INSIDE DOUGLAS COLLEGE/NOVEMBER 29, 1988

 

Battle of Angels

When the charismatic drifter
Val Xavier breezes through a
small town in the deep South, he
changes everything and
everyone in his path.

Tennessee Williams’ play,
"Battle of Angels," set in a ram-
bling mercantile store on the
backroads of Mississippi in the
‘30s, explores the explosive
crosscurrents of envy, greed,
madness and regret that the
seemingly innocent Val stirs up
in the townspeople.

On December Ist, the stu-
dents of Douglas College will
open their production of this
lesser-known Williams play.
For six nights in all, December
1 through 3, and 8 through 10,
student actors from the theatre
department along with student
designers and technicians from
the stagecraft program will
create the tangled world of Two
River County.

 

Lesser known Tennessee
Williams play especially
challenging for student
actors.

 

"Battle of Angels,” Williams’
first full-length play, was
originally produced in 1940.
Over the next 17 years, he con-
tinued to rework the play. It
was produced on Broadway in
1957 under the title "Orpheus
Descending" and later in a film
version entitled "The Fugitive
Kind" starring Marlon Brando
and Anna Magnani.

 

Drew Young, coordinator of
the Douglas College Stagecraft
program, calls Tennessee Wil-
liams "especially challenging
for student actors."

 

Williams allows women
protagonists equal time -
something not found often
enough in plays.

 

The complexity of his charac-
ters, their deep-south accents
and the rich symbolism of the
dialogue, all stretch the acting
skills of the cast. "And Wil-
liams allows his women
protagonists equal time, some-
thing that’s not found often
enough in plays for student

 

 

production,” Young says. "It
gives young actors so much to
work on."

The performance will be held
in the intimate Studio Theatre at
the New Westminster campus.
Show time is 8 p.m. Tickets are
$4 adult and $3 student\senior.
For reservations, call the
Douglas College box office at
520-5488.

(RRP a aR NP 0 a

Reprint of memorandum to Joy Holmwood from John Mc-
Kendry concerning General Nursing Program accredita-

tion, dated November 18.

I have been requested by the Board of Governors to convey their
commendation to you, the General Nursing faculty, and the depart-
ment staff in recognition of the very hard work underlying the change
in the nursing curriculum and the professional manner in which the
curriculum change was effected and the College prepared for what
was a successful accreditation visit by the RNABC.

The Board recognizes the substantial nature of the curriculum
change and, in this light, the significance of the terms of approval

granted by your professional body.

It is an accomplishment of which we are all justifiably proud and
an accomplishment which clearly symbolizes the excellence in
academic standards set down by Douglas College

John McKendry