wk STUDIES SHOW that raising teenagers is harder than it used to be. Do you like the way your parents deal with you, or can you ids’ Writes right on Vancouver Youth Theatre returns to VECC ONCE AGAIN, the sights and sounds of the Van- couver East Cultural Centre drew me to its theatre on Friday, May 29. By Alyssa Alderman ZAP! Review I was on a mission to see if the Vancouver Youth Theatre could produce a play equal or better than the two I reviewed in March. I was not disappointed. I-saw a wonderful play called Kids’ Writes, a play consisting of stories written by elementary school children. Nineteen schools were asked to participate and close to 600 stories flowed in. This play ran about 45 minutes, each of the 11 stories I saw being narrated as well as acted out. The 17 actors involved gave a great performance. They had a lot to memorize, and yet the play moved very smoothly. My congratulations to the direc- tor, Judith Hogan, for a superb job. The stories really came to life under her direction. The stories were also com- plemented by musical scores. Peter Hurst, music director and composer, did an outstanding job on Kids’ Writes. I have two favorites: The 4- timer and The Monster with Strange Tastes. The former was about a girl who dated four guys, but she broke up with them for one silly reason or another (bad breath, slobbering, etc.). The dragon in the second story would only eat big sisters. Both stories were exceptionally cute (for lack of a better word). It is very refreshing to see such fine young talent in Vancouver’s acting community. My best wishes for future outstanding plays from the Vancouver Youth Theatre. ~— Alyssa Alderinan is a Grade 12 student at Argyle Secondary. Huge Canadians, hair like chicken CAN IT get any better? By Brad Jackson ZAP! Review I have been to tke Vancouver East Cultural Centre to experience the Vancouver Youth Theatre group only two times, and I ai- ready feel that po matter where I go I could not find a better bunch of kids to act out any play or script I threw at them. This time I went to Canadian Stories, directed by Carole Tarl- ington. It was a play focusing on the challenges - faced by young Canadian immigrants. Al! stories toid were true to life. Because of past traumatic expe- riences, these young immigrants’ true personalities were altered, resulting in people not seeing them for who they 2 ay were, For in- stance, when a young immigrant from El Salvador heard a loud bang. his instincts told him to fall to the ground and cover his head. The bang was just a fellow classmate expleding a paper bag. But because of this, people thought of him as a geek. Although this play was suppos- ed to tell us of the troubles facing the immigrants, it also had a fun- ny side to it. A young boy was taiking of his first day in Canada at the airport. As he got off ¢'« plane, he found himself pittec against ‘‘huge’’ Canadians (there was a kid sitting on the shoulders of another). He then went into the bathroom to find three ugly teens ‘‘with hair like chickens’’ (long and dyed dif- ferent colors). The way he explained these sit- uations, accompanied by actors piaying out his descriptions in the background, made it very funny. In another part of the play, there was a young immigrant boy in the cloakroom, retrieving his coat. Another boy came into the room and said ‘‘Gimme five!’’ The immigrant boy, not knowing what the other was talking about, quickly reached into his ‘pockets and gave the boy five doliars. Canadian Stories told of the confusion resulting trom change — which traditions and customs to abandon, which ones to adopt — and how the kids dealt with it. 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This is one of . the first moves and one of the best moves that we’ve ever made, I think that towards homosex- uals that it would be absolutely delightful. We have to start to realize that they’re people just like us. I think it’s a very iit- thought-out move and another example of how the church to- day is moving away from biblical texchings, because it Clearly states that homosexual relations are against the law. I think it’s kind of good because now gays and lesbians cas express themselves witkout better ways they could being banned. But it's also negative because that’s like try- ing to make people gay and fesbian and I don’t think that’s good. Personally, I'm not gay bet I don’t really like gays. I think it’s kind of good and kind of bad. - I think it’s a negative move. 1 think we shouldn't bless the homosexuals. I don’t think the churckes should have them in their church, I just think it’s wrong. 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