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Pages SECTION A THE HERALD April I IWU Importance of Bein Earnest comes to Elliott Theatre New challenges in Wildes classic play By CHRIS Hen Id Writer When the curtain rise April on Georgetown Little I Theatre production of Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest director Derek Joynea will probably feel like a father hi daughter head off on tint date The will carry for every GLT member more than the usual stage Jitters It marks the first time has produced a play complete with elaborate set changes with the John Elliott Theatre stage in mind Among the beat comedies ever written in English literal Earnest demands flaw lesiness It so light witty ploy meant to roll on welloiled theatrical ball bearings any bumps would surely Jor the audience back into the dreary spring of after enjoying moments suspended in time with some rather whimsical members of late 1 century British haute couture Certainly a large share of the responsibility for main the play Intended comic momentum will rest with the cast but to ensure that the visual effects are seamless GLT hat taken advantage of a special theatre grant and commission ed a professional stage design for a few weekends of Instruction For the last two weekends and next Saturday and Sunday as well David is Joining backstage crew and cast members at Sacre Church hall offering advice which will be used over and over again on how to properly build stage sets Tor areas as large a the Elliott Theatre stage Thanks to his Instruction wilt be able to transform the stage three limes during the play moving the audience from a London apartment after the first act to the luxurious garden of an English country house and finally into the same house drawing Visually it should be an excellent production er Jo Heed told The Herald Monday Mr Antscherl has given superb detailed draw for us to follow as we construct the sets This us to build up a good slock of flats and windows which can be used In future product Ions TAKES PLACE Mrs Heed added that Mr has studied the peri in which the play takes placeJust before the end of the 19th centuryarid using Wildes development of character tries to imagine what sort of environment Algernon and John would live In From the actors point of view they love It Mrs Heed said Its definitely a new approach for us When we were based in Wriggles worth School or Sacre we could go In and build a set add furnishings and leave them there Now wo have to pre fabricate all has to be lightweight so that we can take It apart and move It to the theatre before the perform Previous GLT plays at the theatre Not Now Darling the annual Christmas feature and most recently Our Town have relied on frugal sets and backdrops For the first time at the theatre GLT will use no less than three sets comprising flats The purpose is not Just to design a set for the The Importance of Being Earnest director Joynes said It is also to teach us the steps of stage and pre- fabricalioti Why all the fuss FEW PLAYS There ore few plays in English literature which seem to retain their as HAIR KNOT BY CHANCE BUT BY CHOICE JOCELYNS HAIR STYLING 8778200 LIMESTONE ALL SIZES GRAVEL FILL AND TOP SOIL BUD HAINES 3 DURHAM ST the HERALD Entertainment merit scene and I happily ever after following the cite that Italian Hills view ell Shakespeare used are jo this technique m his Worth ton and the corned and the more absurd characters for tea takes bread and bultir Thcrt Oscar was years old when he posed for this photograph taken by It It henard In IBM A year later most highly acclaimed play The Importance of Being Earnest debuted on the London Mar Utile Theatre will bring likely and timeless clonic to the John Elliott Theatre April IS May I G It will be the first production has deilgned for the In the theatre and will require three complete set changes well as the The Importance of Being Earnest There are parallels drawn with Shakes pea re As You Like It or A Midsummer Night Dream It not reolly a contempo rary play In the true sense Mr points out But if it wasn really ry there would be nothing to end of the that they great pleasure in intent people act as foils in their untroubled CM Critics hove described the play as flawless from a I point of view The self contained vacuum In which the characters live allows them a child like innocence there are no dark recesses in play behind which evil can lurk to mark the IncS of the characters Nut surprisingly in the innocence of the play the love is far from serious Its a whimsical spur of the moment struck by Cupid arrow type of emotion John Worlhington and Algernon Muncrleff ore the gentlemen of stature who like respective ly fall In love with Gwendolyn ralrfax and Cecily Their inventiveness Worth has a facllllous brother and Moncrieff tells lies about an ailing trend provides them with something to donnd talk about later over lea and cucumber sandwiches I FLIRTING Both of them love flirting with danger or the chance that their little ruses will be uncovered Sure enough their inventiveness put to use In the pursuit of love does wind them up m a scrape and on the the law which in this microcosm happens to be the aristocratic hawk Lady Bracknell The play sniffy dialogue guarantees lots of good belly laughs as the characters plunge headlong into comic chaos surfacing innocently enough in an elaborate denoue- THE POX Many of Wildes social comments are still valid today In this play Wilde takes a light hearted look at a few members of the English upper bored with life at the SLEEP IN STYLE CMote Largs selection GEORGETOWN WATERBEDS PHONE US FOR YOUR CONVENIENT SHOP AT HOME SERVICE PLAZA 8772826 come celebrate our EASTER WEEKEND SPECIAL The Colonels boys and girls have a BUCKETof finger lickingood chicken 16olSALADand FAMILY FRENCH FRIES fried The Colonels taste is best STREET GEORGETOWN 5241 It promises lo ti the IN THE CHURCHES and Part in our Church Series return soon J Novak DT J Kohari D T Georgetown 122 Guelph Street on Hwy 7 Denture 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