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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1987. PAGE 27.
Festival season
Listowel school takes drama awards
The Listowel District Secondary
School Drama Club was the big
winner at the second annual School
Drama Festival held in Blyth over
the weekend, with its excerpts
from “The Farm Show” getting
the nod from adjudicators David
Craig and Stephen Schipper as the
Best Overall Production.
The Listowel Club also took both
top actor awards, with the Best •
Actor going to Mike Grant as the
man in the bale scene in The Farm
Show; and the Outstanding Perfor
mance (male) prize going to Rob
Neves as the boar in the same
show.
Allison Dunn as Mary in “The
Melville Boys’ ’ carried off the Best
Actress award for the Central
Huron Secondary School Drama
Club; and Kira Stuckey as Mrs.
Ruth Warren in “Still Stands the
House” captured the Outstanding
Performance (female) award for
the F.E. Madill Secondary School
Drama Club.
The Seaforth District High
School won the award for “Out
standing Costumes” in their pro
duction of “Chief Shaking Spear
Rides Again,’’ and the Clinton
Club won the “Best Set” award for
“The Melville Boys.”
Co-organizer of the Festival,
Stephen Oliver of Central Huron
Secondary School and director of
his school’s entry in the competi
tion, said that the adjudicators had
done afine, sensitive and complete
appraisal of the plays performed,
taking into account that they were
all student productions performed
on a strange stage.
Ms. Kaszas says that she would
like eventually to see extensive
drama classes for young people in
the area, pointing out that Huron
has a great many sports programs
for youth, but few opportunities to
grow in the arts.
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was a hit at Blyth during the 1986
season. It will open as a completely
new production on August 25, and
will play through until September
12.
Described by Ms. Kaszas as “a
very fine piece of writing, ” and by
Doug Bale of The London Free
Press as “one of Blyth’s most
powerful plays ever,” “Promise”
is a powerful and compelling play
about a fourth-generation farm
family in southern Ontario fighting
the uphill struggle farming has
become in the 1980’s, and about
renewal and joy in the face of
adversity.
Following the close of the Blyth
Festival season on September 12,
“Another Season’s Promise” will
go on tour. While the final details of
the tour are not yet available,
publicity director Philippa Borgal
says that this tour could be the most
ambitious ever undertaken by the
Blyth Festival, covering not only
the small communities of western
Ontario traditionally visited, but
also extending into other provinc-
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Mr. Oliver says he is already
looking forward to next year’s
drama festival, and would like to
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