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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-07-27, Page 20PAGE'S* T27,1903 The Sons of Silence participated in the Southwestern Ontario Talent Show in Exeter this past weekend. The band includes, left to right, Jim MacDonald of Goderich, Randy Lobb of Clinton, Shawn Rahbek of Goderich and Dave Lobb of Clinton. (Photo by Shelley McPhee) 'RENEGADES' You Finally Did I Congratulations I HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUNT SHIRLEY, HUGS & KISSES MYA Stratford Festival stars at party in Clinton More than 50 members of the Stratford Festival from Huron, Perth, Bruce, Mid- dlesex, Lambton, Grey and Wellington Counties attend- ed a Meet -The -Festival par- ty at the home of Helen Tench in Clinton on July 17. Guests of honor included: Don McLeod, president of the board of governors and • Mrs. McLeod; Miss Amelia Hall, appearing in Tartuffe; Mr. Nicholas Pennell, who in addition to playng a title role IVICEIeth this season, is also apPehring in As You Like It and Love's Labor Lost. More than 10,000 people in Canada and the United States have various privileges as members of the Stratford Festival. Treat yourfamily. Tonight. GOOD. SALADS ALL YOUR FAVOURITE CHOICES GOOD CHICKEN SIZES TO FILL ANY APPETITE • 4'4 , • 0, *ff.' SUMMERTIME TREATS 14(1111,11k1S ItntuckyFriedChicken 9e2' adi4faymii!eA4neeg/ 94 ELGIN AVL GODERICH he Miracle Worker is emotional experience for Playhouse au BY JOANNE BUCHANAPI Emotions run high during the Huron Country PbylKiuse's latest produc- tion, William Gibson's The Miracle Worker. Climaxing in a triumphant heart - wrenching final scene, the opening night performance July 20 received a standing ovation), -from an audience generally stingy with such aecolades. First appearing on Broad- way in 1959 as a Tony -award winning ,play starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke and later as a movie starring the same two women in Academy Award winning performances, The Miracle Worker is based on the true story of Annie Sullivan, a young woman determined to teach language to Helen Keller, a blind and deaf child born in Alabama in the late 1800s. Nicola Lipman is superb as Annie, the teacher who struggles to open the doors of Helen's dark world. Through dialogue with other characters in the play and the use of taped voices, we learn of Annie's own appall- ing childhood spent in a hor- rible asylum for the sick and insane with her crippled brother Jimmie and of the nine operations she has en- dured on her eyes to correct her blindness. Lipman produces an authentic Irish accent and portrays a self-reliant character made strong through her years of childhood suffering. Jain Dickson is equally superb as Helen who, although bright, is also spoil- ed, stubborn and prone to temper tantrums. She meets her match in Annie and the best scenes are when the two of them test wills. Physically, the play must be very draining for Lipman and Dickson but the two never seem to lose the energy required of them in their roles. THEATRE REVIEW Shelley Peterson, who plays Helen's mother Kate, returns -triumphant to the Playhouse stage after an absence of more than six years. Although a soft- spokeSouthern belle who indulges Helen with love and candy, she also shows a gut- sy determination in helping to better her daughter's life. Other members of the Keller household include Helen's father Captain Keller played by Peter ...mai,1116if {Mir Messaline, her half-brother James Keller played by Jonathan Barrett and her Aunt Ev played by Jo Zvonkin. Bit roles are played by John Archibald (a doc- tor), Mark D'Anna (Samuel), Kirk Campbell (Percy), Jack Northmore (Anagnos), Maria Gordon (Viney), Kim Crawford, Jacki Dykes, Jennifer Jewitt, Jacki Rau, Tammy Rogerson and Julie 'gander Maden (blind girls) and ince King the dog (as himself). Several of these players are drawn from the surrounding comnuunly, includng Jacki Rau who is from Goderich and Jennifer Jewitt who is frees Clinton. Hard-working director Ron Ulrich has assembled a fine cast—professional and amateur alike—for his third production of the season. For a truly inspiring evening, don't miss The Miracle Worker. It runs until July 30, followed by Alan Ayckhourn's comedy, How The Other Half Loves which opens August 2. Learning to "talk" Nicola Lipman (as Annie Sullivan) teaching Jain Dickson (as Helen Keller) basic sign language in William Gibson's The Miracle Worker now playing at Huron Country Playhouse. (Photo by Brian Riehman). Maritime Faces offers two fine plays By D. Kloeze Maritime Faces offers a real treat for people going to the new show • at--thViBlyth Summer Festival—two plays for the price of one. Both plays are a real treat and a joy to watch. Maritime Faces is about Maritime people. The first play is called Tighten the Traces, Haul in the Reins, and comes from from the Mulgrave Theatre Company in Nova Scotia, It was brought to Blyth by the writer and only performer in the play, Robbie O'Neill. The play is about one very remarkable Maritimer nam- ed Leo Kennedy. Kennedy, born in the 1920's, was a travelling salesman and storekeeper in Nova Scotia for years. He also had cerebral palsy. The play is completely Kennedy's story, told through the talents of O'Neill. And they are con- siderable talents. O'Neill portrays Kennedy's peculiar movements and speech with much energy and understanding. The. transformation of O'Neill, who comes out at first to in- troduce himself and the play to the audience, to Kennedy is astounding. In one instant he makes a tremendous jump to a crippled but in- domitable old man, and he remains so for the rest of the play. The acting is captivating, if the material is not. The play is simply a series of anecdotes from Kennedy's life, told by himself. There are no other characters, no other real tensions, no other concerns. The play lasts well under an hour, and seems long enough. It is very simp- ly fine entertainment; an in- sight to someone very ,.. ,1„ 40; 44' oar' • 1.44 Ar... 4 Ted Johns wrote and performs in Naked on the North Shore, one of the two plays presented at the Blyth Summer Festival production called Maritime Faces. Johns's play and Robbie O'Neill's Tighten the Traces, Haul in the Reins are the two one act, one-man plays about Maritime people. Maritime Faces runs at the Festival until August 19. special who was obviously much admired by the author and performer. The second play, Naked on the North Shore, is somewhat more energetic in scope. It is another one-man show, written and performed by Ted Johns. The part of the Maritimes he is portraying is a village on the North Shore of the St. Lawrence, in Quebec. The play is also per- sonally important to Johns, he spent a year teaching in the same village which he calls Old Fort. Johns plays not just one character, but the whole village. His play is con- siderably funnier, more comprehensive, and longer than the first. His characterizations are exact and sympathetic. The people from Old Fort are a strange lot; they have survived without''electricity; or modern conveniences. They are incomprehensible to the outsider, and they cannot even begin to understand people other than themselves. They are typically small -village, slow people with simple tastes. Johns presents the play as a sort of make-believe trip to Old Fort. He explains, "Go- ing to the North Shore is easy enough, it's being there' that's hard." While meeting the people, Johns also takes us along to a couple of homes, and some social events, notably the local dance. The scene with all the villagers out for a par- ty which turns into a brawl is hilarious, and Johns plays the whole thing single- handedly. Although his characters are varied, there come to be so many of them that in, some parts the play becomes confusing. His costume always stays the same, and his accent does not change too much. It is sometimes difficult to figure out if he has changed characters, and if so who he is playing now. The two plays together ot- fer two very different views of Maritime life. They are completely different, and are not meant to be con- nected in any way. But they present their characters and concerns very sym- pathetically, and one gains some special insights into a different aspect of Canadian life from Maritime Faces. Maritime Faces is playing in repertory with the other Blyth Summer Festival pro- ductions until August 19. Grandstand construction halted 75 YEARS AGO R. Parsons' name is now added to the list of owners of automobiles in Goderich, he having bought one on Tues- day. A modern new tobacco cut- ter has been placed in the Brunswick cigar store on West Street. Nicholson and Naftel, the West Street hardware mer- chants, have dissolved part- nership, Mr. Nicholson re- taining the business. The weather has favored the work on the outside breakwater and the struc- ture is now assuming a business -like appearance. There is a lot of work to do LOOKING BACK yet though. 50 YEARS AGO Ninety-one horses were entered in the Civic Holiday harness races at Goderich. This was thought to be the largest entry list of good horses ever brought together at one time at any race meet in Canada. With a record of 49 years and four months of teaching experience, George Woods has resigned from his school at Saltford where he has taught continuously for 35 years and six months. 25 YEARS AGO Winding up a probe into the dissenti on -torn town police force, the Goderich Police Commission Wednes- day requested help from the Ontario Provincial Police to bridge the gap which will be caused by three resigna- tions. A well-known dentist in Goderich for the past 35 years, Dr. J.A. Graham died in his 63rd year Wednesday. 5 YEARS AGO Construction of the new grandstand at the Goderich race track, to have been completed by August 19, was stopped Monday because it isn't possible to see the track from all the seats. Just three months after the apparent settlement of the 31 -day teacher strike, a dispute has erupted between the board and the teachers over the arbitrator's report made public last week. Farmers' crops in the area may suffer from a lack of rainfall in one of the driest summers in the last 25 years. 111 July 27 to Aug. 2 DAYTIME MORNiNG 5:00 RELIGIOUS TOWN HALL (Wed) 5:00A BETTER WAY (Thu) 5:00 CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP (Fri) 5:00 THIS IS THE LIFE (Tue) 5:30 UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESENTS . 6:00 FARM AND GARDEN (Wed) 6:00 TV -5 AND YOUR COM- MUNITY (Thu) 6:00 SCOPE (Fri) 6:00 U.S_ FARM REPORT (Mon) 6:00 HEALTH FIELD (Tue) 6:30 EARLY TODAY 7:00 TODAY 9:00 DIFF'RENT STROKES 9:30 SALE OF THE CENTURY 10:00 HAWAII FIVE -0 11:00 HOUR MAGAZINE AFTERNOON 12:00 NEWS 12:30 SEARCH FOR TOMORROW 1:00 DAYS OF OUR LIVES 2:00 ANOTHER WORLD 3:00 FANTASY 4:00 MOVIE 5:30 AA.A.S.H. WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1983 DAYTIME MOVIES 4:00 "WALKING TALL, PART 2" Bo Svenson, Noah Beery EVENING 6:00 NEWS 6:30 NBC NEWS 7:00 P.M. MAGAZINE 7:30 THREE'S COMPANY 8:00 REAL PEOPLE 9:00' THE FAC1 S OF LIFE 9:30 BUFFALO BILL 10:00 THE FAMILY TREE 11:00 NEWS 11:30 TONIGHT 12:30 LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN 1:30 NBC NEWS OVERNIGHT 2:30 SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN 3:30 "CHARLIE BUBBLES" Albert Finney, Liza Minelli THURSDAY. JULY 28, 1983 DAYTIME MOVIES 4:00 "IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT" Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger EVENING 6:00 NEWS 6:30 NBC NEWS 7:00 P.M. MAGAZINE 7:30 THREE'S COMPANY 8:00 FAME 9:00 GIMME A BREAK 9:30 CHEERS 10:00 HILL STREET BLUES 11:00 NEWS 11:30 TONIGHT 12:30 LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN 1:30 NBC NEWS OVERNIGHT 2:30 BIONIC WOMAN 3:30 "ORDEAL" Arthur Hill, Diana Muldour FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1983 DAYTIME MOVIES: 4:00: "TICK... TICK... TICK..." Jim Brown, George Kennedy EVENING 6:00 NEWS 6:30 NBC NEWS 7:00 P.M. MAGAZINE 7:30 THREE'S COMPANY 8100 THE POWERS OF MAT- THEW STAR 9:00 EISCHIED 11:00 NEWS 11:30 TONIGHT 12:30 FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS 2:00 NBC 'NEWS OVERNIGHT 3:00 "THE PINK JUNGLE" James Garner, Eva Renzi 4:30 -MOVE" Elliott Gould, Paula Prentiss SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1983 MORNING 6:00 VEGETABLE SOUP 6:30 NEW ZOO REVUE 7:00 CARRASCOLENDAS 7:30 THUNDARR 8:00 THE FLINTSTONES 8:30 THE SHIRT TALES 9:00 SMURFS 10:30 THE GARY COLEMAN SHOW 11:00 FLASH GORDON 11-30 SOUL TRAIN 12:30 EBONY -JET CELEBRITY SHOWCASE 1:00 PETTICOAT JUNCTION 1:31) MS WEEK IN BASEBALL 2:00 DETROIT TIGER PRE -GAME 2:15 BASEBALL 5:00 SHA NA NA 5:30 HAPPY DAYS AGAIN EVIENDID. 6:00 NEWS 6:30 HEE HAW 7:30 BJ/LOBO 8:00 DIFFRENT STROKES 8:30 SILVER SPOONS 9:00 Qtaticv 10:00 MONITOR 11:00 NEWS 11:30 TWILIGHT THEATRE II 1:00 BENNY HILL 1:30 "ESCAPE FROM FORT BRAVO" William Holden, Eleanor Parker SUNDAY, JULY 31, 1983 MORNING 6:45 DAVEY AND GOLIATH 7:00 OPEN CAMERA 7:30 ITS YOUR BUSINESS 8:00 DAY OF DISCOVERY 8:30 REX HUMBARD 9:00 ORAL ROBERTS 9:30 SUNDAY MASS 10:00 THE ADDAMS FAMILY 10:30 THE MUNSTERS 11:00 "REBECCA OF SUN- NYBROOK FARM" Shirley Tem- ple, Gloria Stuart AFTERNOON 12:30 MEET THE PRESS 1:00 OPEN CAMERA 1:30 "THE OVER -THE -HILL GM',-131DES AGAIN" Wolter Brennan, Fred Astaire 3:00 "DIAL M FOR MURDER" Roy Milland, Grace Kelly 5:00 GRIZZLY ADAMS EVENING 6:00 NEWS 6:30 P.M. MAGAZINE: SPECIAL EDITION 7:00 VOYAGERS! 8:00 LONE STAR 9:00 "THE WHITE BUFFALO" Charles Bronson, Will Sampson 11:00 NEWS 11:30 "THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN" Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1983 DAYTIME SPECIAL 3:00 PERSONAL 8 CONFIDEN- TIAL DAYTIME MOVIES 4:00 "LAS VEGAS ROUN- DABOUT" Robert Wagner, Charles Durning EVENING 6:00 -NEWS - 6:30 NBC NEWS 7:00P.M. MAGAZINE 7:30 THREE'S COMPANY 8:00 LOVE, SIDNEY 8:30 FAMILY TIES 9:00 "MIRROR, MIRROR" Lee Meriwether, Loretta Swit 11:00 NEWS 11:30 THE BEST OF CARSON 12:30 LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN 1:30 NBC NEWS OVERNIGHT 2:30 SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN 3:30 "THE MAN WHO WANTED TO LIVE FOREVER" Stuart Whit- man, Sandy Dennis TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1983 DAYTIME SPECIAL PERSONAL 8 CONFIDENTIAL DAYTIME MOVIES 4:00 "KILLER FORCE" Peter Fon- da, Telly Savalas EVENING 6:00 NEWS 6:30 NBC NEWS 7:00 P.M. MAGAZINE 7:30 THREE'S COMPANY 8:00 DETROIT TIGER PRE -GAME 8:30 BASEBALL 9:00 REMINGTON STEELE 10:00 ST. ELSEWHERE 11:00 NEWS 11:30 TONIGHT 12:30 LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN 1:30 NBC NEWS OVERNIGHT 2:30 BIONIC WOMAN 3:30 "THE VATICAN AFFAIR" Wolter Pidgeon, Ira Furstenberg Drama opens Aug 2 at Blyth A murder has been com- mitted. Was it self defence? Was it premeditated? In the suspense -filled drama The Innocent and the Just, which opens August 2 at the Blyth Summer Festival, the youngest son of a respectable small-town family is charged with murder and the family rallies to save its name. When it is discovered that the son's defense rests on the testimony of the family's simple servant, the reform- ed alcoholic Bousille, the members of the family take desperate measures, each according to his own degree of religious conviction. Under the pressure of the murder charge and the im- pending trial, the 'otherwise decent people show themselves to be capable of treachery and hypocrisy. The Inncoent and the Just is a Canadian classic which has been performed over 600 times on stage and has also appeared on CBC TV. For the Blyth Summer Festival production, artistic director Janet Amos brings talent from across the country together with young local ae- tors. Rick Martin, a native of Lucknow, is sharing the part of the bell -boy with Chris Royal from Blyth. Heather Ann Stapleton from Auburn is understudying the part of Colette. Enjoy The Innocent and the Just through to its sur- prise ending in the air- conditioned Blyth Memorial HalL The Innocent and the Just plays from August 2 to August 20. For tickets or in- formation, call the box office at 523-9300.