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THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1993. PAGE 27.
World Aid hosts
Starvation dinner
By Ashley Gropp and
Amanda Leger
On Saturday, April 5, the Blyth
Theare and Rag and Bone Puppet
Theatre showed an ambitious
presentation of "A Promise Is A
Promise" as the third in the "Just
For Kids Series". It was written by
Robert Munsch and Michael
Kusugak.
John Nolan and Kathy
MacLellan's amazing puppets were
part of this magical story of
Canada's Arctic. The set and stage
work involved Nathan Curry's
special combination of modem and
traditional music.
The young daughter Allashua
was told by "her parents" to stay
away from the sea ice on a family
fishing trip. Not listening she
fished there anyway and was
overcome by the Qallupilliut (troll-
like creatures who grab children
With the summer season
announced and the box office open
on April 5, Blyth is still hard at
work in New Play Development.
Blyth's development programme,
officially named The First Line, is
busy year-round developing new
works not only for the Festival's
summer season but also to assist
Canadian playwrights with plays
that will be produced at other
theatres in Canada.
The week of April 5 to April 10,
Blyth hosts three diverse projects
that involve a number of new faces
at the Festival.
The Blyth Festival is co-
developing the comedy Diva
Ojibway with Native Earth
Performing Arts of Toronto.
Written by Manitoba playwright
that come too close to the sea
cracks without their parents.)
Without stopping to think Allashua
quickly blurted out, "My brothers
and sisters! My brothers and
sisters! I promise to bring them to
the sea ice if you will let me go!"
This meant her parents had to
outsmart the monsters and still not
break their daughter's promise; no
matter how horrible the promise
was; because a promise is a
promise.
Their parents finally came up
with a plan to have a farewell party
with human food and dances.
The plan was successful because
during the dancing the parents
slipped away to the sea, ice. While
they were there they called to the
Qallupilluit and received no
answer, so they saved the children
who were happy to be safe. The
happiest person had a bigger reason
Tina Mason with music by
Fullbright Scholarship nominee
Jerod Tate, it's the story of a
beautiful native trapper with a
remarkable singing voice. She is
discovered by a Montreal opera
impesario who wants to make her a
star. This project combines
traditional opera and native music.
Writer Paula Wing will also be in
residence working on her new
piece The Begats with Edmonton
director James Downing. The play
is about a slightly crazy family
trying to live up to their image of
what a family should be; it is full of
off-beat humour and contains a
couple of big surprises.
Three members of Toronto's
Nightwood Theatre will also be in
town as a part of the Festival's new
to be happy, she didn't break her
promise.
The reason we said the play was
ambitious is because just by
watching you could tell it involved
a lot of research and work.
For 15 years Rag and Bone has
performed all over Canada, mainly
in libraries, children's festivals,
schools and theatres.
John Nolan and Kathy
MacLellan are the founders of the
group. They write and perform
original stories which are enjoyed
by the young audiences. There is
one more play in Blyth Festival's
"Just For Kids Series". It is The
Storyteller's Cinderella — Multi-
cultural Tales" performed by
Helen Carmichael Porter on
Saturday, May 8, 1993 at 2 p.m. If
this is even half as good as A
Promise is a Promise, you would
enjoy it whether you're young, old,
or somewhere in between.
Access Retreat programme. This
programme makes Festival
resources available to artists and
companies regardless of whether
the play is in development for the
Blyth Summer Festival.
This exciting week will
culminate with an informal reading
of Diva Ojibway, on Saturday,
April 10, at 7:30 p.m. in The June
Hill Rehearsal Hall. The reading is
the final installment in Blyth's 1993
Public Reading Series.
Admission is free. For more
information call the Blyth Festival
Administration Offices at (519)
523-4345.
RETIREMENT PARTY
for
Clifford Coultes
will be held at Snell's
Banquet Hall, Westfield on
FRIDAY, APRIL 16th
at 8:00 p.m.
Cards, crokinole and
entertainment. Ladies please
bring lunch.
On April 16, the Stratford and
Area World Aid organization will
be hosting their annual Starvation
Dinner at St. John's United Church,
175 Waterloo Street,
This year's guest speaker is
Wilmer Martin, executive director
of Habitat for Humanity Canada.
All proceeds from the event will go
to Habitat for Humanity.
Tickets for the dinner are avail-
able from any S.A.W.A member,
at the door or by calling 271-0465.
They cost $5 each.
All foods and services have been
donated by S.A.W.A. members in
order that all proceeds may be for-
warded to charity.
E ntertainment
Theatre review
Puppet play, ambitious
Jolly service
Customers couldn't help but smile at the service they got at
Scrimgeour's Food Market on April 1 as staff donned red
noses as part of the Red Nose Day fundraising project for
the Blyth Community Play. Here Olwin Richmond rings up
an order while Herb Shannon, in a complete clown outfit,
packs the bags. All over town and in nearby communities
people sported red noses in what was no April Fool's joke.
Reading of Native play, Sat.