Making The Rounds

• Published in: Canadian Theatre Review
• Main Author: Close, J. Herbert
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1978
• Subjects: Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Beaver Creek; Cape Dorset; Frobisher Bay; Inuvik; Northwest Territories; Rainbow Lake; Whitehorse; Yukon
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.18.010; https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.18.010

Now that playwright Rick Salutin is $5,000 richer thanks to his winning the 1977 Chalmers Canadian Play Award for his Les Canadiens, he’s turning his sights to a new project which he and playwright Michael Cook would do together. The subject? Neither writer is saying publicly but if you were to suggest it was the life of Joey Smallwood, chances are you’d be pretty close… . Other finalists for the ‘77 Chalmers included Carol Bolt (One Night Stand), The Second City Revue Troupe (East of Eaton’s), George Walker (Zastrozzi), and Ken Mitchell and Humphrey and the Dumptrucks (Cruel Tears). These four split a $2,500 award. … It was, no doubt, a chilly group of Citadel actors who returned recently from one of the most extensive theatre tours ever undertaken through the Northwest Territories, northern Alberta and the Yukon. Offering up four different productions and sponsored by Alberta Culture, the Canada Council’s Touring Office and the Citadel’s own Ladies Auxiliary which kicked in $7,000, the tour took the company of six through Inuvik, Frobisher Bay, Pangnirtung, Lake Harbour, Cape Dorset, Whitehorse, Destruction Bay, Beaver Creek, Rainbow Lake and Fort Vermillion. The kindergarten to grade threes up north saw Paddy Campbell‘s Chinook; the grade four to sixers watched Rex Deverell‘s The Shinbone General Store Caper; and grade seven to niners were treated to Isabelle Foord‘s wryly titled, I Don’t Care What It Looks Like As Long As It’s Warm. For the high schoolers and adults, director Keith Digby put together a collage of classical scenes called Ages of Man.