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Osler artist nominated for Sask. Arts Board award Clint Neufeld of Osler is one of 22 nominees shortlisted for the 2013 Lieutenant Governor’s Arts Awards. The announcement was made last week by the Saskatchewan Arts Board. The awards celebrate the contributions and achievements of individuals, groups and organizations in all arts disciplines. The recipients of the awards will be announced on Wednesday, September 25.
CLINT NEUFELD’S ART
By casting 50s-era vehicle engines in porcelain, Clint’s work blurs contradictions between the masculinity of car culture with nostalgia and the notions Clint Neufeld of beauty, complexity, and fragility. Glossy pieces painted in delicate hues are displayed atop pristine settees and other vintage furniture, further challenging observer expectation regarding traditional gender pursuits, artistic display, and even fancy versus function. His work has been featured extensively in Canadian solo exhi-
bitions, including at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Toronto’s Koffler Centre of the Arts Gallery, the Parisian Laundry Gallery in Montreal, and the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. His inclusion in the 2012 multi-media exhibit Oh, Canada at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) was a focal point in his career thus far, given the exhibit was the largest survey of contemporary Canadian art ever produced outside Canada. In 2011, Two Rivers Gallery in Prince George published a catalogue of his work; that same year, he was shortlisted for the Winifred Shantz National Ceramics Award. His pieces have been well received and regarded at international art fairs, and diverse public and private collections now contain Clint’s work. Before earning a BFA from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA from Concordia, Clint was deployed to the former Yugoslavia as a Canadian Army corporal, and also trained as a firefighter. Though he continues to gain recognition both nationally and internationally as a noted modern artist, Clint chooses to live and work on an acreage in Osler, Saskatchewan, where he hosts an annual art showing of his work, as well as that of other emerging artists.
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Langham theatre club ropes in the laughs with unique Western parody By TERRY PUGH
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A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do to make a living. Even if it means donning a dress in the old west - and running a salon instead of a saloon. The Langham Theatrical Company’s latest dinner theatre production, “Way Out West in a Dress” is set to open in early November. And when tickets go on sale September 16, it’s a sure bet they’ll be scooped up quickly. Sela Balzer, Artistic Director of the Langham Theatrical Company, said the script is perfect for the community theatre group. And she’s enlisted the help of Gillian Pearson of the Langham Prairie Players to bolster the musical end of the production. “It’s a good combination,” said Balzer in an interview recently. “I’ve always been a little reluctant to do a musical because it’s an added challenge for the actors. You’re asking them to do a lot. But Gillian is very good at choreography and getting the best out of singers and musicians, so it’s working out very well.” Balzer said the play is set in 1895, a period when the western frontier era is fading. “It’s a love story, a musical, a comedy and old-fashioned Victorian melodrama all rolled into one,” she said. In the script, a troupe of actors find themselves in Nevada after one of them has mistakenly thought he inherited a profitable saloon. Turns out he’s saddled with the Lucky Lady
Actors Martin Bembridge (left) and Erron Leafloor star in the upcoming dinner theatre production of “Way Out West in a Dress” by the Langham Theatrical Company. The play’s Gala Opening Night is set for Thursday, October 30 and the production runs from November 1 through 10 at the Langham Community Hall. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY LANGHAM THEATRICAL COMPANY
Salon, a beauty parlor. So two of the actors pretend to be European hair stylists. Things go from bad to worse in a series of plot twists punctuated with uproarious musical numbers and puns galore.
Balzer said she’s enjoying the rehearsals, which started this week, and is excited about putting the show on the community stage in early November. “It’s a ton of fun. People won’t want to miss this one.”
The Barn Playhouse musical hits all the right notes Saddle pals take audience on a whimsical silver-screen trail ride By TERRY PUGH
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When the opening night audience responds with a standing ovation, you know you’ve got a hit on your hands. The Barn Playhouse production of “Chaps!” came out of the chute with six-guns a-blazing - and delivered a show that - as the actors’ old saying goes - knocked ‘em dead. The cast and crew of the nostalgic western musical hit all the right notes in the first of a string of shows that winds up this weekend. Set in London, England during the darkest days of the Battle of Britain, with bombs raining down on the British Broadcasting Corpo-
ration (BBC) studio, the plot involves a live radio broadcast of an American western singing group. But when the stars of the show don’t show, the plucky Brits step into the breach some more reluctantly than others. Grant Martens does a bang-up job as Archie Letch, a radio technician who finds himself thrown into the limelight as a stand-in for Tex Riley, the famous American singing cowboy. Archie knows how to strum a guitar and looks good in a Stetson, so he slips comfortably into his make-believe role like a six-gun into a holster. Sean Sperling as Leslie Briggs-Straton, the formal announcer, is a little more of a stuffed-
shirt. His character is less comfortable being stuffed into the cowboy sidekick role, but by the end of the play he’s got the audience in stitches. Alison Klassen as Mildred Shadwell, Liz Scott as Clara Cooper, and Gwenda MacPherson as Mabel Halliday bring their comedic talents and wonderful singing voices to their roles. Accompanied by the band of Vickie Dyck, Tony Allen and Gordon Sayers, the actors take the audience along on a trail ride full of Saturday-morning cowboy movie memories. And it wasn’t just the cast members doing the singing. The audience wasn’t shy about joining
in on old favourites like “Cattle Call,” “Back in the Saddle Again” and “Tumblin’ Tumbleweeds.” There was a particularly sweet rendition of “Cowboy’s Sweetheart” and a poignant and moving medley of “Bluebirds (over the White Cliffs of Dover)” and “Round-up in the Spring” that brought more than a few tears to the eye. In the end, it was all about the music. There’s something really special about oldtime western cowboy songs that celebrate freedom and wide-open spaces. Walking out of the Barn Playhouse after the show and gazing into a glorious western prairie sunset, it’s easy to see how where those songs came from.
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