Clinton News-Record, 1987-02-18, Page 211
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Season 13 promises to be
lucky for the Blyth Festival
BI,YTH - "1 am thrilled with this year's
line up," said Blyth Festival's Artistic
Director, Katherine Kaszas. "I really think
it is our most. exciting season ever."
For the 1987 season, the Blyth Festival ,
will.be presenting an entire season of home-
grown plays - four completely new works
and the return of a hit drama which was
premiered last year. The season will open
on June 19 and run through to September 12
- with two season previews on June 17 and 18.
TO open the season on June 19, the au-
dience will be treated to
Girls in the Gang by Raymond Storey and
John Roby.
"I think it will be quite a big hit - here and
across the country. It has music from the
'50s and focusses on the women, glamorous
with lots of leg," said Katherine, adding,
"It's a funny piece. The typical cops and
robber stuff."
The Boyd Gang were notorious bank rob-
bers whose 'nefarious exploits thrilled the
Canadian press and public alike. They Lived
the high life until one day a dramatic shoot-
out turned. them into public enemy number
one.
Raymond Storey's fast moving script,
focussing on the gang's women, is punc-
tuated by the hot jazz, mellow swing, and
sweet harmonies of John ( Country Hearts)
Roby's score.
This bright and lively musical captures
the excitement and glamour of the '40s and
'50s in Canada.
The following week, on June 23, Border -
town Cafe by Kelly Rebar, will open. This is
the story of a young man's corning of age in
the 1980s. I,s he Canadian or American? He's
pulled in all directions - by his feisty,
patriotic American grandmother, his Cana-
dian grandfather who's given him a deep
love of the land, his harried mother who
can't communicate with him; his high
school teammates, and now his estranged
truck driving father wants him to move to
the States. Canada's national obession with
our neighbors to the south is examined in
this fresh, vibrant comedy.
"The characters are funny and very ear-
thy," Katherine commented. "The play
turns into a team effort with the audience,
as Canadians, rooting for the Canadian
side."
Miss Balmoral Of Bayview by Colleen
Curran, will open July 14. Coming hot on the
heels of Cake -Walk and Moose County, this
side-splitt:ng comedy follows the adven-
turous Beatrix Balmoral as she leaves her
job at an exclusive girls' school ( under less
' ▪ than happy circumstances) and begins a
new career in hotel management.
The Bayview Inn, once a thriving hostlry,
is now run-down, decrepit, and in the final
stages of terminal wood rot - and peopled by
a wild assortment of zany characters.
"the humor in this play is addictive. You
know you're going to laugh and in a few
minutes you'll laugh again, and a few
minutes later you'll laugh again," explained
Katherine.
The fourth play of the repertory season is
Bush Fire by Laurie Fyffe, a spine -chilling
tale of passion and destruction set in Lanark
County in 1828. A fire claims the lives of Ann
Easby and four of her children. A neighbor
takes in the surviving boy, but his disturb-
ing, incoherent ramblings prompt her to
place a far more sinister interpretation on
the events which transpired that wintry
night.
The suspense builds as the true horror is
revealed• a horror which would have been
better left buried.
"For those that want to sit on the edge of
their seats all night, this is it," said
Katherine. "It's a twisted tale of horror."
These four plays will run in repertory
through to August 22 with the exception of
Miss Balmoral which closes one week later,
on August 29.
The final production of 1987, Another
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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February 18th
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Season's Promise by Anne Chislett and
Keith Roulston, will open on August 25 and
will play through to September 12. Describ-
ed by Doug Bale of the London free Press as
"one of Blyth's most powerful plays ever,"
Promise is an entertaining, warm and
humourous drama about the Purves' who
have been farming their land for over a cen-
tury. They're a close-knit, hard working
family, but farming in the '80s is an uphill
struggle and the strain is beginning to show.
A return of last year's compelling and
powerful play about how four generations
find renewal and joy in the face of adversity.
This year's showing will see a new set and
new actors, and because tickets were sold
out so fast last year, Katherine advises all to
purchase their tickets early.
"It is temendously rewarding that four of
this season's plays are the fruit of our
playwrites' workshops," stated Katherine.
"Another Season's Promise was done in
Blyth in 1985, Girls in the Gang and Bush
Fire were both workshopped here in 1986.
Bordertown Cafe was workshopped earlier
this year, in conjucntion with Prairie
Theatre Exchange. The fifth play, Miss
Balmoral Of The Bayview was done at the
Playwright's Workshop in Montreal in
January of this year, under my direction."
Following the close of the Blyth Festival
season on September 12, Another Season's
Promise will go on tour. While final details
are not yet available, this tour could be the
most ambitious ever undertaken by the
Festival, covering not only the small com-
munities of western Ontario traditionally
visted but also extending into other
provinces.
Ticket prices for the 1987 season are $8
and $10.50 for adults up to July 11 and $9 and
$11 after that date. Children's tickets re-
main at $3 for all performances, a figure
which has not increased for several years
and which indicates the Festival's commit-
ment to encouraging young people to attend
more theatre.
To take advantage of advance purchase
saving, voucher packs ($30 for four admis-
sions) may be purchased any time up to
May 31. Voucher holders will be able to ex-
change vouchers for tickets from April 13.
Tickets to the general public go on sale on
May 4.
The 1987 brochure will be available in late
March. Please contact the Festival if you
wish to have one sent to you: Blyth F Orval,
PO Box 10, Blyth, Ontario, NOM 1H0 or
phone 523-9300.
As for the overall season, Katherine says,
"I'm. proud of the diversity of the plays and
the contrast between of the plays."
HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY
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