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[" Arts August 19-25, 1995 and Entertainment Magazine Record a 7 = 5, * x \u20ac 4 i a + : EN 1 4 = wn, A oa # cc i 2.x x %.Xe Pe oi.de.35 © tue gai PY J > car ew GE \u20ac ¥ i Ea Pig : Ë 2 %, 4 4 485 ae ASTEEUE - sé h 7 oy \u201cw Gi = 4 dc % we: e 7% Fh 4 i oo oo © 2 = 7 Le £3 ZE G æ - 4 Fl 2 \"Pa À à CE Le & a 74 3 7 7 & sad Pi 54 %: 23 = A 2 7 5 4 a pa ZA FA « ee x # Br LS ; # # £7 & % cb % de #5 2, PHOTO COURTESY MARK MAIER EU Semenok transfers her reflections onto porcelain SVSHVVEUERPOHDOGRENDUUEUSIOUVPDUOSVEUORONSOT TSI T0SSET COS STS0 _\u2014\u2014 \u2014 \u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 \u2014_ 52e 2\u2014The Record \u2014TOWNSHIPS WEEK\u2014August 18-25, 1995 PEOPLE The Hunchback of Notre Dame as an animated musical?Stop the Disneyfication of world culture Souffrons, mais souffrons sur les cimes.Victor Hugo BUSINESS NEWS: Nineteen ninety-five has been the biggest year in history for corporate mergers and acquisitions.Wendy married Tim Horton.Walt Disney Co.bought several newspapers, a few radio stations, and the ABC TV network to make it the largest entertainment company in the world.It already owns a hockey franchise, bought into professional baseball with one quarter of the California Angels and will get into pro football whenever the opportunity arises.It is building an amateur sports complex at Disney World along with an Indy 200 raceway.Is this what happens when history ends with the triumph of capitalism over socialism?Disney already owns half of Southern California, most of Florida and a good chunk of French countryside.Why not go whole hog and buy their own country where they can run a government of the company, by the company and for the company.l\u2019d like to suggest Australia.Lots of sandy beaches, furry things with pockets, Fordham 1951 Meservations: (819) 843-7575 + 1 800 432-2262 Who's Who By Tadeusz Letarte duck-billed mammals laying eggs.Should be a theme park in there somewhere.They are currently turning the cartoon feature Beauty and the Beast into a Broadway musical.But the news that troubles me most is that The Hunchback of Notre Dame is being produced as an animated musical.Composer Alan Mencken told the press, «There are a lots of laughs in Hunchback! We have singing and dancing gargoyles.» Indeed! And perhaps a production number in the Court of Miracles?where the armless and legless beggers, the halt and the lame, the stunted, twisted and diseased dregs of meedieval Paris gather in the evenings?Hunchback is a great favorite of mine since I first read Hugo\u2019s masterpiece as a teenager and then clambered all over the roof of Notre Dame de Paris wishing I had something to throw down on the tourist below.There\u2019s a saying around Hollywood that 1Good books make bad movies\u2019 but the 1930s version is a classic despite the fact that if I were casting Quasimodo, Charles Laughton\u2019s name is not one that would spring immediately to mind.Lon Chaney, perhaps but Laughton?The 1950s version, starring Anthony Quinn and Gina Lol- labrigidia should also have been a stinker but was closer to the book and also trimphed.I haven't a copy handy and the Lennoxville Library leans more towards Stephen King and Danielle Steel, but if memory serves, the book ends with the hanging of Esmeralda (the executioner leaping onto her lovely shoulders to hasten her end) and, her boy thrown into a pit.Quasimodo disappeared.Many years later, her bones are discovered with his twisted ones nearby.Now, by all that's sacred, how can Disney turn that into lighthearted entertainment without destroying a literary masterpiece?Is this also what happens when history ends?The Disneyfication of the world culture?Jeepers! Assman keeps going, and going.Gag hasn\u2019t run out of steam REGINA (CP) \u2014 Even Broadway Joe has Assmania! On Monday night's edition of David Letterman's talk show, former NFL great Joe Namath joined in the ribbing of Regina gas jockey Dick Assman, 61.In a mock commercial produced by Letterman\u2019s staff, Namath held a football against a backdrop of a Petro-Canada sign, threw the ball and declared: \u201cNobody's got a better arm than Dick Assman.I'm Joe Namath, and I'm a Dick Ass- maniac.\u201d éseau FM Stéréo Là The long-running gag started a month ago when Letterman showed off a newspaper ad for Assman\u2019s gas station.The talk-show host promised to make his subject Canada\u2019s greatest tourist attraction.ONE OF FEW He hasn\u2019t been far wrong.Letterman revealed Monday that Assman\u2019s Petro-Canada station will be listed as \u201cone of the few attractions on the Prairie provinces\u201d in the next edition of the popular Let's Go USA travel guide.He also showed off an entire line of Assman merchandise \u2014 including stickers, T-shirts and bottled water sporting Assman\u2019s gap-toothed smile.The audience saved the biggest laugh for a pair of black shorts with Assman\u2019s first name printed on the front and his last name on the back.Assman was in Toronto in a publicity swing but his boss and travelling partner, Scott Gosselin, said Assman likely saw the sketch.\u201cI don\u2019t think Dick watches American football, but he will definitely have heard of (Namath),\u201d Gosselin said.Hip rocker needs a hip TORONTO (CP) \u2014 Rocker Eddie Van Halen, whose band arrives this weekend to play at the Molson Amphitheatre, says he\u2019s performing on a pulverized hip.\u201cI have what's called a vascular necrosis, which means the top of the ball on my hip joint is dead bone,\u201d Van Halen said.\u201cIt\u2019s just from years of drinking and jumping on it and not feeling the damage I was doing.\u201cThe thing is, haven't had a drink now in 10 months \u2014 actually, Aug.2 was my 10-month anniversary \u2014 and the doctor says there's a slim chance it could get better.\u201d If it doesn\u2019t, Van Halen will get an artificial hip, something he doesn\u2019t seem to mind.\u201cThe quality of life sucks,\u201d he said.\u201cI can\u2019t run, I can\u2019t exercise, I can\u2019t play golf, I can\u2019t jump on stage.Give me a new hip \u2014 I'll be back to normal.\u201d MUSCULAR pA Sage paie.togetie THE NEXT STEP IS YOURS.1265 Berri Street, Suite 782, Montr2al (Quebec) H2L AY4 Tel.(519) ID LT EN The Record\u2014TOWNSHIPS WEEK\u2014August 18-25, 1995\u20143 TALK OF THE TOWNSHIPS The hottest play in the Townships Catch a local Heat Wave in Brome Lake Win Tickets For The Wild Guys The Piggery Theatre winds down its season this week with the premiere of its last play of the 1995 season, The Wild Guys.The Record has two pairs of tickets to give away for the show which continues \u2019till Sept.2 at the summer playhouse in Ste.Catherine de Hatley.All you have to do to enter the contest is send us a short note or postcard with the answer to the following question: Name one actor starring in the play.Send or bring your responses to The Record, 2850 Delorme, Sherbrooke, J1K 1A1, or 88 98 Days of Summer By Rita Legault Lakeside, Knowlton, JOE 1V0.Or FAX it to: (819) 569-3945 or (514) 243-5155.The deadline is next Wednesday, August 16, at 4 p.m.Winners will be chosen at random from the responses and will be notified by phone.Sunil is on vacation this week, enjoying his days of summer.Colleague Rita Legault offers these suggestions for this week as your summer slowly winds to an end.Your Days of Summer list for the week Day 71 If you haven\u2019t already seen it, catch the hottest play of the summer in the Townships, Heat Wave, playing at Theatre Lac Brome.It is without a doubt the best thing seen on local stages in a long, long time.This weekend is your last chance to catch it, so don\u2019t miss it.Day 72 \u2014 Saturday, August 19: As you may have guessed, summer theatre in one of my favorite summer activities.If you've already seen Heat Keith Thome, Cary Lawrence, Marcel Jeannin and Joanna Noyes star à in + Heat Wave at Theatre Lac Brome.New exhibits at Ulverton\u2019s mill SHERBROOKE \u2014 Ulver- ton\u2019s Woolen Mill is presenting five new exhibits which will help bring you back in history to a time when the Ulverton River powered not only the woolen mill but also the local economy.A new panel at the historical site locates all of the 18 wool, saw and flour mills built on Ulverton\u2019s river.Not only was the river needed for its power, but the water was also used in the transformation of the wool.Another new exhibit shows the steps in which water was needed to process the wool at the beginning of this century.The mill also has an impressive collection of more than 35 spinning wheels \u2014 probably the biggest collection in Canada.This collections called: \u201cThe Spinning Wheel an Artist\u2019s Works, A Craftman\u2019s Tool\u201d regroups many different types of spinning wheels which come from all parts of the province and which were often homemade.Those willing to try and spin their own little piece of wool will get the chance to do so in the craftman\u2019s workshop which has just been laid out.With the help of some craftmen you will see how the wool is processed by weaving looms.Also on display is the original working machinery, such as the impressive industrial spinning mule, the country, card, the twister and the coner.Ulverton\u2019s Woolen Mill is organizing many different activities on weekends, such as a farmer's market on August 20 and an exhibition of antique cars on September 30.For more information, call 819.-826-3151\u2014 :111101: Lt - eue un \u2014 Friday, August 18: Wave, discover one of the many other excellent playhouses in the region.Challenge yourself by attending a French play.You can also take a chance that your name won\u2019t be pulled in our contest and catch the The Wild Guys at the Piggery in North Hatley or see Pizza Man which plays this weekend only at the Echo Art Theater Barn in Brome.Day 73 \u2014 Sunday, August 20: Pack a picnic basket and take a leisurely old-fashioned Sunday drive through the countryside.Take an unknown highway and see where it leads you.Get lost on a winding dirt road through picturesque fields of ripe corn and waving hay and have fun finding your way back home again.Day 74 \u2014 Monday, August 21: Yep, it\u2019s back to work, but that needn\u2019t ruin your day.Convince your favorite colleague to go to lunch, even if it isn\u2019t payday.Discover an exotic new restaurant, order the spiciest thing on the menu, and get back to the office late.Tell the boss I said it was okay.Day 75 \u2014 Tuesday, August 22: Dust off your stationery, search for a pen which isn\u2019t out of ink, and head outside for the shade of your favorite tree.Write that long-promised letter to that special relative, that long lost friend, or, if you don\u2019t have any friends or relatives, write your MP, MNA, or least favorite politician.l\u2019m sure they've done something recently to tick you off.Give \u2018em hell.Day 76 \u2014 Wednesday, August 23: Stop on the way home from work and pick up a lovely bottle of red wine, a freshly baked baguette, some pâté campagne, garden fresh tomatoes, and some ripe cheese.Drag a table out onto the lawn or the balcony, cover it with a checkered tablecloth, adorn it with a candle in a wine bottle, and pretend you're dining in a café on the banks of the Seine in Paris.Finish off your meal with a sinfully delicious French pastry and a cup of rich, dark roasted coffee with hot milk.All you'll be missing for the truly French experience is a rude waiter.Day 77 \u2014 Thursday, August 24: Pick up your Mom, a favoni- te aunt or a special friend and drop by Uplands Museum in Lennoxville for a stroll in the gardens and afternoon tea served from 3 to 4:30 p.m.After washing down your cakes and other assorted goodies all lovingly baked by the staff at Uplands \u2014 don\u2019t miss the currant slice cookies \u2014 finish your visit with a fascinating glimpse of the Townships\u2019 very first inhabitants in the upstairs exhibit entitled \u201cA 6,000 year voyage: Archeology in the Eastern Townships\u201d.98 Days Of Summer is a celebration of everyone's favorite time of year, and the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Record as a daily newspaper.Dinners Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday - Chicken & Ribs Wednesday - Pasta Night Friday - BBQ NY Steak & Ticket- Special $35/pers.Pr x PEE A cu ss i ee Le Harry Standjofsk i YR port oups, nature and r all collide as LETC EG BL) (JET pe Le Fy 1 lost weekend in t & SALE SATURDAY AUGUST19th AND SUNDAY AUGUST 20th 9:30 A.M.- 5:00 P.M.PIGGERY THEATRE FUND RAISER SHOW $2.00 CHILDREN FREE _(819) 842-2431 4\u2014The Record\u2014TOWNSHIPS WEEK\u2014August 18-25, 1995 BOOKS Mystery writer still not recognized at home The Joy of Fielding: Real women; real Canadian By Lee-Anne Goodman CP Life-Entertainment Editor TORONTO (CP) \u2014 Its not that Canadian mystery writer Joy Fielding has anything against men.Sure, there\u2019s usually a good louse or two in most of her books, including her latest thriller Don\u2019t Cry Now (Doubleday, $27.95).And it\u2019s often the husband or the ex-husband of the imperiled heroine.But Fielding, 51, swears she\u2019s a big fan of men and matrimony.\u201cMy marriage keeps getting better and better, so maybe I'm exorcising all of my demons,\u201d Fielding said with a laugh in a recent interview.\u201cI've been married 21 years to the same man and he just gets better all the time.sol don\u2019t think that husbands are bad and wives are wonderful, but I am very pro-women.\u201d NEW BOOKS Don't Cry Now is the story of Bonnie Wheeler, who's a suspect in the murder of her husband\u2019s ex-wife.As she goes about trying to figure out who pumped a bullet into the boozy Joan, Bonnie unearths disturbing truths about her childhood, her step-children, her best friend and her seemingly perfect marriage.The novel lacks the quick pace and eerie plot twists of 1991's See Jane Run, arguably Fielding\u2019s best work and certainly among her most critically acclaimed.It earned rave reviews from critics across North America and was made into a highly rated U.S.television movie.But it\u2019s still a pleasure to read Fielding for the deft touch she has with female characters.They have strong friendships, believable mother- daughter relationships and their dialogue rings true.\u201cI have a lot of very close women friends and I really value women\u2019s friendships, I really like women,\u201d says Fielding, slim and animated in a black-and-white check suit.Believable female characters are all too scarce in a lot of popular fiction, adds Fielding, who has a worldwide reputation after almost 25 years of writing psychological thrillers.She\u2019s also had her books translated into 15 languages.\u201cJohn Grisham's central female characters ring about as true as Bugs Bunny \u2014 they're not real people.Whenever I'm reading most books by modern male fiction writers, the minute they get to the female characters they lose me.\u201cI think: What's the matter with this character?Something is wrong.\u2019 And then I realize, of course, that\u2019s not the way women think, that\u2019s not the way women act.\u201d Fielding is so committed to the realistic portrayal of women in her fiction she admits to bristling when she hears her books described as merely \u201cgood reads.\u201d \u201cA good read has a slightly condescending tone to it.You know, it\u2019s a good read BUT \u201cI think I'm more than a good read.I think my books have a certain level of insight, especially into the roles of modern-day women.I think that I am saying things in there about society and women\u2019s role in society and Author defends horror writing genre Vampire volumes aren\u2019t pulp \u2014 Anne Rice By Conway Daly MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 Author Anne Rice is busy pushing the fifth instalment of The Vampire Chronicles, spreading the word that horror writing doesn\u2019t necessarily mean trash.Some other writers avoid the book-promotion circuit, or enter it with great reluctance.Not Rice.Arriving for a book-signing clad in black bridal gown and veil, Rice steps from the plush red interior of an old-fashioned caleche.It's drawn by a black horse, and the coachman sports a fine top hat.Rice waves to the applauding crowd on the sidewalk, then enters a book store to face questions about Memnoch the Devil.It's part of a series that began with Interview with the Now Playing anti August 19° \u2018 RÉ us sus ; ŸÉ EAT WAV By Michel Marc Bouchard An English World Premiere! With Seppert From Wl An Avent sale ot nt re | HEATRE LLAC DROME De Beaux Gestes et Information: (514) 242-2270 | AIR CONDITIONED Vampire, the 1976 novel that introduced Lestat, the fanged one played by Tom Cruise in the recent film version.Much of the new book deals with an ingenious theological argument presented by Satan (here known as Memnoch) that he really cares more about humanity than God ever did.\u201clI studied a great deal of Scripture and biblical works and went down deep into my tradition,\u201d said Rice, adding that her hometown of New Orleans is full of people who have seen ghosts.NOT PULP Rice, whose 16 books include a trilogy about witches as well as pornography and erotic fiction, said her vampire volumes aren\u2019t pulp and aren't just about vampires.Her tales have a lot in common with the stories on almost Opening August 23 Beautiful Deeds By Marie-Lynn Hammond Season Sponsor every TV newscast, she said.For example, Lestat and his fellow Children of the Night \u201c- see everything as beautiful but they have to kill to stay alive.1 think we're a lot like that ourselves.\u201cIt really is about us.Vampi- rism is a metaphor for affluence, the terrible affluence we have in these countries while inter-personal relationships and mother-daughter relationships.\u201d Fielding also bemoans the reluctance by many Canadian critics to celebrate this country\u2019s writers.\u201cI think it\u2019s unfortunate that we don't do a little bit more in terms of promoting our own talent.I go into a bookstore in the States and I'm treated like royalty.Here, I could stand on my head and do cartwheels and no one would notice.\u201d Perhaps that\u2019s because a lot of people don\u2019t know she\u2019s Canadian.\u201cIt\u2019s not like I've tried to make a secret of it,\u201d she says.But her books have all been set in U.S.cities.That may change soon, since she\u2019s proposed to her publisher that some stories be set in her hometown of Toronto.Who 1s Joy Fielding?A sketch of writer Joy Fielding: BORN \u2014 March 18, 1945, in Toronto.EDUCATION \u2014 Attended the University of Toronto.CAREER \u2014 Dabbled in acting for a number of years, including a stint on Gunsmoke and the Canadian film Winter Kept Us Warm.NOVELS \u2014 The Best of Friends, 1972; The Transformation, 1976; Trance, 1978; Kiss Mommy Goodbye, 1980; The Other Woman, 1982; Life Penalty, 1984; The Deep End, 1986; Good Intentions, 1989; See Jane Run, 1991; Tell Me No Secrets, 1993; Don\u2019t Cry Now, 1995.PERSONAL \u2014 Married to Warren Fielding, a corporate lawyer, since 1974.They have two teenaged daughters, Shannon and Annie.QUOTE \u2014 \u201cI go into a bookstore in the States and I'm treated like royalty.Here, I could stand on my head and do cartwheels and no one would notice.\u201d people starve in others.We drink their blood.\u201d For someone who deals in vampires and other ghastly creations, Rice is quite chipper.She said she relishes the chance to meet readers, especially when they turn up for book-signing sessions wearing \u201clace and jewels and antique silks and satins.\u201d 360-year-old book sells for Champlain book sets MONTREAL (CP) \u2014 A book by Samuel de Champlain printed about 360 years ago has sold for $38,000 at a Montreal auction \u2014 a record price for a book sold in Canada.About nine people started bidding for the 1632 volume, Les Voyages de la Nouvelle- France Occidentale, Dicte Canada, at the Tuesday evening auction.The winner, a Montreal collector, does not want his name made public.The book is an eye-witness account of Champlain\u2019s travels among the Algonquins, Hurons and Montagnais between 1603 and 1629.The book was missing an original map, and was expected to sell for about $10,000.Six years ago, a copy of the same edition in similar condi- Writing Memnoch \u201callowed me to get intimate with my fears.My greatest fear is that there isn\u2019t a God paying attention to us.I can\u2019t quite figure it out.\u201d As for other personal worries, Rice said she\u2019s no longer afraid of the dark or of death.\u201cI hate to bring it up, but we're all going to die, sooner or later.\u201d $38,000 record tion sold in England for about $6,000.\u201cIt was all over in about five minutes.When the bidding came to $27,000 the atmosphere was very charged,\u201d said auction house official Chantal Montgomery.\u201cEveryone held their breath.There were only two people left and the price went even higher and higher.There were goose bumps \u2014 it was so exciting.\u201d SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FAI ite SSS The Record\u2014TOWNSHIPS WEEK\u2014August 18-25, 1995\u20145 Porcelain is canvass to china painter PHOTOS COURTESY MARK Semenok serves up her art on plates By Tanya Maier SHERBROOKE \u2014 From the way she talks about china painting, Mary Semenok gives listeners the impression there\u2019s nothing to it.\u201cAll you need is a good imagination.If you can sew, knit or crochet, you can paint,\u201d she said.However, for someone who has never painted, the talk of mixing oils, paint mediums, firings, cones, kilns, cross thatching, and Kazan squirrel blenders (brushes) can be rather mindboggling.Yet, Semenok insists that it\u2019s a learned art.It was in exchange for a personal favor that she learned how to paint on porcelain 15 years ago.Friend Helen Burnham of Guelph, Ontario said to her, \u201cIf you help me out, I'll teach you to paint.\u201d Since those first lesson, Semenok has attended two seminars by Dan Wolf from Philadelphia, the teacher of the teachers.JUST A HOBBY China painters in the Eastern Townships are rare.Semenok has been asked to teach, but declined because she doesn\u2019t want her hobby to take away from the time and support she likes to give to her husband.According to Semenok, her husband Phil is very interested in her work and encourages her.\u201cIt makes him so happy when he comes home and smells paint,\u201d she said.At the present time, she doesn\u2019t make any profit from her work \u2014 only enough to pay for materials.Despite the fact that she doesn\u2019t advertise, word of mouth brings in quite a few orders, especially for wedding gifts.Her popularity is such that her plates can be found in every province of the country.Although most of her work is done freehand, the value of knowing how to trace a design onto a porcelain object is not to be underestimated.Even experienced artists can employ tracing when customers bring in a drawing or picture that they want duplicated on china.The image is first traced out onto tracing paper.Then carbon paper is placed under the tracing paper and the two are put on top of the piece of china which receives the design as it is retraced.Semenok uses a number of premixed, purchased paints but also mixes her own for special colors.Paint powder is blended with mixing oil with a brush on a palette.A brush is then saturated with painting medium and loaded with the special color.Loading the brush with two different colors can be particularly effective when doing flowers.One lighter shade and one darker shade on the same brush for the same stroke imitates the natural shadowing on flower petals.After each layer of paint, the object is fired in a kiln.Semenok usually works with a 0-17 cone, a small object about an inch long that is placed inside the kiln with the porcelain during the firing and cone controls the heat.When the kiln reaclies 1700 degrees Fahrenheit, after about an hour, the cone bends into a U-shape.There is a small peephole in the side of the kiln made so the artist can check to see if the cone is bent and when it is, the machine is turned off.Depending on the: effect desired,,a, .eve nme mE EE mer caw 2 a= porcelain item generally takes from two to five layers of paint and the same number of firings.Although Semenok tries to make it sound simple, she concedes that it takes a lot of patience to paint china.Some of her comments expose the sentiments of a typical artist.\u201cYou should never feel you've done okay because then you'll never improve,\u201d Semenok says.And she never stops looking for things in her surroundings to provide her with inspirations for her work.\u201cWhen you're out driving around you see things you've never seen before,\u201d she said.\u201cYou're always looking for things that would look good on a 6&\u2014The Record\u2014TOWNSHIPS WEEK\u2014Auguet 18-25, 1995 THEATRE The real dilema is deciding what to see Three winners and a dud at Shaw Festival By lan Gaskell NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE \u2014 Scattered through the charming and picturesque town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, the Shaw Festival\u2019s three theatres provide distinctly different thespian experiences, from the admittedly light and unchal- lenging to very serious drama.What the productions generally have in common, however, are strong ensemble acting, inventive direction, and imaginative design.Couple these production values with the available repertoire of fascinating nineteenth and early twentieth-century plays that constitutes the festival\u2019s mandate, and you have a reason for the company\u2019s high reputation in the world of theatre.As with Stratford, the real dilemma at Shaw is deciding what to see.Studying the season brochure is a bit like gazing at a dessert menu: you've finally got to make a choice.And unless you're blessed with large quantities of time (and funds), you have to content yourself with only a small sampling of the available offerings.SHAW, WILDE AND COWARD Of the ten productions presented this year, I opted for two by George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer and You Never Can Tell, Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband and Calvalcade by Noel Coward.What follows are a few impressions.Written in 1893 but not performed until 1907, The Philanderer by Shaw is not one of his better-known pieces: all the more reason for seeing it.The play is anthologised in Plays Unpleasant, Shaw\u2019s volume of pieces peopled by disreputable characters and dealing with apparently distasteful themes.This piece, subtitled a \u201ctopical comedy\u201d explores the serious subject of sex in a very lighthearted and un-Victorian fashion.Shaw also tackles issues like Ibsenism, the new woman, and, in a delightfully savage attack, the entire medical profession.In general, this is the kind of the thing that the Shaw Festival does best.A tight ensemble, impeccably costumed, articulating the sharp, pointed dialogue of the playwright\u2019s discursive prose in an intimate and cleverly designed setting.BACK IN TIME On entering the small Court House Theatre, we were invited on stage to \u201cview the artifacts\u201d \u2014 late 19th century theatre memorabilia belonging to Joseph Cuthbertson, Shaw's fictional theatre critic.A nice conceit \u2014 as the opening of the play sends us back in time a hundred years, and the museum becomes Cuthber- tson\u2019s drawing room.With display cases removed, the artifacts are no longer curiosities but simply the ornaments of nineteenth century daily life.And on the previously empty sofa Leonard Charteris and Grace Tranfield are discovered in hot embrace.Simon Bradbury is an athletic Charteris, vaulting over the furniture just as he leaps over the conventions of normal social behavior.While everyone has brilliant moments, Bradbury carries the show with his superb comic timing.His relaxed, almost laconic delivery alternating with fits of frenetic angst.You don\u2019t often leave the theatre wishing that a play had lasted longer.To my regret, this particular performance, unlike some of those scheduled, did not include the seldom presented Fourth Act.A DISAPPOINTMENT The second Shaw, You Never Can Tell, is a disappointment.This production presented at the larger Festival Theatre suffers by conrast with The Philanderer.Whereas the latter play is unabashedly and comfortably theatrical, this offering seems embarrassed by the space it needs to fill.The production looks nice.It opens to a beautifully painted drop of the bounding main, made boundless by enormous reflecting panels right and left.Unfortunately, Act One is supposed to take place in a dentist\u2019s office.The silly solution, Win an exciting weekend for two at the STRATFORD FESTIVAL in beautiful Stratford, Ontario Friday to Sunday, October 20-22 e Spend three nights at the Swan Motel relaxing in a tranquil country setting five minutes from downtown.You'll enjoy its beautifully landscaped grounds, outdoor pool and start each day with coffee and homemade muffins.* See two of the Stratford theatre festival's biggest hits of the year \u2014 the comic drama Amadeus by Peter Shaffer at the Festival Theatre and the Gilbert & Sullivan musical The Gondoliers at the Avon Theatre.* Take an informative guided tour of the Festival Theatre stage, backstage, underworld and production areas.* Walk through theatre history during a guided tour of the festival's Warehouse of Costumes and Properties, and try on genuine Stratford Festival costumes yourself.* Dine at the Keystone Alley Café, one of Stratford's finest restaurants, one evening during your stay.Casual and unpretentious, chef Colin Alexander will make sure you have a first- class dining experience.Value of weekend package: approx.$500.To enter The Record's Stratford Festival weekend getaway contest, simply fill out the form below and send or bring your response to The Record, 2850 Delorme, Sherbrooke, J1K 1A1, or 88 Lakeside, Knowlton, JOE 1VO0.No photocopies or faxes will be accepted.The deadline is Friday, September 1, at 4 p.m.The winner will be chosen at random from the correct responses and will be notified by phone.The winner's name will also appear in the Townships Week edition of September 8.Good luck and good theatre! PRESENTED BY: Name: \u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026cncccrucecs Address: asus nn0anconnnuuceuseea 00 ue0000 \u2014evsvcntun0nc0c00 cocon an 00000000 s>.000000en0nc0 0000002000 ac0000 so\u2026nasesessoucecunenconn 0000 n 0008 Question: Gilbert & Sullivan wrote The Gondoliers.Name another one of their musicals: STRATFORD FESTIVAL KEYSTONE POY \u2014\u2014\u2014 XO A IQ | $4 - Record SWAN MOTEL ALLEY retort Normand Browning and Helen Taylor star in the Shaw Festival's production of Oscar Wilde\u2019s An Ideal Husband.to place the dentist's chair on the beach and to make the waiting room a carnival booth, quickly entangles everyone in a design concept gone wrong.The actors, making their entrances from inside the booth/waiting room, emerge into sunshine like so many blinking time-travellers entering a parallel universe from Dr.Who's tardis.(They've even gone to the trouble of using an elevator to get the actor's invisibly into the booth.) STIFF, UNPERSUASIVE In a question and answer session after the play (for which a large part of the audience stayed) one of the actors claimed that director Christopher Newton had asked for a large acting style.He used the expression \u201copera without music\u201d.Think about that for a moment.What an unpleasant prospect.Take away the music from opera and you are left with stiff, declamatory, unpersuasive performance.Which, is pretty much how this one felt.Also at the Festival Theatre, Noel Coward\u2019 Calvalcade is frankly spectacular.This is a production dominated by its scenography.Looming over the stage are three vast projection screens, the centre one flying in and out to allow for scene changes.The latter are carried out by means of a revolve that whisks actors and props on and off.Vast in scope the play covers 30 years of the declining British Empire, from the end of the previous century through the First World War to the promise of the Second.Its special magic comes from the cinematic substitution of one fast scene by the next in a \u2018collage of images.Just for example: a railing pivots into view, autumnal projections, black clad figures, moody lighting, some sombre music, and we have the funeral of Queen Victoria.This production, by itself, is worth the trip.BLACK COMEDY Back at the Court House, Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband receives a sharp production at the hands of director Duncan McIntosh.This is really quite a dark comedy: the political career of a highly respected politician is to be destroyed by a blackmailing schemer, a woman with a past.All ends well, of course, as the problems are neatly and happily resolved in the tradition of the \u201cwell-made play\u201d.Perhaps the mellifluous- voiced Alan Gray takes his character, the narcissistic dandy Viscount Goring, one small mincing step beyond the pale.Goring is, of course, a fairly obvious projection of Wilde, himself.But he should not, in the world of this play, seem such an apparent devotee of the \u201clove that dare not speak its name\u201d.However, it is through him and Nora McLel- lan as Lady Markby (a somewhat less threatening version of Lady Bracknell), that the sunnier world of Earnest lightens the piece.The epigrammatic bon mots come fast and thick.I especially liked (the non-authorial?) judgement on pessimists \u2014 \u201cI don\u2019t like the way they do their hair.\u201d You can\u2019t win them all, I suppose; but three out of four is a good average.Ian Gaskell is technical director of Centennial Theatre at Bishop's University.- - ame movies CINEMA CARREFOUR DE L\u2019ESTRIE Sherbrooke.Tel: (819) 565-0366.@ Mentalité Dangereuse, French version.Every day 2:10, 7:20, 9:25.@ Virtuosité, French version.Nightly 7:10, 9:15.@ Pocahontas, French version.Every day 2:20.@ Mortal Kombat.Every day 2, 7, 9:05.CINEMA MAGOG, 12 Main St.East, Magog.Tel: (819) 868-1374.@ Appolo 13, French version, a film for all.Nightly 7, 9:15.Sat.and Sun.1:30, 7, 9:15.@ Accès Interdit, French version of The Net, a film for all.Nightly 7:10.Sat.and Sun.1:30, 7:10.@ Un Monde Sans Terre, French version of Waterworld, a film for 13 and older.Nightly 9:15.events The 12th annual PIGGERY ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW takes place this Saturday and Sunday at the Piggery Theatre in Ste.Catherine de Hatley.The fundraiser for the summer playhouse will feature various artists and artisans from the region.Admission is $2, no charge for children under 12.Exhibits will be judged and prizes awarded to exhibitors who show the highest standards of achievement.The STANSTEAD HSITORICAL SOCIETY is holding its summer meeting on Sautrday August 19, at 10 a.m.at Pierce Hall at Stanstead College.Guest speaker is amateur historian and scuba diver Jacques Boisvert, founder and president of La Société d'histoire du Lac Memphrémagog.Boisvert's conference is entitled: «The History of Lake Memphre- magog through sucba diving.The Eastern Townships Antique Machinery third annual exhibition will be held Saturday and Sunday August 19 and 20 at the Louis St.Laurent Historical Site.On display will be antique tractors, gas and steam engines, farm machinery, tools, old toys and scale models.The show will also feature demonstrations of blacksmithing and rope making as well as tractor races and contests.The museum is also presenting «From Farm to Market» a sampling of local produce.Admission is $2, no charge for kids under 10.TOWNSHIPPERS\u2019 ASSOCIATION BENEFIT NIGHT at Theatre Lac Brome takes place August 31 at 8 p.m.The play De Beaux Gestes & Beautiful Deeds will be presented.Tickets are $15.For more information, call Edwina Adair at (514) 263-4422.STUDIO SORGE is offering a series of workshops titled \u201cPainting From Within\u201d.These workshops are designed for beginners, artists, educators and other explorers who wish to discover personal imagery.The studio is situated in Dunham, in an old chapel transformed into art studios.The workshops take place during the week as well as weekends.For more information, call Bernice Sorge at (514) 248-3969.music The QUATUOR MORENCY with soprano Marie Danielle Parent perform works by Mozart, Saint-Saéns and Murray Schafer\u2019s Beauty and the Beast at the Old Brick Church in West Brome Saturday August 26 at 8, and Sunday August, 27 at 11 and 3.The quartet includes Denise Lupien and Olga Ranzenhofer on violin, Francine Lupien on viola, and Christopher Best on cello.Admission is free.For infromation call (514) 263-2346.EASTERN TRAVELLERS at the Army, Navy, Air Force, a.k.a.\u201cThe Hut\u201d in Lennoxville on Saturday, August 19, at 9 p.m.Everyone welcome.A show featuring CAT SISTERS at Bar Breta- @VHATSON® + WHAT'S ON The Record\u2014TOWNSHIPS WEEK\u2014August 18-25, 1995\u20147 @ WHAT'S ONG Emma Stevens, Ralph Steiner and Kate Wisdom star in Pizza Man.gne, Waterville on Saturdays, Augus: 19 & 26.Super Pork Roast, Sunday, September 3, $7.00person, 3 p.m., band: Long Shot.Info: (819) 837-2323.Bar Country Salle des Erables, Sawyerville.Happy hours on Friday nights 7-10 p.m.Great country music with East Angus Slim from 8-12.Country dance on Saturday night with Buck Sayer and Arthur Little.Everyone welcome.Info: (819) 889-2633.BLUE JEAN PARTY, Friday night at Bar Wildwood, Lennoxville.Free T-shirts and hats.Wear your blue jeans.Music Friday and Saturday with Diamond Trio 9:30-2.No cover.Tel.(819) 569-6600.K.G.B.ACOUSTIC, featuring Jeff Coates and Kevin Groves, on the Lion Terrace, Lennoxville, 6:30 p.m.to 10:30 p.m.on Friday, August 18.If rained out, the show will be later in the Pub.CORN ROAST & DANCE at the Royal Canadian Legion, Cowansville on Saturday, August 19.Corn roast at 6 p.m.Dance at 8:30 p.m.with Country Revival.Dance: $3/person.Everyone welcome.exhibitions LA POUDRIERE DE WINDSOR, 342 St- Georges, Windsor.Open daily 10-6.Tel: (819) 845-5284.Exhibit on the Windsor powder mill (1864-1922) and artworks of Helene and Cecile G.D\u2019Arcy titled La Fierté de ma mèrefinishes August 30.GEORGEVILLE, 94 ch.McGowan.Exhibition and sale of pottery by Jason Krpan, August 19-20, 11 am.to 6 p.m.ASBESTOS MINERALOGICAL FAIR, Boul.Olivier, Asbestos.Friday, August 18, 5 p.m.to 10 p.m., Saturday, August 19, 10 am.to 10 p.m, Sunday, August 20, 10 a.m.to 5 p.m.Minerals, fossils, jewellery and museum exhibits.Admission free.LOUIS S.ST-LAURENT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE Compton.Tel: (819) 835-5448.Commemoration of the life and work of the former Prime Minister of Canada, in the village where he was born.Visit the house, his father\u2019s general store, see the sound and light show.Open every day from 10-5.NORTH HATLEY LIBRARY Open Mon.-Fri.10-12:30, Wed.6:30-8:30, Sat.10-3.Antonia Mitchell exhibits oil painting, small wood sculptures, wooden lamps and candlesticks.The show runs until August 26.UPLANDS MUSEUM Lennoxville.Open \u2026- Tues.-Sat.10-12, 1-5 and Sun.1-5.Tel: (819) 564-0409.A 6000-year Voyage.Archaeology in Lennoxville, including the earliest artifacts from the Townships.Also, Visages and Paysages, an exhibit by photographer René Bolduc.RAYMOND CHABOT MARTIN PARE 455 King W., 5th floor, Sherbrooke.Open weekdays 9-5.Tel: (819) 822-4000.Exhibits by painter Andrée Chaput and watercolorist Brigitte Charland.MUSEE BEAULNE 96 Union, Coaticook.Tel: (819) 849-6560.Pinters Yanick Lebel-Morneau and Sandra Lebel-Morneau exhibit until Sept.4.Also, an exhibit of tapestries by Aubusson made in the centuries-old tradition entitled «Les Tapisseries de France».CENTRE D\u2019ART RICHMOND 1010 Main N., Richmond.Tel: (819) 826-2488.The exhibit Mont Saint-Patrice d'hier à aujourd\u2019hui is a permanent one on the history of Mont Saint-Patrice.MUSEE LAURIER 16 Laurier W., Artha- baska.Tel: (819) 357-8655.Les artistes de mon temps, d\u2019après Alfred Laliberté, sculpteur (1878-1953).Until Sept.24.theatre ECHO ART DINNER THEATRE: Aug.18-20 \u2014 Darlene Craviotto\u2019s play Pizza Man; Aug.25-26, and Sept.1-3 \u2014 Montreal's On The Spot Players perform Married.To Murder, and Sept.8-10 \u2014 Orealis returns to end the 1995 season.The cost for the dinner and show is $35 (plus tax).The Echo Art barn is located at 700 Turkey Hill, Brome (south of Knowlton).For reservations and more information, call (514) 242-2048 or 465-7183.LES JARDINS DE CLEMENCE at Théâtre Du Thé Des Bois, 574 Parc, Deauville.The show recreates the humorous and poetic world of Sherbrooke-born writer Clémence DesRochers.Performances take place Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:30 through Aug.19.Tel: (819) 864-9569.( What\u2019s On Rates N There will be a minimum charge of $5, pre-paid (30 words or less) and .16¢ per word for listings over 30 words.line: noon Wedn Janet Daignault 819-569-9525 8\u2014The Record\u2014TOWNSHIPS WEEK\u2014August 18-25, 1995 TV WEEK Hingsburger on sex, truth, and videotape TVOntario documentary to feature Townshipper By Erin Kaye On Thursday, August 17, the cameras start rolling in Eastman as TVOntario begins filming a documentary on Township resident Dave.Hingsburger.Hingsburger is one of the people the TV station is featuring in a series about scientists and original thinkers.The program will focus on the work Hingsburger has been doing with people who have developmental disabilities.An acknowledged expert in the area of sexuality and developmental disabilities, Hingsbur- ger\u2019s work in the last few years teaching people with disabilities how to protect themselves from sexual abuse has been lauded for its emphasis on prevention and protection.Hingsburger does more than just theorize in front of a computer screen.He works directly with people with disabilities and their care providers.Last year Hingsburger provided workshops for over 900 people with developmental disabilities and \u201csomewhere around 10,000\u201d staff, parents or other care providers on the subject of sexuality, abuse prevention and disability.He has documented his work in 10 books (all but one still in print) and over 50 professional publications.This work came to the notice of TVOntario.Some preliminary interviews were done and from them they decided to feature Mr.Hings- burger in one of their shows.\u201cActually, I am quite nervous about this kind of exposure Hingsburger said in an interview.\u201cI have made some training films before, most recently for the Kennedy foundation, and some brief telewi- sion and radio interviews but never has the focus been so much on my life and work.\u201cIn fact, I think I might bore them a bit!\u201d he added.When talking about his work, Hingsburger becomes more passionate.\u201cPeople with developmental PIRTICIPACTION 2 ° disabilities are the most victimized group in our society and little has been done, until recently, to address the problem,\u201d he said.\u201cWe clinicians, who say we care, have got to start making some changes in how we do things.My work has been to develop an approach for teaching people with disabilities to be their own first line of defence,\u201d he adds.\u201cClearly we \u2014 service providers \u2014 have failed.We have to give people with disabilities the skills, language and power, to keep themselves safe.\u201d The sessions Hingsburger runs for people with disabilities have been very successful.\u201cThe idea for these workshops came from a woman in British Columbia and then the actual workshops were funded by the Secretary of State,\u201d he explained.\u201cLinda Perry and I travelled all over British Columbia training people with disabilities how to say \u2018no\u2019 and staff and parents how to hear the word \u2018no\u2019.\u201d That training took off and now it has been offered in a variety of states and several provinces.VICTIMS \u201cWhen doing a workshop in Windsor I met a group of people with disabilities who were so powerfui in their discussion other people with disabilities deal with the victimization.\u201d \u201cThe memory of them stayed in my mind for a long time.With a bit of organization we have arranged for them to videotape their stories and advice.\u201d TVOntario will be part of the crew filming the process of putting this work together.\u201d To make the documentary, TVOntario will be filming Hingsburger at home in the Townships, and at work in a number of cities in Ontario.His home base is Quebec but he works throughout the U.S.and Canada.While he began his clinicla work in Toronto and works across North America, Hings- burger chose to live in the Townships.PLACE TO BREATHE \u201cAfter all those years working with people with disabilities who either were victimized or victimized others, I realized I needed some breathing space,\u201d he said.\u201cAt the time I moved, I was working all over North America and needed only to be near an airport in order to make a living.One visit to the Townships was enough to sell me.\u201d \u201cI still work at the clinic in Ontario while doing education for people around North America, but here is my home,\u201d he