B24- Wednesday, November 25, 198i - North Shore News

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By TERRY LAVENDER

DENNIS FOON’s
Hunchback of Notre
Dame is as misshapen
as the title character
Quasimodo himself.

And that is unfortunate —
for the play, based on Victor
Hugo's novel, -Notre Dame
of Paris, is generally well-
acted and has some very
good individual moments. |

But the moments don't
add up to a great play. The

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AUTHENTICITY for the play was provided by
Notre Dame

Cathedral

scenes of tragedy are out-
weighed by those of comedy
(sometimes even farce) and
the constant shifting of mood
from one extreme-to another
leaves the viewer bewildered
and not really caring one
way or the other about the
play. This perhaps explains
the tepid response to the
play’s premiere at the Queen

Elizabeth Playhouse
Saturday.
According to Foon, a

North Vancouver resident,
one of the moments of farce
was caused by an opening

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night glitch. However, even
if this is taken into account,
the Hunchback of Notre
Dame still doesn’t seem to
know whether it is a comedy
ora tragedy.

For example, Pierre
Gringoire, well acted by
Guy Bannerman, cries out to
the King of France, “Support

. the arts!” while the king is

trying to decide whether to
have Gringoire flogged or
not. A very funny scene, but

how does it fit in with the
‘pathos of Henry Woolf's
Quasimodo, or the tortured

anguish of Peter Haworth's
Frollo?

The Hunchback of Notre
Dame is the story of
Quasimodo, a deaf, one-
eyed bellringer at Notre
Dame Cathedral with a
curved spine and one leg
shorter than the other, and
his love for the gypsy
Esmerelda (an indifferent
performance by Patricia
Phillips) in Paris in 1482.
Woolf plays Quasimodo to
perfection and is, along with
Bannerman, one of the stars
of the show.

Other plot elements in-
clude Esmerelda’s search for
her mother, Frollo’s search
for his God and his love or
lust, and that of various

other characters, for the
gypsy girl.

Perhaps this is the
problem with The Hun-

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chback of Notre Dame.
Foon may be trying to tell
too much in the space of two
hours.

There is an obvious moral
to the play — we are as
deformed inside as
Quasimodo is outside, and
Foon makes sure we get-the
message through the asides
from Quasimodo to the
audience (“What do you see
when you look in the mirror?
Your face or mine?”

However J.....vire also
talks to the audience, and his
message is a lighthearted
one. Which one is_ the
spokesman?

But there are many good
things about the play, in-
cluding the performances of
Bannerman, Haworth and
Woolf, the scenery and
lighting, and most of the
individual scenes. The finai
confrontation .
Quasimodo and Frollo —
one deformed on the outside
and the other on the inside
— is especially memorable.

The Hunchback of Notre
Dame, directed by Roger
Hodgman and put on by the
Vancouver Playhouse, is still
an enjoyable evening's
entertainment, even if it is

ultimately a failure. It is

being performed Monday

through Saturday at the
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