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 —————