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Announcement
SCOTT - DUSKOCY
John and Dianne Duskocy of
RR 4, Brussels are pleased to
announce the forthcoming
marriage of their daughter,
Kimberly Michelle to James
Wesley, son of Spence and
Nelva Scott of Brussels on
July 24, 1993 at the Brussels
United Church at 6:30 p.m.
55th Anniversary
In honour of their Emerald
Wedding Anniversary
Ruth and Tom Jardin Invite
relatives, friends and
neighbours to an
Open House
Saturday July 10, 1993
at Auburn Community Hall
2:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Best Wishes Only
An Adventure 65 Million Years In The Making.,
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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1993. PAGE 23.
E ntertainment Mikado'
Theatre review
Play at story about life
Safe with friends
Marianne Copithorne, second from right, as Cassie, enjoys the comfort and safety of friends
in this scene from the Blyth Festival play Safe Haven a story of a young woman diangosed as
HIV positive. From left: playwright Mary-Colin Chisholm, who appears as Hanna, Lorna
Wilson as Fay and John Wright as Kevin.
The opening night performance
of The Mikado, by W.S. Gilbert
and Arthur Sullivan, took place at
the Avon Theatre on Friday, July 2
at 7:30 p.m.
Set in a fanciful Japan of Gilbert
and Sullivan's imagination, The
Mikado tells of the .madcap
adventures of Nanki-Poo, heir
apparent to the throne, as he
attempts to marry the fair maiden
Yum-Yum.
The Mikado is directed and
choreographed by Brian Mac-
donald, with musical direction and
additional musical arrangements by
Berthold Carriere, design by Susan
Benson, lighting design by Michael
J. Whitfield, consulting direction
and choreography by Anne
Wootten and additional lyrics by
John Banks.
The 1993 Stratford Festival
production of The Mikado features
John Avey as The Mikado of
at Avon
Japan, Juan Cioran as Pooh-Bah,
Eric Donkin as Ko-Ko, Barbara
Fulton as Peep-Bo, Thomas Goerz
as Pish-Tush, Christina James as
Katisha, Glynis Ranney as Yum-
Yum, Stephen Simms as Nanki-
Poo and Karen Wood as Pitti-Sing.
Open House
the families of
Mary Humphries
cordially Invite you to her
75th Birthday Celebration
Sunday, July 11, 1993
from 2 to 4 p.m.
In the Walton Hall, Walton
Best Wishes Only
Happy 75th
Birthday
BERNICE McCLINCHEY
JULY 11
By Bonnie Gropp
Safe Haven which premiered at
Blyth Festival this past week, is so
much a story of life that you feel
you could pull up a chair with the
cast members and become part of
it.
In her first full length play, writer
Mary-Colin Chisholm has deliv-
ered a tale that encompasses the
best and the worst of what life has
to offer. Her four characters are
familiar. We are not put off by their
frailties because they are human
ones and we are warmed by the
grace and humour, they display
when dealing with the adversity
which confronts them.
Marianne Copithorne, who
appeared in Blyth's The Glorious
12th last year, gives a strong, yet
sensitive portrayal as Cassie, the
'young mother who comes home to
tell three important people in her
life that she has been diagnosed
HIV positive. The poignant scene
where she asks to be awakened
from the nightmare, shows the
range of her ability as she draws
you inside her heart so you feel her
pain.
Her real life husband John
Wright, making his Blyth debut,
plays Kevin, a former boyfriend
who for obvious reasons becomes
panicked at the news. He brings to
the role a boyish charm that
endears him to the audience despite
some apparent character flaws.
Mary-Colin Chisholm gives an
understated performance as
Cassie's physician friend Hanna.
Her clinical outlook and rapier
sharp one-liners give us both sides
of life's story.
Loma Wilson is back in Blyth for
a fifth season to breathe heart and
soul into the character of Aunt Fay,
a kind, gentle spirit who has faced
life's challenges many times and
always comes back laughing. For
company she talks to her late hus-
band, but as Hanna tells Cassie,
Fay is still the only person she
knows who has got all her marbles
and could probably stand to lose a
few.
Most of the story unfolds in Fay's
kitchen, a sensible choice consider-
ing that kitchens tend to be where
people gather, the room where
secrets are divulged and intimacies
are shared.
Giving consideration to the issue
of the play, the surprising thing
about Safe Haven is that while it
touches on the ominous reality of
AIDS it's spiced with humour. Not
raucous slapstick or biting satire
but the natural easy humour one
fords day to day. AIDS is simply
the window that allows us to watch
these four very real characters .
Director Leah Chemiak keeps the
intensity moving and Charlotte
Dean's set design, a somewhat
ramshackle country kitchen, fits the
mood.
If there is a flaw in Safe Haven
The opening night performance
of Bacchae took place at the Tom
Patterson Theatre on Thursday,
July 1 at 7:30 p.m. Only the second
Greek tragedy performed by the
main company in the Stratford
Festival's 41 seasons, Bacchae
explores the human need for gods
and reveals the terrifying risks man
takes when suppressing his
instinctual nature.
Bacchae is directed by David
William, with design by Alan
Barlow, music by Gary Kulesha,
lighting design by John Munro,
movement choreographed by John
Broome, fights directed by John
Stead, and sound designed by Keith
Handegord and Evan Turner. The
mask coach for Bacchae is Fred
BUCK &
DOE
for
Larry Hoggart &
Cheryl Wain
Saturday, July 17
Blyth Arena — 9 - 1
Age of Majority
it's when the actors run back and
forth behind the backdrop to signi-
fy the desperation, loneliness and
fear one feels when pursued by an
unknown evil. The symbolism was
lost on many — I heard people
question why the backdrop exposed
the goings on backstage — and the
play would have lost nothing with-
out it.
Safe Haven is an entertaining and
enlightening story about four like-
able people, who have a deep affec-
tion for each other. Nothing fancy
is needed to enhance it. The script
is well crafted, the acting superb. I
think it may well be one of the best
overall productions I have seen in
some time..
Uringer.
The Stratford Festival production
of Bacchae features Wayne Best as
the Guard, Barbara Bryne as the
Chorus Leader, Richard Cumock as
Teiresias, Ted Dykstra as Pentheus,
Colm Feore as Dionysus, Bernard
Hopkins as the Messenger,
Nicholas Pennell as Kadmos and
Janet Wright as Agave. Chorus
members are played by Marion
Day, Philippa Domville, Karen K.
Edissi, Melanie Janzen, Monique
Lund, Kerrin Mehagan, Kristina
Nicoll, Lucy Peacock, Natalie
Sebastian, Donna Starnes and Mari
Trainor.
Also appearing in the production
are Danny Austin, Sabrina
Grdevich, David Hogan, Mary Pit
and Shawn Wright.
STAG & DOE IP
for
BRUCE TREBLE &
SELINA HUBBARD
Saturday July 10, 1993
Goderlch Arena Music by DJ
TICKETS: $5.00 each
LUNCHEON PROVIDED
TIME: 9:00 -1:00
Age of Majority Is Required
Call for Tickets
Auburn: 526.7399 or Goderlch: 524.9829
Euripides' Bacchae' opens
at Tom Patterson Theatre