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Theatre London's
season opens
October 31
Theatre London's 1979-80 season which
opens Oct. 31 will feature seven
productions on the main stage and seven
on the McManus Studio stage.
The opening production at the Grand
Theatre will be British comedy writer Alan
Ayckbourne's farce "Absurd Person
Singular" which will run until Nov. 17. The
second production opening Nov. 28 will be
Martha Henry in a new version of
Alexandre Dumas' "The Lady of the
Camellias". The production was specially
commissioned for Miss Henry from
actress -author Susanne Grossman and will
be directed by Robin Philips from the
Stratford Festival. It will run until Dec. 15.
James Goldman's portrait of the
Plantagenets "The Lion in Winter" will
run from Jan. 16 to Feb. 2. Theatre
London's Artistic Director William Hutt
will star. Berthold Carriere will be musical
director for the season's musical Irma La
Douce which will run for four weeks
instead of three, from Feb. 13 to March
8.
"The Glass Menagerie" by Tenessee
Williams will run from March 26 to April
12. A comedy of manners from 1696 "The
Relapse" by Sir John Vanburgh will run
from April 16 to May 3. The production
originates from the Phoenix Theatre of
Toronto where it was a hit last fall and was
revived this spring and again sold out. It
will play from April 16 to May 3.
The National Ballet of Canada will arrive
at the Grand for five evening performances
March 11-15 plus two matinees.
Only three of the plays at the McManus
Studio have yet been announced. The first
will be Creeps, David Freeman's history
making play about discrimination suffered
by the physically handicapped. William
Hutt will star in the second production, The
Hollow Crown, an anthology of literature
by and about the kings and queens of
England.
Eric Donkin's one-man show The
Wonderful World of Sarah Binks, a memoir
of the improbable prairies poetess as told
by an unlikely -sounding "dramatic elocut-
ionist and journalist" named Miss
Rosalind Drool.
A second Saturday matinee has been
added during the run of the plays this year
since the only matinee last year was sold
out in advance. Last year saw record
attendance for all productions at The
Grand. There were 191 performances
viewed by 104. 809, and average of 95.84
capacity. Some 89 performances sold out.
This will be the final season as artistic
director for William Hutt. He said in May
that he hopes to return on a freelance basis
in upcoming seasons.
ROCK CONCERTS MAY BE THING OF
THE PAST IN COLBORNE TOWNSHIP
Years ago in the hectic days of the
1960's rock concerts in a country setting
were a frequent and controversial thing.
The trend seemed to have died in the
I970's but it was resurrected briefly this
spring in Colborne township near
Goderich.
The event wasn't a big success but with
the possibility of other such events to
follow. the township council has moved to
make sure regulations are in force to
control similar events in the future.
In July the council passed a by-law to
control all public entertainments. festivals
and parades in the township.
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