Headlines/June 24, 1992

Theatre announces lucky thirteenth season

UCFV Theatre’s thirteenth season of theatre will feature three
exciting and entertaining productions.

The Hostage, by internationally acclaimed playwright
Brendan Behan, will open the season. The Hostage is a broad,
witty satire bursting with life; a magnificent entertainment full of
song, dance, comedy and heart. The play is set in Dublin, Ireland
in 1960. Leslie, a young british soldier, has been taken hostage
by the IRA in revenge for the threatened execution by the British
authorities of a young Irish patriot. His prison is a decaying
boarding house dubbed “The Hole” by its motley inhabitants.
The action of The Hostage is played out as these rag-tag
residents sing, dance, fight and woo each other and Leslie slowly
realizes his days may be numbered. The Hostage will run
November 4-21.

The second production will be Amigo’s Blue Guitar by
award-winning Canadian playwright Joan MacLeod.

Set on the British Columbia coast, near Vancouver, Amigo’ s
Blue Guitar tells the story of Sander, a lackadaisical college
student’ who tries to earn marks for his sociology class by
sponsoring Elias, a Salvadoran refugee. Sander never imagines
that Elias will actually turn up, but when he does Sander and his
family are forced to learn what it really means to be a refugee.
Amigo’ s Blue Guitar will play January 20 to February 6.

The department’s Shakespeare ’93 production will be the
absorbing dark comedy Measure for Measure, a fascinating
examination of mercy, law and licence and the effect of power

on character. In Measure for Measure, Vincentio, Duke of
Vienna — a city in moral decay — relinquishes power to his
straight-laced deputy Angelo, ostensibly to travel abroad.
Vincentio, however, remains in the city in disguise to observe
and test his subjects and their temporary ruler in an entertaining
game of hide and seek.

Tempered in the crucible of power, Angelo’s excessive zeal
becomes self-secking desire, and the cloistered holiness of
Isabella, a young novice pleading for her brother’s life, is put to
the test as she ho!ds the power of life and death in her hands.
Measure for Measure will run March 3 to 13.

In addition to these three major productions, the department
will also offer a series of workshops, lectures and tours.
Workshops will include such subjects as make-up, voice,
clowning, acting for TV and film, Shakespeare’s language and
the actor, and theatresports.

The department will once again be offering, in cooperation
with the Continuing Education and Geography departments, a
trip to the world-reknowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival in
Ashland during July ’93.

Season ticket packages including all three productions are
now available at a special reduced rate.

For- information on any of the events mentioned above, call
local 2492.

UCFV folks
featured at
Playworks
presentation

Playworks, the Fraser Valley
playwright’s cooperative, will offer
an evening of dramatic readings at
the Harrison Festival of the Arts
Tuesday, July 7, in the Harrison
Memorial Hall at 8:30 p.m.

Material by UCFV instructors
LaVerne Adams, Crispin Elsted and
John Carroll and staff member Rick
Mawson will be performed, along ~
with that or several other Fraser
Valley playwrights.

Playworks has developed a
reputation for provocative and
entertaining presentations. Tickets
will be available at the door on the
evening of the performance. For

Future science teacher Robin Marshall demonstrates the effects of carbon dioxide to Grade Four further information, call Rick
students from Robertson Annex school. Marshall and two other UCFV science students ran the Mawson at local 2492.

annual Hands-On Science program at the Chilliwack campus for elementary schools this year.

Chemistry instructor Lillian Martin coordinated the program.

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