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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1986-12-03, Page 30PAGE 30. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1986. New plays being workshopped THURS., FRI., SAT 5P.M.-12A.M. Bly th Inn EAT IN OR TAKE OUT 523-9381 Gangsters, arsonists and truck driversarethesubjects of three new plays to be workshopped at the Blyth Festival this December. Three new plays, all under consideration for Blyth’s 1987 season, will be workshopped in JANET AMOS Janet Amos in Toronto movie Janet Amos, former artistic director of the Blyth Festival, visited friends in the area last week while on a shooting break for a new movie being shot in Toronto. Janetisoneofthestarsofthe movie“TakingCare”playinga nurse accused of murdering three mothers in the obstetrical ward of a hospital. The movie is being shot in two Toronto hospitals and is scheduled to be released at next year's Festival of Festivals, movie festival in Toronto. J anet is on leave from her post as artistic di rector of Theatre New Brunswick for the making of the film. TNB, which tours from its Fredericton home to St. John, Edmunston, Campellton, Bath­ hurst, Moncton, Sussex, St. Ste­ phen and Chatham, last year had an audience of some 55,000 people for its October to May season. Blyth by an ensemble of profes­ sional actors, writers and directors from Dec. 1 to Dec. 13 as part of the Blyth Festival’s ongoing play development program. All three plays will have public readings with no admission charge to which the public is cordially invited. The Boyd Gang, the Canadian gangsters of the 1950’s, is the subject of the first play to be workshopped. The Girls And The Gang by John Roby and Raymond Storey, is a jazz musical focusing on the wives and girlfriends of the famous bank robbery tream. The music is composed by John Roby, who is a familiar name to Blyth audiences for his music for Country Hearts and The Life That Jack Built. A reading of The Girls and The Gang is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m., onstage at Blyth Memorial Hall. This workshop will be directed by Bob White. Bushfire by Laurie Fyffe, the second play to be workshopped, is a thriller based on an acutal incident which occurred in the Ottawa valley in the nineteenth century. A man loses his wife in a tragic house fire, but it is the testimony of a small boy who survives the fire that begins to cast a different interpretation on the events. The workshop of Bushfire will be directed by Inez Buchli. BordertownCafeby Albertan playwright Kelly Rebar completes the trio of new plays. Bordertown Cafe is set, as the title suggests, in a small cafe located on the border between Alberta and Montana. The lives of a teenage boy and his mother who run the cafe are turned topsy-turvy when news arrives that the boy’s father, an American truck driver who has been absent for many years, is about to arrive and wants the boy to go live with him in the United States. The play explores family relationships with- in the context of the differences between Canadian and Ameri- cans. The workshop is directed by Katherine Kaszas. Readings of Bushfire and Bordertown Cafe are scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 13from3:30p.m. to 7p.m. in the lower hall of Blyth Memorial Hall. No tickets or reservations for the play readings are required, however, times and dates are subject to change and up-to-date information may be obtained by calling the Festival office at 523-4345 closer to the reading dates. WINGHAM, ONTARIO PHONE 357-1630 Playing from Friday to Thursday, Dec.5to11. Showtimes: Fridayand Saturdayat7:00and 9:00p.m. Sunday to Thursday, one show at 8:00 p.m.each evening. CHSS holds THE MOVIE Old tyme dance dub holds first dance The first dance of the Clinton Old Tyme Dance Club’s season was held in the Orange Hall, Clinton on November 21. Thirty people danced to the music of Gladys Van Egmond, Elgin Nott and John Black. The next dance will be on Friday, December 5 from 9 a.m. - 12 a.m. The next dance will be on Friday , December 5 from 9 p.m. - 12 a.m, and the orchestra will be Gordon Wail from Wingham. Christmas concert Several Blyth and Londesboro area students were involved in the Christmas Concert performed by the music department of the Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton Friday night. Ron Greidanus was featured in a piano solo with his own variations on the “Huron Carol”. A former studentofGail Lear in Londesboro, he has studied for the last two years with John Paul Bracey of the University of Western Ontario. He was later part of an ensemble which performed “CWM Rhond­ da”, a Welsh hymn, this time playing the French horn. Among the others in the group were Julie Howson of Blyth on trumpet and Lisa Bosman on tuba. Deanna Lyon and Jennifer Sott- iaux of Londesboro were among a group from the CHSS concert band performing "Angels We Have Heard on High.” Other local members performed with the Concert Band, the CHSS choir and the music 1G class of first year students on musical instru­ ments SORRY NO PASSES FRI-SAT-SUN OR TUESDAY TUESDAY S2.50 FRIDAY - SATURDAY 7 & 9 SUN -THURS 7:30 Christmas Gift Certificates •5.00 Theatre ar Concession Booth He’s survived the most hostile and primitive land known to man. Now all he’s got to do is make it through a week in New York. IPARKTHEATRE | <0 Children’smatinee Saturday, Dec.6at1:30p.m. All seats $2.00 — _ —« <■ $Extra Busy With I Christmas ! Shopping? Too Busy To Cook? BRING YOUR FAMILY TO THE Triple K Restaurant County Rd. 25 Blyth E. of Hwy. 4 523-9623 HAVE A NOURISHING H0ME-C00KED MEAL. RELAXINOPREPARATIONS! NO CLEAN-UP! SAVEYOUR TIME &ENERGY FOR CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS. Saturday, December 13, 2 & 8 p.m A PRAIRIE BOY'S* Sunday, December 14, 2 p.m. A play with music for all ages BLYTH MEMORIAL HALL TICKETS ADULTS $5. CHILDREN (under I t) $1. Blyth Festival Box Office : 523-9300/9225