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The McGill Player’s Theatre is currently running its first show of the year in the Shatner building. Performance-wise, this is the most polished play I have seen put together by students. That’s not to say that it is perfect, but that given time constraints and the amateur status of the actors, the director Kareem Fahmy has done an excel lent job. Yetide Badaki, playing Isobel, stole the show with her riveting performance. A ll other actors demonstrated high quality acting and, with certain characters played, their full theatrical abilities came through. Rachel Charlop’s portray al of a woman with cerebral palsy was a sensitive and believable use of character as social commentary, and David Baker’s anal-retentive character added immensely to the comedic side of the play, making the audience want more from his tight voice and intense facial expression. At times problems did seem to arise as a result of each actor play ing so many characters—this could be because no real affinity was able to develop between them selves and every part. However, such acting problems were due to the multiple roles demanded by the script, rather than to a lack of skill on any cast member’s part. The mise-en-scene was well thought out. The stage design demonstrated the two social class es of the neighbourhood in an appealing manner while using all the space Player’s Theatre can pro vide. The set designer, Andrea Kennedy, in collaboration with the director, used an elevated hard wood half-stage to represent the upper class of society, while the rest of the space was designated
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What'syour own hell? TNC'sproduction of No Exit (see storypage 19), three people find that hell is otherpeople.
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Four o’clock in the morning and you toss angrily onto your right side, stare at the wall, try once again to close your eyes. Quickly you rebound to the left, imagine sheep hopping gracefully over a fence projected onto your door; you begin counting them one by one. Time passes. You are still counting. Another hour goes by. Frustrated, you kick off your covers, stumble into the living room, plop yourself down on the couch in front of the TV. You stare listlessly at the image on the screen and yawn loudly. You figure the infomercials will make you drift off. But you’re wrong — regardless of your efforts, you simply cannot put your mind to rest, and what’s worse is that your alarm clock is about to go off. Now for the comforting part: you are not alone. There are probably a lot more people tossing and turning around the city, all who suf
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fer from the same problem of sleepless nights and bleary-eyed days in what seems like an end less cycle. An estimated one in three adults gets too little rest to function properly because of trouble falling or staying asleep. Young adults need between 6 1/2-8 hours of continuous sleep daily. When wakeful nights occur more than 2 days in a row, your ability to function normally can be greatly affected. If you are taking more than 30-45 minutes to fall asleep, wake up many times during the night or very early and cannot get back to sleep, or don’t feel refreshed after a night’s rest, chances are you suffer from what is commonly called insomnia. It is quite simply, not being able to get the Zs. Dr. Henry Olders, a Geriatric Psychiatrist and expert on sleep disorders at the Jewish General Hospital, says that there is a great mis conception around the concept of insomnia. “Insomnia is a symptom, and a symptom is
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