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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1990-04-25, Page 26THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1990. PAGE 27. ‘Fires in Night’ to be broadcast on CBC radio Fans of the Blyth Festival will be treated to a radio adaptation of the Fred and Cela Sloman story, “Fires In The Night” which premiered at the Blyth Festival in July, 1988. Tour grant Jack Riddell, M.P.P. for Huron toured Blyth Memorial Hall on Friday and presented the Blyth Festival with acheque for $15,000 to assist in the current tour of “The Mail Order Bride”. The play is currently touring British Columbia. Accepting the cheque from Mr. Riddell (left) are Lynda Lentz, development co-ordinator and Joel Harris, general manager. Fires In The Night adapted by writer David S. Craig and directed by James Roy, founder of the Blyth Festival will be aired on CBC’s “Morningside” on May 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 between the hours of 11:45 a.m. and 12 noon. Featured per formers in the cast include Robin Craig as Cela Sloman, Martha Burns, Lally Cadeau, Len Don- cheff, Tony De Santis, Paulina Gillis, Mary Long, Graham Mc Pherson, Dennis O’Connor, Frank Perry, and Ron White. The child ren in the cast include: Lisa Yaminaka, Lee Max Walten, Nicholas Van Burek, Noam Zylber- man and Pat Masttroianni. For more than 40 years, the Slomans worked and lived on the Canadian National Railway lines, bringing education to children and adults in isolated northern Ontario communities. Up in the sparsely settled bushland, north of Sudbury, many children received their edu cation including Fred and Cela Sloman’s five children. The origi nal School On Wheels railway car rests as a museum in Clinton in lovely Sloman Memorial Park on the banks of the Bayfield River. Fires In the Night - a play in four acts spans 40 years. This is the third Blyth Festival premiere that has been adapted for CBC’s Morn ingside drama series. Dan Needles’ “The Perils of Persephone” was heard on Morningside earlier this year and “Girls In The Gang” by Raymond Storey and John Roby was broadcast last year. BLYTH FESTIVAL PRESENTS <*»» PIZZA PIZZA PIZZA Potato People antics bring laughter Lumpy laughter entertain little ones, they also manage to create characters that show us a little bit of reality so that adults chuckle over situations fami liar to them. The performers involved in “Nuthin But Trouble”: Charles P. Schott, Harro Maskow; Elizabeth Van Wyck, and Melinda Little display remarkable timing and a wonderful talent for caricature. They exaggerate only enough to make the portrayals funny, but not so much that we can’t relate to them. My favourites were Nancy and Iodine, portrayed by the women of the company, particular ly the former. Anyone, who has ever watched a little one, fascinat ed by all that is happening around them, then' “this spud’s for you”. With the awkward gait and some what spastic gestures of a very young child, she at one point had me giggling until the tears rolled down my cheek. My two children, on the other hand found Bud the funniest as he tried to outwit poor Momma. The only negative comment my children made was that they wish ed there had been some talking as they sometimes weren’t aware of what was really happening until it was over, but I don’t think it detracted too much from the final product which was one hour of fun. THURS., FRI.,SAT. 5P.M.-12A.M. BLYTH INN eat in or take out 523-9381 The antics of the mime family The Potato People entertained hundreds of area children Saturday at Blyth Memorial Hall. BY BONNIE GROPP Poppa, Momma and Nancy Pota to are a lump-faced family, who along with their equally lumpy- faced friends and a pesky pooch entertained young and old last Saturday at Blyth Memorial Hall as Theatre Beyond Words Potato People presented “Nuthin’ But Trouble”, an updated version of the original that was first done 12 years ago. Wearing faces that resemble peeled potatoes, the troupe creates characters and situations that de light and amuse. Momma is having “one of those days” as Bud the Dog persistently attempts to raid the garbage can, Poppa and Nancy lose their shoes and Bartlett Pear blossom III arrives on the scene for a game of chess bringing his darling Iodine with him, a pink pristine princess while in the company of adults, but every parent’s nightmare when their back is turned. Bringing with her a ghetto blaster, that seems to have a mind of its own, just adds to the confusion. The members of the Company write and conceive the ideas behind all of the skits performed and they know what it takes to make people laugh. With slapstick humour to 30 PAUL Taussig and Enemies Funniest piano recital this side of Victor Borge Saturday, May 5th - 8pm BLYTH MEMORIAL HALL Tickets $13.00 BOX OFFICE 523-9300/9225 I I 1 1 I s 1 I 1 I I• Phone 357-1630 for 24 hour movie information Playing from Friday to Thursday, April 27 to May 3 Showtimes: PLEASE NOTE: Friday and Saturday at 7 and 9:30p. m. Sunday to Thursday One Show at 8p.m. Each Evening SEAN CONNERY TW HUNT RED OCTOBER ALEC BALDWIN A ADULT f» ACCOMFAMIMtNT