The Citizen, 1989-12-06, Page 26PAGE 26. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1989.
Entertainment Stratford Festival shows
$351,924 year-end surplus
Review
Kaleidoscope top entertainment
BY ERIN ROULSTON
[AGE 9]
Out of all the children’s plays I
have seen, I have never seen a play
better than “Once Upon a Story”
performed by Kaleidoscope Thea
tre at Blyth Memorial Hall on
Saturday.
The show combined hand-clapp
ing, toe-tapping music and inter
esting, educational, yet hilarious
stories that the group acted out
nicely. The four actors and one
musician acted out seven fairy tales
that the adults liked as well as the
children. The four actors, (Janet
Baxter, Kelt Ecclestone, Sharon
Heath, and Keith Provost) asked
for suggestions from the children in
the audience and included them in
their stories. With musician/man-
ager Paul Patterson providing the
music, they also sang songs where
they changed the words to make up
their own songs. Sometimes they
made nursery rhymes and sang
them to the music they played.
They acted out the story sugges
tions from the audience so well (as
if they already knew what they
were going to do) that they had a
lady who sat near me bending over
and slapping their knee from
laughing so hard.
When the show was over I said to
my friend “That show was so good
I didn’t notice that it was an hour
long.” But as they say time flies
when you’re having fun!
Once again, the Stratford Festi
val’s fiscal year has ended with a
surplus. The details of the financial
statements, that will be presented
at the Annual General Meeting on
Saturday, December 2, indicate an
operating surplus of $351,924 for
1989.
The 1989 season, which ended on
October 29, is the fifth consecutive
year the Festival has finished in the
black and it leaves the organization
with an accumulated operating
surplus of $638,867. The 1989
operating surplus is the result of
another successful year at the Box
Office.
PARK THEATRE
HELD OVER 2ND WEEK
Christmas
Vacation
Tangled tales
Kaleidoscope Story Theatre entertained children at Blyth
Memorial Hall Saturday with music and the hilarious telling of
fairy tales.
Blyth Festival’s 6th annual
writers’ retreat begins
Eight writers will be included in
the Blyth Festival’s sixth Annual
Writers’ Winter Retreat which
lasts a full three weeks.
Writers in residence who are
part of this special new play
development program include: Bill
Butt, David Carley, Robert Clinton
(author of Mail Order Bride),
Colleen Curran (author of Cake-
Walk and Miss Balmoral of the
Bayview), Laurie Fyffe (author of
Bush Fire), Deborah Kimmett, Dan
Needles (author of Perils of Perse
phone), and Carol Sinclair. Mem
bers of the public are invited to sit
in the audience on Saturday,
December 16 at the Blyth Festival’s
“Garage” on Dinsley Street at 1
p.m. for a public reading of scenes
from plays in progress. Those
attending can enjoy some Christ
mas cheer, special treats and
entertaining scenes and meet the
authors, actors and directors of
Blyth’s 1989 play development
programme.
“The thrust of our new play
development program is two-fold”,
says Artistic Director Katherine
Kaszas. “The Blyth Centre for the
Arts provides playwrights with
access to actors and directors; and
provides them with a sanctuary - a
haven in which to write. Frequently
given the term workshop, these
sessions take a number of forms:
actors, directors and playwright at
a table reading and analyzing a
text; actors up on their feet - text in
hand helping the director and
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