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HERALD Wednesday September Arts and ideas PagellB Stratford trip highlighted by excellent company My wife and I registered for a bus lour from Georgetown to Stratford recently to attend a matinee performance of the musical Carousel in the Festival Theatre This is probably the greatest of all the musicals by the celbrated team of Richard Rodgers com poser and Oscar Hammerstein lyricist who collaborated on nine different musicals between and Carousel is the story of the handsome but shorttempered and unreliable carnival barker Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan a romanticallyminded working girl who has the misfortune to fall in love with him Billy is happiest in the com pany of other men With women he feels uneasy Yet he is a skirt chaser he cant resist them The power women have over him in furiates him and he turns violent at the slightest provocation Julie Jordan is the kind of woman who loves only once and having mar ried Billy she traded herself short moments of bliss and hap piness balanced rather unevenly with long stretches of heartbreak and misery The owner of the carnival a tempestuous woman who employs Billy because he is her lover fires him when she finds out that he is making love to Julie The mercurial Billy is unable to find work in the small fishing village in Maine where the story takes place with the result he goes from bad to worse turning into an Impossible hus band When Julie gets pregnant he plans a robbery to get at some money and when the robbery fails he kills himself At this point the musical turns from stark realism to fantasy Billy arrives in the nether world but is not ac cepted He is given the chance to redeem himself and sent back to earthforaday His daughter has grown into a troubled 15yearold Somehow Billys presence at her gradua tion from school only sensed by the daughter and her mother an older and wiser Julie still in love with her long dead husband end the musical on an upbeat note Stratford has given this 46- yearold musical a truly wonder ful production The sets and costumes are as splendid as only Stratford can make them MacDonald is the director The many energetic dances use the original choreography by the great American choreographer Agnes Mill All the players and singers are superb Billy in particular as played and sung by John Devor- ski could not have been better And what spectacular songs the cast is given to sing If I Loved You June Is Bustln Out All Over Blow High Blow Low A Real Nice Clambake Whats The use of and Youll Never Walk Alone All of these classics are rightly beloved in the whole world Carousel is gutsy stuff the sexual force in the material is quite extraordinary and the sum of it all is popular art at its most inspired and lively Carousel will be performed 25 more times between now and lis Ideas and The Arts by John November If you call Stratford at the box office will tell you on what days these per formances take place I assure you that Carousel will not let you down The bus ride to and from Strat ford was very enjoyable Far away from Toronto the Ontario countryside is still lovely and the fine looking farms and welltilled fields are happy reminders that not all our good farmland has vanished under tar and socalled developments of one kind or another Mostly women had decided to go to Stratford one of our greatest cultural shrines in Canada on that beautiful Satur day in August From about 30 people only three were men I never get used to the fact that in Canada culture is the business of women Most Canadian men are ashamed to be found in a theatre or gallery or library and only go there if their women drag them there by force Isnt that a clear indication that women are the Artisans offer weaving course course for beginners on Wednes day evenings starting September Georgetown resident Else Staal Nielsen will be the instruc tor The courses will be held at Cedarvale Cottage Cedarvale Park Georgetown Else is a graduate of Textile Design from the Ontario College of Art and has taken numerous weaving and tapestry courses in Ontario United States and Sweden A member of the Heritage Handweavers Guild of the Credit Valley Artisans Else works from her home studio us ing a harness Scandinavian damask loom Students will learn to warp a loom and weave plain twill and lace weaves Several samples of different weaves will be created by the students for future reference Four harness looms owned by the Credit Valley Ar tisans will be used by the students For further information con tact Else Staal Nielsen Course between pm and pm Deadline for registration in this course is September 18 Submitted by Mary Rowan President Credit Valley Ar tisans If you are Interested in learning to weave you are about to an ancient work Weaving dates back over years and was used by the Ancient Greeks Egyptians and North Amen can Indian tribes The Credit Valley Artisans are offering a five week weaving Craft of marguetry spans the ages Forge Gallery autumn exhibit The Forge Studio Gallery in Terra Cotla will be presenting Autumn Exhibition91 on Sun day Sept Blown Glass Stephen Contemporary Folk Art Frances Tennant Media Masks Agnes Olive Mixed Media Paintings Bowcn Open daily 125 except and Tues 4168771312 We invite the public to come share refreshments and meet the Ar tists on Sunday Sept from to To get there take Hwy to Mississauga Head north above Hwy 7 to King St Turn left into the picturesque village The Forge Studio Gallery adjoins a perkette directly across from the General Store Marquetry is a craft in which wood veneers are cut and glued to create a picture Wood veneers of course come from trees and there are many different types of trees in the world Colour and grain markings of the various veneers are used to bring the pic ture to life It is not essential to recognize or identify the name of the tree from which the veneer was cut in order to create a pic ture but this will come with ex perience The courses will be held at Cedarvale Cottage Cedarvale Park Georgetown The Credit Valley Artisans are offering a five week course in marquetry on Thursday even ings starting September 26 Georgetown resident J Ross Col ter with over years experience in marquetry will be the instruc tor Ross has displayed his work in The Gallery at the Halton Hills Cultural Centre and has com peted in marquetry competitions at the Canadian National Exhibi tion Mr Colter is a member of the Marquetry Societies of Canada United States and Great Britain This course is designed for beginners but is also suitable for those with some experience Students will be introduced to the basic technique in the first class and given a choice of a number of patterns to work on during the balance of the course Additional techniques will be demonstrated throughout the course For further information con tact Nielsen Course Co ordinator at between m and 8 pm Deadline for registration in this course is September 19 Submitted by Mary Rowan President Credit Valley Ar tisans RiverCrest Gallery anniversary exhibit RiverCrest Gallery is celebrating its Fourth Anniver sary with a fabulour group ex hibition of recent works by 22 of their most popular artists Many of the artists are also workshop instructors and this is a perfect opportunity to study in dividual styles before signing up for a fall or winter clash The featured artist for the ex- is photographer Peter Horlock Peter has impressed gallery visitors in the past with his photographs and his new col lection promises to be just as ex citing RiverCrest is pleased to welcome Mayor Hazel Mc- Callion Bob Horner MP and Laurie as special guests at the Anniversary Exhibi tion superior sex Maybe because of this lack of males in the bus the conversation was animated and interesting Nobody talked about cars or hun ting or about hockey I overheard snippets of lovely talk Instead about various families and friends as well as reports about trips taken during the summer And jokes must have been ex changed because loud laughter welled up here and there while the bus took us quickly along Highway 7 One joke I was able to catch You might not find it a fair joke but what joke is Let me repeat it Main Street South Downtown Georgetown 8731470 J5 I CONCORDE R0ADW0RK ROAD BIKES Main St Georgetown off ten tot There was a plane with the President of the United States the Prime Minister of Canada a Boy Scout and the pilot The plane developed engine trouble and the pilot announced the plane had to be abandoned But there were only three parachutes on board I am the leader of the most powerful country in the world said the President and jumped And I am the brain of Canada said the Prime Minister and he jumped too Well off you go said the pilot to the Boy Scout Ill stay with the plane No problem said the Boy Scout the brain of Canada took my knapsack DENTURES FULL DENTURE SERVICES DIRECTLY TO THE PUBLIC New Dentures HelMes Repairs Cleaning Dental Insurance Honoured J Wheelchair Accessibility TRENTON or The 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