CASTLEGAR NEWS, December 14, 1980 ‘Omega production reviewed

By TERRY PETTERSEN Ten years ago, I missed

a performance in Victoria |

that won much acclaim. It was a rock oratorio, called Joseph. “> Last week I jumped at a chance to see Joseph and his Fabulous Technicolor Dream- coat: as: performed by the “Omega Theatre Company” (whose performance of God- apell last year was well received.) © *”

, Having seen other pro- ductions of Godspell,-and now

having seen Joseph, I féel_

Godspell to’ be potentially. a better play. In both ‘reviews’ (neither could be . called

* ‘plays'vas there is no oats outside of the ii). the dir- ector depends rely on the delivery of the ‘music, and the precision and dynamism of. the players.

Where Godspell put the gospe) according to St. Mat-

; thew to song, Joseph enacts i the Old Testament story of } Joseph and hjs Coat of Many { Colors, and Josephysings and : stumbles ‘his way from his i father’s pastures, into exile i iri Egypt, where, through his j ability to interpret dreams, » he becomes righthand man to i the Pharoah. H T felt, given the difficulty ! of producing a full-scale musi- : cal ona limited budget, with ta young, relatively inexper- ienced cast, on a tiny stage, in an accoustically-poor gym- nasium, the production de- serves. full marks,

I was very excited by the show, which at times was very humorous, and at other times

keyboard-man. The. whole band seemed in tune with the action on stage and suppor- tive of the players.

The players themselves were very well cast, all ‘interesting’ looking charac- ters. Joseph was played as a bit of a clown, at first en- dearing, yet later h

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tiresome. , The narrator looked and moved well on stage, though I wanted some- thing more ‘personal’ from her (I will clarify this in a moment). The Pharoah was great, and I felt him to really

alive with sand

vjoying playing the role

calor. The dancing numbers were very well: choreo- .graphed, and ‘the dancers very versatile, doing every- thing from jazz dance to calypso, with a bit of 50s jiving thrown in,

The band provided a full sound, as various musicians showed us their-skills. I par- ticularly enjoyed the guitar- ist, the xylophonist and the

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of an rather ef- feminite ruler-cum-rock star,

The father of Joseph was beautifully underplayed, pro- viding a nice balance with the other characters. Mr. and Mrs. Potaphar provided a set-breaking contrast to the Biblical setting by flashing us into 20th century vampish- ness and hucksterism. We were treated to some yery precise miming on their en- trance, - -

Now, one of the dangers -

of reviewing local theatre: is to be too supportive, and to miss the opportunity to give creative feedback so the players can advance in their art: This is the only value to the process of review writ- ing. * So, firstly, given the physical limitations I have mentioned, what is a director left’ with, in a high school production? Well, he has whatever talent he can find, or draw out, but more im- portantly, he has the vigor and enthusiasm of people in or approaching their prime {in terms of being alive and

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is ‘a tremendous asset, an asset’ ofteh-tnissing in Pro- ‘féasional ‘theatre. hy¥Pgiven the talent off the” players and their potential ertrgy, did Joseph not, blast its way into the stra? This is the point. The cast didnot: fulfill its poten- tial for working as a solid unit,’ giving EVERYTHING, to their audiences.

UT felt the players. were .

not quite satisfied with the production the night I saw it. When the cast made its bow, I counted only half the main players giving themselves, through. their smiles, and their: enthusiasm, to their audience.

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Letiers to Santa in all languages

MONTREAL (CP) .

Postal workers Francine La- pierre had a real problem Wednesday. - She spent the-- better part of the afternoon on the telephone trying to find ' someone who could answer a letter to Santa Claus written in what she thought might be Inuktituut.

In the last two years, Lapierre has become Santa Glaus’s unofficial secretary and this year she is one of-six postal workers helping Santa

ose With Iédd roles ~ answer the'tnotintiin' of tail

fall working: relationatiip with the audience, such that the audience could be picked

up “by: the magnetism and:

attraction of ‘the characters and iiot left to become bored when ‘the song or the staging orthe lighting was imperfect. Too many times I was al- lowed to wander, to remem- ber my hard chair, to be aware I was just watching a show, and not often enough was I grabbed by my connec-. tion,'to ‘the: story and the magical world: that had been created,

Tremain very impressed

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North Pole.”

“We were getting thou- sands of letters from children telling Santa -what they wanted for Christmas,” -she said. “It was’ such ashame that they didn't get an- swered.”

’ Last year the team an- swered 25,000 letters and this year they expect to face between 30,000 and 40,000.

. The letters comes from all over the world — Mexigo, . Australia, Japan, Europe, even Arabic countries — al-

though most are Canadian. . “I think they end up in™

Montreal because it’s en route to the North Pole,” she

‘said. “I can't think of any

other reason.”

- The post office sends Sach child a chatty reply about Satita’s activities and encloses a picture puzzle. Letters which. aren't an- awered before Christmas will be answered in the new year.

“Obviously,” Lapierre said, “we're not going to get through them all before

* Christmas.”:

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Some children send Br cards, some send pictuceswand ,others. send bubble gam and pennies, Requests.-for : gifts ratige from dolls, games or Rene Simard records to re- frigerators, sound systems and freezers.

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‘and not in our place — not before,” French told a packed auditorium of women at Con- tordia University, where she had been invited to speak by _the® university's. Simone de

treal to utr French- language edition of her new novel The Bleeding Heart, retitled in French Les Bons Sentiments and published by

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KINGSTON, ONT. (CP) — Christ Church of Cataraqui officially opened Oct. 16,1870" ,and has had more than its share of problems ever since.

In 1970, Lt. Col. P.A- Neatby,. then rector’s war- ‘den, d up the church's.

These main- tain that women’s work in the home cannot be taken seriously, that men are cen- tral to women’s lives and that: women either live happily . ever after or die for love.

Womeve work is: not

first century as'“an almost. continual fight for survival, for solvency and the Them- bers. have become’ accus- tomed to crisis.”

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forte: The parish shas..a; long - history. Even;o;before . the.

stone church wa built, “out-~

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as early as 1833: when the |

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years hopefully with tions to the interior, in- cluding wall ig, a new gang ana addition, of /8

suppers.

middle-aged divorcee, told J

that she has

strike. Most routes in the

Atlantic provinces are flown

by DOC9s, while many of the- airline's small Boeings are based in Toronto ‘and the Western provinces.

Pierre Frappier; a nego- tiatior for the Canadian Air

+ Line Flight Attendants As-° “sociation, said the union has

received information

priority would

thefairline was to reduce staff aboard its larger aircraft — which carry extra attendants to provide additional cabin .

- service — there would not be

enough replacements: to maintain all flights. Canada spokesman.

Air Verne Prior would not say --

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her lived without aman for many ¥3

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