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Replacement Window and Siding Specialists For Appointments, CALL GERRY PRANCER CHRIS MULDOON 1.800-2:65.1913 30 5 30 9 Enti.rtl 1 Mark Rast will be playing at the Music Festival' this weekend sponsored by the Giderich and District Optimist Club. This is Rust's first year as, a participant in the festival. He will be performing Friday and Saturday. J M +. ti.. Tr..f Seven bands lined up for Music Festival The Goderich and District Optimist Club is gearing up for the sixth annual Music Festival at the Optimist Riverside Park this weekend. Festival organizers have booked seven bands to entertain music lovers all weekend and expect large audiences. Last year ap- proximately 5,000 people attended the festival over the three clays.. The festival runs July 27, 28 and 29 with bands performing bluegrass and country music Thursday and Friday from 4 to 1 a.m. and Saturday from noon until 1 a.m. Three new additions to the music lineup this year are the Full Tilt Blues Band and' Mark Rust. Audiences will be entertained by returning acts including Two Blue, Rick McGhie, Pulse Creek, TW and the Allstars, and Richard Knechtel and the Springwater Band. Each band will take the stage for one hour-long set and most are playing two or three times during the festival. A new addition to this year's Music Festival designed especially for children is a puppet show to be held Saturday after- noon. There will be a beer tent set up in the park for the weekend sponsored by Carling O'Keefe. Admission to the festival is three dollars on Thursday and Friday and five dollars on Saturday. `Polderlandportrays Canadian soldiers as toughbut tender troops BY PATRICK RAFTIS No conflict has ever inspired as literature as World War II. The conflict between Facism and the rest of the world has produc- ed enought literature to fill whole libraries on its own. All of which makes it very dif- ficult for a playwright to come up with an appealing new angle from the encounter. In `Polderland', the Blyth Festival's open- ing offering for the 1985 season, author Bryan Wade, has done a commendable job bringing the feelings and emotions of battle to the stage, with an angle which should `have special appeal to audiences in rural Ontario. `Polderland' (which means in Dutch,. farm land reclaimed from the sea) tells the story of three Canadian soldiers, caught behind enemy lines while fighting to liberate Holland from the Nazis. After a skirmish with German forces they are forced to seek shelter in a farm house, inhabited by a r .ddle-aged woman, who's husband is missing and her,; quthful and attractive daughter. The three soldiers are the sort of mixed group you would find in any fighting outfit. The battle -hardened sergeant, a smart mouthed dogface and a raw recruit. The relationship between them is at once, a tenous, yet binding one. They have three separate outlooks on their job as soldiers, but share a common desire for survival and service to their country. Neil Foster as the enigmatjc Sgt `Boots', is plays the role with a seriousness, that makes his occasional departures to humor all the more amusing. Boots is not popular with his men because he seldom talks about himself, leaving them to wonder what's behind his stripes. When he does open' up, you almost wish he hadn't, as his is a story that was no doubt depressingly familiar dur- THEATRE REVIEW Tough -guy Sgt. Boots (Neil Foster) and Dutch farm girl Adriana (Laurel Paetz) share an embrace in this scene from `Polderland', which recently opened the Blyth . Festival season. ( Blyth Festival photo) ing the difficult pre-war economic times. Ron Gabriel is an actor who will be familiar to anyone who saw Blue City or Country Hearts, at Blyth last year. He played are amicable drunk in both these pro- ductions, a role which he performed with hilarious results. In "Polderland" Gabriel's role as Alf the enlisted man, Gabriel gets to use. his inherent comic timing to full advan- tage, while showing audiences more depth as a actor ,than he previously had a chcnce, to.. Brian Stollery as Ted, rounds out the trio and gives a believable performance as a southern Ontario farm boy, who is forced to learn fast about the realities of wartime life, when he takes a bullet in the leg and wat- ches a friend die in his very first field en- counter with the enemy. It is this injury to Ted, which is the catalyst for all the action in "Polderland", as it forces the soldiers to seek refuge in the • farmhouse of Adriana, (Laurel Paetz 1 a comely young Dutch girl and her mother Cora, who speaks no English, but gets her point across all the same. The play is interesting, but far from spellbinding as these characters meet and interact; but the introduction of Ernst, the German army private who represents the enemy in this production. As Ernst, David L. Gordon does an ex- cellent job of portraying the living con- tradiction of the average farm boy turned "fighting machine". Ernst is too honest to steal a pig from someone else's farm, or even take cigarettes from an enemy soldier without paying for them. At the same time Ernst wastes no time in kicking an opponent while down if the situation calls for it. Avioding one-sidedness, Wade's Canadian soldiers can show equal ruthlessness, when faced with the carne kind of choices. Under Director Katherine Kazas, Polderland flows smoothly, at a pace that keeps- the-- story moving, without underdeveloping either the main story line, or the several sub -plots. Polderland opened Friday, June 21 and runs until Aug. 22, at the Blyth Festival Theatre. Blyth Festival opens By James Friel BLYTH - With new Artistic Director Katherine Kaszii.s at the helm, the Blyth Festival has embarked on its second decade and celebrations held at the June 21 open- ing, featuring the play Polderland by Bryan Warleaaripkasizeci the festival's maturity. On hand �f i'r the evening were John Neville, Artistic Director Designate of the Stratford Festivnil; Dr.Hans Heeneman, Vice -Consul of the Netherlands; Donald MacSween, Director General of the Na- tional Arts ('entre in Ottawa; Murray Car- diff, MP for Huron -Bruce; Murray Elston, _M22_for-iiurneli uce.._. a!d_J�tck Riddell MPP for Huron -Middlesex. The evening began at 5 p.m. with Murray Elston awarding prizes for the Blyth Festival Art Gallery's juried show which was followed by dinner. ,John Neville was guest speaker and shared his views on theatre in the communi- ty. "As a successful actor in England, I thought it better if I was in an easily iden- tifiable community and I've had that in Ed- monton, Alberta, in Nottingham, England and in Halifax." And now, he said, he and his wife Carolyn have been accepted in Stratford "in a significant way." The Artistic Director Designate next welcomed Katherine Kaszas to the "frater- nity" of artistic directors. "During my time in Stratford, 1 hope we can be good neighbors. If there's anything we can do, nlease let us know - I do mean that." Mr_ Neville next tackled the issue govern- ment funding of the arts, stating "These are tough times for the arts" as a preface. "There are a lot of reasons artists give for wanting more money but really only two should be supported - one, the artist and two, the public. No others are worth talking about." He spoke of the need for people to see theatre, "The man working in the fields, the truck driver - all need that nourishment the theatre provides." Mr. Neville also noted that the new pro- vincial government has a streamlined cabinet as one of its goals. "I can't believe they would cut nut culture," he said, then suggested that Liberal leader David Peter- son's wife Shelley, a part-time actress, should be made Minister of Culture. "At least she knows something about the arts." 'Theatre at its best provokes us. prompts us to ask why. -Why war instead of love, why do we behave so badly, why do we create a situation like the famine in Ethiopia, why do we c( '3tetht' situation where people hijack planes'! "I believe theatre can prompt us to ask these questions, and that's why, Katherine. _1 believe v ou and l do tt, ' he concluded. After Mr. Neville's speech, vartousboard and staff triernbers presented framed posters tor Me Festival's 11th Season to the major patrons including John 1.abatt's i,irnited which provided funding for the festival to commission its first two plays Between the meal and the beginning of the play at 8:30, the Central Huron Secondary School Brass Quintet from C'lintonjplayed a .'ariety of classical pieces, the ri;,,rnputtrs, a dance troupe of eight youngsters per?orm- ed Dutch folk dances and the Out -of -Town Four, a barbershop quartet from the Seaforth area. sang songs fr Til the wet time - era. COMMUNITY CALENDAR SUNi)AY. ,JUNE 30 -Friendship breakfast at, the Legion hall from 8.30-11,30 a.m. Adults $2.75 -children -$1.75. Children under 6 free. Sponsored by Legion Ladies Auxiliary. TIIUI1Sd)AY, JUNE 27 -SATURDAY, JUNE 29 -Optimist Music Festival at Optimist Riverside Park runs for three days and features some fine bluegrass and folk enter- tainment. Enter off Maitland Road. Admis- sion $3. SATURDAY, JUNE 29 -Legion will host a dance in the Jubilee Room. SUNDAY, JUNE 30 -Sunday evening con- certs begin in bions Harbour Park at 7 p.m. Instru ,tal and vocal soloists featured. SUN Y, JUNE 30 -The annual Goderich fireworks display will begin at dusk from the south pier. Approximate starting time is 10.15 p.m. MOND Y, JULY 1 -Civic ceremony with local and Bay City civic and Legion dignitaries will begin in Courthouse Park at 1.15 p.m. The annual Canada Day Parade will follow at 2 p.m. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 -Women Today an- nual meeting at 8 p.m. in Clinton Town Hall. Theme -women and art. Everyone welcome. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 -Variety concert at MacKay Centre for Seniors at 8 p.m. in- strumentals and a slide show by exchange health inspector ,John Howe of New Zealand. For taxi phone 524-6594. JUNE 28,29 and 30 -Dungannon Agriculture Society 8th annual slowpitch tournament. ' Free dance Saturday beginning at 8 p.m. with music by Rick Passmore. Entertain- ment for children Saturday from 2-4 p.m. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 -Rotary Club is sponsoring a workshop on ticket marketing with Elaine Haggerty of the Ontario Arts Council at North Street United Church at 7.30 p.m. SUNDAY, ,JUNE 30 -Pancake breakfast in Lions Harbour Park from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lions beef barbecue will foll w from 3-7 p.m. Tickets available from all Lions Club members. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY -The St. Vincent De Paul Store on Caledonia Terrace sells us- ed clothing and is open 7-9 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Big Brothers of Goderich. Are you 18 years of age or older and willing to spend four hours a .week with a fatherless boy? If so, please contact Big Brothers at 524-9886 or 524-9132.