Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 25, 1975, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free Wess people Home entertainment science arts Pevtso Batmis tuesday november 25, 1975 Pat Hamilton at Angela d., leads a chorus while at right Peter Jobin As sheriff Pat Carrett describes the shooting of Tom Oto Liard in scenes from Billy the kid. Photos by Jack Ablett and Gerry Cairns pleasing audience is vital now that Coli rules by Janice keys free press staff writer last of a series people involved in the per forming arts have sometimes been accused of living in an i v or y Tower oblivious to what audiences by Ahac to see and hear. But Iai times idly rising production costs no professional killed to backhand retrace Tion Cari his the things the name of the game is entertainment anyone who pays to to attend any sort of performance expect to get value incidents Are mentioned should younger audiences May have less trouble following the Story because the style bears certain resemblances know just How much the a can endure or. Hasnain said. One. Of my. Jobs is to know exactly where i come to a the times that Billy in correspond income ways to today a times especially the 1960s, or Hasnain said. Do now and have become heroes. Of various different Way to look at the play Ai great Many tech entire society our. Society elements the play myths generally and been Nical tricks Are necessary As Well As or. Jobin works of lots of Levels and Terra inc in a different Way. But it s in to the director to Many things in it Are very entertaining the obvious Levels of music and action a a r r y Davis who plays Tom. O Fol play is in some for an Audi attempts can t take peal pfc and they say Jobin added. Audi there fences Are nuts Beikof gunshots in before his. Up bits an pieces of a and i have to to explain the person . He Isi Ather than the As recollections usually Are Billy s memories Are sometimes some to Small groups of people. So this play which tells of a Man who lived in the 1880s, has something to say to peo ple who Are living in the1 1970s. Its message May not be clearly spelled out like the moral of a fable but it s anyone who Waits l to listen or. Hasnain said. My interest in play my interest. In doing any play is. That hopefully people will get some sort of message out of it it May not be didactic and it be up front and bbl Ems but most of the. Most of the Good plays that i know speak to an audience through the experience and the involve ment of. The audience with the characters on stage and of necessity when that Hap p e n s the audience feels s o. M e the i n g about them has been -_fc.--. .__. _ j _ i sensing the mood and know when there is just one and putting those elements too together into a cohesive for his Money. Everyone working on the production the collected works of Billy the kid which will open at pan. Tonight t at the warehouse theatre is vitally aware of the artists responsibility to the audience. J this production in t an armchair play director Arif Hasnain said. People who attend the show expecting to be entertained in terms of amuse ment May. Come away disappointed. Although there Are Many moments of. Humor the Clement of drama expressed in tense gripping and s o m e t i in e s shocking images is very Strong. Essentially the Only Pur pose in putting any play on the stage is to Tell a Story to people and the work which goes into producing a play is directed towards telling the Story in the most effective Way possible. How successfully this play will Tell the Story of Billy the kid depends on the Audi ence working but i believe that entertaining people Means to hold them it j does t mean to amuse them. So they May have to work with said Des Mcanuff who plays Billy. The style of the play May be a Little disconcerting be cause it follows no Clear chronological order. Guy Banner Man. Who plays Charlie Bowdre. De scribes the production As. A once later in the. Others Are started in. The Early scenes acid finished later. For example one of Billy s Charlie Bowdre is shot the play but it in t until later in another time and place that Billy clearly remembers How it Felt to touch the dead the play is almost hallucinatory in Many aspects said Peter Jobin who plays sheriff Pat Garret it has a Story but not a line. The relationship of one piece to an other can t be seen until two or three More pieces Are audiences have been conditioned by television to think of plot As a linear thing but it does t have to be or. Mcanuff said. Plot can work in a number of different ways. It does t have to hinge on time events if Clear enough about How each sequence is falling together one of our jobs As far As i m concerned is to Deal in some Way with that conditioning and get As far beyond it As possible so you re giving peo ple new experiences. Anyone who wants to come to the theatre and see a Safe evening of theatre and to feel Good about them selves in a conventional Way Job ably should t come to see Billy the kid. People who Are out for new experiences and to look at the myth in a whole. There Are several elements within the production itself which Kielp to draw the Story together. Several of the. Characters speak directly the Audi Euce setting the scene for them or telling of an event which establishes a certain mood. The lighting and set design Are also of vital importance in this respect. Set designer Doug Mclean explained his Job in simple saying everything should be reinforcement for what the actor is. in Billy the kid there Are a great Many scene changes but the rhythm of the which is vital in building the cannot be broken by people traipsing in and out with various set changes. So the scene changes must be accomplished by the Light ing designed for this production by Bill Williams. The lighting must help to establish the swiftly changing contrasting moods the artificial a barroom the relentless mind twisting heat of the desert the in guess of Billy s memories of watching friends die. Time Only Standard 6 foot sofa chair govt byte for the Holiday season. Sofas of 6 it. 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Who was Good with by the gun becomes a Fasci at ing .figure1 because that s part of our very near Heri Tage. It was t that Long or. Hasnain said. In a real sense the Strug 1 Gle that s portrayed in Billy the kid authority versus a Type of anarchy still part of today s it s still carried on with violence violence is a myth that we canadians Are very clo sely associated with although it s not our myth it s a Frontier myth that we never really had because we settled our differences a Little differently but it affects us. Everybody Here grew up with the Rifleman to because of the nature of it just permeates the emphasis wanted on Ottawa up culture Council to help Bridge the Gap Between the French and English cultures in Canada was proposed at a National social science conference. Gertrude Laing of Calgary a member of the bilingualism and Sicul tourism Royal com Mission in the 1960s, said that such a Council might carry out research and in form the Public and Hope fully work to avoid crisis sit the Council might also be a meeting place for policy 3sgges makers in Federal and Provin Cial governments helping to resolve problems. Mrs. Laing said Many eng Lish canadians wrongly feel that learning French will set the the French English prob Lem. The emphasis has been put on the need to learn the other language rather than on understanding our cultural differences. As a consequence the limited results of this limited approach have been frustrating and disappointing to Many Jacqueline Neatby of Ottawa said the bilingualism and Biczuk Uralise commission was appointed in the mid-1960s when a crisis had already sprung up. But there had been Little s Downey Hoekstra or. And mrs. William s. I Downey Are pleased to announce the engagement of Cia science research on the i their younger Gauchier. Cheryl problems on the two cultures existing together at the time bin dualism commission Leilh. To James Harry Hoek Justra Soa of or. And mrs. Ger i Ritt Hockstra. The wedding will appointed. Stake place on november the commission carried out j 11975 it . In the proles considerable research on the i Plant Chapel . Winnipeg breaking new ground. She said. Starts tomorrow see tomorrows free press Coats dresses Long dresses Pant suits sportswear reduced Low for Quick Selling come Early for door opening specials charge it no interest no carrying charges ladies Wear Ltd 3 stores to serve you 412 Portage City shopping centre.483 Selkirk Al ;