B8-Wednesday, April 23, 1980 - North Shore News

LIVE THEATRE AT PRESENTATION HOUSE

Two new stage productions in May

Presentation House, 333
Chesterfield Avenue, North
Vancouver, is tackling two
stage productions in May for
live theatre fanciers on the
North Shore.

The Women of Margaret
Laurence, running May 8 to
10, is a one-woman show
performed by Norma Ed-
wards to celebrate National
Book Festival.

Edwards’ performance has
been hailed as “arresting and
enjoyable absorbing”

Now for something dif

On May 2 you're in for
something completely
different when Stage 33
opens the Canadian
premiere of STRAIGHT
UP. This British farce
opened in the 70’s at the
Traverse Theatre in
Edinburgh, the centre which
is “the prolific source of
London’s new and  ex-
perimental theatre and the
most important spawning
grounds for new drama.”

At that time The Guardian

(Ray Conlegue, Clobe and
Mail) and “breathtaking”
(Margaret Laurence).

Laurence’s remarkable
heroines, Hagar, Rachel,
Morag, Stacey and Vanessa
are the challenge Norma
Edwards has set up for
herself in her acclaimed one-
woman show.

And for its second
production, Presentation
House is staging a play from
the Restoration Period.

Lock Up Your Daughters,

said it had “more truly funny
lines and situations per
minute than anyone has a
right to expect.” When it
played in New York a few
years later, the New York
Times described it as “a
domestic comedy of
horrifying undomesticity.”

STRAIGHT UP has
overtones of a Joe Orton or
Feydeau creation: full of
double entendres’= and
mistaken identities. A local

performed by North Van-
couver Community Players,
runs May 14 to 24.

This boisterous comedy
musical is adapted by
Benard Miles with music by
Lionel Bart.

Presentation House will
repeat its Summer School
programs from July 7 to
August 15.

Classes will be offered in
drawing and painting, crafts,
fabric arts, drama and
creative movement.

priest gives a young parole a
big chance to go straight by
placing him in the home of a
nice, normal suburban
family. This wayward,
misguided youth has a
chance to evaluate the oath,
“Il promise to tell the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth.” However, as
the plot thickens, truth
becomes stranger than
fiction, making it extremely
difficult to decide who needs
rehabilitation the most.

Cap looks for homes

A group of college
students from Quebec will
be attending an English
immersion programme at
Capilano College from May
18th to June 28th, 1980.

for
fain‘hies

We are looking
English-speaking

able to share their homes,
and some meals with these
francophone students. A fee
of $265.00 will be paid to

cover room and _ board
expenses. Host families
should be located within

walking distance of the
college, or near bus routes.

THE 1980

For more information or
details this
programme, please contact:
Eilleen Steele, at Capilano
College, 2055 Purcell Way,
North Vancouver, B.C. V7J
3H5, ‘telephone 986-1911,
local 238.

about

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“A YEAR WITH A DIFFERENCE”

A gigantic fund-raising
TRASH AND TREASURE
SALE will be held = at
Presentation House, May 30.
Surprise celebrities will be
on hand to help sell clothes,
books, records, toys and
other collectibles gathered.
Home baking will also be
available and entertainment
and an auction are planned.

An exhibition featuring
the works of Christie Harris,
Doug Tait, and Anne Blades,
all B.C. illustrators of

erent

Playwright, Syd Cheatle,
has created half a dozen
shady characters for this
escapade who tell us like it is
(“straight up”) even when it
isn’t.

The Canadian premiere of
STRAIGHT UP plays at

“Vancouver's newest lounge

theatre, Stage 33, from May
2 until June 14. Show times
are Monday to Friday at 8
p.m., and Saturday at 7 and
10 p.m. Tickets are on sale
at all VTC and Eaton's
outlets, in the lobby of the
Hohday Inn City Centre,
Harbourside, and at the door

of Stage 33, 1133 West
Hastings Street. For
reservations, phone 689-
9211.

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children's books will be
shown in the Gallery, May |
- 18.

This exhibition is planned
to coincide with National
Book Festival.

In addition to ilustrations,
there will be examples of the
process of illustrations from
the rough drawing to the
finished work. Author
Robert Harlowe is opening
night speaker.

Seminars and readings are
planned fo the duration of
the exhibition.

And later in the summer

. Presentation House is of-

fering a student photography
show.

Representing the finest of
student photography in B.C.
this open theme juned show

offers a unique opportunity

for secondary school
students to display their
work in aé_e gallery = atr-
mosphere.

In addition to the
exhibition itself, the

organizers will provide
student and teacher docents
to point out stylistic trends
and explain photographic
processes.

Workshops are being
planned to coincide with the
weekend openings of the
show. Jim  Bruekelman,
Director of the Emily Carr
School of Art; Tom Knott,
curator of V.I.E.W. Gallery;
Barry Jones, UBC Faculty of
Fine Arts; and Fred Hertzog
photographer, are judging
the show.

We have a great selection
of men’s and ladies’ cowboy

hats. We also have children’s
sizes in straw or felt

Exquisite Leathers

G ; apilano mali

big

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985-8411