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Moiseiwitsch, Alf Bell, Cecil Clarke, and Bob Fairfield. In many ways the Stratford "tent theatre" was similar to the ‘‘Melody Fair‘‘ summer stock theatres that now dot the American resort areas. The difference is that the Stratford Theatre became popular with its stress on Shakespearean Drama and the "tent‘"‘ became a brick structure. In fact, what started off as a type of summer stock theatre soon expanded with other forms of plays. The downtown "Avon Movie Theatre" was taken over eventually as a second stage and then part of the Badminton Club was converted into a ‘‘Third stage". So Waterloo is indeed fortunate to be living almost next door to its own ‘"summer stock" theatres where the best of professional shows are on display nightâ€" ly. For newcomers to Waterioo, I suggest you plan to take in one of the Stratford plays before the summer is history. Simply drive out via Erb Street towards St. Agatha. It‘s a quiet highway and will lead you to Stratford in a half hour. I always enjoyed attending a "Summer Stock" theatre when I was taking my holidays along the New England sea coast. These coastline resort theatres had a mixture of veteran actors on a type of sabbatical holiday and the young aspiring actors who were trying to break into the big time. Now that we live in Waterloo, we don‘t have to travel far to see summer stock because only 30 miles away we have a top professional "summer‘‘ theatre in Stratford. It wasn‘t too many years ago when Stratford Festival Theatre started as a summer "tent theatre". I moved to Stratford shortly after they put a permanent roof on the place. Tom Patterson, the festival founder, could be found walking down Ontario Street and being greeted by citizens. Names that were very familiar in town at th;at time were Tyrone Guthrie, Tanya As the summer starts to wind down, the local golfers are all involved in their respective club championships. With the excellent summer weather we have had, all reports seem to indicate that it has been a banner year for the golf clubs. Interest is starting to build as the local golf professionals try to increase their points in the Waterioo County Pro Challenge tour. Recently in the third round of the circuit at Merry Hill Golf Club, Herb Rudney came in with a 58 followed by Danny Maue 63; Dave Smallwood 63; Paui Cotey 63; Wayne Gratton 63; and Mark Maue 64. The Club Pros tee off at Elmira Goilf Club on August 8 for the next round. Send items to Box 898, Waterloo, Ont. Cindare n t t @TUSTSN SSÂ¥ v & Chronicle Special Based on Henrik Ibsen‘s A Doll‘s House, Nora (Avon Theatre to Nov. 1) was a play that in its time caused a controversial tidal wave. Fancy, a wife deserting husband and children! Ibsen was merely demonstrating suppression of middieâ€"class European women. In Nora, famed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman has taken Nora and shaved the initial Ibsen text, sifting out family history and disposing of servants and children. Bergman has pared the script to a crisp, pentagonal web of anguish and period morality among five troubled psyches. Modern clarity. Lucy Peacock as Nora Helmer has a tendency to strut each role to the dramatic hilt (Olga in Intimate Admiration, Ophelia in Hamlet ‘86). You either like her or you don‘t. As Nora she‘s the perfect mould. Her tuneful interpretation and facial expressions are somewhat manic, possibly psychotic. Peacock covers well the spectrum between the ‘not happy . . . gay‘ Nora of the opening scene, and the despondent, tortured soul in the story‘s shattering finale. Cudos to Peacock. Joseph Ziegler as husband Torvald begins feebly, but as Nora‘s intensity heightens, he carves a memorable portrait of a man incapabile of love, a victim of his own moral entrapment, shrouded in emotional illiteracy. Nora is a woman of conscience. She once broke the law committing forgery and she was proud of it. She did it out of love for husband Torvald, to save his life. The couple was forced to live in Italy, the only place at the time that Torvaild could fully recuperate. Nora‘s been paying back the loan, unknown to her spouse through the years, sadly ignorant of the fateful COUPLES WANTED BOWLING LEAGUE Thursday Evenings 9 p.m. Starting in September â€"Be Part of the Fun‘" For More Information Strong performances in A Doll‘s House adaptation ERNIE METZGER NORTH WATERLOO Lmdflhuulflh‘fi.moflm EXTENDED HOURS TO SERVE YOU AT YOUR CONVENIENCE Mon. to Fri. 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. â€" Sat. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. "EXPERIENCED TRAVEL CONSULTANTS TO ASSIST YOUR EVERY NEED" ognoNyBREw Ptéa in Waterioo e 3 House Brews e European atmosphere e lunches & dinners 12 noonâ€"1 a.m. ; _ HUETHER HOTEL LION m%vnt’s >\ Beechwood Travel Ltd. L \ 450 Erb St. West, Beechwood Plaza Torvaild will not agree to Nora‘s request on * behalf of Krogstad, growing increasingly annoyed at his wife‘s insistence in the matter of men. Enter Nils Krogstad (wellâ€"executed by Daniel Buccos), a bank employee who wishes to speak with Torvald concerning his apparent dismissal for an ‘indiscretion‘. Nora freezes. Krogstad was the man who secured her husband‘s loan. Krogstad, who has fallen upon hard times and wants to atone, frantically pleads with Nora to help reinstate his bank position. He then, to save his job, threatens to expose Nora‘s felony and disclose to Torvald Nora‘s forgery of her dying father‘s signature on the promisory note, which Krogstad carries as protection. Although himself once guilty of the same crime, he can see Nora‘s angst, but the wizened old bankman is bitter toward society and intends to even the score. At first Nora seems happy enough in her fantasy dream house, with the children and her social obligations (embroidery, masquerade bails), but one can sense a growing desperation in her eyes. Moral conflict. An urge to break free of a marital monotony that is slowly suffocating price. Eight years later the Helmers‘ luck has changed, as Torvald is appointed bank manager, his proud Nora eagerly preparing for the festive season, thrilled and relieved that financial prospects seem brighter. Realizing she‘ll soon be free of the tiresome monetary burden, Nora partially divuiges her secret to surprise caller, the recently widowed Mrs. Linde (a powerful and vulnerable performance gem from Goldie Semple), who has come to town hoping that Torvald can give financial assistance. (ormerty The Kent Hotel) (Continued on page 19)