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Huron Expositor, 2007-08-08, Page 18Page 18 The Huron Expositor • August 8, 2007 News Blyth play about folk artist Maud Lewis is heartbreaking Aaron J a c k l i n The Blyth Festival's World Without Shadows is as sad as itis touching. Directed by Gil Garratt and written by Lance Woolaver, the play's about real life folk artist Maud Lewis and her husband Ev, played by Anne Anglin and Randy Hughson. They live in a shack in Nova Scotia, cleverly depicted on stage in a way that makes their poverty obvious from the start. Most of the stage is taken up by the shack itself, while the remaining space is the area around the structure and includes a tree. Two walls are neces- sarily missing from the shack to let the audience see in, but this also visually reinforces how useless the walls are at keeping the cold out. Maud paints on pieces of wooden board - and sometimes cardboard - in the shack and Ev sells them. The world referred to in the play's title isn't just the world depicted in Maud's paintings. It's also the world as she sees it. Though stooped and twisted in body } Happy 35th Anniversary Della & John Bennett August 5, 2007 „ ti `7r, -„A DEBBIE (Barry) BEDARD 14,610 days old but who's counting 11TH ANNUAL EXETER RODEO 2007 South Huron Recreation Centre Saturday, August 11. Sunday, August' 12 Show Times – 2:00 pm Rain or Shine Admission Adults -515.00 Child—$10.00 Under 5 years—$3.00 With Love, Your Family A BAR K RODEO Friday. Auaust 10 • Refreshment area open 7:00 pm • Free evenng for the entire family 8:00 pm - 1:00 am Dodge Challenge followed by live entertainment in the tent • Visit our friendly downtown merchants open 9:00 pm Saturday. August 11 • Vendor & Refreshment area open 12:00 noon • A Bar K Rodeo—Wheel Chair accessible 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm • Slack --Competitors not in show compete for points 4:30 pm • 6:00 pm • 8X 93 Video Dance 9:00 pm • 1:00 am South Huron Recreation Centre, Arena Floor— Admission—$10.00 Sunday. August 12 • • • Vendor: Wakem& For details call Don at 519 229-6782 1 Country Style Brunch 8:00 am - 1:00 pm South Huron Recreation Centre HaN, Everyone welcome' South Huron Trail Run 9:00 am Slack—Competitors not in show compete for points Vendor & Refreshment area open Bessie Bingo A Bar K Rodeo --Wheel chair accessible Intermission—Gng-Lyn Stables Precision Riding Teem DODGE ah' SAVE $3 "O 10:00 - 12:00 Noon 12:00 Noon 12:30 pm 2:00 pm -4:00 pm 2:45 pm ALBERTA PREMIUM al partrlprwq Jahn Nave a • u7• ti and wW.r IRio, RYE For information on the EXETER I)OI)GE 'TRUCK RODEO please call the South Iluron Recreation Centre at (519) 235-2833 shuronrecAtown.southhuron.on.ca JOHN DEERE a�O1�GE GRAB LIFE BY THE HORNS! Terry Manzo photo Ev Lewis (Randy Hughson) takes care of his wife Maud (Anne Anglin) in this scene from World Without Shadows by Lance Woolaver, playing in repertory at the Blyth Festival until September 1, 2007. by age and birth defects and poverty, the audience to bear. Maud's spirit isn't broken. Hughson's Ev is a crusty old coot that Anglin's performance doesn't tug on collects adjectives like he does money. He heartstrings; it saws on them like a rusty is by turns suspicious, cheerful, greedy, steak knife. She skillfully conveys both lazy, pitiful, cynical, caring, loathsome, the suffering that limits Maud and the and hilarious - often all at once. innocence that shines through and The play revolves around the relation - makes the suffering all the harder for ship between the two, which is examined not only through observing them alone at home in their tiny shack but through the eyes of the local judge, a neighbour and his son and the woman who runs the store. 'The judge' - who is well played by Robert B. Kennedy - narrates the story, adding a sense of tragedy to the whole thing because he knows what's going to happen in the end and from the first line in the first scene, the audience can tell that it won't be cheerful. World Without Shadows runs until Sept. 1. 21iPLItA PM1Aa'8 DP1)3Ka87 SATURDAY, AUGUST 11TH lam -11am Come join us for Breakfast at the Firehall Then Browse through the ©jjy G�7li CIO C��Pa�J@ ��10@�3 Toss are Cordia jr hailed to gala ow Teri& tpr Cekkatiew the 25g Anniversary open Mouse of ailed gforia Ways* Saturday, August 11th, 2007 1 pm-4pm JG► 42369 Blyth Road R.R. # 1, Walton, Ontario MCL SOUND FULL DJ SERVICE Book YOUR RECEprioNS, BO( k & DOES EARIy1 JOAN McLeodk ",1 CliNroN 9-482-9984