10 actors are a
publican’s dream

& Two by Jim Cartwright at
the Vancouver East Cultural
Centre to Feb, 13.

B Dracula adapted by
Hamilton Deane and John
L. Balderston at Capilano
College Performing Arts
Theatre to Feb. 13.

Martin Millerchip
Curtain Call
martin@nsuews.com

HOW many great
nights in the pub have
1 forgotten?

It's not thar Pani, or ever
was, an habitual drunkard.
Bue pubs are part of the
social fabric of the ULR. and I
spent my adolescence w.
to look old enough to fit in.

Beer Was part of it, music
(great R&B in London in the
"A0s!) was certainly part of it,

bur mostiy ir was the sense of

even if there was
no specitic triend to meet,
there would be somebody ta
chat swith or play snooker or
darts.

The memories are warm,
smoky and fondly tuzzv; al!
ended together and
sinctfing of stale ale.

And chavs something of
what PE tvel about the Belfrev
Theatre production of Tire
now plaving at the Vancouser
Fast Cultural Centre.

Jing Cartwright (Roads
wrote the play with twa spe-
cifie Lancashire- based actors

in mind and it’s easy to visu-
alize the invisible patrons of
The Fighting Cocks wearing
“flat “ats” and drinking their
mild in the straight whasses
more common in de north
or England,

Nicola Cavendish and
Lorne Kennedy play the land-
lord and his wile presiding
over their business with
smiles and banter while bark
ing at each other Gar of the
side of their mouths.

Yhev aso portray 12
other customers as, ove hy
two. we meet dhe sad, the
lonely, the simple and the fost
whe have gone “to” the pub
for the evening. (Phe play
was originally tied: Zi.y

Vhere’s the Old Woman
whe locks forward to her
send of the dav” drink as 4
break froin nursing her crip

pled busband. There's come-
dy and tragedy here as

-endish first evokes Jauvh
ter with her timing of
“There's a lot of memories ...
somewhere™ and chen darker
images of what she'd like to
do with her burden,

Bookending her, is the
Old Man communing with
his dead wife and in berween
there’s Moth, a playboy in his
own mind, sporting costume
designer Phillip Clarkson's
cleverly winged purple suede
jacket and Maudie, the only
worian who would ever wait
for him.

Then there’s the brassy
Mrs. Iger dreaming of myth-

. . . NEWS photo Julle ‘verson
ic, big men and her runt of a a

DAVID Smye as Count Dracula prepares for a Transy!vanian transfusion on Jamie
. See College pane 31 Wisniowski's Lucy in the Capilano College production of Dracula.
photo Festival Communicaticns

LORNE Kenredy and Nicola Cavendish deliver out-
standing performances in the comic drama Two.

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