The Citizen, 2006-06-08, Page 23Buck & Doe
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THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 2006. PAGE 23.
Founding artistic director speaker at opening
Artistic director Eric Coates
announced Monday that Founding
Artistic Director James Roy will be
the opening night speaker at the
Blyth Festival's opening night
dinner. June 29.
After that first season in 1975, the
audience responded most positively
to the Canadian production Mostly in
Clover, setting the mandate to
produce exclusively Canadian plays,
with a focus on developing plays
Pack 8 0o6
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MIKE COURTNEY
& JENN SHORT
Saturday, June 10
9 pm - 1 am
Blyth Community Centre
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Tickets
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Nick Courtney 523-4476 or 523-9305
Derek Cook 523-9040
that speak to our rural southwestern
Ontario audience.
"It's most appropriate that James
be our guest on Opening this season
— a season where we are celebrating
our 100th world premiere," said
Coates.
Roy began his theatrical career in
1975 at the age of 22 when he
founded the Blyth Festival. Between
1980 and 1986 James was artistic
director of the Belfry Theatre in
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As a freelance director, he
has staged plays for many
theatres across the country,
including Halifax's Neptune
Theatre, the Citadel Theatre in
Edmonton and the Centaur Theatre
in Montreal.
Roy joined CBC Radio Arts and
Entertainment in 1990, where he is
currently the area executive
producer, with responsibility for
radio drama. Among the writers he
has produced in recent years are
.Beverley Cooper, Judith Thompson,
George F. Walker, Michel Tremblay,
Emil Sher and Jason Sherman.
His productions have won gold
medals at the New York International
Blyth Festival's artistic director
Eric Coates announced Monday that
Blyth's long-standing relationship
with Japan continues with the
newest translation of a Canadian
play that premiered at the Blyth
Festival.
Another Season's Promise by
Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston is
the third... following The Tomorrow
Box and Quiet in the Land, both
penned by Anne Chislett. A theatre
company by the name of Mingei
(Peoples' Arts Theatre) is expressing
keen interest in producing it in their
2007-8 season. Mingei is one of the
three largest theatre companies in
Japan with a 60-year history and 190
company members'.
Another Season's Promise, a play
that .addressed the challenges in
Canadian farming, premiered at the
Blyth Festival in 1986, was
remounted in 1987, and departed on
a successful tour to Edmonton in the
fall of 1987. -
"We're excited to be bringing the
sequel to this great play to the stage
this summer:' says Coates. "While
current farming challenges include
the BSE and closed borders, Another
Season's Harvest will leave viewers
with a sense of hope and inspiration
to unite with one voice."
And, coincidentally, a group of
Bunkaza artists and their supporters
are coming to Blyth from Japan to
see a preview of Another Season's
Harvest on Aug. 3 prior to departing
on Aug. 4 to perform at Powell
Street Festival, (a Japanese
Canadians' Annual Get-Together) in
Vancouver on Aug. 5 and 6.
The Japanese guests will be
staying at local homes from Aug. 2 -
4. If you're interested in billeting
guests on Wednesday and Thursday
evenings, contact Jane Gardner at
the Blyth Festival, 523-9300, ext
Radio Festival and at the Gabriel
Awards.
Last fall he left radio drama for
four months to lead the CBC team
that launched Radio One on Sirius
Satellite Radio.
In his spare time. Roy has co-
translated (with Yoshi Yoshihara)
four contemporary Japanese plays
into English. Two of these,
Kanishibetsu and Ninguls, by
renowned Japanese playwright, Soh
Kuramoto, have toured across
Canada in productions by
Kuramoto's Japanese company, The
Furano Natural Studio. Another,
Funny-Faced Ogre, has been
produced by the Blyth Festival
Young Company and the Gateway
Theatre in Richmond, B.C.
Roy lives in Toronto with his wife,
204.
Another Season's Harvest
previews at the Blyth Festival on
Aug. 2. For ticket information visit
our website at
www.blythfestival.com or call the
box office at 519-523-9300.
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Lynda Hill, and two children —
Quinn and Tesse.
Tickets are still available for the
Opening Night • Dinner and
performance of The Ballad of
Stompin' Tom, June 29. Call the box
office at 519-523-9300 or visit the
website at www.blythfestival.com
for ticket information.
Public Notice Inviting
Family & Friends to attend
STAG AND DOE
for Melissa Snowden
& Kevin Scott
Saturddy, June 17, 2006
9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Belgrave Arena
Music by D.J. - Lunch Provided
Age of Majority Tickets S5 or $7 at Door
Phone Jodi for Tickets: 357-1236
Unattended
cooking is
the number
one cause of
home fires.
Royally thanked
Amy McCrea received a special letter recently. McCrea, who
celebrated her birthday exactly one month before Queen
Elizabeth II marked her 80th, had sent the monarch
birthday card. "My mother was from England and she had
always sent them cards for special occasions," said McCrea.
A letter arrived from Buckingham Palace addressed to
McCrea and her husband Ralph. It stated: "The Queen
wishes me to write and thank you both for the lovely card
which you have sent on the occasion of her 80th birthday.
Her Majesty has been very touched by the response to her
special birthday and I am to thank you so much for your
good wishes which The Queen greatly appreciates." It was
signed by the Queen's "Lady-in-Waiting". (Bonnie Gropp photo°
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