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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2001. PAGE 23.
Entertainment& Leisure
Theatre review
Stratford's 'Twelfth Night' drags on
By Mark Nonkes
Citizen staff
If Twelfth Night had been any
longer it would have been 12 at
night.
Stratford Festival's Shakesperean
play Twelfth Night played on for just
over three hours, leaving audience
members begging for the show to
end.
The comedy begins with a young
woman, Viola, turning up on shore
from a shipwreck. She lands in a
place where people are all a little
mad, a place where people are
obsessed with love.
Viola decides to turn herself into a
male, in service as a messenger to a
man who is in love with Olivia.
Olivia has two other suitors after
her, both willing to do just about
The 2001 Blyth Festival company
is jam-packed with many of the
Festival's favourite directors, actors
and designers as well as many new
faces who have travelled from as far
as Halifax and Vancouver to join the
the Blyth Festival team.
Paul Thompson has directed and
conceived another . collective piece,
The Outdoor Donnellys. Former
artistic director Janet Amos has been
busy creating the community scenes
and later in the summer will be back
to star as Mum in Norah Harding's
Sometime, Never.
Blyth Festival's Associate Artistic
Director Eric Coates joins the cast as
Will Donnelly and later takes on the
role of director in the musical Cruel
Tears.
Layne Coleman, artistic director
of Theatre Passe Muraille in
Toronto, was last seen in Blyth's
2000 production of The Drawer Boy.
This year Coleman will be directing
Positive/Negative is an exhibition
of original artwork by illustrator and
designer Scott McKowen and print,
maker Gerard flrender a Brandis.
The show runs from Monday, June
11 until Friday, July 7.
Scott McKowen has combined his
skills as a graphic designer with a
strong talent for drawing and a long-
time theatre background to establish
a career specializing in theatre
posters and graphics for the perform-
ing arts. He has designed publica-
tions for theatres in Canada and the
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anything for he, affections.
But Olivia wants none of it, and
when Viola visits, dressed as a
young man, Olivia falls head over
heels in love with him.
This is the basis of the play. There
are four other subplots, some very
hilarious, others sappy.
One particularly hilarious moment
comes when actor Michael
Therriault first arrives on stage.
With wild jumps and dance moves,
the melodramatic character of Sir
Andrew Aguecheek, tries to capture
Olivia's attention. As a supporting
character Therriault steals the show.
Other strong performances come
from Michelle Giroux as Olivia,
Tara Rosling as Viola and Canadian
legend William Hutt as the singing
Feste.
This is a show that was funny for
Keith Roulston's continuing saga of
a hapless village cop -
McGillicuddy. This is particularly
fitting as Coleman played the char-
acter of McGillicuddy on the Blyth
stage 22 years ago in Roulston's hit
McGillicuddy's Lost Weekend.
Long time Festival favourite Ted
Johns will portray an unlikely
Romeo in The Passion of Narcisse
Mondoux.
Cruel Tears heralds the return of
Michelle Fisk for her fourth consec-
utive season. Bev Elliott (There's
Nothing in the Paper) is joining Fisk
and Adrienne Wilson (That Summer)
to re-create Canada's classic musical
that swept the country in the
1970s.
The Blyth Festival welcomes to
the Blyth stage many well-known
talents from television and radio.
Michael Hogan (Cold Squad) and
Susan Hogan (Night Heat) will be
playing Garland Moyle and the
United States.
As a teenager Brender a Brandis
began drawing and painting because
he wanted to have original art on the
walls and believed "I would never be
able to buy it."
He made the kind of pictures that
he wanted for myself, and that is
what he continues to do.
the first two hours. A show that has
the audience howling about yellow
stocks and a cowardly fencing dual.
However, about half way into the
second act the show starts to
drone.
It is a show that could have used
some trimming on some of the more
serious parts to make it a bit more
quick paced. The climax and resolu-
tion of the story lasts for about half
an hour, simply too long.
Twelfth Night is a show that hit the
audience with laughter. When the
actors took their final bow some
people stood and clapped, happy
with a night of entertainment.
Others scrambled out of the theatre,
tired of the show.
At least Twelfth Night's title wasn't
taken literally, but three hours was
still too long.
Hagge in the whimsical mystery
Corner Green, a play by Canadian
legend Gordon Pinsent. Corner
Green is Pinsent's second play for
Blyth - his first being John and the
Missus nearly 20 years ago.
Rising Festival star Kate Hemblen
(Big Box,' When the Reaper Calls)
plays Garland's long lost love inter-
est.
It has just been announced that
Blyth has the good fortune to wel-
come Robyn Craig, star of CBC's
Wind at my Back to the cast of
Sometime, Never. Mary Long, of
CBC Radio's Rumours & Borders
joins the cast of The Passion of
Narcisse Mondoux. This will mark
her first performance on the Blyth
stage since 1977.
For more information of the Blyth
Festival's 2001 season and to pur-
chase tickets, contact the Blyth
Festival box office at 1-877-862-
5984.
Join the artists at the opening
Friday, June 15 at 4:45 at the Bainton
Gallery, Blyth.
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