The Citizen-Blyth Festival, 1999-06-23, Page 25BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1999. PAGES.
Adrienne Wilson fulfills dream playing at Blyth
First
love
Adrienne
Wilson
delights in
finding teen
love in That
Summer,
experienced
love in Every
Dream.
she fell in love with is still pretty
much the same. “She’s that perfect
blend of youth — innocent, curious
and insecure, all wrapped up into a
charming little 17-year-old.”
Wilson says that she relates well
to all of Maggie's attributes, but is
enjoying the fact that the play is set
for a time in the 1950s. “Seventeen
now is different than then. They
really were kids in the 1950s. You
were supposed to be a kid and
were allowed to be a kid. The
innocence is what’s so charming.”
For the 28-year-old playing
someone 11 years younger isn’t
much of a stretch. “That time in
my life is so vivid and the way the
script is written is vivid, it's not
difficult. It’s almost like I get to
redo things but get to do them as
someone else.”
“Actually,” laughs the actor who
is typically cast as young teens,
“it’s probably going to be a bigger
Continued on Pg. 6
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen staff
As a student at Acadia in Nova
Scotia, Adrienne Wilson dreamed
of someday appearing at Blyth.
“The Festival has a reputation, like
Stratford and Shaw and I thought I
would love to work there.”
Wilson began writing to the
artistic team at Blyth expressing
her interest and finally got the
chance to audition last season.
Unfortunately, there was nothing
for her at that time, but Artistic
Director Anne Chislett, thought the
bubbly brunette might be just right
for a character in the David French
play That Summer which she
planned for the 1999 season.
“They said call us in the fall, so
Sept I, I was on the phone.”
She did a reading and in
February was contracted to appear
in not just one role but two, as
Margaret in Summer and Sylvia in
Every Dream.
Though the play has changed a
bit since her initial introduction,
Maggie, whom the actor admits
That Summer
By David French
Play’s themes "Time steals everything but love’
Continued from Pg. 4.
social conditions in Newfoundland
in 1926 and the love story is
implied after the final curtain. This
play allows the love story to unfold
on stage.
“It is a play about love and about
how with time, you can overcome
the pain of things.
“‘Time steals everything but
memories,’ that is what the play is
about,” says Glassco.
The intricate tale tells four love
stories, some witnessed on stage
and others alluded to.
Glassco, who founded Toronto’s
famous Tarragon Theatre where
French’s previous plays debuted,
believes Blyth is exactly the kind
of theatre in which That Summer
should come to life.
“These are the kinds of
audiences which can relate to the
stories.”
It is a summer romance in a
summer theater.
While Glassco will only be in the
community for a few weeks during
rehearsals, he says if he does his
job right, there is no reason to stay
around.
“And the actors prefer it that
way,” he says.
After the previews and opening
night, the stage manager runs the
productions. They are the boss and
they control how the show runs
nightly.
Bill Glassco: director has
specialized in new plays.
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