HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1987-08-19, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1987. PAGE 23.
Thirty young actors and crew from Theatre New Brunswick were in Blyth last week to present the classic
play “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’’ at the Blyth Public School on Saturday. The troupe, which
has toured the Maritimes and Ontario over the past month, posed on the monkey bars at Lions Park, where
they camped out during their stay, before going off for their first swim in Lake Huron on Saturday evening.
Both performances of the play were sold out.
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Stratford announces season
The best of Shakespeare, a
celebration of T. S. Eliot’s centen
ary and exciting musical theatre
will all be part of the Stratford
Festival’s 1988 season. At a Friday
meeting in Stratford of the Festi-
val’s full Board of Governors,
Artistic Director John Neville
announced his playbill for the
Festival and Avon Theatres in
1988.
In the Festival Theatre, the
season will open with Shake
speare’s “Richad III”. The musi
cal will be either “My Fair Lady”
or “The Man of La Mancha’’ and
the third production of Opening
Week in the Festival Theatre will
be “The Three Musketeers’’,
Alexandre Dumas’ swashbuckling
classic. The late opener in the
Festival Theatre will be “The
Taming of the Shrew’’.
In the Avon Theatre, the season
will begin with two Shakespearean
comedies, “All’s Well That Ends
Well’’ and “The Two Gentelemen
of Verona’ ’. With 1988 marking the
centennial of T. S. Eliot’s birth, the
Festival is proud to announce
production of his “Murder in the
'Promise' returns
for another season
“Another Season’s Promise”,
last year’s critically acclaimed
drama by Anne Chislett and Keith
Roulston, returns to the Blyth
Festival as the final play of this
season. Opening on August 25,
Promise plays through to Septem
ber 12, and then embarks on a
cross-Canada tour.
Directed this year by Linda
Moore, Promise boasts an entirely
new cast with Lee J. Campbell as
Ken, Nicola Lipman as Helen, and
Florence Paterson as the irrepress-
ibleGranny. Alsointhe cast are
Peter Smith, John O’Krancy,
Laurel Paetz, Judith Orban, Stan
Colesand RaySalverda. The young
boy, Sandy, is played this season
by 10 year old Jerrod Button of
Blyth. Costumes for the production
have been designed by Kerry
Hackett with lighting and set
design by Allan Stitchbury - a
particularly difficult set design as it
has to adapt to all sizes and shapes
of theatre on tour, particularly the
large stage of the Citadel Theatre
in Edmonton.
Assistance for the tour has been
received from the Touring Office of
Writing in The Travelling Bach
elor, James Fenmiore Cooper says
of peaches that they “leave behind
a warm, rich and delicious taste,
that 1 can only liken in its effects to
that which you call the bouquet of a
glass of Romanee.”
Grand adventure
awaits Jerrod Button
Ten year old Jerrod Button of
Blyth is playing the role of Sandy in
“Another Season’s Promise” at
the Blyth Festival this summer.
And then he’s going out on the 10
week tour across Ontario and right
through to Alberta.
For a Grade 5 student who has
never been farther afield than
Niagara Falls and Toronto, it’s
quite an adventure. Jerrod will be
outof school the whole time and
expects that Bernice Passchier, the
Company Manager for the tour,
will set him some lessons to work
on. But he’s not too worried about
falling behind in class - he’s a
bright student and should make it
up easily.
When he first auditioned for the
role, Jerrod didn’t think he stood
much chance. “I’d done lots of
acting at school”, he said “and I
wasn’t particularly nervous or
anything, but I thought there were
other boys who would be better
than me. ” The nerves hit him once
he found out he’d been chosen,
though, and so did the teasing from
his younger sister.
Jerrod sits in on rehearsals every
day, even when his own scenes
aren’t being done. “Sometimes
it’s boring because scenes have to
be repeated over and over again
until they’re right, but I don’t
really mind the waiting.” He has
already planned what to buy with
his acting earnings: a motorized
mini-bike and a snowmobile, but
not until late next year when he will
turn 12.
Although he’s enjoying the
experience of acting at the Blyth
Festival, Jerrod doesn’t have any
plans to become an actor when he
grows up. “I think I might become
a butcher” he says. “That’s what
my father did for many years and 1
think it would be neat.”
Missionaries who came to the
New World from Spain in the 16th
century planted peach trees in
South Carolina and Florida, so
when the first colonists arrived
they found flourishing peach or-
chardsalong the South Atlantic
coast.
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featuring the all-new
DixMet Wewi
Cathedral’’ as the third play of
Opening Week in the Avon
Theatre.
Jean Anouilh’s “The Waltz of
the Toreadors” which opens Janu
ary 10 for a six-week run at
Toronto’s Royal Alexandra Thea
tre will join the Avon Theatre
repertoire in mid-season. Directed
by John Neville, it will feature
WilliamHutt as General St. Pe.
The final production at the Avon
Theatre will be the hit musical,
“Irma La Douce”.
“I am excited about our playbill
for next year,” Artistic Director
John Neville said today. “With
‘Murder in the Cathedral’, we pay
tribute to T.S. Eliot, one of the true
giants of English literature. I have
reserved exclusive production
rights to this play for the past two
years for precisely that reason.
“Also, with our current season,
wecompletethefirst35years of
Stratford Festival history. In 1988,
we will begin our second 35 years
with ‘ ‘Richard III” and ‘ ‘All’s Well
That Ends Well”, the two Shakes
pearean plays that, in 1953,
launched his remarkable enter
prise thatis the Stratford Festi
val.”
Information on the 1988 Young
Company season at the Third Stage
is still to be announced as are
casting and production details for
the Festival and Avon Theatres.
Opening night for the 1988 Strat-
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Touring Theatre Programme of the
Ontario Arts Council. Special
sponsors for the Ontario portion of
the tour are Sparling’s Propane Co.
Ltd., Blyth, and Ideal Supply
(Home Office), Listowel (both for
the southern Ontario section), and
Texaco Canada (for the northern
Ontario section).
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of “Another Season’s Promise” at
Blyth, excellent seats are still
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