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THE BLYTH SUMMER FESTIVAL, ISSUE, JULY 6, 1978 —5
David Kirby worked in circuses
DAVID KIRBy
David Kirby who an actor
and production assistant with the
Blyth Summer Festival got,
started in theatre arts in high
school.
In the summer he worked with
the Ontario Youth Theatre. He
went to York after Grade 13 and
will be going into his fourth year
next year and that's the extent of
his theatre training. -
Deborah Cooper
is a local girl
Deborah Cooper, as an
administrative assistant for the
Blyth Summer Festival types
letters, will be working in the box
office when it opens and will also
be helping publicist Eleanor
Besley with a few jobs.
She attended Central Huron
Seconday School in Clinton and
was through this year. She
learned about the job at the
theatre office through Manpower.
Deborah, who took a business
course at school is hoping to get a
permanent job in London as a
secretary. About the theatre she
says, "it's kind of interesting. I
never really thought about it
before. I kind of like it."
Publicist Eleanor Besley says
that Debbie helps everybody else
in the theatre. "When we get,
really swaniped we always turn to
Debbie: She's always calm and
cool and collected and helps us
out," Eleanor says.
He had been in a nanber of
shows at York but this is his first
professional production, He
Wanted to do some summer stock
this year and auditioned for
artistic director James Roy in
March, James called him later
and asked him if he would be
interested in being an apprentice
actor for the Ontario Arts Council.
David will have parts this year in
the Huron Tiger and- His. Own
Bess. and after that will be
involved in production work.
Being an apprentice actor is
considered a learning experience
which the apprentice. gets by
working with a professional
company ,
After he gets out of York. David
Barbara Snaith, who has a
double position with the Blyth
Summer Festival as actress and
production assistant. just recently
graduated with a B.A. in drama
from Brock University in St.
Catharines.
She did a lot bf shows while at
Brock including Three Sisters,
From Morn to Midnight, and One
Way Pendulum. She has also
amateur shows in Hamilton with
the Players Guild, including The
Effects of. Gamma Rays on Man
in the Moon Marigolds, Glass
Menagerie, and Come Back Little
Sheba: For the past three years
she also worked with the Picadilly
Circus doing shows for children at
Dundurn. Castle in Hamilton.
The most recent show she did
was Waltz of the Toreadors at
McMaster University which
James Roy directed. Barbara told
James she would be interested in.
working at Blyth and later she got.
a call telling her she had a job. In
Blyth she Will be playing the' part
of Helen Galt in The Huron Tiger.
At Brock, Barbara took a
combination of production and
acting which meant that as well as
acting in these shows there, she
also had to help build them.
After performances of Huron
Tiger have started Barbara will be
&nig into production work. .
Asked about her acting
technique, Barbara says, t'every-
body has to find their own way of
arriving at a character, There
isn't any one technique that
anybody follows. There's a
certain amount of script
analysis," she says.
"In the end you just haVe to
follow your own way, say, 'what
do I think about this?' I think too
many people think that acting is a
technique and it's not. It's a kind
of art," she added.
Barbara has done a little bit of
T.V. and stage work but she likes
the theatre.
"Yoti've got an audience there.
There's something magical When
you've got the audience: The odd
performance is really great and
you get this communication going
back and forth and you can really
feel it," Barbara says.
would like to get jobs in theatre
companies so that he can work
steadily butt he says he also has an.
interest in the circus. He, has
worked in circuses before and
says, "it's a lot of fun."
Asked it' he'd like to work in
television or films. David said. "if
the opportunity carne, I'd
.certainly follow it. I've had very
minimal experience with it.:
David says, "t think each role
demands a different 'approach. I
just approach each character in
terms of what lie does in the play.
"II Just try and •understand the
character and what he is thinking
at a specific time and what he has
gone through in the, past:''be
says. •
BARBARA SNAITH
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