CASTING AND OTHER NOTES

RADIO 34

FROM CBC RADIO DRAMA - #4

March 16, 1982.

       Toronto theatre director William Lane has joined CBC Radio Drama as a producer bringing with him some formidable credits: Lane directed the Canadian premières of Erika Ritter's Automatic Pilot and The Passing Scene, Sam Shepard's Buried Child, Stephen Poliakoff's Strawberry Fields and George F. Walker's Zastrozzi, among others. His first radio play, The Old Post Road, will be broadcast on Nightfall March 26, and Lane himself will direct three for this series: Mr. Agostino by Janet Bonellie, The Road Runs to the Sea by Tim Wynne-Jones and Turn of the Blood by Paul Bettis, scheduled April 30, May 7 and 14 respectively.

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       Speaking of Nightfall, another 13 episodes have been sold to National Public Radio in the States, for a total of 39. Maritime actress Florence Paterson makes a guest appearance on Nightfall, April 23, in The Screaming Skull, a chilling tale by master horror writer F. Marion Crawford, adapted by Guy Babineau and John Douglas.

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       Doug Lennox, former co-host with Sylvia Tyson of Touch the Earth, has written his first radio play, The Bearwalk, based on a true story about the clash between Red Power Indians and prospectors over development in the Yukon. Ron Cook, who won a Theatre Ontario Festival award for The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, plays an elder of the tribe. Cook is a member of the Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts. Also in the cast, directed by Paul Mills, is August Schellenberg, and Larry Reynolds who played the title role in Allan Stratton's Rexy. The Bearwalk is slated for Sunday Matinee, date TBA.