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THE EINTH SUMMER FESTIVAL, ISSUE,
One of the nlest exciting'
things fthrutt•BiYth summex
restival for set and' costume
designer Fat Flood, is OW
Canadian plays in this year's
Program, •
"Because they are Can-
adian plays that I can tinder -
stand AS a Canadian, as a
designer, I have much more
to contribOte to the product-
ion," she said. ,
A graduate from the' Uni-
versity of Alberta where she
received specific training for '
theatre ,and design,'Pat said
it is intportant to understand
'acting- and how a PlaY
ftinctions to be a designer.
• you don't understand a
play, how you work a play,
bow you build a play, you're
nowhere." • ,
• •
Pat,' who worked as a.
designer at the BlYth festival
• two years ago, will be
working on set and costume
designs for John and the
Misstis, Iqi Be Back Far Y411,
Before Midnight and St, Sam
9, the Nuke Pile. .•
"When L came lia k this
Year, I felt like I'd never
left," she said. "The people
are so friendly."
She describes St,. Sam as
being the most challenging
play for her this year with a
great deal of work research-
ing nuclear poWer plants,
"We toured the Bruce
Power ,p1,ant and now I'm
Pat Flood's deslgn for Sld Pettigrew, John and the Missus.
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St. Sam,'she Said, is a play
trying to infer*, People. and
in PratinkI. Sets, she had to ,
consider what thingsactually
looked like and what the
audience thinks they should
loak like.
1:"We are working with
•
people's imaginations, vi,hat
they think nnclear pow�r
•,,venki. be and what it really
is." • • ' • ,
What then becomes
importantrsheadded, is how
the production is created and
how designs and move.
Pat said in designing and
creating sets, she Works
closely with Janet Amos, the
festival's artistic director:
"It is a give and take
situation with costume- and
set design. In working With
director s , they filk id you
about ideas they have, you
both talk them through and
then you work with it."
LPHYS IT BETTER
Originally from Calgary,
Pat plans to make her home
in 'Toronto. She said she
simply likes theatre better in
Ontario.
As a designer creating
large sets, Pat explained how
essential storage space is in
doing a worthwhile set.
"The new ‘addition has
made my life so much easier
and I don't know if I would
have come back, if they
didn't have it finished this
year," she said.
In addition to the need for
wing and fly space, Pat said
the only thing she has to
consider when designing
sets, is that there is only a
stage left entrance.
The !Ali theatre;- she
said, is as professional as any
other theatre in Ontario, and
people should be very proud
of it.
Like Pat Flood, Linda Muir
thinks the theatre selection
of Canadian plays will be
appealing for local audi-
ences.
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costume designer for The
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Life That Jack Built, a
collective production about
the life and times of writer -
author Jack MacLaren.
The play centers around
MacLaren's fife_ during
World War I, when he was a
member of the Princess Pats
and later a member of the
Dumbells, a W.W. I enter-
tainment troupe.
"Because I knew very little
about the war, I had to do a
)ot of research;" she said.
Going through books by
the Group of Seven to
understand the art and
design of the period, Linda
said she gained. a greater
repect for their paintings.
"I enjoy doing realistic
' sets, but, because in this
play evrything changes, it
has to be mobile and broken
down, making realism diffi-
cult."
As part of a solution to that
problem, Linda said re-
searching paintings from the
Group of Seven gave her the
flavor and atmosphere
of that period.
Because of the structure of
the collective play, Linda
said there will be -little time
for changing costumes off
stage and she is working on
costumes that are common to
all periods involved. She
added she is also working oa
a method of changing .s-
tumes right mi. stage.
Linda, who said she does
not have a formal design
education, is a native of
Toronto who has worked for
four , years with Theatre
Second Floor.
She describes her work
this,season on The Life That
Jack Built as challenging
and exciting.