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@ Nets by Tom Topor, produced by North
Vancouver Community Players, directed by
Helena Davidson at Presentation House.

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IF you would like to see local theatre
but are never quite sure what to
pick, remember that the North Shore
zone of Theatre B.C. produces its
annual Festival of Plays every May.

It’s not guaranteed that every night will
offer stellar performances of challenging
scripts, but it’s a safe bet that more than one
production in the week will reach that stan-
dard since most of the local theatre companies
enter their “best.”

Theatre B.C. is the umbrella organization
of community theatre in this province and,
among several mandates, organizes this annual
play competition. The province is split into
zones, and impartial professional adjudicators
chose one play from each geographic area to
compete at “Mainstage” (in Ladner this year)
for top honours in acting, directing, design
and best overall production.

This year’s North Shore festival at

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festival

Presemation House included North Vancouver
Community Player's production of Nags, ‘Tom
Topor’s carly °80°s play that at first glance

Pars TO be a courtroom examination of
Claudia Draper, a New York hooker, whose
mental competence to stand tial for
manslaughter is at issue,

However, Topor quickly puts the New
York medical and criminal justice system in the
dock for their perfunctory efforts at “helping”
the mentally disturbed and then throws in
another curve as Claudia‘’s mother and stepfa-
ther turn out to be just as “guilty” for her
misadventures in love and sex.

I got mixed messages all night long from
this production. Great set, but a bathrobe cos-
tame with clothes underneath; good lights,
but an over-the-top sound score; wonderful
understated performances from the actors
playing snialler roles, but an overuse of
screaming confrontation; great pace for the
play generally, but Margot Finlay’s mother
allowed to crawi through far too many fines.

I have other criticisms, but let’s leave it in
the hands of adjudicator Dean Paul Gibson
and finish on a big positive: cast and director
must be congratulated for resisting the urge to
showcase the comic relief implicit in Claudia’s
apparent flippancy and, instead, taking far big-
ger risks in their search for truth and honesty.

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NEWS photo Cindy Goodmen
BARBARA Eden and Robson Baker in a scene from
the courtroom drama Nuts.

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