Contributed by
Marianne Brorop Weston

‘Once again the Terrace Little
Theatre is coming to the regional
Theatre BC Drama Festival with
high quality plays. The last three
years have seen the local group
singled out in many. ways —
with awards for best production,
best actor, best supporting ac-
tor, best lighting and set, and
several honourable mentions.

This week the TLT will show-

case Talking With... and com-
pete with A Chip in the Sugar.

The two plays have something
in common — they both focus
on the use of the monologue, us-
ing a single actor on stage telling
a story. The difficulties are ob-
vioys: the actor must memorize
huge tracts of script and has no
scene partner to work with. But
that doesn’t worry either Merry
Hallsor, who is directing A Chip
in the Sugar or Karla Hennig,
director of Talking With....
Both directors say they are ex-
cited and encouraged by the

commitment of their actors’

abilities and talents.

Director Karla Hennig, who is
known for her direction of Sin-
ners and her portrayal of a dippy
out-of-work actress in No Prob-
lem, chose Talking With... for a
specific reason.

“After I joined the Terrace
Little Theatre, I quickly learned
the group had an abundance of
talented women who usually
competed for very few parts,”
she said. (The majority of plays
are written by men and feature
more males than females.)- “I
decided to direct a play which
would meet the needs of the
women, and Talking With...

B12 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 17, 1991

Talking With...
previewed tomorrow | aamaY/1B

to be

was perfect because it requires
11 females!"
The first time Talking With...

was performed in southern

USA, it received a standing ova-
tion. It is not only an ‘audience
pleaser’ but also considered a
challenge to perform and direct.
There is no standard type of
storyline. Each woman comes
out and spends from eight to 15
minutes with the audience, leav-
ing them to wonder what exactly
ties the women together and
makes the audience laugh, gig-
gle, cry, sigh, empathize and
recoil.

Talking With... is written by
Jane Martin, who is — well,
that’s the problem — no one
knows who Jane Martin is, since
the play is written under a
pseudonym. Speculation has it
that Jane Martin is in fact
several women, perhaps as many
as there are monologues. Or
maybe Jane Martin collected
partially written pieces and
ghost-wrote them. Or, as
remotely impossible as it may
seem, Jane Martin could be —
gasp — a man What is in-
teresting, though, is that this isa
very successful play and some-
where, somehow, someone is re-
ceiving regular royalty cheques
with the knowledge that Talking
With... will endure because it
speaks so powerfully about the
extraordinary lives of ordinary
women.

To preview this wonderful,
wacky world of women, come to
the Skeena Zone Drama Festival
on Thursday, April 18 or catch it
on its McColl Playhouse run be-
ginning May 2.

On the Small Screen _

“Child's 2 Play 2
Starring Alex Vincent, Brad
Dourif. Produced by David
Kirschner. Directed by John
Lafia. Rating: R. Running
time: 84 minutes.

Remember Chucky, that cute
little doll with the satanic smile
and murderous heart? Well,
he’s back. He may have been
roasted to a toasty crisp in the
last episode, but a little
brimstone and fire can’t keep a
good doll down. Voiced by
Brad Dourif, Chucky is back to

stay, and this time he’s meaner

than ever, And is he mad!.

Chucky has been
reconstructed by the toy com-
pany. Alarmed by all the
negative publicity surrounding
the doll, they run all kinds of
safety tests. Everything comes
up negative, so they put the
whole unfortunate affair down
to bad luck and mass hysteria...

Little Andy Barclay (Vincent)
could set them straight about
Chucky. The problem is, no
one believes him when he says
the doll is possessed by the
Lakeshore Strangler, a cold-
blooded killer who was deep in-
to the voodoo religion.

Now Chucky’s on the loose
again, and he’s tracked Andy
to a foster home. Chucky’s
running out of time; he wants
Andy’s body real bad. Besides,
Andy knows too much about
him, and sooner or later some-
one just might begin to take
him seriously.

This movie is a little too silly
for my taste, but it’s fairly well
made; Chucky is definitely a
spooky character.

“The members and staff of Terrace Detachment RCMP |
invite you to attend their

| Spring Regimental Ball

Saturday, May 25, 1991

Terrace Arena

Cocktalls 6 p.m
Supper 7 p.m.
Dance 9 p.m.

“Excellent meal and dancing to live. music. 7

Refreshments 3/$5

Tickets available at the Terrace Detachment RCMP

UNTIL THE END OF APRIL $80/couple.
wine glass, compilmentary picture, table wines.
for several exciting door prizes.

Proceeds to the R.E.M. Lee Foundation for the CT Scanner.
_ Cheques payable to Terrace RCMP 1991 E Ball.

Price includes Regimental Ball

Draws will be made

‘O_o Video reviews 3 by Hartt #t Fjeagesund

Sibling Rivalry

Starring Kirstie Alley, Scott
Bakula, Bill Pullman, Produc-
ed by David Lester and Don
Miller. Directed by Carl
Reiner. Rating: PG-13. Running
time: 88 minutes.

Marjorie Turner (Alley)
works hard at being the perfect.
wife for her doctor husband
(Bakula), but Harry, a

' gastroenterologist, is too wrap-

ped up in intestines (and his
relatives) to take much notice. ©
Marjorie’s cup runneth over
with boredom, but she’s about
to get a jolt that’s going to
make boredom look like a slice
of heaven!

Marjorie decides to have an
affair, She picks up a total
stranger down at the corner
grocery store, and they spend
the afternoon in a cozy hotel
room doing you know what.
Marjorie feels pretty remorseful
afterwards, especially when the
poor schmuk has a heart attack
and dies.

Now completely panicked,

Marjorie flees the scene... and

runs headlong into Nick |
(Pullman), a window-blind
salesman, who runs into the
body with a piece of lethal

hardware and thinks Ae’ killed

it. Then Marjorie discovers the

_corpse is (was) actually her

long-lost brother-in-law.
So what else can go wrong in
this comedy of errors? Well for

one thing, they can’t figure out —

how to get rid of the body, so
they decide to make it look as
though the stiff committed

- suicide by overdosing on

whatever pills Marjorie can
rummage out of her purse. Un-
fortunately, her biggest stock
of drugs consists of muscle
relaxants and stool softeners!

Things go even more haywire |

after the autopsy. Now they’ve
got the future chief-of-police,
who just happens to be Nick’s
brother, galloping after them at
a fast trot. He’d probably
gallop a whole lot harder if he
could tear himself away from
Marijorie’s baby sister.

Kitimat pulls out
of drama festival

Kitimat’s On Cue Players
announced with regret last week
that they have had to withdraw
their entry from the Skeena Zone

Terrace starting April 18.

The On Cue Players were to
have presented their production of
Love Letters.

Drama Festival, taking place in -

SKEENA ZONE DRAMA
FESTIVAL

Terrace ’91

| presents ~
: a Talking With

= April 18
The Brute &

| A Chip in the Sugar :

April 19
Boiler Room Suite
April 20

R.E.M. Lee Theatre, Terrace

Tickets at Erwin Jewellers in Skeena Mall, or at the door
$8 adults, $7 studentsseniom/Theatre BC members
3-evening package $20

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