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tinued.

Gaze says the perfor- ©
mances will be miked'so
that open-air acoustics
.should not be a problem.

The cast will have a
day's rehearsal in the out-
door ampitheatre and all

| props and costumes will be
taken up the mountain. But
Gaze characterizes the after-
noon as “an impromptu sort
of performance” without the
staging available in their
trademark red and white
tent at Vanier Park. ”

-That's the place to see
the plays if you really want
to focus-in on the nuances

_. of performance.

On the other hand, as an

> outdoors experience, there’s

“nota lot going to beat Bard
_on the Peak .

-Commuting tips fill our

. paper these days, so in the

_ Spirit of bridge-friendly’

travel we didn’t steal th:
keys to the Table Hopping
VW .as usual but took the.
ScaBus over to Vancouver.

“Ol The 50 False Creek bus ;
begins its route from right
‘outside Waterfront Station ©
and dropped us at. the.

to Granville Island
less than'15 minutes later.

‘A pathway that begins
t north of the ambitious-

but-failed Grapes restaurant

t for,a leisurely
inute stroll between

priced condominiums: .

ok waterfront

1p at the foot Vanier:

Park.

A pleasant and stress-
free beginning to an evening
that was, well, pleasant and
stress-free.

‘Those. unfarniliar with
Much Ado About Nothing
will love the comic inven-
tion of director Douglas
Campbell and his cast.

Those who know and
love Shakespeare’s witty
tuivatise on romance and rep-
utation may wonder if dan-
gerous love - that intoxicat-
ing, heart-stupping exhilara-
tion - is ever achieved in
this production.

The play takes place just
after its principal men

_ retum home from war.
Battles continue, however,

as a- war of words is waged
between
Beatrice and Benedick in

_an attempt to distance them-

selves from the foolishness .
and vulnerability implicit in
love. . .
Less wittily, but more
romantically, Claudio

-, courts the virtuous Hero but ©

Jeaves her. at the altar after
her reputation is ruined by

. the machiaveltian Bon
/ Pedro.

All ‘ends happily. but
there i is pain | before redemp-
tion.

. Unfortunately, Bard and
Campbell often shy away.

from grappling with harder
truths in favor of the easy
laugh as comedy sometimes

-subverts tragedy.

 Falling-over jokes, which

oa already teeter on the edge of
Bridge ard fetching e

going over the top else-

where in the Play, are

allowed to undercut the

shame and anger felt by
Hero's uncle at her cruel
shunning.

Instead of concentrating
on the man’s feclings we are
asked to laugh at his bal-
ance.

Other moments are either
beyond the range of cast
members or have simply
been missed.

The potential of
Claudio’s visit to Hero's
tomb to acknowledge his sin
in unjustly spurning her is
unfulfilled.

Cowled figures clutching
candles process across the
stage. Behind them, the last
steely shards of light stab
the underside of black
clouds across English Bay.

Sounds ominous doesn’t
it?

Tt isn’t.

- Uncertain singing and
too much stage lighting
destroys the mood. What
Hero has to say or feel gets
lost in the shuffle.

1 don’t want to put peq-
ple off from attending this
production. It looks good in
Mara Gottler's prettily soft
Edwardian dresses and —
assorted Hapsburg uni-
forms.

Every word is intelli-
gently clear and it is often
very, very funny thanks to
the Allan Zinyk and Colin
Heath's doubie act of
Dogberry and Verges.

The women; especially,
are strong: from Kathleen
Barr's keenly intelligent
Beatrice through Lyndall
Knight's surprisingly tough

Hero to excellent support
from Jennifer Lines and
Moira Wylie.

If David Marr's
Benedick is a little soft-cen-
tred it’s because, once
again, choices favoring
foolishness have been
embraced for the laughter
factor.

Kurt Max Runte works
hard as the young lover
Claudio but never quite
inhabits the flamboyant
extremes that must drive
this soldier’s vision of °
courtly romance.-

Don John is never fully
explained by Shakespeare
but Scott Bellis is an ele-
gantly spiteful bastard
brother while Jeffrey Renn
shines in the small role of |
Antonio.

Lots of strong points, :
lots of coinedy. Pleasant and
stress-free.

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