HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-08-31, Page 22PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1988.
Entertainment Stratford appoints new director
Overcome by affection for her husband during the breakfast scene in Bordertown Cafe, Maxine [Donna
Farron] pounces on Jim [Jerry Franken] as daughter Marlene [Laurel Paetz] and grandson Jimmy [Kevin
Bundy] look on. The play opened in Blyth on August 24.
Dr. Murray Frum, President of
the Stratford Festival’s Board of
Governors, has announced the
appointment of David William as
the next Artistic Director. The
announcement was made at a press
conference held in Toronto. Mr.
William succeeds John Neville
when Mr. Neville’s contract ex
pires at the end of the 1989 season.
‘ * David William is a talented and
experienced actor, director and
artistic director,” Dr. Frum said.
“He has demonstrated his com
mitment to theatre in Canada over
the past 20 years and has been an
integral part of the Stratford
Festival since his directorial debut
here in 1966. He is a Canadian
landed immigrant.
“Mr. William has agreed toa
three-year contract as Artistic
Director commencing November
1, 1989. We are delighted that he
will have the opportunity as
Artistic Director Designate from
January 1, 1989 to work in
consultation with John Neville
throughout the 1989 season before
taking up official duties for the
1990 -season.”
David William of London, Eng
land, began his professional career
as Rosencrantz in Michael Bent
hall’s Old Vic production of
“Hamlet” starring Richard Bur
ton.
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Theatre Review
Real drama of ordertown'
is family relationships
BY TOBY RAINEY
Back by popular demand after
being seen by more than 7,000
people following its premiere on
the Blyth stage last year, Border
town Cafe still comes close to its
potential as what London Free
Press theatre critic Doug Bale
called “the bestnew play of 1987.”
The story is set in a small cafe on
the Canadian side of the Alberta-
Montana border, and focuses on
17-year-old Jimmy’s (Kevin
Bundy) struggle to find his own
identity, torn as he is between close
ties on both sides of the line.
Having been raised alone by his
Canadian mother and strongly
influenced by both his American
grandmother and his Canadian
grandfather, the youth must de
cide if he wants to move to
Wyoming to take up what he sees
as a better life with his long-absent
father and new step-mother, who
seemtohimtobeina position to
offer him a chance at a better life.
Bordertown Cafe depends upon
its locale to highlight the forces
tearing the youth apart as he comes
to maturity, but the real impact of
the drama is in the unfolding of
several powerful family relation
ships, and in the poignancy of the
real-life situation of an 1980’s
single parent who, after struggling
to raise her son alone, sees him
lured away by the brighter lights
and better gifts held out to him by
his father. The situation will bring
a lump to the throat of many a
parent, andpossibly atwinge of
shame to many another.
Kevin Bundy, a young actor
from Goderich who graduated
from the National Theatre School
just prior to playing the same role
of Jimmy in the 1987 production of
Bordertown, does a superb job in
portraying a youth on the verge of
becoming a man. Mr. Bundy is not
long past his own adolescence, but
nevertheless must have spent
many hours in secret observation
of today’s teenagers to re-create
the confusion, desperate loyalties,
painful mood swings, feelings of
guilt and just plain old putting-his-
foot-in-it that ring so true to life.
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