The Lucknow Sentinel, 1983-08-24, Page 4community news
Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, August 24, 1983—Page 4
Playwright's workshop evolves new plays in Blyth
The hardest part of her job, says Janet
Amos, Artistic Director of the Blyth Summer
Festival, is finding good new plays that will
appeal to the festival's largely rural and
small town audience. The mandate of the
festival since 1975 is the prqduction of
Canadian plays, the majority of them
original, and this mandate is made possible
with the help of the Playwright's Workshop
Program.
In the Playwright's Workshop program
new and established writers work with
professionals developing scripts. In the
program, made possible through the gener-
ous assistance of Labatt's Ontario Breweries
and the Laidlaw Foundation, five scripts will
be workshopped this season.
Earlier this season My Wild Irish Rose by
Janet Amost was workshopped under the
direction of Paul Thompson before being
mounted as the second play of the season.
Montreal playwright David Fennario, author
of Balconville and On The Job, worked under
the direction of Simon Malbogat workshop -
ping his play The Murder of Sharon Parr.
Under the direction of Terry Tweed, Uwe
J. Meyer, playwright and production
manager of the festival, is workshopping
Murder I Say with actors Barbara Coleman,
Hugh Webster, Ann Casson, Harry Nelken
and Miles Potter.
Beginning August 15, Katherine Kaszas,
associate artistic director of the festival and
organizer of the Playwright's Workshop
Program directs Toronto playwright Kath-
leen McDonnell's Body Shop. Kathleen is
the winner of the 1980 National Women's
Playwriting Competition. Working with
Katherine and Kathleen will be Mary Ann
Coles, Diana Belshaw, Francine Volker,
Jessica Booker, Harry Nelken and Karen
Woolridge.
Cape Breton writer Audrey Butler comes
to Blyth to workshop her script Cradle Pin
the week of August 29. Katherine Kaszas
will direct.
Katherine Kaszas is excited about the
Playwright's Workshop Program and its role
in developing new scripts for the Blyth
stage. "Although some of the plays we work
on are not suitable for the Blyth audience,
writers are learning about the Blyth Summer
Festival, its audience and directors as we are
learning about them and their work. They
may go home and write a play just for Blyth.
This may . not happen this year," says
Katherine, "but eventually it will."
Although the final readings of Murdi I Say,
Body Shop and Cradle Pin are not open to
the public, interested parties may contact
Katherine Kaszas or Gail Roberts at the
Blyth Summer Festival, 523-9225 or 523-
4345 for information of invitations.
As a result of Janet Amos' appeal for new
scripts, scripts are beginning to flow into the
Blyth Summer Festival offices from play-
wrights across the country. Before this
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secure the most talented
crafts people in order to
assure the excellence of their
two day Fair. A11 exhibitors
are selected because of the
quality and originality of
their particular art; and each
year an endeavour is made to
add new discriminating
crafts.
This being the Wooden
Anniversary of the Fair,
extra emphasis is being
placed on demonstrations
and displays involving wood
crafts. However, as in years
past, all possible variations
of the craft field will be
covered.
On Friday, October 21st
the Fair will kick off with an
afternoon quilt day at the
Knights of Columbus Hall.
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special speaker on quilts,
and there will be a large
display of hand made quilts
from area needle workers.
The actual Heritage Fair is
set for Saturday and Sunday,
October 22nd and 23rd in the
same hall.
The interest shown in the
dozens of dolls displayed last
year has prompted the Fair
committee to again devote a
lot of space to doll exhibits.
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