Clinton News-Record, 1973-04-26, Page 13Area residents who attend one of Passe Murallie's shoWs
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names on the stage. The set, though simple, is very ap-
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The basic honesty and sincerity of "The Farm Show" is
one of the reasons for its huge success, reviewers say.
Miles Potter and Janet Amos contribute to this honesty.
Director Paul Thompson feels people in-the smaller areas
should get a chance to see the play before It moves on to
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CLINTON NEWS-RECORD, THURSDAY, APRIL, 26, 1676-13
ti
the m show 0 tour
In July, the group, Paul
ompson, and seven actors,
tresses and their children
ok up residence at the Bird
rm and began immediately
live and learn from the
ople around the Maitland
e, Holmesville, Clinton and
e surrounding township.
All the while they were
1ping to load hay, visiting
th. neighbours or attending
ange parades, they were
ling out the community, the
ople and their distinctive
bits.
Part of the day was spent out
the community and the rest
the day they worked on
sembling their impressions
to an accurate, believable
irror of the people in the
ea.
After polishing the play, the
see Muraille presented it in
rly August to an enthusiastic
cal audience in the Ray Bird
rn and then moved back to
eir headquarters in Toronto.
Now named "The Farm
ow", the play opened for a
ree week stand at Passe
uraille's Trinity Square
eatre and received plaudits
d have reviews from the
ronto Star, The Globe and
ail and even the left-wing
dical newspaper Guerilla.
e laudatory reviews said it
as one of' the best believable
eces written on a Canadian
bject.
Following the overwhelming
ceptance in Canadian culture
relies, Passe Muraille was of-
red a chance to bring the play
the Cultural Arts Centre in
ttawa this summer. Other
nerous offers for the distinc-
ye Canadian play came from
roadway and the New
ngland States.
It seems that when anything
about Clinton and area appears
in the national media, it was
always about an isolated
iramatic incident that
comes twisted and distorted
ut of all proportions, making
e area look bad and leaving
pressions that bore no resem-
ance to the real thing.
But that is changing. Last
11 and again this spring and
comer, thousands of people
.m across Canada and the
ited States will get a chance
see how the people around
inton , and Goderich Town-
p really live,
eople wha.have never heard
Clinton, or don't know
ere it is, will get a chance to
what our day to day lives
about. They will be able to
gh with us and cry with us.
t all stems from a chance
ationship that brought a
atre group to Huron County
then blossomed into a
ique and rewarding ex-
ience.
t all started early last sum-
r when Paul Thompson,
ector of the Passe Muraille
eatre group in Toronto, was
king for a place to write and
duce a unique Canadian
y. Don Lobb of Clinton knew
t the place, the old Ray Bird
m on the Maitland Line.
Director Paul Thompson tur-
ned down the offer to go to New
York, but said yes to the Ot-
tawa date 'and the New
England tour. Instead, he felt
they should take the play back
to the people in the small rural
towns, where it was born. "We
thought we should give the
people in the smaller centres a
chance to see a Canadian
play," Mr. Thompson said in a
recent interview.
Following a two week stand
-at, the Toronto theatre, Which
'opened April 11, the group will
tour the play on "one night
stands" throughout South-
western Ontario from Essex on
the south to Orangeville on the
north.
After their opening night last
week in Toronto, the group had
praise heaped upon them by the
Toronto press. Urjo Kareda of
the Toronto Star said "it
remains the most beautiful,
exuberant, human group show
of the season, a proof of how
the theatre can open our eyes to
experiences we've never known
and stir within us responses
that we weren't even aware of.
Its (Clinton's) customs,
traditions and history may be
all new to us - astonishing
enough given the proximity -
but its impulses for joy and
sorrow touch us all."
On the 24 and 25 of April,
the group opens their road tour
in Orangeville. The cast is the
original one that played here
last September, with the excep-
' tion of Ted Johns of Mitchell,
who'"wul zC'take'~dire`ctor' haul
Thompson's place. Mr. Thomp-
son will be the advance man for. the group.
The Farm Show is capably
handled by regulars Fina
MacDonell, Janet Amos, Anne
Anglin, David Fox, and Miles
Potter.
They will play Listowel on
April 26 and 27 and then to
Mount Forest on April 28.
Blyth will see them on Sunday
afternoon April 29, and the
group travels all the way to
Essex for a date on April 30.
On May second, they play
Kincardine and then to Clinton
on May third, Wingham on
May fourth and back to Clinton
on May fifth.
It's on to Brussels on May
sixth, then up to Owen Sound
on May ninth. Port Elgin is
scheduled for May 10 and
Hanover on May 12.
The tour will wind up at the
Stratford Shakespearean
Festival, where the' show will
play to an international
audience. Director Thompson
says that the play will marlothe
first time in nearly a decade
that a Canadian play has been
presented on the
Shakespearean stage.
Starting on August 21, Passe
Muraille will have the honor of
presenting the play at the
National Arts Centre in Ot-
tawa. The Centre was built a
few years ago, and has become
the cultural centrepoint of
Canada. There, the group will
show such notables as Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau what
Clinton and area is really all
about.
In September, the group will
start a three week tour of the
New England States.
Without a doubt, The Farm
Show is one of the best pieces of
Canadian written and
produced plays to grace the
stage in some time. It's a sen-
sitive, accurate look at a way of
life that is fast dying. The play
will go down as a truly
Canadian 'and even inter
" Wfltiti'kYal pit +
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%% vigorous,
informative,
stylish
and
often insanely funny //
URJO KAREDA
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