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Mary Long wants to make people laugh in Narcisse By Mark Nonkes Citizen staff' To make people all laugh at once. that's hard work, actress Mary Long said. Narcisse Mondoux is a rare privilege for director Linda Moore. The production is the last show a great Canadian theatre pioneer wrote. Moore said. The play was written by Gratien Gelinas when he was 80. Gelinas is one of the forefathers of Canadian theatre, Moore said. He inspired other great Quebec writers like Michel Trembley. The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux was written in French and is not often performed in English, Moore said. "It's a really charming play," Moore said in a phone interview from Halifax. Gelinas was a great craftsman when he wrote, his stories had lots of humour in them but combined the laughs with aspects of humanity. The show is a comedy about a middle-aged plumber who woos a widow. The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux has two actors who will have to work very intensely together, Moore said. The two actors Moore will be working with will be Mary. Long and Blyth favourite Ted Johns. This is the first time Moore has worked with Continued from Pg. 10 see if the show will go on. Another one of the challenges for the outdoor production is to make an outdoor space intimate. Somerville worked on an outdoor show last summer in Oakville. One of -the problems there was noisy jet skiers on Lake Ontario. The.n there is the challenge of acting in mud and bugs. But all the challenges fail to compare to the magic of a show outdoors, Somerville said. "We take the world and transform it," Somerville said. This is Somerville's second time at the Festival. Last year she stage managed the remount of Death of the Hired Man. As a stage manager, Somerville gets to put her hands onto many different aspects of the show: aspects like the artistic, technical and directing areas. "You get a b,etter idea of how everything works," Somerville said. Somerville enjoys working on collectives because they are a collaborative effort. Long chuckles as she tells the story of a great Canadian actor who was on his death bed and someone asked what it was like to die: "Comedy's tougher," the old man said. Making people cry is easy, Long and she is very excited to do so. The play starts off at the funeral of the widow's husband and then transforms into the widow's home, Moore said. It's a show with surprise elements that will have the audience laughing, Moore said. "I think they will be touched, it's very clever," Moors said. The surprise elements in the play make it an outstanding piece of work, Moore said. Moore directed Stolen Lives - The Albert Walker Story last summer for the Festival. Over the winter Moore worked on a show with university students in Victoria and a multi-media play that recently opened in Halifax. Moore started her directing career in 1970 as an apprentice at the Shaw Festival. Since then she has worked from The subjects that collectives deal with are usually based on Canadian history and have something that pertains to the area where it is being performed, Somerville said. Growing up in a small town outside of Toronto, Somerville enjoys working in places like Blyth. Somerville said working in Blyth is like working at a summer camp. It is an enjoyable place where she is paid for what she loves to do while being away from the city. Enjoyable even with a broken pelvic bone.— MN The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux said. But to make people happy is tough. It is a challenge that Long really enjoys. Long hopes to have the audience laughing in The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux as the widow of a sea to sea in Canada, from Victoria to Halifax. In 1987 she directed the Blyth hit Another Season's Pmmise by Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston. 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Acting is something that has always been in Long's blood, it is -her only passion, she said. Long worked in Blyth in 1984 as the assistant director on Country Hearts written by Ted Johns. Now she will co-star with Johns in The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux. The show illustrates the point that life, keeps changing as long as someone is living, Long said. It is a show that deals with politics, something that Long is interested in. Recently she moved to Ottawa where she said she can get a bird's-eye-view of federal politics. Working on The Passion of .either of the actors Somerville brings outdoor theatre experience to Outdoor Donnellys Linda Moore feels privileged to bring work of legendary Gratien Gelinas Working for the inclusion of arts is something Long would like to bring to any political table. This summer Long hopes to relax in Blyth. Long's husband Sandy Crawley will be working at the Bluewater Playhouse in Kincardine.