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SEAFORTH
Entertainment Thurs., Fri: &--"Sat':
LARK
All-Girl Band
FRIDAY SPECIAL
Cold Plate Dinner
FINE FOOD
FINE ENTERTAINMENT
Dublin Centennial
BEEF BARBECUE
Saturday, July 1st
Dublin Park
Adults $4.50 (prior to June 23)
' $5.00 "(after June 23)
Children $2.50 (12 and under)
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COMMITTEE MEMBERS OR DUBLIN
STORES AND BUSINESSES
Be sure to get your -tickets early
CAMPBELL CARDIFF CATERING
Out of town residents who wish to be certain of a meal
may purchase tickets by contacting Mr. Joe Shea, R. R.
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Community Centre
10 ant - 5 pm
Fashion Shows 1:15 & 2:45
Crafts for sale Lunch Available
Home Baking Door Prizes _
The family of
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40th. Wedding
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Sat., June 17
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This program is designed to give your child eight exciting weeks during
the summer. Your child will have an opportunity to participate in such
artivitics as arts and crafts, games, sports, story-telling, music, films, gym,
special events and town tours.
REGISTRATION TONIGHT
THURS. June 15
7-8:30
RECREATION OFFICF
AGES: For Boys & Girls 3 - 7 yrs.
Two distinct Programs, Junior & Senior
OATES: Mon July 3 - Friday,August 25
[except Monday, August 71
TIMES: Morning 9-12 LUnch 12-1 'Afternoon 1-4 p.m.
Children may bring their own lunches
LOCATION: Seaforth Public School
COST: $30.00 for the entire summer,
$3.00 per week.
$2.50 half daysiweek.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
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Defend His-Guilt
"lMonette, in the plain white, uniform of a prisoner, never asks
the judges (the audience) to acquit him of his crimes -he only
proposed "to defend his guilt." As he warns us at the start, what
will disgust us is his normality--if he were mad like his fellow
officer Rubin, now residing somewhere in a dark room, his arms
bound, whimpering softly; then we could forgive him. But says
Vukhov, "my sanity is my accuser."
Judgement, which sometimes seems to move at a snail's pace
and then race along as Monette fires words at his accusers, is. a
harrowing experience, since it makes us (judges and audience)
re-live the initial decision of the men to draw lotion who will die
fast, the killingof,the first officers, the painstaking suicide of
another and the gradual madness of Officer Rubin.
„ Sometimes Monette's voice is so stiff, the audience has to
strain to catch the 'words, and at other times, you want to block •
out the words and questions that Vukhov throws at his
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judges--" Does the flesh of a friend taste worse, less wholesome
than that of a Mere acquaintance?- or his admission that he feels
no guilt for his acts, for his murders, his cannibalism, for "it was
an act of war, only an act of war."
Noisily
Monette or Vukhciv's liturgy of horrors is painful, anct'the
,. :Festival program warns beforehand that .the play is for "adult
andiences only.'' .Unfortunately, the strange bond that Monette
builds with the audience was repeatedly shattered in my part of
the theatre by members of the audience who felt they, couldn't,
take any more of the play--and left the theatre noisily. Also,
ironically, in the midst of some of Monette's most brutal
descriptions of cannibalism, one of my neighbours insisted on
unwrapping candies wrapped in cellophane, it seemd, created
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for the sole purpose of being disturbing. But as the play nears
the climax, and Vukhov is about to rest his defence, the tension if
almost unbearable.
Sometimes Collins' words seem cliche-like, and oversimplified
but-Monette, as'.Vukhov, infuses them with so much emotion,
that while we might find the soldier's sins unpardonable. we
•ain't ignore the man's basic honesty, and' his "humanity. The
horror he has survived is only part Of war--a war. whip',
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There are moments in the theatre when you're watching a
gifted performer, that you can suspend any sense of reality
outside what is unfolding on the stage,„ and even can suspend it
even when,. the drama is painful, sometimes horrifying,
Sometimes making you almost physically ill.
Judgement, a one-man Jay, by English playwright Barry
Collins, and starring Richar (met e, 'certainly one of Canada's
more gifted performers, opened at the Avon Theatre, Stratford,
a Friday in the first of its only ten performances this summer.
The members of the audience who survived the one hour and 45
minutes of theatre aren't likely to forget what they saw--and
certainly good theatre should sometimes be more than light,
forgettable entertainment.
The play, which requires a marathon performance by Monette,
who pauses only once for a quick drink of water, is based loosely
me a true incident in the last war when a group of Russian
Soldiers were left locked in a monastery in southern Poland by
their German captors when the Germans fled the advancing
,Allied forces. •
Little Hope
Without food orwater, and perhaps little hope of rescue, the .
men were faced with the'basic question of how, if at all, they
could survive. When the advancing Red Army came upon the
monastery after the men had been imprisoned fey almost two
months, they found only two survivors--survivors Who had lived
by killing and devouring their fellow prisoners. When the men
were freed from the small cell, they were given a decent meal,
lined up against the wall and shot so other officers and soldiers
wouldn't see to what abjection their former officers had been
reduced.”
But. Collins, the playwright chose to build the play around a
fictional dilemma--that while two men survived the ordeal, one
.completely mad • ; the other, a-young officer ,orated-Vtikhol,-Was
completely -sane; even:after Witnessing, even assisting in the
deaths of five of his fellow officers. In the play, Monette as
Vukhov, is facing /his judges in an inquiry following his
rescue--and, as the play's program informs us, we, the audience,
are those judges, Our role in judgement is to decide whether the
almost unspeakable acts committed by Officer Vukhov can be
justified--if the pricOof survival, of his unfailing will to live, can
-be pardoned,
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• rmre ,unnbelievably, Vukhov wants permission to rejoin.
A Dilemma
We, who are asked to pronounce the judgement, face a
dilemma which seems to have no solution:Al-we acquit Vukhov,
we are condoning acts we have been taught to-believe are not
only immoral, but inhuman. However, if we judge Vukhov guilty.
then we are condeming another basic premise--that life, and the
will.to survive, is our most valuable possession.
"My duly was to endure." says Officer Vukhov. "I chose to
live."
Still Shunted •
At the play's end, the audience, still stunned by Monette's
electric performance. gave the actor a standing ovation. The
balcony whichwas only half full, before being deserted by some
of its members in midstream, was. ample testimony to the fact
Judgement won't be a money-maker for the Festival,,. But the
pay will be a success--a success because it forces audience
members to reassess themselves and their own values. Robin
Phillips might have presented another Noel Coward commedy at
the Avon Theatre this semmer, but instead he andMonette have
combined to present a play which challenges audiences in a way
only the best theatre does. Even when fighting the urge to leave,
and when the minutes seemed to creep by, and when Monette
was piling horror on horror, I wouldn't have missed Judgement.
As Vukhov says, "different men act differently in the same
circumstances."
Judgement forces us to not only examine the insanity of war,'
• but also 'insantiy and sanity themselves.
Monette as Vukhov is an able defence counsel for his own
actions-and the issue of what should be done with a man like
himself who acknowledges his guilt is one which haunts the
__audience long-after-they'-ve left the-doors ofthe Avon farbehind.
Now, in case you think Friday-'was entirely spent in soul
searching. let me assure you it wasn't so.
On the way out of the Avon, I happened, by sheer goo fortune,
to run into a, theatre critic from the south, with a bad headache
and a ticket for the evening preniiere of As You Like it, one of
Shakespeare's most sparkling comedies.
While it seems unkind to have such a good time at someone '
"tIse's misfortune, I confess I didn't give a thdright to the health
of my benefactor after the lights rose n the idyllic vale of the
Forest of Arden.
As You Like It, which stars Maggie Smith, Brian Bedford,
Domini Blythe, Jack. Wetherell and .a host of Stratford veterans,.
is pure delight from the moment the first character steps on
stage; with its blend of wit, romance, lots of fantasy and the' age
old battle of the sexes.
improved with Age ,
The play, which proved a hit when it was staged at the 'Festival
last summer seems like asgood cigar, to have improved with age.
Maggie Smith delivers her lines with the exact comic timing
which only the most gifted performers ever master. As Rosalind,
banished daughter of a banished duke, she's beautiful, but '•
dsguised as Gannymede, a young •man, she's mischievous,
'quixotic--sheer magic. The scenes where she, disguised as
Gannymede, pretends to be Rosalind (who she really is) so her
young lover Orlando (Jack Wetherall). can practise his skills of
wooing and convince Gannymede he is truly smittem•are among
Shakespeare's most captivating scenes.
Miss Smith's acting, is matched by most of her fellow
actors:•-particularIy Brian Bedford, cast as 'the, melancholy
Jacques, who provides some relief from the other characters who
talk constantly of love, and Bernard Hopkins, as Touchstone, the
professional clown.
As You Like It is a comedy about love anal heacting. the music
of Berthold Carriere and Shakespeare's songs all combine to
provide theatregoers with three hours of pure, delight.
You forget the difference in the ages-Utile characters playing
the young lovers, forget that the string of coincidences which
bring the lovers together just couldn't happen, and sometimes
even forget the play was written by Shakespeare.
'Like love, is sometimes claimed to be, As You Like It is truly
lovelier the second time around.
This year, the Stratford Festival, under Robin Phillips' guiding
hand, is providing_theatregoers not only with the best of
--Sfiakespeare but also with some of the best of contemporary
theatre.
Thisis what theatre should do, but which regional theatres too
often fail to do.
-LIONS EXECUTIVE — Newly elected officers of the
Seaforth Lions Club were installed at a dinner
meeting Monday evening when guests included
wives of the members. Shown following the
ceremony are , front, Robert Plumsteel, Treasurer;
John Talbot, ,Secretary; Gordon Rimmer, President;
Tom Young and Jack .Pickard, Vibe Presidents and
Marlon Vincent, Past President. Directors and other
officers are (rear) Irwin Johnston, Wm. McLaughlin,
donations of interest to local
readers.
_ Larry.. ,.traria won $56 i andT aid —Art -tif —Gleii —LOateS, a
each won $25 in the four $25
.Stuart Wilson and Marion Snell has donated The Complete Work distinguished mature artist, to the
Seaforth Library in memory of
The Catholic Womens' League
Mrs. Alice McConnell. draws which were sponsored by
Mrs. McConnell was the the Seaforth Agricultural Society chairman of the Seaforth Library held _at the Sea fort li Community board for many years, before the
Centre on Wednesday, May 31. library became part of the Heron The draws were held during a County Libr'.re srqteni.
twilight auction sale, both of
A second book of interest which were to raise money for the history buffs is' The
agricultural society.
Lloyd Hoggarth, Grant Little, Stewart Coupland and
Orville Oke, former district govarnet who carried out
the installation ceremony. Prizes at the meeting,
which featured a slide presentation of a recent trip to
Japan and the Far East by Bill and Lois Hodgert,
were won by Dorothy Hays, Jane Vincent, Jane
Rimmer and Helen Thompson. Winners of $25 in the
Car Club Draw were Dave DeVries and Peter Hough
of Seaforth. (Photo by Oke)
Patrick Spain, donated in memory The book includes the history of
of John Spain and Margaret-Ellen the Spain family when they
Nixon (Spain) and their
descendants by the Joaoles of .pictures of the town taken --
resided in Seaforth-and a number
authors. Dorothy Spain Greb and years ago, as well as photos of
Daisy Doreen Spain Kilmer. malty of the town's early settlers.
BEEF BAR-84
DANCE
Saturday, June 24
The Seaforth Public Library
has recently received two
Prize winners
to
Family of
Spain family history donated
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