Page 10, The Herald, Monday, May 14, 1984

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PENTICTON, B.C, (CP)

Okanagan community,
between two sparkling lakes in
British Columbia's fruit belt, has
long been a favorite haunt for
sunbathers, beachgoers and
boating enthusiasts.
' But this week it will be filled with
a different kind of falk — singers,
compasers, jazz dancers,
playwrights. There will be actors,
arlists, painters, street minstrels,
film producers.

In all, 1,500 British Columbians
will gather to creatively express
themselves during the B.C.
Festival of the Arts.

Those who just happen to be in
town during the five-day event,
which begins Tuesday, will have
more to do than stroll through the
orchards or relax on the shores of
Okanagan Lake,

They'll have the chance to view
24 different slage plays in the
evenings. They'll be able to see a
500-piece exhibit of major works by
British Columbia painters,
sculptors, printmakers and
photographers. They'll be able to
visit a huge crafts fair, featuring

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everything from woodcarving to
weaving.

Scene design, mask-making,
mime and instrumental production
are just a few of the workshops
available to participants and the
public alike.

Such luminaries as jazzman
Paul Horn, artist Tony Onley,
singer-actor Leon Bibb and singer .
Shari Ulrich will be here to
headline the festival. _

MORE THAN DISPLAY ;

But festival general manager’
Derek McCooey says that there'll
be more to this event than per-
formance and display. ,

“We are stressing the learning
and shared aspect of the arts,” he
says.

McCooey, who says more than
90,000 British Columbians -have
been involved in pre-festival .ac-
tivities in some 60 communities in
the province, adds that he’s looking
forward to a kind of creative and
learning “explosion” in the coming
days. ;

“We are looking to the Greek
virtues of harmony and joy — the
harmony of the arts and artists in

plosion to hit |.
with Penticton arts festival

‘communion with one another and.
the joy of creative atcomplishmient
.. the B.C. Festival of the Arts |s
simply a celebration. of man's .
capacity to create.” — ”

Provincial Secretary Jim
Chabot, the minister responsible
for the festival, believes the event
will give artists “the same op-.
portunity to participate and excel ©
that .the B.C. Games give
athletes.” Lo

“This festival will bring the best
musicians, dancers, actors: and |
fine artists in the province together
in one place at one time-for an
exciling week of competitions,
workshops, - displays and per-
formances,"’

The festival invalves four major.
provincial. arts organizations:
Assembly of B.C. Arts Councils,.
Association. of B.C. Drama
Educators; B,C9 Association of
Performing Arts Festivals; and
Theatre B.C,

At the conclusion of the events
Saturday, each of these
organizations will give awards to
outstanding entries.

Jackson, Reagan
in anti-drunk driving ads

WASHINGTON (AP) With
President Reagan as his host,

“superstar Michael Jackson is using a

White House stage to show off a
television commercial that will be
the centrepiece of a national cam-

Ronald Reagan

paign against drunken driving.

‘The 25-year-old singer was to be
honored at a ceremony today for his
starring role in the 80-second
television commercial and a 6)-
second radio spot against drunken
driving.

Hundreds of White House staffers

and guests were expected toput aside ' §

their work to catch a glimpse of
Jackson and the ads, which feature
the pulsating music of his hit song
Beat It.

Reagan planned to present the
singer with the presidential public
safety communication award for
performing in the commercials as a
public service.

Organizers of the event hoped it
would stir up enough publicity to
persuade television and radio
stations to begin airing the spots now
as young people head for graduation
parties, proms and summer
vacation.

“This is really the time to make an
impact on young people,” said Jim
Coyne, the chief of Reagan's cam-
paign for private sector ‘initiatives;

For Reagan, the occasion
presented an election-year op-

a team

Michael Jackson

portunity to be photographed with the
country’s hottest star, whose album
Thritler has sold more than 23 million
copies and’ won a record: ‘eight
Grammy awards. |

Children’s film key to revival

To producer Rock
Demers, children hold one

pecame convinced there
was a demand for feature-

usually came

for the last decade’or so _

years.

from “They agreed, but only if

of the keys to the revival of
Canada’s faltering film
industry,

_ “Two years ago, I

length childrens’ films,"
says Demers, a veteran
Quebec film distributor.

- “Quality childrens" films

All
About

PEOPLE

in Toronto.

Winter Olympics,

Sporting goods business,

fastest chess player.

cost of a trip overseas.

. Restaurant refuses
former president

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter was
recently denied a seat in a posh Boston hotel dining
room by the head waiter when he showed up
wearing a cardigan instead of a jacket, a Boston

Herald columnist says.

jacket,”

Podborski, tv host

marry in Toronto

Retired ski champion Steve Podborski and
television personality Ann Rohmer were married
Saturday before a small group of family and friends

Podborski, 24, a member of the famed Crazy
Canucks, left competitive skiing in March after a 10-
year career that saw him win the World Cup
downhill title in 1980 and a bronze medal | in the 1980

Rohmer, 27, was co-host of the Global television
show That's Life, cancelled recently after five
years. She will join CTV News next month after a
honeymoon in Hawail. Podborski has entered the

Chess champion
finds his sister

A The sister of. Josef Smolij, Torohto’s “world
a record” chess player, finally tracked him down
after a 40-year separation.

But Olga Seiler, of East Germany, who located
her brother through the Red Cross, might have
found him sooner If she’d read the Guinness Book of
World Records, which lists him as the world's

“It's a miracle of miracles,” said Smolij, after a

Red Cross official reached him in Toronte. He
wears a sweater wih “Kill ag you go gambit”

emblazoned on the back.

Neither Smolij nor his sister has a phone, but the
Red Cross has sent a letter to Seiling telling her of
his whereabouts. Smolij said he will write but fears.
he may never see his sister again because of the

Writer Norma Nathan says a secret service agent
went inlo the hotel after Carter was turned away
and protested: ‘That's the president.”

But head waiter Ursula Stadt stuck to her guns,
replying: ‘Ail the more reason he should wear a

Carter ate elsewhere.

Eastern Europe (Hungary,
Poland) and they had
international appeal. But it
soon became evident they
always dealt with the same
material, themes were
often repeated and the
films did not seem to
evolve.”

With a modest start-up
investment, Demers began
putting together an am-
bitiouvs package of eight
“family-oriented"’ films to
be shot in Canada in the
next four years. The fllms

_are aimed not only at nine-.
to 12-year-olds, but also

their parents.
“IT am convinced that

projects such as this will

make all the difference in
putting the Canadian film
industry back on its feet,”
Demers says confidently.

_ MOOD. UNIVERSAL

Export is his buzz word.
“Our films will .try .to
create a
isCanadian and universal
at the same time,” he said,

emphasizing “universal.’ oe

The Canadian aspect: _
winter — is obvious in his
first film, The Dog Who
Stopped the War — called
in French, La Guerre des

tuques — to be released in —

both languages across
Canada in October. The
plet revolves around a
“friendly” war between
youngsters seeking to
capture a snow castle built
during Christmas.

Shot outdoors in
Quebec's isolated
Charlevoix County on a
$1.5-million budget, the
film stars 17 school
children between the ages
of nine and 13, who split
into two warring factions.

One group Is led by a

- boy, the other by a girl.

Boy. meets girl. Boy likes
girl but cannot show it.
Plot takes off. Director
Andre Melancon says
dealing with the “physical
attraction” between a 12-
year-old boy and an 11-
year-old gir] wasn’t easy.
HAD TO KRISS

“They met near the snow
castle and I told them the
scene required them te
kiss,” recalls Melancon,

‘who =ohas worked with

children in film and
television for the last 15

mood that.

the other children were not
told. We did.it in one take.

It was done so simply. dust ~

after the kiss, they just
stood there looking at each

-other.””

It isn’t Disney and
Demers wants it that way:
“] have been influenced by
Disney, but only in a

negative way,” he sald. “I |

absolutely do not want to
make films like that.”

. Disney's world involved
competitiveness,
otyping of. women and
generally harmful role
models, he said. Even
Snow ‘White, long con-
sidered a Disney classic,
“traumatized - children
everywhere with the witch
sequence.”

By contrast, Demers’
films will’ be “humorous
and hopeful,” even dealing
with “socially oriented
subjects.” One — script

parents, Others will be
comedies, thrillers or

‘Iramas, but all will be of

“Gmpeccable quality,’"
making them saleable on
_ international film
markets.

The next film in Demers’

series, Michael’s Fright,

stere-

depicts a girl who lives.
with both’ her separated

will be shot in Montreal .

later this year. It will be
followed by

another, |

tentatively titled Seagull, .

‘to be filmed in Vancouver

next year.

Each will be released
simultaneously in English ;

‘and French — ‘'very un-

typical of the Quebec film .

industry” — and will be
financed with a
bination of private and
government money,

a

com- -

well aa revenue from pay-

TV sales.

' Before tax
“intimate little films that
appealed to little
audiences.” With the

shelters, '
noted Demers, Canada had

shelters, Canadian film- :

makers made large and *

often: | financially
disastrous films “that had
little connection with

reality as seen by movie
audiences.

“Now, we have an
equilibrium between those:
two extremes,”

‘Debut'a : ‘an

(CP) —
nouncement that its 23rd season
would. observe the Ontario Bicen- -
tennial this‘ summer with Bernard .
Shaw's American Revolution story,
The Devil’s'Disciple, seemed, to. rate
only a yawn: .

Now it promises to be anything but,

Artistic; director . Christopher
Newton has chosen Larry Lillo, a.
young director from the . country's
thriving collective, improvisational
and experimental theatre to make
not only his Shaw Festival debut; but
display his, first public encounter
with the cantankerous Irish-English
playwright on. the festival's opening
night May 23.

Here in the .300-seat Festival
Theatre, Lillo will attempt-to shaw
that George Bernard Shaw is not yet
dead to the world though he did die,
physically, in 1950 at the age of 34.
PLAY EARLY SHAW |

The Devil's: Diselple is one of
Shaw’s early plays, written in 1897
and locsely based on a real incident
in New England in 1777, with Shaw's |
usual preachings and odd — in-
terpretation of society. Odd, that is,
inhis day. Lillo now thinks otherwise.

An athletic 37-year-old ex-navy

’ English scholar from northern

Alberla, Lillo says the play has
remarkable insights . into  con-
temporary affairs, which he intends
to bring -out ,in the production. He
hopes U.S.
tourists seeing it will recognize it as:
morethan just an Englishman’ 's view
of America. |

Jim. Mezon, one of: the festival’s
fast. developing talents, plays the-

NIAGARAON-THE-LAKE, = Ontei
The Shaw: Festival's. an: §

‘and = Jennifer

a

ything but: a

George Bernard Shaw -

.Devil’s Disciple, Richard Dudgeon;
Michael Ball the virtuous parson;
David Hemblen as Col, Burgoyne;

Phipps
Dudgeon, fo whom Shaw gave a most
unflattering: description,
prepossessing, .. . disagreeable."
SHOWS INSIGHT

“The play,” Lillo:sald in an in-
terview, “is a remarkable insight

_into perception, aur perception of evil

aid geod, how we tend to’ divide
everyone into the good guys and the

bad guys, the East and the Weal, and:

soon. He's saying it’s not necessarily
‘like‘that. You could find yourself on
the other side tomorrow.

“T-think it’s a very pertinent play:

today, especially with the Americans
apparently on the very verge of

is Mrs.

“not:

a a yawn

| walking into, “Central ‘America. The
spirit of Nicaragua now Is not that. ..
. different from the spirit of America
ihen. How soon we forget America
was a country founded on the spirit of
freedom and fresh life, 1 think that
was what Shaw was talking about.
“Pye developed a great deal more
respect for Shaw through this work
than Ehad when J began,” Lillo sald.
‘He was really a man of the theatre
and not just a political polemecist.
Whenever we've run into difficulty in
rehearsal, we've gone back to see.
precisely what it was he says, and
he’s right."
It’s far too late now ¥ to eriticize the
’ play as a play, Lillo said. It has been
done successfully many times. If this
production doesn't work, it will be his
fault, got Shaw’s.
This’ old colonia) -town seems the
_ ideal setting. [t was here in 1792 that
the first parliament, of the British
colony, now Ontario, met one hot
. August afternoon in the shade of. an
oak tree, a spot now marked by a
plaque on a school a few blocks from
the Festival Theatre.
Newton, who rides around town on
‘a bicycle, has shaken up Shavian
traditionalists by making the festival -
a lively event. Three weeks before
the opening, more than 40 per cent of
the season’s tickets had been sald.
“Christopher has set, the tone of
this place, sometliing very special,”
“Lillo said. “Where else are you given
the freedom to make mistakes, to try
things, to experiment? There are not
many places where you can walk into
the mainstage theatre and open their
season and be given room to ex-.
periment.”

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