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The Fringe, Vancouver's Theatre
Festival. 10 venues to Sept. 18.
Info: 273-9928.

Hé FRINGE is celebrat-
ing its 10th anniversary
this year.

That’s over 1,000 different the-
atre productions that have ranged
from the international to the
home-grown, from the outrageous
to the mundane and, let's be hon-
est, from the very good tothe =~
unbelievably bad.

if you fringed every day you
would still only be able to see
about half of this year’s available
productions. So how do you
choose where to go and what to
see?
It’s often more fun not to,
Whim and fancy seem to rule
many of the choices made by the
theatre companies so why not let
chance guide your footsteps to the
nearest line-up.

If, however, the thought of too

one ticket to CATS.
9) You've seen CATS before.

at the Fringe Club.
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and Broadway.

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the venues are in back alleys.
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cat — it’s kind of hard to tell.

5) Official Fringe perfume is Old Possum.

4) Dancing cats or dancing Maenads?

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leisurely, unplanned graze in
untried pastures while Day 2 was
timetabled to the point that there
was no time for food.

Next week this column will
concentrate on some of the
stronger material, but perhaps the
following notes are a truer reflec-
tion of the wildly varying range of
this year’s Fringe score.

@ Dawn’s Light. Oh dear. | know |
ought to like this earnest little
morality tale for its good intentions
but | confess | spent most of this
play‘s long 60 minutes praying for
an eclipse.

Billed by its author, Theatre
West Van alumnus Nancy Elliot-
Lilley, as a comedy/drama/fantasy,
it has precious little of the first two
but is certainly quite fantastic.

{ won’t mention the directors
by name but someone should tell
them theatre is not the same medi-
um as film and a parable is not
necessarily a play.

I felt sorry for West Van actor
Lisa Marie Chavatrie whose erno-
tional honesty suggested she might
shine given a real script.
© Edge #3. The Firehall Arts
Centre is a fringe venue for the first
time this year, hosting a number of
dance performances as well as
theatre.

| had a great time at Edge #3 if
only because the variety of dance
on display left me little time to
question my own lack of euryth-
mic sensibility.

The extracts presented by The
Holy Body Tattoo (from Poetry &
Apocalypse) and Judith Garay
(Blind Impulse) both left me wanti-
ng more of a context with which
to assess the pieces.

Perhaps my linear self wanted a
beginning and end.

See Guide page 29

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Road to Eternity

KOREAN EMIGRE Yu-Shin Lee's first Canadian 3210 exhibi-
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Vancouver's Ferry Building Gallery. The North Vancouver
artist's works are en display until Sunday, Sept. 25.

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