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SECTION A THE HERALD Vitianity Mart is im Herald review Our Town A triumphant plunge into unusual theatre By CHRIS AACAARD Mart Writer residents In Corners New Hampshire re call neighborhood events as Integral of the Itys history Halloo HID red dent will recall Georgetown Utile Theatres of Thornton Wilder Our Town theatrical mile stone here Our Ton a bob tri umph for GLT a company which mut carefully choose material spanning a wide range of entertainment prefer Recently they brought Halloo drama Dracula and Bedroom farce at well as for the youngster al Christmas Directed by Ron Hunt Our Town presented a formidable challenge to its cast over a run the Elliott Theatre but the production underlined once again that GLT has come of age and amateur It merely a figurative term The actor displayed ability to adopt a theatre format considerably different to that which fans are familiar On the Our Town spartan gone were backdrops and a handful of props clutter ed the floor And then there was this timeless gentleman who ambl ed to the front of the stage chewing leisurely on his pipe and rocking on hi heels amiably chatting the audience while setting tin tone of the play The manager play ed by Ron Hill paint with words the missing backdrop and whisks his i960 audience back to the years between IBM and Using his pipe as a pointer this stage sage lake New House Sol show opens A Toronto artist whose work evokes the spirit of Edgar Degas prime force behind the will bring his latest pasted and drawings to Gallery House Sol In Georgetown this Saturday Indonealanborn Leo the CBC television producer who crested Take and Man AUre both acclaimed and events series will Join Bob Kavanagh for the Charles Street gallerys new show Saturday through April 1 Both artist will greet visit or to the gallery Saturday to pm The show continues Tuesdays Wedoea- day and Thursday from to I and Fridays and Satur days until There Is no admission charge Working In a medium few serious artist still use Mr Rampen follows ihe respected tradition of such pastel masters as Dega Houm Sol proprietor John Sommtr calls Mr landscapes and interiors richly crafted paint ings of great elegance- and discrimination Bob It one of Ontarios foremost ceramic master In stoneware Making appearance at ax ha House Sol Mr Kavanagh a studio in east Toronto and teaches at the beginning of the play on a gutted tour down the Main Street of Comer jabbing the loca tion of the pott office and the town hall the milkman and the THORNTON WILDER newsboy on paper route It the crack of dawn and the train from Boston has pulled into the station Just as It has done for years STORYLINE Our Town has no elabor ate story line to develop and conclude in a period of two or three hours but by focusing on the efficient machinery of smalltown life Wilder mesa- age has enormous scope man i an unimportant speck in the universe He overly up in hi material wellbeing and without being biblical about his point the playwright to be telling us that we pay too Utile attention to our spiritual Now a tale about small town life without an exciting and only a dreamy young Interest as a focus there s an enormous demand on the talents of the cast to make do with the rudimentary tools at band Che stage manager after convincing us that our urban mentality comes from same sort of roots found in thousands of small town in the world invlles us to cling to the love Interest thread unravel ling a maturing Emily Webb Melissa Belli and George Rod Cook start paying special attention to each other Without getting actively in volved with the plot the stage manager pushes events through time eventually the Sir marry and four years Emily dies MOST TALENT Its during the graveyard scene thai Ml Bell talent shine She ha the most cull role In the play requiring the most talent tying together Wilder ethereal Ideas which have developed throughout the course of the play At a spiritual figure ContlnBCd on page Stratford 82 The mall ha brought us a sign of spring Signs of spring are always welcome especially this year The harbinger of spring that landed In our mallbqx was the brochure announcing the anniversary season of the Stratford Festival Our first thought Impossible it cant be years since that first performance of Richard HI in a tent But yes it so Our research tells us that It was IKS when Tom Patterson convinced Tyrone Guthrie to become involved In what Guthrie called A pioneering venture of a gallant and unselfish kind Guthrie recruited Tanya to design the stage and Alec Guinness and Irene Worth to be the two leading actors of the first season Enough of history what has Stratford to offer this year Something for everyone at the Festival Theatre CariousUrs in The Tempest and Julius Caesar as well as costarring with Brian Bedford In Shaw Arms and the Man Douglas Campbell will be a formidable Falstaff In The Merry Wives of Windsor and for four performance only A Musical Theatre Piece by Stanley Silverman and Tina Howe featuring Carkw and The Quartet At the Avon Theatre June to Aug a familiar friend Gilbert and Sullivans The Mikado It will be joined in July by the Canadian premier of Translations by Brian In August Mary Stuart by Schiller stare Pat Galloway and September bring that delightful romp Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward starring Brian Bedford who also directs the production and from Broadway Tammy Grimes The Third Stage presents A Midsummer Might Dream and Alls Well that Ends Well featuring Shakespeare a new acting company of four senior actor and newcomers to the classical Abo on the Third Stage two Virtoso performances Nicholas Pennell in A Variable Passion a humorous and often moving examination of passion a seen through the eyes of such diverse writers Alfred Lord Tennyson Woody Allen and many others Lewis Cordon In Daralen Ihe story of Father the young Belgian priest who dedicated his life to helping the lepers and who himself contacted the disease and died In The Festival is not devoted 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