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Here's your chance to be on stage
This is your opportunity to be a
star! A chance to share the
limelight with the professional
actors on stage!
Young actors show
their talent at down show
A bunch of clowns will get
together at the Blyth Lions Park
Thursday and Friday and hope
you’ll come along for a good time.
The clown show is the annual
production of the Blyth Festival
Young Company and will take
place Thursday and Friday at 2
p.m.
This summer’s production is
entitled The Thing That Happened
In Front Of A Lot Of People - a
clown show. It is an extension of the
summer theatre workshops which
have been directed by Leah
Cherniak and Daniel Brooks from
Theatre Columbus, Toronto. Leah
Kids can hear stories
at area 'Story times'
As the summer comes to an end
there is still time to join in for
“Storytime” at area parks.
Each week new stories, songs,
crafts and games are done all based
on a certain theme. This program is
presented free by the Huron
County Library. The programs are
about one and one-half hours in
length and are held at the following
locations and times: Bluevale,
Maitland Conservation Area,
Tuesdays starting at 2:00 p.m.;
Gorrie, Maitland Conservation
'Cabaret' opens 1987
Stratford season
“Come to the cabaret!” is the
invitation offered by the Stratford
Festival as it prepares to celebrate
its 35th Anniversary in 1987.
Festival Artistic Director John
Neville recently announced his
1987 season which opens June 1 in
the Festival Theatre with “Cab
aret, ’ ’ the Broadway musical hit by
Kander and Ebb based on short
stories by Christopher Isherwood.
Opening week at Stratford again
will feature six productions, three
each in the Festival and Avon
Theatres. A total of 12 productions
will be presented in 1987, an
increase of two over the 1986
season. There will be five produc
tions each in the Festival and Avon
Theatres plus two Young Company
productions at the Third Stage.
In addition to ‘ ‘Cabaret”, the
playbill for the Festival Theatre
will include four of the following
five plays: “Mother Courage” by
Bertolt Brecht, Shakespeare’s
‘‘Henry V”, “Othello” and
“Much Ado About Nothing”, and
“The Shoemaker’s Holiday” by
Thomas Dekker, a contemporary of
Shakespeare’s.
At the Avon Theatre, the five
productions will be Shakespeare’s
“Troilus and Cressida”, Stephen
MacDonald’s “Not About Her
oes,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” by Edward Albee, “The
Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chek
hov and “Intimate Admiration” by
Richard Epp.
“Not About Heroes” by Ste
phen MacDonald enjoyed great
success at the National Theatre of
Great Britain last year and has just
re-opened in London. The play
focusses on Siegfried Sassoon and
Wilfred Owen, England’s two
The Blyth Festival is seeking
‘ ‘ volunteers ’ ’ to participate in each
performance of Cake-Walk by
Colleen Curran. (Cake-Walk opens
and Daniel are professional clown
artists and under their guidance
the Blyth Festival Young Company
has been instructed in various
clowning techniques. As well,
guest artists have assisted in vocal
and rhythm training, fight co
ordinating and acrobatics.
In past years such productions as
Cue for Treason and The Book of
Miracles established the high
quality of entertainment produced
by the Young Company. This
year’s production maintains this
standard as it showcases local
talent with its cast of area youths.
All are welcome and admission
is free.
Area, Wednesdays starting at 2:00
p.m.; Belmore, Community Cen
tre Grounds, Thursdays starting at
2:00 p.m.; Walton, Ball Park,
Fridays starting at 10:00 a.m.;
Ethel, Ball Park (Rain: Ethel
Library), Fridays starting at 2:30
p.m.
Admission is free, children of all
ages are welcome, and rain
locations are available. This pro
gram has been funded by the
Experience ‘86 program of the
Ministry of Citizenship and Cul
ture.
major poets of the World War One
period.
“Intimate Admiration” by Can
adian writer Richard Epp deals
with the relationship between
Anton Chekhov and his long-time
mistress, Olga Knipper, the great
Russian actress who starred in
many of Chekhov’splays. It will
run in tandem with “The Cherry
Orchard.”
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for
George Coulter
and
Gloria White
Listowel Agricultural Hall
Friday, Aug. 15,1986
Music by Maurice Drager
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$4.00/person Lunch provided
THURS., FRI., SAT.
5P.M.-12A.M.
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August 26 and plays through to
September 13, 23 performances in
all.) This is an equal opportunity
position - men, women, and
children are all eligible.
All you have to do is call the
“Quiz Master” before Friday,
August 29, any time between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday-Friday,
at the Blyth Festival Administra
tion office, 523-4345, and answer
this skill-testing question - “On
what special day do the events in
theplay Cake-Walk take place?”
The first people correctly answer
ing this question will be offered one
pair of free tickets to a performance
of Cake-Walk, and the opportunity
for one of the pair to walk up on
stage at the end of the perform
ance, don an apron, grab a cake -
and take a bow along with the rest
of the cast!
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If you’ve always wanted to know
what it feels like to be on the other
side of the footlights, now is your
chance. Just pick up the telephone
and call the “Quiz Master” at
523-4345, guess the answer to the
skill-testing question, and you too
could be a star!
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