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_ A brand new professional
eatre. company, devoted

solely to the production of

plays from the wide
repertoire of mysteries,
horrors and who-dun-its, is
emerging on the Vancouver
performing artsscene.

Sleuth, in the great
tradition of revenge and
intrigue, dramatizes with wit
and irony the sometimes
deadly results of jealousy,
pride, lust and greed.

Two highly talented actors
are starring in the
production. Malcolm Arm-
strong, a 20-year veteran of
the stage who has performed
with the Royal Shakespeare
company in both London
and Stratford, the Neptune

MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE
Theatre ‘production. of “Sleuth” which opens Wednesday. ‘Hou
Studio Theatre and runs until March 14. Here, Malcolm Armstrong portrays Andrew

Theatre in Halifax and
Niagara-on-the-Lake’s Shaw
Festival, is’ playing thriller
writer Andrew Wyke.

In the role of Milo Tindle
is William Samples, who has
to his credit appearances at
Edmonton's Citadel Theatre,
the Shaw Festival, Toronto's
St. Lawrence Centre, the
Centaur Theatre in Montreal
and Theatre New Brun-
swick. Montreal native
Michel Boucher is directing.
His credits to date include
directorial posts at Theatre
New Brunswick’s Youth
Tour, two. seasons of
summer stock with the
Kawartha (Ontario) festival,
and one season at Kelowna’'s

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are the key elements of the Masterplece Mysten

Sunshine Theatre. Boucher,
with Armstrong, is a
founding director ‘of the
Masterpiece Mystery
Theatre.

Guaranteed to keep
theatregoers on the edge of
their seats, Sleuth opens
Wednesday February 18 at 8
p-m. and-runs until March
14. Performance times are 8
pm. Sun., Tues., Wed.,
Thurs., and Fri., and 6:30
and 9:30 on Sats. There is no
performance Monday.
Tickets are $6.50 ($5.50
students and seniors) Tues. -
Thurs., and $7.50 ($6.50
students and seniors) Friday
- Sunday. Reservations: 986-
1351. Please confirm your
attendance by Feb. 13.

Nigerian exhibit travels north

By BILL CORBETT

CALGARY (UPC) - An
exhibition of Nigerian art
spanning two thousand years
and insured for $43 million
would make its only
Canadian appearance in
Calgary beginning March 16,

officials of the Glenbow
Museum announced
Tuesday.

Described as the most
spectacular African art
exhibit ever loaned to North
America museums, the 100
objects on display date from
500 B.C. to 1900 A.D.

A pair of bronze leopards,
symbols of the Kingdom of

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Benin, are valued at more
than $1 million cach. Also
included will be terra cotta
heads, bronze plaques from
the royal courts of Benin and
the earliest West African art
discovered by recent ar-
chacology.

“It’s one of the most
important exhibitions in
North America in the last 20
years,” Glenbow director
Duncan Cameron said.

“In the last 40 years,
scientific excavations in
Nigeria have produced this
incredible evidence of a very
high and = sophisticated
technology in West ,Africa
that equals (art produced by)

by lan Brown & Paul McKinnon

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Feb. 20th & 21st - 8:00 p.m.

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the glory of Greece and the
great Persian Empire. These
are the first clues to
discovering civilizations of
Africa none of us ever
dreamed about before.”

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