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Georgetown Herald (Georgetown, ON), October 27, 1982, p. 9

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Its a hit The word is out that the Georgetown utile Theatre has another winner with Its production of Absurd Person Singular by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn There is still lime to take it in as lour performances are still to be presented but hurry Tonight Wednesday until Saturday are the final opportunities For information call toiler GLT into the John Elliott Theatre Is magician Ron Oliver He will appear as the opening presentation of the University Women a Club sen or Super Sunday series There are still a few tickets available call The next meeting of the Georgetown University Women will be held Nov Please note this is a change from the usual Tuesday Guest speaker Sheila Copps will speak on the topic Women in Politics at Centennial Public School the week of Nor ltofl will be given over to anniversary celebrations at the Elliott Theatre The overall subtitle for the week s events is Something For Everyone If it lives up to thai bill there should be something to interest you kindergarten or pension age material or anywhere in between Why not phone 19 Acton or CO and Georgetown and find out all about the delights in store Nov brings into the Elliott Theatre the first presentation of the University Women a Club Junior Super Suncmj series For information call Its certainly gratifying to see the Elliott Theatre being put to such good use been dark all together too frequently in the past year Let us hope this flurry of activity will continue throughou year CONTINUING Until Saturday at the Cultural Centre Gallery Ruth Gibson Woods Lakes and Flowers Until Nov liatGalleryHouserSolThreegreat Canadian artists In one show Lis Drawings Oesterlo Sculpture Shinryo Takashlma Paintings Absurd Peron Singular GLT launches season with laughs SECTION A THE HERALD October IT IK Page Coalinhted from page AT when be comments neat little bum of a school teacher at the party Geoffrey admits to up Imaginary peanuts off the floor so be can admire lovely legs The other men are amazed when he says she has firm thighs Do you think I enjoy living my life like some kind of sexual Flying Dutchman he de ma of his wife after he tells her he is going to leave her to move in with another woman Ronald and Marion Jackson are the third couple and they have their own marital prob lems the first being per haps that hey re so clued out about each other mat they realize they have problems Marion Vera Macdonald to the wealthy Ronald is drowning her dissatia faction with life In her bottles of gin Ronald Derek JoyneS is lost in his world of books and business Liv in separate bedrooms he says he and his wife run Into each other occas ionally in large home Ronald thinks he knows his wife well and tells Eva that he has acted as a on Marion life a fact that is tragically true Ronald thinks his wife lives on her nerves and realize that Marion has a drinking problem He thinks the housekeeper Mrs Minns has been knocking off all the ties FIRST Married once before Ronald says his first wife left him out of the blue one day and confesses to Historical review of Choral Society Herald Special What Is it that makes the Georgetown Choral Society such a dynamic vibrant entity Is It per haps the one thing nil the m ambers have in common a love of fling a desire to express themselves musically Perhaps the satisfaction of achieving as a group something would be Impossible individually spurs them on Whatever It is tho Society Is higher standards and expertise as each year brings a new challenge The Society dates back to the late 1920s when member Vivian Haines remembers some local women belonged to the Georgetown Choral Socie ty At the time she was a living in The present Society was reformed in under the direction of Charlie Crimes In 1973 Howard Wccdmark held the baton until 197S when present director Dale Wood took over Most music lovers In George town are familiar with Dole and most competent stj Part of the appeal of the Society Is the spirit of fun and fellowship which per vades the practices con certs social gatherings and trips out town Not only has the Georgetown Choral Socie ty provided years of entertainment with its several concerts each year but its various fund- raising efforts have con to the social and cultural fabnc of the Continued on page All Start your evening of TV entertainment with Cable 4 ng you community nights weak Tuesday to Friday us dels Isai 1270 CANADIAN THEATRES X GEORGETOWN 3 Retard Gift AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN Sat W3E3 TV CONVERTER Reg Price 109 OUR SPECIAL PRICE WHILE THEY LAST 79 95 Seven extra channels and more to come Remote channel change and fine tuning Free installation Free Demonstration Haiton Cable Main Street North Acton 8 270 Geoffrey his inability to comprehend woman s Something happened something must have happened I haven t the faintest Idea what he says Tins whole woman thing to this day I never really understood what women think or anything One minute they re having a good time then the next they re coming apart at the seams like some old sports jacket The men don really understand their women There an appalling lack of communication be tween the It seemed it took the Saturday nigh I lime to warm up to this play Many of he funny lines in the act received scant laughter The second act in which Eva drags her feet through a variety of attempts Is rather slow Her depressed per sets a very heavy mood and the play only picks up once he other characters wander into the kitchen and start do ing their thing around HUGE DOG While Eva and Geotr huge dog George growls possessively from the hallway blocking access out of the kitchen Ronald manages to get himself electrocuted changing a His drunken wife turned on the light while he was making a semblance of working on the wires Marion leads tho aud along to great peals of laughter She breaks the boredom of the second act One downfall of the play is a ami 13 r one to the Theatre which has a fondness for English plays Because the play is mean the actors should feign English accents A fake accent that is sounds a lot worse than a natural accent Concentrating on skipp ing their vowels Eva Jane and Sidney some times come across forced in their speeches especially sounds missing the rhy of the Englishman The other three char actors Marion Ronald and Geoffrey are able to off their accents but by an unfair age They re all three English to start with instead of concentrating on sounding English they were concentrating on their script Perhaps that a problem the Little Theatre can consider In its future performances of English works LAST ACT One really commend able bit of work was the last act which featured superb lighting tech Wald perhaps with the guidance of Theatre I master Ian Old gave Hal Ion Ihils spectators a real treat for an amateur theatre com The are as they enter the dark kitchen of the Jock sons The stage is dark as the other characters not being at home to spare themselves the company of the over enthusiastic Hopcrafls The audience sees Sid nc s shadow cm the wall while berating Jane for dropping a dish of lr fie at a parly The effect is excellent and very well done Absurd Person Slngu lar is directed by Ian LEGION BINGO TONIGHT and produced by Chris Chiton and Conn who also died furnishings and wardrobe Karen Ran is stage manager Cathy script assistant John Carter and John Day form the Tom Johnson series as Tom and Darren Harvey as sound men aid Pat Jill Evans Armstrong and Lean as prop mistress Rose tikes carp of the makeup Pal the publicity Gerry the photo graphy at Dorothy Hunt and Joyce Holland the At The EXCHANGE TAVERN King Street 3541 Georgetown Across from GO Station KEITH AND WALLACE BAND October 29th 30th for DAILY SPECIALS HOT COLO LUNCHES iOPEN 1130am to 100 If your pictures have the jitters it may not be caused by things that go bump in the night Cars planes and trains your antenna when it rains WHY NOT CLEAR UP YOUR TV PROBLEMS NOW T0 CHANNEL CABLE BEFORE THE WINTER STORMS BEGIN BUFFALO 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