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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2001-06-13, Page 23FRI. & SAT. 6:45 & 9:15 PM SUN. - THURS. 8 PM EVOLUTION w.w c-vt ICJalic Coming to wipe that silly smile 1 off your planet. • PARK THEATRE * ile- GODERICH 524-7811 FRI. - THURS. JUNE 15 -21 FRI. & SAT. 6:45 & 9:15 PM SUN. - THURS. 8 PM f 4# 4. 114 PG A 1:11,E4-4 .6nblaidetonaw.e.zprA WARNING OF VOILENCE LONG DISTANCE? CALL 1-800-255-3438 FOR TOLL FREE MOVIE INFO The family • of Jack & Elva 6 NZ) Armstrong cordially invites p friends and relatives to an Open House Sunday June 24, 2001 Auburn Community Hall 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. Best Wishes Only 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 Is,P 1 Tpl KEB TWIN CINEMA SURROUND SOUND STEREO EISTOWEE 291-3070 STARTS FRIDAY CINEMA I 7:30 p.m. PEARL AA HARBOUR CINEMA 2 7 P.M. PG SEXUAL THE ANIMAL CONTENT ROB SCHNEIDER MAY LANGUAGE OFFEND 9 P.M. BRIDGET AA JONES DIARY 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. Please Recycle `(..fsd This Newspaper a a a M a IM a a a a a a Blyth Festival season welcomes the familiar and the new Gallery exhibit opens Friday Spy games Actor Peter Donaldson is tricked into wearing yellow socks and smiling by three enemies, actors Paul Dunn, James Blendick and Michael Therriault at Stratford Festival's Twelfth Night. 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