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B16 - Wednesday, September 7, 1983 - North Shore News

Thanks largely to. good

timing, Tamahnous will be
opening its season with the
Canadian premiere of Caryl
Churchill’s highly successful
play Top Girls September 30,
at the Vancouver East
Cultural Centre. The rights
to the British playwright’'s
feminist work were and are
‘much sought after and it was
a matter of being in the right
place at the right time that
brought this hot property to
Tamahnous.

By late July Tamiahnous
had already
determined its fall show
when director Larry Lillo
returned excited and en-
thusiastic from a trip to New
York. Lillo had just seen a
production of Churchill's
Top Girls and urged
Tamahnous to try and secure
the rights to the scathing
social comedy. A letter was
immediately sent off to New
York. Much to everyone's

delight, a positive response:

CLASS (14 yrs) Capitol 2, 4,
6, 8, 10
EASY MONEY (M) Park

Royal 7, 9 (Sat/Sun 2:30)
FLASH DANCE (M)
Vancouver Centre 2:30,
4:15, 6, 8, 10

METAL STORM (M) West
Van 7:30, 9:15 Mats.
Sat/Sun 2:30

MR. MOM (M) Park Royal
& Richmond 7:30, 9:25,
Sat/Sun/Mon 2:15
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S
VACATION (M) Capitol,
2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30
RETURN OF THE JEDI (M)
West Van 7, 9:30 Mat.
Sat/Sun 2:30

RISKY BUSINESS (R)
Capitol 2:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40
SNOW WHITE AND THE
SEVEN DWARFS (G) West
Van Odcon, 7:15, 9:00 Mat.
Sat/Sun 2:15

STAYING ALIVE (M)
Capitol, 3:00, 5:00, 7:40,
9:50

STRANGE BREW (M) Park
Royal 7:15, 9:15, Sat/Sun
2:00

TRADING PLACES
Capitol, 2:00, 4:25, 7:00,
9:30

VACATION (M) Capitol 2.
4:3, 7, 9:30

WAR GAMES (M) Van.
couver Centre, 2:45, 5, 7:15,
9:25

arrived only 10 days later.
Tamahnaus_ seized the
opportunity.

Top Girls has been
labelled both funny and
provocative. The play opens
with a strange meeting of
even stranger characters.
Protagonist Marlene has
thrown a dinner party to
celebrate her promotion to
managing director of the
prestigious London Top

Girls Employment Agency. -

But her dinner partners are
not “girls” from the office,
but a peculiar assortment of
figures from feminine history
and mythology.

Some of those included —
Pope Joan, rumored to

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- have disguised herself as a

man and risen to. the position
of Holy Father from 854-856;

Lady Nijo, an Imperial
Japanese courtesan —

turned-nun; and Dull Gret, |
painted by Bruéghel as‘*she —

led a rampaging:.mob_ of
women into bell. ‘The link
among this: unlikely
assortment of women is the
common female experience:
the loss of their children, the
abandonment of their lovers,
the dues they have all paid
for a kind of questionable
success.

The remaining four scenes
of Top Girls replace fantasy
with modern reality. They
alternate between the lower

Festivel;

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middle class home of
Marleéne’s sister Joyce and
the Top Girls Employment
Apency.

; Director Larry Lillo (Bent,
The ~ Elephant Man) has
assembled( seven - of Van-
‘couver's finest actresses for
the all-female cast:
Tamahnous -veteran Sue
Astley; Gillian Barber and
Susan: Willigmson,: both
recently of the Shakespeare
Kim . Horsman
(Victoria's Belfry Theatre);
Corrine Koslo (White Rock
Summer Theatre); Brenda
Robbins (Blood Relationy
and Donna White (Betrayal).
Sets and costumes by
Tamahnous Team Design,

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Top Girls previews at the
VECC September 28 and 29;

opens September 30 and

runs to October 22 - 8:30
p.m. Monday to Saturday
with a Saturday matinee at
4:30 p.m. For ticket in-
formation and reservations
phone 254-9578.

Wong scores victory

‘KAREN Wong came home
from the National Finals of
the Canadian Music Com-
petition held in Montreal
this summer with first place
in her category, eight and
under. ;

Gity Hall,

City Hall
141 West 14th Street
North Vancouver, B.C.

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OF NORTH VANCOUVER
| NOTICE OF COURT OF REVISION

1984 LIST OF ELECTORS

NOTICE is hereby given that a Court of Revision for
the List of Electors will be held in the Council Chamber,
141 West 14th Street, North Vancouver,
B.C., on Monday, October 3, 1983 at 4:00 p.m. for
the purpose of correcting and revising the List of
Electors for the year 1984.

The Court shall hear any application to strike out the
name of any person which has been improperly placed
- thereon, or to place on the said list the name of any

person improperly ommitted therefrom.

This list as prepared will be available for inspection on
and after the 15th day of September, 1983.

‘The North Vancouver girl
who has just finished grade
three’ at Fromme School,
received a 91 per cent mark
on-her performance.

She is seven years old. —

E.A. Raymond
City Clerk