Comedy celebrates
the foibles of men

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adultery argument, to name a few.

This play is an excellent choice
for a student workshop produc-
tion, and the three leads, lan
Butcher, David Lovgren and Fran-
cisco Trujillo pull off their parts
with style. Butcher's sleazy Jack
antagonizes, and yet, his character
ultimately keeps the three men
linked. He pushes their tolerance
to the edge with his ambivalent
wisecracks, but always backs away
when the boys’ network is in
danger of crumbling.

Lovgren’s scene in which, as
Don, he becomes increasingly ex-
asperated by his brain-picking
date, was especially memorable.
His explosion into utter confusion
when she offered to pay the bill
was very credible.

And in Trujillo’s portrayal of Phil
we see a morose flake, who
nonetheless still merits our sym-
pathy.

The dialogue is labored in some
points, especially between Jack
and Con who clash cn what con-
stitutes being a man (the old
“having feelings make you a
wimp” argument). But overall it’s
a compact little play with not too
loud a sermon and plenty of funny
scenes.

Kimberley Norman gave a natu-
tal performance as Girl. The set
changes were clean and quick and
the modular, multi-functional fur-
niture in no way detracted from
the realistic feeling of the play.

. = Your Lung Association.“

Projected screens of pages from a
boy’s manual echoed the boyish
ideals that fueled (and foiled) the
men’s antics.

lf you grew up in the seventies
this play will probably amuse you.
Ardent, humorless feminists stay
clear. Boys’ Life celebrates in a
lighthearted way the foibles of
men as they engage in the tug-
of-war between The Boys and The
Woman, always feeling in the end

that they have been compromised.

At $5 a ticket, it’s a fun, fluify
show.

Boys’ Lite continues to
December 9 at Studio 58. Call

324-5227 for ticket information.

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spotlight WoW

Artist experiments with styles

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whales, which look as if they are
dancing on their flukes, with the
bones of killer whales, with old-
growth forest. The work is ex-
ecuted in mossy greens, charcaal
greys and blacks.

The whole image represents a
kind of life cycle: the whales,
which come from the sea, even-
tually die on the shore and
become food for the trees.

A Kamloops native, Burnham
took up painting the day his father

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built him an easet for his 11th bir-
thday. Then in his early 20s, he
studied drawing and painting at
the old Vancouver School of An.
Success came gradually, follow-
ing the expressive figurative style
Burnham first developed at the
University of Victoria, a style thal
earned him second prize at the
Vancouver Island Juried Art Show.
But he refused to restrict himself
to a single style, and for the next
15 years he pushed his work into
conflicting directions, painting fig-
uratively and in the abstract,

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creating cheerful, playful water-
colors and serious, thought-
provoking oils. None more so than
his latest work.

"There’s no resolving them (his
watercolors with his oils). They've
never gone together and never
will,” says Burnham. “I can’t sav
| have a specific style because we
all get influenced by all kinds of
things. The important thing to
remember is that it doesn’t matter
what's in vogue. What's between
you and the paint is what mat-
ters.”

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