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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen-Blyth Festival 2001, 2001-06-13, Page 47Prudential Heartland Realty Erwin Stone Associate Broker Website: www.erwinstone.com Email: butchs@golden.net 199 Josephine St., WIngham, Ontario NOG 2WO (519) 357-2400 1-800-217-7171 Res.: 519-335-6024 Lam! lYbrKeles Your local Landmarket representative j_andmarketer.com Opening Doors to the World BLYTH FESTIVAL. SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2001. PAQE 23. Birgitte Solem returns to play Norah in 'Sometime' Birgitte Solem: Now this will be acting. By Mark Nonkes Citizen staff Some time, . Never star Birgitte Solem won't be relying on method acting where actors take their own experiences and translate them to the stage. In Some time, Never Solem's character, Norah, has trouble communicating with her husband. Salem and her husband, actor Raoul Bhaneja, talk about everything. "We don't have the same problems," Solem said in a phone interview from Toronto. Solem will be portraying the writer of the piece. She hopes that meeting the 78-year-old Harding will give her some insight into the character. After reading the script Solem said the character seemed to have a sense of prudence and practicality. It's a character that has a willingness to have fun, Salem said. Norah has three sisters and a large extended family. It's something Solem wasn't familiar with growirrg up. Solem is an only child but wished for a large family. After marrying Bhaneja, who has appeared on the Blyth stage before, she inherited many relatives. Being cast as Norah, Solem trusts she has whatever quality the director was looking far in a Norah. One thing Salem can relate to in. the script is being raised by a single parent. In Sometime, Never the girls live with their mother. Sometime, Never When Solem was just a child her parents were divorced. She always had a close relationship with her mother and still does. Solem is a graduate of University of Ottawa. There she was taught by Sometime, Never director Terry Tweed. The two worked together last summer, both as actors in Anne. Salem said she has learned so much from Tweed. "She's inspiring," Solem said. Solem played Diana in Anne last summer and various roles in Stolen Lives - The Albert Walker Story. Over the winter Solem yvorked in dinner theatre, workshops of scripts Kate Hemblem doesn't like to be type-cast by age Never ask this lady her age, it's a secret. Actress Kate Hemblem will admit to being in her mid-to-late- 20s but won't give specifics. Hemblem worries if people know her age she will be restricted to certain roles. "People will say she can't play this because she's too old," Hemblem said in a phone interview from her Toronto home. Back for her third season in a row, Hemblem will portray young women in both Corner Green and Sometimes, Never. In Corner Green Hemblem portrays a woman who once existed but now lives in a man's imagination. Hemblem said the. woman is young and innocent with a good sense of humour. "So much will come from rehearsal," Hemblem said. Rehearsals starts in the end of June. Adrienne Wilson: classic story. Working in Blyth for the summer is quite a treat for actress Adrienne Wilson. Wilson will be in two shows this summer. She plays the lead role in the musical Cruel Tears and the youngest sister in Sometime, Never. Cruel Tears is a musical based on the Shakespearian play Othello, a play Wilson has always wanted to be in. Being in Cruel Tears is the next best thing to being in Othello, Wilson said. At press time Hemblem hadn't received a copy of the finished script for Norah Harding's premiere of Sometimes, Never. Hemblem is currently reading the other play Harding wrote, This Year, Next Year. She is basing her character on Ivy, who she will play in Sometime, Never, a sequel to the earlier play. Hemblem's character Ivy is the older sister who is more serious and down to earth. Hemblem hopes in Sometime, Never Ivy will get to kick up her heels a little more. This is the second time Hemblem will portray a character based on real life. The first time she played Hitler's wife, Eva Braun. In playing characters based on real people there is a -respect issue Hemblem said, but the character has to be alive and theatrical. Hemblem said Blyth was the first It's the age-old story of does a father really want a daughter to marry into the same business that he is in, Wilson said. _ It's a show with live singing and music, something Wilson is very excited aboUt_ The play takes place in the prairies, where Wilson was raised. "What more ;could you ask for," Adrienne said joyously. In Sometime, Never Wilson plays Sheila, the youngest girl in the family. Wilson wants to spend time with playwright Norah Harding to portray Sheila as honestly and concisely as possible. "I'm looking forward to working with her and picking her brain," Wilson said. Sheila is a lovable, wonderful' and interesting character, Wilson said. "She's a gem," Wilson said sweetly. The story is set during the second world war, but in the play the audience gets to see the good side of the war. They get to see the excitement of going to dances and the youthful experience for a female in the war Kate Hemblem: playing a real-life character. place she worked professionally after she graduated from theatre school. In the 1999 season she appeared in Big Box by Dave Carley years, Wilson said. Wilson was last in Blyth two years ago. She played the leading role in That Summer and a minor role in Continued on Pg. 24 I 4 4 I 4 CHRYSLER Dodge Jeep 0 and When The Reaper Calls. She was the only actor to return to Blyth last summer for the remount of Reaper. The friendly Hemblem said she has learned so much from the actors she's worked with in Blyth. Over the winter months Hemblem played the title role in Dave Carley's adaptation of The Edible Woman at Theatre on the Grand in Fergus. She also spent several months in Montreal working with the Montreal Young Company, where she did two shows. Growing up an only child, of two actor parents, Hemblem never imagined herself becoming an actor, even though she worked backstage in Toronto theatres. When Hemblem joined a women's choir she realized she enjoyed being in the spotlight. She enrolled in George Brown College and started her acting career in 1995 when she was in her early 20s. Now if you do the math, you can almost figure out Hemblem's age. Wishing the Blyth Festival many more successful seasons! BLYTH PRINTING INC. "The Little Shop that Can!" 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