HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes Advocate, 1995-08-09, Page 10Blyth Festival Young Company
producing a premiere play
BLYTH - This summer, the
Blyth Festival Young Companv is
engaged in an exciting process of
producing a premiere play: "Hee
Hee; Tales from the White Dia-
mond Mountain" by M.J. Kang.
The play journeys through the
magical stories and culture of Ko-
rea; these Korean tales are crea-
tively intertwined and energized
with original music and mask
work.
James Simon, this year's Direc-
tor, is busy bringing the script to
life: he is joined by Catherine Bab-
cock (stage manager), Rachel
Thompson (Young Company Pro-
ject Coordinator), Vrenia Ivonoffi-
ski (Mask specialist), and Blyth
Festival Company members' Ca-
thy Nosaty (musical director),
Mattea Goldstein (scenic artist/set
designer) and Michael Kruse
(lighting designer). However, the
Young Company could not have
survived for 20 years without the
dedication and enthusiasm of the
Young Company members. We
have 15 teen actors (13-17 years
old) coming to Blyth for the six
week workshop from all over
southwestern Ontario; Blyth, Bel -
grave, Clinton, Seaforth, Listowel,
Goderich and Toronto. We are all
eagerly learning about every as-
pect of developing and producing
a new play.
I hope you can attend the perfor-
mance and join in the exciting ad-
venture. The fantastical characters
and Korean tales are sure to de-
light all ages!
Hee Hee; Tales from the White
Diamond Mountain, Blyth Festival
Garage, Dinsley St. Blyth. Perfor-
mances: August 15-18 at 7:30 p.m.
August 19 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Admission: Pay what you can.
For more information, please
contact Rachel Thompson at the
Blyth Festival 523-4345.
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Maggle, left, and her eldest daughter, the embarrassed Ivy,
listen to the ebullient Sheila in Norah Harding's first play, This
Year, Next Year, now playing at the Blyth Festival.
Memories of wartime in
'This Year, Next Year'
Helen Hewitt
BLYTH - The details of This
Year, Next Year at the Blyth Festi-
val are just about perfect - the sol-
emn intonations of Winston
Churchill, the costumes, the set, the
Big Band music and a realistic
Blitz, complete with the sound of
bombers.
But This Year, Next Year offers
more than 1940s rolled -up hair
styles and stockings with seams.
This story of a young English wom-
an in love with a Canadian soldier
amid the insecurity of war is the au-
tobiographical work of Norah
Harding, 71, of
London, Ontario,
and formerly of
Bournemouth, Eng-
land.
Harding, who at-
tended the opening
night performance
anu met theatre-
goers after the
show, has captured
the desperation to
live as fully as pos-
sible in a time
when the next
bomb could have
your name on it
and turret gunners
were a bad risk as
dates because of
their short life ex-
pectancy.
Details such as
the air-raid sirens
and all -clear sig-
nals, the anxiety
about the trc 'ps and rationing all
ring true and create the backdrop to
the immediate story line- Norah's
determination to marry her soldier
and her mother's refusal to sign the
essential consent form.
Jacklyn Francis as Norah, Debo-
rah Drakeford as her widowed sis-
ter and Trish O'Reilly as the irre-
pressibt' Sheila work well together
on stage. As Maggie, their mother
and a woman who has known her
share of loss, Barbara Worthy
achieves a convincing mix of hope
and resignation.
While most of the actors do not
attempt British accents, Tedde
Moore, playing the pretentious and
foolish Aunt
Girlie, sustains
the accent and
the comic ef-
fects whenever
she is on stage.
As her long-
suffering hus-
band, Harry
Booker has sev-
eral moments
of fun himself.
Because of
information in
the program
notes, the hap-
py ending is no
surprise to the
audience. The
strength of the
play is its rea-
listic represen-
tationof one
family's coping
- with affection
and concern for
in harsh war -time cir-
Norah (Jacklyn Francls) tries
on her wedding gown, made
of parachute silk.
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