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The bulk of my recent live
theatre exposure consists of,
let’s call them “daytime pro-
ductions.” You know the ones
I'm talking about; thev’re usu-
ally staged in school gvmy, and
you've created a costume or

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to vour nearest elementary
school production. You won't

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be disappointed.

Nonetheless, when my lit-
de brother called mie last week
to suggest that I see Robert
Dubae’s The Male hitellect ...
An Oxymoron? at the Vogue
Theatre, 1 decided to foray
once again into the profession-
al theatre scene.

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It was a sate bet, since my
brother and [have very similar
iaste in most things.

“It’s hilarious Shannie,” he
raved. “You'll laugh your face
off.”

[ scrounged up a date. Yes,
adate. He's a litle younger
than Lam ... OK, soa lot
younger, but we'll talk about
that later. The fact is 1 had a
date.

The show is playing at the
Vogue Theatre downtown,
which, if you haven’t been
there for a while, is a totally
groovy art deco style theatre.

It’s 60 vears old, and in the
process of being restored.

I think | saw The Godfather
there in 1970, but I never
noticed how lovely it was.

The audience was made up
of mostly vounger people,
between 25 and 35 I'd guess,
and as we were shown to our
seats I noticed that people
were looking at me strangely,
as if | didn’t belong.

At first I thought J was
being neurotic, but as I
looked around, I realized I
had contravened the dress
code.

I swear, everyone there was
wearing, black; black pants,
black shirts, black sweaters,
black jackets.

Clearly the dress code for
theatre is “black everything.”
And I obviously stuck out like
a tred daffodil in my “fresh
for spring” Sears pastels.

Thankfully the lights went
down soon after we were
shown to our seats, deep in
the nosebleeds of the Vogue
Theatre, and the performance
began.

Male Intellect is a one-man
show.

Well, it’s actually one man
performing six different char-
acters, all of them milling
around in the brain of Bobby,
a very confused guy who has a

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problem.

He’s been dumped by the
girl of his dreams, (his fiancée}
and he can’t figure out why.

He knows he’s a chauvin-
ist, and he knows that’s nota
good thing, but he can‘t help
himself.

Everything he learned
about women he learned from
men.

It's nothing new, this
Mars/Venus theme. But
Robert Dubac, who wrote and
stars in Male intellect, does a
great job of acting the bewil-
dered male.

The show is fresh, full of
interesting characters, and
only an hour and a half long
(no intermission).

And I can certainly under-
stand why my brother, who is
thirtysomething himself and
about to get married would

jack is more than basic at the theatre

find it so entertaining.

He’s actually sill trying to
figure the male/‘temale thing
out, Whereas guys my age and
older have lost interest and
given up the bate.

Even I, fortysomething and
a litde tired of the male igno-
rance theme as celebrated in
both my real lite and the
media, laughed out loud sev-
eral times throughout the per-
formance.

And the best thing was, I
was home just as my coac
was turning into a pumpkin.
The show ends at 9:30 p.m.

For $37 a ticket plus the
$6 parking tsb, The Male
Intellect ... An Oxymoron?
makes a great evening’s enter-
tainment.

If you get a chance, see it.

Just be sure to wear black.

shannann@telus.net

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