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TWO very different plays this
week; two excellent produc-
tions and two thumbs up —
although beth shows would
benefit from being shorter.

Lawrence & Holloman iy the latest
play from Vancouver
actor/director/piaywright Morris
Panych. His last premier at the Arts
Clab, Vigil, will always stay in my mind
as the most perfectly slanted view
the world Ehave seen since the likes of
lonesco and Orton stirred things up in
the °60s.

While | loved both the humour in 1. & H(t My mother
used to say “Take a look around you” Thea she got hit by that
bus.) and its bizarre arc, I found the repetitive nature of the

scenes ultimately diminished

the power of Panych’s punch.

The second act is mesmeric

and blended with 2 shorter
(fewer scenes) first, the play would be devastating.

(Plot warning! There isn’t much. Reading this next bit will
diminish your enjoyment. You were warned.)

Lawrence the optimist meets Holloman who's not --- Pm
not sure the label “pessimist” fits. Shallow judgements are
made in superficial male style by both. Lawrence patronizes
the nerdy litde guy without really listening to a word he says
while Holloman schemes to even out the hierarchical assump-
tions.

On one level he succeeds (remember thar warning), reduc-
ing the smugly seif-contident Lawrence to a one-legged, blind
paraplegic. But because Lawrence still believes that he is 3
fucky onc- icgged, blind paraplegic, Holloman has not “won.”

Richard 7 Zeppieri as Lawrence fares slightly better chan
Gary Jones in this production, although both are excellent.
Panyc!: and Zeppieri manage to turn us off Lawrence com-

CURTAIN CALL

WILLIAM Webster turns in a virtuoso performance es
Galileo at the Cuitch for only three more shows.

ays for the

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Characters to view cach other
as equals while audience sym
patlucs are split But, wile
Jones, correctly, never wavers
trom the cappled psyche of
his Holloman, he shows tow
much of it too seon and as 2
consequetice Edom belteve
he ever gains or retains
enough audience empathy.

Meanwhile, over at the
Cultch, William Webster had
the opening night audience at
the Life of Galilea cating, out
of the palm of his hand.

Yorrick Theatre is a small
local company that has hung,
tough for cight vears on the
strength amd talent of co artistic directors Michelle Porter and
David Mackay. Previeus standouts include Revond the Night

Cafe and Beat the Sanset.

How they managed to persuade ‘Toronto and Strattord

actor Webster to come west for this production is beyond me,

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