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Anusree Roy, who is a playwright
in residence at the Blyth Festival
through a sponsorship by the
Ontario Arts Council, last week won
the Dora Mavor Moore Award for
best new play produced in Toronto.
The winning play, Brothel # 9 was
produced in Toronto March of this
year. It was the newest entry in an
award-winning career for Roy who
has built in dealing with subjects
from her Indian heritage (she was
born and raised in Calcutta).
She is trying something much
different in her work in Blyth. She
came to Blyth last summer with no
idea about what she wanted to write
about.
But one day, during a 10-day visit
to Blyth last August, she was out for
a run down main street and passed
Davara Studio, which makes and
sells pottery. Later she went back
and met David and Tamara Riach
and asked if they would consider
giving her pottery lessons for the rest
of her stay. They agreed.So, every day she went for a two-hour pottery class. “They were so
inspiring,” she says in a telephone
interview from Toronto where she’s
busy juggling acting and the writing
of four scripts.
Trying to learn the intricacies of
pottery-making even taught her
about playwrighting, she says. As a
writer you can become too precious,
falling in love with every word and
resenting criticism or calls for
changes. But “pottery is complete
surrender,” she says. If you’ve got
the pot nearly formed and it
collapses, you just start over.
She had come to Blyth to see how
the area might “speak” to her about
what to write, and by about the
fourth pottery lesson she got her
inspiration. She got a vision of a
middle-aged caucasian woman
smashing pottery – and the seed was
planted for the story.
Although there are a couple of
potters in her play, it’s not the
Riachs, she says, and the pottery is
only a part of the story which is
about what causes the anger and furyof the woman who takes it out on thepots.Tackling a story about peoplefrom a small Canadian communitywill be quite a departure for Roy.She had previously won Dora MavorMoore Awards for outstanding new Playwright in residence wins another Dora
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DOROTHY MARGARET
McDONALD
Dorothy Margaret (Jardine)
McDonald of Brussels passed away
on Monday, July 4, 2011 at
Huronlea Home of the Aged. Born
in Gorrie on Feb. 20, 1925, Dorothy
was in her 87th year.
Dorothy was the wife of the late
John M. “Jack” McDonald. She was
the dear mother of Paul and Jane
McDonald of Lurgan Beach, John
and Merilyn McDonald of Brussels
and Larke Schmitt of Petersburg and
the dear grandmother of Natasha and
Steve, Heather, Erica, Craig,
Michael and Jennifer. She was also
loved by her six great-
grandchildren, her sister Joyce
Hodgins of Wingham, her sister-in-
law, Mary Jardine of Goderich and
her many nieces and nephews. She
was predeceased by her parents
William and Alma (Cathers) Jardine,
her son Neil, daughter Gail and
brother Glenn.
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family one hour prior to the funeral
service on Thursday, July 7 at 2 p.m.
from the Schimanski Family
Funeral Home, where friends
and family remembered the
good times in Florida, at the cottage
and the wonderful meals she
prepared. Rev. Elwin Garland
officiated.
Carrying a floral tribute was her
great-grandson Neil. Dorothy’s
pallbearers are Craig McDonald,
David Hodgins, Steve Kloostra,
Trevor Hodgins, Brock Hodgins and
Jerry Bremner with her burial in
Brussels Cemetery.
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Brussels Cemetery. Online
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By Keith RoulstonThe Citizen Continued on page 23