HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1994-08-24, Page 7The latest presentation of the Blyth Festival Young Company was Our Parents Made Us Do It!
Some of the performers were (I -r) Rachel Brophy, Heather McKee and Rachel Thompson. (Mona
Irwin photo)
Play is a `performance cartoon'.
by Mona Irwin
At first glance, it's an odd enough
scene: a few people laying flat on
the floor, others sitting on chairs
just above them, while others stand
above them and, to the background
cacophony of typewriters and
telephones, the actors are rhyth-
mically smacking each other on the
head.
But anyone twho's .ever worked in
an office will empathise with the
stylized office scene out of The
Blyth Young Company's Our
Parents Made Us Do It! The play,
at the Blyth Festival Garage, on
Dinsley Street, runs until Aug. 20.
"It's based on a short play I wrote
called `Round Rotund Rumps," said
co-director Richard Feren. He and
Stephen Seabrook, both from
Toronto, were invited to work with
the Young Company this summer.
It's hard to say what Our Parents
Made Us Do It! is really about,
Feren says.
"I'd describe it as a 'performance
cartoon," he says. "It's a very
theatrical presentation - rather than
a realistic presentation - of all the
different relationships between
people, summed up in very simple
forms." There's almost no spoken
text, he adds.
What the audience sees in Our
Parents Made Us Do It! is all of
Feren's original play, but "expanded
and tailored to suit the performers
we have here."
The original music and back-
ground noises - .like the office
• sounds - are there/ too, along with
additional pieces and sound effects
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contributed by members of the
Young Company.
The performance is partly funded
by Theatre Ontario, says Feren. It's
an umbrella organization. of theatre
companies from around Ontario.
Part of the organizations' mandate
is to set up training programs.
Feren has been in theatre full-time
for about three years, and has
worked with Seabrook for most of
that time.
"This is the first time we've
worked with a young people's
theatre company," he says. "I fre-
quently, work with people my own
age - in their mid-20s - in Toronto,..
but this is the first time I've worked
with performers between 13 and 15
years old.
"They can do just about anything
older performers. can," he adds. "In
fact, they've got the advantage of
being more open to new ideas.
They're not so trained as to be restricted
"Of course, they're not. neces-
sarily as disciplined," he laughs.
"But they work very hard. "I think•
they have the potential to do as
well as any professional in Toron-
to,"'he says.
Learn the art of phototinting
•How, ; many of us have been
stopped by the soft, subtle color
that seems to be painted on in old, '
black and white family photos? The
skill has all but disappeared and
certainly is no longer being prac-
tised as a matter of course by com-
mercial printers. If one takes a look
at current greeting cards, some
shopping bags and posters, the
handtinted black and white is back.
The look is unique and the
method easy!..(if you know how).
On Saturday, Sept. 17, at the Bruce
County Museum, photographer Kris
Rosar provides a one day workshop
in which the participant will be able
to produce their own hand tinted
photographs. Allmaterials will be
supplied, with the exception of your
own 5 x 7 black and white; matte
Members of the Huron Country Playhouse Young Players
performed for north Huron seniors at the Wingham ArmorleS
last week. Mai -Lias Todd, Melody Shannon and Steven Gaud
performed Three Little Maids from Mikado. The OutreaCh
program takes theatre to those who can't. attend. (Wingham
Advance Times staff photo)
finished, photo. The workshop will
devote a small portion of time to
color theory, . followed. by a
demonstration of the different types
of tints which can be used.
Participants will then be guided
through the process using hand tints
and their own photos.
Rosar has a B.A. in Applied Arts
and has instructed all levels of
photography classes, included
hotojournalism, for Seneca and
eorgian Colleges. Her work has
been , exhibited at the Tom
Thompson Art Gallery, and several
galleries in Toronto and Montreal.
Call the Bruce County Museum to
register or for more information.
797-2080. The cost is $40 for non-
members and $35 for Museum
members.
Massed bands
in Kincardine
on Saturday
by Bev Fry
The haunting melodies of the
highlands will be fldating over the
town of Kincardine on Saturday
like a thick Scottish mist, as the
clans gather in Victoria Park.
The third annual massed pipes
and drums parade will be taking
place that night,- Saturday, Aug. 27.
Pipers and drummers from
Detroit, Windsor, Toronto, London,
Owen Sound, Sarnia, Walkerton,
Hanover, Lucknow, Clinton, Brus-
sels, Mount Forest, Listowel as well
as members of the Kincardine Scot-
tish will be leading the parade.
Kincardine pipe major Basil
McCarthy is hoping members of the
Sudbury, North Bay and Guelph
pipe bands will also be marching.
He says last year there were about
90 pipers and drummers and he's "
planning on having at least 100 on
the street this year.
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