10, ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed, Apr. 20, 1977 Wally and Pearl coming to Terrace The Raincoast Puppet Theatre will be presenting . Tales of Wally and Pearl at junday, May 1 be, al 7 p.m. Admission will be 75 cents for children and $1.50 for adults. The saga of Wally and Pearl, hatched in Paihia on the Bay of Islands in New Zealand, continues up and down the raincdast Blustery, lazy logger Wally and his wife Pearl, whois a bit of a dreamer, go through a series of ad- ventures and misadventures - at the hands of musician- composer Norm Foote, now & puppeteer. The large glove and rod puppets are thwarted at every turn by Raincoast Puppet Theatre’s main character, the Fox, who lives in a dirty old boot, that has “a lot of sole” and en- joys “shoe business”. . And they are the delight of elementary school children | in small communities up and down the coast, who would never see puppetry if jt were not for Raincoast Puppet Theatre. B.C. Last December, Foote, whose home is in Squamish, returned from two years in Australia and New Zealand. He played piano and guitar ina band in restaurants and universities and in Australia, travelling with other performing artists under the auspices of the New South Wales Arts Council, he became in- terested in puppetry. In little time and on borrowed money, Foote, and Squamish wood carver Greg Martin, organized Raincoast Puppet Theatre to perform in smaller schools, which because of distance and funding, do not get much in the way of educational entertainment. “Big schools are spoiled — the little ones get nothing — s0 I started writing to school ‘boards and the ‘schools themselves to see if we could bring live puppet play to their students.” says Foote, “The children participate ‘in our show. The Fox, the villain, and the children talk back and forth to one another so the kids don't clean your own upholstery faster and better. 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Schools in Bella Coola Ocean Falls, Tabsis and . outlying areas were the first to request the troupe's at- tendance, That trip was not without its problems. “We chartered a Cessna , aircraft for three days and then discovered that we couldn't fit our stage in it. Et was like trying to put an elephant in a matchbox. We couldn’t let 2,000 kids down so we rigged a portable stage of hockey sticks and curtains and had to leave Nicki behind because there was no room for her.”’ The shows were a wild success because, as Foote says, “The kids had never . seen anything like this before. The weather was foul — we even flew through snowstorms and people seemed surprised at times when we showed up because they said everybody cancels when the weather is bad. “In Tahsis we played to 500 in a gymnasium with our string and tackle stage * falling down around us. That didn’t seem to bother anyone, We just got better at setting up our makeshift stage.” The puppet troupe, named for Raincoast Chronicles * which Foote describes as a beautiful book on the B.C. coast, is trying to -get government sponsorship to take its show to remote areas through the province. They “have travelle up Howe Sound and on the weekend will leave for two months, performing on Vancouver Island, then taking the ferry to Prince Rupert and working their way down to Vancouver again. This time, they are not, aircraft. CMU OE 2 DDD. CAB relying on a sm PCO CPE MALEK 1 EE COLT CIETY SOLE CUI TOES ASOLO They have urchased a He says that one of the ’s problems of puppet theatres large and old, Woodward's P! Ei go delivery yan and have is that they added another friend from the Squamish, graphic artist Graham Manson to their crew. At interview time, he * was painting and lettering the van to announce its broke as scrape to get by. “There -are a few established groups that rform but we are more to slapstick and audience participation. We bring the arrival at each point. Foote children right into our says they will be doing three show.” or four shows a day. Foote is wor Foote says his puppery ou now to..ideas are not now. book for the next school year think you come up with and organizing summer shows for retarded children. “We also have a water someone else doing it before safety show that I together Jast year w ut th Nicki's parents, Bruce and a Mary presented around the Bay of lands,” something original but find: that there has always heen you. But when you put your own touch to a show, it's yours, No one else can do it ffary, that we as you can and I think that Raincoast’s approach to puppetry is unique.” - eit a BOBBY CURTOLA, one of Canada’s top recording and television artists over the past ten years will be at the Terrace Hotel's Red D’or for two weeks from [ast Monday. Bobby records for RCA and is managed by Compo-Cheung Associates of Vancouver. He is d_ backed by a top musical group of seven members and through the lower mainland, will be giving two shows daily. ‘Demon Seed’ _wins SCI-FI award Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's “Demon Seed’ is the first science fiction production to CHINESE & CANADIAN FOOD Business Hours * . 10am to $ am Monday - Saturday = 11am to 10pm Sunday. 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