Village Squire, 1980-05, Page 4Huron Country Playhouse, near Grand Bend
Blyth Centre for the Arts
Memorial Hall, home of the Blyth Summer Festival
Theatre London on Richmond
A tale of three theatres
Two counties and three new familiar faces
BY JAMES REANEY JR.
There's no show business like the theatre, and with three new
artistic directors in charge of the region's theatres, it's time to
catch up with the business and the shows. The three new people
are all wearing new hats, but that doesn't mean they're new to
the theatres they've signed on to lead.
Aileen Taylor -Smith is replacing founding director James
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Murphy at Grand Bend's Huron t:ountry Playhouse, for
instance. Though the job is new, she's been active th ere since
1973, its second season. Janet Amos is the new director of the
Blyth Summer Festival, and she played the Blyth Community
Memorial Hall basement when the summer season was just a
glimmer in founding director James Roy's mind's eye. Bernard
Hopkins, director of Theatre London's 1979-80 box office hit,