Village Squire, 1976-03, Page 6Sonja Smits and Tom Arnott as bickering tennis partners in a skit from Love and Marriage.
the variety is good, from the Stratford
Festival, to the broadway comedy fare offered
at the Huron Country Playhouse, Grand Bend
to the Opera House in Petrolia to the original
Canadian productions of the Summer
Festival, Blyth. But in the winter the only
professional theatre in the region is Theatre
London and its programme is nearly booked
solid with subscribers, leaving little room for
the occasional theatre goer.
In addition, Centre Stage is trying to lure
new theatre patrons with evening programs
costing only S3.($) compared to higher prices
for larger theatres and even movies.
And the -re's the lure of that lunchtime
Theatre: If yqu're in the city for a day for
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shopping, you could spend a lunch hour in an
expensive restaurant and come out with your
stomach filled but your pocket book empty.
But for 99 cents and your own lunch brought
from home, you could spend an hour being
filled both physically and spiritually and come
away with nearly as much money as you
started out with. It's an opportunity many
people are likely to enjoy.
The hitch is to keep the theatre going long
enough for people to discover it. Three
months may seem like a long time to many
people, but to make or break a new theatre
venture, it's a horribly short time. Centre
Stage will need all the friends, and breaks, it
can get.
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