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`Nostalgia' east members are, front row, left to right, Kent
Milburn, Kathy MacDonald, Patricia Stapleton, Michael . Bogie,
Heather Stapleton and Lisa Frayne; and back row, left to right,
Beth Main, Chris Starkey, Kim Ladd, Paul Bogie and Samantha
McDonagh, Absent for photo were Lori Dykstra, Elizabeth Bundy,
Darryl Wilson, Jim Wilkin, Maureen Stapleton, Roz Elliott and
Deborah Drennan. (Photo byJoanne Buchanan)
Historical play opens at Livery
BY JOANNE BUCHANAN
Have you ever imagined what it must
have been like to live here in Huron County
in the 1800s?
Four students, working under an
Experience '84 grant, have thoroughly
researched life in Huron County circa 1845.
Armed with this research and their
imaginations, they have written an exciting
historical play entitled 'Nostalgia'. It will be
performed by them, plus many area
volunteers, at the Livery this Thursday,
Friday and Saturday (August 23, 24 and 25),
beginning at 8 p.m. each night.
'Nostalgia' revolves around the
character, Karen Ferguson, a 17 -year-old
student who falls asleep and awakens to find
herself in 1845. Her, adventures and
experiences with Huron County residents of
that year include barn dances, shivarees,
quilting bees and even a Temperance
meeting! She meets many interesting
characters, both factual and fictional, and
even gets to play 'Cupid' in a nineteenth
century romance.
Also featuring the 'No Notes Jug Band',
this play has songs, dances And comedy and
will give everyone who sees it, a better
insight into the lives of our pioneering -
forefathers.
'Nostalgia' represents the last of a three-
part summer project for Experience '84
students Elizabeth Frayne, Kathy
MacDonald, Kent Milburn and Heather -Ann
Stapleton. Earlier in the summer, they also
held a two-week children's theatre
workshop and produced an historial display
for the town's Festival of Arts and Crafts.
Debbie Shaddick of Goderich has been
overseeing the entire Experience '84
project. She originally wrote up an outline
for the project and sent it off to the Ministry
of Citizenship and Culture. They replied
withva $4,223 grant to pay the wages of the
students whom Debbie selected after much
interviewing. The town also chipped in $500
and more money was raised through the
children's theatre workshop.
Debbie had decided to apply for the
Experience '84 grant as a project for the
Ryerson theatre school where she is a
student. She felt the project would make
good use of the Livery building and also
provide valuable experience for the students
working on it. She hopes that summer
theatre projects for students can become an
on-going thing at the Livery where she
worked last year on fund-raising events for
the Goderich Arts Foundation through a
Summer Canada grant.
Tickets for 'Nostalgia' are available in
advance at the Livery, the Welcome Centre,
the Huron Historic Jail, Reg Bell's office or
the Recreation Department's office. For
further information, call 524-6262, 529-7664 or
482-3233.
A 'pioneer bake -sale' is being held in the
foyer at the Livery today ( Wednesday) to
celebrate the opening of 'Nostalgia' on
Thursday evening.
Entertainment continues at Blyth
after summer theatre season closes
If you think nothing happens at the Blyth
Festival after mid-September when the
summer theatre season closes, you are in
for a nice surprise! This Fall and Spring, the
Festival has three different entertainment
series to tempt you: Popular Music,
Classical Mrisic, and Children's Events.
These Fall/Spring series kick off on Fri-
day, September 21 with the first Popular
Music event: a concert by Sylvia Tyson.
Many afternoons and evenings of fun and
entertainment follow with all events
scheduled during the "better weather
months and with early curtain times.
Subscriptions for these FalUSpring series
are selling quickly—they have already pass-
ed the halfway mark! Subscription tickets
give you great savings (25-30 per cent over
single ticket prices) and first choice of
seats. To ensure best selection, buy your
subscriptions now—single tickets go on sale
September 17.
A special event this Fall is Theatre Passe
Muraille's production of Alligator Pie on
Friday, Septefnber 28. Charming adults and
children alike, this delightful adaptation of
Dennis Lee's best-selling book returns to
Blyth for one day only to kick off a national
tour While this production is not part of a
subscription series, Children's Series
holders will get $1 off the regular price of
$4.50. Tickets for Alligator Pie are available
now.
Pick up a brochure on the Fall/Spring
series at the Blyth Festival today or call the
Box Office at (519) 523-9300 or 523-9225 for
details.
Festival announcesla ' workshops.
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Canada, the recently merged organization
representing Canadian playwrights. Since
Stratford's artistic resources permit
playwrights the unusual opportunity of
workshopping large cast plays, the sole
criteria for inclusion will be excellence. The
final selection of plays will be made by the
Festival's senior artistic staff and members
of the company by September 1.
Workshops will be co-ordinated by Strat-
ford's Associate Literary Manager Elliott
Hayes, and are made possible through the
generous support of the Mark M. Tanz Foun-
dation.
The Stratford Festival is pleased to an-
nounce EXPLORATIONS '84, a month long
playwrights' workshop to take place
September 25 to October 23 in Stratford.
The object of EXPLORATIONS is to fur-
ther develop new Canadian plays through
the workshop process, using Stratford's
creative personnel, and rehearsal facilities.
Each week throughout the month, atten-
tion will focus on the play -in -progress of a
different playwright: intensive rehearsal,
dramaturgical discussion and practical
analysis culminating in a public reading and
question and answer period.
Artistic Director John Hirsch sees this
project as "a wonderful and exciting com-
plement to the Stratford Festival."
It is hoped that EXPLORATIONS '84 will
grow into EXPLORATIONS '85, and
establish itself as an integral part of the
StraUorU t estival, creating an enviroment
in which these plays can receive public
recognition as works worthy of full-scale
professional production.
Previously unproduced scripts eligible for
this year's workshop will be chosen in con-
junction with the Playwrights' Union of
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