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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 2004. PAGE 23.
Entertainment
Theatre review
Leisure
Jokes hit close to home in Johns' new play
By Sarah Mann
Special to The Citizen
Ted Johns is known for creating
plays in Blyth that centre around the
everyday doings of locals and
Cricket and Claudette is no
exception as audience members are
taken to the dump - drama 'and
all.
Claudette, played by. Shauna
Black, is a newly-minted engineer
and part of the "garbage gestapo".
She is in charge of overseeing a
Huron County landfill and making
sure that the changes needed because
of amalgamation are being made.
She arrives to find Cricket, played
by Adrian Churchill, filling in for
Speed, played by Festival favourite
Jerry Franken, who is, in turn, filling
in for Bridey (Janet Amos).
As with everything in a small
town, the dump is not without its
controversy as Speed, who also
happens to be dating Bridey, is
suspected of using the Misty River
dating service and Cricket, who is
Bridey's nephew, starts to ogle
Claudette (or as Speed likes to call
her, Rambo).
The most likeable character in this
play is Cricket, who, although
uneducated, comes up with
shockingly thoughtful and insighful
perspectives. He is easily amused
and takes pleasure in the more
simple things in life , like making art
out of garbage.
This play has many funny
moments such as when Speed
explains how, after returning from a
Communities in Blooms meeting,
"it's about the flowers but it's also
about your dump".
"Underneath the gardening club is
an iron fist," he says.
There were times when I found
Brussels punk rock band Perish is
returning for their first hometown
show in five years.
Over the last few years, three of
the group members, Joshua Gropp
and Rob McKercher (both from
Brussels) and Tom Ireland from
Teeswater have been busy attending
school and improving their musical
craft. McKercher and Ireland
attended the Studio Engineering
program at the Ontario Institute of
Audio Recording Technology, and
Gropp is entering his second year in
the Jazz Guitar program at Humber
College.
The band recently added a lead
vocalist, Blyth's Shaun Henry and
have been fostering their live act
with regular performances over the
summer in venues from Kitchener to
Lucknow and Goderich.
The group will be performing on
Saturday, Aug. 28 at the Brussels
Legion. The show will be from 1 - 6
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myself a little confused about the
subplot with Corky (the previous
dump supervisor) but it was the
premiere and it's nothing a little
tweeking couldn't fix.
I was laughing out loud during
many parts of this play and as
director Heinar Piller said in a
statement, "if it wasn't true, it
wouldn't be funny."
p.m. with an, admission cost of $5
per person..
Perish will be joined by three other
And the man sitting beside me
agreed as he remarked, "I live right
across from the dump, I know how
the dump works".
It's this honesty and ability to turn
the everyday into art that makes Ted
Johns a Blyth Festival favou-
rite.
Cricket and Claudette runs at the
theatre until Sept. 4.
bands, Distrot (from Teeswater),
Dramaturg (from Kitchener) and Eye
In Me (from Wallaceburg).
Local band set to play
irst home show in 5 years