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PAGE 20 - WATERLOO MONICLE. WEDNESDAY. MAY tt, 39.33:? 1-1% 1b. lobster . FLOWN FRESH from the east coast Second helping (same person) $7.99 SURF & TURF $13.99 LOBSTER $999 1-1% 1b. lobster MAY 13, IS MOTHER'S DAY, PHONE 885-5840 FOR RESERVATIONS 4 KING ST. N., WATERLOO (KING & ERB) HOTEL WATERLOO DINNER SPECIALS b'IE'4"!Irr9'Tr..S', Coral Andrews Chronicle Special You can smell mother's freshly baked apple pie cooling on the gingham-curtained window sill as you watch Elora Community Thea- tre's presentation of Thornton Wi1der's 1938 classic Our Town. The lobby is filled with vintage sepia tone faces of yesteryear which compliment the quaintness of the whole evening. This Pulitzer award-winning piece has been presented in many striking ways. Director Ken Alban- ese's interpretation, interesting stage techniques, and use of exits give this turn of the century yarn a modern simplicity. The play opened at the Grand Theatre, Fergus last weekend and continues tonight through Saturday at 8 p.m. It's the story of daily bread desires in New Hampshire's pictur- esque Grovers Comets, a life of pipe dreams that brims with predictable existence. Our Town centres around two families, their careers, homelife and goals in a wholesome suburbia, where everyone pays 'a lot of attention to the birds,' and women get to vote 'indirectly.' Grovers Comets is a modest time warp, where nothing exciting ever occurs yet everyone has to know the facts about one another's business. Women folk slave for 20 and 40 years, without a summer vacation. Men are locked into jobs which bring them home at the same time Eiora’s Our Town quaint rendition Philharmonic Choir, Howard Dyck - Conductor. with the London Pro Musica. Stratford Concert Choir and The K -w Symphony Orchestra perform Sir Edward Elgar's ‘Tho Dream of Goronttus'. Featuring soloists: Catherine Robbin. mezzo-soprano; Glyn Evans. tenor and Gary Relyea. baritone. J‘J‘unnl -BB.."BB.W08rr T Monday - Saturday ll a m _ 6 p m 101 Queen Street North, Kitchener QW‘ "lulu-m THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS - Samarium Son» - THE tn" “DOW“ mt!“ T0. Fm is" It“) 1-000-265-8977 IN YHE _ V-rlou muthnuod humon- and “(lemon M3IARf RM... _.a.rr"p'.t.1".ttf/.1'.' TTI 'IT" c A M Wodnuday. May " 8:00 pm. . $10.00 $12.50 $15.00 Price WI 500 CW arch-tot vm Hume-M Am-teq" [Iona Madelaine ller is effective as Emily Webb, the dark slender, idealistic girl next door. Together she and Gary Williams, as her bosom buddy turned sweetheart George Gibbs, create an endearing but awkward chemistry that is perfect for this type of gangly court- ship. The warmth and devotion in Our Town radiates around Barbara Walker as Julia Gibbs and especial- ly Nellie Webb as Myrtle Webb, both extremely convincing in their tradi- tional mothering roles. and enough to make any feminist cringe at the sight of them. every day never once noticing that the woman across from him has eaten 50,000 meals with him, and her hair is ever the grayer for it. The dead are “weaned away from the earth," and the living hardly ever take time to realize what life is all about except to look at the moonlight, or note someone passing away. - - The Webbs and the Gibbs are not the Smiths and Jones but a gentle camaraderie seeps between the two white-picket households. Wilder attempts to build the same trust with the audience inviting them into his armchair script. They share little ups and downs of the families' past and make modem- day comparisons with their own. Gerry Butts plays several roles, from town preacher to stage man- ager, and the use of audience plants help to encase you in the townpeop- le's scenic environment.