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is your dryer safe? Phone: (519) 886â€"4930 + Email: safehome@gto.net Each year, hundreds of Ontario fires originate in the clothes dryer By regularty having the lint cleaned out of your dryer, you can: * reduce the risk of fire * increase the life of your dryer * decrease the need for costly repairs + reduce energy costs with decreased drying time + improve the air quality in your home * gain peace of mind Safe Home Dryers provides safety service to dryers in Kâ€"W. Find out what you can do to proâ€" tect your home & family. Lunatics from the nightmare world of Tennessee Williams come into contact with Greek divas of Medea proportion. The Hardy Boys soar over and into a cuckoo‘s nest wherein Nurse Ratchet presides. And Sam Shepard machoâ€"mania threatens to cannibalize midâ€"80s psychobabble in the shape of a chainâ€"smoking madwoman. All of this comes to staggerâ€" ing life and endless laughter when UW Drama presents five oneâ€"act theatre parodies, collectively titled totally durangâ€" ed. Written by America‘s wildest satirist Christopher Durang, totally durangâ€"ed will be presented in Hagey Hall‘s Studio 180, Feb. 7â€"10 and 14â€"17 at 8 p.m. Lloy Coutts, currently with the Stratford Conservatory Programme, will direct the cast of 16 actors. Tickets are $10 for the general public and $8 for students/seniors, available at the theatre centre box office in Hagey Hall or by calling 888â€"4908. Pictured in a scene from The Hardy Boys (one of the five plays) are ( from left} Brad Goddard, Rob Osborn and Justin Kinney. Elora Theatre presents ‘Thirteen Hands‘ Humour and nostalgia are the main ingrediâ€" ents of Elora Community Theatre‘s upcoming second production of the 2000â€"2001 season. Carol Shields‘ Thirteen Hands opens Feb. 9 at Theatre on the Grand and continues through Feb. 17. A memory play, Thirteen Hands is set around a bridge game and it gives voice to dozens of women who lived between 1920 and 1993. The UW Drama is ‘totally durangâ€"ed‘ HOURS: Mon., Tues., Wed. 10amâ€"6pm; Thurs. Fri. 10amâ€"9pm; Saturday 9amâ€"5:30pm; Sun. 11amâ€"5pm four actors portray of those women who sing and tell stories _ about _ mothers, aunts, grandmothers and wives. The play is also the story of the children and men who surround them. Carol Shields is winner of the Pullitzer Prize for her bestâ€"selling novel The Stone Diaries. Tickets are $13.50 each. For show times, call the Theatre on the Grand box office at (519) 787â€"1981. acrass from Waterloo Town Square 89 steps east of Market Square DOWNTOWN K(TCHENER 741â€"0910 220 King St. East UPTOWN WATERLOO 886â€"2840 32 King St. South .