Loading...
The Goderich Signal-Star, 1982-07-07, Page 174 Myth Summer Festival kicks off 82 season BY JOANNE BUCHANAN Janet Amos successfully blends real-Ilfe drama, humor, romance and music in Down North, the firsd. production of the Blyth Summer Festival for 1982. From the enthusiastic respose received by -'the audience at the preview last Thursday;- evening, I'd say the Festival has another hit on its hands. Down North features 14 - year -old Blyth native Tom Bailey as a lonely young boy (Guy-...Deveau) uprooted from his city ,`ivu,e alio sent to spend the summer on his -gra ether's Cape Breton - ,farm while his parents work out rital difficulties. The play re Ives around Guy's gradual adjustment to his new life-style and new-found relatives. THFATRE REVIEW There are also several other stories within the play: a romance between Guy's Catholic 40 -year-old spinster aunt Use Deveau (Nancy Beatty) and a Presbyterian, Robby Macdonald, (Ted Johns); a battle between Guy's crazy old great- grandmother, Therese Deveau (Anne Anglin) and her fancy -dressing son Grahru1 Mord-inn Jnrelyn) whom he fears wants to put her in a nursing home; and the struggle on the land as Guy's grandfather (Hugh Webster) works to get the hay off before the rain and contemplates selling the farm. The play is set in a parish near . Cheticamp, Cape Breton Island in June 1958. Set design by John Ferguson, costume design by Kerry Hackett and fiddle Music by Marcel Doucet (a Cheticamp native) bring this place and time element into focus. The audience also gets a sense of culture lased on tradition. Webster, a 30 -year veteran oUtelevislon and theatre, is superb in his role as Gilles Deveau, a kindly, un- derstanding grandfather and hard-working farmer. He makes the audience both laugh and cry. THE CANDLELIGHT SHINES FORA GOOD TIME EVERYTIME.,..1 FAMILY • IIII' ill I�II 4.44 N (\/ Anglin is also outstanding. as a crusty eccentric old lady,. Gordon Jocelyn who plays her prlal and proper son is very good in his supporting role as is Kay Hawtrey who plays talkative aunt Henriete. Besides Bailey in the main role, there are other Blyth young people in the play as well. Seventeen -year-old Catherine Bettye plays Annie Lejeune, Guy's romantic interest. She shows the audience - that she can dance as well- as act. Sia- yearold Craig Roulston is just perfect as an annoying little boy. And 14-ygarold Peter Cook -also does well hi his supporting role as yet another cousin. Rounding Out the cast is Robert Nasmith as Gerard Lejeune, owner of the local Coop store and Janet Amos (author of the play and Festival artistic director) as Felice Lachance, a floosie pursued by Gabriel Deveau. As seems to be the unique tradition . at the Blyth Festival, the actors appear . in the aisles once in awhlle, really getting the ;audience involved A few toes can even be heard tapping to the fiddle music. Down North, directed by Layne Coleman, will run throughout July in repertory with ' Heads -You ° Lose. Tickets are still available for all dates but hurry—once the word gets out about how he warming this play y is, those tickets may " be harder to get. til Galloway featured at summer concert series The fine, lyrical warmth of Jim, Galloway and The Metro Stompers will be heard as the next big attrac- tion in the Huron Country Playhouse special summer concert series on July 4. GaHnmay, n yrrtun..Q^, the soprano sax, is one of Canada's, top jazzmen. He's a player blessed with a gimmick -free imagination 1 DININGAT ITS DELICIOUS BEST LIVE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKENDS RELAXED ATMOSPHERE AND COURTEOUS SERVICE DAILY LUNCHEON & DINNER SPECIALS THE Join us In our Restaurant, Dining Room or Keg Room For a Good Timel MAR cans.accosa64a4a lore.gr?sopz-fer" Weddings. Banquets and Parties. Let us be of service, we won't disap- polnfyou. CANDLELIGHT RESTAURANT & TAVERN Bayfield Road - Highway 21 Dial 524-7711 Monday thru Saturda01:30-1 am (NOON BUFFET Thursday -Friday Only noon 'tilA2 pan. Complete with large • salad bar..breads ana3---- rolls. a • good selec- tion of hot meats. potatoes, vegetables ' dessert table and assorted shams.... plusbererage. f Beside Squires Gifts *LICENSED UNDER THE L.L.B.O. Sunday 11:30-10 pm and a natural style that in- fuses his music with an engaging swing. Currently based in Toron- to, Galloway and his Dix- ieland . band - Kenny Dean, Russ Fearon, Rosemary aallnwav, Pefm Saoorrr,^nr and Ron Sorley - play some of the most exciting jazz to be heard anywhere these days. They're vital, bold and LEVI'S FOR FEET s•ieDaysliwie-8, 9, 0 Dallas Rog. 44.0 SALE PRICE S 9 •99 SAVE • . Reg. H.99 SALE 94.99 ABOVE SALE PRICES ARE OUR LOWEST EVER Example, Levi's for foot HIGH OR LOW CANVAS . 25° 20All NEW FF ALL LINES Moonlight Days July 9 9:3S-11:55.:. HUUP 6 PM -11 PM JULY E a. 9 ONLY Godarich Stare Only DONT', :SIE LA; 'BECAUSE YOU'RE WORTH IT Bry moon you can save on every item in our giant store'sale.' Thursday & Friday - July 8th & 9th - 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 P.M. SPECIAL PHENTEX ELITE YARN 8 OZ. OR 227 GR. Reg. '2.49 SALE PRICED "3." LESS 15% Thurs. A Frl� 2.71 SKEIN SPECIAL " r 3 PACK CHOCOLATE,BARS O«Hertry. E®f- noFo. Gyosseff®Rakins 8 Peanuts Reg. °1.33 SALE PRICED 11.17 LESS 15% Thurs. 8. tri. OFF Everything In the store Including merchandise already clearance priced. On ail cash or now lay -away purchases eneeopt'fountain & tobacco products. EMESIMEM SUNCOAST' ,TRIP •h SUNCOAST MAIL GODERICH vivacious, cool with a special flavour developed from yearsf�playing.. together. They've digested the entire, . `vocabulary of azz, then taken the nguage and made it their own. For this special event at the Playhouse,' Galloway and. the Stompers will be playing tunes fromthe jazz greats — men like Duke Ell- ington, W.C. Handy and Fats Waller. Remember "I. Wish That I Could Shimmy Ikke My Sister - Kate"? If you don't know that one, better come along and hear it, You won't forget it — or anything else these class musicians • Play - Tickets are still available for this unique chance to hear top notch jazz and can be picked up at regular playhouse ticket outlets or reserved by calling (519) 238- 8451. Q#VDi 1 GNAL7' AR V1f L-'�,, 'W-,-.:.: A' JUNE 7 1982;*Pi7'.GE Gny Deveau (Blyth nativeTom Batley) talks to his grandfather Gilles (30 -year television and theatre veteran Hugh Webster) as he soaks his feet after a long, hard day of haying hi Blyth Sumner Festival's first production of the season, Down North, written by FE9tival artistic director, Janet Amos. Mousetrap opens Playhouse season BY JOANNE BUCHANAN Huron Country Playhouse kicked off its 1982 season last .week with a fine production of the Agatha Christie classic, The Mousetrap. Liberal doses of murder, mystery and black humour kept the audience on the edge of their seats as the intricate plot unfolded. • Who is the killer and who will be the neat victim? These are the two questions which keep eluding the audience. All of the characters assembled at Monkswell Manor, a drafty old English guest home, seem to have something to hide. Mollie and Giles Ralston (Colleen O'Neil and Anthony Bekenn) are the newlyweds who run the guest home and discover they don't know much about one another's past lives or those of their guests: Christopher Wren (Mark Christmann), a decidedly odd young man who seems to be running away from something; Mrs. Boyle (Jessica Booker), a cranky self-centered rich woman;Major Metcalf (JVrllll Cuciis), a retied English army man who seems normal enough compared to the others; Miss Casewell (Mary Charlotte Wilcox), a young woman with a troubled past; and Mr. Paravicini (Tom Arnott), a strange foreigner who shows up at the guest home under mysterious circumstances. Det. Sgt. Trotter (Tim Grantham) arrives at the Manor to inform the oc- cupants that one of them is a murderer whom the police believe is planning death for two more victims there. To make matters worse, everyone . is trapped at the Manor because of a raging snow storm and the telephone wires have bee cut to prevent communication withthe outside world. Set designer Mark Cole' and lighting designer Peter Freund are to be Christopher Wren (Mark Christman) tries to annoy Mrs. Boyle (Jessica Booker) in the Agatha Christie thriller, The Mousetrap, Huron Country Playhouse's first production of the season which opened last Tuesday evening. (Photo by Brian Richman, Hensall) congratulated on producing just the right effect for such eerie circumstances. Director James Saar (whom some of you may remember as previously directing a Goderich Little Theatre production) is also to be congratulated for his casting abilities. Mark Christmann, a Port Elgin native, was especially ef- fective in his role as a genuine odd -ball and Tom Arnott, who has also acted on the Blyth stage, produced a good Italian accent and a bone-chillirievil laugh. In order to find out who the murderer is and why he or she is doing his or her evil deeds, - attend the. Playhouse's `whodunit?' production which runs until July 10. By the way, you will find many physical im- provements at the Playhouse this year with new washroom facilites, a larger lounge area and concrete and grass , replacing the gravel in the courtyard. Infant defects can be prevented BY HELEN ECCLES AND HELEN WEST, HURON COUNTY - HEALTH UNIT An infant is born with multiple- defects. Her condi- tion was preventable. She was born with a number of life-threatening problems because her -mother had been exposed to German measles (rubella)' while she was pregnant. It wasn't her mother's fault. She had no ides that ru o,;11a was anything more a trivial childhood ' At a recent seminar on Prevention and Early In- tervention for Developrnen- tal.Disabilities, Dr. Grahain Chance, a neonatalogist at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lon- don, provided data which in- dicated about 50 percent of physical disabilities and 15 20 percent of mental disabilities are of perinatal origin and hence preven- table. A large number of these could be caused by contacting rubella in the first trimester of preganacy. All women should be iim minded against rubella at least three months before they conceive if their level of immunity is low. Red measles and mumps, like rubella, are viral diseases also, and are preventable. These vaccines are provid- ed by your Ontario Ministry of Health free of direct cost to you and can be given by your family doctor or your local health unit. For the past three years, the Huron County HealthrUnit has been offering measles, mumps and rubella reinforcing in: jections to all Grade 7 students. The primary im- munization for these diseases is given to children 12: 18 months of age. The following is a list of Child Health Clinics held in Huron County. These clinics are held from 9:30 - 11:30- ELM' 1:30•rn. , .Exeter - second Monday Of every month; Wingham = - third Wednesday of every month; Clinton - third Fri- day of every month; Goderich - third Thursday of every month; Seaforth - se- cond Thursday of every month .and Brussels - second 'se Tuesday of every month. Everyone is welcome to at- tend these -clinics, ti.