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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1992-08-05, Page 19THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5,1992. PAGE 19. Young Company's show on track I’ll be back Former artistic director Katherine Kaszas (on the left) is seen here directing the cast of /'// Be Back Before Midnight during a rehearsal. The play opens next week. Great to be back, former Bly th Festival artistic director says BY LARRY CARDIFF Blyth Festival's former Artistic Director Katherine Kaszas has returned to direct the final play of the season I'll Be Back Before Mid­ night. "It feels wonderful to be back in Blyth again," Ms. Kaszas says. "I have really been enjoying my return to the countryside and the community itself." Her return visit, she says, has also provided her with an opportu­ nity to renew some old friendships. It was 1980 when Ms. Kaszas first came to the Blyth Festival to work as stage manager. When she left in 1990, she had just completed the final season of her six-year term as its artistic director. Since handing in her resignation, Ms. Kaszas has undertaken a few free-lance directing projects in Toronto, Calgary and Winnipeg. In addition, Ms. Kaszas and her hus­ band, cinematographer Paul Dun­ lop, have had their third child a year ago last May. Something which she says, "has been keeping me busy as well." She has also managed to catch up on her reading, which was virtually impossible during her demanding stint as the festival's. artistic direc­ tor. "I managed to complete my first novel in two years," she says, "immediately after leaving here." Lately Ms. Kaszas has been liv­ ing in Toronto where she is current­ ly the artistic director of the Factory Theatre. She is temporarily filling in, until the end of the year, (Doe for IRVIN PEASE and LINDA HAKKERS AUGUST 8 9:00-1:00 at the Auburn Hall Tickets - $5.00 Age of Majority Only for the regular artistic director who is off on maternity leave. She looks forward to the opening of I'll Be Back Before Midnight, which she says is "a great script, and a great show technically." "It is full of whiz bangs, bodies, weapons and scary things," Ms. Kaszas adds enthusiastically. One of the crew members, she reveals, has even coined the phrase "Cape Midnight" for the Festival's production, a comparison to the suspense-filled motion-picture drama Cape Fear. Peter Colley's script I'll Be Back Before Midnight was originally commissioned by Festival founder James Roy and premiered in Blyth in 1979. It proved to be the Festi­ val's first really huge hit. In 1980, Janet Amos, James Roy's succes­ sor, successfully brought it back for a second season. Since that time, I'll Be Back Before Midnight has been produced all over the world, making it a fran­ chised business for playwright Peter Colley. It has undergone a number of rewrites since its origi­ nal premier in 1979. Just recently, Ms. Kaszas reveals, a motion pic­ ture version has been completed. Ms. Kaszas has been working with Mr. Colley to provide a pro­ duction that will be good for Blyth audiences. She guarantees that it will have an unrecognizable ending for any of those who saw it 12 years ago. The makeup back then was really wild Happy 15th Kim F. She says that they have even been "toying with the idea of hav­ ing alternate endings which make the "whodunit" different on alter­ nate evenings, so that audiences may see it in a different light." Ms. Kaszas' favourite story about the 1980 production, was when she was the stage manager responsible for calling the lighting and sound cues. She says she "heard a loud sound, a crack like pavement split­ ting. It was the backs of the old wooden seats as the 400-plus audi­ ence slammed backwards scream­ ing." "At productions of I'll Be Back Before Midnight people do scream quite audibly" she adds. Mrs. Kaszas promises the pro­ duction to be "full of thrills and chills that will keep you on the edge of your seat." Stag & Doe for Michael Bishop & Kathy Graber Friday August 7 B. M. & G. Community Centre Lunch Provided $5.00 per person Happy 20th Murray & Gayle The Blyth Festival Young Com­ pany will soon be performing Ozone On Down. The play is a collective creation which focuses on universal envi­ ronmental concerns and the effect our actions can have. Ozone On Down promises to be an imagina­ tive experience, created through written exercises and improvisa­ tions. The environmental play is being staged behind the Bainton's Old Mill where the old railroad tracks used to be. They want to use the natural scenery around as the stage. The audience will actually be able Happy 30th Mom! (August 10) Love Brooklyn, Brent & Brianne! PARK THEATRE GODERICH TOM HANKS "The Best Movie of the Summer. A Major League Hit." k___________________* *-NtilHoitn.WNCNRii!iii.lNEW YORK Fri. - Thurs. Aug. 7 -13 Fri. &Sat. 7 & 9:15 p.m. Sun. - Thurs. 8 p.m. mg LONG OISTANCE? CALL I-800-265-343& F0H TOLL FREE MOVIE INFO , BLYTH FESTIVAL BLYTH FESTIVAL 2 FOR 1 TICKET ’’BREATHER" From now until Aug. 8, 1992, Blyth Festival offers a "2 for 1" sale, on SAME DAY tickets Tuesday through Saturday for MAINSTAGE productions. Buy a ticket for ANY PRODUCTION at the Blyth Festival on the same day as the performance you wish to attend, and receive a second ticket compliments of the Festival. For more information and reservations call 523-9300 to experience the play, instead ol just watching it. The play will hap­ pen around them, as they walk along the tracks through the beauti­ ful setting. Music, clowns, goddesses and dragons will grace the area, giving the whole experience a "circus" magic. 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