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Benefit concerts Pianists E v g e n i a Rabinovich and Bo gdan Dulu will twinkle the keys of a Fazioli piano this week to launch a music series at Our Lady of Fatima church RABINOVICH in Coquitlam. Proceeds from the eight Joan West memorial concerts will benefit young parishioners who will attend World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain, in August, where the Pope is expected to make an appearance.
Besides the Jan. 15 recital, which will include Abraham Wong on violin, other concerts are on Feb. 19 (Kabok String Orchestra, conducted by Bryan Deans); March 19 (pianist Kevin Wong); April 17 (Palm Sunday concert by the Fatima Ecumenical Choir); May 8 (Corpus Christ Choir, conducted by Tony Araujo); and June 11 (Ablaze! Chamber Orchestra and Choir, conducted by Abraham Wong). Tickets at $50 for the series are available through the Fatima parish office, located at 315 Walker St., Coquitlam. For more information, call 604-936-2525.
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From left to right, actors Parker Thompson, Matt David Johnson and Matt Shaw in Stage 43’s Charley’s Aunt. For tickets, call the Evergreen Cultural Centre at 604-927-6555.
British farce for Stage 43 By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS
A Tri-City theatre group tackles the everlasting themes of love and laughter this week and next as part of its season-long British comedy series. Stage 43 Theatre Society has eight performances of Charley’s Aunt, a farce written more than 100 years ago that opens tomorrow (Thursday) at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam. The cast of 10, mostly from the Tri-Cities, interprets the comedy “pretty much how it was written,” director Jim Harrison told The Tri-City News. “We’ve modernized the design for the set a bit and the lighting, but we’ve kept the bones of the structure as they were in the 19th century.” Opened in 1892 in London, England, Charley’s Aunt broke box office records by running for 1,466 shows; the next year on Broadway, it ran for four
years. The somewhat-complex plot revolves around Charley Wykeham and Jack Chesney, two Oxford University undergraduates trying to woo their sweethearts, Amy Spettigue and Kitty Verdun. When Charley hears his rich Brazilian aunt, Donna Lucia D’Alvadorez, will be in England, he and Jack organize a lunch with their girlfriends to meet her; however, the aunt doesn’t show and they get their friend, Lord Fancourt Babberly, to impersonate her. But in Act Two, the relative appears with her adopted niece, Ela Delahay, an orphan with whom Babberly is smitten — mostly because she inherited money from her father that was originally Babberly’s. The comedy follows Stage 43’s fall performance of The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, and precedes Noel Coward’s Hay Fever.
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