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Huron Expositor, 2007-09-12, Page 20Page 20 The Huron Expositor • September 12, 2007 News Local kids perform in Wireless at Blyth Festival Aaron J a c k l i n 1111111111111111 An original play called Wireless pre- miered at the Blyth Festival Young Company this week with young actors and actresses from all over the area. Marissa Scott, 12, of Seaforth, is one of them. "I heard about it last year," she said, explaining she'd taken a workshop h����-�r� �► �l NS 91 7,, Rj -J� GREENHOUSE Professional Landscape Designer 25% Perennials including hostas & omamenta rass S -?-4A A+) r 100s of spectacular tall mums OPEN: Mon. & Tues. 1 pm - 5 pm Wed. - Closed Thurs. 1 pm - 5 pm Fri. & Sat. 9 am - 5 pm Sun. - Closed or by appointment Come see me at the Seaforth Twilight Tunes Market ktj, %1) RR # Walton J l� ( 519-527-0761 Bert & Carol Reinink & family i 43079 Hullett-McKillop Rd. 4 with the Blyth theatre and would have signed up for the Young Company then but was too young. "This year I decided I'd go for it and here I am in it," she said. Theatre is something that's interest- ed the Grade 7 Seaforth Public School student for a while, having taken part in a theatre camp run by her cousin Shannon Scott two years ago in Goderich. For Wireless, Scott says they worked 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Monday to Friday for several weeks through August. "We started out with warmups and some voice warmups," she says. "We did some dramatic games and then we got monologues and had to start mem- orizing. our monologues." She says they helped each other memorize their monologues, which together makes up the play. "Then, as we got more into it we started with warmups and then all we did was monologues." Scott says she met a lot of interest- ing people, each with their own cre- ative way of expressing themselves. She gives an example of a warmup exercise where they would pass a small object around and everyone would have to make their own sound or move- ment to express what the object is. "It's really cool to see how every- one can make their own sound and how everyone can create it so fast," she says. "They tell us not to think too far ahead, to just see what Body Basics By Jen *peep Muscle Therapy *Reflexology OReiki *Ear Candling t Jaw", McCtirtdtsy 79 Nelson St Hen:all 519-262-2952 SEAFORTH 519-527-0120 EXETER 519-235-2121 www.teamvincent.com Seniors' XERCISE CLASSES Tuesdays and Fridays 9-10 a.m. Seaforth Agriplex For more info call Cheryl at 519-482-9264 Town and Country Support Services submitted photo Blyth Festival Young Company premieres Wireless this week, until Sept. 15. From left to right (back row): Charlie Anderson, Becca Beardsley, Sarrah Sholdice, Lisa Miller, Veronica Tyndall, Curtis TeBrinke, Haley Hunt. Middle row (left): Brett Brownlee, Ellerey Lorentz, Liese Bomath, Amelia Maclsaac, Marissa Scott, Aislinn Bremner, Taryn Jantzi and in front, Heather Thompson. comes to mind." Scott thinks audiences will be impressed and will laugh a lot. Brett Brownlee, 14, of Dublin, is one of the actors and he plays himself, which he finds a little strange to do. "You've got to make up your own character, but you kind of work with it and it works out to be really good in the end," he says. "You have to be yourself." While this is his first time on stage with the Blyth Festival, the Grade 9 MDHS student played Pooh Bah, one of the lead characters in Upper Thames' production of The Mikado last year in Mitchell when he was in the eighth grade. "Wireless focuses on the role of technology in today's society," says a Festival press release. 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According to a release from the Festival, the piece was also developed through writing done in workshops held at local high schools and drama festivals last spring. The Company is under the guidance of director Andrea Donaldson, who is returning as director for the second time after last year's Young Company production What's Your Nature?, and writer Gil Garratt. Garratt has also been an actor, a director on the main - stage (Spirit of the Narrows, World Without Shadows) and Young Company director at the Festival. The Young Company is made up of 17 youths from all over the area who range in age from 12 to 19. Other company members are Curtis TeBrinke, Haley Hunt, Sarrah Sholdice, Heather Thompson, Liese Bomath, Amelia Maclsaac, Johannes Knap and Veronica Tyndall, of Clinton; Dan Moran and Rebecca Beardsley, of Wingham; Ellerey Lorentz and Aislinn Bremner, of Blyth; and Charlie Anderson of Exeter. Wireless premiered yesterday (Sept. 11) and runs until Sept. 15 in the Garage Studio, Dinsley Street East in Blyth. Performances begin at 7 p.m. each day. Tickets are $10 and are available at the Blyth Festival box office and at the door. For more information, contact the Blyth Festival at 519-523-9300.