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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1981-07-01, Page 23• For Fine Festival Dining 11111MII Best of Luck to the Blyth Summer Festival 'On Your Travels with friends or relatives makes it a poi visit THE, DUTCH STORE in Clinton or Seaforth • Souvenirs & Exclusive Gifts • ,Kiitting yarns • Imported Dutch Cheese lig Delicatessen items at very competitive prices. And remesnber...A trip to Clinton is not complete without a visit to The DUTCH 'STORE 55 Albert St. Clinton, 182-7302 VISIT Enjoy - Breakfast Lunch or Dinner Served with our own homb baked bread; roils and desserts. You'll `love our bake counter with fresh baked goods daily. Wedding Cakes our specialty. Stop at our cheese counter Cheddar and a variety of specialty Cheese Let us make you a cheese tray Or A picnic basket for your - summer pleasure Remember...when you buy. Bartliff4, you buy the best! A tradition in Huron County since 1902. 46 Albert St., 482-9727 Clinton THE $Orftl SUMMER arnoti, issu MEET THE TROUPE — The stage-hancts,/echnicians, actors, actresses along with playwrightS and directors are now in Blyth and area for the seventh season of the Blyth Summer Festivth. in one of the few moments that Most are together at one place at the same time we were able to photograph most of the cast and crew. Seated on the ground in front (left) are Maria Fermo, costume assistant; Grace Nakatsu, scenic painter; BrendaDoner, Publicity rep.; Janet Amos,artistic directOr; Ann Angtin, actress; and Ann Chislett Roy, playwright. Seated on the bench behind are Diana Belshaw, actress; Kate Trotter, actress; Allan Meuse, stage manager; Kerry Hackett, costume cutter and designer; Susan Burante, assistant stage manager; Keith Thomas actor. In the back row everyone grouped together in no particular fashion: They are (back left) Rick Devey, carpenter, Tony Abrams, designer; (hiding) Ed Fisher, production manager; Louise Guinand, lighting designer; Tracy Machan, fkakIrt vide setretary; David .Fox, actor;. John Thompson, props.; Denise Ken.nedy, actress; (hiding) Guy Sprung, director; Billy Dunlop, actor; Barbara Huget, box office; Beth Amos,. actress; Sam Robinson, actor; Anne Mann, office; Gi aham McPherson, actor; Dave Scott, assistant carpenter; Carol Bolt,, playwright; Patric MaSurkevitih (has since left the company) Patricia Vanstone, actress; Keith Batten, director; John Roby; musician; Sarah Wakely, stage manager; Layne Coleman, actor; and Keith Roulston, administratOr for the Blyth Centre for the Arts. Missing were Paul Thompson, director, John Ferguson, Pat Flood, and Bob Pearson designers;. Ted Johns ?playwright and actor, Dean HaWes, actor; John' Sullivan ? production assistant; Marni WalSh and Leslie Ann Bentley of the chilcirens' workshop;- SuSan Stack and Beth Charter of the food concession, Bernice -Passchier .house manager and Frank ,Scott, actor. (Photo by Hamilton), . to the Blyth Summer Festival on your seventh season 523-9305 Proprietors Douwe Wilts 8 Gary Courtney Mannings Building Supplies Ltd. Blyth Ont. It takes a contribution trom a lot of people to keep the Blyth Summer Festival running smoothly. and that includes everyone from actors to directors. writers. musicians and production petionnel. Below is your opportunity to meet some of the people who make the Festival one of the most popular regional theatres in Canada today. ANNE CHISLETT Anne is better known to Blyth natives as Anne Roy. wife of former artistic director James Roy. and one of the founders of the Blyth Summer Festival:. Anne has filled many roles at the Festival over the years, including Administrator and As'sociate Director. She Adapted the Harry Boyle Hovel. A SUMMER BURNING, for the Festival in 1977 . and since that time. has devoted her energies to writing full-time. THE TOMORROW BOX was first produced by the Kawartha Summer Festival in Lindsay. Ontario. and was subsequently produced by Centaur Theatre of Montreal in January. 1981. The -production played to sold out houses. and was extended due to popular, demand. QUIET IN THE LAND will premiere at Blyth. The play was specifically corn missioned for 'the Blyth Summer Festival.. and Ms. Chislett conducted her re- search in the Amish and Mennonite area of South- western Ontario. CAROL BOLT Carol has been writting plays for children and adults for more than t. n years. Which some might say would give her pioneer status in the realm of Canadian drama: In any case. she has had several very successful ,..productions. including Buffala Jump. Gabe dud Red Emma: Queen of the .Anarchists for adults, and Cyclone Jack and Tangleflags for children. One of her most recent plays, One Night Stand. has had ten productions in theatres across the country over the past five years. and the film of One Night Stand by Allan Kin and CBC and Kin Associates won three Canadian Film Awards in 1978. LOVE OR MONEY will premiere at Blyth. and was written epsecially for the Festival. TED JOHNS Ted is well-known to Blyth audiences as both a play- wright and a performer. His one show, The School Show. was the hit of the 1978 season and toured to en- thusiastic audiences in the spring of 1979. Ted also adapted the Donnellys le- gend to create .The Death of the Donnellys which was produced at Blyth in 1979. In 1980, his examination of nuclear energy and big bus- iness St. Sam of the Nuke File. opened to almost unan- imously, favourable reviews, played all summer and tour- ed Southwestern Ontario in the spring of 1981. This summer, audiences will have a double treat--Ted will appear as the star performer (except perifitpr for the rooster) in one of his own creations, He Won'tpCome In From the Barn, which was the hit of the 1977 Blyth season. " TONY ABRAMS We welcome Tony back to Blyth after a year's absence in 1980. In 1979, Tony' designed Child and the (nig- Inal production of I'll Be Back For You Before Mid- night. In the interim he, has been fulfilling his duties as Resident Designer at Ryer- son Polytechiucal Institute. He has also designed Same Time, Next Year at the Teller's cage in Toronto and Butterflies are Free at Gry- phon Theatre in Barrie. Tony's sets and costumes will grace Love or Money and The Tomorrow Box. PAT FLOOD This is another homecom- ing of sorts since Pat design- ed at Blyth in the- 1978 and 1980 seasons, In 1979, Pat designed all five , shows of that season - The School Show, Huron Tiger, Gwendo- line. Two Miles. Off and His Own Boss. In 1980, Pat designed that year's product- ion of. John and the Missus, I'll Be Back Fpr You Before Midnight and St. Sam of the Nuke Pile. Before coming to Blyth, Pat designed at Theat- re Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, and several Edmon- ton theatres. ANNE ANGLIN Anne has been seen in many plays at the Blyth Summer Festival over the * years, dating from her appearance in Theatre Passe Muraille's The Farm Show in 1972. Anne appeared in McGilli- cuddy's Lost Weekend and This Foreign Land in 1979 for the Festival, and played "The Missus" in John and the Missus -and -Laura" in I'll Be Back For You Before . Midnight in 1980. She starred in'the hit play Balconville at Montreal's, Centaur Theatre and the St. Lawrence Centre, and last winter played Lady Macbeth at the St. Lawrence Centre. This year, Anne will play a dotty spiritualist , house- keeper hi Love or Money and the long-suffering farm wife in The Tomorrow Bdx. 'DIANA BELSHAW Diana will be fondly re- membered by Blyth audiences for her portrayal of Jan in Back For You Before Midnight and Joan in St. Sam of the Nuke Pile in 1980. Over the winter. Diana appeared in two CBC dramas, Win. Brides and The Phoenix Team, and created the role of Lisa in The Tomorrow Box, a role she will recreate here at Blyth this summer. Diana will also play Theresa, the wife of Ambrose Small, in Love or Money this year. LAYNE COLEMAN returns to the after a year's but he has in many Festival, shows in previous years including McGillicuddy's Lost Weekend and This Foreign Land in 1979. Layne is also Artistic Director of Saskatoon's Twenty-fifth Street Theatre, and directed The Ziggy Effect and Rodeo for them this year and appeared in Cold Comfort in Saskatoon and at the Toronto Theatre Festival. He has also appeared in several CRC television dramas recently. notably War Brides. Talk Show and Harvest. He will appear in the television of Cold Comfort, to be filmed this summer. and at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in January, 1982. Layne will appear in Love or Money and The Tomorrow Box DENISE KENNEDY Denise is a native of Teeswater, and first tasted the dramatic bug in school and community productions in Walkerton and Teeswater. Dennise is currently enrolled in the Acting Program at Ryerson Polytechnical, where she will bp returning next year. She will appear in Quiet in the Land at Blyth this year. WILLIAM DUNLOP Billy is a veteran of Blyth. He first appeared at the Please turn to-page 5 Continued from page 4 Summer Festival in Theatre Passe Muraille's The Death of the Donnellys in 1979 and appeared in' St. Sam of the 'Nuke Pile antrittse-Lifellat- Ja0t Built in 1980. This winter, Billy appeared in I'll Be --Back For Your Before- Midnight and Everloyin' at the Belfry Theatre. DAVID FOX David has appeared Ontario over the years in shows such 'as The Farm Show: 1837: The - Fart-neve ,RTolt, The Death of The Dorknellys and -many more. He appeared at the 1980 Blyth Summer Festival in the role of Jack McLaren in The Life That Jack Builr and as John in John and the Missus. David's credits include several CBC drapas, most notably as Hart Massey in the series The Masseys. as Well as in A Gift To Last and The Great Detective. LaSt year, David appeared in The Studhorse Man at the Tbronto•Theatre Festival, and in The Betrayal at Theatre Calgary-, and he will be appearing in The Littlest Hobo on television this coming year,' David will' appear in Quiet in the 'Lend this year, and will direct Fire on Ice for the Festival. DEAN HAWES Dean is a newcomer to the • Sam should feel right home in rural • Blyth. for he grew up, on farm iii Niagara County. " ----Me—has—spent •saverat seasons touring Sonthwestern Ontario- with Theater-rGo-Rotnui' of Petrolia, and will be writing a Theatre-in-Education play forthem next year. Sam Also appeared in On Golden Pond at the Belfry' Theatre in Victoria this past. year. He will be appearipg Quiet ip -the Land .and Fire on Ice at the 1981 Festival. JOHNROBY Blyth and audiences will remember John's' Music' in the 1980 season during The Life That Jack Built and. his brief spots in the base- men t lobby before per- formainces. -Jan has composed and performed music for .many theatre prOductions. in- cTuding Theatre" of the Film Noir. and. Rumours, of our Death at Factory Theatre Lab and Angel City and Filthy Rich at Toronto Free Theatre He hgs also composed the score for KISS. Iv1E,BETTER. a CBC TV drania:. and Hard Oil, a National 'Film Board Documentary. This year. John will enliven Fire on Ice with hi's musical compositions -and performances. Please turn to page 10 ho, s who at 131 th Blyth. Summer Festival, although he' spent• the 1978 and 1979 season not far dawn the road at Stratford Festival where he played in Ned-and .:back; The-: Taming -of -the- Shrew, the Merry Wives of Windsor. Julius Caesar and TheWomen. Dean has also appeared at many theatres across Canada. including the Van- couver Playhouse. the Centaur Theatre. Factory Theatre Lab,, Alberta Theatre Projects and the Manitoba Theatre Centre. Most recently, Dean played in Uncle Vanya and Gayden's Chronicles for the -pliibewIliaTie: Dean will appear in Quiet in the Land and The Tomorrow at Blyth this year. GRAHAM MePHERSON Graham hails from Calgary. Alberta and has appeared at many Western theatres. including the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton and the Western Canadian Theatre Company in Kamloops. Graham recently appeared in Playboy of 'the Western i heave" in Montreal, and has a healthy list of film and television appearances to his credit. nobably in the films. Superman: Ski Lift to Death. and Silence of the North. Graham will appear in Love or Money and Fire on Ice this year at the Festival. SAM ROBINSON gattu bob co° Layne Festival absence, appeared BACK AGAIN—David Fox and 'Anne Anglin here in a scene from the 1980 production of John and the Missus, will be back this season. Anne will play in Love or Money and The Tomorrow Box and David will appear in Quiet in the Land and direct Fire on ice. In our licenced dining' room Each Sunday we feature a different Special which is' a complete dinner: SUMMER HOURS: Mon.-Thurs. 8:30 a.m . to 10 p.m . Fri. & Sat. air a.m. to 12 midnight Sun. 12 noon to 10 p.m. and best of luck to BLYTII SUMMER FESTIVAL ON ITS SEVENTH SEASON I '