Medieval play tof

be revived for
zone drama fest

RICHARD WOOD: Similarities be-
tween Gothic and modern minds.

The Terrace Little Theatre
seems to have hauled out a secret
weapon in its bid for placing at
the Skeena Zone Drama Festival
to be held here at the end of the
month. — |

Richard Wood, a lawyer with
theatrical experience who recent-
ly moved to Terrace, is directing
The Creation and Fall of Luci-
fer, a one-act play written in the

1300's.
Wood said the play is one o
the York Cycle of works that.
were based on theological
speculation regarding. events.
prior to the Creation as express-

ed in Genesis, The subject is the |

great revolution in heaven when
the archangel Lucifer fell from:
grace and took one-third of all
the angels with him.

The cast consists of five ac-
tors,.and one of the more in--
teresting aspects of this produc-
tion is that God is played by a
woman. It is 20 minutes in
length and the technical effects,
which Wood says are ‘‘very
visual’’, are being done by Ter-
race Little Theatre veteran Dave
Battison.

‘I have a fascination with
Gothic art,’’? Wood said, and he
sees many similarities between
the Gothic outlook and the
twentieth century mind. The
language in this production
comes ‘from the original script,
and Wood says it ‘‘works
beautifully’.

He found the manuscript in
the Terrace Public Library.

The. Creation and Fall of
Lucifer will be shown April 30 at
7:30 p.m. in the R.E.M. Lee
Theatre.

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One of the Northwest's premier annual events in the performing arts — the Skeena Zone Drama Festival — will be

'- staged In Terrace April 28 - 30. The cit
Jack Talstra. Witnesses at the event

y has offered its support through a proclamation signed last week by Mayor

were Terrace Little Theatre reps Merry Hallsor (left) and Tonee Sabine.

Youth Parliament seeks reps

An apparent lack of interest in
B.C. Youth Parliament in Ter-
race has local representative
Michael Wong concerned. This
is the time of year when nomina-
tions for the 1989 sitting of
Youth Parliament should be
coming in, but he says that to
date not one has been filed.

*‘Other communities are
pretty interested in Youth
Parliament but nobody in. Ter-
race seems to be,”’ says Wong.
And he says young people in the

- Young Authors’ Week activities

by Diane Weismiller
“Young Authors’ Week’’ is

being celebrated in Terrace
- schools from April 16 to April

23. Each elementary public
school will host a visiting author

for half a day, giving students an

opportunity to learn more from
them about the process of
writing from first draft through
to publication. The visiting
authors are Ellen Schwartz,

_. What the

[In preparation for
Young Author’s Week
students in local elemen-
tary schools have given
their. writing skills a
workout. The following is
a cross-section of the
results.

Why Ducks Have
Webbed Feet

A long time ago in Ducksville
there lived a duck named
Frankie. Frankie was a very
clumsy duck. He kept tripping
over his three big toes on rocks,

sticks, and whatever else got in -

his way. He was a very unhappy
duck. So the next day Frankie
went to see the wise old. duck
about his problem. He told the
old duck how sad he was
because he kept tripping over
things and hurting himself. The
wise old duck was very quiet for
a while and then he finally said
“Frankie, if you don’t want to
be clumsy then all you have to

do is-sew your toes together.”

Frankie thanked the duck and
ran, tripped and stumbled all the
way home. When he got there he
sewed his toes together and went
outside to try out his new feet.
They worked! He was over-
joyed. He could walk around
without tripping all the time.
Now, all the ducks were jealous
of Frankie so they too sewed

author of Dusty and Starshine,
and Sarah Ellis, author of The
Baby Project. -

Ellen Schwartz's visit is par-
tially funded by Canada Council
as part of National Book Fes-
tival Week celebrations. Addi-
tional funding has been received.
from School District 88, Terrace:
Primary Teachers’ Association,
Terrace and District -Teacher-
Librarians, Terrace and District

Teachers’ Association, Upper
Skeena Teachers’ Association
and the Terrace Public Library.

On Friday and Saturday April
22 and 23 students will be
demonstrating the use of com-
puters in the writing process in
the Skeena Mall. Schools have
also been busy preparing special
placemats for local restaurants -
to use during the week.

kids are writing —

their toes together. That is why
ducks have webbed feet instead
of having toes.
Jon Shepherd
Clarence Michiel Elementary

The Gate

My gate is there

In the summer’s air

Where one girl sits

It’s very quiet there, I think
I watch the birds
Tweet in the trees

I sit on the gate

and clutch my knees.

- The wind blows

through my hair,
On my gate™

No one is there;
No one is there;

No one,
But,
Me. ~ et
Vera Gray
: Grade 7
Uplands School
Bats, Bats

Bats, Bats, what do you eat?
We eat cheese from Rotten
River, -

Bats, Bats, where do you fly?
Over the school and under the
trees.

Bats, Bats, what do you drink:
Dirty water from Slimy
Swamp.

Bats, Bats, where do you sleep?

In a cave where it’s nice and
dark. ,
- Tony Zavaglia
Grade 2
Uplands School

Snow

It finally snowed,

It fell on the houses,

It fell on the roof toop,

It drifted in the light,

It fell on the ground,

It landed on the ice, :
It started to fill the truck, -
It covered the bare trees,
It was very white,

It stayed for a week,

-Then it melted away.

Pam Visitin
Grade 3
Thornhill Primary

Dragons

Once upon a time there was a
dragon, He lived in a cave. He
hated kids. One day a knight
came and put him to sleep and
then he carried him to his truck
and drove him to the zoo.

Tyler, Grade 2, Parkside

My pet dragon would have
scales, wings, whiskers, spots,.
ears and a red belly. If I had a
dragon for a pet he would ham-
mer in a nail, he would make
dragon stew and he would get
the show off the road.

Jesse, Grade 2, Parkside

community who are interested in
leadership, public speaking, or
the parliamentary process —
young people who want to say
something about how our pro-
vince is run — should be getting
involved.

“Some say they can’t afford
it,” he said. “‘But what they pay
and what they get out of it are
two different things. Public
speaking and parliamentary
debate, the courage to speak
out, the ability to accept con-
structive criticism and use it to
renew our ideas, and knowledge
of how the B.C. provincial gov-
ernment works are all worth-
while things.”

Wong explained that Youth
Parliament sits once every year
in the Parliament Buildings in
Victoria to debate issues of the
day as they’re seen by youth.
Once they have developed a pro-
posal or made a recommenda-

tion on an issue, it is sent to the
various governments involved,

‘which could range from Canada
to the U.S. or Russia,

There are also regional

meetings that take place, and .

one taking place in Terrace from
May 19 to 22 will give the public
an opportunity to watch them in
action.

Wong said that most of these
meetings usually take place in
the lower mainland or Victoria,
and the Terrace meeting is a first
in the Northwest. He said the
B.C. Youth Parliament Premier,
Bruce Hallsor of Terrace, will be

acting as the Speaker of the

House in this first session of the
Pacific Northwest Youth Partlia-
ment.

Wong said that anyone: in-
terested or anyone knowing a
young person of exceptional
ability can submit a nomination
by phoning him at 635-3341. .

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