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B8-Sunday News, November 9, 1980

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The ‘Good Doctor’ is here with WV actress

With West Van actress

Stage 33, Vancouver's
unique Theatre Lounge is
presenting Neil Simon's THE
GOOD DOCTOR running
through November.

Neil Simon’s prolific pen
has produced such winners
as CALIFORNIA SUITE,
THE LAST OF THE RED
HOT LOVERS, THE ODD
COUPLE and CHAPTER
TWO. This tumc he sallies up
to Anton Chekhov, borrows
some short stories, comes up
with a waggish collection of
Vignettes and calls it THE
GOOD DOCTOR.

This parade of zany
Czarists includes a Don Juan
who is outsmarted by a
friend's nubile mate, a
marvellous harridan who
screeeches rubles from a

banker, a petty clerk who is
undone by a colossal sneeze
and an anxious father who
attempts to induct his son
into manhood. The chaos is
wacky and the. mirth,
contagious!

David Glyn-Jones leads
the frolic, uproariously
supported by Mark Bolton,
Jane Logie, Gregory Reid
and Brenda Robins of West
Vancouver. Direction is by
Donna Spencer, Set and
Lighting Design by Douglas
Welch and Costumes by
Linda Morgan.

Showtimes are Monday
through Friday, 8 pm:
Saturdays at 7 and 10 pm.
Tickets are available
through the Vancouver

Ticket Centre, 687-4444 and
Eatons outlets or in the
lobby of the Holiday Inn
Harbourside ©23ll 089-3008
for reservations.

Brenda Robins is a West
Vancouver graduate of
Studio 58 where she played
the title role in “Stevie” to
critical acclaim. Last season
she was seen in “Blithe
Spirit” for the Playhouse
Theatre Centre and in
“Treats” for Citystage.

She appeared with White
Rock Summer theatre this
summer in “Black Comedy”,
“Springtime for Henry” and
“Gaslight”. Her most recent
appearance was in
“Dreaming and Duelling” far
New Play Centre and the
Playhouse.

Things that crawl out
from under rocks

By PAT RICH

Once upon a time, long
ago and far away there was a
group called Hermans
Hermits lead by a young
bright-faced innocent  in-
dividual called Peter Noone.

The group gave the world
such memorable
teenybopper tunes as “Mrs
Brown You've Got a Lovely
Daughter,” and ‘No Milk
Today’ (“No milk today my
love has gone away. It wasn't
always so, we turned night in
to day ...”).

Sometime iw the carly 60’s
the group vanished, along
with Noonc.

Wednesday night Noone
resurfaced im Vancouver's
Commodore Ballroom. as
young looking as ever, with a
group called ‘The Trem.
blers’.

The obvious question was,
what a noice boy hke Peter
Noone was doing 9 a place
like the Commodore,
opening for Iggy Pop.

Do not relax your guard
ob mothers of the North
Shore, punk rock 1s not quite
dead, and many strange and
nasty things crawled out of
dccp holes Wednesday to
sec the grandfather of punk

But morc of that later

The Tremblers played
good, loud consistent: rock
and roll

The songs Noone sings
haven't increased a great
decal in profundity since the
days of Hermans Hermits as
they belted out such songs as
‘TM be taking her out tonight
and ‘She was something
clsc |

Good loud musk but
nothing spectacular

If you wanted spec tac les.
you only had to look at the
audhicnce

The days of the saicty pan
through the car and the
razor blade through the osc
are long gone Punk after
four year bas mellowed and
minced with modish New
Wave look

But there were stall
chough concentration «amp
hamrstylics and shiny pointy
cbothes to leave ltthe doubt

that you were among the
children of the Sex Pistols.

Fun kids, who like to
urinate in the washroom sink
and for whom the Com-
modore hired at least six
rather large muscular types
to control.

And they were all there to
see Iggy Pop and to hear him
tell them that they were
“more boring than
television.”

One does not dance to
Iggy Pop. One does not even
pogo. One just stands and
lets the very loud powerful

violent music seep through
the pores and corrupt the
soul.

The main thought that
came from watching Iggy as
he androgynously bounced
across the stage, was that he
should never be booked to
play a glass ballroom where
delicate elven types speak in
hushed crystalline tones.

Iggy has definite appeal
but only to those with
twisted jangled minds who
have more than blood
coursing through theu veins
when they listen to him.

If you yearn for
Romantic Dance
Music, you'll

BRENDA ROBINS and David Glyn-Jones have an interesting “arrangement” in Neil
Simon's comedy “The Good Doctor” playing at Stage 33 through November.

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