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THE FALL season-opener for North Vancouver's Presentation House is
Vancouver playwright John Lazarus’ The Late Blumer, which will run to
Oct. 10. Here, Lauref Grey (as Elaine) and Marek Czums (as Blumer}
reminisce about the days when flower meant power.

Theatre highlights
focal playwrights

NORTH VANCOUVER’S Pres-
entation House unveils its new
season of A Celebration of Van-
couver Playwrights this week with
The Late Blumer, running until
Oct. 10.

In The Late Blumer, a 1960s
Nower child awakes from a 20-year
sleep to find himself confronted
with life in the complex, technical
and confusing 1980s.

The idea for a celebration of
Vancouver playwrights series came
up last season, and is something
that has not been explored before,
explained Presentation House
managing director Kathleen Str-
inger.

‘‘We wanted to put on our stage
something that really said Van-
couver,’’ Stringer added. ‘‘And we
wanted to support Vancouver
playwrights."’

Following John Lazarus’ The
Late Blumer is The Fourth
Monkey, by author, newspaper

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columnist and humorist Eric Nicol.
In Nicol’s play, a poet publishes
his works using the note-in-a-bottle
technique.

Presentation House will play
host to a world premiere of
Barkerville, a story of the gold
rush days in British Columbia
written by Florence McNeil.

Running at the same time as the
Celebration of Vancouver Play-
wrights is a mini-series of works by
Canadian playwrights such as
Michel Tremblay, Rick Salutin and
David French. .

Tremblay’s Albertine in 5 Times
runs from Sept. 23 to Oct. 17 and
marks the first in the mini-series of
Canadian playwrights.

“There’s a lot of focus on Ca-
nadian playwrights but we wanted
to localize it even further,” Str-
inger said of the Vancouver play-
wrights series.

For more information or season
ticket details, call the Presentation
House box office at 986-1351.

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JUDITH RIARCUSE

ance works premiere

NORTH VANCOUVER-BASED choreographer
Judith Marcuse presents Emotional Rescue, a coflec-
tion of comtemporary dance at the Vancouver
Playhouse Sept. 17 10 19,

Emouonal Rescue features two premieres — Play-
ing Without Fire by Marcuse and Inostress by Israeli
Ohad Haharin — as well as the acclaimed Marcuse
Seascape.

Playing Without Fire tells the story of a band of
entertainers that is first encountered lost in the desert,

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sans audience, and at the end of its supplies.

fnostress was influenced by the political change in
Israel during the Lebanon crisis, and by the
choreographier’s anxiety for his soldier brother serving
there,

Set to the music of Bach, Seascape is an evocation
of the sea, and actual sounds of the ocean recorded on
Long Beach are included in the dance score.

Tickets are available at VI'C/CBO. For ticket in-
formation call 280-3311.

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