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TOThe Barrie Examiner Saturday April 1976 Stock exchange building brought back to life MONTREAL CP The old Stock Exchange Building boarded up and silent six years ago is humming with life The trading floor has been transformed into Gallery Op tica quiet place for the photographic arts regarded as one of the best of its kind in Canada The curved marble stair case leads to an inimate studio theatre which offers varied program of ex perimental productions and gves young artists chance to reach Montreal audiences Behind the stone pillars of the building on St Francois Xavier Street in Old Mon treal new main stage seats 50 and is given over to full time production The entire development known as Centaur Theatre is mainly the work of Maurice Podbrey Britishtrained South African who will tell you that he has not done it alone There is the Centaur Foun dation which made possible his dream of fulltime Englishlanguage theatre in Montreal There are the Canada Council the City of Montreal the secretary of state in Ottawa and to lesser extent the province of Quebec MET THEATRE GROUP But even Podbreys critics admit that his boundless energy and determination are at the root of Centaur Theatre restless man with great thatch of silver hair he came to Montreal in 1967 to teach at the National Theatre School In 1969 he met with group called Instant Theatre which performed during lunch hours at Place Ville Marie midtown office and shopping development The conjunction of Pod brey Instant Theatre and the Centaur Foundation became Centaur Theatre The new repertory troupe began functioning that year in the 250seat theatre with The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Montreal audiences responded positively to subscription drives and fund raising campaigns Centaur has ranked consistently near the top in Canadian theatre attendance figures based on percentage of capacity Podbrey loves Montreal and this is reflected in his choice of programming and in the trouble he has taken to develop local playwrights PRESENTS GOOD PLAYS Montreal is vital cosmopolitan centre where one can present good plays with no apology he says Productions have included the works of Pinter Albee Chekhov Arrabal ONeill Tom Stoppard Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams Centaur has also provided op portunities to Canadian authors and has commission edits own plays special source of pride is On the Job by David Fen nario which was so suc cessful last year it is being given second run Fennario was resident playwright with Centaur when he wrote his play about the Montreal garment industry Although Centaurs home productions are mainly in English both performance space and backup services such as publicity boxoffice Acorn FRED GRANT YOUPUt Iniitrpll lurrill and rolled ymr pnrsunriltty and Mr ntylv An 3pmc Tllflquudlliv mmr vrittm ritrm lttlt It utmva metltrrt ll1lLJLll lT£ill Ilrrrrw and technical coordination are available to other groups Some of these groups are young and experimenting many work in French 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