Bob Mackin

News Reporter
JACKSON Davies pets
to mix work with plea-
sure next week.

The veteran West
Vancouver actor is starring
in The Foursome, an (8-hole
golf comedy with Mark
Weatherles, Stephen
Dimeopolous and North
Vancouver's Andrew
Wheeler.

Davies plays Rick, the
lead in the Arts Club Theatre Company's touring produc-
tion of the play written by New Brunswick's Norm Foster.

Capilano Cotlege’s Birch Theatre is where The Foursome
tees off a B.C. tour with shows on Wednesday and ‘Thursday,

The play is about four high school buddies who take to
the links the morning atter a 15th anniversary high school
reunion, Davies’ bachelor character has rekindled an old
romance. He’s paired with Donnie (Wearberley), a father of
five who has ihe gift of the gab. Ted (Dimopolous), a fol-
lower of both Buddhism and the bottle, boasts a wife 13-
years his junior, while partner Cameron (Wheeler) is a frus-
trated, vet successful, account executive,

“We ralk about old girliriends, new girlfriends,” Davies
savs. “We basically work through our fives, we catch up on
what’s happened ia the last 15 years and what's going to
happen a tit in the future, Before you know it, we're going
for beers after.”

Davies says the play might shed some fight on what men
really discuss on a golf course.

“Tm always explaining to my wife, who asks ‘What do
you guys do for five hours?’ Well, y'know, you talk, “Do you
really talk about anything important or is it just guy talk,”
she says. Once in a while we get important, but hardly
ever.”

Audience members needn't wear a helmet, because the
actors won’t be hitting balls. Davies says that will save him
trom embarrassment.

“That’s why my golf game looks so good. We do such a
good job, people are ducking in the wings.”

All joking aside, golfis a serious hobby for Davies. He

plays up to a dozen charity and celebrity tournaments each summer and
enjoys showing visitors from eastern Canada the splendour of golf courses at
Furry Creek and Northlands. Golfing with ex-Vancouver Canuck Darcey Rota
at one tournament led to being “drafted” by the Canucks’ alumni team.

Davies gets regular shifts on right wing.

Despite the weeks of rehearsing for The Foursome, Davies has only been

golfing once with his three co-stars.

“The second day of rehearsal { grabbed all the guys and went out to the

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driving range. [ wanted to hook up a game, but the weather went bad on us
when we had time to do it.”

Somewhere during the tour, Davies says they will go for a round.

@ The Foursome moves on to the Shadbolt Centre in Burnaby Jan. 17
and 20 and continues in Victoria, Nanaimo, Coquitlam, Mission, Nelson
and Kelowna through February before a May 4 to June 24 run at the
Stanley Theatre in Vancouver. Call 990-7810 for tickets to the Capilano
College shows.

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Jackson Davies

The hilarious comedy by

Norm Foster

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The Clutch by Richard
Lett, produced by Big
House Productions at
Presentation House to Jan.
22. Mature content.
Information: 990.3474.

Martin Millerchia
Curtain Call
DEAR Journal,

It's Wednesday night the
day after the icecommutades
and EF really want to go home
Now in cage it Heezes again
later, But Pm in the clutch of
a faint promise made fast
week to “trv” and sce the
show — even though they
got the dates wrong,

There's less people in the
theatre than the fingers Pm
desperately shaking to keep
warm in Presentation House’s
frigid theatre. Still, warm-up
gay Barry Greenfeld refuses
todet the audience ignore
him and, surprise, soon has us
all talking and laughing.
Maybe this will all seem funny
one day soon and Vil write a
play about it.

Which is what Richard
Lett — writer, actor and
stand-up comedian has done
about a trip from (and to)
hell in the comedic wasteland
of the Okanagan.

Lett on stage first displays
a coarser style of comedy than
Greenfeld, but seems to thrive
on the groans and heckles
turning them into ammuni-
tion and giving us a glimpse
of the arrogant persona
brought to despair and
epiphany by an encounter
with an ex-Hells Angel who
owns all of Rambo’s guns
and a has a dangerous com-
plex about good manners.

Lett spins a compelling
and humorous story that is
ultimately moral and even sad
in its honesty. Worth the trip.

Capilano College Performing Arts Theatre
2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver

February 5, 2000 at 2 PM
Box Office: 990-7810

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