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Taking up
the challenge
Portraying an entire community
with just 9 actors requires creativity
— but's that's exactly what
Schoolhouse director Leah
Cherniak loves to do
Leah Cherniak: award-winning
director returns to Blyth.
By Keith Roulston
Citizen staff
Leah Cherniak, recently
nominated for a Dora Mayor Moore
Award, the Toronto theatre world's
top prize, loves a challenge, and for
her, Schoolhouse fit the bill.
Using imagination will be
necessary to bring to life playwright
Leanna Brodie's tale of an 18-year-
old school teacher's first job in a
rural Ontario schoolhouse in 1937.
She has nine actors to play a much
larger number of roles. In some
cases actors will be playing students
as well as the parent of the same
student.
"The difficulties attract me,"
Chemiak says. "I start thinking `how
are we going to do this'."
"The key is a real, authentic feel,"
she says of the task of bringing a
whole community to stage with a
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limited number of actors.
"Hopefully what will be more
important (than the style of the play)
is the relationship between the
different characters — how the
teacher gains their trust."
When Festival artistic director
Eric Coates called to offer her the
job of directing the play and she read
the script, she was attracted by the
relationship between the young
teacher and an older student from a
training school who becomes her
student when he's sent to work on a
local farm.
It makes for a story that, while
sweet, is also risky and challenging
for the audience, she says.
"You have to trust the play — that
it should do its job for the audience,"
she says. "My job is to make it come
alive off the page."
Cherniak is familiar with the Blyth
audience from her work here over
the years. She ran the Festival's
Young Company program for three
years and directed Safe HaVen for
the main stage in 1993.
Cherniak leads a hectic life with
many varied roles in theatre. She is
co-director, with Martha Ross, of
Theatre Columbus, where she has
created 25 new Canadian plays over
the years, many of them involving
the use of clown work. Her
production of The Anger in Ernest
and Ernestine, which follows a pair
of newlyweds as they discover the
consequences of saying "I do", won
her an "outstanding direction" Dora
nomination. The awards were to be
handed out June 26.
She also taught for 14 years at the
National Theatre School of Canada
in Montreal and teaches at Ryerson
University's theatre program and
George Brown College, specializing
in clown work.
On top of all this, she has been
building a growing reputation as a
director of mainstream theatre
productions, recently having
directed Michel Tremblay's Past
Perfect at Toronto's Tarragon
Theatre. Later this year she is
directing John Mighton's The Little
Years for Neptune Theatre in Halifax
and The National Arts Centre in
Ottawa.
Asked about her busy schedule she
admits sometimes she just feels like
screaming "I just want one job!" but
on the other hand, "it's what I've
been doing for 20 years."
None of her jobs would provide a
living on their own and added up
they don't make for a really good
living. Still — "I love teaching and I
do love directing. What do you do
when you love what you're doing but
it's wrecking your life?" she laughs.
She loves the rehearsal process of
working with the actors. "It's
incredible how committed everyone
.is for four weeks," she says.
"Everyone wants to create
something beautiful for the
audience."
In Schoolhouse, she feels there's a
beautiful story for the actors to tell.
Brodie busy
acting on
opening night
of her play
Continued from page 17
produced her play Seeds of Our
Destruction, about genetic
engineering gone wrong.
But she is also still an actress and
in fact will miss act one of her play
on opening night because she'll be
onstage at Toronto's Summerworks
Theatre Festival. By the final
curtain, however, she expects to have
made a flying trip to Blyth to
become a playwright again at the
end of her opening night.
Playwright with the
most world premieres
at the Blyth Festival:
Ted Johns — 10
plus numerous
remounts