HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-08-17, Page 8PAGE 8. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1988.
Four students have had a chance to see theatre work close up this summer with their jobs at the Blyth
Festival. Working at the Festival have been [left to right] Mark McDonnell, Stephen Souch, Christina
Roulston and Heather Morton.
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Australian visitors
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Local students learn working
in theatre not all glamorous
Working at the Blyth Festival for
the summer may take you close to
the bright lights but four area
young people have discovered that
all is not glamorous in the world of
theatre.
Heather Morton of Belgrave,
Mark McDonnell and Christina
Roulston of East Wawanosh and
Stephen Souch of Blyth have
discovered that for every shining
moment on stage there are many
hours of hard work going into the
behind the scenes work of every
thing from laundering costumes to
stringing electrical wires to clean
ing toilets.
In herwork as a dresser, Heather
comes the closest of the students to
sampling the bright lights. One of
her jobs is to help the actors with
quick changes when they come off
the stage in one costume and have
to re-enter in another seconds
later.
The grade 12 student at F.E.
Madill Secondary School has other
duties with the theatre as well. She
spends about three hours a day
washing and ironing costumes and
making repairs where something
has been damaged during a
previous performance.
The most difficult of the shows
this summer for both parts of her
job is “Fires in the Night,’’ the
show about the School-on-Wheels.
There are dozens of costumes in
the large cast show that must be
kept in order as well as a huge cast
that must get on and off the stage.
Heather has been in charge of the
children in the production between
the times they spend on stage.
As if all this hasn’t been enough
to keep her busy, Heather also
helped Alison Dunn, another
student from Clinton working at
the Festival, with the children’s
workshop program for young
people from the area.
Mark McDonnell has been part
of the youth workshops at the
Festival for three orfour years,
joining his first year to “pass the
time’’. He’s alsobeen involved
with the drama club at Seaforth
District High School. Now he is
getting close to the professional
world as a technical apprentice.
He was hired to help out with the
lighting and sound crews at the
theatre but has been helping in the
carpentry shop as well.
He’s learned that in theatre you
start at the bottom getting the ‘ ‘joe
jobs” of everything from cleaning
rehearsal halls to taping down
electrical cables. He helps hang
the lights when a new show opens
and does “the most boring job in
theatre’’ when he “walks’’ the
stage, standing in different places
on the stage while lighting design
ers adjust the lighting level to
eliminate shadows. It helps to
bring a book for that job, he says.
Brighter things are ahead how
ever as he is being trained to look
after lights and sound for the
touring attractions that will come
to Memorial Hall this fall and
spring when the professional staff
isn’t on hand.
For Stephen Souch and Chris
tina Roulston the glamour of the
theatre is even more distant. They
are the cleaning crew for the
theatre doing everything from
vacuuming rugs to plunging toilets
and picking up cigarette butts that
clutter the sidewalks and grass
around the theatre’s entrance
Ethel
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Ethel area population increases
There’s a new baby on the sixth
of Grey. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Dewit
have a little girl.
Several people from Ethel at
tended the buck and doe for Sherry
Stevens and Bradley Black on
Saturday evening.
Congratulations to Tom Bowes
and Darlene Smith who were
married on Saturday.
Michelle Krauter is to be the
Ethel W.I. representative in the
Brussels Queen of the Fair compe
following each performance.
This is the fourth season for
Stephen at the job after coming in
late one season to fill in for that
season’s janitorwhowas leaving to
goto school. He has also worked as
a volunteer usher for five years and
as part of the job has helped out in
The Food Spot, the theatre’s food
concession.
While the job gets a little
monotonous sometimes, he says,
the good part of the job is getting to
meetall the nice people who are
part of the Festival company. It’s
been nice this summer to have two
people on the job, he says.
Christina, a grade 13 student at
Central Huron Secondary School,
is in her first summer in this
position althoughshe worked in
the Food Spot three years ago and
has ushered as well.
Both agree the worst part of the
job is dealing with malfunctioning
toilets.
More exciting things are in store
for Stephen as he cuts his summer
job short this week and leaves for a
year-long exchange to Norway.
After having a break from the
theatre he might like to come back
and be involved in some other
aspect of theatre, he says.
tition.
Joan and John Smith entertain
ed 39 members of John’s family on
Sunday afternoon.
Michelle McMahon and friend
RobertElTantawny from White
River attended the Francis Ford
and Jane Saldivar wedding in
Seaforth on Saturday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ross Knight and
their daughter Mary Ellen and her
husband John Bignell have return
ed from a two-week trip to the east
coast. They also took John’s
mother, uncle, and three aunts
from Australia to see the sights.
They stopped at Brighton where
John and Mary Ellen will live in
September, stopped at Picton to
visit Mr. and Mrs. Hector Knight,
took 1000 Island boat cruise,
toured old Fort Henry at Kingston,
the locks at Peterborough, Quebec
City, the Magnetic Hill, at Monc
ton, N.B., Louisburg on Cape
Breton Island, and had a delightful
visit with friends on P.E.I. who
cooked up a scrumptious lobster
feed.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Strickler
and grand-daughters Jennifer and
Jolanda Vanass attended the
Cornish-Delage wedding in Corn
wall on August 6. The groom is
Mrs. Strickler’s nephew. They
visited with Bruce and Ann Roger
and family at Pickering on the way
home and enjoyed fishing from
their new boat. Wilfred caught a
big one.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert van Donkers-
goed, WestMontrose, were dinner
guests with Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Conley on Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Cotton visited
Monday and Tuesday in Wallace
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A miscellaneous shower for
Christine Bragg, was held in the
Community Centre on Tuesday
evening, August 9. Mrs. Jack
Knight presided for a program
consisting of readings by Mrs.
Stuart Stevenson, and a fun game
which involved everyone, conduc
ted by Nancy Vanass. An address
to the guest of honor was read by
Mrs. Dave Rapson, who was
seated along with her mother Mrs.
Harold Bragg, and sister Laurie.
Each wore an attractive corsage
made by Mrs. Frank Workman.
Many useful and beautiful gifts
were presented to Christine and
she expressed her thanks to all. A
lunch of cake, ice cream and
beverage was served by several
neighbours and friends.
Mrs. Pearl Hinckley, Owen
Sound, Mr. and Mrs. Don Lewis,
Toronto, Mrs. Pearl Plewis,
Gravenhurst, and son Gary and
wife of Grimsby, Sharon Engel,
London, Mrs. Bruce Burdett,
Rosanne and Brent, Waterloo,
called on Mrs. Mac Engel during
the past week.
Mrs. Wilfred Strickler was a
patient in Wingham hospital for a
couple of days.
Lloyd Smith underwent surgery
on his arm in University Hospital,
London on Thursday.
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