HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record-Blyth Summer Festival, 1980-07-03, Page 26THE i LY UIVINIER FESTIVAL ISSUE
Although `S,eana McKenna
fell bffth,e stage during an
opening night performance
last season ' in Blyth, ' she
'hasn't let that get her down,
This:. year, Seana is - back, to
play the part of . Faithkiin: John•,
A1.
and the Missus and a 'series
of roles in The Life That Jack
Biiilt.
"There's No a d
mont,ente" she says with.a
sn'tile;reminiscing about last.
year's -performance-
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A recent graduate from the says, adding.tlat most of the
National Theatre School'. in 'plays involve local: characters
Montreal,. Seana has spent , or local. happenings that
u , er first winter as a working people who attend the shows
actress in a production-. of ,' will understand,
Jakob Kepi) in Saskatoor and Along with her role in John
in a Toronto .workshop pro- and the Missus, this year
Cl 1(1n plays ,more°.
:resting, sicfipr says
duction of Mac Paps, ' ,.: „ , Seana will be working on a
She s4,s :onice tn'"awhiie, oolioe 106 production or The ..
she'd like to spend more thais: ; Life That Tack .Built, about
justthree months in a town the life of painter, writer,,
(the average amount of -time story teller Jack; Maclaren,
spent on a production); hew- In a .collective 'production;
Performing in. Canadian
plays "makes acting much.
more interesting, said, John
Jarvis who will play the part
of:. ,Paul in St. Sam of the
• Nuke Pile.
John, back for his. second
- season in Blyth, "describe s
-. ....his.: ,work. on the collective
production ` The Life That
Jack Built as exciting.
"Collectives are exciting,
they're wonderful to do," he
said. "It knocks around ideas
+^'rt ru.p.
in yourtihead, you meet the
'people the play is about, you
make contact."
In researching the collect:-
ive
ollect=ive production, about the life
of painter, • writer Jack
MacLaren, John said he
travelled to Toronto and,
Ottawa to do research at the
national war archives.
'I had no idea the
Canadians where so import-
ant in the first world war and
that at :one point the
Americans' Were jus- t ,..sitting
back making money.". ,
Born and bred in
Montreal, but now living in
Toronto, -John. said the Blytk
, Summer Festival is; becom
ng' quite well known in.
Toronto,
John said Toronto
audiences are much different*
than those,in. Blyth.'
"In Toronto I don't . enjoy
the audience`neariyatl'mmuch,
there's kind of a haughty,
sophistication about them.'
What ' amazes me 'about
Blyth is -the -kind of charact-
ers that;••lie beneath the fabric
of the, town," he said. "It's
a town full of
A National Theatre School
graduate in 1977, :Johnhas
done most of his work in
Ontario with the exception of
-a-recent tour of England' with
The Farm Show,
_"There is a fun side of.
steing-new-places" he • said.,
"The tour in. Britain was a
real adventure for me."
He said as a vegetarian
sometimes .eating, in 'a.
restaurant can he difficult
whenyou're' on tour, but
most often it's a' good
experience.
• ever it can be a great way to the director and .actors work
• see the country. together to structure' a play
• "You' a to -see things with 'an improvisational nal .for
from an inhabitant point of 'mat,, Often a sbript • is, not
'ew, not just -tea --tourist's," written until triontfts afterihes
she says: = production has been .per -
Often, she added, .when for. med:on stage,when there
:she is travelling a greatTeal, _' is time.she 'fines erself packing "It's :a lot of hard:•work,'
- 4tttie-things, -that--remind -her-- --she -says.-4`Sernetintes-sola
of home..'., one sparks. an. idea ,and
She, says somtimes things everyone contributes .. -and
John Jarvis
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can seein .pretty rough when. other times there is nothing,
you're far from home, but it's an unknown."
you- simply have to learn to She describes the collect-
understand yourself. ive : project as invigorating
RELY ON YOURSELF - u and that working without a
"You have to learn to rely formal script does not bother
on yourself and your self- her at all.
esteem, and carry it around. In looking towards the
with you like your suitcase," future, Seana says she thinks
she says. • there will bean increased
Originally from Port Credit, amount of opportunities for
Seana says she likes . the actors in Canada.
Blyth festival because of r`I don't know if I'M being
optim
n' been in
what it is trying to do„,. ' foolishly tstir,"ahe
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