COSTN VASSOS and Alison Jenkins star in Seascape with Shark & Dancer at Theatre West
Van tonight, running March 23 -26 and April 6-9. To reserve tickets call 926-2228.

Lilies by Michel Marc Bouchard,
translated by Linda Gaboriau.
An Arts Club, Pink Ink,

‘Touchstone Theatre co-produc-
tion directed by Sandhano

Schultze and Roy Surette at the

Arts Club MainStage to April 9.

Res: 687-1644. | .

Nudity and mature content.
USPENDED ACROSS
Robert Gardiner’s other-
wise brick-solid set is a

huge gilt picture frame.

Itis such an obviously artifi-
cial and romantic statement in
what is otherwise an earthily ele-
mental! design that it demands
the very questions that awarcl-
winning Quebec playwright
Michel Marc Bouchard seeks to
raise. - .

The play opens as Bishop
Bilodeau gropes his way into the
gloom of an abandoned ware-
house. . .

Here he will soon view aban-
donment of a different sort as he
is confronted by Simon Doucet

Martin Millerchip
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and forced to witness anew
events from their adolescence of
some 40 years-ago in the small
resort town of Roherval.

The frame borders a stage as
Simon and other ex-cons act out
seminal events that the one has
spent his whole life forgetting
and the other remembering.

The frame also surrounds an
early image of the martyrdom of
St. Sebastian, reputedly shot to
death by arrows in 288 AD.

As taught by the school priest,
Sebastian wants to die —~ betiev-
ing sacrifice is a moment of ulti-

mate love.

This image continues to recur
as a tragic series of events
unfolds, culminating in two
{almost three) deaths that are
“nobly” self-chosen: “Our entire
life is revealed in the courage
and clarity of our acts.”

Finally, and most importantly,
the frame places the audience on
both sides of the action.

Like Bilodeau, we are passive
watchers. The theatricality of the
play-within-a-play device is fur-
ther emphasized by lines like:

“She's not crazy, she’s just play-

ing a part.”

But we are all players on the
stage of life and it is not enough
for playwright Bouchard to invite
us into his romantic orgy of
nobility and betrayal, courage
and cowardice by creating recog-
nizable archetypes.

By creating a company of all-
male convicts Bouchard has his
audience watch adolescents

See Morgan page 38

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