After the ball

This year's Revue returns to the traditional Capping Revue Time, running from April 19-28. Titled "After the Ball is Over" it will incorporate social and political satire, irreverent humour and a jazz show band.

It it does little else, it offers the newspaper reviewers an excuse to exercise some of their favourite cliches. Last year it elicited "Nothing sacred to students" a headline, and "the students curdle the milk of the sacred cow even before the audience reach their seats" further on in the text.

Similar to last year the revue will feature a front of house exhibition. Last year the works of Owen O'Pake were displayed, a mixture of concrete and steel, sculpture and modern paintings.

Owen, a local civil servant who died on his bycycle seat after tilting with a big red on Wadestown Hill believed that "the artists problem is one of making individually unique human statement while at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of art for arts sake approach, and being compelled to endure emotional and functional hardships of popular rejection."

Bullshit Owen!

Phill MacDonald