The Citizen, 1989-07-05, Page 23Dora winner and writer
Kevin Bundy (left) and Ray Storey, members of the Blyth Festival
Company, both had an active part in the Dora Mavor Moore Awards
ceremony on June 27 when Mr. Bundy won an award, along with the
entire cast of "Paranoia”, for outstanding production and
outstanding performance. Mr. Storey was the script writer for the
entire evening’s festivities.
'Sisters9 actors
suited to roles
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Festival actors at awards show
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mature woman who deals stoicly
with what life presents her.
The male leads were equally
suited to their roles. Alan Gray’s
Vershinin could have been a whin
ing individual, yet managed to see
humour in every situation - not to
mention that he makes a rather
elegant officer. David Brown in the
role of Masha’s husband Fyodor
Kulygin was so stodgy, and tedious
we could well forgive Masha for her
indiscretion. One scene said it all.
After a lengthy diatribe on his
marvelous life Kulygin stated,
"I’m content, content, content,” to
which Masha replied, "I’m bored,
bored, bored.” Kulygin looked
only slightly perplexed at her state
ment, then left smiling.
Dr. Chebutykin, the family
friend who had loved the girl’s
mother, was played with tremen
dous depth by Bernard Hopkins.
Hopkins took the doctor from a
comic figure to a father figure, to
an irresponsible drunken sot, a
man believing that he possibly
doesn’t even exist. Eric McCor
mack as the Baron and Jerry
Etienne as Solyony both give
strong performances. McCormack
effectively keeps the Baron from
becoming a younger version of the
vapid Kulygin while Etienne is
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convincing in his portrayal of the
disturbed young officer. Kevin
Gudahl as the cuckolded brother,
Andrey also gives a solid perfor
mance.
Larissa Lapchiriski plays the part
of Natasha, Andrey’s wife, who
makes the transformation from
mild to mercenary to one quick step
- marriage. She is excellent in both
situations.
The set design of white on white
by Debra Hanson was impressive
as were the period costumes. The
music which adapted by Berthold
Carriere was hauntingly beautiful.
If there is a negative aspect to
this production it is the depressing
final part I mentioned before. Yet,
Checkov’s theme is that of indiffer
ence not optimism. If that is
depressing then we must remem
ber that life can be like that. We do
not always get what we expect from
it and must accept what we get.
I tremendously enjoyed Three
Sisters even the parts I cried
through and I recommend it highly.
John Neville’s Three Sisters is a
class act.
CUNNINGHAM-COATES
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cunn
ingham are pleased to announce
the forthcoming marriage of their
daughter, Debra Dawn to Robert
Alexander Coates, son of Dr. and
Mrs. Robert Coates of London.
The wedding will take place at 3
o’clock on Saturday, July 15,
1989 at Knox United Church,
Auburn.
The Blyth Festival was well
represented at the Dora Mavor
Moore Theatre Awards on June 25
when a Blyth actor won an award
and other Blyth Alumni were
involved in winning performances.
"Blyth is getting a good reputa
tion and it gets high profile people
to come here,” said Kevin Bundy,
the Goderich native who won a
Dora award along with the entire
cast of Theatre Columbus’s play,
Paranoia, for outstanding produc
tion and outstanding performance.
Mr. Bundy returned to Blyth for
his fourth season where he has
appeared in "Bordertown Cafe”,
"Lily, Alta,” "Another Season’s
Promise” and "Miss Balmoral of
the Bayview.” This season he is
acting in "Sticks and Stones”.
The theatre that Mr. Bundy
acted in Toronto (Theatre Colum
bus) was run by Leah Cherniak and
Martha Ross who were leaders of
the Blyth Festival Young Company
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in 1987. Ms. Cherniak will be
coming to Blyth again this summer
to worshop a script.
The script for the Dora Awards
ceremony was written by Ray
Storey who wrote "Girls in the
Gang” which premiered at Blyth.
He also wrote "The Dreamland”
which will be premiering in July at
Blyth.
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