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BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2002. PAGE 9.
It's a second look at Filthy Rich for Linda Moore
By Keith Roulston
Citizen staff
For Linda Moore. directing Filthy
Rich at the 2002 Blyth Festival is a
second chance to tackle George W.
Walker's Canadian classic.
Moore had directed the play
years ago at Manitoba Theatre
Centre but "1 think in a way it will
suit Blyth's stage better," she says.
Filthy Rich tells the story of a
reporter, Tyrone Power, (played by
Randy Hughson) who gets dragged
back into the world of crime when
he becomes involved in investigating
a murder.
Power's office is supposed to be
crowded and almost claustrophobic
in this parody of 1940s' style film
noir hard-boiled detective movies.
The smaller Blyth stage lends itself
better to that kind of feeling than the
sprawling Winnipeg theatre. Moore
says.
She and designer Pat Flood, a
veteran of designing shows at the
Festival dating back to the 1970s,
have devised a look for the show that
recalls Raymond Chandler films of
the 1940s, though with modern
touches like green garbage bags.
There are design challenges in
the play including some "set stuff
that has to happen," but she won't
reveal more because it would spoil
the surprise of the play.
It will be a challenge to bring off
the 1940s' style of the show on the
limited costume budget the Festival
can afford, Moore says. It will take a
lot of begging and borrowing to find
the right period of costumes for the
various performers.
Filthy Rich will reunite Moore
with two cast members from one of
Linda Moore:
crime.
her most memorable Festival
productions. Jamie Robinson and
Birgitte Solem were both in her 2000
world premiere of Peter Colley's
Stolen Lives, the story of killer
Albert Walker.
It will be the first time she's
worked with Hughson and,
surprisingly, the first time working
with Jerry Franken and Layne
Coleman, both Festival veterans.
Making this even more like an
old-time Blyth Festival reunion,
Moore will be reviving the original
score of Filthy Rich by composer
John Roby who provided memorable
music for many Blyth hits such as
Country Hearts.
It's the third straight season
directing at Blyth for Moore, who
first came here in 1987 to direct the
remounted version of Another
Season's Promise.
In Filthy Rich she's directing a
play that has been presented many
times before. How does she put her
stamp on it? She laughs at the idea,
saying when
people tell her they
can see her stamp
on a production
she can't see what
they're talking
about. You just
work a particular
way and if people
think it shows your
unique style that's
the way it is, she
says.
Last year she also
directed the Fest-
ival's "Canadian
Classic" play: The
Passion of
Narcisse Mondoux,
an English
translation of the last play written by
Quebec's great playwright Gratien
Gelinas.
Neither play presented the huge
challenge of Stolen Lives. Both she
and Festival Artistic Director Anne
Chislett had been deeply involved
for over a month advising Colley on
rewrites for the script and editing the
sprawling story of Albert Walker's
double-dealing and oily charm that
spread from Canada to Britain.
Finding a shape for that huge story
took lots of preparation. Not only
was it a complicated script with
many facts to impart but it required a
large cast.
Moore is used to the work. A
former artistic director of Halifax's
Neptune Theatre, she is a freelancer
now, still based in Halifax though
she likes to escape tO her family's
cottage in the Annapolis Valley
whenever possible.
In 1970, Moore started out in
theatre at the Shaw Festival as an
apprentice.
In 1978 Moore got her first
directing job. She has worked across
Canada and has worked at places
such as the Belfry Theatre in
Victoria, B.C, the Citadel Theatre in
Edmonton, the Grand Theatre in
London and the Centaur Theatre in
Montreal.
Moore has also taught and
directed at the National Theatre
School in Montreal.
For reviews of Blyth
Festival plays after
they've opened
check out
www.northhuron.on.ca
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