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Times -Advocate, July 10, 1991
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Queensway News
HENSALL - The past two weeks
at Queensway have been eventful.
Marie Flynn and the Huron
Strings entertained at the June
birthday party and brought a spe-
cial treat, cloggers. Everyone was
enthralled with the clog dancing
and music. Birthday greetings to
Marg Coates, Lewis Clark, Dorothy
Hastings, Margaret Fremlin, Winni-
fred living and Olive Taylor.
The Christian Reformed ladies
gave their last car ride for June on
Thursday. We will miss those spe-
cial Thursday afternoon drives fol-
lowed by ice cream sundaes.
The movie Hot Lead, Cold Feet
was shown as our weekly movie on
movie night.
Several ladies gathered for La -1
dies Hour this past week to enjoy
tea, visiting and manicures.
Rev. Udall led the worship ser-
vice on Tuesday and was warmly
welcomed by residents, enjoying
her second appearance bringing the
message.
Coming events: July 25, birthday
party with Ray Cann and Band.
July 30 at 7 p.m. the Harmony
Kings.
Volunteers are urgently needed to
deliver Meals on Wheels. If you
would like to offer your services
please call us at 262-2830.
Margaret Laurence's
The Stone Angel soon
to reach Blyth Festival
BLYTH - Barbara Chilcott stars
as Hagar in the world premiere of
Margaret Laurence's classic novel,
The Stone Angel, adapted for the
stage by James W. Nichol. the
Blyth Festival and Theatre Passe
Muraille have joined forces to
bring Margaret Laurence's haunting
and emotionally charged novel to
the stage for the first time. Journey
in time through the life of Hagar
Shipley as she tells, in her wry
fashion, the story of her family. A
powerful and bold drama portray-
ing Hagar as a young girl in a re-
mote prairie town, as a stubborn
bride to Bram, as a demanding par-
ent of John and Marvin, and at 90
as a woman threatened with a fu-
ture in a nursing home. The Stone
Abgel is a remarkable portrait of a
curiously loveable Canadian char-
acter.
The Stone Angel is directed by
Brian Richmond (former Artistic
Director of Theatre Passe Muraille)
with music by Don Horsburgh, de-
sign by Janice Lindsay and lighting
design by Kevin Fraser. Featured in
the cast are Jacqueline Blais, Bar-
bara Chilcott, Jerry Franken, Alle-
gra Fulton, Thomas Hauff, Quyen
Hua, Bruce McFee, Elliott Smith,
and Alan Williams. The Stone An-
gel was commissioned by Theatre
Passe Muraille, where it received
workshops in Toronto and is a joint
production of Blyth Festival and
Theatre Passe Muraille. The play
opens at Blyth on July 18 with per-
formances at Blyth Memorial Hall
until August 24 and transfers to
Theatre Passe Muraille on Septem-
ber 11 (opening) until August 24
and transfers to Theatre Passe Mu-
raille on September 11 (opening)
with performances in Toronto un-
til October 6. For more informa-
tion about Toronto performances
of The Stone Angel, call Theater
Passe Muraillc Box Office (416)
363-2416.
"Connections to Blyth began in
1978 when my play Gwendoline
was produced by James Roy,
founder of the Blyth Festival, fol-
lowed in 1980 by Child." says
playwright, James W. Nichol. "I
read the novel, The Stone Angel
many years ago and was ap-
proached by Damiano Pietropaolo,
head of CBC Drama about a possi-
ble radio dramatization of Laur-
ence's book. It stands out like a
great solitary mountain in the
range of Canadian literature.
James Roy produced the radio ver-
sion, which aired on Morningside
last year."
James W. Nichol has written
over 50 original radio dramas
which have aired on CBC, Nation-
al Public Radio, USA, Radio Ire-
land and the Australian Broadcast-
ing Commission. Other plays by
Nichol include The Three True
Loves of Jasmine Hoover, And
When I Wake, Relative Strangers,
Sonny, Sainte -Marie Among the
Hurons, The House on Chestnut
Street, Tub, The Book and Solo-
mon Spring and Sweet Home
Sweet. For television he has writ-
ten numerous teleplays and adapt-
ed stories of Sinclair Ross, Morley
Callagahn and Alice Munro for
television.
Margaret Laurence, author of
The Stone Angel was born in Nce-
pawa, Manitoba in 1926 and died
in 1987. Upon graduation from
Winnipeg's United College in
1947, she took a job as a reporter
for the Winnipeg Citizen. From
1950 to 1957, Laurence lived in
Africa, the first two year in Somal-
-is the next five in Ghana, where
her husband, a civil engineer, was
*Wring. She translated Somali
poetry and prose during this time,
and began her career as a fiction
writer with stories set in Africa.
When Laurence returned to Canada
in .1957, she settled in Vancouver,
where she devoted herself to fiction
with a Ghanaian setting: in her first
novel, This Side Jordan, and in her
first collection of short fiction,
The Tomorrow -Tamer. Her two
years in Somalia were the subject
of her memoir, The Prophet's Cam-
el Bell. Separating from tier hus-
band in 1962, Laurence moved to
England, which became her home
for a decade, the time she devoted
to the creation of five books about
the fiction town of Manawaka, pat-
terned after her birthplace, and its
people: The Stone Angel, A Jest of
God, The Fire -Dwellers, A Bird In
the House and The Diviners. Laur-
ence complemented her fiction
with essays, book reviews, and
four children's books. Her many
honours include two Governor
General's Awards for Fiction and
more than a dozen honorary de-
grees.
Sword presentation - Exeter Optimist Club, represented here by
Terry Wright, recently donated a regimental sword to Huron and
Middlesex Army Cadets. Accepting the gift is Chief Warrant Officer
Ted Hyde.
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