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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 7 Aug 1996, p. 14

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encouraged to bring blankets to sit on. Admission is pay as As far as this week‘s perforâ€" mance in the park is conâ€" cerned, Sage says she expects children will be delighted by The Tempest. "I think kids will really fike it," Sage says. "There are lots of funny parts â€" parts where you don‘t really need to understand what the characâ€" ters are saying to enjoy it." Upstart Crow‘s production of The Tempest will be preâ€" sented at the Waterioo Park Bandshell Aug. 8, 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. and Aug. 10 and 11 at 2 p.m. Rain dates are Aug. 16 and 17 E. um: Massachusetts / Sub Pop The Scuds have been calk . country" primarily because 3 label generally considered t Fact is, there‘s nothing es §MMMdM g Sub Pop band and Massach . straight out of the boardro« & _ After a few plays howeve have done their Hank Willia sons homework better than 4 Pernice sounds so lonesome g the band lays down the ki‘ 3 memhudh(n 5 appreciate. It‘s just too bad : § mmmudn-auni::’ > country" primarily because they record for a é wmmm‘n Fact is, there‘s nothing especially alternative E about their brand of heartache. Forget this is a 9 Sub Pop band and Massachussetts could be ,; Straight out of the boardrooms of Nashville. After a few plays however, it‘s dear the Scuds have done their Hank Williams and Gram Parâ€" sons homework better than most. Singer Joe 5 Pernice sounds so lonesome he could cry and 3 the band lays down the kind of worldweary 9 melancholy fans of the Cowboy Junkies will 5 appreciate. It‘s just too bad the Boys don‘t kick ‘< up their heels more often. sions of the witches‘ brew and stuft like that. So we have this idea of reaching out to the community and trying to show them that art and drama is not something that is just for expensive theatre is on the board of directors at Stratford, and he was telling me about a children‘s proâ€" gram that he had worked with. | think they were doing Macbeth with kids, and once they explained some of the hard words, the kids loved it. They had kids doing rap verâ€" : More mush than substance to Br McGee at St. Jerome‘s College keeping with the company‘s mandate to make Shakeâ€" speare‘s work more accessible to the general public, is the creation of a Shakespeare camp for children. "The motto for the school could be "Shake Up Your Another possible venture that is still in the very early planning stage, and that is in to see the annual Shakeâ€" speare in the Park production be sort of the mainstay of the company. And if we do addiâ€" tional things, those can work around that main producâ€" (Continued from page 13) "One of the exciting things about this is that it‘s brand new and people are bringing their ideas to it and so on," Tempest j e eemieee CR Cc C Een rapneniies "I would like sdreidsaesscaccas s rvgny un ind mm ie pers. Few were better when it came to playing _ and roll and they became without falling into the abyss of mediocrity. While they‘re still successful and far from mediocre, there is the feeling â€" noticeable on their last album and prominent here â€" that they‘ve become less interested in hooks and memorable songs and more in cryptic lyrics and wordsmith at worst. The music has become increasingly moody fiMbmmwm mwmmmm Downie‘s lyrical flights of fancy. The Hip have no doubt matured, far faster than the mostly young fans who buy their rmmammimnoosmmmess... â€" epeopmnmnezem ever the focus is on Downie, an engaging perâ€" former at best, an oblique going one way and the band another. More than 5e Dnvove seaminghy convoluted song strucâ€" In The Henhouse tends utnaancs... anget. :: EPE ie : '“M ‘i ‘Wu‘:: Pp+ m'flf celebrity status will carry the day. At least that‘s numbers pophoul that‘s heavy on mush and light on substance.

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