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The Citizen, 2001-09-05, Page 30glectppy 5Oth Birtfiday Murray on September 5 Happg 40th Anniversary The Family of Don & Marilyn Craig invite you to an Open House and Barbeque to celebrate their 40th Anniversary on Sunday September 16, 2001 at the farm (40182 Moncrieff Rd.) Open House 2 4 pm Barbeque 5 pin R.S.V.P. to (519) 523-4932 Please bring lawn chairs Seed saving time at Doon On Saturday, Sept. 15 from 9 a.m. includes all materials. to noon, Doon Heritage Crossroads On Thursday event, Sept. 20 will be holding a Seed Saving from 7- p.m. to 9 p.m. come to Doon Workshop. Join Dodrr's head gar- Heritage Crossroads for an evening dener and learn the art and science of Apple Tasting. Historic and mod- of seed saving. ern apple breeds will be featured and Amy Jones will conduct this participants will sample a wide vari- hands-on workshOp using the her- ety of flavours and apple treats. itage gardens on Doon's property as Learn how to store and serve apples her resource. This workshop will and explore their history. Cost is $8 include methods for controlling pol- per ticket per person for the Apple lination and will demonstrate how to Tasting Workshop, which includes properly harvest and store seeds. all materials. Participants will be invited to gather Participants must pre-register for seeds from the historic gardens to both workshops by phoning--748- take home. Cost is $5 per person for 1914. the Seed Saving Workshop, which 1-866-848-3259 For more information Ph o to by Ch e s s - Le e St u di o 40"1 atutiaetto,attv The family of John and Leona Johnston invite you to a Come & Go to celebrate their 40th Anniversary on Sunday, September 16th, 2001 from 2-4 at MOlesworth Presbyterian Church Best wishes onlV PAGE 30. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2001. Stratford to open new Studio Theatre in 2002 The Stratford Festival of Canada will open a fourth theatre in its 50th season in 2002. Artistic Director Richard Monette describes the new 250-seat Studio Theatre as "an exploration space for artists." To be built as an additional component to the existing Avon Theatre, the Studio Theatre auditori- um will echo the design of the larger Festival Theatre, with a modified thrust stage and seating on three sides. Productions there will "con- centrate on the text and the acting," Monette explained. The theatre will be a home for new works, for experimental work and for productions of rarely produced classics, with 11 plays set for the 2002 playbill. In time, musical and children's programming will also be added to the mix. "It gives us a chance to share with our audience work that's rarely seen, or that's exploratory, in such an inti- mate setting," Monette said, empha- sizing that the Studio Theatre v, ill not be limited by any particular man- date; rather, it is a space open to all possibilities, "a place where artists' imaginations can run free." The new theatre has been made possible by the support of two cou- ples with long Festival associations: Raphael and Jane Bernstein. and Jim and Sandra Pitblado. Each couple has donated $1 million to the project. "It's because of their involvement that the Studio Theatre has become a reality," said Antoni Cimolino, the Festival's executive director, who points out this is a "wonderful, his- toric occasion for the Festival — the The Stratford Festival's highly successful run of The Sound of Music, with Cynthia Dale as Maria Rainer and C. David Johnson as Captain von Trapp, has been extend- ed by one week. The Festival Theatre production was scheduled to run until Nov. 4, but will now close on Sunday, Nov. I I. CUrrently, attendance has reached 154,000 — almost 15,000 greater than ticket sales this time last year for Fiddler on the Roof, the highest attended production in the Festival's history. The additional dates for The The Stratford-Perth Museum is presenting the opening of the newest exhibit, The •Perth Regiment: 100 Years of Service on SatUrday, Sept. 8 from 12 -,5 p.m. The exhibit cele- brates the history of this local regi- ment whose members participated in both World War I and World War H. On display will be uniforms, pho- tographs, metals and other items col- lected by these honoured veterans. To celebrate the opening the first time in 30 years, since we opened what's now the Tom Patterson Theatre in 1971. that we have launched a new theatre space." He believes the new theatre will enrich the Stratford Festival experi- ence "for our current audience, and also help us develop new audi- ences." The new venue is a long-time dream of Monette's, one shared by many of his predecessors at the Stratford Festival. "Most of the artis- tic directors have wanted a studio- style theatre to do work they could- n't do otherwise at the Festival," he says. "The sheer size of our larger venues — 1,800 seats at the Festival Theatre 1,100 seats at the Avon and nearly 500 seats at the Tom Patterson — limits the kind of programming we can do in them." In its inaugural season in 2002, the Studio Theatre will present II plays — three full-length offerings and eight one-act plays that will be paired into four programmes. The programming will showcase.-"eStab- fished authors' rarely done work along with fresh new work," says Andrey Tarasiuk, the Festival's Director of New Play Development. After the Studio season wraps up in October, a playwriting conference will be hosted at the site. The building of the Studio Theatre will be led by architect Elizabeth Davidson, of Davidson-Langley Inc. Architects. The spirit of this new the- atre could be the Roman god Janus, Monette says, "one of whose faces looks back, the other forward. I'm excited by the open-ended possibili- Sound of Music are as follows: Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2 p.m. (Senior); Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2 p.m. (Student); Thursday, Nov. 8, 2 p.m. (Senior); Friday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m. (Regular); Saturday, Nov. 10, 2 p.m. (Regular); Sunday. Nov. I 1, 2 p.m. (Regular). Designated student and senior per- formances offer discount prices starting at $22.65 for students and $31.65 for seniors. The Family Experience discount programme also applies to all of these .dates, allowing an adult purchasing one regularly-priced ticket to buy up to Museum will have demonstrations by the Perth Regiment Re-enactors, vignettes by Lesley Walker- Fitzpatrick of Fair Play Works, a dis- play from the War Amps, a collection of historic Military Toys and chil- dren's activities. The opening will be in honour of the Perth Regiment Members who will be celebrating their anniversary that weekend. All veterans are invit- ed to join free of charge to view this ties of this space, where new plays and new writers wil.l.co-exist with work springing directly from our classical roots." The Studio Theatre will be launched on July 13, 2002 — the anniversary of the Festival's inaugu- ral opening night — with Monette directing The Mandrake, a comedy by Niccolo Machiavelli, the Renaissance Italian statesman :,and political philosopher now best known for his treatise The Prince. This will be followed by The Two Noble Kinsmen, a seldom-performed play by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher that will be presented by alumni of the Stratford Festival Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training and directed by the Conservatory Principal, David Latham. This will be the first full production of this plays in the Stratford Festival's 50 seasons. The final full-length play is a pre- miere of The Death of Cupid, part one of a trilogy titled The Swanne by noted Canadian director and dra- maturge Peter Hinton. The Montreal- based Mr. Hinton, who will also direct the play, describes his trilogy as a romance about Queen Victoria — "not a biography, but a speculation about who she might have been: what she might -have imagined before becoming Queen." Five of the one-act plays are new works commissioned from Canadian playwrights by the Festival. Renowned author Timothy Findley. whose plays The Stillborn Lover Elizabeth Rex and The Trials of Ezra Pound have previously graced the two youth tickets for just $26.15 each. The Sound of Music features music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, with book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. This claSsic musical is inspired by the real-life story of the Trapp Family Singers, who tied Nazi-occupied Austria before the outbreak of the Second World War. For more information or to pur- chase tickets, please call the Stratford Festival's Box Office at I - 800-567-1600 or visit our website at www.stratfordfestival.ca incredible piece of Perth County his- tory. The cost for the event is $3.75 for adults, $3.25 for students (13 - 18 years) and seniors, and $1.50 for children (12 and under). It will take place at the Museum located at 270 Water St. in Stratford. For more information, contact the Museum at 519-271-5311 or email spmuseum@cyg.net .91bi Please Recycle To This Newspaper Festival's stages, returns with a new one-act play, Shadows, in which the interrelationships and histories of a group of people at a dinner party slowly emerge from the shadows of the past. The remaining four authors, all under 35 years of age, represent a broad spectrum of new writing talent in Canada. Festival actor Paul Dunn is writing High-Gravel-Blind, a story of a son disguising his identity when the young man's king-estranged father ;shows up at the door. Anton Piatigorsky, a Toronto- based writer who won a Dora Mayor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play in the Independent Theatre cat- egory in 1999 and who was nominat- ed in that same category in 2000 and 2001, is writing The Modernist for the new Studio Theatre. This play tells the story of the creation and rediscovery, 60 years apart, of a modernist novel. Walk- Right Up, Celia McBride's new one-act work about three grown siblings faced with their aging par- ents' needs, has also been commis- sioned for the Studio Theatre. A Montrealer and a graduate of the National Theatre School playwriting programme, McBride came recom- mended to the Festival by a wide range of theatre experts across Canada. And finally, Ian Ross, a Manitoba writer of Metis background whose play fare We! won the 1997 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, is writing Bereav'd of Light. Set in 18th-century America, this play tells the story of an escaped slave's jour- ney to freedom with the help of an Ojibway warrior. Dance For Fitness Dance For Fun Join The Huron County Cloggers Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced Classes ALL AGES ARE WELCOMED! Starting Tuesday, October 2 at the Seaforth & District Community Centres Wednesday, October 3, 2001 at the Brussels, Morris & Grey Community Centre (Beginner Class only at Brussels) For more information call Sherry McCall @ 527-1307 Perth Regiment remembered Stratford extends 'Sound of Music' run