Wednesday, April 22, 1992 — North Shore News - 23

Panych attacks the big echoing void

2B WUT UR, directed and written by Morris Panych, Vancouver
East Cultural Centre, to April 25. Phone 254-9578.

ORRIS PANYCH has captured the awful, hilarious,
self-consuming struggles of adolescence in his new

musical comedy 2B WUT UR at the Vancouver

East Cultural Centre.

Remember that gaping void you
felt as a teenager? You thought

Of course, the price for her
non-conformity is not being one of

the “‘in’ crowd. Barbara Black

at jokes about librarians anc
English teachers.

Even Alex Ferguson, who plays
Cab, is a Panych clone, with his
waggling tongue, trench coat and
rolling eyes (or is he supposed to
be an earlier incarnation of
Panych?).

2B WUT UR portrays the dual
agony of the teen’s quest for indi-
viduality and acceptance (i.e. con-

pop out through manholes in the
stage floor (very Beckett-like) to
throw platitudes Cab’s way:

“Sure, whatever you want, it’s
up to you, honey!” (Fun carica-
tures by Patti Allan and lan Ross
McDonald.)

Cab describes them as ‘‘ex-
hippies...people who had a gen-
eration to live in,” unlike his own
non-generation.

The great thing about this show

that something great should hap-
pen to you, or if not, then some- It is Dewey who finally jolts Cab formity), but keeps it light.
thing horrendous, or for God's out of his egocentrism by pointing THEATRE REVIEW Cab’s parents offer little solace is it appeals to the age group it
sake just anything but that bloody —_—gut that he is not the only one in with their “anything goes’ ap- depicts, as well as to anyone else
emptiness. . the universe with an identity prob- The show is full of Panych one- _ proach to parenting. who's ‘‘been there."

You filled it with loud music, lem ~ all teenagers go through liners. Last Saturday’s audience They are merely two “smiling, 28 WUT UR continues to April
beer, illegal substances, religious the same crisis. had a teen contingent cracking up _ nodding heads” who occasionally 25.

fervor, or moroseness and still it
hung around — THE BIG ECHO-
ING VOID, full of unanswered
questions.
Of course, it’s all funny in
retrospect. But it certainly wasn’t
then.
2B WUT UR captures both the
funny and the serious aspects of
teens trying to find an identity and :
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As we can tell from the Ken Sunday,
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wire fencing and a Johnny on the
spot.
Centre stage is a huge head (i.e.
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