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PAGE 12. BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28/29, 2006.
Playing
a legendary mystic
Anne Anglin has
played characters
based on
legendary Perth
County mystic Vera
McNichol before.
The chance to play
her again drew
Anglin back to the
Blyth Festival
stage.
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen editor
It took a pyschic power to bring
Anne Anglin back to the Blyth
Festival stage.
Since playing one of the lead
female roles in Wendy Lil's Corker
in 2000, the Toronto-based actor,
who is among a core group that has
been part of the theatre since its
early days, has been keeping kind of
low profile.
"I've done some television shows
and a bit of theatre out of Toronto,
including some work with Theatre
Passe Muraille (which was founded
by her husband Paul Thompson). I
guess I'm kind of slowing down. It
actually feels like a slow retirement."
However, when approached to
take on the role of the 'mystic' in
Sean Dixon's Lost Heir, Anglin took
no persuasion to get back into the
groove of a busy repertory season.
The character, Kay The Milverton
Mystic is fashioned on Perth County
legend Vera McNichol.
Throughout a good part of the last
century, McNichol was a nurse, a
colourful figure, well-known
throughout southwestern Ontario
and beyond. She resided in Millbank
and legend tells was often a source
of information for local police as
Ann' Anglin: from psychic to
school kid in 2006 season
well as for individuals. She also
wrote many self-published books.
"The stories are fascinating. She
affected so many people. One of the
books is about the things she did for
the police. She was good at 'finding'
things," said Anglin, "almost
shamanic you might say."
Anglin actually became
acquainted with McNichol through
her husband, who was born and
raised in Perth County. "His father
was a vet and on his travels he
sometimes stopped and had a card
game with Vera and shot the breeze."
"I visited her and got to know her
well. I even played her a number of
times."
The most recent of these was in a
production done by Thompson and
Greg Spottiswood for Listowel's
Homecoming. "It was virtually
scenes of Paul's life and I played
Vera."
"She saw so many different kinds
of people. They would wait hours for
what she called counselling. It was a
talent she had had from childhood."
Anglin said when visiting
McNichol you waited in the kitchen.
She recalls looking into the hall one
day and seeing a fanner standing
there and McNichol passing her
hands over him. "She was healing
him."
How much of what she knew
about the real McNichol will be
brought to the character of Kay.
Anglin was uncertain. She
emphasized that while the character
is based on the Millbank woman,
Kay is fictional. "Once rehearsals
begin I'll find out exactly what I'll
bring of Vera to the role."
"But I liked her direct energy. She
had a huge laugh that you could hear
outside. She was also very connected
to God, very forthright, very
immediate. Playing someone like
her is what brought me back to
Blyth."
For reviews of Blyth Festival plays after
they have opened, check out
The Citizen
website at
www.northhuron.on.ca