Page M12 September 12, 1990. This Week ON STAGE Belfry looking better than ever for 1990-91 season he Belfry Theatre unveiled its 1990- 91 season line-up at a gala presenta- tion Thursday. Artistic director Glyns Leshon in- troduced this year’s selec- tion after a painting by brochure. The Belfry Theatre's 1990-91 season of five plays opens with A.R. Gurney’s The Cocktail Hour. Gurney’s new Broadway hit revolves around Bradley and Ann’s cocktail hour - a time to get together and reminisce with Atale of obsessive love, Wendy Lill’s Memories of You, revolves around Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart, whose con- suming passion for one man destroys her talent as a writer and tears her family apart. Lill uses flashbacks to examine how Smart comes to terms with the their parents agree to take the children for an evening, Ed and Donna have been happily mar- ried. Finally a quiet evening alone, yet this time together douses any spark of romance left in them. Amigos Blue Guitar may not be for the feint of heart. Joan Guitar is a co-production with Western Canada Theatre Com- pany of Kamloops. Closing the Belfry’s season is Willy Russell's Shirley Valen- tine. This comedy is about a woman who temporarily leaves her middle- class surroundiggs, and her husband, as she recap- tures her dreams on a Greek Victoria artist Grant Leier family. But this time their damage she has done to her MacLeod’s drama, about a was unveiled Leiers six Playwughtsonwantstocast iis taal refugee who finds sanctuary in ad eeeene toot ee bel family in a play. Gurney’s com- the Gulf Islands, portrays a tor- Tickets to all Belfry Theatre y nine foot workisbemg dy wermines the voles we a In Schedules, Bruce McManus tured and complex man who productions are available at thg used as the basis of this expected to play as we grow takes a hilarious look at mar- changes forever the lives of his theatre or by calling the box of year’s season poster and older. riage and parenthood. Until adoptive family. Amigos Blue fice at 385-6815. Theatre Guild season features drama, music he Victoria Theatre Guild is closing its diamond jubilee season with six plays at the Langham Court Theatre, starting this month. The opening production, Paul Zindel’s The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, is directed by Drew Kemp, who recently directed Twelth Night at the Belfry. This year’s musical production, No, No, Nanette, is directed by husband and wife team Jutta and Woody Wood- land. The musical features the tap-dance routine to the song Tea for Two. Bernard Slade’s An Act of Imagination will debut under ' Brian Woodman’s direction followed by A wind Between the Houses, directed by Ray Pomeroy. In the spring, playwright Tom Stoppard’s farce, Rough Crossing, will be directed by Roger Carr. Jeffrey Archer’s Beyond Reasonable Doubt closes the season under the direction of Judy Treloar, who was in Emerald City at the Belfry last year. For further information drop in at the Langham Court Theatre or call 384-2142 between 10:00 am and 4:00 pm. Fabulous Fringe getting set for fourth festival his year’s Fringe Festival promises to provide.an eclectic collection of theatre. The 10-day festival of jugglers, buskers, musicians and more traditional theatre is sure to prove as entertaining as previous years. Victorian TRYING OUT for a part in Victoria Theatre Guild’s musical Forty performing companies from three countries will production No No Nanette at Langham Court Theatre |s undertake 200 performances at six indoor and outdoor Marlene Dochery as music director Woody Woodland melodrama stages in the Old Towne. The performances include: Bossin’s Back with Bob Bossin; Aimee Queen of Heaven portrayed by Janie Woods-Morris, World in a Flap with Stuart Nemptin as Major Conrad Flaps; Journey Into Ecstasy starring Sheryl Simmons; and A One-Sided Dime by Frank Borg. watches (inset. Photos by CHUCK RUSSELL top of list for Pho enix The Fringe Festival takes place Sept. 21-30. For further he fall theatre season information call The Fringe Zone at 383-2663. begins Tuesday, Sen. =" LL 18 at the Phoenix | Theatre, University of Victoria. The first produc- tion, Lady Audley’s Secret, is a lurid Victorian melodrama, written by C.H.Hazelwood and directed by Michael Booth. In October, Phoenix Theatre presents the English Suitcase Company's adaptation of the Shakesperean tragedy Mac- beth. Also opening in October is Waclav Havel’s Largo Desolato, a portrait of a writer’s struggle behind the Iron Curtain to keep his sanity in a frighteningly absurd world. Tickets to all Phoenix Theatre productions are avail- = he ‘ able at the Phoenix Theaee : — = in e : . ee ae Ge ee CONRAD FLAPPS is only one of many characters who will take at 721-8000. part in the Fringe Festival. : Secret is a presentation of Sensation Drama Company and will play at UVic’s Phoenix Theatre Sept. 18, 19 and 20 at 12:30 p.m. LURID VICTORIA MELODRAMA Lady Audley’s