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College
opening November 14th.

| farce,

| theatre

Cherrtes

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Who
desires,
From the moment of our glorious

The Other Press

 

(D.C. News _ Service)-Shapely
table-legs are indecent and must

‘be covered - so proclaimed the
august Queen Victoria.

The manners and mores of the
Victorian era prove a_ perfect
target for hilarity in “Where’s
Charley?”, the upcoming musi-
cal comedy from the Douglas
Theatre Department,

_ “Where’s .-...Charley?” was

originally adapted from Brandon

Thomas’ play “Charley’s Aunt”

| by two masters of the Broadway

musical, George Abbot and

Frank Loesser.

In the grand tradition of British
the - pitfalls multiply
precariously. The action unfolds

around Oxford chums Jack and
Charley, played by Dan Derkson
-and Colin Carney,
- their
-chaperoned by Charley’s

who invite

lady friends to a
aunt
from Brazil, Donna Lucia, played
by Susan Hunkin.

But when Donna Lucia fails to

arrive, Charley is left in a con-

stant whirl as he dizzily portrays —

both himself and his aunt, while

dodging a middle-aged suitor
enamoured with his “feminine”

charms.
Such musical comedies as

“Where’s Charley?” have a place

in theatre repertoire by virtue of

to
Dor-

| pure enjoyment, according

director/producer

aud

Dreams

A Bowl of Cherries

If life is a bowl of cherries,
Then why am I among the pits?

Sometimes it gets me so down,
| I feel like calling it quits.

“Lord won't you please tell me,
Who owns these working hands,

_ And feet with which to stand,

_ That work on this everlasting land.
"And who owns these eyes,

| And ears which hear,

fe
’ And the cries of childrens tears.

The explosion of bombs,

owns our thoughts and

birth,

The ideas and plans in our lives,

Until we go back to the fertile earth.

The answer to all this is death,

‘But that doesn’t worry me,
For when my day of release comes,
_ Tl triumph over death eventually.

So if life is a bow] of cherries,

Then why am [ a pit?
Rather than the sweet fruit people

lunch

‘Where's Charley?”

othy Jones. “This is a happy
show, unburdened by any
weighty message, with plenty to
delight the senses,” says Jones.

Elaborate — period — costumes
(seventy-six in all) and sets for
“Where’s Charley” were resear-
ched and created in the theatre’s
workshops. For the first time, the
set-construction crew has built a
revolving “turntable” for the sp-
acious stage, facilitating quick
set-changes.

And a six-piece band from the
college will provide live musical
accompaniment for the  songs;,
which include the  toe-tapping
“Once in Love with Amy”, “My

Darling, My Darling”, and “The
New. Ashmolean Marching
Society”.

Jones also says  “Where’s
Charley” is a tremendous oppor-

tunity for the students to home
their skills in singing and danc-
ing as well as acting. “The key to
carving out a theatre career is
versatility,” says Jones.

“Where’s Charley?” will be
opening on Friday, November
14th in the Douglas College

Performance Theatre, 700 Royal

Avenue, New Westminster.
General admission will be
$7.00,$5.00 for students and

seniors. For reservations call the
Douglas College Box Office at
520-5488.

enjoy,

Instead of something to _ spit?
Yet a pit lies on the ground,
Mother Earth takes it in ever so lov-

ingly,

For when the spring brings life
back to the world,
It has turned into a tree.

Dribidu

Beaconsville, Quebec

DREAMS

Dreams are such
Funny things
And sometimes scary, too.

Some folks set
Great Store
By their interpretation

Others say they are
Meaningless figments
Of our subconcious ©

I wonder what
Could be said
About my dream last night

I was evicted
From my apartment
For keeping a grizzly bear.

Sandra Armstrong
Weston, Ontario

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Tales of Tears and Twins

“THE TEAR GARDEN”
Self-titled Mini-LP
(Nettwork)

A studio project from
Nettwork Productions (Skinny
Puppy/Moew/Grapes of Wrath/
Severed Heads) consisting of Ed-
ward Ka-spel, Cevin Key
(Skinny Puppy), Wilhelm
Schroeder (Ex-Puppy) and Dave
“the rave” Ogilvie, this is cruel
and wicked. These young men
take on just about everything and
succeed as well. They talk of
“watching you walk up to the
altar’, “the priest boiling the
choir in sacrimental wine”,

“stringing up chickens and pul--

ling away the chair and curling
up in disgust and they pull a bul-
let out and shoot it then chewing
on it.” They attack love by plac-
ing forth our eyes an image of
love “cutting across fingers and
drawing blood” (“Ophilia”: Side
2) and personify the devil in two
forms (“My Thorny Thorny
Crown’).

Pretentious, arrogant and self-
centred, The Tear Garden crys
out to be taken as art. They
succeed here as well. The key-
boards and electronic distortion
of vocals create in each track an
emotion, a mood, a feeling.
Water dripping, voices’ of
children, nostalgia, a longing for
happiness in a world of dark,
doomy images in shades of grey.

With all this depression and
doom, the listener would hope
for a happy ending on the final
track...but no such luck. The
Tear Garden leaves off on a deep,
quiet note with the track “The
Tear Garden” with them waiting
in the gardens for the tears to fall

from the sky. Very dark and dis-
turbing, The Tear Garden will
leave you feeling aroused, distur-
bed and restless. Simply brilliant.
10/10
reviewed by richard

COCTEAU TWINS
“Victorialand”

(Vertigo)

‘Alternative’ british chart-
toppers who avoid _ publicity,

stepping into the eyes of the
press only when necessary, Liz
Frazer, Robin Guthrie and Simon
Raymonde (now gone from the
band) have been described as
“noveau hippies” because of
their swirly ethereal sound and
mysterious lyrics. There are no
handles on the music, “nothing
to grope on to,” they explain, but
claim they dont wan’t to be
strange and weird, “We just
want to be damn good!”
“Victorialand” is their first full
length album without Simon
Raymonde, and as a result their.
music is much more free...gone
are the slightly overpowering
loud programmed drum beats.
Each song on the album drifts
into the next, song titles are of no
real importance here. Liz Frazer’s
enchanting, hauntingly beautiful
vocals lift you up into the
heavens with the clouds.
“Victorialand” contains some
of the best and most beautiful
music in the british music in-
dustry today
reviewed by richard