46 - Friday, February 15, 1985 - North Shore News

Scene Changes

theatre ___

NORTH SHORE
Hendry Halt

Top Girls — Caryl Chur-
chill’s brilliant play about
sexual politics. Weds.-Sat. to
March 2 at 8 p.m. Res:
984-9833.
Centennial Theatre

The Pirates of Penzance—
A greater Vancouver
Operatic Society presenta-
tion. Feb. 14-16, 21-12 at 8
p.m. 437-9089.

across town.

Arts Club Granville Is.
Twelth Night. Mon, - Fri.

at 8:30, Sat. at 6:30 & 9:30,

Wed. mat. at 5:30.

City Stage

Arts Club Revue Theatre

Ain't Misbehavin’? — Held
over. Mon. - Fri. at 8:30pm.
Sat. at 6:30 and 9:30pm.
Tues. 2 for 1 at 5:30.
Arts Club Seymour Street

Love Is Strange
Mon.-Fri. at 8:30., Sats. at 6
& 9:30, Low price. Mat. on
Thurs at 5 p.m.

Waterfront Theatre Gran-
ville Isiand

Ill Be Back Before Mid-
night — Special benefit per-
formance for actors of
Canada. Feb. 17 at 2 p.m.
Tickets 2 for 1. Res & info
873-3311.

198 4

LiG BROTHER is worth
watching.

| By COLIN LAMONT |

In fact, Michael Radford’s
film of George Orwell’s nove!
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a
chilling, riveting look at a
possible totalitarian
tomorrow.

Radford’s remake of Nine-
teen Eighty-Four is u faithful
adaptation of Orwell's
literary vision of government
gone mad. It is the reversal cf
Big Brother is watching you,
allowing the viewer to watch
Big Brother crushing

“humanity with a cold, cruel
boot of oppression.

In the film, as in the book,
the year is 1984 and the world
has been divided into three
military camps: Oceania,
Eurasia and Eastasia, engag-
2d in a perpetual strugete to
rule the globe. In Oceania
(set in London, England)
‘the party’’ rules everyone
in every aspect of life. Direc-
tor Radford, in choosing to
follow the novel’s description
’ of future feudalism, employs
his own cast of brutal storm-

American Buffalo —
Tues.-Sat. at 8 p.m., Sat.
Mat. 2 for) at 4 p.m.
Firehall Theatre

Sex Tips for Modern Girls
Touchstone Theatre’s new
creation celebrates the joys
and confusions of relation-
ships. Tues.-Fri. Sun at 8:30.
Sat. at 6:30 & 9:30, 689-0926
Gateway Theatre. Richmond

Fiaf ~- Joelle Rabu is
worth the drive. Tues.-Fri. at
8 p.m. Sat. at 6& 9p.m. Sun,
vat. 2:30. To Feb. 23.
270-1812,

Studiv 58

Lark Rise — An unusual
‘promenade production” ex-
plores English village life.
Tues.-Sat. at 8 p.m. Sun.
mat. at 2:30 weekday perfs. 2
for 1.
Vancouver East Cultural
Centre

Contagious Tamah-
nous’ original musical, A
social satire in the style of
European political cabaret.
Coarse language warning.
Last weekend 8:30,
Q.E. Playhouse

Clarence Darruw — Feb.
16- Mar. 16 at 8 p.m. except
Suns. stars William Hutt.
873-3311.

Clare Cunningham Dance
Foundation

— Auditioning male/female.

dancers for company
employment. 985-2215,

chills

troopers called thoupht
police, who terrorize anyone
daring to think, act, or even
gesture against the
government,

Actor John Hurt captures
the essence of Winsion
Smith. A tall, emaciated,
middle-aged government
worker longing to escape his
mental and physical prison,
he broods over escape plans,
not for just himself, but all of
humanity. Hurt, with sunken
cheeks and hacking cough,
steps out of Orwell's navel
and onto the screen with un-
canny accuracy.

Hurt seems to be at his best
when portraying humans
trapped by their environment
or fate. He brings the same
sympathetic treatment to the
character Winston Smith that
he did when starring as the
hideously deformed
Englishman in the film The
Elephant Man. Winston
plods his way to work
through the bomb-ravaged
Nitter of London, only to plod
his way back home again to a
bare, crumbling, crowded
tenement, where he lives
alone.

UBC Old Auditorium

Equinox — A program of
new dance warks by students
and professionals. Feb. 22-24
at 8:30.

Arts Club Revue Theatre

Purcell String Quartet
Haydn, Mozart, Kathryn
Cernauskas, flute. Sun. Feb.
17 at 8 p.m.

Hudson Manor

Equinox Vocal Ensemble
A Valentine program of love
pongs, madrigals and pocms.
Sat, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. 1254
W. 7th, Van.

Orphéim

Presermration Hall Jazz
Band Nets Orleans jazz by
the old time originals. Sun.
Feb. 17 at 7:30.

The Canadian Brass — in
concert with Vancouver
Chamber Choir. Weds. Feb.
20at8p.m.

Vancouver Bach Choir

Bach Aria Competition
Taped submissions required.
Details 733-4584

UBC Sub Ballroom
Showcase ‘85 features
Beverly Sisters
Red Herring
Go 43

UBC War Memorial Gym
George Thorogood & The

Destroyers — FEb. 17. Info

280-4441.

Vancouver Exst Cuiiural

Centre
Ferron —~ Feb. 20 & 21 at

8:30 254-9578.
artworld

Harrison Galleries, Park
Royal
Featured artists:

George Bates

Daniel Izzard

Jose Trinidad
Kighlands United Church

Encounter with Art — W.
Van Sketch Club presents 6
lectures & workshop by pro-
minent W. Coast artists on
Feb. 22 & 23. Applications
980-6992
N.S. Museum

Playtime — Antique toys
& games, Wed.-Sun. 1-4 p.m.
Free. 209 W. 4th.
Presentation House

A_ Veiceless Song
Photograpns of the Slavic
Lands by John Paskievich.

In The Keeping Room —
Photography by Marcus
Schubert and Ed Burtynsky.
Both shows Tues, Sun
noon-4 p.m. Thurs noon-9

p.m,
W.Y. Memorial Library

June Pender — paintings.
Station Museum

Cates Towing 1914-1980.

Bicycle Shop 1920-19405.

Early Radio & T.V.

Home Movie Cameras &
Toy Prajectors. Sun's. only,
1:30-4:30. Free. Mahon
Park.

Emily Carr College

the viewer

Radford has capiured the
cold, colorless life in Oceania
with the help of a special
color-deletion technique.
There is little contrast in the
bleak landscape, dingy, grey,
city streets filled with cold
rubble, workers in drab olive-
green coveralls, and even
Winston's apartinent walls
relieved oniy by water-stains
and broken crumbling
plaster.

At no time are the
characters free of the wat-
chful eyes of Big Brother.
Again, Radford has stuck to
the original concept of
Orwell’s idea of futuristic
technology. The giant tele-
screen with the = stern,
militaristic face on it wat-
ching Winston is hardly state-
of-the-art. It looks as faded
and utilitarian as the rest of
Winston’s world.

In this fearful existence,
the disillusicned worker
begins a diary to express his
feelings of hate for the party.
He is joined in his rebellion
by a young, child-like co-
worker Julia (Suzanna
Hamilton). Hamilton por-
trays Julia with the naive,

Come in for a free, computerized
colour personality test.

We welcome you to meet Sharon (our Fieldcrest
Representative} at the Park Royal store. She will
introduce you to our colour-test computer and also
be showing a 12 minute video on colours & what
they mean. It's going to be fun. so do join us.

Also available — a fabulous special on Royal

Velvet Soltouch towels.

Saturday, February 16 1lam-3pm

recklessness the character
demands. With her juvenile
face, but inborn toughness,
she helps Winston engage in
every sexcrime and thought-
crime outlawed by the scate.

Radford’s only problem
with the film seems to be with
the scenes where stinging
emotion is called for. During
hate periods, when enemies
of the state are flashed across
telescreens, the mob scenes of
slate-workers supposedly
caught up in a frenzy of hate
fall flat. They scream at the
screen but lack an intensity.

While Hurt and Hamilton
team up to play the doomed
lovers caught up in the Nazi-
like nightmare, Richard Bur-
ton as O'Brien, the inner-
party man is ever-sniocth and
ever-cool. He calmly tortures
Winston to redeem him for
the party. This was Burton’s
last screen role before his
death and one of his best.

While 1984 is over, Rad-
ford’s film offers a timeless
message with a few shivers
for anyone watching it. Nine-
teen Eighty-Four is now play-
ing at the Varsity and West
Van Qdeon.

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PARK ROYAL NORTH

926-5122

Charity Art Auction — to
benefit Food Banks Sat. Feb.
23, 12-3 p.m. To donate a
work call 687-2345
U.B. C. Museum of
Anthropology

Cedar Demonstrations
Craft demos. by local Native
Indians Sundays at 1:30

miscellaneous_

Centennial Theatre

Kids Film Classics
Every Sat at 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.
This week ‘Robin Hood”.
Presentation House

Heritage Day A Film, a
tour of 25 buildings adn tea
at Emerald Lodge. Feb. 17 at
1:30 in the Gibson Room.
Capilano College .

Poetry Reading — Ralph
Gustafson, a poet from
Quebec. RIOS Studio
Theatre. Mon. Feb. 18 at
42:30,

‘Fiction Reading — D.M.
Fraser, modern fiction writer
from Pulp Press. H402
Faculty/staff Lounge at 8
p.m., Feb. 21.

Centennia! Theatre

Chanticleer Californian
male vocal ensemble. Tix. by
subscription only. Call
988-4636

Whispers
Strauss — to Feb. 16

Smatl Time Hoods — Feb.

18-23
The Avalon,
The Coachhouse &

The Lynnwood — all have

live entertainment nightly.

TOP
GIRLS

A Play for Today
hy: Caryl Churchill
“Innovating”
““Biting’”
“Chalienging’’
Weds. to Sots. at 8pm .
Feb. 13 - Mar. 2

at
HENDRY HALL THEATRE
815 E. 11th Street
North Vancouver.
Book Now!
reservations essential

984-9833
560-5552
2 for 1 nights Feb. 13 & 14
Warnag some coarse language

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