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B14 Terrace Review — Wednesday, February 27, 1991

Contributed by Karla Hennig

The Terrace Little Theatre’s

a spring production will be Neil
_. Simon’s Brighton Beach
' Memoirs. This comedy, set in

the New York of the 1930’s,
chronicles a young man’s strug-
gle to grow up in an outrageous
and extended Jewish family.
Starring in this production is
17-year-old Kevin Oates. Oates
has an impressive history in the
theatre. In his two years of
drama at Skeena Junior Sec-
ondary School he appeared in
Squeeze, Juice, Ghost Chasers
and School Daze, He has been in
two productions of The Wiz and
has done extensive backstage
work in Terrace Little Theatre.
“tt’s kind of nice to be back on
stage,’’ said Oates, in a recent

_ interview. ‘‘I was quite excited
to get the role... there were a lot

of good people at auditions.”’
As Eugene, Oates has “a

special relationship with the au-

dience”’ as he relates ‘‘both to

the characters on stage and

directly to the audience’. He
concentrates on ‘‘talking fo the
audience and not at them” and
hopes to show the audience the
family through the eyes of the
character. Oates finds that the
rehearsal process is ‘‘moving
along really quickly” and feels
that he has ‘‘quite a bit of
input’”’ into the show,

Part of Eugene’s experience in

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the show is coming to terms with
his sexuality. There are scenes of
his trying to look up the skirt of
the sensuous Nora, and he con-
stantly puts questions about sex
to his brother Stanley. When
asked if these scenes were dif-
ficult, Oates shrugged. ‘‘Well,”’
he said with a charming grin,
“I’ve had no problems yet.’’
Although it’s still early in
rehearsal, Oates seems to have a
firm grip on his character.

The play’s love interest is
Nora, played by newcomer Jane
Sparkes. A dancer who studied
for 13 years, Sparkes has had
theatre experience with the Van-
couver Opera Society and Vaga-
bond Players of New West-
minster.

Her sister in the show is
Laurie, played by 12-year-old

INS

accurately.

_ Brighton Beach principal. |
_ actors settle into roles |

Sarah Brorup Weston. Although
young, Sarah has already been
on stage in The Wiz and Room
44, and she comes from a family
which is heavily involved in
theatre. Sarah has already begun
to develop a very complex and
interesting character, She sees
Laurie as “‘totally different from
me... she loves to study’’, but
foresees no problem in acting
the role. ‘*I just have to think of
myself as conceited, faking ill-
ness, and very manipulative,”
she says.

Brighton Beach Memoirs will
be performed at the McColl
Playhouse March 14 to 16 and
21 to 23. Tickets are $8 and $10
and are available at Erwin
Jewellers’ in the Skeena Mall
and the Bank of Montreal.

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