Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 15, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Entertainment Winnipeg free july Page 12 Chuck features editor australian a mists watching audience by Mayes special to the free press who do Cati Afiafi theatregoers resemble the French of the australians an australian Hus Bandan wife intend to find that out As they present two corporeal mime shows one one out door at this weeks fringe Festi despite the cliche that mime is a Universal antibodies partners Wayne Condo and Nani Mcmullin say Treyve received markedly different responses to their indoor in Paris and in their Home billed As gestural obsession combines elements of Clown Street theatre and car Toon imagery in its exploration of a nerdy couples the 55minute show is on wednesday and Friday in varying Tim slots at the chinese cultural Centre French the first to see had no trouble with the absence of a says the French look at things visual he demonstrating How a typical parisian talks with his they react to their whole City is like an Art there attuned to in says we discovered that australians want to work things out the majority of experienced play goers want a in Australia they Why they have to understand whats going that reaction prompted the pair to Linker with the to make it on the More we want to see what the canadians Are like with says we expect that Canada is somewhere Halfway in Condo and both met 14 years ago in a troupe that per formed shakespearean plays with slightly More emphasis on move ment than tradition that intrigued says we had this feeling that actors were Brilliant with their but didst know How to hold their bodies or move at about seven years while in the duo discovered corporeal which differs from Marcel Marceau style pantomime in that it expresses thoughts and emotions through the muscular use of the its the same discipline Practised by Winnipeg Giuseppe founder of 40 below captivated by mimes ability to express the the unsaid the couple dubbed themselves antibodies the name is a play on the term for went to Paris and embarked on an three year study of corporeal mime and with their first original the manipulator the 25minute piece they Are presenting on the fringes outdoor they won the australian Street performers Competition in 1989 and were Bronze medal winners in the 1990 International Busker fest in they describe the manipulator which concerns a mechanical doll and her partner their most commercial taking it to festivals and private functions subsidizes their current theatrical Condo says several bits in Obas the Way he bounces off the floor while Mcmullins character tortures a voodoo doll likeness of him Are derived from the Way figures move in Ani mated fascinated by the stylized sounds and distortions of size and reality in Condo were eventually going to become it suits our after the Winnipeg Ante bodies will go on to fringes in Sas Edmonton and although they take part in fringe festivals Down they say its an expensive proposition that can be financially crippling for in Australia a fringe venue in a Good theatre will Cost you whereas Here we can enter the fringe for says adds More people can try More things Over Here because its not so expensive to have a out of that youll get Good companies like the trolls Edmon tons three dead trolls in a bag antibodies Nani Wayne Condo and Friend perform at the fringe this Brilliant on woman show gets Salute from appreciative crowd soldiering on bed among the Barry the old to there must be something special to see when 80 people Are willing to endure sitting in a stifling theatre for 90 minutes on a glorious sunday these people knew what they were doing when they came to see Anna Barry brilliantly perform Solo in two Short plays by British playwright Alan after watching the English actress in bed among the one admirer in the Audi ence was heard to id go to see that woman read the phone following soldiering the assembled saluted her with a standing its the least hey could have Given her marvelous both which Are part of a collection of six scripts written by Bennett for Televik Are character sketches of one a vicars the other a recent with a Superior script to work Barry skilfully brings these women to she is at her Best with her portray Al of the vicars a troubled lady whose husband is too Busy tending to his flock to tend to through her droll sense of the audience is treated to an amusing behind the scenes look at life at the Kevin Prokosh the events chinese cultural to its a fundraiser for the per formed by non actors the Board of trustees of the Manitoba theatre and its Only a Little More than 20 minutes its still Worth a much like the sideshows at the red River its based on the classic chiller Short Story by Shirley and its directed by macs artistic Steven and it a score of actors fill the creating a Rural Village tableau which is so Ordinary its Marc toe press barrys performance the townsfolk banter and tease each other but there is an undercurrent of fear and trepidation accompanying their ancient the Story is a Well written sociological tale of mob Rule and the dangers of mindless Schipper makes the Best of his cast and with imaginative blocking and a lighting design that isolates the More inti mate the kids Are the Best thespians but Gordon Wealch holds his own As the intractable old Man the foldout House saturday night seemed to love Garth Buchholz new Square pegs Mac to the pegs responsible for this modern dance show Are Winnipeg Rachel Constance and Sharon who conjured up five premieres and one recent piece of choreography for this fringe pre for fringe goers who Are doubtful about whether they want to see any dance at this 65minute Corral of choreography is untamed but wholesome Worth twice the Low admission Moores piece a Midnight snack for the naked heart set the tone of the first show on saturday with a rollers Kating Angel and other dancers attired in bedtime but except for cookes a Solo performed by the Lithe Carol the Only dance memorable enough to live beyond the fringe was Brownes danced by Moore to the old Berlin cabaret music of Kurt Moores clipped pantomime movements were fascinating and thanks to the fecund possibilities and wry insights of the who is Winnipeg grand Dame of modern Garth Buchholz the True Story of Ida John poetry chinese cultural to this is a baffling not for the Story but for the Way the Story is the True Story of Ida Johnson attempts to follow the diverging lives of two friends who grew up in an Alberta its about Ida Elizabeth inset a woman with a terrible past a necessarily overactive the experiences of Lucy Debby who was moved to the town from a Reserve when she was seven and never did fit draw less and work mainly As dra Matic Toronto night Wood theatre adapted True Story from a novel by Sharon and a misdirected Fidelity to the original text could explain the stiff articulation that Trou Bles the intrusive and often thuggish by unsympathetic slides and voiceover Are used to explain the leaps Back and Forth across time and fill in the but the Story still feels and what was presumably in tended As drollery in the prerecorded material comes off sounding fatally Randal Millroy follow the Cross roads son of to its been said that television has been stealing audiences from the so any production featuring two tantalizingly live tvs is asking for trouble even though the screens Are Blank through most of the Frank Trini uss satirical play about a double talking politician plotting his election and campaigns features a perspiring toured Force performance by Wayne and a cynically cute or is that cutely cynical supporting role by the Young Nadia Litz As big brians but the hobbling humor sounded too much like american to where every gag is telegraphed so no one will miss the Nicklas rescued the by playing the role with an almost hysterical Toad mess towards the played by the audience dont sit too close to the front if you have stage but his Long suffering daughter sees through All the desperate comic mugging and the exaggerated receptiveness and for that can anyone not too but sandbagged with corny Garth Buchholz the theatre the Walker to it was but everyone on Board yesterday seemed to enjoy a rollicking ride on the Good ship that except one eager participant from the after gulping a Jelly doing 10 dashing off to kiss two women observers and Chugalug Ging a he looked for a while like he was going to keel that the kind of audience participation show this if you have the stomach for its for years Sak players has been entertain ing the folks sitting around old Market Square by plucking audience members to play villains and damsels in their fractured fables of for the Rick Andy Anth ony and Anita Goodwin took their act in the audience was split into two Crews of one English and one then the silliness at one Point each Side was spiking Beac balls at one much of the crowd took up their paper swords their rolled up paper programs against each All in the hypnotist Reveren would have been jealous at what the Sak players were Able to get audience members to do in Kevin Prokosh birthdays Jolly boys Power jamaican mento by Roger Cathy the Hartford courant getting an interview with the Jolly the leading purveyors of jamaican mento want going to be their new York publicist they mostly live in huts where there int any he and no but not having electricity has Al ways been a plus in the so year career of the Jolly most mento bands play in and we dont use any Bongo Man and vocalist Allan swimmer so if the Power cuts it Doest Stop us from swimmer does not have electricity in his Home at the i used but right now in building a House on land that i lease for so i cant afford electricity at the he says Over the phone from one of the first stops on the bands a jazz festival in where there Are plenty of electricity and jamaican decline put Elwot fixity part of what is behind what he palls the decline of jamaican mento music spawned and ska spawned reggae but massively powered sound system boxes Are pummelling even he for even in reggae you dont hear any of the real Good reggae songs like Bob Marley and Peter Tosh and those its All dance the talking you and most of the music now int live but the Jolly boys specialize in a mixture of West african dance music originally Learned from african slaves and British and French Folk latin american trinidadian new Orleans jazz and rhythm and it is played on rustic instruments so they can be played on a big we have a lot of primitive instr swimmer we have the big Kalimba from which we Call a Rumba Box in and we just use a acoustic guitar and there Are four of the others Are Moses the surviving founding who plays Banjo and sings Lead and ground vocals Ngel Howard on Gui tar and background vocals and sep Bennett on Rumba Box and background ranging in age 49 to the Jolly boys Are clearly not and from the sound of the phone conversation from not particularly mostly they seem a Little Awe struck at a career that brought them from their usual hotel gig in front of tourists in port Antonio to an inter National audience that got them ovations from thousands in new York and at the recent new Orleans jazz and heritage Errol Flynn hired the Jolly boys As a House band when he threw parties in his jamaican vacation Home during the but their latest boost came from american songwriter and producer Jules who found the band playing in a port Antonio hotel and recorded live and in one take what became their first pop n in the United their Light music with saucy lyrics was first distributed by the Independent Label first College radio liked the acoustic Island Novelty of the Jolly and Ryko disc picked up the Label for wider their latest Sun Shine n1 last year by Shear in new is just out on to coincide with the boys the group has been together for 40 but not with the same Mem swimmer some Mem Bers and two members of the group left for the United the Jolly boys Are playing new but their style is still derived from Way Down in my father and grandfathers it was but it changes a lot Accord ing to time until it reached Reg How has an Island so Small had such a big influence on music world wide with its various strains of sunny music maybe its the he chuckles i dont its like everybody in Jamaica has a touch of music in their you can even listen to the kids going to there Hidder cultures he Speaks of the annual mento festival in where All the hidden cultures that you have never known about in Jamaica w All those things i Call the hidden musical you will and it is important to find and keep even during an Era of electronic he Peop e be sad to know that its a whole culture that will be left behind just because of some artificial 4 july roses Are red violets Are Blue now you Are 50 and even cuter too Uve and Best wishes your poodle anniversary tqmanqsuqy5bris8qn Happy 40th anniversary if it we rent for id never know the Many Joys of if it we rent for id never know the of if it we rent for id never have the dream in dreaming of if it we rent for id never know the Miracle of Ive we love you mom dad Wes Yal june Jam i promised i say lordy i wont even mention your age but it int going to do you much Good Good if your picture appears on this Marni Lyhn sterner july 15 1991 Happy 16th ohday we love you May All your dreams come uts of Amber Tasha ;