Tom McCamus (7/73 Ahtushmit)
Excerpt from The Ottawa Journal 7/28/73: Tom McCamus
Theatre News
Saturday, July 28, 1973
Two Ottawa companies, Land of the Young and Le Theatre des Lutins, will be giving day time performances of plays for children in the Salon of the National Arts Centre throughout August. The Land of the Young offering will be Ahtushmit, a play by Jeremy Gibson based on a West Coast Indian legend about the search for fire.
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Ahtushmit will open next Thursday at 2 p.m., and Marlot Friday at 1 p.m. Ahtushmit will continue daily except Monday until Sept. 1. Performances will be at 2 p.m. Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The French-language play will be offered Fridays and Saturdays at 1 p.m. and Sundays at 4 p.m. Ahtushmit is directed by Allen Hughes and Marlot by Pierre Collin. The role of Ahtushmit will be played by Alain Goldfarb, a young actor who has performed with companies in Montreal, Calgary, Banff, and Toronto.
Excerpt from The Ottawa Journal 8/7/73: Tom McCamus
Flamboyant or sober, children's plays a delight
By ROBIN DORRELL
Ahtushmit, by Jeremy Gibson, and Marlot dans les merveilles, by Pierre Morency, are two delightful children's plays being presented during August in the Studio of the National Arts Centre.
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Ahtushmit is produced by The Land of the Young company. It's a stylish, rather sober presentation of an amalgam of West Coast Indian legends. Directed by Allen Hughes, it encourages the children in the audience to participate in helping a young Indian, Ahtushmit, to steal fire from the wolf people and bring it to we humans.
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