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THE DOUGLAS COLLEGE NEWSLETTER Mf MARCH 1995

Black comedy, human relationships
in spring theatre productions

 

ouglas College theatre probes
the darker side of human
relationships this spring in a

studio theatre production of Moo by
Vancouver playwright Sally Clark and a
mainstage production of Bertolt Brecht’s
The Good Woman of Setzuan.

Clark’s black comedy tells the story of
Moragh (Moo) MacDowell, one of three
sisters in a well-to-do Vancouver family
at the end of World War I. When the
shooting stops, a handsome soldier

named Harry Parker visits with news of
the death of Moo’s brother and winds up
stealing her heart. However, when Harry
decides it’s time to leave her, Moo is
adamant that nothing except death will
ever separate them.

“This play is about obsession and
relationships,” says director Drew Young.
“One of our actors pointed out that the
story looks at a whole bunch of people
using each other and how we allow that to
happen.”

 

moo: she’s a real sharpsh

The Douglas
College Theatre
Department
presents its
production of Moo,
a black comedy
about human
relationships, from
March 17 to 25 in
the Studio Theatre.

 

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Set in pre-colonial China, Brecht’s The
Good Woman of Setzuan tells the story
of a kind-hearted woman who must deal
with exploitive people after she comes
into money. The work, which probes how
good people must change to counter evil,
was begun shortly after Brecht fled Nazi
Germany in 1939.

“Brecht believed in theatre as a tool
for change. His motivation in writing is to
encourage the audience to think and not

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