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Special Yesteryear' dress made wi th love •
Yvonne Sauriol: plenty of research goes into designing costumes
for Yesteryear.
Born and raised in Toronto,
Yvonne has worked across the
country designing costumes and
sets for theatre productions.
In Blyth for her first season,
Yvonne is the costume and set
designer for Yesteryear by Joanna
audience building.
Educated at the University of
Toronto where she received
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of
Education degrees, Amos acted and
directed for companies such as the
National Arts Centre, Shaw
Festival, Young Peoples Theatre,
Canadian Stage, Theatre New
Brunswick and Toronto Workshop
Productions. '
From 1972 to 1979, Amos
By Allison Lawlor
yvonne Sauriol was busy last
summer. While working at
the Stratford Festival she
designed 130 costumes for one
show.
By Janice Becker
For the in delible mark she has
left on theatre in Southern
Ontario and across the country
former Blyth Festival Artistic
Director Janet Amos has received
recognition.
Amos, along with six other
movers, shakers and
groundbreakers, were granted
honorary degrees by the University
of Western Ontario at the recent
graduation ceremonies.
Recognized for her achievements
as an actor, playwright and
administrator, Amos was given an
honorary Doctor of Letters, June 11.
Amos served as the artistic
director twice at the Blyth Festival.
From 1979 to 1984, she led the
theatre through its first capital
expansion while doubling its
audience.
Returning by request in 1993,
Amos brought the theatre's debt
under control and continued the
McClelland Glass.
"After I read the script I called
some people I knew in
Saskatchewan to talk to elderly
people who had been in hardware
stores in the '40s."
Because the play is set in another
era, Yvonne researched the period
to find out what people would
wear. She also put in a call to the
museum in Regina to find out what
a policeman's uniform looked like
in the '40s.
After that she started making
sketches of what she thought the
stage and costumes should look
like. She then consulted director
Paul Lampert, made some changes
and built a small model of the set.
Finding costumes was fairly
easy Yvonne said. She rented them
from Stratford, CBC and George
Brown College. The rented
costumes have to be fitted and
altered.
Yvonne knew she wouldn't be
able to find one dress, so she
designed it herself. It's the white
dress the character Millie in
Yesteryear wears at the end of the
play. Colleen Babcock, the
wardrobe assistant will make the
dress.
Yvonne studied at Queen's
University. She started out in
biology and thought she would go
on to become a physiotherapist like
her mother. She changed her mind
and went on to study theatre
contributed to Theatre Passe
Muraille as an actor, writer and
director.
Her television and film credits
include the CBC series A Gift to
Last and the title role in Ada.
During the mid-1980s, Amos ran
Theatre New Brunswick.
She is recently performed in Paul
Ledoux's Anne, a new production
of Anne of Green Gables at Young
Peoples Theatre in Toronto.
design.
After graduating from Queen's
she apprenticed at the Banff
School of the Arts.
Three years ago she got married
and said she is less likely to travel
far from home for work.-
Yvonne has worked at the
Stratford Festival, the Shaw
Festival, the Globe Theatre, and
other prairie theatres.
Yvonne's career not only
includes designing, but teaching.
She finished her first year of
teaching set and costume design at
York University in Toronto.
"The students are really keen.
They're so interested, it's
inspiring."
Former Blyth Festival Artistic
Director Janet Amos given
honorary degree by Western
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