HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1991-01-30, Page 22THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1991. PAGE 23.
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Araby Lockhart and Ted Follows as Police Chief Cavanaugh and his wife in Muskoka Festival’s
mystery farce “Sinners”, by Norm Foster coming to the Blyth Festival February 16.
‘Sinners’ at Festival Feb. 16
Actress Araby Lockhart returns
to the Blyth stage in Norm Foster’s
comedy, “Sinners” presented by
the Muskoka Festival on Saturday,
February 16 at 8 p.m. in Blyth
Memorial Hall.
The play begins when Peter
Kramer, a shy and somewhat
jittery furniture store owner, is
found in the arms of the Rever
end’s wife, in the Reverend’s
bedroom ... and wouldn’t you
know, by the Reverend himself!
The problem doesn’t hit the Rever
end until ... was it really the clock
radio that killed him?
The situation becomes even
more desperate when the furniture
store owner is mistaken for the
Reverend by the local town busy
body (played by Araby Lockhart).
Of course, the accumulation of
events leads to the involvement of
the police chief and his wife in
more ways than one. The results is
a hysterical, high energy romp that
climaxes in “an affair to remem
ber”. The first performance of
“Sinners” by Norm Foster was
Woman gets
suspended
sentence
A Kitchener woman received a
suspended sentence when she
pleaded guilty of possession of
stolen property in Ontario Court,
Criminal Division in Wingham
January 23.
Tracy Zilney of 168 Lancaster
St., Kitchener pleaded guilty to
having stolen licence plates in her
possession in an incident in Ethel,
Sept. 1, 1990.
Acting Crown Attorney Liz
Maguire told the court that police
received information about 1:20
p.m. that licence plates had been
stolen. They found the plates in
question on a 1979 Grand Prix car
parked outside a store in Ethel.
Tracy Zilney was given a sus
pended sentence by Judge R.G.E.
Hunter and placed on probation for
12 months.
produced by Theatre New Bruns
wick and was presented last year
by the Clinton Arts Committee.
David Nairn, playing the jittery
furniture store owner appeared last
on the Blyth stage in the hockey
musical, “Thin Ice” presented by
the Muskoka Festival. Araby Lock
hart plays the town busybody in
“Sinners” but is best remembered
by Blyth Festival audiences for her
appearances in “Gone To Glory”
and “Another Season’s Promise”
in 1986. Also on stage in “Sinners”
are Michelle Hart, Michael Pare,
Glynis Davies and Ted Follows.
“Sinners” is directed by Michael
Ayoub and designed by Rod Hillier
and David Juby.
Norm Foster, author of “Sin
ners,” has become one of Canada’s
most popular playwrights. His hit
comedy, “The Melville Boys”,
which has been produced from
coast to coast in Canada, recently
won four Los Angeles Drama-
League Awards including the Play
wright’s Award. “Sinners”, writ
ten in 1983, continues to be a box
office favourite, and both “Sin
ners” and “The Melville Boys”
have been translated into French.
Norm’s other plays include “My
Darling Judith”, “The Affections
of May” (both of which starred Ron
Gabriel in the leading roles),
“Windfall”, “Bravada” and
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Toronto, Norm currently resides in
Fredericton, New Brunswick,
where, besides writing, he per
forms as one of Eastern Canada’s
hottest Top-40 radio hosts.
“Sinners” by Norm Foster ap
pears for one night only at Blyth
Memorial Hall on Saturday, Febru
ary 16, at 8 p.m. Tickets are on sale
now at the Blyth Festival Office -
only $15 each. For reservations and
information call (519) 523-9300.
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a reduction in other communities.
Councillor Dave Lee said he
thought that the village was per
haps getting more than was requir
ed from the fee. He felt the village
should get something for the cost of
filling in the applications for the
licences but not as much as it is
getting. He noted that when the
Lions Club had applied for a similar
licence through the provincial mini
stry, a portion of the fee had been
turned over to the village. The
village “hadn’t done anything to
deserve the money,” he said, so it
refunded the money to the club.
The village did have work to do in
processing this local licence but he
didn’t see why a charge couldn’t be
made for administration and the
rest of the money turned back to
the Legion.
Reeve Albert Wasson pointed
out that while the Legion contribut
ed to the community, the licence
fee paid to the village was also put
into the community.
Mr. Vincent argued “If we do
the work and raise the money we
should have a say in where it
goes.”
He said the issue had been
raised at the Legion after council
had informed the Legion that if it
was looking for a community
project, donations to the new
library would be welcomed. The
feeling of the many members was
that council already had $1,100 of
their money, Mr. Vincent said.
“The Legion would like to get
credit for the money we raise,” he
said. The whole membership had
never really put its unhappiness
with the charging of the fee to the
rest,” he said.
After Mr. Vincent left, council
lors discussed the issue further,
trying to arrive at a licence fee that
would reflect the amount of work
village staff had to put into the
processing of the licences. Reeve
Wasson, however, said he wonder
ed if council would be better off not
to charge any fee. “Are we better
to take the money out of it and take
the PR”, he said.
Council eventually agreed to
drop the fee.
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