Village Squire, 1976-01, Page 31UPDATE
11i-111Fiseettre
Stratford writer
builds play on
Horsburgh tragedy
. _ ..re some court cases that stick in the
mind long after sentence is passed. One of
these famous cases will be brought to life
again in a play called The Horsburgh Scandal.
Chatham Minister Russell Horsburgh was
charged in 1961 with contributing to juvenile
deliquency in youth activities at his church.
He was convicted although many outsiders
felt the scandalous charges made by
youngsters against him were trumped up.
Subsequently the Supreme Court of Canada
acquitted him and he was eventually
reinstated in the church. He was suffering
from terminal cancer at this point, however,
and died in 1971.
Stratford playwright Betty 'Jane Wylie
conducted interviews with him however
before his death and now the play results.
The play is being produced by Theatre Passe
Muraille, the Toronto-based theatre group
that has become as much a part of the local
theatre scene as Stratford itself.
The play will tour western Ontario during
February before returning to Toronto for a
run there. At this writing dates are not
available. The show will appear in Petrolia at
the Opera House during February, and at
Blyth Memorial Hall, February 23 and 24.
Actor David Fox was in the area recently
doing research for the show (as is the practice
of actors in T.P.M. productions where actors
have a great deal of input). He reported that
The West Show which played to a large and
enthusiastic audience in its only area
appearance in Blyth in December did not fare
so well in Toronto. Audiences in the city were
strangely quiet to the show about western
Canada, he said, appearing neither to dislike
the show or like it. He said the Blyth
audience, the last stop before the show hit
Toronto, was one of the best receptions the
show hit anywhere across the country and
;ave the cast renewed energy before the city
opening
30, VILLAGE SQUIRE/JANUARY 1976
Alrt
London gallery
shows films
on art
The London Art Gallery began a series on
January 20 • to expand the fronteers of
knowledge of the art world for local residents.
The gallery is presenting a series of
evenings of films about art and artists.
The series includes:
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20
THE NEW YORK SCHOOL
Written and narrated by Barbara Rose,
Directed by Michael Blackwood. With Adolph
Gottlieb, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Al
Held, Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Willem
de Kooning, Le Krasner, Joan MitJkhell,
Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newcrdn, Jack-
son Pollock, Ad Reinhardt, tvrark Rothko,
Clyfford Still, Jack Twurkov and critics
Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg.
The film ineludes much contemporary
footage showing artists at work in their
studios, talking about works in progress. Al
Held notes that many of the Abstrt
Expressionists died young - typi ally
"romantic figures" - for example Arshile
Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline.
They are remembered by artists and critics
who knew them, and the spirit of the early
days of the New York School again becomes
vibrant, poignant and immediate.
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Motherwell discusses the issues 'of
Abstract Expressionism as it evolved in New
York following World War II as well as its
co -existence with the new styles that emerged
in the Sixties, Motherwell is seen in his studio
working on "Elegies to the Spanish
Republic" and the "Open Series".
TUESDAY, JANUARY 27
AMERICAN ART IN THE SIXTIES
Written and narrated by Barbara Rose,
Directed by Michael Blackwood. With Carl
Andre, Ron Davis, Dan Flavin, Sam Francis,
Helen Frankenthaler, Ed Kienholz, Robert
Irwin, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth
Kelly, Roy Lichenstein, Morris Louis,
Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, Claes
Oldenburg-, Jules Olitski, Robert Rauschen-
berg, I arry Rivers, Ed Ruscha, George Segal,
Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, lack Younger -
man, John Cage, Leo Castelli and Clement
Greenberg.
American Art in the Sixties focuses on the
diverse tendencies pursued by painters and
sculptors of the get 'ration that followed the
Abstract Expressionists. Characterising the
1960s as art„explosive, revolutionary decade,
thefilrt� 'appropriately assumes a staccato
beat, switching from Pop art to Happenings,
from Minimal art to Post Painterly
Abstraction
JASPER JOHNS- DECOY
Johns is filmed while at work on "Decoy"
at Tatiana Grosman's Universal Limited Art
Editions studios, Barbara Rose narrates the
filet, explaining the complexities of Johns'
approach to lithography
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