HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1989-08-16, Page 23Monetary applause
CKNX Broadcasting hadan opening performance gift for the young performers of the Blyth Festival
Young Company Friday: a cheque to offset the costs of the youth workshop program. Jack Gillespie
(left) CKNX radio manager, and Al Skelton (right) vice president and General Manager of CKNX
Broadcasting present a cheque to Lynda Lentz, Festival Development Co-ordinator and Heather
Morton, assistant director of the production.
THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1989. PAGE 23.
Review
‘Shoemaker’s Holiday’ adds spice
BY KEITH ROULSTON
Stratford Festival patrons are
getting a chance to sample the
future direction of the Festival by
watching next year’s artistic direc
tor David William’s production of
“The Shoemaker’s Holiday”. The
preview hints at lots of pageantry
and the odd bit of spice thrown into
the solid production of the classics.
“The Shoemaker’s Holiday” by
Thomas Dekker hails from the
same period as the main fare of the
Festival: Shakespeare. While
Shakespeare was writing for the
Globe theatre, Dekker was writing
for the Rose Theatre, the other of
London’s repertory theatres of the
era. A native Londoner, unlike
Shakespeare, he turns to the life of
the ordinary people of the city for
the inspiration for this play. It ends
up in a rollicking comedy with a
twisted plot and lots of chances to
comment on the faults of the idle
nobility.
Plot? Well to give the plot
synopsis printed in the program
would only give you a headace
trying to keep up and take up most
of the review. There are enough
plot twists to keep a modem soap
opera stocked for a season or two.
The plot revolves around the shoe
maker Simon Eyre and his appren
tices. One apprentice, Ralph who is
newly married to his wife Jane, is
drafted to serve in England’s war
in France. Meanwhile nobleman is
LORI APPLEBY
Lori Appleby, daughter of
Lloyd and Lillian Appleby, RR
2, Blyth, graduated recently
from Fanshawe College in
London as a Developmental
Service Worker and is present
ly employed with the London
and District Association for the
Mentally Retarded.
also to be sent to France through
the manoeuverings of his uncle, to
keep him from his romantic in
volvement with the daughter of the
Lord Mayor of London, a common
er. He deserts the army, however,
and hides out disguised, taking
Ralph’s place as apprentice in the
shoemaker’s shop, using a German
accent. Through his connections
he’s able to help Simon Eyre into a
business deal that makes him rich
and eventually leads him to become
Lord Mayor of London and in a
position to help all this fellow
shoemakers. Naturally there are
lots of romantic crises and plot
twists along the way before all is
happily resolved in the end.
The cast is anchored by the solid
talents of James Blendick and the
shoemaker, and Pat Galloway as
his wife. Mr. Blendick hurls his
huge size around the stage acting
one minute the buffoon, next the
wise elder statesman. The audi
ence delights in watching Galloway
transformed from the often-crude,
roughly dressed working woman of
the early scenes to the elegant wife
of the Lord Mayor who gets to
entertain the King in the finale.
Beside these two larger than life
characters, the rest of Dekker’s
characters tend to pale by compari
son. Ian Watson as the shoe
maker’s boisterous journeyman
manages to steal some of the
scenes, as does Vickie Papays as
Sybil, the maid of Rose, the object
of Lacy, the lord who deserts the
army for love.
Eric Coats as Lacy, Susannah
Hoffman as Rose, Andrew Dolha at
Ralph, the shoemaker sent to fight
in France, and Peggy Coffey as
Jane his wife, all turn in fine
performances.
As usual, the Festival’s cos
tumes are sumptuous and the
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There’s plenty of music and lots of
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But the show stopper is a little
extra thrown in by Mr. David: a
troupe of entertainers, cum jugg
lers, cum acrobats, cum dancers
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