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Members of a seniors club
from the Mt. Pleasant
neighborhood were treated
Sunday to a rehearsal preview of
a satirical revue about Vancou-
ver’s housing crisis that is sureto
be a hit with tenants.

_ The newly-formed Headlines
Theatre group collectively put
together a theatre collage from
“news stories and their own re-
search and original songs, wove
into it the story of a single parent
caught in the housing crunch —
and the result is an effective
show called Buy, Buy Vancou-

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Janice Harris

Its five performers, directed
by Suzie Payne, turned in a fair-
ly tight, well-paced and ener-
getic rehearsal reading. (Payne
was last seen in her fine comedic
portrayal of a harassed house-
wife in Tamahnous’ production
of We Won’t Pay, We Won’t
Pay.)

Although it wasn’t a full-
blown performance, with cos-

_tumes and staging — it will be by
the time Headlines officially
kicks off its month-long run
Feb. 3 — it was entertaining

- nevertheless.

Sitting beside each other on
chairs, David Diamond, Heidi
Archibald, Colin Thomas, Net-
tie Wild and Jay Samwald, cut
in and out as a variety of identi-
fiable ‘types’ — landlords, ten-

\_ ants, politicians, free enterpris-

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ers and so on. Each character is
part of a skit, or a song, and it is
the bringing together of charac-
ter and situation that generates
the humor in the show.

The conflict between land-
lords and tenants, for instance,
is depicted in a number of dif-
ferent ways. It is on Free Enter-
prise TV that Janet, a bewilder-
ed single parent, (played by
Heidi Archibald) loses her ren-
tal suite on a game called The In-
side Track. Her landlord and
game show opponent, Arnie
(played by David Diamond) de-
cides against his better consci-
ence to profit by speculating on
his property and evicts her.

Janet now has to find new ac-
commodation. She phones,
knocks on doors all over the city
and runs into the barriers ten-
ants know so well: high rents,

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(‘‘we don’t take kids’”), crum-
my suites (‘‘hey, they’ve subdi-
vided my bathroom”’), and un-
scrupulous landlords.

Buy, Buy Vancouver is for-
tunate in having actress Nettie
Wild lend her strong, versatile
voice to many of the songs inter-
spersed throughout the show.
The rest of the cast are less sure
of themselves as singers, but
that should change when they
get into their month’s run.

It is an avowedly political
piece of theatre. Headlines stat-
ed in a letter to city council that
accompanied a request for
funding, that they are hoping
“to initiate discussion, (leading
to action), among audiences
about how people in need can
begin to help themselves.”’

At the performance’s conclu-
sion, characterization is drop-
ped and the performers simply
read out texts about what’s been
happening in the tenant move-
ment to date. They cite, among
other things, Vancouver’s re-
cent municipal elections and the
two single parents who camped
out at city hall. This section

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and unrehearsed on Sunday,
but Headlines is confident it will
be ironed out before the show
goes on the road.

Make sure you see the show
when it visits your community:
North Shore Neighborhood
House, Feb. 3, 7 p.m.; Student
Union Building auditorium,
UBC, Feb. 4, 11:30 p.m.; Bri-
tannia Community Centre,
Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m.; Carnegie
Centre, Feb. 5 for two show-
ings, 3 and 7 p.m.; Kitsilano
Neighborhood House, Feb. 6 &
7 at 8 p.m.; Pacific Vocational
Institute, Burnaby, Feb. 10,
11:30 p.m.; YWCA, Dunsmuir
& Burrard, Feb. 11, 12 noon;
Pacific Vocational Institute,
Maple Ridge, Feb. 13, 12:05
p.m.; Charles Tupper School,
Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m.; Capilano
College, Feb. 17, 12:15 p.m.;
Queen’s Avenue United
Church, New - Westminster,
Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m.; West End
Community Centre, Feb. 19, 8
p.m.; False Creek Community
Centre, Feb. 20, 12 noon and 7

~ p.m.; Laborers Hall, 5 East 8th

Ave., Vancouver, Feb. 21, 8
p.m.; and Waterfront Theatre,
Granville Island, Feb. 22, 7

Gen. sec’y, Communist Party of Canada
“The constitutional crisis
and Canada’s economy

Also hear: Maurice Rush,
B.C. provincial leader, CPC

Vancouver

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 4 at 8 p.m.
Connaught ballroom, Holiday Inn, 711 W. Broadway

Admission free. All welcome.

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