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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1978-07-05, Page 17DEBORAH COOPER Best Wishes to The Blyth Summer Festival kComte out and play a round anytime SEAFORTH GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB Phone 527-0985 VISIT BARTLIFF'S Bakery and Restaurant Enjoy - Breakfast Lunch or Dinner Served with our own home baked bread, rolls 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 Bartliff's you buy the best! A tradition in Huron County since 1902. 46 Albert St., 482-9727 Clinton N w Open in Clinton BRYAN WILLIAMS Master Chef and Proprietor Buffy's Builds the Biggest, Bestest, and Beefiest Burgers in the , pillage! BUFFY'S IS LOCATED ON HURON ST., CLINTON JUST ACROSS FROM CURRIE'S-RED & WHITE Open Sunday-Vitednekiny ANL to-12 Midnight Thursday Friday & Saturday 11 A.M till 2 A.M. THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL, ISSUE, JULY 6, 1978 —5 David Kirby worked in circuses DAVID KIRBy David Kirby who an actor and production assistant with the Blyth Summer Festival got, started in theatre arts in high school. In the summer he worked with the Ontario Youth Theatre. He went to York after Grade 13 and will be going into his fourth year next year and that's the extent of his theatre training. - Deborah Cooper is a local girl Deborah Cooper, as an administrative assistant for the Blyth Summer Festival types letters, will be working in the box office when it opens and will also be helping publicist Eleanor Besley with a few jobs. She attended Central Huron Seconday School in Clinton and was through this year. She learned about the job at the theatre office through Manpower. Deborah, who took a business course at school is hoping to get a permanent job in London as a secretary. About the theatre she says, "it's kind of interesting. I never really thought about it before. I kind of like it." Publicist Eleanor Besley says that Debbie helps everybody else in the theatre. "When we get, really swaniped we always turn to Debbie: She's always calm and cool and collected and helps us out," Eleanor says. He had been in a nanber of shows at York but this is his first professional production, He Wanted to do some summer stock this year and auditioned for artistic director James Roy in March, James called him later and asked him if he would be interested in being an apprentice actor for the Ontario Arts Council. David will have parts this year in the Huron Tiger and- His. Own Bess. and after that will be involved in production work. Being an apprentice actor is considered a learning experience which the apprentice. gets by working with a professional company , After he gets out of York. David Barbara Snaith, who has a double position with the Blyth Summer Festival as actress and production assistant. just recently graduated with a B.A. in drama from Brock University in St. Catharines. She did a lot bf shows while at Brock including Three Sisters, From Morn to Midnight, and One Way Pendulum. She has also amateur shows in Hamilton with the Players Guild, including The Effects of. Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, Glass Menagerie, and Come Back Little Sheba: For the past three years she also worked with the Picadilly Circus doing shows for children at Dundurn. Castle in Hamilton. The most recent show she did was Waltz of the Toreadors at McMaster University which James Roy directed. Barbara told James she would be interested in. working at Blyth and later she got. a call telling her she had a job. In Blyth she Will be playing the' part of Helen Galt in The Huron Tiger. At Brock, Barbara took a combination of production and acting which meant that as well as acting in these shows there, she also had to help build them. After performances of Huron Tiger have started Barbara will be &nig into production work. . Asked about her acting technique, Barbara says, t'every- body has to find their own way of arriving at a character, There isn't any one technique that anybody follows. There's a certain amount of script analysis," she says. "In the end you just haVe to follow your own way, say, 'what do I think about this?' I think too many people think that acting is a technique and it's not. It's a kind of art," she added. Barbara has done a little bit of T.V. and stage work but she likes the theatre. "Yoti've got an audience there. There's something magical When you've got the audience: The odd performance is really great and you get this communication going back and forth and you can really feel it," Barbara says. would like to get jobs in theatre companies so that he can work steadily butt he says he also has an. interest in the circus. He, has worked in circuses before and says, "it's a lot of fun." Asked it' he'd like to work in television or films. David said. "if the opportunity carne, I'd .certainly follow it. I've had very minimal experience with it.: David says, "t think each role demands a different 'approach. I just approach each character in terms of what lie does in the play. "II Just try and •understand the character and what he is thinking at a specific time and what he has gone through in the, past:''be says. • BARBARA SNAITH ••••••••••• •••••%••••••••••••••••••••••••••Nk N\\\••••••••••••••••••••\•\.\\\\\N\\•••\\ BEST W ISH ES To BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL from Ball & Mutch HO ME, FURNISHINGS FLOOR COVERINGS CARPETING LIMITED 71 ALBERT ST., CLINTON 4$2-9SOS Audience is magic Barbara Snaith says