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ACTORS Keely Wallace, Julie Jacabs and Sharon Baker tussle over an
airhorn in a scene fram upcoming Terrace Little Theatre season-opener,
A Hote! on Marvin Gardens. The play, directed by Dlana Braathen, draws
humorous paratiels between a competitive game of Monopoly and fife.

Night falls hard on Cuban exile

By JENNIFER LANG
SOME PEOPLE, it could
be argued, will be unhappy
mo matter what circum-
stances they find them-
selves in.

That’s the lingering im-
pression left by #efore
Night Falls, the next
movie on yiew at the Pa-
cific Cinematheque’s Tra-
velling Picture Show.

Reinaldo Arenas, was a
, poet, novelist, and hamo-
sexual, For these three
facts, he was persecuted
and jailed under Fidel Ca-
stro’s regime.

Arenas came to the
United States in 1980,
when Castro exiled con-

victs and-other so-called’:

undesirables, coming. to-a
tragic ‘end in New York
City a decade later.

Arenas, who joined the
revolution as a teenager,
was later reviled by the re-
gime he and other Cubans
helped put into power.

The movie is based on
Arenas’ own memoirs, and
his words form the narra-
tion,

. The actor playing him,
Javier Bardman, gives a
powerful performance.

Look for cameos by

Johnny Depp and Sean’

Penn.
The movie is directed
by Julian Schnabel, who is

SCENE fram When Night Falls.

also a painter.
Schnabel’s 1996 film,
Basquiat, looked at the ill-

~ fated story of a graffiti art-
ist named “Jean-Michel

Basquiat who quickly rase
to fame after he was dis-
covered by Andy Warhol.

_ Before Night Falls Pays

at the Tillicum Twin
Theatres Nov. 12 at 7:15
p.m.

The Travelling Picture
show is sponsored by. the
Terrace and District Multi-
cultural Association.

It runs every other Mon-
day until Dec. 10.

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 7, 2001 - B3 *

Author reading

FANS OF locally-inspited
fiction are in luck.

Friday night, Smithers-
based author Sheila Peters
will be reading from her
new collection of short
stories set in the north-
west, Tending the Remnant
Damage.

Peters, an English in-
Structor at Northwest Com-
munity College, reads at
ihe Terrace Art Gallery at
7:30 p.m. Nov. 9,

Her debut has earned

Theatre

critical praise for her ma-
turity as a skilled writer
and storytetler.

BC Bookworld described
the labyrinthian stories in
Tending the Remnant Dam-
age as “amazing” for their
complexity and technical
prowess.

Connections Magazine,
meanwhile, says Peters
“an utterly accomplished
storyteller working at the
limits of what fiction can
do,”

group

hosts auditions,
aids local writer

FORMER federal NDP
hopeful and current Skeena
River Players president
Larry Guno is writing a
play about the residential
school experience.

Guno is still at the early
Stages, but playwright
Yvette Nolan, who held a
play creation workshop

here earlier this fall, called:

his efforts a “very exciting
project with enormous po-
tential.”

Guno will be collabora-

r ting on a first draft with

Nolan, and Skeena River
Players artistic director
Marianne Brorup Weston.

Once complete, Guno’s
play could help fill a void,

“No one has written the
residential school play
yet,” Nolan points out.
“There is a serious lack of
First Nations plays out
there.

Residential schools for
aboriginal children opera-
ted in Canada until the
1980s, leaving a legacy of
despair and pain for many
of those who were forced to
attend them.

It’s serious subject mat-
ter, but “don’t expect a

dark or tragic play,” cau-
- tions Brorup-Weston, who

formed the fledgling first
nations theatre company
last year.

“The intent is to tell the
story of a riot. which took
place at a_ residential
school ~ and parts of it are
very, very y Bann

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She says she hasn't been
this worked up about a
theatre project in a long
time.

Guno’s first draft won't
be ready for about another
18 months,

Meanwhile, Skeena
River Players is well into
what's shaping up to be an
exciting first year.

Following the success of
last spring’s The Rez Sis-
ters, by celebrated Cana-

dian playwright Tomson,
Highway, Skeena River .

Players is mounting a pro-
duction of Drew Hayden
Taylor's Someday.

This humorous and satir-
ical work iooks at a mid-
dle-aged mom whose child
was apprehended and sent
to a white home,

Thirty-five years and a
lottery win later, she vows
to track down her daughter
through the help of a delec-
tive,

Auditions take place al
7 pm. Nov. 13 and [4 at
the First Nations Education
Centre at Clarence Michiel
School (rear entrance).

There are three parts for
women and one role for a
man,

No experience is neces. .

sary. Acting lessons are in-
cluded.

“Just bring your talented
selves and check it out,”
‘Tf

Brorup Weston says.
you have the ability and
commitment, we'll do the
rest.”

Terrace Salmonid Enhancement Society

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Tuesday, Nov, 13" a: 7:30 pm.

Coast Inn Of The West
West Banquet Room

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Dave and Arlene Peters @)

They have worked in Columbia, Brazil and Mexico,
aad have hwo married children, ave loving in Prince
George, ard one in Mexico.

In Columbia, Dave and Arlene spertt cighi years
working with te Paez and Guambiauo tribes. From
there they moued to Columbia's capttal city, Bogota,
where they were invalved in church planting. In 1987
they were moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, and in 1997 to
Mexico City.

You can hear them speak on

Sunday November 13,

ef 1030 om at Terrace

Alliance Church, 4923 Agar Ave. ‘@)
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