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STARTING MARCH 25 Cap Theatre at Capilano College presents Shakespeare’s A Midsummer
Night’s Dream with a modern twist. Some characters will be dressed in 90s clothing and the play is
set at a college, rather than in Athens. For tickets phone 984-1720. ;

Cap updates Shakespeare

Contemporized version of A Midsummer
Night’s Dream will open theatre season

IT’S A Midsummer Night's
Dream with a twist.

By Barbara Black
News Reporter

On March 18, Cap Theatre of
Capilano College opens its 1992
theatre season with the
Shakespeare classic dressed up for
the 90s.

“it's a West Coast updated
version,” says Bill Murdoch, con-
venor of Capilano College's
theatre department.

Murdoch says the script) has
been edited down and ‘‘con-
temporized” for this production,
which features a 25-student cast.

The script has been interpreted
by Steven Atkins, a voice instruc-
tor at the college, whe is also ac-
tive in theatre and is currently
touring with Greenthumb Players.

““What he’s done is, instead of
the first scene happening at Athens
with the Duke, he set it in a col-
lege where the Dean has a new

bride and is about to celebrate his
wedding. Meanwhile the students
are giving him a hard time, so
they're sent off to the forest.”

Other innovations include Ca-
nadianisms, eh?, and Newfie and
French Canadian characters, Mur-
doch relates.

This year, the production is be-
ing launched in conjunction with
studio arts at the college.

“We've been organized with
clay and textiles, graphic design
and music. So students working in
studio art are in fact helping in the
production,’ says Murdoch,

One student is getting credit for
designing the set and lighting, and
second-year textiles students are
custom printing the fabric for the
fairies’ capes.

Second-year graphic design had
a competition jor the design of the
Poster.

This cooperative approach is a
new focus for the visual and per-
forming arts at Capilano College.

Original music for the show is by
lan Schildt, who has composed a
digital soundtrack of songs and in-
cidental music.

“It’s on our computer pro-
gram,” Murdoch explains, ‘‘so
our Mac just fires it out. We're
rehearsing to it already.”

Directed by Cap theatre instruc-
tor Dawn Moore, A Midsurnmer
Night's Dream includes about 15
students from Theatre 201 as well
as first-year students who ‘play
rocks and fairies,’ says Murdoch.

The fairies won't all be of the
Victorian fluffy variety. Murdoch
says Moore wants the fairies to be
older, more contemporary. “The
play taps into the kind of spirits
around here, on the West Coast.’

The fairies’ costumes will incor-
porate body painting.

Tickets for the play, which runs
March 18-28, can be purchased at
the college cafeteria, the
Humanities department, or at Cap
Corner Store, or reserved by call-
ing 984-172
Admission is $9-$12 adults, $7
students and $5 for children.

There will be two Friday mati-
nees on March 20 and 27 at 1:00
p.m.

For further
984-1720.

information call

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