50 - Friday, March 1, 1985 - North Shore News

Scene Changes

theatre ___

NORTH SHORE
Centennial Theatre

Desert Song— N. Shore
Light Opera. Thurs.-Sa’.,
March 7-23 at 8 p.m.
988-6166.
Hendry Hall

Top Girls — Cary] Chur-
chill’s tGrilliant play about
sexual plitics. Weds.-Sat. to
March 2 at 8 p.m. Res:
984-9833.
Presentation House

The Mousetrap —
Wed.-Fri. at 8:30, Sat. at
6:30 & 9:30, Sun. at 2:30.
Closes March 3."

ACROSS TOWN
: Arts Club Granville Is.

Love ‘Is Strange _
‘Mon.-Fri. at 8:30., Sats. at 6
‘&: 5:30. Low prise. Mat. on

oo ; ae Buffalo _
Brilliant: perfs.’-in- Mamet’s
“parable of American low-life.

-Tues.-Sat.. at 8. p.m.,. Sat. -

‘Mat, 2 for] at'4-p.m.
: Fireball Theatre: J
"Le Sea Horse — Quebecois
‘adaption ‘of: Edward .More’s
play presented by La Troupe
' dela Seizieme. March 7-17 at
8:30, except ‘March’ I.
.Q.E. Playhouse ..° ~
Clarence Darrow — Feb.
16 - Mar. 16 at 8 p.m. except
Suns.
’ 873-3311.
-Waterfront Theatre -
CU Be ‘Back Before Mid-
night —-Tues.-Thurs. at 8
p.m, Fri, Sat at 5:30 & 9
p.m. + Sun. at 5:30.

dance

Firehall Theatre

~ Jumpstart — An evening
of multi disciplinary works
by Lee Eisler and Nelson

Gray. Feb. 27 - Mar. 2.at-

8:30.

. artworld

NORTH SHORE
' «Harrison Galleries, Park
; Royal

stars William Hutt. om

Featured artists:

John Horton

Helen Kowallek

Richard Freeman
N.V. Courthouse

Don Portelance — Prims,
Pastels & Drawings, 200 E.
23d, 8:30-4 p.tn.

News Photographers —
Personal work.of Ian Smith,
Terry Peters, Stuart Davis,
Ellsworth Dickson. 141 W.

_ 34, 8:30-4:30:

N.V. District Hall

Ingeborg Raymer ~~ 20
prints & watercolors. 355 W.
Queens, 8:30-4:30.

N.S. Museum

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

Presentation House
Contemporary Canadian
Photography — from the pic-

. ture'collection of the Nation
‘Film Board. Feb. 28 - Mar.

24

Gallery hours are
Tues.-Sun, noon-4. p.m.
Thurs, noon-9 p.m,

‘Shoot Your Dog! — Sub-
missions of your favorite dog
snapshot are invited by Mar.
20. 986-1351.

West: Van. Memorial
Library
June Pender — Paintings

ACROSS TOWN
“Emily Carr College of Art

_ First Annual. Painting
Sale— affordable art futures.

- March 2 & 3, 10-6 p.m.

Vancouver Museum

Hiramatsuri — Doll
Festival ‘on Japan’s Girl's
Pay. Exhibits and
demonstrations. Sun., March
3, 11-4. Info: 736-4431.

-in. concert

NORTH SHORE
St. Andrews United Church
N. Shore Music Festival —
March 10-22. .1,000 eniries in
piano, strings & voice. Info:
984-7707.
Centennial Theatre
Holly Arntzen — Festival
Encore Series, March | at 7
‘p.m, March 2 & 3. at 1 p.m.
& 3 p.m,

ACROSS TOWN
Q.E. Playhouse
Sunday Coffee Concert —-

Bernard Turgeon, bzritone.
March 3 at Jl a.m.
St. Andrew's Wesley Church
Choral Concert / Stantey
Ritchie — Vancouver
Chamber Choir, Vancouver
Cantata Singers, Christ
Church Cathedral Choir,
Sat. March 2 at 8 p.m.
669-0909.
Vancouver East Cultural
Centre
Stringband in concert for
Meares Island Sun. March 3
at 8 p.m.

Weathering The

_ By COLIN LAM

MALCOLM IS burned out
and bored to death with his
job as a big city newspaper
ime reporter until he gets a
ne call from Alan.
ter the call, Malcolm
Andégon (Kurt Russell) is
not boved; he is hungry for
the story*that could win him
a Pulitzer Prize. .

Alan Delour (Richard

JordenO is hungry, too, for
the next murder victim that
will bring him media atten-
tion and recognition®,
“In a low soothing Whisper
he confides to Malcolm over
the phone that he has ‘a
need.” ‘‘The need to ‘talk
and the other one..

The Mean Season has the
makings of a good murder
movie with a subtle, sinister
beginning to catch
viewer's attention. It's too
bad that the film’s only real
guts turn out to be the scenes
with the victim’s blood spat-
tered across the screen.

Canadian director, Philip
Borsos (The Grey Fox) chose
this murder show for his
first big shot at the
American market. He starts
out right with the portrait of
a young crime reporter fed
up with his career at the
Miami Journal and fonging
for the life of a small town
newsman in Colorado.

Malcolm, unshaven and
looking lost, shows up at the
Journal after his holiday
with his girlfriend. His
editor sends him out to cover
the shooting of a teenage girl
and the reluctant reporter
obliges. When the story hits
the paper, Malcolm gets a
call from the killer. He likes
the story and promises the

Singing for supper

SINGING FOR her supper is
what North Vancouver ac-
tress Cecilia Smith is doing
at the dinner theatre at
Sophie’s Restaurant in’ Van-
couver.

‘*Literally,’’ she says,
since the two-week job is
keeping her in work until her
next undertaking. ‘‘It’s nice
to have something to do be-
tween jobs.”

The freelance actress, who
sings soprano and specializes
in accents, sings songs from
My Fair Lady and Stop the
World while patrons cat and
socialize,

Workirg with singer ‘Guy
Ethier, and musical director
and accompaniment Alan
McGee, Smith says their
songs are a nice balance,
with his focus on robust
music and hers on acting,
comedy singing. ‘‘My forte
is accents and dialecis,** she

says.

Smith enjoys the musical
aspect of performing at a
restaurant, because she says,
“the music gives more vol-
ume, people stop and listen.
With a play it’s more dif-
ficuli with the cutlery clink-
ing, but the music gets them
right away.”

The musical: style of
Sophie’s, now under new
management, has moved
from opera to light operetta,
and only recently to a
Brooadway-style show, with
different entertainers per-
forming a new act every two
weeks for variety.

While waiting to perform,
Smith says she still gets all
the: butterflies that go along
with acting. The anticipation
of not. knowing who will be

dining that night makes it
more exciting, she adds,
since the close proximity of
diners makes if a personal
atmosphere,

Smith’s has worked with
such theatrical groups as the
Dunbar Musical Theatre,
North Van Community
Players and Theatre Under
the Stars. She has worked on
CBC musicals and the
Beachcombers.

Other North Shore enter-
tainers who have sung regu-
larly at Sophie’s include
Lornz, Olson, Eileen and
Don Wright and. Dawne
Lacterman. Entertainment
director Cliff Cox puts the
packages together.

Cecilia Smith will be sing-
ing at Sophie’s tonight and
Saturday night around 8
p.m. Dinner . reservations
should be made earlier to
ensure a good seat. For res-
ervations call 669-2649.

the -

pubs
& clubs ____.

PUBS & CLUBS

The Avalon

The Karrail Bros. to March 2
Nixon-Robertson —

March 7-9.

The Harvest’s Snuggery
Michael Palmer —
March 2.
Joe Stauton — March 4-9

To

journalist information on
future killings. The newsman
will, be the murder’s ‘‘con-
duit to the public.”
Throwing himself into the
story of the year with all his
gusto, Malcolm soon finds
himself teamed up witht he
killer in a bizarre relation-
ship. Forgetting: his reluc-
tance, he becomes obsessed.
Even his girlfriend’s warning

that the stery ‘‘is a col- -

laboration’’ between the
psycopath and himself does
nothing to jar him back to
the dangers of the situation.

Up to this point, director
Borsos. does“ a good job,
teasing us with the killer’s
soothing, sweet voice from a
phone booth, showing us
only a shadowy figure, a
quick shot of his ruffled hair
or a side profile of his hid-
den face.

Richard Jorden makes a
good madman, slowly com-
ing apart at the seams. Kurt

Presentation House

N.S. Folk Club — Ist &
3rd Monday every month. 8

m

Whispers

Playground Xa To
March 2

Chilliwack — Tues. March
5 only

miscellaneors_

Centennial Theatre
Kids Film Classics —

Every Sat at 10a.m. & I p.m.
info: 988-6166.
Port Townsend Tour

N.V.. Community Arts
Council is arranging a vigjt to
this former. whaling port.
Heritage houses will be open.
May 4, 5. Info 988-6844.

Information for -Friday’s
“Scene Changes”? should be
received by the previous
Friday.

Mean Season

Russell: as ” Malcolm and
Mariel Hemingway’ as- his
girlfriend Christine are both
convincing and — likeable,
normal characters.  -’

But their credible perfor-

mance is dulled as the. killer :

is revealed but. never fully
explained. From the tine
that Alan is revealed to us,

there is.no further explana- ,

tion of why he is carrying ot

“ ‘these carefully planned

murders.
‘The Méan Season becomes

‘too lean, with a plot that

degenerates into just another
cop and. killer - show,” sup-
posedly with a. message
about the dangers ‘of media -

: hype to sell papers.

The Mean Season is iow
playing ‘at the «West. -Van
Odeon and the Coronet.

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