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CHECK YOUR coat at the door and put the next hour in the hands of Mandi, your sickly-sweet super host for a

guided tour of Exposé.

Sink into your seat and stretch those weary legs as Mandi whisks you around the bend to Exposé’s unique — some might say bizarre _ -- fairground full of pavilions.

Your super host -is really Erin

McCandlish a 20-year-old North

Vancouver. actress who stars in the

new. Vancouver production Ex-

posé: Sometimes’ the world’s fair, sometimes it. ain’t,-.which opens

June 26 at the Firehall Theatre.

While “Exposé. -plays .at the _ Firehall, Expo is really the starting point for writer-director Mark

Leiren-Young’s satirical look at -

Vancouver's world’s fair. ,

“EXPO EXPOSED.

Through a series ‘of skits, which audience. |:

Mandi guides the. through, Exposé pokes gentle, and sometimes not:so gentie, fun at / Expo and its effects on Vancouver. ‘We are:to Expo, what Second City, was ° to: TV,"”: .proclaims Leiren-Young; a: young. B.C. ‘playwright. who :found the idea while working. in the wilds of the : Cariboo. One * skit- takes the .audience _ below the dance floor of the Expo _ hight ‘club, Waves, to talk ‘to

“Spike, Carla and Chazz, three fish .- “who swim continuously, below ‘the :

‘thundering’ feet ‘of’ thousands of dancing fair-goers.

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There is also a nutty nightly newscast with fresh comic materi- al, supplied free by Canadian and world leaders, each evening.

: There are 25 skits, but the show ends when Mandi is de-programm- ed From sickly-sweet super host to a normal human being, no simple task, .

NO PROTEST ' While Exposé points a comical

downfalls, McCandlish says the whole cast likes the world’s fair. “I'm a firm supporter of Ex- po,”’ McCandlish said. “it is not a protest, but somebody had to do

it. Somebody had te do a spoof on.

Expo.”’

“Six out of seven of the cast and crew have season’s passes,’” added Leiren-Young.

McCandlish attended . acting classes at Handsworth Secondary. She received a scholarship, attend-

ed thiee years of acting school and

has. worked in various Vancouver productions before coming: to Ex- posé,

The show opens on June 26 and tickets are $4, but the cooperative company also has a half-priced preview show on June 25.

Exposé runs through to July 5 with a special pay-what-you-can benefit.on July 2 when all proceeds go to.the Vancouver Food Bank. ”

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SHOWING THAT the world’s fair.

has more than its fair share of laughs, North ‘Vancouver actress Erin McCandlish displays posters ‘for Exposé, a new satire on Expo. The play includes skits ranging from mechanized Expo workers to bed and breakfasting with Jimmy Pattison.

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