14 Wednesday March 29, 1995

~ by Courtney Raines

Assassin, Salieri, assassin. These repeated words begin the play,
In the darkness of the Prince George Playhouse the’

Amadeus.
audience is told that Antonio Salieri has gone mad. Salieri keeps
insisting that he poisoned Mozart. And now, with the audience’s
attention engaged, the, real story begins.

This is to be the last night of Salieri’s life and he wishes to
confess what he did to Mozart to the “spirits of the future”, the
audience members. After telling the audience what they are about
to see, Salieri takes them back through his life. Through his
childhood dream to gain fame by praising God through music, the
first time he sees Mozart, and the first time he hears Mozart’s
music. When Salieri realizes that Mozart’s music speaks God’s
words and that his own work does not, he vows to take revenge on
the God who betrayed him. His revenge will be destroying Mozart,
the one to whom God gave the gift of making music that speaks in
His voice.

This play was filled with emotion, and all of it came across with
realism. The actors seemed to truly feel each emotion their
character went through. Salieri’s rapture when he first hears
Mozart’s music, and his anger towards the God who denied him
the ability to play God’s music are excellently portayed by Peter

Hall. Demetri Goritsas, who plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is .

marvelous. He is full of boyish enthusiasm at the beginning of the
play and paranoia at the end. All the actors are wonderful.

The audience’s first glimpse of Mozart is unforgettable. Mozart’s
sexual game of “cat and mouse” with Constanze Weber, played by

Michelle Porter, shows his crudeness. This clashes with the -

established etiquette of Vienna’s high society.

Mozart’s actions become more and more aggravating to those
around him, especially Count Orsini-Rosenberg. The Count, played
by Mike Rawluk, is aggrevated with Mozart’s pompus attitude
throughout the entire play. Out of malice and spite, the Count
conspires with Salieri to destroy Mozart’s opera, The Marriage of
Figaro. Although not completely destroyed, the opera was short

lived.

Mozart poisioned

photo by Courtney Raines |

Count Orsini-Rosenberg (Mike Rawluk) tears up Mozart’s (Demetri Goritsas) Figaro manuscript

Salieri manages to destroy

Mozart’s career, while his
own prospers. His fame,
however, is temporary.

Salieri wishes to be.
remembered after his death’
so he decides to spread the.
rumour that he killed Mozart. -
By commiting suicide at the

fast food . . . poisoning?

“Do you want Thousand Isla-
l -uh, I mean, our secret sauce
on them?”

by Doug Smith

Have you ever been to a fast
food restaurant where you
weren’t quite sure what the
food was made with?
Probably more often than
you'd like. Recently, I’ve:
been to a fast food restaurant,
which will remain nameless,
and it was as close to hell as I)
ever want to get!”

At first the place seemed to
“be the basic fast food joint. I
went up to the young man at
the till and asked if there:
were any specials on. He
replied, “Well if you buy two,
burgers, you get the shakes|

for free!”

I wasn’t sure which way I

should take that, but I
_ ordered two burgers anyway.

The young man then asked,

I was SURE that I didn’t
want that! I became
suspicious that it wasn’t real
food that he was trying to sell
me. “What in the world are
your burgers made with?” I
asked.

“Our burgers are made with
pure beef, and they only
contain half the soybeans of
other places!”

I canceled my order right
there and then. My honest
host seemed to feel that I was
wasting his time, so I decided
to order a coffee and get the
hell out of there. “Free refills

if you can finish on cup of |

our coffee,” he remarked, and|
then asked, “Will that be cash
or charge? Tee hee!”

I backed away from the
counter. I’d be lucky to
escape with my stomach
intact. “Oh, come on!” he
said. “If you don’t want a
coffee, then try our new
licorice and liver shake.”

That was it. I wanted to
leave, now! I was almost out
the door when the young man
yelled from behind the
counter, “Remember - NO
food is better than OUR
food!”

Don’t complain if Mickey
Dee’s messes up your order,
or if Burger King doesn’t
flame-broil your burger.
“your way, right away”. As,
you can see, I’ve been in a!
far worse dining situation. # |

height of this rumour Salieri
will go down in history as the
man who killed Mozart, and
then killed himself out of
guilt. Unfortunately for him,
his attempt at suicide fails.
The final scene, in which
the “Venticelli”, played by
Pierre Ducharme and Susanna

Edwards, announce that no
one believes that Salieri
poisoned Mozart ends the
play with the realization that
Salieri’s attempt to gain fame
at Mozart’s expense has
failed miserably. The play
ends with the same strength
that it began. 4

Melrose Mayhem

by Slinder Bhatti

.

Oh my God! Can you believe what’s going on at Melrose Place?
Holy *!@#! Sidney’s being stalked by some cult (poor thing, she
always gets all the tough breaks.. She was kidnapped by Jane’s
boyfriend a while back, and that jerk smothered her with expensive
gifts. Buhhhhmer!) And now her ex-roommate (who also happens
to be ex-porn star Tracy Lords) has been revealed to be a
psychopathic nut bar!
Holy Hannah! This woman has had more things apie to her in
tow episodes that I’ve had in all my life! And that bat-out-of-hell
Amanda had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s’ disease (for all that
don’t know, it’s a'type of cancer... DUH)! If you ask me, her and
Michael are gonna be playing “house real soon. Yeah, Michael
(Mr. Either Kill Me of Love Me Dammit!), the one who’s with
Kimberly (a.k.a. baby-stealing, husband-killing, wig wearing
*#@%* from hell!) Oh! Oh! Oh! Matt is also being stalked by ©
some crazy, abusive cop who has a “fatal attraction” thing going
with Matt. Now lets not forget about all the musical beds that the y
play on Melrose.. Jake has pretty much worked his way through the
entire building, and now (I predict) him: and Jane will get something
going on. Heck! Why not? He’s got nothing to lose. . . nor does
she. I wonder if they’ve heard about S.T.D.’s at Melrose Place.
That’ ll probably come up in next week’s “educational” episode. Oh
yeah, let’s not forget Billy and Allison . . . well, they’re still Belly
and Allison. (Blah!)