Zurich Citizens News, 1976-11-10, Page 18Page 1.8 -Citizens News, November 10, 1976
Playhouses tours elementary schools
Four actors and their stage
manager, all members of the
Huron Country Playhouse Young
Players, are now touring to
elementary schools throughout
Southwestern Ontario. This five-
week stint, ending November 16,
is the first part of the Playhouse
1976-77 School Touring Program.
The Young Players touring ac-
tivities will resume March 1,
1977.
The show this year, entitled
The Hide -And- Seek Odyssey of
Madeline Gimple, is a 1967 script
by Frank Gagliano. It is the story
of an orphan girl's search for her
imaginary parents, and her
travels throughBalloon Land and
Li tterville.
She meets fantastical
characters such as Puppet Man,
Balloon Man, and another
character who reappears in each
new land, but as a different
person each time. The play in-
cludes music, magic and mime,
Madeline Gimple appeals to
most elementary school students
because the magic and make
believe work well with the
younger students, and the themes
of the problems of pollution, and
the loss of individual identity in a
mechanized society, are well
received by the older ones.
The group's first week of
performances were in public
libraries in towns including St.
Thomas, Strathroy, Ingersoll,
Woodstock and London. Since
then, the company has performed
in schools in Lucan, Dundalk,
Wingham and Milverton. Once
the initial opening performance
problems were worked out,
Madeline Gimple has proven to
be the most popular Young
Players production to date, with
students and teachers alike.
The Production was directed
IT'S A HOLIDAY—Friday was a holiday for the school children in town as their teachers took part
in a professional development day. Left, Kathy Merner and June Gingerich lost no time in getting
out the tobaggon and having some fun on the steep lawn in front of the Merner home.
Photo by McKinley
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by Playhouse Managing Director
James Murphy. The cast includes
David Douglas and Domenic
Cuzzocrea, both Londoners, and
Debbie Spring and Ed Taylor
from Toronto. Brian Mizzen
stage manages the production.
A grant from the Ontario Arts
Council helped make this year's
Playhouse School Tour possible.
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