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Inaugural programs will feature “relaxing but not sleepy’’ music, mostly American, along with natural sounds, such as bird singing and ocean waves. There will be no com- mercials and a minimum of disc jockey chatter. SDAB is the first of some 19 PCM radio channels, all of which could be on the air late next year. But despite unprecedented sound quality the success of the new PCM stations is far from assured and some criites doubt they will win enough listeners to make a profit. They will not succeed’ on fidelity alone. Renew Your Membership For 1991 Before November 30 Ordinary Associate Fraternal Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 170 Green themes slow to arrive on stage Editor's note: These days almost everyone seems to be hopping on to the green bandwagon, from politicians and supermarket chains to TV shows and feature movies. So where is live theatre? Why aren't environ- mental issues being played out on Canadian stages? By GWEN DAMBROFSKY The Canadian Press Somewhere a number of TV writers are probably racing to see who can finish the first movie-of-the-week about the Exxon Valdez. Or maybe eco-director Robert Redford will beat them to the punch with a feature film starring, say, Mickey Rourke as Capt. Joseph Hazelwood. And in live theatre? By the time the sorry saga of the disastrous Alaska oil spill seeps on to the stage in a decade or two, it doubtless will be a tragically nostalgic musical called Crude Slick! Environmental themes are taking a long time to arrive on Canada’s stages, if they’re coming at all. “‘Writers don't seem to be atracted to the subject at the moment,” allows Kim McCaw, artistic director of Winnipeg’s Prairie Theatre Exchange. “‘And theatres aren't asking for those kinds of plays."” Racial issues are hot in the theatre. So are AIDS and child abuse and self-examination in general. Says Bob Baker of Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company: “The themes we keep seeing are ones of alienation and identity, which is so darned Canada."" Baker thinks part of the reason environmental issues aren't being tackled is that they don’t lend them- selves to simple visual presentation — how does one replicate on stage the menace of air pollution or holes in the ozone? ‘Maybe if it was discovered that there was a form of cancer caused by the oil spills . . .,"" Baker muses. ‘I think once it becomes human, that’s what writers can respond to. I’m not saying the environment isn’t touching humans, but it’s like the threat of nuclear war — there’s not a lot of pieces on that, either, because it’s such a large issue and doesn’t specifically touch home yet,”” Finding the environment’s human angle hasn't ap- peared to present a problem to Hollywood. Witness such films as Gorillas in the Mist (animal conservation); The Handmaid's Tale (large-scale sterility caused by a future environmental disaster); Star trek IV, The Voyage Home (save the whales). Hollywood also has been able to produce a whole range of anti-nuclear movies, from Testament to Silk- wood to The China Syndrome. For several months now some of Hollywood's headest honchos — including Redford, Columbia's’ Peter Guber, director Costa-Gavras and producer David Puttnam — have been embroiled in a bidding war for rights to the life story of Brazilian ecologist Chico Men- des, who was murdered during his fight to save the Amazon jungle from deforestation. The rain forest has already been the setting for John Boorman’s film The Emerald Forest. Next year it will also be the backdrop for a romantic drama called The Stand Television has been quick to pounce on the green bandwagon too. Sometimes it’s subtle, such as the Thir- tysomething storyline that had a lead charter cam- paigning to keep an incinerator out of her community Sometimes it’s ruefully blatant, such as the now-defunct ecological commandos of E.A.R.T.H. Force battling evil wastemongers. Bill Millerd, artistic director of the Vancouver Arts Club, says it’s a little unfair to compare media, since TV and film have such huge budgets compared with the theatre and can respond much more quickly to topical events. “In the theatre it seems to take a year and a half per script to not only get written but also plunked into a season at the appropriate time,’’ notes Baker, adding that subscription seasons must be planned far in advan- Others, such as Manitoba Theatre Centre’s Steven Schipper, says they're just not seeing the environment emerge as a topic in the scripts they're being sent. “It may be that because we are at the very begin- ning of an environmentally conscious society, the issue itself is still percolating in some playwright’s mind,"" says Schipper. “It has to come from the playwrights,"’ concurs Millerd. However, at least one playwright says that’s gar- bage. “It’s always a cop-out when an artistic director says that,” bristles playwright Frank Moher, who splits his year between Edmonton and the coast of British Columbia. “If they really seriously want a creative piece of theatre on the topic, they can pull those strings.”” Moher has written a play loosely inspired by the Exxon Valdez spill and set just northeast of Victoria. It was ssi by i College in i which wanted a piece that would employ 27 acting students. The size of the cast would be prohibitive for most professional theatres, so Moher is working on cutting it down to 10. Even then he’s not sure he will be able to interest theatre managers. “I think there’s a general problem that theatre is becoming less socially engaged,”’ he said. ‘Increasingly theatre is accepting the view of itself as a kind of cham- ber art that doesn’t really have anything to do with people’s lives.”” Vancouver playwright Peter Haworth circulated to a number of theatre managers his adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the Peaple which he set in a B.C. community near a pulp and entitled The Mill — but ended up doing it for CBC radio. “*I- doubt there’s a scarcity of material,’ Haworth says, adding cautiously: ‘‘It is a serious theme, and I wouldn’t want to say at this point that I’ve encountered opposition. Often when you deal with theatre management, you encounter forgetfulness, to put it in its mildest form."” Privately, some playwrights hint one reason ecology is shunned may be that much funding for the arts comes from cor i such as oil ies, which might not favor the topic. But Lindy Sisson, who programs both teen and children’s theatre festivals for Edmonton's Citadel Theatre, thinks that's a ludicrous suggestion. If anything, she believes, corporations are spending unprecedented amounts on environmental causes — sometimes taking it from funds originally earmarked for theatre — to counteract bad publicity from events such as oil spills. Furthermore, she says, the Citadel long has had oil companies and their ilk as corporate sponsors and “they've never attempted to interfere in questions of content."" Films deal with ecology LOCAL NEWS Kinnaird Junior di school has left) Kaela Tompkins, Tanya Nedelk and Richelle Davis. Kinnaird wraps up Nov. 26 saw the conclusion of a successful season for the Kinnaird Junior secondary school cross- country running team, with a wind- up swim and dinner at the Sandman 0, coach Carol Ru: Junior running grades 6 to 12, Kaela Tompkins placed 141st, Elysia Samarodin placed: 170th and Sara Healing placed 255th. Inn Highlights of the season were remembered, and each student in- dividually toasted and thanked coach Carol Russell for her interest and JOB OPENINGS pped up its try running season. Team members are (back row, from li, Mandy Giraud, Sara Healing and Elysia Samarodin; (front row, from left) Aaron Donohue, Steven Miller and Jason Archambault. Missing trom photo are Scott Carlson, Melissa Chernoff HAPPY BIG 4-OH! D.P. Love your fon club! 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