Warren Laine The Peking Opera Theatre troupe from the Peoples Republic of China is. returning to Vancouver next month for a five day en- gagement at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. kast here in 1979, the troupe will play seven per- formances from Tuesday November 3 to Sunday No- vember 8. Don’t be scared off by the word opera; Pavorotti this-is not! The Peking Opera is a dazzling display of acro- batics, music, singing, dan- cing, and colourful costumes which is second to none in the world of opera. There are 70 performers in the troupe, all graduates of China’s Theatre Institute, having a repertoire of 100 operas. Some of these are very ideological ‘but the operas performed in the west are of traditional Chin- ese tales. which are both’ exciting and interesting. » The performers dress in the traditional Chinese cos- tumes made up of flowing robes, high ‘headdresses, with colourful accessories. Swords, banners, and masks are used by the performers throughout the opera. The make-up is done in _ ex- aggerated style, unique to Chinese Theatre. The opera is performed in Mandarin Chinese; justice would not be done to it if it were done in English. Man- darin’ is a,:very musical language and when used in the-opera it comes out very melodic but extremely high pitched. The program’ this year includes. The’ Further Ad- Other Pre-views Julian Bream and Folk Fest — Fundraiser lian Bream November 11th at the Orpheum. The Jimmy Page of class- ical guitar is coming to town For those poor, uncultured, folks to whom the Whalley Lanes are their pinacle of high society, J.B. is an English guitarist and lute- nist with over thiry records under his belt (big belt). -Many classical guitarists have followed his style, and for anyone remotely inter- ested in classical guitar, Bream is a must. Be there or be uncult- ured.Phone VTCfor more information and tickets. by Ian Hunter First Fall Folk Festival Fundraising , Fandango and Extravaganza. November 14th 7.30 Orpheum Folkies unite! If you've missed the past four Van- couver Folk Festivals fear not! There willbe more but right now the Vancouver Folk Festival Society is a little short of money so they are holding a benifit. ‘* A benifit ’’, you say ‘‘like where you give money away to a cause.’’ Yep. But that’s not all. Some of. best folk musicians in Canada will be there including Bim, String Band, Ferron, Connie Kaldor and David Sereda. Bim, known for his high voice and coke bottle glass- es,has four albums out, several TV appearences be- hind him and works great solo or with a full rock band. STRINGBAND, probably the most well known and certainly the best folk group in Canada, is known for the variety and quality of their work. From women’s liber- ation, Show us the Length, to political comentary,’Mail Sortin Man, this group does it all. Soft Rock Cafe of the Monkey ventures King, which is a humorous piece from an ancient Chin- ese story, and two mixed programs which include short plays from Chinese folklore. The opera was sold out on all nights last time it played here, and will probably do the same this year. If you are interested in attending you should buy your tickets this week. Check your daily paper for show times and dates. Tickets can be pur- chased at all VTC outlets. FERRON pushed her way into the Vancouver folk scene three years ago. She financed, produced, and recorded her first three - albums. She then sold them from the back of her station wagon.Her songs, are hard, sensitive and driving. She has been comparred to Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchel but so far has shown no.com- mercial potential though her " first two albums~ sold’ out and her third album “has sald 10,000 copies so.fars” She alone is worth the price of admission. Pied Pair are probably Vancouvers most well known folkies. Sheri Ulric used to be with them as _ Pied Pumpkin. Though Ulric was a great loss to the band, Joe Mock and Rick Scott still has any crowd they play before dancing in the aisles. CONNIE KALDOR be- came a minor hero at the 1980 folk festival, for her song JERKS with a capital J ‘Haaaay Baby’.She sings everything from humourous anecdotal songs to sensitive love ballads. DAVID SEREDA is a local singer/songwriter who has performed regularly at the in Skits. Phone the Vancouver Folk Music Society for more in- formation and tickets. ve eet’ a taal, Other Prévs Resting ina billet Just behind the line, Even tho’ we’re parted Your lips are close to mine; You watt where that lantern softly gleams, Your sweet face seems, to haunt my dreams My Lili of the lamplight, My own Lili Marleen. ~ Inli Marleen by Lina Meagher Fassbinder’s latest film, Lili Marleen, is not another run of the mill wartime story. Hanna Schygulla plays Willi, a beautiful Ger- man woman who makes her living singing American burlesque songs in Zurich, Switzerland. Willi is in love with Robert Mendelsson (Giancarlo Giannini) a man who is invloved in helping Jews get out of Germany. Willi cuts a record with the song Lili marleen. It is a simple sailors shanty that is heard by soldiers of every background. willi becomes famous. The love story is not overdone like many Hol- lywood productions, the ele- ments of espionage .aren’t as far-fetched as those in James Bond movies. this film isn’t something young western tastes are generally used to though it is of the same calibre as ‘‘the Tin Brum’: ; For a different perspec- tive of the war years, catch Lili Marleen at the Ridge Theatre while it is still. playing. : Town Bloody Hall by Perry Obidinski Town Bloody Hall is a thought provoking film ab- out the Women’s Liberation Movement. Filmed in the New York city hall in 1971, the film is as relevent today as it was then. Novelist Norman Mailer debates with critic Diana Trilling and three feminists (Jacqueline Ceballos, Jill Johnston » and Germaine Greer) before a large audi- ence, most of whom. are New Yorks literary people. Johnston spoke about ‘all _women being lesbians and all men being homosexuals except those who don’t know it,’ and proceeded to hug and kiss a liberated ‘lesbian. Mailer replied ’men have everything women have and ‘more. Thunderbolts of crit- icism rattled the hall. The camera zooms in to Connie Kaldor at fundraiser ‘catch Mailer’s hilarious ex- pressions ,of defeat as the feminists further harangue him. Mailer’s sexist res- ponses lead to his defeat. The women disagree only once, on a misquotation of Freud. Town Bloody Hall is a movie worth seeing. It com- bines humour and insight about a serious issue. It’s not a recreational movie. The setting is inclusive to the hall, making it rather dry, and the sh aren’t the greatest, so it can get boring if interest is lost. . One does gain a greater understanding of the femin- ist movement, and an aw- areness of the many areas women feel pressured. Produced and directed by D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus and Edited by Chris Hegedus, this movie is a documentary and should be viewed as such. se