Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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This year has had a number of memorable highlights in music at TCS. At the Christmas Carol service, Roughton, Prodor, Bedford-Jones and Mark Baker entertained the school with some fine brass- vxork as they accompanied the choir. Talent Night followed later on in the year as the next major musical event. The band played three very good numbers. However, the credit for Talent Night's success rightfully goes to Remus, Klopstock and Dinsdale. Together or soloing, they dazzled the audience, Remus on the drums, Dinsdale playing the flute Moe Kaufman style and Klopstock once again MUSICA DBA D on the piano. The school's super-production, Camelot, provided the last exhibition for the band. Long hours of practice paid off for the nine members of the or- chestra and Mr. Prower over the three nights. Without the growing musical talent in the school, a musical such as Camelot could not have been put on. A final note of congratulations should go to Chris Wilson. Self-taught, he and Mr. Behnan provided some very good guitar playing at a concert night. It proved to be better than most of our dances, even with the smaller numbers. Twp: Klopstocls and Dinsdale - jazz specialists. Bnlmm: Remus' speed onthe drums rendered many speechless. I 4-w-f 11' . 1 l - A . :n l-l m-n4u -1. .vt

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Having never won the house play competition, Ketchum mounted a major effort to do so this year. The Real Inspector Hound, was, like Ketchum's plays of many previous years. more demanding and complex than most other plays presented, yet it had a lighter side. The cast was the most experienced. The yyork put into the Ket- chum play, from Steve Frank's backdrop through the acting and Macfarlane's directing, was awesome. When performed, the play's acting and direction were superb. Frank and Taylor were good Comics yy hile licr and Macfarlane acted extremely well. It came as quite a shock, to some, that the play did not win, although it did capture major acting awards lincluding Macfarlane as best actorj. In retrospect, the over-confidence of the production. its lack of simplicity and wit and a slight staleness from overworking were its downfalls. Brent house produced Clevinger's Trial, a play based on a chapter of Joseph Heller's Catch-22. This play was perhaps ideal for the festival in that it was extremely simple, short, full of humour, and yet by far the most profound house play of recent years. The play exposes hypocrisy, injustice and perversity by means of an ex- tremely witty dialogueg yet it relies very little on movement and complex action, so justice may be done to it by amateur actors. The play concerns itself with the trial of an innocent soldier tjewettl, who continues to believe in the system which abuses him. His insane accusers are led by a totally perverse colonel twell portrayed by Wingi and two spineless, ambitious, buckish officers, played by Maclaren and Vasila. The play also features a facetious stenographer fPhil1ipsJ and the only sane person left fAgostinil. Apart from brilliant plays on words and great characterization, the play was extremely lively and spon- taneous. Despite the cast's humble expectations, Brent house won the festival. F i 'gil YQ

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