HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1984-07-25, Page 7CAKE -WALK opened at Blyth Festival Anglin, W, Dorothy Piner, Laurel Paetz„
last Tuesday night. Shown In a scene of the Janet Land, Andrew Martin Thomson, and
play are the cast, from left to right, Anne Patricia Vanstone,
Local kids will perform in play
called Cue for Treason
Shakespeare in Blyth, performed by Queen Elizabeth 1. The plot is'foiled by two
children? That's what's happening. The young boys, members of Shakespeare's
Blyth Festival's Young People's Workshop acting company. Jim Schaefer, a familiar
has begun rehearsals on an adaptation of name ya-,Blyth audiences, is directing the
Geoffrey Trease's popular novel Cue for produCtion. assisted by Judi Skinner and
Treason. Fifteen youngsters, aged 12 years Michael Hannigan. Jim was a member of the
and over, are involved. They come from the acting company in the Festival's first season
Blyth, Wingham.. Brussels, Belgrave and (1975). The production is designed and
Clinton areas, co-ordinated by Kerry Hackett and the
Cue for Treason has been specially adapted children themselves.
for the Festival by David Stewart Craig, the Members of the public are invited to attend
founder of Theatre Direct Canada and author performances of Cue for Treason in the Blyth
of Booster McCrane, P.M. which premiered Lions' Park (weather permitting) starting at
last fall at the Toronto Free Theatre. 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 10, 11. 12, 15 and 16. In
The play takes place in Elizabethan case of rain, performances will be re -
England and revolves around a plot to kill scheduled. Admission s free,
Uproarious comedy at Playhouse
Bedroom Farce, Alan Ayckbourn's hilar-
ious comedy about the havoc created by one
unhappily married couple as they visit three
other couples on one very long Saturday
night, opened at Huron Country Playhouse
July 18.
The story is simple. Malcolm and Kate
(Terrence Slater and Marcia Kash) are
having a housewarming. Nick and Jan (Grant
Roll and Shelley Peterson) are going, but
Nick has sprained his back and is out of
commission, but Jan is going to drop in for a
few minutes. On the same evening. Ernest
and Delia (Eric House and Ann Casson) are
Engagement
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Ronald and Dorothy Gordon of
R.R. 2 Blyth are pleased to
announce the forthcoming mar
riage of their daughter Joyce to
Alvin Dow, R.R. 2, Staffa, son of
Elmer and Mary F. Dow, Mitchell
The wedding will take place at
Melville Presbyterian Church
Bryssels, on Saturday, August 4,
1904 at 6:30 p.m.
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celebrating their anniversary and plan on a
special dinner at a favorite restaurant. Then.
Trevor and Susannah (Anthony Bekenn and
Judy Leigh -Johnson) appear first together at
Malcolm and Kate's happy home, then
separately at Nick and Jan's and,Ernest and
Delia's. The results of these visits is pure
bedlam!
Bedroom Farce is one of the wittiest:
funniest plays ever to be presented at Huron
Country Playhouse. Bedroom Farce will be
seen July 18 -July 28 nightly with matinees
every Wednesday and Thursday.
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THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JULY 25, 1984 — Alj
Action and comedy make for a good play
BY DARRELL KLOEZE
Cake -Walk, Blyth Festival's third play of
the summer, provides a delightful evening of
whole -hearted good fun.
The play is filled with lively action and good
comedy, and even occasionally offers some
tender emotional moments.
The cake-wnik , we learn during the play, is
an old restaurant tradition whereby waiters
are judged on their abilities and styles while
walking with a loaded cake platter. The
tradition evolved into a dance, and eventually
into cake -baking contests at country fairs,
It is at such a cake contest that this play is
set, in the once -popular Bayview Inn on
Canada Day. The cake -walk has always been
a highlight of this community's country fair,
and the entrants take the contest seriously.
Of course, one cannot have a cake -walk
without cakes, and the Blyth Festival has
provided the audience with five believably
delicious creations. These are the cakes of the
five contestants in the ABC room, whose life
stories unfold as they wait to enter the
contest. The cakes are not normal cakes, they
are works of art with personalities of their
own, and they also reflect somewhat the
personalities of their makers.
For example, surely the most elaborate
cake entry has to be a large three -tiered
wedding cake, It is the .entry of Augusta
Connors Secord, who has entered the contest
to prove that she can win something by
herself, after devoting her life to her
overprivileged children, and a provident but
unfaithful husband.
But it is not for Augusta to be subtle; her
contest entry is her daughter'swedding cake,
which is to be used only the next day for its
intended purpose. Tiffany, the daughter, is
not pleased, and comes to force her timid and
slightly befuddled mother to withdraw from
the contest,
• Then there is the Cleary Chocolate
Cheesecake, "quite possibly the most
decadent dessert ever made." It is the entry
of Sister Vivien Leigh Cleary, who has
entered the contest to win a free trip to France
for one of the elder nuns in her convent whom
Leigh wishes to send to Lourdes. The rich
decadence of her cake seems uncharacteristic
of Leigh's common sense and healthy beauty,
But there is another side to Leigh, as we
learn; she is having doubts about her
commitment to the convent, and enters the
cake -walk as a layperson perhaps, like
Augusta, to prove herself as an individual,
She begins to have more than doubts about
being a nun when she meets the only male to
enter the fair's cake -walk in its history -
Taylor Abbott. Predictably, the two sensitive
and single adults end up falling for each
other. Taylor is a shy and rather dull •
archaeologist, and his King Tut Coconut
Cake is not all that interesting.
Leigh's best friend, Martha Britch, has
entered her Heaven on Earth Carrot Cake in
Picnic barbecue at
Health Care Facility
Rev. Cheryl Ann Stadelbauer-Sampa
visited 'Seaforth Health Care Facility last
Friday morning.
Worship service was held on Wednesday
afternoon conducted by Rev, Archie Robert-
son of Bethel Bible Church, Readings were
given by Mrs. Blanchard and daughter also
Mrs. Elliott and Mrs. McGonigle. Mr, and
Mrs, Mervyn Lobb sang a hymn.
Forty-five residents enjoyed the weekly
:.icnic barbecue on the patio on Friday. The
weatherman was most favorable and only a
few drops of rain fell,
PERSONALS
Visiting with William Scott was Jack
Davidson of Brucefleld also Bill's brother
Ross and wife Isabel.
Kathleen Hernachi and sons of Michigan
visited Patrick Ryan and took him out for a
drive.
Erle Dow was out for supper with his
daughter Mabel Clark of Bayfield.
Pam Ryan, Kelly and Sara visited her
mother Carole Geddes, Her husband,
Charlie also visited.
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Visiting with Mack Tiffin were his sister
and her husband, Mr. -and Mrs. Leslie
Martin of Dresden, also his brother Walter
Tiffin and niece and nephew Sandra and
Ryan McFadden.
Norma Streets enjoyed a shopping trip
with Phyllis Lee on Saturday.
Ruth Noll spent the weekend in Palmer-
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Gladys Ruston spent Sunday at her home
in Stratford.
Visiting with Edward Dunn were his
daughter Mary E. Leppartl, husband Ken
and daughter Patricia. Thdy took Mr. Dunn
out for a drive.
Mary Nolan visited with her husband
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Birthday greetlngs to three residents this
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Kay Clarke of Glencoe visited recently
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the contest. Martha has weathered the
transition from '60s flower child to respon-
sible adult quite successfully, but nobody in
town seems to believe it, and that hurts
Martha.
But Martha is different than most of the
people in the community; her husband is an
American draft -dodger who used to wear a
pony tail, she lived with him before getting
marled, she kept her own last name when she
married, and she still wears "fdppy" clothes
and runs a health food restaurant. Martha
worries about what people think about her,
and she hopes that winning the cake -walk will
give her some respectability,'
The fifth contestant is Mrs, Buckey (Ruby)
Abel, who has entered thy cake -walk for a
taste of the fame she briefly enjoyed in high
school as a champion baton twirler. Ruby is
determined to win this contest, either
honestly or dishonestly. and her attempts to
do so, provide most of the comic action ofthe
play.
A play is seldom so perfectly cast as
Cake -Walk, although the characters may
seem, sometimes too predictably stereotyped,
Laurel Paetz is wonderful as the warm-heart-
ed Sister .Leigh Cleary, and Anne Anglin is
also very good as the embittered Ruby Abel.
' There is not one weak performance in the
cast: Janet Land has her small-town debt'.
tante role ,down perfectly as Tiffany, and
likewise W. Dorothy Piner as her fluffy
mother; Patricia Vanstone is good as the
radical -ten -years -later, and Andrew Martin
Thomson rounds off the cast as the
quiet -mannered Taylor.
Cake -Walk is a fun way to spend a suhner
evening. The, play runs in repertory at Bly
until Aug.' 18.
Billy Bishop next at Playhouse it
The great Canadian musical drama "Billy
Bishop Goes to War" will be the second
offering of the Playhouse 11 season at Huron
Country Playhouse.
Billy Bishop, the home town boy from
Owen Sound, was a misfit cadet at Royal
Military College, who, on the dawning of
World War 1, would have been expelled had
not war started. "Billy Bishop Goes to War"
is his story from his days as a cadet through
his first encounters with trench warfare to his
discovery of airplanes. Then his moments of
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