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CLASSIFIED Karen Weins 'plays. "crazy"
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The Bruce County
Historical Society has
received a New Horizons
Grant to set up an archives
in three rooms in the Bruce
County Museum in
Southampton.
New Horizons offers
grants to groups of retired
people who will undertake
activities for the benefit of
themselves and others in
the community.
Each project consists of
at least ten volunteers who
will serve as project
directors with the majority
being retired from fulltime
employment.
The Bruce County
archives will be a repository
for records of the county for
-research use and will
include textual, and
pictorial material as well as
manuscripts which are
We would like to thank
everyone- for all the lovely
shower and wedding gifts
we received. A special
thank you to those who
organized the showers and
our couple's shower. It will
always be long
remembered, - Karen and
David Bowles. 24-44x1
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worthy of preservation.
Plans also call for the
archives to keep current
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Not too many actresses
starting out to play the role
of a "crazy" woman say
they enjoy it because "I
feel it's close to me" but
Karen Weins does.
Karen tackles one of the
most challenging dramatic
roles ever at the Blyth
Summer Festival when she
plays the title role in
Gwendoline, a drama about
an eccentric small town
woman around the turn of
the century. Gwendoline,
Karen says, isn't really
crazy, though she is a little
imbalanced through a
traumatic childhood ex-
perience. What makes her
"crazy" is that she doesn't
conform to how other
people think she should
behave. "Your are what
you are in other people's
eyes," Karen says. "lf we
could act without worrying
about social pressures,
we'd all be Gwendoline's."
Gwendoline, by James
Nichol, is set in the
Mythical Ontario town of
Kingforks in 1907 and deals
with themes of intolerance,
love and jealousy.
As a small town girl
herself from a strict Men-
nonite upbringing in
Dundern, Saskatchewan,
Karen feels she has a
special understanding of
the character. The play, she
says, is about people hiding
their true selves from each
other, but because
Gwendoline doesn't hide,
she's judged by the other
people of, her town. The
other characters are so
caught up in what other
people think, that they
can't be themselves.
She relates the play to
advice she once got from an
acting instructor who said
that each person is made up
of two persons: the little
person that others see, and
the big person inside you
that is full of potential if
you'll just grab hold of it
and let it free.
"It's also a play about
what love can do to people"
Karen says, "and the fact
that_Gwendoline, being so
free and open, could reach
out and touch other pedple
and help them."
Microcosm
While some people might
see the play as an indict-
ment of small town life,
Karen, a small-towner her-
self, says it's a play about
people and could have
taken place anywhere, not
just in a small town. Small
towns are good places to set
plays because they are a
microcosm of the wider
world, bringing all ele-
ments of society into
sharper focus..
For Karen, being back in
a. small town this summer
at Blyth has been a happy
experience. When she
moved in from Toronto
where she has been living
the past few years, the 23
year old actress said she
could feel like a giant
burden had been taken off
her shoulders. Just having
the clean air, the space, the
sky was an uplifting ex-
perience. Growing up on a
farm, she gays, nature is a
huge part of her life.
Theatre Bug
Acting seems a strange
occupation for a girl from a
Mennonite background in
Saskatchewan farming
community, but it was at a
Mennonite boarding school
in Rosthern, Sask. that she
caught the theatre bug
film a teacher. Later she
studied at places such as
the Mime School at
Niagara-on-the-Lake, and
worked at such western
Canadian Theatres as 25th
Street House in Saskatoon
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