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Home My WebLink AboutThe Citizen, 1998-08-19, Page 19Community Care Access Centre for Huron CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Notice is hereby given that the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) for Huron is seeking nominations for two (2) members of their Board of Directors. Nominations can be made by completing and submitting an application form, which can be obtained at the address below. All nominees must be Members of the CCAC for at least ten (10) days. New members must submit a $5 membership fee along with their application form by Friday, Sept. 4th at 4:30 pm. Current members must submit their application form by Monday, Sept. 14th at 8:30 am. Should elections be necessary, they will be held at the Annual General Meeting of the CCAC for Huron on Tuesday, Sept. 15th at 7:00 pm in the Auditorium of the Health & Library Complex. All Members are welcome. For application form or further information, please contact: Carole Taylor, Chief Executive Officer Community Care Access Centre (or Huron R.R. #5, Clinton, Ont. NOM 1L0 Phone: (519) 482-3411 Fax: (519) 482-3382 Community Care Access Centre for Huron ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Board of Directors cordially invites you to attend the 2nd Annual General Meeting of the Community Care Access Centre (CCAC) for Huron on Tuesday, September 15th at 7:00 pm. This event will be held in the Auditorium of the Health & Library Complex, just south of Clinton on Hwy. #4 (road for Huronview). Please join is for refreshments and guest speakers including Jim Whaley, Exec. Director of the Grey Bruce Huron Perth District Health Council. For further information, please contact: Carole Taylor, Chief Executive Officer Community Care Access Centre for Huron R.R. #5, Clinton, Ont. NOM 11.0 Phone: (519)482-3411 Fax: (519) 482-3382 Atwood Lions Bingo every Thursday Doors open 6:30 p.m. Starts at 7:00 p.m. Jackpot $1,000. on 54 calls Pot of Gold $1,000. on 55 calls Looney Bin Ineffective Tuck Zoe for Dianne Black & Chris Malskaitis August 29,1998 at Belgrave Arena 8:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. Lunch Provided Age of Majority Required ms& rotor for BEN TERPSTRA & SANDY RIJKHOFF Elma Logan Arena, Monkton Friday, August 21, 1998 9-1 a.m. Music by "No Limit" D.J. Service Lunch Provided $6.00 per person For advance tickets please call (519) 887-6875 Everyone Welcome CAPITOL Eli TWIN CINEMA SURROUND SOUND STEREO LISTOWEL 2!I1-3070 STARTS FRIDAY CINEMA 1 7 AIR BUD: GOLDEN RECEIVER FA NI 11 11 9:00: THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY ,x.‘ CINEMA 2 7 & 9 SNAKE EYES NICOLAS C'AC'E AA MATINEES AN. 20.23 2 P.M. AIR BUD & MULAN Not recommended for children Brutal violence May offend some Coarse language FRI. - THURS. AUG. 21-27 7:30 PM NITELY LONG DISTANCE? CALL I-800-265443e FOR TOLL FREE MOVIE INFO THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1998. PA3E 19. Theatre Review `Night of the Iguana' tribute to Stratford's quality Night of the Iguana A stellar cast including (left to right) Seana McKenna, Geordie Johnson, William Needles and Lally Cadeau bring Tennesee Williams' The Night of the Iguana to life at Stratford Festival's Tom Patterson Theatre. By Bonnie Gropp Citizen staff The title character of Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana now appearing at Stratford's Tom Patterson Theatre, may only have a brief cameo, but his symbolic pres- ence is integral. Captured near the ramshackle Costa Verde hotel on a hilltop in a rainforest outside Acapulco, with the intent of being fattened for later • consumption, it is the iguana's struggle to be free that eventually defines the conditions of the four main characters. Lawrence Shannon, a minister who vehemently claims he was not defrocked, but rather locked out of his church, is tormented by his strong, yet conflicting moral and religious attitudes. When he sets the iguana free, he sees it as "play- ing God", because God would not do it himself. Shannon arrives at the Costa Verde as tour guide of a group of Baptist Female College Girls. Feverish and at the edge of a break- down from his dalliance with one of the tour's young charges, he arrives at the hotel looking simply for the peace it has brought him before. However, it is not part of the planned tour and his passengers and driver are irate. Meanwhile the hotel owner is now widowed and has designs on the less than enthusiastic Shannon. Tormented by his "ghost", given to panic attacks and threats of sui- cide by swimming to China, Shan- non is calmed somewhat by the arrival of Hannah, a struggling artist and her Nonno (grandfather), the worlds oldest, living, practising poet. Like others of Williams's works, the plotlines are more about human sadness than celebrations of life. This one, however, despite its still rather tragic ending, does seem to offer a more accepting tone of the consequences than one of misery. Williams's characters are com- plex in nature. They deliver profun- dity in witty and often lengthy dialogue. There is an intensity that one assumes would be draining. Geordie Johnson, as the not-so- good reverend, oozes sex appeal. His often biting commentary to those around him is tempered by a boyish charm. You are drawn to comfort him, his sadness being a tangible thing. Lally Cadeau is a brassy, larger- than-life Maxine Faulk, owner of Costa Verde. Cadeau softens her abrasiveness, without losing the hard edge. William Needles is a Nonno that we would all like to have known. He makes the glimpse into a failing mind one full of sympathy. And Blyth Festival alumni, Seana McKenna, was luminous in what could have been a bland role. As Hannah, whom Williams said was based on his grandmother "almost as a definition of what I think is most spiritually beautiful in a per- son and still believable", is reminis- cent of Katherine Hepburn. She reminds us that intelligence is sexy. As Judith Fellowes, the leader of the Baptist girls, Patricia Collins is shrill and detestable. Providing some hedonistic vul- garity was a quartet of honeymoon- ing Germans, Stephen Russell, Diane D'Aquila, Greg Bryk and Melinda Deines, whose favourite pastime, beyond that of the flesh, was listening in good humour to the radio reports of the London blitz. •Rounding out the cast were Xuan Fraser and Zaib Shaikh as Pedro and Pancho, Robert Persichini as the bus driver, Anne Ross as Char- lotte Goodall, the innocent seduc- tress and Bernard Hopkins as Jake Latta, who comes to rescue the tour group. Director Antoni Cimolino keeps the story flowing and makes excel- lent use of the stage. With seats cir- cling it, the play is staged so that even when dialogue is delivered Wingham theatre gets new management A new management team has been named by the Board of Man- agers .of Wingham's Town Hall Heritage Theatre to replace Cliff Edwards who resigned as manag- er/producer in June. Gary and Janice Ballagh and Evelyn Tanner have all been involved with the theatre since the beginning of the Prime Time Coun- try shows and have been involved with the evolution of the town hall into a theatre. They will be in charge of managing, booking acts, promoting shows and producing popular Primetime Country shows. The board approached the Bal- laghs with the proposition to man- age the theatre and, after some negotiation, they agreed to a team approach because of the time com- mitment involved. BUCK & DOE PAUL MACHAN & JANICE DIXON Sat., August 29th, 1998 9:00 p.m. 'til 1:00 a.m. Music by DJ BMG Community Centre Brussels - Tickets $5.00 For tickets call 887-9078 or available at door with back turned to one side of the audience, another actor is placed facing them. Set design by Guido Tondino is minimal, but effective. Lighting designer Steven Hawkins and sound designer Peter McBoyle create an absolutely remarkable tropical storm that has you thinking of running for cover. The Night of the Iguana is a trib- ute to the quality of work produced at Stratford. Excellent production and solid acting enhance a strong script that deals with the struggle of being all-too-human. .P6 aik