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PAGE 22. BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDA Y, JUNE 13, 2001.
Norah Harding goes back to life story for new play
By Mark Nonkes
Citizen sr"
Sometime. Never,: playwright
Norah Harding hail `—unfinished
business after she wrote the
autobiographical hit This Year Ne.vt
Year in 1975.
This Year. Next Year was a story
that didn't give the whole picture of
her life and her marriage, the 78-
year-old Harding said.
"It kept gnawing at me," Harding
said in a phone interview from her
home in London. Ontario.
Sometime. Never is the sequel to
This Year, Next Year. It is a story of
Harding, her two sisters and their
mother during the Second World
War.
The war years in England were an
exciting time, Harding said. For
every female there were 20 service
men.
"They never had so much attention
paid to them," Harding said softly.
Audiences took the family in This
Year Next Year to heart. After it was
first produced in Blyth and then in
several other locations people kept
coming up to Harding and asking
what became of her mother and
sisters.
Sometime, Never was written to
answer the questions.
With This Year Next Year the play
ended happily. But Harding said it
was too happy. The first show didn't
reflect Harding's marriage.
This is a story that is close to
Harding's heart, a story that is based
her life and the people she was
closest to in her youth.
The charabters the audience meets
in Sometime, Never and This Year
Next Year are written exactly as they
Norah Harding: remembering
the tough times.
were, Harding said.
Harding's marriage had its ups and
downs, there were things that
Harding didn't want to write about.
In writing Sometime, Never
Harding forced' herself to write
about some of the more difficult
timesin her marriage.
It was a story that she waited on
for a long time after This Year, Next
Year because she didn't want to face
the pain of the past.
However, by last year Harding
Sometime, Never
had matured enough to write the
play. She realized that she shoulcifl't
be so shy about telling the story.
There were some parts that
Harding forced herself to write, even
though she didn't want to:
It's a story that a lot of people will
be able to relate to, especially war
brides, Harding said. The type of
problems Harding and her husband
had were problems that a lot of other
people had.
Harding is the only character in
the plays still living.
After her husband died in 1975
Harding, in her early sixties,
enrolled in - acting courses at
Fanshawe College. After taking a
few classes, she became involved in
London Community Theatre as an
actor and later as a director.
The story of Harding and her
family during the war years was
written in book format for quite a
while. When she started to get into
theatre she realized it would make a
good play.
With the help of Anne Chislett,
Harding prepared the script for the
1995 season.
This time Chislett is again
assisting Harding. Harding plans to
attend rehearsals starting at the
beginning of August.
As for exact details to Sometime,
Never Harding isn't giving anything
away.
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