THE HERALD Wednesday January 1989- Page Theatre Finely sculpted characters highlight Night Must Fall By MARY JANE Herald Special Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams is the next production be ing presented by the Georgetown Little Theatre It opens at the John Elliott Theatre on Feb and runs through Feb 23 and 25 This play is a murder mystery which has romance philosophy and thrills thrown in for good measure On speaking at rehearsal with director Ron Hill I found out about the author Emlyn Williams It seems that Mr Williams was a brilliant playwright in his when be wrote his two best known plays Corn is Green was one of his hits arid it was made into a movie with Davis in the star ring role Night Must Fall was his other big hit and it too was made into a movie in the 1940s with Robert Montgomery playing Dan It seems that Mr Williams was a shrewd man as well as an excellent playwright He wrote Night Must Fall with himself in mind as the actor to play Dan and he por trayed Dan when the play opened I dont think that I would have relished being Mr Williams direc tor It seems that after the first two hit plays Williams faded fast and did not have another suc cess He toured North America as Charles Dickens in a oneman show The basic elements of his plays that cause them to endure are his effective building of the play and his finely sculpted characters which made them ab solute joys for actors to portray Night Must Fall is a favorite for many theatre groups for just these variety of costume needs from kilts to coveralls Carolyn won a from the Association of Com munity Theatres of Central On tario for the costumes in doon She is bringing the same en thusiasm to this production in her search for authenticlooking 1930s garb The current womens styles of the 1980s are harkening back to the 30s with the resurgence of the tight skirt with ap proximately eight inches of pleating or a flare at the bottom Since the budget doesnt run to buying new clothes Carolyn is look ing around for volunteers who might have skirts like this and be willing to lend them to GLT for the duration of the play If you would like to volunteer your skirt for a career on the stage give Carolyn a call at If you dont think that you would like to have your skirt in its own career but would like to see whose skirt did make it then tickets for Night Must Fall are available by dropping into Royal LePage Real Estate at Guelph St Georgetown or you can get more information by calling the box of fice at 8773700 I also had a chance to speak with one of the many people behind toe scenes Carolyn Hooper is the Head of Costumes for this play and comes to GLT with experience in many departments including hav ing done costumes for Globes pro ductions of Mame Lil Abner and This certainly exposure to a wide 232 Guelph Street Georgetown NEW PHONE No 877241 8 GEORGETOWN KIWANIS CLUB Annual Snowball Tournament FEB 1189 Located At Georgetown Fair Grounds For Applications Dave 8775206 Dave Dunlop- 8775101 days A Main SIS Georgetown 8773388 BUFFET EVERY THURSDAY FRIDAY SERVED 1100 PM SUPER SALADS Touwl Salad CotoSUw VaggtoTtayt Tray Raul Bf Mtsrwd Atsortad Squarw BMfStew LMnon SurpVtM Gravy EngMth Trill SB- l50 ONLY INCLUDING TAX Plan to beef up your cooking Halton Womens Institute and the Beef Information Centre will present Beef Up Your Cooking Tuesday Feb 21 The event is being held at Hall Guelph St Georgetown beginning at pm Admission is and door prizes will be drawn for The demonstrations will be con ducted by Barb Holland and Thibeault Ms Holland has a weekly col umn in the Toronto Sun and has written articles for Chatelaine Valentine fun One In Christ will present a Valentines Banquet Saturday Feb 11 Cost of the event is each and it begins at 6 pm with an evening of ministry and music to follow at pm featuring Jane Hancock One In Christ is an in terdenominational singles group that provides fellowship and ministry for the nevermarried separated divorced and widowed For more information contact president Jones at and Canadian Liv ing magazines As a free lance home economist she works with many companies developing new recipes and writing press releases She also teaches microwave cooking at the Bonnie Stern Cooking School Ms Thibeault is a home economist and public relations of ficer for the Beef Information Cen tre She has represented the beef industry many times on radio and television shows Tickets are available at GS Television Sinclair Place in Georgetown or by calling Doris Lindsay at or Donna Mac- Pherson at 8781263 WATCH THIS SPACE FOR ALL EVENTS AFTER FIVE THINGS TO DO PLACES TO GO lie ttd FOR YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE MAIN ST 8773388 Buy one get one FREE Color Enlargement Special LEAVE YOUR FILM WITH US CRAIGS PHOTO Normandy Plaza Georgetown Next To Kentucky Fried Chicken 45 OFFER EXPIRES SUNDAY FEBRUARY 5 1 989 Kodak