BS - Sunday, May 13, 1984 - North Shore News MS entertainment Ee Two actresses ponder their next life From page BS it... nobody wants you when you haven't worked for a year.”’ Lorn is taking her own good advice. A North Shore resident and recent UBC graduate, Sister Mary lg- natius is her first big show. But Lor has also been per- forming in Theatresports League and will be involved in their newest production Shps, when Sister Mary lIg- natius finishes its run. Betty Phillips, who plays Sister Mary Ignatius, 1s sit- ting opposite Lon, relaxing after a long day. Lori is rushing to get changed, as Theatresports begins half an hour after the evening Sister ends. We chat about the play and their characters, and the public’s reaction to its bitter stabs at the Catholic church. “‘In four months we’ve on- ly had nine walkouts, which isn’t bad,”’ Betty says, ‘‘and one letter from a woman who was very upset ... what seems to bother people most is the crucifixion.”’ At one point in the play, the other actors perform a mock Christmas pageant for the good sister. A scraggly baby doll, used to. signify Christ, 1s nailed to a small wooden crucifix at the end. The crowd that evening had emitted gasps, groans and shocked exclamations during the scene. **Do you think it’s because we're hammering up Jesus?”’ Phillips wonders. lori shakes her head, **They see that on TV all the time at Easter.”’ I think it’s because it's a doll,’ | say; ‘you aren’t sup- posed to put nails through dollies, especially baby dolhies.”’ They laugh and begin to debate whether it is the doll, or the representation of a baby that bothers the au- dience. But Lori has to leave, the music for Theatresports is getting louder and the theatre is filling up. We stay on for a while, to discuss Catholicism and the TWENTY-FIVE runners raised almost $8000 in OXFAM-Canada’s 3rd an- nual Run for Refugees as part of the Vancouver Inter- national Marathon on Sun- day, May 6. The Runners came from across British Columbia and included six students from Lester B. Pearson Interna- tonal College of the Pacific on Vancouver Island. This is the second year that student from the college have par ticipated in the run Tom CoOuver Pedersen of had never Van run oa Four run for Oxfam marathon before but he was inspired to complete this one. **| heard about it as an OX- FAM volunteer and decided to attempt it because I believe strongly in supporting development in Third World countries in whatever way | can.”’ OXFAM-Canada, an in- ternational development agency, will use the funds collected this year for agricultural, educational and health projects for refugees in’ Central America = and southern Africa’ There are over 1,000,000 refugees in these two regions Hong Kong Chinese Food. & I PLT Re # zt Tableside cooking pork chicken crt Prawns setved on a sisting plater TEPPAN STYLE Str foed beel Lunch Special Three courses $8 $350 Golden Phoenix Kestaurant | Free home delivery min $8 00 | 1933 Lonsdale Licensed Premises | days/wook Mon Phase Vian lige liam Iiimnid Fri Sat = Sun & hols 11 30am 10 30pen play with Betty Phillips. “ve met quite a few nuns,’’ she says, ‘‘and they have all been charming well balanced people. | play Sister Mary Ignatius as mad, so- meone who has been on the borderline of madness for a long time ... 1 don’t think that the play is so much about Catholicism, but about authoritarianism, to any ex- treme degree, of any kind, and how, dangerous it is.’’ Sister Mary Ignatius is a zealotic parochial teacher, who by the end of the play shows herself to be very dangerous indeed. Phillips’ interpretation makes her so strong and scary that it is she who carries the play through several of the choppy transi- tions that plague the script. Phillips is pleased with her work in the play. As one of the busier Canadian ac- tresses, she can cheerfully say that she has no idea what she’! do after the play's run ends, but undoubtedly **That’s what makes our profession so terribly ex- citing,’’ she says with a deter- mined smile, ‘‘you never know what comes next.”’ Sister Mary plays in Vic- tonia May 15-24 and reopens at City Stage May 25. something will turn up. ST. ANDREW'S. WESLEY CHURCH SACRED MUSIC SERIES PRESENTS ORGAN and BRASS MARTIN BERINBAGM — TRUMPET EDWARD NORMAN — ORGAN Including the BERINBAUM BRASS ENSEMBLE The Programme will include music by: Albinoni, Gabrieli, Gigout, Vierne, Telernann, Clarke FRIDAY MAY 18 at 8:00 P.M. ST. 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