PAGE 10, wH1TYRMU PIRESS WEDNESDAY, APRI 10, M91 Tattrie mak es dire cting debut Makinghbis debut as director of the Whitby Courthouse Theatre production of 'Gao Light,' Boyd Tattrie brimge a variety of experienco to the stage. Tattrie has been involved i actn, lightlng and production, was director of the youth project 'Dreams' and assistant diector on <onchiller.' Tattrie and bis wifes moved to Whitby from Toronto five years ago, and ho began b is local thea- tr-ical volvemient by playing a small roi. in <Amadous. Having submitted bis naméefor the direct fng job for 'Gao Light,' the Courthouse board decided to pick Tattrie over a number of silty, Tattrie adniits it han nre-wrackhig. "I.was scarod,» ho. sas. «It's an enomous rosponulbihity and I had to b. confident I could do the job.Ifind acting o be one of the "f you're an actor you worry about acting. As a diroctor there are a lot of things you are rom- ponsible for.» To propare for 'Gaos Light,' Tattrie read the script 20 times. But while there are guidelines to follow to prepare, ho gives the actors freedom to express. «Basically flot the actors go. I encourage them to make sugges- 'Ext remities' Itense drama is fascinating BOYD TAIR i directing the Whitby Courthoue Theatre's production of 'Gas Light.' Charçoal'art -at gallery An exhibition of 25 drawmngs by regional matiat KimStallworthy will open' at the Robert McLéaughlin Gallery on'April 11. The public is invitdd te attend the openlng reception from 7 to 9 p.m.ThL-e artist will be prosent. In charcoal drawings, the ardta Gardens to open Saturday Cullon Gardons and Miniature Village will begin its llth season on Saturday, Aprll 13. The LyndeH;ouse will open on' the sanie day. Special ovonts this yoar. wil include the tulip festival (Ari 27 te May 20)ý Earth Day celebration (April 10 to 24), and P'ary Tale doni display (April 26 toMay 20). There are also sevoral guest perforrners and special events scheduled for May and, June, including a musical revue, three âimes a day, starting May 18, and a children's puppet show in the sunimer. 'itona Rd., Pickering MUMBELY INERIANC oriis Substance Fitered WiII a villain succeed wfth is dastardly deed? (Find outi). Stab t527.75 Apri 4 to May 12 _ For ,eservatlonand infôrmaton Cali 472-3085 ~ ,. fz?~stsnC tries to cature the feeling of black and w itenapsbots. Boni in -Scarborougb, Stallworthy ia a resident of Oshawa. She completed foundation studies at the Ontario Coilege of Art, Toronto, in 1983, received a bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto in 1989, and a bachelor of education (artist in the community education program) from Queen's University, Kingston in 1990. Her exhibition record includes a number of area shows and work in the Kingston Public Lbrary and Scarborou gh Collego, University of Toronto. 'Kim Stallworthy: Drawings'* will continue ut the Robert McLaughlin Gallery until May 19. Admission to the gallery is fre. NYC bands at Star Club Two bands from New York City, will erfora at the Star Club, il1Brce St., Oshawa on Saturday, April 13. Bop band The A-Bones are led by vocalist Bill Miler anid drum- mer Miriam Linna. Joining the band in performance will b. The 'Great'Gaylord. Local band The. Dominators will on the show. Mickets, at $8 each, are avail- able at Rob's Records i Whitby.. Band'holds spring show The. Whitby Brase Band wil hold a 'Spring Concert' on Thurs- day, Apl 11, 8 p.m., at Heyden- shore Pavilion, Whitby. Conductor'is Roland Hili, and thebro wviIllbe music for ail ages. Admission is frep Somothing a little different for the commiunity theatre stage. is being offered by the Durhami Shoeutring Performers i Osh- awa. Due i large part to the dis- turbing, often shocklng, content, 'Extremfities' lu at once ropug- nant and riveting. One lu wltnoss te a two-and- a-half-hour confrontation, and relationship, botwoon rapiat and itended victlm. Those terms become somewhat confusod, however, when the raplt himeif., becomos victim te herveg inflicted by the intendod victim after she turne the tables. Tih. play, an award-wlnner written bY william Mautrosi- m ono and the basis for a tele- vision movie starring Farrahý Fawcett, lu a study of the offect of a violent, perverse act, and how the victim assumes a per- verse state of mind to exact revonge and ber own brand of justice ("From now on, I make. Dietr Chris Rollo adeptl stages the action of raputclo9n i on victim, to prqesent 'raciln openig sequence that serves as apr se for the remainder of the plot and that aulcu to what extent tue victim le justifled to, carry out rovenge. Il Susan Lowory ably handlos the most difflcult roIe of the play, that of victim, evoking ber character's confusion, anger, humiliation, vongefuless and: ultimateysyD ah Steve Foot is outstanding i bis role as the rapilut, as ho incurs the bate of both victim and audience. From bis fîret appearance, ho nover wavers mn lus portrayal of a s*noerhig, twistedidividual wbo appears dangerous evon wben captive and ho lu superb i a pivota scene wben ho himself becomes victim. Whethor intended or not, cer- tain linos or the manner in which they woro delivored, corne acrosa as humorous. However, it muet b. recognized that the action for the mout part lu -so unrelonting in dramatic itensity (ail the action lu conflned to one room) that the audience graspa for any hint of relief. Nicely don. lu the play's inter- mission - for the audience only. As the audience departs for intermission, Maziorie (Ljoweiy) and roommate Patricia ( Joanne Stienstra) and the captive raplut continue to play their characters on stage as they silontly wait for anothor rodnqt4 ry.(Halle0 Vogel) to return tdit ?ei country home fr-om the drugstore. The play, the second in the serles of the Shoeutringersd Who said life was faïe l7th »mugn, is well worth a -look, both for its excellent prosentation and the questions it ralses as to '1what is juute when confrontod by evil. <Extremities' continues April 12 and 13, 8 p.m., at the arts resource centre behlnd the Osh- awa city hall complex. Tickets are $5 and are avail- able at Merle Norman Cosmetics, Oshawa Centre, National Home* VidooLtd., 621, King. St.0 E., Oshawa, and Information Osh- awa, at'city hall. tions and I will'mû.. my own. My job le tobe the audience. i may try something two or throe different wysbefore deciding.' Perhaps bot docrlbed as -a psycholoIcal -thriller,, 'GasLight,~ a ect proéect, according to Tattrie, to gt hie foot wet. <«A coxd is so nmuch hre todirect.lis esy to judge in a thriller how the auclenoée will 1 react but it' not eay to kow how an audiencein ging to reaCt to comodyr.u s Light Patrick Hamiltons classic suspense thriller, i. set in London juut before the turn of the . century. It tole the story of a woman (played by Monque Esaegrn) who 18 convinced she is slowly losing ber menues, au her . husband (Rick Kerr) loue Ise oaince with her apparently das Li(ht heu beon keoping audienqos spoilbound for over 50 years. %in the late thirties, it oponod to tremendouu succesa bîoth in London and on Broadway, where it wau entitlod Angol Street. It wau fllmed in 1939 and again in 1944, and it has been froquently revived by professional and comimunity thoatres. Gao Light- opens Thursday,A April 25 and -rune through to April 27, and continues overy Thursday through Saturday te May 11,. Ail performances are at 8 Fm. at the theatre, which i. ca;tod in the. Centennial Builýdinig at 416 Centre St. E. Ickets are availablo at Wbitby Courthouse Theatro's officiail ticket agent Lafontaine Trading 'J Post, 122 Brock St. N., on. block north of Dundas St.ýTho store bau oxtonded hours Thursday and Fridays, and are also open Sundays. .. . . .*. . . . . . . . . ..-. -- «- -- --. TOMI LEWIS - singer, storyteiler, traveller, 0 writer and ex-submier .- wiil perform ta'i tional shanties and contemporary sea-uongs 'and ballads at the Vîia Spark Molk Club on Saturday nigtp ril 13, at 91 Centre St. S., Oshawa. Back.pLbildwill be County Vaudeville. Tickets