Page 10. WNU>y Fiee Prsse WednedaY, JanOey 61903 1 SHiOENSTRING 1 By Mark Reemor Mother aùid daugliter team Ann Symne and Wendy Wallace are joining forces to work on lhe Road to Mecca.' 'The Road to Mecca is Durhami Shoestring Perfermers second P roduction of the season, and Symne, who's been with the Prforesfo h einig edsgig and creating the art and set wliile - her daughter je handling the sculpture featured in the play. Written by Athol Fugard, the play was inspired by the life and work of South Mfrican-HBen Martmns, an "eoeontric widow" who "transformed her home into a intricate and dazzling work of art after her husband's death, according topublicxst Cheryl Brown. Syre says sho was ge8tY5ffectedbyM ia'rtife as told in the play, especially how she li!terally exploded on the art scene... after boing confined and under the control of her husband... *M iagntion'jut took off - it just iterally had wi"gs. MShe says she quickly enisondthe se t as being anythiig but traditionial. "I didn't se. it at aà as being a realistic set; that's why it's contemporary - there are no wafls... "It had to connect with the vastness of Africa, and in the vastness of -Africa, you don't have walls. It's a very minimal ladcpe -- it couldn't be confinin. Martfin saw everything in light, says Syme. "She's totally infatuated with liglit and colour, se it's a wonderful set for an artiat... "In al my ears of doing set design, costumes directing, stage mangig, igit this is my most favourito pýlay; 1 just love it.» 'WaIl. sa s l~e really identifies with th e sculptures Martins croated. "tes iet vision... Nve just taken pioces of her ideas and condensed them.» Some of the pieces Wallace is making are mentioned in the play and others help te better portray Martinsd character. A flig owl, for example complote with car headlIghts for eyes,is' mentioned i the pl ay but is «symblic of lier spirit.» Wallace ay Martine' sculptures areo made out of cernent se thlooiey loook goti -- te recreate that, shes making theni out of a chicken wire frame draped with fabric and then hardened with a coat of glu. te give it a "rigid, solid look.» ANN SYME <Ieft) and daughter Wendy 'The Road to Mecca,' which oenJn.9 Wallace work on the set for Durham at the Arts Resources Cçntre n Oshawa. Shoestring Performers' new production, Phto by Mark Resco. Whttby Fme Preu Tom' s lithographs at McLaughlin An exhibition of lithographes by Whitby ertist Richard Toms will orn at the Robert McLaughli Gallery on Jan. 7 and continue until Feb. 28. The public is invited te meot the artist at a galle7 reception te be held Thursday, -an. 7from 7 te,9 p.m. The works included in the exhibition 'Litliographisms -- Series ' are limited edition prints. Escli and every lithograph hms been conceived and printed by the artist. - Most editions number four or five and within the edition every print can b. a variation and ~q . intsILf.Se in every sense of se word these are original artist's prints. 0f hie work, Toms says, "'Ihe work in Lithographisms -- Series 1 is mostly representational, but what I ernjoy, most about representational images is pushing the image as far as I cen tewards abstraction and still retAin the initial image. "1Ail I hope js that the prints convey my own ernjoyment of the medium and,,my own personal artistic vision." Toms was born in Oshiawa in 1963 and currently resides i Whitby. Ho is largely self-taught, although lie bas attended workshops in etching and litiorahywith artiat Otis Tamasauskas at the Nicholas Novak Prit Studio at Whitby Station Gallery. Witby band in tune with local audiences of the Sive Shadow band are George Sprague and Rand Siver. Cit .Warhurst. John, Romi,,WMb wkAm.VNtby'F By ElIzabeth Hooper A Whitby-baqpd rock band that :: plays regularly in'Toronte plans on more' appearances dloser te, home. Silver Shadow performs a brand of music that botli young and old can en.oameinbers o the band, sclieduied te appear et G-Notes in Wlutby on Jani. 8. Together fer a year the band consiste of George Sprege on base guitar, Randy Silver on rhiythm guitar Clint Warliurst on drume anâ John Rome on lead guitar. Ail menibers have vocal experience, and take turne sm«ýug. te b.e called Domino but when Randy Silver joined tlie baud, w. che our namo te Silver Shadow,» ay prague. Silver Shadow pefra oni- K al material, newer songe by eTragically Hip 'and Arc Angel,and classicrîock -cover songe by sucli bande as Pink 'xegroup has boon in the Ghetto recording studio for the past year and lias producetd eiglit oiçinal songe including'Strange Noises,' 'A Wisper' 'Fantasy Girl,"Face The VWorid and Silver liasnlad hie own CD, 'Silver Through The Mist,' in stores euch as HMV and Sam F» i>"'"TheRecrd Man smo. 1M9. As members of a band Silver e pains that musical yWise, <'ehave our d*iferences but we just take everybody's viewpoints and combine them ail inte our music - we make sure everybedy contributes. "With our songe, we lik. te take people's experiences, both positive and negative, and make our own interpretations of them - we write dynamic songe. «'We're net a band that depende on the initial boom cf Our musfic,' says Silver. "W. want people te lieten to, our lyrice se our steries or messages can be heard.» They perfiormed te packed house at Oshbawa's Genosh on three dates in December and will b. there again Mardi 18 te 20. Silver says the band lhan per- formed at every bar on Queen St. i Toronto but «Audiences in Witby ani Oshawa are more in tune with our music compared te audiences in Toronto. "Ihere are se many varieties of music in Toronto that we found our music wasn't as appreciated, as it was in the Wbitby/Oshawa ares.w Silver Sliadow wlll b. entrniz the Q107 Home Grown FinaiiZ contest at the end cf May. Band members are consldering adiga kerbou-dWin iith MEMBERS IL a-&. qk & ýK % & % de 161161%% %16 4."- 4.