Clinton News-Record, 1984-02-01, Page 2•
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anet Amos hasn't tackled. Janet
a . ted bar expertise to the theatrical
: ofthe theatre. She has hashed over
nation for its •nnique. brand of ra•anatilab gets with tbeaadministratOra$
• theatre. It was praised by CBC -Radio,. On hind raising canvasses with
.4440440 magazine, by newspapers end -- ininnteein,
other theatre cOMPAIlies• Her primary job however has been, to."
1:04141,MerethanP,000people discovered choose and develop new plays. This ;means
the SWAPO Festival and B1 playa working. with writers, seeing a variety of
Opted further -paindatity oh the south - plays and reading close to 200 scripts in
**ern 014401,0tOUritlig &Wit. prePatilitiOn for this season alone.
vaiii year the, festival is celehrath4 118 Janet is also.* charge of auditioning and
19th anniversary with a s00114040- hiring the actors, the, stage crew, and
announced line-up of five new Canadian designers and the directors. She has just
Plays, special anniversary events and hopes finished , studying 300 resumes and will
for a continued bright future. audition more than 200 actors in a week.
It comes as a surprise then to learn that • She also books contracts for Blyth tours,
artistic director Janet Amos will be leaving arranges the children's workshop and
the famed summer festival. theatre and organizes the playwrights'
At the end of the season, Janet will be workshop.
taking on a new position as artistic director During the height of the season Janet
with Theatre NewBrunswick. . thinks_ Blyth_Summer Festival ll -hours a
_Tite„decislatiViea_m_Blyth has not .come day, but she finds the work more
easily for Janet and -her husband
Theltheatre-couple and their two children,-- -"-There:aremany goad aclors, but there's
Chris, 13 and Joey, 6, have called. Blyth a need for administration people," she
home since 1979. noted.
"I'm just starting to have good personal Still many people know Janet Amos as a
friends here;" she noted, "and the move will very special character, Rose Clark, the wife
be hard on the children and on our personal of farmer Ayhner Clark, from the hit play
lives." He Won't Come In From the Barn.
So why are Janet AnioS and family Written and starting Ted Joists (as
leaving: be -Ow they call home, their AyknerIthe_rollickingsomedy first_hilthe
successful livelihood, their friends and their Blyth stage in 1977 as a Calleeti-Ve creatiOy
secure surroundings? --Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille. Although
It all began, with a few random thoughts in all traces of the original script were lost,
the back of Janet's mind - thoughts of how Ted worked from scratch to reproduce the
future seasons would go, doubts abut her play for the 1981 season,
ability to carry on searching out better plays The play was not the first joint effort for
to ensure Blyth's continued success.) the husband and wife team. In fact, back in
After five seasons with the Blyth Summer 1973 Janet Amos arid Ted Johns first came to
Festival, Janet realized that it was time for this area with the highly successful Theatre
a change and in October she gave a year's Passe Muraille production, The Farm Show.
notice to the board of directors. Ted has kept up a busy writing career for
"We walked the floor over the decision," more than a decade now and has offered a
Janet said, but explained that she wanted to new play for Blyth audiences for the past
leave the festival on a high point, for the
sake of her own self-esteem and for the
benefit of the new artistic director.
Janet first came to Blyth as a director in
1977 for The Blyth Memorial History Show..
five years.
"The nice thing about Blyth was that we
both worked on it," Janet noted, but now she
will be taking on a new job and Ted will
continue writing and working on the "many
The next tiayhelson J90! w9.9 „ :projecp on the back burner," as Janet
Janet was again invited to Blyth for the
1978 season but at that time she was working
on the CBC -TV series a Gift To Last, as well
as acting with the Shaw Festival.
In 1978 she applied • for the position of
artistic director at Blyth and in May 1979 the
family moved to the village.
Janet accepted her first work as artistic
° While Janet's career interests are leaning
towards administrative work, when it
comes to acting she Says, "I hope to keep my
toe in the door."
Even before she's left Blyth, Janet is
already talking about her return, how she
and Ted would like to bring back He Won't
director with enthusiasm and gusto. While Come In From The Barn.
she began her theatrical career at 16 as _ While Janet's in the final stages of signing
sun -mer stock actress with the Red Barn a three year contract with the Fredricton
Theatre in Toronto, she had little trouble based theatre, she is not saying goodbye to
adjusting to the management side of the Blyth.
theatre. She hopes that the two theatres can work
L-Janers—firt_a2-1 udireipseri-eiKe-atthe-Re-d-7-t-agither,--hy-- exchartging-Tplays-;---zby
Barn, where she "did everything," and her, - -,prornoting each other and by' **king to
•--good -head -for money, helped • la her -',-develop-leven better- theatre the
developinentaiatiartiatie direetor. - --- -
Janet *e,r_ r success to Blyth's Already thisproject hasbegun. Janet will
former altistic directores Roy. be taking Ted's 1982 hit Country Hearts to
"When I came to Blyth I. took James' Theatre New Brunswick this season. In
model and developed it. Now I know how a April 1985 the bar room- intisTaTirill be
theatre works and James Roy taught me." playedat the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
Jeffray-Croves cnnton
Alaine Cummings Edmonton
Angelo Bailey Clinton
Coralie Dykstra R.R. 2 Clinton
Billi-Down Chittenden R.R. 5 Clinton
Michael Atkinson cunt°.
Tammy Smith Clinton
Myra Steenstra. R.R. 3 Clinton
Ricky Hummel canton
Michael Hayter %morn.
Michael Debreceni Oakville
Kristy Buchanan Clinton
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Blyth it can
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While the Blyth Summer Festival is enjoying great success, artistic director Janet Amos
has chosen to move onto -anew job at the year's end. Janet has been with the Festival for
five seasons and will be now working with Theatre New Brunswick. (Shelley McPhee
photo)
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C-afiada,
ealingaMlale she may be "leaving home,"
she is eager 10 shout out Blyth's maims in
The rithnen.
She's also prepared -for the different stIts
of theatre that the New Brunswick company
features. 'While Blyth has focused on
'original Canadian plays with a down home,
country appeal, Theatre New Brunswick
features a wide variety of productions in an
-effort to appeal to an audience of all taStee.
Theatre New Brunswick serves the whole
Province and the five shows in the 15 week
season are toured to some nine centres and
also played at the 7004ieat Fredricton
theatre.
"It will be a broadening thing for me,"
val
Janet reflected.
Janet says that the success of the Myth
Sumner Pestivalhas helped seciire. new
work aid Theatre New Bruntavicirls In
terested in developing that saMer, kind of
popular following that Blyth enjOYS.
The new artistic director Wee her future
with an open mind. She may ifticeeedm she
may fail, but she believes, "I'It's most
hn-
portant to do what you care About, then it
will be worthwhile in the end, even if it
fails."
Janet Amos may look at her career
change with uncertainty, but one thing is
certain, Blyth's loss will be New Brun-
swick's gain.
Clinton property sales
doubled in 1983
linon real mtate agent John Duddy
reports thar-receiitlY pb1ShedStutit1ii
- from Teets Market Surveys -reveal a whopp-
ing increase in total dollar volume of real
estate sold in 1983 over the depressed year
of 1982.
In fact, statistics show a more than 100 per
cent increase last year on the previous
year's figures.
Actual statistics in total dollar volume
- --were: -1983 -$2,490,693; 1982 - $1,239,470; 1981
- $2,036,175.
The number of properties sold were: 1983 -
81; 1982 - 45; 1981 - 61. Average prices were:
1983 - $30,750; 1982 - $27,544; 1981 - $33,380.
These figures include residential, com-
mercial and vacant land sales. Inter -family
and non -arm's length transactions are ex -
eluded.
- -Mr: Druddy-saysthat.figures areNericn----4-----
touraging. They confirm what realtors are
finding in the market place, a return of -
buyer confidence following the disastrous
year of 1982.
Exorbitant interest rates in 1982, soaring
over 20 per cent, meant that people were not
investing in property, especially when they
could get a 19.5 per cent return on Canada
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CLINTON - The annual meeting of The
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President Margaret Sidman opened the
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