B6 - Sunday, October 23, 1983 - North Shore News

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‘Sweet Bird’ takes

CORRUPTION usurps innocence just as age
devours youth in Tennessee Williams’ play Sweet
Bird of Youth now playing at the Arts Club on

Granville Island.

The play concerns Chance
Wayne, an aging golden boy
whose life has been a series of
failed chances and humilia-
tions,and his love for a girl in
his home town, St. Cloud,
called Heavenly. She is,as her
flame suggests, angelically
fair and sweet natured; she is
an image and a memory of
lost innocence more than a
character.

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travesty of the person she was
when she first loved Chance
and before his corruption in-
fected her, leaving her as
ultimately barren as hope is
in the play.

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Heavenly the Sweet Bird of
Youth has flown, taking with
it the innocence and fertility
of cheir love. By the time the
play opens, it is already too
late for them and we are left
to watch the final scene in
their tragedy.

When we meet Chance he
is waking in a luxurious hotel
room with an aging film star,
who is trying to escape

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ing a famous ‘has-been’.

The best acting in the Arts
Club production is done by
Doris Chillcott in the role of
‘Princess’ whose magic
kingdom is one of pretense,
drugs and younger men
like Chance. She is the un-
disputabie star of the
production.

The scenes with Chillcott
and Winston Rekert, who
plays Chance, are also quite

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powerful; there is an unwill-
ing bond betwen the two
characters that comes across
very well to the audience.
Rekert is much weaker
when interacting with other
characters in the play but
gives a very acceptable per-
formance in which he is well
aided by looking physically
perfect for the part.
Supporting character roles
are also well played, especial-

ly by Owen Foran as
Heavenly’s father, Boss
Finley, and Lillian Carlson as
Aunt Nonnie.

Set design by Ted Roberts
is also worth note.

Sweet Bird of Youth con-
tinues at the Arts Club Mon-
day to Friday at 8:30 p.m.,
Saturdays 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.
with a two for one matinee
Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. The
play runs until November 19.

NEWS proto Terry Peters

PRINCESS (Dorts Chillcott) sceks comfort from Chance (Winston Rekert) in Tennessee Williams’ play Sweet Bird of
Youth at the Arts Club Granville Island. For more information call 687-5315.

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