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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1989-02-15, Page 23THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1989. PAGE 23. School drama festival at Memorial Hall Friday The Fourth Annual Central Hur on Drama Festival begins on Friday, February 17 with 150 high school students expected. Blyth Memorial Hall will play host to the event with six schools participating including high school from Clinton, Wingham, Cam bridge, Listowel, Palmerston and Port Elgin. Organized by Stephen Oliver, a teacher at Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton and in conjunction with the Blyth Centre for the Arts, the Festival was created to provide students from the area with an opportunity to meet, share ideas and showcase their talents. With the philosophy that high school students should learn more about the world of theatre and discover the treasures of Canadian plays, the Drama Festival requires that all participants perform a Canadian work. In recent years, many of the plays have been original scripts by the students themselves and this year is no exception. Plays being performed on Friday, February 17th (7:30 p.m.) include: “First Strike” by Dave Carley performed by students at Central Huron Secondary, Clin ton; “The Garage Sale” by Gwen Pharis Ringwood performed by students at F.E. Madill, Wingham; and “The King of Mice” by Catherine Aiderman, a teacher from Glenview Park Secondary in Cambridge. Performances on Saturday, Fe bruary 18 (7:30 p.m.) include: “Mentors” by Carol Oriold a teacher at Listowel District Secon dary performed by students; “Shrinking” by Jennifer Cressey, a student at Norwell District Se condary in Palmerston who also appears in the play; and “Thin Ice” by Craig Holzschuh, a student at Saugeen District Secondary School in Port Elgin with collabora tion and direction by Sandy Con rad, a teacher at the school. This year, the Festival will have two adjudicators who will make awards and review each of the plays. Jerry Franken, an actor and director who has long been associ ated with the Blyth Festival will adjudicate along with Lorna Wilson who has appeared at the Blyth Festival, taught high school and written for the stage. Adjudicators in previous years have included theatre critic Doug Bale, director Steven Schipper, and artistic direc tors Sandy Macdonald and Kather ine Kaszas. Awards will be given in a variety of categories with a special presentation being given by the Blyth Festival. As well as being able to perform on a well-equipped professional stage in Blyth, the students will take part in a number of workshops ranging from acting and directing, stage combat, film, and a career panel about the performing arts. All workshops will take place on Friday morning at Central Huron Secondary School and are provided courtesy of the Blyth Festival. Tickets to performances are $4.00 each evening and S6 for both nights and are available at Blyth Memor ial Hall on the day of the perfor mance. “D' Entertainment Music Festival planned Feb. 24 On Friday, February 24, Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton will once again host the seventh annual Winter Music Festival. This year six area Secondary Schools will participate. They are: Mitchell District S.S., Centennial Collegiate - Guelph, Listowel Dis trict S.S., South Huron District S.S. - Exeter, Seaforth District S.S., and Central Huron S.S. - Clinton. The Guest Conductor for the day will be Professor Deral Johnston of the Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario. As in previous years, the choirs will spend the day attending work shops under the leadership of Mr. Johnson and several senior stu dents from Western. These work shops have proven to be very worthwhile as well as enjoyable. One of the results of the day will be an evening concert open to the public, when the choirs will have the opportunity to participate in a large massed choir presenting a major musical work in a very moving and beautiful style under Mr. Johnson’s direction. As well, each school will perform from their own repertoire of music. The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Central Huron Auditor ium. Admission for the concert will be S3.00 for Adults. Everyone is encouraged to at tend this concert. It should be an excitino evening of choral mucic Award winning play now at Grand Theatre The Grand Theatre’s Under grand” series continues with Michel Tremblay’s “Hosanna”. Opening February 17, Hosanna explores the trauma two men face when their self-deceptions are bru tally torn away. Directed by Diana LeBlance, Hosanna stars Albert Schultz and William Webster. Den nis Horn designed the set and costumes and Elizabeth Asselstine designed the lighting. The English translation is by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco. It’s Halloween. Hosanna has worked feverishly for three weeks preparing for her triumphant en trance as Elizabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra, and her world has just been shattered. Her lover Cuirette has betrayed her. Can Hosanna/ Claude accept what and who she/ he is? As Cuirette says, “after tonight, Hosanna, you’re through.” But Cuirette, as Hosanna re minds him, is “not what he used to be” either. It’s three a.m. and the party’s over: now what? Michel Tremblay uses the lives of these two homosexuals in the Montreal of the early seventies to explore the very essence of the human spirit. A highly politicized author, Trem blay’s work is dense with meta phors and allegories of French Canadian society. But beneath these elements, Hosanna is a love story - a deeply moving, sometimes funny, entertaining story of two very human people struggling with concerns that touch us all. Michel Tremblay has written 19 plays as well as several novels, short stories and screen plays. A native of Montreal, his first success came with the 1969 production of “Les Belles Soeurs.” Originally written in the colloquial French of the Montreal streets, much of Tremblay’s work has been trans- lated into English, including “For ever Yours, Marie-Lou”; “Bon- jour, la, Bonjour”; “Hosanna”; “Saint Carmen of the Main” and more recently, “Albertine in Five Times” and “The Real World?” Tremblay speaks with the very specific voice of a modern Quebe cois writer, but his work appeals to many cultures and has been per formed around the world. He has been honored with numerous awards, most recently a Chalmers Award for “The Real World”. BRUSSELS FIGURE SKATING CLUB presents MICKEY MOUSE & FRIENDS SAT.,FEB.25 8P.M. with Kevin Wheeler & Michelle Menzies Peter MacDonald & Kerrie Shepherd Also the Wingham PrecisionTeams $5. Adults $2 . Elementary Students for tickets call 887-9542 GOT YA! 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