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Scene - Cheryl
Blyth Festival's
—.row
Suarts and Stephen Walsh are two of the stars of
Mail Order Bride.
'Mail Order Bride'
last play of season
By Wayne Proctor
BLYTH - It's 1954, or 1952,
1941, 1924, 1918, 1916, or 1908
in Southern Saskatchewan.
So many time changes in an
hour -and -a -half play done through
flashback scenes without much ex-
planation as to why, makes Robert
Clinton's Mail Order Bride a little
hard to follow but is its only real
flaw.
The 1989 production of Mail
Order Bride, opened at the Blyth
Festival last Wednesday night.
Mail Order Bride is the story of a
young hot -shot World War II pilot
named Russell Teeter, who reluc-
tantly comes back to claim his
grandmother's belongings at her
house in the southern prairies,
which is about to be torn down af-
ter her death.
He runs into an old crazy neigh-
bor Harold English, (Stephen
Walsh), who proceeds to teach
Teeter about the history of the
house and how his grandmother had
to become a mail order bride. Teet-
er learned how difficult it was for
his grandmother to come half way
across the country to marry a man
half her age, and the circumstances
of her mother's leaving home after
the death of her brother during a flu
epidemic.
There are a number of lessons to
be learned from this play, some of
which are effectively done through
symbolism with the tough prairie
wends which English is trying to
plant around the house. He wanted
the house to look good even
though it is about to be demo-
lished.
The weeds, like the people in the
play, need nourishing if they are to
grow. Although Teeter didn't want
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anything to do with his grandmoth-
er's things, he soon came to appre-
ciate the difficulties his mother and
grandmother had to face through
Engish's teachings.
The setting is the Teeter family
farm, from the time his grandmoth-
er first got there to the present. Al-
though the set is constant through
the play, time change is achieved
very effectively through the differ-
ent lighting.
Walsh, a newcomer to Blyth,
gives a very convincing perfor-
mance as crazy -old English. Win-
slow comes across very well as the
abrasive, brash Teeter. He is very
reminiscent of another abrasive
character in looks and performance,
Scan Penn.
Katia De Pena, playing the title
role to perfection, looked very
much like a old -maid school teacher
from the east, who came half way
across the country to marry a man
she had never met.
Although the play is a thought-
provoking one, there is also much
humor interspersed throughout.
Much of it comes from English. He
stands alone several times on stage
and talks with the audience, getting
them involved as if they are part of
the play, very much like it is ad
libbed when it is in fact all part of
Clinton's script. When he pointed
at me and asked me what I thought
of his flowers it made me feel like I
was part of the play.
This is the second time Mail Or-
der Bride has come to Blyth. The
first was near the start of last year,
but it concludes this season's series
of plays.
Bride lacks the pizzaz of Dream-
land or the flair of Perils of Perse-
phone, but it is still a fine night of
entertainment.
Mail Order Bride runs in conjunc-
tion with Perils. at Blyth until Sun-
day and will complete its run by it-
self after that until September 16.
Bart DeVries
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Mr. and Mrs. Peter Parsons
Terri Lee, daughter of Robert
Dobson, London and Peter
Lloyd, son of Doug and Norma
Parsons, Exeter, were united in
marriage on August 12, 1989
at the Exeter United Church.
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ville W.Va., and Claire and Wino-
na Hoffman, Exeter, Ont. were
united in marriage on June 24,
1989 at Trinity United Metho-
dist Church, Glenville W.Va.
The ceremony was, officiated by
Rev. Patricia Jarvis, Wheeling,
W.Va and Rev. Peggy Hurlbutt,
Glenville, W.Va. Kevin Evans of
Baton Rouge, La., brother of
the bride, escorted Kimberly to
the alter. Attending the bride
were matron of honour Kelly Os-
borne, Blackburg Va., friend of
the bride, bridesmaids Beth Car -1
penter, Burlington, N.C., friend
of the, bride, Denise Santa Lu-
cia, Weston W.Va., cousin of
the bride, Karen Hoffman, Lon-
don, Ont. sister of the groom
and jr. bridesmaid Heather Jo
Deal, Sciotville, Oh., friend of
the bride. Attending the groom
were best man Robert Hoffman,
London, Ont. brother of the
groom, ushers Ian Hart, Scarbo-
rough, Ont, Derek Ferris, Toron-
to, Ont. and Paul McAuley,
Cambridge, Ont. friends of the
groom. Jr. usher was Matthew
Nicholson, Glenville W.Va,
friend of the bride. After a hon-.
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the couple reside in Hatties-
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both attend the University of
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