Barber eyes film company

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she says laughing.

A veteran of the stage, the
blue-eyed Barber has hardly ever
been without work curing the past
10 years — a rarity «n her transient

’ profession.

In 7983 alone she starred in five
plays (as Marlene in Top Girls —
her most challenging role -- and
as Titiana in A Midsummer Night ‘s
Dream, to name just two).

Hay Feveris her first stage per-
formance since Anury
Housewives. Unlike the one-toned
women she has portrayed in the
past, Barber says playing Myra is a
challenge because of the charac-
ter’s multi-levels.

Two years ago Barber gave birth
to a baby girl and has
become increasingly involved
with the world ot film. Although
she has !anded numerous principal
roles in such T.V shows as
Wiseguy, Bordertown, Danger Bay
and 27 jump Street, she admits the
last two years have been par-
ticularly tough for women actors
in Vancouver.

“Most plays and T.V. shows

centre around men — women ac-
tors usually end up playing
SECTELaTIES, NUESES OF NSTresses, ”
she says.

With Matinee, however, Barber
seems to have gotten her re. cnge.
In the film, it isa woman who
stalks and murders her victims by
night.

As a mother, Barber says she
completely understands her char-
acter’s killing impulse.

“She's a repressed mother who
works as a projectionist at a local
theatre. She’s schizophrenic and
only kills the people who threaten
her family. | had just had my child
when | got the part, and so | could
completely understand the char-
acter’s raison d'etre,”

Barber is hopeful that Matinee,
due out soon on home video and
Pay T.V., will strengthen her film
career.

She and a group of fellow actors
have just formed a film production
company called We're Reely Sorry
Productions. She's also trying to
sell a script she co-wrote for a new
TLV, sitcom series.

Eventually, Barber would like to
be producing, directing and acting
in her own films,

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