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Theatre review
Play a madcap affair
BY LARRY CARDIFF
It's a madcap affair with Marc
Camoletti's hilarious sequel to Boe
ing, Boeing, Don't Dress For Din
ner, presently playing at the Huron
County Playhouse.
This wonderful farce has been
playing to sold out houses in Lon
don's West End for the past three
years and has just completed a suc
cessful run at Toronto's stage West
Dinner Theatre.
Due to the sudden death of Artis
tic Director Tony Lloyd, Don't
Dress For Dinner is directed by
Guest Director Sean Mulcahy. It is
an admirable production of Mr.
Lloyd's vision of the show.
Don't Dress For Dinner is a
hilarious comedy about a husband
and wife, Bernard and Jacqueline,
who are both having a little extra
marital fling, and the great lengths
they go to to conceal it.
Jacqueline is going away for the
weekend and Bernard has invited
his mistress Suzanne and his old
friend Robert up for the weekend.
Robert is to provide Bernard's alibi,
but unknown to Bernard, Robert is
having a fling with Jacqueline.
When she discovers Robert is com
ing for the weekend, Jacqueline
cancels her plans and decides to
stay, much to Bernard's dismay.
Bernard confesses his infidelity
to Robert and forces Robert to
reluctantly claim Suzanne as his
mistress, much to the displeasure of
Jacqueline. The married couple go
into town, leaving Robert to await
the arrival of Suzanne to explain
everything to her, but unfortunately
he mistakes the agency cook
Suzette as Bernard's mistress and
convinces her to partake in
Bernard's scheme.
The results are hysterical as they
all try to out do one another and
Robert and Bernard are forced into
working together against the irate
women. The confusion mounts as
the charade continues and explana
tions are continually discarded for
new ones, especially after the
arrival of the real Suzanne and
Suzette's husband George.
As Bernard exclaims to Robert,
"What a mess!", describing the sit
uation they find themselves in,
Robert angrily replies, "I don't
know what your complaining
about, I'm the one in it."
Engagement
Engagement
All Game
PRIZES
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DOLMAGE -VANDENBROEK
Henk and Ria VanDenBroek
of Brussels are pleased to
announce the forthcoming
marriage of their daughter,
Diana to Stephen, son of
Neil and Lorreta Dolmage,
Winthrop. The wedding will
take place Saturday, August
8, 1992 at 3 p.m. st St.
Ambrose, Brussels.
Reception to follow at
Brussels Community Centre.
BECKER - KNIGHT
Willis and Barb Knight of
Brussels are pleased to
announce the forthcoming
marriage of their daughter
Judy Lee to Dennis Robert
son of Bob and Audrey
Becker of Mildmay. The
wedding will take place
Saturday August 15,1992 at
Melville Presbyterian
Church, Brussels.
The set, designed by Robert Ivey,
is magnificent with its immense
stone blocks and woodwork. It
resembles every bit what one might
imagine a converted French farm
house to look like. The view of the
landscape through the windows and
front door is amazingly realistic.
Robert More and Jill Frappier
play the scheming husband and
wife, Bernard and Jacqueline. Lisa
Robertson plays Bernard's beautiful
mistress Suzanne, and John Snow
don plays Suzette's no-nonsense,
biker-type husband George.
Judy Leigh-Johnson steals the
show with her performance of
Suzette, the agency cook, who with
a lot of financial enticing agrees to
portray Robert's mistress.
Christopher Barry is outstanding
as Robert with his great facial
expressions and rolling of eyes.
Huron County Playhouse audiences
will remember Mr. Barry's previous
performance as Robert in the pre
quel Boeing, Boeing.
Don't dress For Dinner is great
fun as we watch Bernard squirm,
Robert bemoan his fate, and the
women and George grow angrier
and angrier. As Robert says to
Jacqueline after everything has
been sorted out, "Thank you for a
wonderful evening, I'm so glad I
came." So was I, it was a produc
tion that I will long remember.
Don’t Dress For Dinner will be
playing until August 1.
Stag & Doe
for
Michael Bishop &
Kathy Graber
Friday August 7
b. M. & G.
Community Centre
Lunch Provided
$5.00 per person
BY LARRY CARDIFF
'Life can begin again at 40' is the
message of the international hit
comedy, Shirley Valentine, the one-
woman show presently playing at
Stratford's Tom Patterson Theatre.
The role was to have been played
by Susan Wright, who had a suc
cessful run with the play at Lon
don's Grand Theatre. When the
actress and her parents, Jack and
Ruth Wright, died in a tragic house
fire in Stratford last December,
Susan's eldest sister, Janet, volun
teered to do the play as a memorial
tribute to her sister and parents.
Written by British playwright
Willy Russell, Shirley Valentine
won the Laurence Olivier Award in
1989 for best comedy. Pauline
Collins won a Tony Award for the
1989 Broadway production of
Shirley Valentine, and an Academy
Award nomination for the 1989
film version.
Directed by Richard Monette,
Shirley Valentine is the story of an
unhappy and frustrated 42-year-old
housewife. Many years have passed
since she buried the carefree rebel
liousness of her adolescence to
marry Joe Bradshaw and raise two
children.
She laments, not only about the
disappearance of the girl she once
was, but also about the woman she
has now become. "I used to be
Shirley Valentine." She sobs "What
happened? Who turned me into
this?"
In a Liverpudlan accent, Shirley
is a type of kitchen sink philoso
pher, addressing the wall which
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confines her, to share the secrets of
her life. While she prepares the
evening meal for her unapprecia
tive husband, she humourously
ponders over a repertoire of ideals,
ranging from the new found joys of
sex and childhood insecurities, to
her disappointments in marriage
and eventual loss of self-identity.
Shirley is tom by the boredom of
her stifling existence and her fear at
leaving behind this otherwise "safe
world".
Shirley eventually breaks from
her mundane existence when she
accepts a holiday to Greece with a
"feminist" friend. She leaves
behind Shirley Bradshaw, the
woman who was simply 'wasting
life', and rediscovers Shirley Valen
tine, the true spirit of the girl she
once was.
Once in Greece, she not only
takes a lover, but decides not to
return to Liverpool, electing to
remain in Greece to live her life to
its fullest potential.
The physical and emotional
transformation Shirley undergoes,
once she begins living life to its
fullest, is indeed marvelous to
behold. She is no longer the drab
and dreary middle-aged housewife
she had become, but a sophisticated
woman of the world radiating a true
inner beauty. This transformation
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