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Playwright Patrick Meyers
leaves two men stranded on a
ledge near the peak of the
world’s second highest
mountain (called K2). During
the descent from the peak
Harold (Terence Kelly)
makes a mistake that sends

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K2, AT THE Playhouse Theatre, is a play about
mountain climbing. And it isn’t. .

By ERIC EGGERTSON

the two friends plummeting |
down an ice wall.

The play opens the follow-
ing morning with Taylor,
(Tom McBeath) looking after
his friend’s broken leg and
trying to figure out a way to
get down from the ledge
they’ve landed on.

Most of their equipment

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was lost in the fall, and with
only three hours before a
coming storm, the pair have
little hope of making it down
together.

The brash Taylor must
fight both the mountain,
which wants to shrug the two
of them off, and Harold’s
wish that Taylor descend
alone, leaving him to die.

John Juliani’s task as
director is made easy by the
audience’s reaction to the ice-
covered set (2,500 cubic feet

of styrofoam, designed by

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Douglas Welch to look and
sound like the side of a
mountain). The novelty of
having actors clamber ver-
tically up the ice wall piques
the audience’s curiosity.

And while the audience
watches uncomfortably while
McBeath and Kelly casually
ignore the 30-foot drop
below them, the play’s theme
identifies itself as humanity’s
struggle to hold onto the few
things worthwhile in
life—self-respect, love and

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IT’S A FIGHT for survival, and a moving drama aboul human values, in K2 now playing at

Vancouver Playhouse until February 11. Above, Terence Kelly (left) and Tom McBeath in a
tense moment from the mountain-top drama.

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