Whitby Free Press, 16 Aug 1995, p. 10

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Page 10. Whitby Free Press, Wednesday, August 16, 1995 Antiques fair at Trafal gar The Trafalgar Castie Antiques Fair--will be held Aug. 25 to 27. Antiques authority Mary Sutherland wlll be back for the annual event to identify antiques, on Aug. 26 from il a.m. to 1 p.m., and on Aug. 27 from 1 to 3 p.m. Royal Ontario Museum curator Brian Musselwhite will present his fourth lecture on T/te Centre of Attraction, Cent rep jeces for t/he Table, on Aug. 26, 2 p'.m.1 Reservations for opening night are $25. Admission on Saturday and Sunday je $5. Caîl 668-335.8.- The third annual Cruisin' Classica car show will ho held at * the Scugog Shores Hlistorical * Museum in Port Perry on Sunday, * Aug. 20, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. It is expected that 200 antique * and classic cars 'will compete for awards and prizes in the show organized by the museum and the Cruisin' Classics Car Club. Admission is $3.50 for adulte, $2 for seniors and students (show cars are $8, including two passengers). The museum is located on Island Road, north of Highway 7A, two kilometres east of Port Perry. For more informnation, cali Paul at 905-985-3589 or Janet at 905-985-3396. Downhome at Greenwood A "taste of the Maritimes" will ho offered at the Downhome Festival on Sunday, Aug. 20, at Greenwood Conservation Area in Ajax. The Bay Boys, Barbara Allen, Jenny and Josie, Mackcie's Barr Band and Aloi Seaward are among several performers. There will ho a lobster feast, beer tent and sevoral other activities. Tickets are $7.50 in advance, $9.50 at the 'gate, and family passes are also available. For more information, cail 416-661- 6600, ext. 203. 'Night Mother begins Shoestring.*season Poetry winner RIC ARBOUR of Williams Point (east of Port Perry) reads from his poem, 'Good Friday,' which took top honours at a recent Poets in the Pub meeting at The Courtyard Pub in Pickening. The event is organized by the Writers Club of Durham Region. Photo by Mark Reesor, WhlItby Free Preos A rural -celebration' Once each year the farm and garden gates of the Ganaraska watershed area swing open for a Video seres at the gallery The Around the World video series wlll continue on two dates in August at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery in Oshawa. 'Casties and History of the Wittelsbach Dynasty'wlll be shown on Aug. 22, 2 p.m.; 'Oycling through Russia and Estonia' on Aug. 29,2 p.m. 5atolltte TV. Teama Welconej two-day celebration of rural life. The 1995 adventure will occur over the Aug. 26-27 weekend, and will include everything from heritage tracters te, smoked trout, vegetable and flower gardens te, dairy and deerýfarms. There are 68 possible tour stops in the eastern portion of Durham Region. Local artisans demonstrate traditional rural crafts. Gardeners share the secrets of growing everything from artichokes te zucchini. Farmers explain how they raise their calves and train their horses. Along the way is offered country cooking and hospitality. Tickets are available up te and including the weekend of the teur from the Clark Museum and Archives, Kirby. Durham Shoestring Performers will present four plays this season, ranging from Pulitzer prize- winning drama te world premiere te DSP's first Sondheim musical. First Up will be 'Night Mother by Marsha Norman, whicb won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for drama. This is a penetrating drama in OLT starts season in S.eptember» Oshawa Little Theatre members are worklng on their fal productions, with the* first two shows cast La n te rehearsal. The 199»~6 season will start off in nnd-September with A.R. Gurney's What I Did Last Summer, a warm-hearted, gently humorous memory play about the coming of age of a teenaged boy. Marion Dennis Brown returns as director for the first time sinoe the historical drama A Bequest to, the Nation. Second up te bat in November and Deoember will be the basebal musical Damn Yankees, with words and music by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross and book by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop. This stery of the man who sold his soul te the devil so that his team could beat those "damn Yankees" will be directed by Michael Roantree, who in the past two seasons directed Nunsense and Nunsense IL. February brings a great new farce from the popular Anierican playwright Neil Simon. Ini Rumnoury, ho assembles a group of friends for an anniversary party. When they arrive, their host.s are* nowhero te ho seen, and the rumouSs start te fly with hilarious consequences. D'Arcy Smyth, who did another Simon play, Brighton Beach Memoirs, will direct. The season onds in April and May with The Burning Man by Tim J. Kelly. A mystery, this one hegins with the reading of a will and prooeeds through a series of mysterious deatha te a spine- tingling climax. Director is A.T. Elliott, known for his work with mysteries such as Ten Littie Indians and l'Il Be Back Before Midnight. SThe Oshawa Little Theatre is holding a two for one ($32 for two) subscription sale Aug. 16 and 17, at 62 Russett Ave., between 7 and 9 p.m. <only 20 minutes away) 10o of your favourite brews on tap as well as a ful compliment of beverages. *Try our rlne Irish"Pub fare. *Top off your e'vening with a game of darts. For a relaxed, casual tUme corne toaa warm comfortable atmosphere at The Antrim House Good Food. Good Dnink. Good limes. 56 Water St. Port Peîry 985-8853 which Jessie is about to announoe to her mother her intention te il herseif. Intense but warm and honest, the audience cornes to understand why Jessie bas made this choice. 1Written for two women, one around age 40, the other around 60, 'Night Mother will be directed by Ami Syme. The audition is Tuesday, Sept, 5, at 7:30 p.m., with production dates Nov. 3, 4, 9,10, Assai ns, by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, Is a musical that take direct aim at the American dreamn, its ideals and idiosyncrasies. Ail the characters have attempted or sucoeeded in assassinating a president, from John Wilkes Booth te Squeaky Fromme. Sondheima, well-known composer of Into the Woods, said "Anyone can grow up te ho president or a presidential assassin," and ho presents a bizarre interpretation of how this affects the American psyche. For Canadians struggling with gLin control and -violence in society, the show is clearly tepical. Director Tim SQuthwell will recruit a cast of 10 aduit maie singers, four aduit female singers, three aduit male acters and one female actor (mid-30s), on Tuesday, Sept. 12, -at 7:30 p.m. Assassins takes the stage Jan. 19, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27. Judith Edmondson, seen last year on stage in Of thte Fields, Lately, returns te DSP te direct If We Are Women, by Joanna McLelland Glass. First produced in 1994, the play explores novelist Virginia Woolf's contention that "We think back' through our mothers, if we are women." With a cast of four women in three generations from age 18 te' late 60s, this 15 a humourous, compassionate and hopeful story of modemn life. The audition will be Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 7:30 p.m. Production dates are Feb. 23, 24, 29, March 1, 2. The season closes with the premiere of T/uit Undiacouered Country by Brad Carson of Bowmanville. Carson's play is a surreal jouney. through an old man's life, beginning at the end. The overriding theme, dying with dignity, is explored through the eyes of Old Sam's parents, children, grandchild, fiiends and neighbours- in - an uplifting, passionate tale. There is a large cast of men aged 18 te 70, and women aged 22 te 70. Carson, who is director, will audition on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m., for performances on April 19,20,25,26,27. Tickets. will be available one month before each opening night. To borrow a script for advanoe reading or for further information, oeil DSys artistic director Carolyn Wilson at 725-9256. 10 lByronlSt. S. e6"6413 the heifer &é*, Pub & Restaurant 101 mary St. W., Witby 430-7200 ENTERTAINMENT Fri. Aug. i 8th & Sat. Aug. i 9th 9pm - iarn B & B Blues ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE SOCCR UPCOMING GAMES Wednesday, Aug. l6th - 3pm Seotandvs. G reece Saturday, Aug. l9th - 1Oam Chelsea vs. Everton $5.00 Cover Saturday, Aug. 26th - 1Oam Bolton vs. Blackburn $5.00 Cover Monda y, Aug. 28th - 3pm Blackburn vs. Man. Utd. FREE GAME - Replay at 7pm T/wWhibyInn Restaurant & Sports Bar Sat. & Sun*. :lOa'm to.3.pr BAR SPECIAL EVERY NIGHT 2 lb wings AND Jug of beer .Oni $11.95 1 TH RS9P -1A i

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