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This Week

ON STAGE

UVic department heads committed to performance *

he first CBC Talent
Competition, held
in 1959, produced a
first class concert
pianist as top prize winner.
This artist, Gordana

Lagarevich, has been head
of the Department of Music
at the University of Victoria
for the past four years.

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Michael Booth, head of the
Drama Department at the
University, is a man with ideas
and ideals. Shakespeare, Chek-
hov and Taydeau and the Vic-
torian era are his favorites.
Linter is the more up-to-date
playwright contender. Michael
has headed the Drama Depart-
ment since 1984. These depart-
ments are model set-ups in the
university world.

Gordana’s musical faculty
numbers 45. There are 35
graduates and 180 full-time stu-
dents seeking degrees in perfor-
mance, music education,
history, composition, plus a
general program.

“We are committed to the
whole process. and concept of
performance. All audition first.
We have students from the Is-
land, across Canada, Europe
and India, with a minimum of
Grade 8 level on their instru-
ment or voice. Performance stu-

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their ARCT (performance
diploma) or equal from a recog-
nized conservatory of music.
One of three meet our qualifica-
tions,” said the elegant lady who
likes to backpack in the wilder-
ness.

“I listen to nature’s beautiful
sounds. They revitalize my
soul,” she added.

Yugoslavia-born, Gordana is
the author of The Music World
of Frances James and Murray
Adaskin. A Mozart and Haydn
lover, she’s off to Salzburg,
Austria, to deliver a paper on
Mozart’s opera in February
1991. She repeats this interna-
tional honor next August in Lon-
don, England.

Gordana’s tasks at UVic in-
clude “dealing with and through
people to create new directions
for the school of music.”

“We are approaching the stage
of needing new operating space.
Many faculty members are ap-
proaching retirement age and
new blood will help toward
meeting this requirement. We
can then offer Andrew Schloss, a
computer music specialist,
alongside Bach, Mozart and
Tchaikovsky,” she said. “We now
produce approximately 100
‘events annually, including reci-
tals, orchestral chamber, opera
workshop, choral and contem-
porary musical happenings.”

The play is
the thing
Michael Booth chairs a faculty
of nine full time professors plus
26 teaching crafts, set and cos-
tume design, management and
box office. He graduated from
the University of British Colum-
bia, then went on to various

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to form the Department of
Drama at the University of
Guelph, returned to the Univer-
sity of Warwick, England, then
herein 1984.

Theatre history and 19th cen-
tury performance and text are
his specialties. As a 1970s stu-
dent of Michael's at the Univer-
sity of Guelph, yours truly can
vouch for his melodrama and
Victoriana expertise. He is an
excellent teacher and director.

“Victoria is perfect. The
facilities of the three-theatre
Phoenix complex, a 200-seat
thrust, 200-seat proscenium
and a 60- to 70-seat flexible hall,
provide marvelous acting space
and required audience seating
for our theatre students.”

Four-year courses include ac-
ting, history of theatre, the tech-
nical side, plus English and an
elective. Students specialize in
for the avid actors who can begin
in year two. There are more than

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youth, one of the aims of Sages -
and the Stages Dance Theatre
Company. Stage director Wendy
Fitzgerald has selected a cast of «
80 talented adults and eolea

of all ages.

Members of the 19-piece or- |
chestra are Lansdowne Junior
High students with John Faw-
cett on the McPherson
Playhouse podium keeping allin
order. Margaret Gwilliam is
choral director of Stages’ second
full-length Broadway musical. —
Choreographer Kim Breiland
completes this outstanding)

DRAMA ENTHUSIAST Michael Booth is a man of ideas ond
ideals. He has an insatiable appetite for theatre history and
19th century performance. He says the performing aris
produce satisfaction and artistic gratification but usually. -
result in low income. “Staying on stage, and eatingtoo. isthe *

problem,” says Booth.

35 assorted jobs in the theatre
and 90 per cent find employ-
ment within three years of
graduating here.

“We can take more risks in the
university setting. Acting is a
difficult trade to break into, like
music. Ego, satisfaction and ar-
tistic gratification usually
produce low income. Staying on
the stage, and eating too, is the
problem. Most thespians hold a
second job, said the spry, eter-
nally youthful-looking Michael
Booth.

Christopher Plummer, Ray
Milland, Walter Pidgeon, Dean-
na Durbin, Mary Pickford, Kate
Nelligan, Nick Mancuso, Lorne
Greene, Jessica Tandy and
Hume Cronyn are among those
Canadians who made it to the
top.

Seven mainstage productions,
including a musical, keep the
annually auditioned student ac-
tors busy. Lunchtime shows are
added to keep students “doing,”
Michael said. Victoria ap-
preciates these programs run by
two dynamic personalities, and
public attendance proves it.

Oliver! makes

pre-Christmas

season special
Artistic director Kim Breiland
wisely chose Oliver! to celebrate

production quartet, which
brings the Lionel Bart mygic
and book to life.

Timothy Haig, as Oliver,
would have brought tears to the ©

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eyes of his creator, 19th century --

Charles Dickens. He moves like
a gazelle, sings like an angel,
and loves the audience. This is a

full-fledged star in the making @&

and still a child. Colin Skinner
as the nasty but lovable Fagan,

who teaches kiddies to steal .

silently, turns in his usual out-
standing performance.

Jack Droy, as orphan Oliver’s
rediscovered grandfather, is a
favorite. Carolynn Wilkinson_
brings the role of Nancy warmth
and character with her lymgal
mellow vocal tones and expres-

sive face. There are 19 charac;~

ters to rediscover from your

early childhood among the Jead_ ;

and supporting cast.

Until Dec. 22, the world of

Dickens, appropriate to recall at:
Christmas, is on stage. The well-.

rehearsed student orchestra.
played amazingly well. The”

chorus work and dancing num-
bers won over the audience. The
villains of the piece, played by

Tan Tate and Bruce Linnard,

need toning down to be he.
and understood, but that is oe.
possible feat. Don’t miss the true. _—
Christmas treat for all ages. Tor
all a Merry Christmas!

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