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Founder returns
for silver season
Homecoming
Cappy Onn as Laura, standing right, prepares to move in on her brother and his wife, played
by Mike Mullin, standing and Barbie Miller, while neighbour George (Daryle Henry) looks on
in the ...And Perhaps a Play's production of I'll Be Back Before Midnight last week at Blyth
Memorial Hall.
Theatre review
Teens prove what they can do
By Ashley Gropp
Special to The Citizen
The ...And Perhaps a Play The
atre Company presented its second
production March 25 through
March 27 at the Blyth Memorial
Hall. I'll be Back Before Midnight,
is a comedy-thriller that premiered
in Blyth 20 years ago.
The play revolves around a trou
bled woman, Jan (Barbie Miller),
and her husband, Greg(Mike
Mullin), trying to reconcile by
moving to a farmhouse.
Another character, George
(Daryle Henry), is the friendly
drinking farmer from across the
road, who tells the couple scary
stories about the place, including
one of a murder which happened
there. Jan was visibly shaken.
To further shatter any newfound
calm Greg's sister Laura, who
intimidates Jan, came for a visit.
Events in the house get progres
sively worse for the young wife.
Johns seeks info for play
Ted Johns is writing a new play
about our schools. The Great
School Crisis of '99 will open at the
Blyth Festival on July 14.
If you have any facts,
observations or opinions about
schools today which you’d like to
share, send them to, Ted's
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ter
Paula Smith
& Steve Silcock
Saturday, April 3
at the BMG Community Centre
from 8:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Music by D.J.
Lunch Provided
4ge of Majority Required
She spends much time talking into
a tape recorder to her psychiatrist.
Each night she sees more signs of a
spectral presence. Eventually, the
'ghost' crawls through her window
after a power shortage and rushes at
her with a knife.
The next night the ghost appears
again, but this time Jan has a gun
and shoots it. When Greg turns on
the power they discover Laura had
been on the receiving end of Jan's
bullet. They buried her body in the
front garden.
Technically speaking the young
company proved once again what
they can do with little. The effects
were professional, making the
lights and noises so eerie and
frightening you had to be
impressed it was all created by
teens.
Though the acting was not quite
up to the standards set by their first
production, The Complete Work of
William Shakespere (abridged),
everyone did well. Cappy Onn
seemed particularly comfortable in
Education, Blyth Festival, Blyth,
ON N0M 1.H0, Tel; 519-523-4345
Fax: 519-523-9804.
Send in your submissions. Your
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Stag & Doe
for
Phil Hubbard
& Karin Lee
Saturday, April 3/99
Blyth Community Centre
Tickets: $5.00 ea.
Luncheon Provided
Time: 9:00-1:00
Age of Majority is required
Call for tickets:
Blyth: 523-9889
Goderich: 524-7940
her role as Laura. She commanded
the stage, each time she was on,
showing both the strength of the
character and her strength in acting.
It was easy to see why director Erin
Roulston cast her in that role.
The biggest problem with this
production may have been the
choice of play. Although murder
ous plots may be entertaining to
teenagers, I’ll Be Back Before Mid
night has complex characters who
deal with mature issues. Jan and
Greg are married, George js
divorced and Jan suffers from seri
ous mental problems. In fact, the
latter role seemed a little too chal
lenging for the novice actress.
Also, even using your imagina
tion, the characters just did not look
their parts. No makeup was really
used to age them and the costumes
were sometimes too young.
In all, the show was good,
although it did not obtain the level
of professionalism that the compa
ny, with its Shakespeare, proved it
can achieve.
board. Even your government.
They're all fair game. A Golden
Heifer Award will go for the best
entry. If you win, you'll find out
what a golden heifer is.
Stag <& Doe
for
Angela Macmillan
& Ken Jamieson
Saturday,
April 24, 1999
Brussels Morris & Grey
Community Centre
9 p.m. to 1 am.
Music by DJ, Lunch Provided
Age of Majority
Tickets $5
James Roy, who was the founder
and artistic director of the Blyth
Festival from 1975 - 1979, returns
this year to direct the comedy, Big
Box, by Dave Carley. It will be the
first time he has directed a play on
Blyth's stage since The Primrose
School District in 1985, though he
has always maintained close ties
with the Festival, and presently
serves on the board of directors,
commuting once a month from
Toronto to attend meetings.
Since it was Roy who set the
Festival's mandate of producing
new Canadian plays that reflect the
culture and concerns of Southern
Ontario, Big Box, with its very
funny focus on the impact of big
box malls on main street retailing,
is a great choice for his return
engagement.
Since turning the Blyth Festival
over to Janet Amos nearly 20 years
ago, Roy was artistic director of the
Raoul and The Big Time
play the blues in Stratford
An actor familiar to many Blyth
Festival Theatre goers will soon be
hitting the stage for musical rea
sons.
Raoul Bhaneja, who performed
in Barndance Live and Booze Days
in a Dry County, is taking his blues
band, Raoul and The Big Time, to
The Stonehaven Inn in Stratford,
April 3.
Bhaneja formed the four-piece
band 10 months ago in what he
calls "down time".
The group plays songs from the
Chicago blues era of the 1950s to
West Coast swing of today.
Raoul and The Big Time will
take to the stage at 209 Waterloo
St. South at 9:30 p.m.
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Mom & Dad
March 29
Love Lynn, Bill
& family
Belfry Theatre in Victoria and
Manitoba Theatre Centre in
Winnipeg. Now area executive
producer of CBC Radio Drama, he
was recently awarded a gold fnedal
in the New York Festival Of Radio
Drama for a co-production with
Australia Broadcasting Company
and the BBC (Wales) galled Losing
Paradise.
This year he produced a radio
presentation of St. Carmen of the
Main, recorded live at the Centaur
Theatre in Montreal, in French on
one evening and English the next
with bilingual cast.
Big Box, directed by James Roy
opens July 2 and plays in repertory
until August 28. The production is
sponsored by Wescast Industries,
Wingham.
For money saving vouchers,
tickets or information, telephone
the Blyth Festival Box office 523-
9300 or toll free 1-877 TO
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