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HERALD October 1IW Little Theatreproduction iSl a challenging event By JOHN Herald Special Georgetown Little Theatre has produced and staged a rather in teresting play by Bernard Slade Its title Is An Act of the Im agination and it will again be performed this Thursday and Saturday at the John Elliott Theatre in Georgetown The play has been well directed by Ron Hunt and an army of volunteers all named in the pro gram has helped to get everything ready in time Tickets can be purchased before each performance at the box office or at Royal for each Go and see it A challenging even is awaiting you The author Bernard is a Canadian by birth He grew up in England Before he became a writer he was an actor His best known plays are Same Time Next Year Tribute and Fatal Attraction An Act of the Imagination was first per formed in London England in with the beautiful Dawn Porter of Saga fame in the role of Julia Slade and his wife Jill reside in Los Angeles and New York First something about the play We meet Arthur Putnam at his desk in his house stead near London He is a celebrated writer of crime novels and he lives and works in seclud comfort with his second wife the dutiful Julia his first wife was killed in an air raid dunng the war The 27 yearold son from the first marriage is slonally a part of the household Simon was evacuated to America during the war and lost his mother when he was a child After the war he was educated at a boarding school and later his father got him a job at an oil com Burma Now the year is he Is drifting and starting one thing after another an art gallery a restaurant His father is irritated by his lack of focus Nothing much happens to these upper middle class people this is also a play about class by the but behind Arthurs slight ly befuddled facade the vivid agination of the professional writer is at work From the characters around him he cuts the material for a future book The play seems to be a straightforward mystery play By the time intermission arrives however the viewer gets the feel that somebody is pulling ings that nothing is quite what it seems to be the inventor of all reveals himself and the plav comes to a surprising and moving end Now to the staging and the form The stage design liviniroom in the writer s house is lid and workable With a few pain trees the garden outside the l irge windows is very deftly Guys and Dolls and Dolls will be staged it John Elliott Theatre in own beginning Nov for exciting performances are on sale now at Royal Real Estate on Guelph St fur just each With a little less than four weeks to go Globe menhirs are rehearsing three times j week in order to fine tune this musical fable to perfection The past two months have been spent learning the numerous songs involved in this show Georgetown Globe Productions is known for their excellent musical talents and Guys and Dolls will be no exception The Globe ex is proud of the fact that talented people from all over con tlnue to audition for each new show The Gala performance Nov is will benefit the North Halton Association for the tally Handicapped Coffee and dessert will be served in the gallery after the show but tickets for this special evening are going fast so get yours this week suggested But I find the room a bit too common place for a lady like Julia She is the reason for the writer s unease She is a sleeping cat and the aging Arthur is troubled by her vitality The stage should suggest some of this Ron Hills is Arthur Putnam Arthur is a complex personality He is tradition bound sentimen canny manipulative and quite ruthless He is a highly in telhgent man who is using his family in his fantasies outrageously Ron Hill has perfected this kind of role over many years and he is doing an ex tremely fine job here Pat Ball who plays Julia is most of the time very good SSe has a wonderful face and she moves well I don t think a woman like Julia would wear her hair cropped short as Pat Ball does I also don think that Julia would wear the red outfit and the blue negligee Julia is a woman of taste In 20 years with the in creasingly Arthur she has become a bit drowsy thur is afraid she might awaken one day He wonders what she would be like if his son for in stance would seduce her Unfortunately Alan as Simon Putnam is miscast There is no heat between him and Julia in some very crucial scenes With his dark hair and a bull like figure he is a demanding presence but he is in the wrong play You don t believe for a mo ment that his father sees him as a precious young toff at one point he even asks Julie if Simon might be gay with a strong allurement for middleaged beauty strong enough to lure her into a dreadful entanglement His accent is wrong too He might do rather well as Stan Kowalski in Street car Named Desire Frank McKte as detective Fred Burchitt is excellent He manages the cosiness of English law enforcers splendidly as Holly Adams is very pretty I wish her a greater sense of ease on the stage She is obviously under stress in front of an audience Let yourself go Jacky Willows as Brenda Sim is an astonishing creation Here is an actress with a great body and face and wonderful hair But Brenda as written is not quite the caricature Jacky Willows turns her into She needs to be more an object of pity in stead of an object of derision Lois as Brooke Car michael looks and acts stunning With her expressive eyes she could be a superb Rosalind in As You Like It Dramatic confrontation Actors Allan Caples Lois Torualer seated and Theatre production of An Act of the Imagination Pat Ball who play Simon Putnam Brooke Car rehearse a scene before a benefit performance and Julia Putnam In the Georgetown Little Thursday evening Herald photo 00EY GOOD NOW FEATURING TMMT 308 Guelph SI 8731651 BLUE YOURSELF r Off miming MOUKTMNVEW 10UOUMTAKVIWRD GEORGETOWN FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE Ths Boil Night Around For More Into Say I saw it The Herald SHOPPING SPREE VALUE STORE ATTENTION TRAVELLERS The New Fall 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