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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1997-04-16, Page 14Page 14 Tintes-Advocate, April 16, 1997 ( 7) NA I'll tell you a story • is 4 Eight-year-old Brittany Pilgrim, a Grade 3 student at Hen- sall Public School, won first place in the Legion District C public speaking contest on April 6 in Chesley. She compet- ed with four students in the story -telling category with 'Jil- lian Jiggs to the Rescue.' "She t'as trying to catch a mon- ster and it turned out to be a kitten," explained Pilgrim, who `advJticns` to Area Level in Etobicoke on April 20. . 1 Blyth Festival chooses artistic director for '98 BLYI'H - The Blyth Festival has chosen award-winning playwright and dramaturg Anne Chislett as the Artistic Director Designate to sue, coed Janet Antos for the 1998 sea- son. The choice was made by the Board of Directors'un April 6. fol- lowing a four-month search that in- cluded 25 candidates. Chislett has served as a drama- turg - coaching playwrights as they prepare their scripts = for the Festi- val under the leadership of Janet Amos for the past two years. In that capacity. she worked with first- time London playwright Nora Harding, whose play "This Year. Next Year" was a hit in the 1995 season. She has•also served an in- ternship in dramaturgy at the Banff Playwrights Centre and Canadian Stage in Toronto. She has taught play writing with the University of Western Ontario's Faculty of Part - Time and Continuing Studies (1995) and in various courses for - Theatre Ontario. As a playwright, Chislett has re- ceived two Chalmers 'Canadian Play Awards, the most recent in 1996 for "Flippin' In", a play for young audiences, prodlced by Young People's Theatre in 1995. She won the Chalmers Award in 1982 and the Governor General's Award for Drama in 1983 for "Quiet in the Land". which is re- turning to Blyth as part of the 1997 Festival season. Her plays. including "Quiet in the Land," "Yankee Notions" and "The Tomorrow Box," have been pro- duced by many- theatres in Canada and abroad. A Japanese production of "The Tomorrow Box" received the "best production" award in Hi- roshima in 1989. She has also writ- ten for radio and film. Chislett has a long association with Blyth, being one of the found- ers of the Festival in 1975 and ing many of her most successful plays premiered there. She will take up her duties in June. working un- der Amos throughout the summer season before taking ovcr.the Artis- tic Director's post in November. "I will do my very hest to fostcr the creation of new plays that will delight, entertain and touch the hearts of the Blyth Festival's audi- ence." said Chislett. 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