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BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13. 2001. PAGE 19.
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Susan Hogan loves the Hagge
Michael Hogan: theatre's a
family affair.
By Mark Nonkes
Citizen staff
When actor Michael Hogan was
first asked to star in Corner Green
he didn't think he would be able to
do it.
"Initially .it seemed impossible,"
Hogan said in a phone interview
from his home in B.C. •
However, Hogan asked the
Festival to send a script. After
reading just a few pages of the script
and re-evaluating things Hogan and
his wife decided to come.
Hogan will co-star in the play
with his wife Susan.
In Corner Green Hogan plays an
elderly Newfoundland man who
comes to a point in his life where he
is neglecting the past.
In the play the main character is
"ridden" by a creature called the
Hagge, a creature that plays on the
old man's dreams and nightmares.
It is a creature that actually exists,
Hogan said. Being ridden by the
Hagge is written about in Celtic
fairy tales.
Being ridden occurs in a state
between sleep and being awake, and
has been identified as a sleep
disorder, Hogan said.
The play is a dance between the
Hagge and the old man, Hogan said.
In Corner Green there is a certain
amount of physicality needed.
something the Hogans will be able
to have no problem doing.
However; on the down side of
things business isn't just finished at
the theatre, it follows the two actors
home too.
Last summer Hogan and his wife
were given a script for a production
at the Caravan Farm Theatre in the
Okanagon Valley in B.C.
For that show the pair didn't think
they would be able to take part
either, but after re-evaluating things
they decided to go. Hogan entered
the show on horseback and his wife
entered on a motorcycle.
Hogan said he and his wife have
started a tradition of going to "neat"
places in the summer.
Working on plays with Susan is
something that Hogan finds
invigorating. Since the two know
each other so well they are able to
translate the intimacy on stage.
Hogan grew up near North Bay
and thought he was destined for the
[nines hut after waiting for a tem,
years after graduating from high
school, he entered the National
Theatre School. He stayed in
Montreal for only one year where he
met his wife and then left to roam
the country. He started acting on the
stage and in film and TV and made
a name for himself in Canadian
circles.
Recently, Hogan starred as a
series lead on CTV's Cold Squad for
one season.
Working in front of the camera is
relaxing, Hogan said. The many
breaks allow him to-catch up on his
sleep.
Theatre allows Hogan to have
direct contact with the audience
from the beginning of the show to
the end of it. In theatre he can give
his input into a project.
The Hogans have lived in
Vancouver for about five years, but
made their careers in Ontario.
Returning to Ontario this summer
will allow them to catch up with old
friends and relatives.
Hogan and his wife. have three
children, two who are actors and the
other still in high school.
Corner Green
Minutes north
of the
Blyth
Festival
Actress Susan Hogan thinks the
role of the Hagge, which she plays in
Corner Green, will become one of
her favourites.
Hogan has only read the script for
Corner Green a few times but enjoys
the character so much.
It's a character who has lived on
through time and can morph into
many things, Hogan said.
"I love the character so much
already,' Hogan said
enthusiastically.
In a phone interview Hogan
eagerly shares information about a
creature that she compares to
vampire or blood sucker.
The character is one that plagues
an old man's memory.
Through research Hogan has
learned that a Hagge is a
mythological character that
terrorizes people with guilt.
"She plays on his 'could have
done, should have done, would have
done'," Hogan said.
In Newfoundland the Hagge has
been cited as the cause of death
before, Hogan said.
Through her research, she has
never come across a Hagge that
speaks. In this show the Hagge is
very vocal, a change from
conventionality, Hogan said.
Hogan will star opposite her
husband, Michael, who will play the
old man. In the play the Hagge just
rides the old man, Hogan said,
Hogan and her husband had quite
the time working on a production' of
The Taming of the Shrew at Young
People's Theatre in Toronto.
During the run of that show there
was a time when Hogan and her
husband only spoke on stage, in
Shakespearian language.
Usually when one of the Hogans is
working the other is very supportive.
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But when both are working things
can get a little hairy because they
don't have the other for support,
Hogan said.
Hogan will be working among
friends on Corner Green. Aside
from her husband, Hogan will be
working with writer Gordon Pinsent
and director Diana Belshaw, two
people Hogan has know for a long
time.
Although Hogan calls Gordon
Pinsent an old friend Corner Green
will be her first Pinsent play.
The show has been dramatically
re-written since the first production.
Working orr the revamped show will
allow Hogan figure out what is going
on from the ground up.
Corner Green marks Hogan's
debut to the Blyth stage. The
Hogans son Gabriel, acted in Blyth
for the production of Old Man's
Band. Gabriel is now a series lead
on CTV's The Associates.
The Hogans daughter is also in the
acting world, but she sticks mostly to
the theatre.
The couple have another child who
is still in high school.
Hogan began acting in her last
year of high school because she
Susan Hogan: favourite role.
wanted to hang around the "groovy
people" in drama club.
After high school she applied for
the National Theatre School in
Montreal and was accepted.
It was in her third year of school
that she met her husband. After
graduating she worked throughout
the country in plays, TVs and
movies.
Coming to. Blyth this summer will
-give her a chance to catch up with
relatives who live in Kitchener.
Michael Hogan's second
thoughts bring him to
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