HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen-Blyth Festival 2000, 2000-06-21, Page 38PAGE 14. BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE21, 2000.
Layne Coleman returns as
actor in ‘The Drawer Boy9
Layne Coleman stars in The Drawer Boy.
By Mark Nonkes
Freelance Writer
is the artistic director at Theatre Passe
Toronto. In his first season as artistic
the 1997-98 season, Coleman made The
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“It’s come home to where it started. I’m thrilled,”
Coleman said enthusiastically.
Critics raved about the Passe Muraille’s production of
The Drawer Boy and it has won the Governor General’s
Award and the Chalmers Award for best play.
Coleman saw When the Reaper Calls last year and is
looking forward to working with it’s director Eric
Coates, who will be directing The Drawer Boy.
“I’m hoping he’ll be able to make us look good.”
Coleman calls Blyth his second home and said being
in Blyth energizes him.
“It’s like going into a filling station and filling up with
good feelings.”
Coleman is no stranger to Blyth. His first appearance
on the Blyth stage was in This Foreign Land in 1977.
Last year he directed Ted Johns in The Great School
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For Layne Coleman, who takes to the Blyth stage in
The Drawer Boy, it was a bit of an accident that he first
got a job as an actor. Coleman
was writing a play in Winnipeg and heard a theatre in
Saskatoon was beginning. When he got to Saskatoon
and met with the people who were creating the theatre
he was hired on the spot as an actor.
“I was being paid $50 a week to learn how to act.”
Over 30 years later, Coleman will play the part of
Morgan, a controlling bachelor farmer in The Drawer
Boy. The part was originally played by Blyth veteran
Jerry Franken.
“I’m going to try to copy him...and fool everybody,”
he joked.
Coleman
Murialle in
director, in
Drawer Boy part of the line-up after seeing the show
workshopped in Blyth.
Gil Garrat came as
an actor, leaves
as a playwright
Coming to Blyth for Gil Garrat, who plays Morgan in The
Drawer Boy, has helped him start to write a new play.
“All I know,” he says of his play, “is there’s this one guy
who has a suitcase full of water, another guy who has a suitcase
full of sand, and a ventriloquist with a dummy.”
Garrat started writing the play about a month ago and said
the atmosphere of Blyth has given him what he needs to write.
“I have time and clarity and thinking to be able to
concentrate,” he said while looking out a large window onto the
street in front.
Garrat, 23, is a 1998 play writing graduate from the National
Theatre School in
Montreal.
in The Drawer Boy
Garrat plays Miles, a
young hippy actor who
goes to a farm to learn
about farming for a show
he is creating.
“The two older
farmers make him do
jobs that aren’t real, like
they make him
gravel.”
Aside from
Drawer Boy,
played Artey, a
man who is struggling
with whether or not to
leave the farm, in The
Death of the Hired Man.
Garrat was involved
with Death of the Hired
Man since its beginnings
in Toronto workshops.
“One thing that is great about The Drawer Boy is it's based
on the original Farm Show. Having done Death of the Hired
Man, which was like Farm Show Two, its been a great way to
prepare.”
Garrat calls the time he spent in Blyth last year “a paid
vacation” and said he would return to Blyth at “a drop of a hat".
Two of Garrat’s plays were performed in Toronto this past
winter.
“1 sort of realized that the work I wanted to be doing 1 would
have to make for myself.”
Garrat said he wants to be proud of the work he does.
“I didn’t want to be doing crappy beer commercials . . . 1
wanted to have integrity in what I was creating.”
Aside from writing and acting Garrat likes to paint and has
also directed and designed.
“1 try to keep it all going, to wear as many hats as possible.”
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Garrat
young
Crisis of '99 and
has directed
several other
shows in the past.
Two shows
Coleman has
written were
produced in
Blyth, the most
recent, The
Barbershop
Quartet, in
1991. The first
show Blue City
was first
presented in
Blyth, the played
in Toronto and
finally became a
movie that was
shot in and
around Blyth.
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