The Citizen, 2013-08-01, Page 19THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 2013. PAGE 19.
Car on stage, ready for ‘Garrison’s Garage’ opening
While each play presents unique
and interesting challenges for the
technical members of the Blyth
Festival crew, some are a little more
challenging than others and some are
a little bit more unique as well.
Technical Director Ryan Oliver
explained that his team, who last
week had to move not one, but one
and a half cars on to stage in
preparation for the Blyth Festival’s
remounting of Garrison’s Garage,
said that this was a new one for him.
“We knew Garrison’s Garage
needed a car and a half, but I don’t
think any of us were prepared for
what we had to do when we started,”
he said.
Oliver explained that the group
visited Dave Roy’s property, who
had some vehicles available, and,
when some of the other staff at the
Blyth Festival chose the car that they
would use, Oliver was a little
surprised.
“The [now] blue car we’re using
was white and crushed,” he said.
“We did a site visit and we saw the
car and it had been under a tree for
quite some time.”
Oliver, who said that Roy has been
a guardian angel, providing the
technical crew with much of what
they are using on the stage free of
charge, said that as soon as they got
the car, they started work right away
to rebuild it.
After rebuilding it, however, the
project required some more
ingenuity.
“I knew they had a thresher on
stage at one point, so there was a
winch-point installed, which we
used to get things up to the stage,” he
said. “But the car was too wide to fit
on the ramp into the building.”
Faced with one of two difficult
choices, either rebuilding the ramp
or finding a way around the problem,
Oliver decided to build a dolly to
help move the vehicle in.
“I pegged engineering a dolly for
the ramp as less work than
rebuilding the ramp,” he said. “After
that, it took a lot of man power and
tenacity, and a winch, but we got it
up there and the car now lives
backstage.”
Physical power was about all the
The kids in Blyth are up to
something.
It’s the height of summer and
school is just far enough away in
each direction that parents are at the
point of coma inducing panic attacks
and the kids are figuring out how to
entertain themselves. Scary thought,
no? Well in Blyth, a gang of young
people have banded together and
have begun spreading out into the
community!
Horrifying to some, but it’s just
another regular year for the Blyth
Festival Young Company. That’s
right, the Blyth Festival’s young
players have been at it again, and
this Aug. 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11, you will
have the opportunity to see what it is
that they have been up to in their
new collective Working in the
County.
After last year’s overwhelming
reception of The Farm: 2012, the
Young Company decided to further
investigate the people of Huron
County. Utilizing the same interview
and research techniques perfected
last summer, the Young Company
has gone out into their surrounding
communities and begun
interviewing the men and women
who work in the county. This
includes everyone, from the sales
clerk who sold you your groceries,
the men who search for salt under
Lake Huron, to the doctors who save
and deliver lives!
It is from these interviews and
research that they have written
Working in the County. Under the
direction of Martha Ross, this small
group of seven young actors has
developed a one-of-a-kind script.
Incorporating the text developed and
the very physical style of
performance Ross perfected at
L’Ecole Jaques LeCoq in Paris,
Working in the County will be a
dynamic recreation of the people of
Huron County. It is sure to be an
interesting and dynamic production,
as always.
Tickets always sell out, so be sure
to book early to see Working in the
County which will be playing for a
limited time. Catch it at the Phillips
Studio Theatre on Wednesday, Aug.
7 at 7 p.m.; Thursday, Aug. 8 at 7
p.m.; Friday, Aug. 9 at 6:30 p.m.;
Saturday, Aug. 10 at 6:30 p.m.;
Sunday, Aug. 11 at 5 p.m.
To book your tickets, visit the
website at www.blythfestival.com or
call 1-877-862-5984.
Gord and Pat Jenkins are proud to
announce that their daughter, Larissa
Jenkins, has graduated from Lambton
College in Sarnia with her ECE.
Larissa was on the Dean’s Honour
Roll twice. Larissa is currently
employed at Clinton Childcare Centre
at Clinton Public School in Clinton.
We are very proud of you and
wish you all the best in the future.
– Love Mom, Dad, Petey
and the rest of your family.
GraduationGraduation
Lesley Pepper, daughter of Murray
and Sandra Pepper, Brussels graduated
with distinction on the Dean’s Honour
Roll from the Practical Nursing
Program at Conestoga College on
June 13, 2013.
She has accepted a position as RPN at
Leisureworld in Elmira and continues
her previous career as a RVT at South
Tower Animal Hospital in Fergus.
Congratulations Les - We are very
proud of you!
– Love, your family
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Regardless of the horsepower this vehicle used to have, it required plenty of person-power to
get it from the Blyth Festival garage on Dinsley Street to the backstage of Blyth Memorial Hall
last week when the technical crew ended up pushing it down the road. (Denny Scott photo)
By Denny Scott
The Citizen
Young Company hits stage Aug. 7
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