The Citizen, 1990-06-13, Page 27THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. 1990. PAGE 27.
Landscape print show opens at Festival gallery Friday
“Within the Landscape” featur
ing the serigraphs of David Peter
Hunsberger opens the new season
for the Blyth Festival Art Gallery
on Friday, June 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Born in Kitchener, Mr. Huns
berger graduated from the Univer
sity of Waterloo in 1976 with an
Honours B.A. in Fine Arts. Since
then, he has been living and
working in Waterloo as a full-time
serigraphic printmaker. In David’s
serigraph images, the landscape,
flora and forest celebrate the
natural beauty of our world. Using
a simple silk-screen technique,
David applies multiple layers of
transparent colours, just as ele
ments appear layered in nature.
Theatre review
Performances bring ‘Love’ to life
BY KEITH ROULSTON
A soap opera writer could pro
bably go for a whole season on the
plot twists encountered in the three
hours of “Love for Love”, William
Congrieve’s restoration comedy
playing at Stratford’s Avon Theatre
this summer.
The head nearly reels after a
while, trying to follow the commun
ications and permutations of the
various lovers in the play and the
tricks they try to set up for each
c^ier. While sometimes there is
- .most too much going on, there’s
always the delight of sitting back
and watching some wonderful act
ing performances in the farcical
situations on stage.
In this case age goes before
beauty with two fine performances
by senior members of the company.
Edward Atienza is wonderful as the
superstitious Foresight, worried
about the future of the women of
his family, unsure his wife isn’t
playing around, sure he wants a
good match for his niece Angelica
and not the wastral she’s rumoured
to be involved with. Foresight is
really an unlikeable character but
with Atienza playing him, it’s a
delight to see him come on stage
each time.
Almost as much fun is Sir
Sampson Legend, played by Doug
las Rain who is really a legend in
his own mind. Sir Sampson plots to
disinherit his eldest son by making
a deal he’ll pay off his mounting
debts if he signs over all rights to
his inheritance to a younger son
who is off at sea. He’s also
delighted when he thinks he can
steal away Angelica, the young
beauty whose son Valentine has
been wooing unsuccessfully. The
pompous Sir Sampson is sure he
can make her happier than his son
Play product
pf workshop
program
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writing possible. Since its first
workshop in the 1981 summer
season, the Festival’s new play
development program has gradu
ally expanded and now encourages
not only those scripts with potential
for the mainstage in Blyth, but also
those talented playwrights with
plays better suited to other audi
ences. Our workshop scripts have
gone on to great success in
professional theatres across the
country.
Peter Smith directs “A Field of
Flowers” featuring the cast of
Blyth favourites - Jerry Franken,
Cheryl Swarts, Katia de Pena,
Lynn Woodman and newcomers
Shawna Lori Burnett, Martin Jul
ien, Marion Adler and Paul Hadd
ad. The production is designed by
Dennis Horn, lighting design by
Lesley Wilkinson, with 17 perfor
mances at the Blyth Festival until
August 24, 1990.
The texture of nature is thus
transferred to paper. Hunsberger’s
one-man show appears at the Blyth
Festival Art Gallery from June 15
to July 12.
“We’re saving the official open
ing of the new art gallery until July
14th - when the new art gallery
space will be completed” says Joel
Harris, General Manager of the
Blyth Festival. James Roy, the first
artistic director of the Blyth Festi
val will be the guest speaker at the
July 14th gallery opening. The
Hunsberger exhibit will be the final
show in the old art gallery located
in the box office wing of the Blyth
Memorial Hall.
ever could. Rain has just the right
amount of bluster, making Sir
Sampson almost puff up like a
bullfrog at times.
Roberta Maxwell is full of fun as
the lusty Mrs. Frail, ready to enjoy
herself with any man who promises
a good time but with an eye for a
wedding match that will provide
financial security while she dallies
on the side. Her eyes seem to
twinkle with enjoyment at her
hedonisitic lifestyle.
Keith Dinnicol as the foppish,
stuffy Tattle is certain every
woman is just waiting for his
pleasures, particularly because he
prides himself in being discreet,
though he can easily be tricked into
revealing all to any gossips who
wants to make the effort.
Juan Chioran as Scandal the
friend of Valentine who tries to
help him scheme his way back into
the inheritance his father wants to
take away from him is a chilling
presence on the stage, even though
his evil exterior often turns out to
house a better heart than many like
Tattle who think they are only
good.
As Valentine, Colm Feore gives
plenty of reason why a father would
want to disinherit him. He has
spent himself into huge debt in a
wasteful life and now is full of
tricks to undo the agreement he
made with his father. He tries to
trick the wary Angelica too but
she’s too smart to be caught.
Although in the end he turns out to
have been doing everything wrong
for the right reasons, the transfor
mation is never entirely successful.
Feore’s Valentine seems too cold
and forbidding for the lovely
Angelica to really fall in love with.
And finally, the beauty. As
Angelica, Goldie Semple is so
radiant she seems to have her own
little spotlight following her on
stage. Taller than even most of the
men, she automatically takes the
centre of attention in every scene.
KJSSY
From your
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“My seripgraphs are detailed
and realistic, without being photo
graphic” says Hunsberger. “Seri
graphy is challenging - it’s one of
the most difficult artistic tech
niques to master. What is seri
graphy? It is a printmaking process
that involves squeezing ink through
a stencilled screen onto paper.
When multiple colours are used,
each colour must be printed indivi
dually. A different stencil must be
prepared for each colour. My prints
usually involve the use of from 10
to 20 colours and I use liquid
“block out” to handpaint my
multiple stencils onto the screen.”
Since 1976, Hunsberger has
enjoyed a number of solo exhibi-
Angelica is a street-wise woman,
not likely to be tricked by any of the
schemes of Valentine and Scandal.
In the end, she is ready to marry
the old Sir Sampson because she
can not trust what she has seen of
Valentine. When he hears of her
engagement he’s ready to sign
what his father wants because
without her, nothing in life is worth
fighting for. When she sees this
and has a change of heart, every
body in the audience realizes how
privileged Valentine is to win this
angelic Angelica.
Love for Love plays at the Avon
until Nov. 9.
SCOTT
Love Karen
tions and participated in innumer
able group shows. He has enjoyed
solo exhibitions at galleries such as
the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gall
ery, the London Regional Art
Gallery and the Grimsby Public Art
Gallery. Among the galleries in
which his prints have appeared in
group shows are: the Art Gallery of
Ontario, the Art Gallery of Hamil
ton, Oakville’s Centennial Gallery
and the Heritage Centre of Winni
peg. David Hunsberger lives and
works in Waterloo as a full time
serigraphic printmaker. His studio
is located on Peppier Street in
Waterloo.
Hunsberger’s work has won wide
acclaim. He is represented in
private, public and corporate col
lections across Canada including
Honda Canada, Prudential Assur
ance, Kimberly-Clark and IBM
Canada. During his career, Huns
berger’s talent has also been
recognized by government agen
cies. He has received grants from
both the Ontario Arts Council and
the Canada Council.
Other exhibits at the Blyth Festi
val Art Gallery include: Raku:
Performance in Clay (July 14 to
August 16, 1990) which highlights
the work of many Ontario crafts
men (official opening of the new art
gallery) and A Selection of Cana
dian Art - on display from August
4?t&.
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