B12 Terrace Review — Wednesday, May 8, 1991 Talking With... a change. Contributed by the Terrace Little Theatre How do you get 10 women - who never appear on stage together - and one musician (a man), who serenades each woman without uttering a word, to work together as a unit? "It hasn’t been easy,” says direc- tor Karla Hennig. "One of my major worries with Talking With... "was how do I create an ensemble under these circumstances? So we tried a lot of different things and have we ever learned a lot!" Talking With.. features 10 women who each come onto the stage and create a bit of their world for the audience. Each of them is dealing with her ordinary life, and a change. An actress comes out and asks us, the audi- ence, to participate in her experi- ence. A housewife is trapped in a dull marriage and escapes to the Land of Oz. A young woman tells ‘us about the death of her mother. A rodeo performer is caught between the good old days and heavy duty marketing. A baton twitler explains to us the real meaning of twirling. Another actress comes out and auditions for the audience! A woman about to give birth tells us about her unborn baby and her doctor. A fundamen- talist snake handler gives us a Jesson in the Spirit. An old woman talks about fast food restaurants. ” Finally, a divorcee shows us one to change our lives. During all of this, the women are woven together by fiddle music. When rehearsals started, Hennig decided to give each actor a part- ner to work with. So five pairs met weekly on their own. Then Hennig added: herself to the pot, and each actor came in for an additional rehearsal with her, showing what she had learned from the pair work. "It worked better for some than for others. I am lucky I have talented actors, though, because those who needed to work with a different partner or needed more _ rehearsal time, just went out and found it. Toward the end, pairs had turned into groups, and the groups into a whole. After Drama Festi- val, the actors all felt a strong need to sit down as a unit and connect on a deep level. That’s where we’re at now, and it is very exciting for us ail." Furthermore, each actor took a job on the crew. Some do props, some publicity, some backstage duties. Two actors spend six hours: doing makeup for one person for one night! "We did find we needed a grounding force or two," adds Hennig. "Bill, our musician, is that for us. Also, our makeup coordinator Sharon and our hair stylist Barbara bring a calming and unifying energy to the cast. This allows the backstage manager Meera to work with my stage manager Jackie and lighting person Wanda." She laughs, "Oops, we do have one more token male - our producer, Gordon, is definitely a man!" The spare set, done in various levels and painted a stark black, provides a powerful canvas for the Terrace Little Theatre presents Talking With... 9, 10, i May 1991 7 8:00 McColl Playhouse, 4625 Kalum Str. Terrace Tickets at Erwin Jewellers (Skeena Mall) & Bank of Montreal $8 Thurs. & $10 Fri./Sat. | Poster typesetting Terrace Review _ ~~ Poster design MBWesion Y rane Martin directed by Karla Hennig produced by Gordon Oates set design by Dave Battison actors. Dave Battison (There we go, more men!") worked on rede- signing a previous set for Hennig and creating a lighting design. "The actors would drop in at the . e McColl Playhouse, and just pick up a paint brush and give Dave a hand whenever they could. And Dave would be trying to hang lights from the ceiling while actors emoted and worked on pieces between his ladders and cords. It was wonderful," Hennig recalls. While the show may have a feminist undertone to it, it is much more universal than that, "The themes are death, birth, change, danger and rebirth. You'll have to come out yourself and decide if that is feminist or universal. I guarantee you will enjoy it,” says Hennig with an enigmatic smile. Talking With... runs Thursday, Friday, Saturday, May 9, 10 and 11. Showtime is 8 p.m. Tickets are Montreal. On the Small Screen _ The Bonfire of the Vanities Starring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis,, Melanie Griffith. Pro- duced and directed by Brian ‘DePalma. Rating: R. Running time: 125 minutes. Sherman McCoy (Hanks), a $1 million-a-year bond trader ~ on Wall Street, had everything going for him. He had the right career, the right address, the ‘right wife, the right friends, even the right mistress (Grif- fith). Then he took a wrong turn one night at the wrong corner with the wrong woman, and his perfect life got flushed right down the toilet. He’s facing a manslaughter charge for a hit-and-run acci- dent that he didn’t commit. His socialite mistress was driving, but she’s keeping mum about the whole thing; something as mundane as a court case would definitely be bad for her Fifth Avenue image. Things go from RODEO with Norah Ferguson Is one of ten monologues being available at Erwin’s Jewellers in performed by the Terrace Little Theatre this Thursday, Friday and the Skeena Mall and the Bank of Saturday at the McColl Playhouse. Video reviews 5 by Harriett Fjaagesund bad to worse tor poor old Sherman when the district at- torney decides that, innocent or not, convicting Sherman would be a political feather in his cap. Then a has-been journalist (Willis) wades into the fracas and stirs up more trouble. He sees Sherman as a fast ticket back to the top. About the on- ly way Sherman can save his neck is to lie through his teeth. Marked For Death Starring Steven Seagal, Basil Wallace. Produced by Michael Garis, Mark Victor, Steven Seagal. Directed by Dwight H. Little. Rating: R. Running time: 93 minutes. Seagal is retired drug en- forcement agent John Hatcher. A master of the martial arts, Hatcher is good at his job... maybe too good. He’il do whatever he has to do to bring in the bad guys — falsify rec- ords, buy and sell drugs, use innocent people, anything to get the job done. And that’s what bothers him; he has become no better than the human animals he tracks down. So he hangs up his guns and walks away. , But trouble dogs Hatcher’s heels when he inadvertantly crosses Screwface (Wallace), an evil Jamaican drugiord wiv uses violence and voodoo to ply his deadly trade, Screwface wants revenge; Hatcher and his family are ‘‘marked for death’’. But Screwface makes a lethal mistake when he guns down Hatcher’s niece. Now the game has become much more per- sonal. Hatcher straps on his guns and sets out to hunt down Screwface and his drug soldiers with deadly determination. And this is one hunt where Hatcher means to come out the victor! 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