St Johns Ravenscourt School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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miL V; THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS G.B. Shaw CAST: Shakespeare: Allan Hammond Beefeather: Harry Sheperd Queen Elizabeth: Sheila Maurer The Dark Lady: Judy Stewart r k NOAH’S FLOOD edited by Gordon D. McLeod | % HENRY V CAST: Gods: Noah: Sem: Cam: Jaffette: Noah’s Wife: Semes Wife: Cammes Wife: Jaffettes Wife: The Good Gossip: John Macbeth Derek Timmerman Morgan Thomas Edward Orton Kit Rowley Ken Newbound Charles Andison Nathan Kobrinsky Michael Hammond Rodney Briggs Hugh Malcolms on William Shakespeare Battle scenes as selected by R.L. Gordon CAST: Narrator: Stewart Searle Bates: Williams: Erpingham: Gloucester: Westmoreland: Salisbury: Mountjoy: Exeter: Bedford: French Kings: Constable: Barry Stevens Simon Truelove David Boult Sandy Shartd Sandy Chown Jamie Little Ron Little Bob Clemis Jack St. Ji Mark Dallas Lome Wiedman Errol Naiman Jim Lawson Doug Kiddell BEHIND THE SCENES , r h COSTUMES: Judy Stewart SETS and LIGHTING: Desmond Bevis, assisted by Bob Spaith SOUND EFFECTS: Harry Shepherd PROPERTIES: William Leonard li |l HOUSE MANAGER: Martin Ainley TICKET SALES: Lower School: Bernard Bdtre Upper School: Martin Ainley Gordon D. McLeod RlL. Gordon Sheila Maurer DIRECTORS:

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At the time of writing, the school is involved in preparing for the presentation on Friday and Saturday nights, April 28th, and April 29th, four stages of drama ijj Theatre in the Round. This experiment in drama will take place in Hamber Hall at the school. About sixty boys and members of the staff are involved In this evening of drama; it is to, be hoped that a good audience will attend both evenings. At the moment, the directors Mr. McLeod, Mr. Gordon, and Mrs. Maurer, are busy with the first rehearsal weekend. Mrs. Stewart is designi ng and creating costumes; Mr. Bevis and his assistants are building Noah’s ark and various other items for the sets; Mr. Leonard is collecting properties; Mr. Shepard is preparing sound effects; the members of the casts are learning lines and attempting to adjust their acting to an audi¬ ence on all four sides of the stage in the middle of the dining room. One can overhear conversations about the three Gods in Noah being dressed in red, about the Fleur de lis being put on the French King’s costume, about what Mr. Hammond’s legs will look like in tights, and whether Mike Gard¬ ner’s hair will be dyed blond. Other discussions concern live doves, growing hair and beards, using blue floodlights to create a flood, and renting trees for the palace at Whitehall. Each year for the past few years, the school has attempted a major dramatic production, and each has been success¬ ful in its own way. Every year one is amazed at how little talent there is when casting begins and how much there is by the time the production is ready for an audience. In the process of development, a great number of people have an experience which may be of benefit to them in a variety of ways. In the last few years, we have produced plays in the Playhouse Theatre, Holy Trinity Church, and now Hamber Hall. Perhaps next year the play will be in the Dutton Memorial Arena or in the new Manitoba Theatre Centre. The following program information is as of the time of the printing of the Eagle. We apologize if changes which were made later are not recorded in this account of A Theatre Happening. IN THE ZONE Eugene O’Neill 1 1 CAST: Smitty: Terry McGaughey Davis: David Sprague Swanson: Stewart Searle Scotty: Peter Lemon Ivan: Greg Hill Paul: John Hutchings Jack: Mike Gardner Driscoll: Helmet Verges Cooky: Mark Jackman 36

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XJU 7)wttm himoud The Dutton Memorial Arena — a 200 x 90 foot hockey rink, complete with dressing rooms, showers, seating for over six hundred people, and an artificial ice plant capable of producing ice in August, is near completion at the school. Backed by M.A. (Red) Dutton, G.M. Bell and J.A. Richardson, the arena is named in honour of Alex and Joe Dutton who were killed while serving with the R.C.A.F. in World War II. Mr. Bell, Mr. Dutton and his sons attended St. John’s, and Mr. Richardson at¬ tended Ravenscourt. The new arena is intended to meet two main ob¬ jectives. The first is to provide facilities at the school which will not be affected by weather, to ensure that the S.J.R. hockey program will be strengthened; sec¬ ondly to provide for Canada’s National Hockey team, a training base of international size which will not be pre-emptied by other events. While the rink is and will remain the property of the school, sharing this facility will in no way interfere with the school’s pro¬ gram, and in some respects may strengthen it. The school’s association with the National Team has already begun, since defenceman Barry MacKenzie is in his second year as a teacher in the school, and goal keeper Ken Broderick joined the staff in September. Billy MacMillan’s wife, Marjorie, teaches grade three. The total cost of the project is approximately $500,000 and it is expected that the ice will be in the arena early in April. Smith, Carter, Searle and associates are responsible for design and Bird Construction Com¬ pany is the general contractor. EXCAVATION SETTING UP THE PILES TEN MILES OF PLASTIC PIPE IN PLACE THE DUTTON MEMORIAL ARENA 38