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THE BRUSSELS POST, AUGUST 16, 1978
School show gets
'A' mark at Blyth
By Debbie Ramey
Ted Johns receives an' A, for his one2man
performance in the School Show at the Blyth
Summer Festival.
In the play which Johns wrote from a
scenario dveloped with Paul Thompson from
Theatre Passe Muraille, Johns tlooks at all
sides of Huron's recent school strike while
managing to get in a few digs about the
proposed book banning and other
educational issues as well.
Playing a • dedicated teacher of the old
school Miss Heartwright; the farmer who
can't understand the demands of his teacher
son: the uneducated but vocal man in the
bar: the frustrated wife of a school teacher ;
the frustrated wife of a school teacher;
teacher, Ted Johns gets in his barbs while
managing to pull in many laughs from the
audience as well.
Some of the most memorable lines are
when Johns as Miss Heartwright is talking to
aformer pupil of hers who is now member of
the school board and tells him, "you can't
edit the short words out of books," in
reference to the book banning issue.
Dedicated
As Miss Heartwright, a teacher of the one
rooms school house, Johns present a lady
who is dedicated to her work and has
everything under control until the education
system decides it no longer needs her. She is
devastated when told she no longer holds a
teaching position and the matter can no
longer be taken up with the board because it
has been dismantled. The final blow is,bOng
told that her pupils, are about to be bussed to
another school.
As the frustrated mother of a school
student, Johns points out the ineptitude' of
Bill Davis and the Ontario government in
their handling of the education system. As
the wife of a dedicated school teacher he
shows just how much work and dedication is
involved in being a school teacher.
As the new breed of dedicated teacher
now spending time in the local bar while the
lockout is on, Johns gives a lecture pointing
out that the teacher is in the bar and so are
the students—. so they have the makings of a
classroom but as Johns says, "something is
not working."
As the farmer, Johns takes the point of
view that teachers have nothing to complain
about. In all six of the characters that he
plays, Johns bring a new .insight into
teachers' strikes and into the whole °
educational system in Ontario.
Set designer Pat Flood has managed to
keep the sets effectively simple with each
painting behind him, suited to the character
Johns is portraying at the moment.
Sometimes a little humour 'in a serious
situation makes people think more about the
issue than if it had been presented in a
serious manner.
Not only does TedJo6s leave the audience
laughing when he departs from the stage--he
also leaves them thinking.
People We Know
Mrs. Adeline Smith has
been visiting in Toronto with
her brother Rev. William and
Mrs. Burnett.
Mr: and Mrs. Bob
Wheeler and sons are
vacationing in Western
Canada where they will visit
with her brother Ross and
Mrs. Smith and daughters in
Alberta.
George Hislop is a patient
in Wingham Hospital.
Jim, Leona, Brian, Bruce
and Leanne Arnstrong and
Brian Deitner spent 10 days
at the Annual Experimental
Aircraft Fly-in and Con-
vention at Oshkosh, Wis-
consin.
Miss Janice Kennedy and -
Michael Pershaw of Ottawa
spent a week with her •
grandmother, Mrs. Roy
Kennedy.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin
Martin of Brussels have
returned from a tour to the
MacKenzie Delta and a
cruise along the British
Columbia Coast.
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