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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1997-07-30, Page 3Learning the steps Cappy Onn and Nathan Sherred practise the moves to a dance created by Young Company participants for the Aug. 11 through 16 performances of Pieces of Alligator Pie, at Blyth United Church. Youths create Alligator Pie The Blyth Festival Young Com­ pany, a group of 14 talented youths aged 11 to 18, is busy creating and rehearsing Pieces of Alligator Pie, a production based on the poems of Dennis Lee and others. "We are really having fun with this (production). It is truly a col­ laborative effort and we're coming up with some beautiful material," says Blyth Festival's Artistic Direc­ tor Janet Amos, who is directing the Young Company this year along with Rachel Brophy and David Archambault. Kendra Fry is the stage manager and technical director. Brophy, from Lucknow, and Archambault and Fry, both from Goderich, are all former Young Company members, who now have professional theatre careers. Archambault and Fry were also part of the Festival's Quiet in the Land cast this season. For two local youths participat­ ing in this year's production, they both agree involvement with Young Company is a wonderful experience. In his first year with the company, Nathan Sherred says, the group " is great." "I have made a lot of friends and connections and met actors I wouldn't have otherwise. I have also gone to three plays. I had never been to one before," says Sherred. Now in her fifth season with the ever-evolving troupe, Cappy Onn says this production is "done differ­ ently" than others she has been involved with. In acquiring different theatre skills such as safe fighting, the group will also leam to sing and dance as well as contribute to the musical score written for the play. For Onn, participation in Young Company may be an experience she carries into her future career, as others involved in the production have done. Cathy Nosaty, who was musical director for the Festival's 1995 pro­ duction Ballad for a Rum Runner's Daughter, is the Young Company's musical director. Pie features origi­ nal songs by the Company and a variety of instruments, everything from flute, trumpet and accordion to piano and guitars. The produc­ tion itself is as eclectic as the music, featuring fantasy, skits, poems, songs, dances, stage fight­ ing, acrobatics and even fencing. Costume design is by Andjelija Djuric who also designed the cos­ tumes for this year’s Festival pro­ duction of Booze Days in a Dry County. The youth participating in the show come from Blyth, Clin­ ton, Vanastra, Goderich, Seaforth, Listowel and Wingham. You can enjoy Pieces of Alliga­ tor Pie from Aug. 11 to 16, each evening at 7 p.m., in the basement of Blyth United Church on Mill Street. There is no reserved seating and admission is pay-what-you-can at the door. The Company will also take its show on the road to the Heritage Theatre on Main Street in Lucan Aug. 13 at 1 p.m., and to the Livery on South Street in Goderich, Aug. 15 at 1 p.m. The services of Cathy Nosaty as musical director were made possi­ ble, in part, by the Theatre Ontario Youth Training Program. The Young Company is also supported by an Ontario Arts Council Experi­ ence Grant and sponsored by Impe­ rial Oil Charitable Foundation, the Goderich Lions Club and Mrs. Mabel Wheeler. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1997 PAGE 3. Blyth council awards contract Blyth council awarded the con­ tract for the installation of the deco­ rative lights to Cardinal Traffic Systems at the July 21 meeting.. The cost will be $9,250. *** Taxes were written-off for the: Howard Robert estate, $7.13; Blyth Lions Club, $489.59 and Blyth Lawn Tennis Club (bowling greens), $462.88. "Municipalities have the option of writing-off taxes for service clubs," said Clerk-Treasurer John Stewart. However, these clubs made an agreement with the village around 1982 to pay for the sewer frontage if the taxes were written- off." ♦♦♦ nity Centre would operate with one full-time arena manager and part- time staff for a cost savings of $4,000 to $6,000. Stewart pointed out the suggestion came from com­ munity centre employees. DR. JANET ZETTEL DR. DAN ROOYAKKERS Tues. 1 - 5 , Thurs. 1 - 5, Fri. 9 -1 Call: 523-4567 for appointments New patients welcome Authorization was given for the payment of the final installment of education tax requisition to the Huron County Board of Education in the amount of $88,747. ♦♦♦ Council endorsed the recommen­ dations for the Citizens' Network on Waste Management with respect to making producers fully responsi­ ble for the economic costs and environmental impact of their prod­ ucts. Approval was given for Stewart to attend the Fair Municipal Finance Act seminar, Nov. 17, in London at a cost of $160.50. 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