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| Juice, the: original: play "de=.
‘eloped and produced -by the’

Skeena junior high . school

Theatre Arts students, was.

presented to the general public

for the first time this _ past
: “weekend, The highly-publicized

project « ‘promised thought-

‘provoking, quality ao and .

that’s what it delivered.

by Michael Kelly

“The play is constructed
‘around: a core theme of what
happens to young people and
their relationships with friends,

families and themselves when

alcoholic beverages in all their
seductive trappings come sidling
into the lives of kids. °
- In the end, however, this play
really seems to be about people
being forcéd to make decisions
on matters for which nothing in
their previous experience has
prepared them, and the fact that

the consequences of those deci-

sions stay with us regardless of
what age we are.

It’s a full length production,
running an hour and 40 minutes
with. one intermission, and a

2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 24, 1989

Theatre.

technical: monster: for cast-and:
crew with 28 scenes demanding
drill-team. coordination and
lightning costume changes.
Months of rehearsal obviously
paid.off in this department.
In the ‘Saturday night per-
formance the pacing seemed to
| “stagger a bit in the opening two
or three scenes, but the acting.in
the balance. of the play was tight

* and intense. The central charac-
‘ ter is Christy, a girl in-her early

teens anda member of the
standard © four-piece nuclear

family.. Her fall from. relative _

innocence begins with a date
involving a youth who, as it.
turns’ out, is the son of an

alcoholic mother in the final
~ stages of deterioration.

He’s in the habit of carrying a

mickey around in his gym bag,”

-and Christy soon develops a
taste. for ‘intoxication... but

something strange happens.

While her friends get loaded and
party on weekends, Christy

eventually finds herself with a_

daily cravjng. Near the end she’s

keeping booze in her school.

locker for lunchtime snorts.

“New RV camp planned

“There may soon be a new
14-site recreational ' vehicle
campsite in what Kitimat-
Stikine Regional District direc-
-tor. Pete Weeber calls, ‘‘prob-
_ably one of the. most spectacular
‘spots. in B.C. 3°, The site is
‘owned by Cliff. and Fern Good-

will, and located on -Hwy.. 16 ;

about four miles west of the Kit-
 Wanga junction. The regional
district has given the proposal

their approval, and now a nod »

‘from . the Agricultural Land

-- Commission is all that’s Te-

‘quired. -

The Goodwills presently run
an agricultural greenhouse oper-
ation on the property. Their

proposal would set aside two

acres of pine thicket located on
benchland beside the Skeena
River. According to the appli-
cants, the revenue from the
campsite would help subsidize
their greenhouse operation.
And it looks like they have a
_good chance of having their
proposal approved. The only

condition placed on it by the

regional district is that public

access to fishing not be blocked,
and the District Agriculturist
says that because there will be
no impact on the greenhouse
operation or an adjacent wheat
field, he has. no objections
either.

from the beginning of the‘ pro-
ject that preaching and prosely-
tizing on the-stage would bea —
waste of time with a. ‘teenage |

audience. Juice does a good job.

of being non-judgmental. and
realistically ambiguous. The de-

clamatory hand of the counsel-_

‘ling: profession made an appear-

‘ance in two scenes involving

Christy and a teacher | ‘who ac-
-quaints her with ‘some of the
‘fundamentals’. of Alcoholics

Anonymous, but it was an ac- ©
ceptable transit device to intro- -

duce final thrust of the play.
The writing in the piece over-
all showed surprising skill and

was mercifully free of mono-
Acting and stage.
‘management showed. a con-

logues..

sistently high level of ac-
complishment. The numerous

party scenes were particularly ef-

fective, but as one teen acquain-
tance put it, those didn’t de-
mand a lot of acting due to the
probable experience in that area
of many of the cast members. —

After the conclusion actors
and crew, along with director
Koven and alcohol and drug

‘ counsellor Carole Harvie, re-

turned to the stage for a ques-
tion-and-answer session with the
audience, :

When someone asked whether

the project had prompted the

students to analyze their atti--

tudes toward drinking, one of
the lead role actors replied. after
a pause, “Analyze, yes.”’ The

“MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION
AND HIGHWAYS

Skeena Highways District ~*

Honourable Nell Vant, Minister

. The Ministry of Transportation and Highways
will be holding a public meeting on Monday,
May 29 at 7:30 p.m. regarding the new Hired
Equipment Policy. This will be held at the Inn
of the West meeting room, Terrace.

All interested parties are urged to attend.

‘District Highways Manager

Minister of f Transportation & Highways

Postal

J.R. Newhouse

Skeena Disirict
for:

Honourable Neil, Vant,

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“Director: Bilan’: -Koven= “said ‘stage’ + apted in: laughter yon oe
‘And that . was exactly : the

point, wasn’t it?”

Congratulations t to the. entire “curacy.

Looking relieved and at ease, the cast and crew cf Juice
held a question and answer session with the audience

following Saturday night! s performance.

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