The Citizen, 1990-02-14, Page 39Pulitzer Prize winner at Grand
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1990. PAGE 39.
Local writer’s play
premieres in Toronto
“Glengarry Glen Ross”, David
Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning
examination of the American busi
ness ethic opens at The Grand
Theatre in London Friday.
Vancouver-based John Cooper
directs this scathing comedy which
features an all-male cast including
Jay Brazeau, Garrison Chrisjohn,
Frank Crudele, Ken James, Walter
Massey, Robert King and Ric Reid.
Phillip Silver designs set and
lighting and Andrew Lue-Shue
designs the costumes.
Glengarry Glen Ross is a searing
comedy about a group of driven,
power-hungry real estate salesmen
who must victimize or become
victims. Obsessed with only one
ambition - to close the deal - these
men will lie, cheat and steal to
achieve it. Language is their wea
.Festival’s founder producing play
at London’s Grand Theatre
James Roy, founding artistic
director of the Blyth Festival makes
his debut as a producer Thursday
with the production of La Sagouine
at The Grand Theatre in London.
Joan Orenstein will perform the
one-woman production about the
Acadian washerwoman and her
views of the world from the position
of someone who has spent a
Grand presents Wingfield trilogy
Martha Henry, artistic director
of The Grand Theatre in London
has announced that The Grand
Theatre will present all three plays
in the tremendously popular Wing
field trilogy later this season.
Rod Beattie will play Walt W ing
field, stock-broker turned gentle
man farmer, in “Letter From
Wingfield Farm”, “Wingfield’s
Progress” and “Wingfield’s
Folly” by Dan Neeules.
The incomparable Mr. Beattie
will give two performances each of
Letter From Wingfield Farm and
Wingfield’s Progress during the
week of March 12 - 17. He will then
present Wingfield’s Folly, the third
Children's Aid Society names
Acting Executive Director
Family and Children’s Services
of Huron County will now be known
as the Children’s Aid Society of
Huron County.
“This organizational name is
more easily recognized and more
clearly depicts our role in the
community,” said Suzanne Symes,
President of the Board of Directors.
The Agency will continue to pro
vide quality services to families and
children within Huron County.
Mrs. Symes indicated that re
turning to the Agency’s legally
incorporated name is only one of
many changes within the Society.
She further stated: “I am also
pleased to announce the appoint
ment of Ms. Sheila McCaffery as
Acting Executive Director for the
Children’s Aid Society of Huron
County. Ms. McCaffery has been
with the Agency for 11 years, nine
of which were as Supervisor of the
family services team. The Board of
Directors is confident that Ms.
McCaffery will provide the needed
leadership within the Agency dur
ing our transition period.”
pon, used not to communicate but
to confuse and conceal. Critics have
praised Mamet’s innovative use of
distinctive American Rhythms in
his writing and his brutally honest
vision of an economic system that
pits men against one another.
Mamet doesn’t condemn society
outright, however, stating that his
“job is to create a closed moral
universe" and he leaves the evalu
ation to the audience.
David Mamet won the 1984
Pulitzer Prize for drama for Glen
garry Glen Ross, and the work was
named “Best American Play’’ of
the 1983-84 season by the New
York Drama Critics’ Circle. One of
America’s most notable play
wrights, his body of work includes
American Buffalo, A Life In The
Theatre, Sexual Perversity In Chi
lifetime washing other people’s
floors. The play, by Antonine
Maillet, was performed several
years ago at the Blyth Festival.
Directing the production for Mr.
Roy’s “Really Exciting Produc
tions’’ is Linda Moore, recently
appointed artistic director of the
Neptune Theatre in Halifax. Ms.
and final instalment of Walt’s
adventures, March 20 to April 14 as
part of The Grand Stage subscrip
tion series. This is the frist time all
three plays will be performed in
sequence since Walt Wingfield
introduced himself to the nation in
1984. Walt and the gang from
Persephone Township are old
friends to many Canadians thanks
to a series of performances broad
cast on CBC Radio’s Morningside.
The saga begins in Letter From
Wingfield Farm, when Walt Wing
field decides to leave his Bay Street
life behind and head for the
country, only to discover that
farming is as stressful as finance.
The demands tor service rrom
the Children’s Aid Society continue
to grow. In 1989 there were 766
requests for service to the Agency.
This represents a 35.8 per cent
increase over the previous year
resulting in resources within the
Agency being stretched to their
limits. To better accommodate our
existing services the Children’s Aid
Society will be opening a sub-office
cago and Speed-The-Plow for the
stage, and screenplays for The
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Verdict, The Untouchables, House
Of Games (which he also directed)
and the recently released We’re No
Angels. Mamet has taught acting
at New York and Yale universities
and Chicago’s St. Nicholas Thea
tre, which he co-founded. He
worked in a Chicago real estate
office in 1969 and used his experi
ences there when writing Glen
garry Glen Ross.
Two familiar faces from Blyth
Festival season’s past are in the
cast. Robert King spent several
seasons at Blyth and appeared in
such productions as Garrison’s
Garage. Ric Reid appeared in the
original production of Another
Season’s Promise.
Moore was associate artistic direc
tor at the Manitoba Theatre Centre
when Mr. Roy was the artistic
director there. She also directed
the second production of Another
Season’s Promise at the Blyth
Festival in 1987.
La Sagouine runs at the Grand
from Feb. 15 to 24 at the McManus
Studio theatre.
Wingfield’s Progress continues
Walt’s rural adventure as he rallies
the neighbours to resist unwanted
condominium development with
the tools at hand, namely Opera
tion Three Flavours and Code
Name Canada. In Wingfield’s
Folly, Walt and his friends on the
seventh concession face economic
hardship that is only overcome with
an hilarious combination of city and
country smarts.
Critics across the country have
hailed Rod Beattie’s splendid mas
tery of the stage as he portrays the
entire population of Persephone
township with distinct characteriza
tions and total believability.
at Suncoast Mall in the near future.
However, all communications will
continue to be handled through the
main office at 46 Gloucester Ter
race, Goderich, telephone (519)
524-7356.
The Children’s Aid Society will
continue to work to make Huron
County a healthy, caring and safe
community for children to live.
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and Andy
“Yankee Notions”, is a story of
heroism after the Rebellion of 1837
when two young women, Maria
Wait and 18-year-old daughter of
Samuel Chandler, journey to Que
bec to try to convince Lord Durham
that Mr. Chandler and Maria’s
husband Benjamin should not be
hanged for treason for taking part
in the 1837 Rebellion.
Ms. Chislett, a part-time resi
dent of Auburn-Benmiller area,
was commissioned by the late John
Hirsch, then artistic director of the
Stratford Festival, to write a play
on the subject after he came across
a letter from Maria Wait. The
author of “The Tomorrow Box”
and “Quiet in the Land”, both
presented at the Blyth Festival,
Card party
On Monday, Feb. 5 the Majestic
Women’s Institute held a card
party with nine tables filled.
Lucky prize winners were: men’s
high, Ross Cunningham; men’s
low, John Simpson; ladies’ high,
June Jacklin; ladies’ low, Margaret
McCutcheon; lucky table four, Vera
Scroeller, Muriel Whitfield, Jane
DeVries, John Lowe; lucky tallies,
Marguerite Sanderson, Phyllis Mit
chell, Jim Bowman, Helen Camer
on; most lone hands was Kate
Wilson.
Love Mom, Dad and
Michelle
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wrote the play and it was work-
shopped at the Stratford Festival
but a change in management of the
Festival left it unproduced. Last
year a radio version of the play was
presented on CBC’s Morningside.
Directing the large cast is James
Roy, founder of the Blyth Festival.
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