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Theatre.

This fittle company, intimately
bound-up with North Vancouver's
talented Mackay family, has
created a light-hearted look al the
world according to man.

A series of musical numbers,
usually scored to ‘“found’’ tunes,
takes a chronological look at
feminist disappointments,
weighted heavily in favor of the
20th century.

The content offers little original
thought but don’t think that was
the point.

Long-lived political movements
will always stand accused of hav-
ing no sense of humor and
feminism has certainly taken its
lumps in that regard,

Shut Up Bitch is not nearly as
nasty as its title and succeeds in
terms of easy accessibility with its
quick cheekiness and ironic wit.

Strong performances from all of
the cast: Tracy Holmes, Creona
McDonald, Laara Sadiq and David
Mackay.

Capilano
library
celebrates
work of |
children’s
author

ONE OF the world’s best-loved
children’s writers will be celebrat-
ed at North Vancouver District
Library's Capilano Branch this
menth.

Generations of children have
enjoyed the. books of Arthur Ran-
some. His adventure stories, set
mainly in England’s Lake District,
are a8 appealing to children today
as they were when they were writ-
ten in the 1930s.

Although Ransome always plan-
ned to be a writer, he was an
unhappy and indifferent scholar.
Groomed ta follow in the footsteps
af his father, a brilliant scientific
writer, he.was more interested in
fantasy and ‘folklore and was a
voracious reader of travel and bi-
ography. ;

He began writing for children
when he .was 45. it was the
Swallows and Amazons stories
about a group of children and
their adventures sailing small boats
that captured the imagination of
the reading public and made him
an instant celebrity.

In 1936, with the publication of

Pigeon Post, he. won the first
prestigious Carnegie Medal for
Children’s Literature.

Since his death in 1967, en-
thusiasts all over the world have
come together to form chapters of
the Arthur Ransome Society. Kit
Pearson, a successful children’s
writer, is a long-time society
member who wrote her masters
thesis on Ransome.

Next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.,
she will be at the Capilano Library
to talk about “Arthur Ransome

— the Man and His Books.”

For more information call 987-

fanmopacnan

64 7 he joy of the Fringe is the
discovery of the unheralded
production. #9

Held over at the Vancouver East
Cultural Centre tonight at 9:15.
Compramising Positions
The joy of the Fringe is the
discovery of the unheralded pro-
duction.

This was mine.

Playwright Kim Falconer has yet
to prove she can write in a voice
other than her own; in other
words, create characters and dia-
logue, but Compromising Positions
was an achingly honest and sear-
ingly funny evaluation of one
woman’s journey towards uncom-
Promising independence.

Beautifully acted and well
directed by Wendy-Jane Bollard
and Beverly Siver respectively.

Reinember the name —-

Falconer.

Not About Heroes

That perennial flower of the Cana-
dian Fringe circuit — the English
Suitcase Theatre — was back this
year with a new translation and
adaptation of Ibsen's Ghosts and
Stephen MacDonald’s play about
the relationship between two First
Worid War poets.

A gentle play, lovingly played,
that ultimately told more of the
poetic process than the horror of
war that drove Siegfried Sassoon
and Wilfred Owen to write.

Unfortunately the script does not
achieve all that it might have,
leaving me wanting more Sassoon
and Owen ard less MacDonald.

A luminous performance by

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Nick Darcey as Owen, while Kevin ~

Williamson’s emotionally taut Sas-
soon was hurt by director Sheens
Wrigley’s inability to create the
retrospective nature of the piece.
la Ronde

The strains of Strauss at the top of
the show conjured pictures of
sparkling dancers whirling madly
in some incandescant orgy of
celebration.

But Arthur Schnitzler’s world of
sexual duplicity and occasional
freedom is much grubbier.

The gulf between the face and
the backside of society was daring
territory for Schnitzler’s turn-of-
the-century psychological insights.

However, whether La Ronde is
still relevant was hard to judge
based on Mean Street’s produc-
tion.

Uniortunately, Neil Corbett’s di-
rection never found the variations
of mood and pace in the play,
undermining the promise of Sue
Elworthy and Mary Harvey.

The men, as Schnitzler would
have agreed, had their problems.

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