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Permanent home for Playhouse
When the professional theatre news in this area starts coming
fast and furious can spring be far away?
The casting notices from the Stratford Festival have been
appearing regularly for more than a month and now comes news
from the Huron Country Playhouse, the Grand Bend -area
summer theatre.
The Playhouse is taking a step towards permanence with the
appointment of an architect to design a permanent playhouse
on the farm that has been home for the tent theatre for the past
several seasons. The building, to be completed in three phases
over the next three years, will have seating capacity for 500
people compared to the 300 capacity during the 1974 season.
While the new building will be modern on the interior, it will be
designed to blend in with the rural atmosphere on the exterior.
There will be stage enough to allow full-scale musicals.
Architect is to be Peter Smith of Lett/Smith, Toronto who took
part in the design of the Firehall Theatre and the Shaw Festival
Theatre in Niagara on the Lake. This, will be a modest venture in
comparison, however with phase 1, the basic structure, to cost
about $50,000. This section is expected to be completed for the
1975 season.
Benson Tuckey, who served as chairman of the board for the
past two seasons, is heading as fund-raising campaign to finance
the building.
NEW FACES FOR FAMOUS [ OR INFAMOUS]
TORONTO PLAY
Despite the publicity that makes it out to be some sort of
pornographic cheapshot, critical reviews for the Toronto play I
Love You Baby Blue have been generally favourable.
As usual in many cases like this, the sensation over nudity has
completely covered up (if you'll excuse the expression) the
content of,the play put on by Theatre Passe Muraille which is an
exploration of the sexual attitudes of Torontonians.
Many in the area are probably wondering how the friendly
open actors who took part in such familiar shows as The Farm
Show, Them Donnellys and 1837, The Farmers Revolt could now
be uncovering themselves in this famous production by Theatre
Passe Muraille in a United Church in Toronto. Well they aren't.
The cast for this play has little resemblance to the casts of the
other plays. Actors such as David Fox, for instance, are working
elsewhere at present. Fox is down at the St. Lawrence Centre
playing in the highly acclaimed play Article 58 by Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn.
Meanwhile, no reason was given (such as the adverse publicity
over Baby Blue which could hurt the group locally) but the
company has decided not to go ahead with its planned spring tour
of this area with a new play. It's to be hoped that because of one
controversial production in Toronto we don't lose the skills of the
group which brought such good entertainment to local audiences
in the past couple of years. For many, it was the first professional
theatre they had seen locally for a generation. If the group
doesn't continue to bring its work it will be our loss.
JULIO
moi/ ROYAL HOMES LIMITED
WINGHAM, ONTARIO, CANADA
P.O. BOX 370 PH. (519) 157-2606
This is the floor plan of one of our most
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May we suggest that you visit our model
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north Wingham. Turn west at the liquor
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and we are at the end of the street. The
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It would be our pleasure to discuss at
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VILLAGE SOUIRE/FEBRUARY 1975. 27