18 Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 14, 1987

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‘Dave Battison

TERRACE — After ten years of
‘theater production, Dave Bat-
tison is still learning, growing
and enjoying a satisfying hobby
‘which can be challenging and
rewarding as well as unpredic-
table. « ——
Battison has been in Terrace
for about a year and belongs to
the Terrace Little Theatre or-
ganization. His experience with
Set design, lighting, and
technical production helped in
the success of many local pro-
. ductions over the last year. Bat-
tison assisted in ‘‘Young Drac-
ula’’, last year’s Christmas show
in the R.E.M. Lee Theatre, the

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community productions. Bat-
tison also serves as technical ad-
visor on many road shows that
are held in the R.E.M. Lee
Theatre.

Although theater is first and
foremost as a career and hobby,
Battison is multi-skilled and has
held many positions when
theater work was not available.

Battison has worked in the
realms of stage management,
lighting, set design, production,
directing, and even assisted in
writing plays.

“Theater is an outstanding in-
terest,’’ Battison explained, “‘it
provides a challenge and allows
one to be artistically expressive
as well,”

“My 10-year involvement in
theater began pretty much as a
fluke,’ explained Battison. “I
had an extra curriculum block
left in high school and decided
that the new stage arts course
would be an easy credit: then
after exposure to theater arts, I
wasn’t able to give it up because
it was too interesting.”

Battison studied theater for

three years; two years in Sidney .

at his high school and one year
at the University of Victoria.

The best theater that he ever

worked in was the one in Dun-
can, where it was very easy to
work because of the availability
of various equipment. _

Battison has also worked in jj
the McPherson Theatre in Vic- :

toria and the Royal Theatre in
Victoria, as well as countless
other community theaters like
the one in Burns Lake where he
lived before he moved to Ter-

years professionally but feels
comfortable in Terrace practis-
ing tneater as a hobby. ‘Terrace

‘ people seem to like what they

see,’’ Battison explained;
“although, I think Terrace
should have a little more
variety.’” :

He prefers heavy drama, but -

feels that variety is probably the
best course. ‘‘A play should
have good entertainment value
in any medium,’ Battison com-
mented. -

Battison . advises those in-

terested in stage entertainment -

to join a local theater group and
experiment. with different parts
of the production, =

‘‘Lighting brings me the most

satisfaction,’ Battison explain-.

Battison has worked seven

ed. “You must concentrate on
the play on a different level than

the audience, but you also get to

enjoy their enthusiasm to a cer-
tain extent, a kind of electricity,
if you will,’

The theater technician studies
techniques constantly from
other productions, movies,
television, and other media
forms, | Oo :

‘*The reason I prefer theater is

because ‘it is live, and one can
only control the production to a — ce a
AS a set designer, Battison is’
happy with “Heavens To Betsy”
because its set is not all straight.
forward and gives him room to

point. If something were to oc-

. Cur unexpectedly a production.
Person or an actor must adapt to.
the change and make the most of.

the situation. This, of course, is
one of the challenges of theater

arts, which sets it aside from

the movies where the crew can
just simply re-shoot the scene

until it’s perfect,’’. Battison ex-
plained, ee
Battison’s latest project as a
set designer and lighting techni-
cian will be the play. “Heavens
To Betsy’ which will be staged
at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre on
Nov, 13 and 14. oe

Overall, he feels the show will

‘be very good. “‘It’ll be a lot of
fun for audiences; it's like a liv-

ing cartoon.’’ Battison said. .

be abstract. “This show seems

to have a lot of room for visual’
should be in-
teresting to work on,’’ he con-

effects, and

cluded.

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