mum by v
North Vancouver ¥
Maureen Robinsor
had an “off night.”
the actors had to
(admirably!) with missing
props and telephone bells that
kept ringing but, ¢
play felt slow and bereft of the
spark and lightness required to
define the quirky edge that
shows up in much of
Robinson’s writing.

More interesting, was Paul

NEWS photos Srad Lcdwidge

(TOP photo): Presentation House's production of
Shakespeare’s Othello runs to April 12. (Above
photo) A scene from one of three interesting one-act
plays at the Shaw Theatre and presented by Deep

Cove Stage.

Fox’s Afonarely lite,

Fox creates a situation ripe
with comic opportuni
civil servants interview candi-
dates for Prince Edward's

owns the Royal Family, wants
no more seandai from royal
marriages but ultamately g
far more than it ined for.
Fox’s plot is in
good but some of
ters verge on stereo
Nevertheless, dicecte
innon, could probabl
hieved more with
as an uneasy mis
styles collide on stage.
There’s nice work from
Stephanie Rosloski and David
Bunderla due Michael Johal’s
laconically underplayed civil
servant works better than Glen
Roald’s self-inflated posturing,
because it is more fully inhab-
ited and Nelson Giles’ Italian
don, while good, would work
more effectively if he played

his fellow actors rather than
the audience.

One final note before leav-
ing the Cove.

Last week was Theatre
Cares Week, the week the the-
atre community across the
country becomes involved in
fundraising for Aids awareness.
I wish our local community
theatres, so professional in
many ways, would consider
getting involved in sume tash-
ion.

Meanwhile, the always
interesting Way Off
Broadway gang, who recently
brought vou Krerch, are back
at Presentation House with a
hugely fascinating but some-
what flawed adaptation of
Shakespeare’s Othello.

Shakespearian purists ~ |
believe there are still a couple
in an ivory tower somewhere
up at U.B.C., — might argue
that the sliced, diced and con-
siderably contracted version

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