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Entertainment
Hanging the show
Carol McDonnell (left)and Jo Manning hang a painting called “Port d’Arcote’’ by Joseph Plaskett
while preparing the show “A Selection of Canadian Art’’ at the Bly th Festival Gallery. The show
opened Saturday night and will run in the new gallery until September 15.
Theatre review
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Tues. 2 - 5 p.m.
‘Ah, Wilderness’ poignant comedy
BY BONNIE GROPP
Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilder
ness’’ playing at Stratford’s Avon
Theatre is a poignant comedy, full
of warmth and humour. A story
about real people from a bygone
era.
The story begins in a small
Connecticut town on July 4, 1906,
as the Miller clan discuss their
plans for the holiday. The family'
consists of Nat and Essie Miller;
their children, Arthur, Richard,
Mildred and Tommy; Essie’s
brother Sid Davis and Nat’s sister
Lilly. For 16 years the prim and
pure Lilly has been the object of
Sid’s unrequited love, rejecting his
many proposals because he drinks
too much.
Young Richard, a radical roman
tic, is besotted with Muriel Mc-
Comber, a sweet innocent, whose
father is not at all pleased with the
snippets of Swinburn verse Richard
is sending to her. An angry
McComber visits Nat insisting he
take his son to task for his
scandalous behaviour, stating that
he has forbad Muriel to have any
more to do with him. He gives Nat
a letter for Richard, which he
helped Muriel compose, saying
that she doesn’t love him.
Hurt, Richard reacts in a head
strong manner by visiting a local
tavern, where he hopes to spite
Muriel by getting drunk and spend
ing the evening with a loose woman
named Belle. Upon his arrival
home his concerned parents are
sure he is heading down the path of
sin. But, later a note from Muriel,
smuggled in by Mildred, assures
him of her love. The young lovers
meet at the beach, where after
some tribulation, things
settled, resulting in a happy end
ing.
Directed by Tony award winner
Vivian Matalon, Ah, Wilderness, is
a relaxed, easy production, a
reflection of the time it epitomizes.
Its humour is in the obvious, simple
things; in the realities and truths of
life. There is little emphasis on
physical comedy and any attempt
at slapstick is understated.
The performers are generally
strong. Nat is played by veteran
actor Roland Hewgill, who last
appeared in Stratford 17 years ago.
He wears the role of the good-
humoured patriarch like a favourite
smoking jacket; classy, but comfy.
Susan Wright, returning for a
sixth season at the Festival is an
endearing Essie. From tough as
nails to soft as silk, she makes the
transition appear as natural as
motherhood. “Punish him good
and hard,’’ she snaps harshly at
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poor weather and the reruns of
regular programs and the political
ads he figures people will be
practically lining up to rent movies.
THURSDAY: Ward says with the
way government is passing laws
right and left to prevent people
from discriminating against others
they’re going to have to do some
thing about criminals discriminat
ing against their guards. Seems a
murderer down in New Brunswick
who escaped custody said he got
away because his guards were too
old and too fat to be able to chase
him. “Can you imagine if those
guards’ employer ever suggested
they were too old and too fat to do a
job? The civil rights people would
be all over him like a rash.
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