22 - Wednesday, April 10, 1991 — North Shore News GitN PYPER- Ferguson stumbles into the room half an hour late for our interview with his big, handsorne Irish Setter, Jazz, following innocently on his heels. Evelyn Jacob SPOTLIGHT FEATURE He says he was held up by the police, who stopped him for a minor traffic violation, but | know better. | know that he's a vicious serial killer who has been knock- ing off people in Edmonton. At least that’s what the North Shore News theatre critic, Bar- bara Black, has ted me to believe. But Pyper-Ferguson and his sidekick, actor Andrew Kavadas, refuse to disclose the killer’s iden- tity for the sake of those who haven't yet seen Edmonton play- wright Brad Fraser's Unidentified J. Fox that “If you want to be a Human Remains and The True lumberjack you have to go to the Nature of Love. forest,"’ the Saskatchewan-born “Bernie is lonely and just Kavadas went to Tinseltown seek- © wants friendship,” Pyper- ing his fortune when he was 21 Ferguson says of his character, try- and ended up staying “just long ing to throw me off the scent. enough to learn { didn’t like LA.” “Everyone in this play is After a round-the-world trip he psychotic. Everyone will do landed in Vancouver and the work whatever they can to get what Started to roll his way. In the last they want. It’s just a question of two years he’s acted in a handful who goes over the edge."’ of locally-produced TV series: Having solved the case, we CBC-TV’s the Black Stallion (he move on to the actors’ careers. says he doesn’t know whether to Kavadas, who plays bartender be insulted or flattered that he Robert Turner in Fraser's pro- landed the part of a rodeo clown vacative work, and Pyper- without auditioning for it) Ferguson met for the first time on MacGyver, Neon Rider and 21 the set of Unidentified Human jump Street, Remains. When they did, they re- He’s landed his fair share of alized they had a lot in common: stage roles as well, his most recent both are North Shore actors, both —_ being the character of Sandy in the are “thirtyish,” good-looking and = Arts Club Theatre production of funny, and both have worked in Hay Fever. He also plays the voice theatre and TV and film for the last of Simon Belmont (‘‘a cross be- six years. tween Indiana Jones and Ted Bax- Prior to Unidentified Human ter’’) in the Saturday morning car- Remains they were competing for the same roles, which, according to Kavadas, usually went to Pyper-Ferguson. Now they say they're teaming up to produce a low-budget, arty film that they won't be making for the money. “It'll bea ‘talky’ kind of movie that probably no one will watch,”’ jokes Pyper-Ferguson. Following the advice of Michael NEWS photo Mike Wakelleld THE CAST of ‘Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love’’ warm up prior te a performance. toon series, Captain N: The Game Master. “I'm actually starting to look like the the cartoon character,” laughs Kavadas. The Australian-born Pyper- Ferguson, an ex-Handsworth stu- dent, has had his hands fut! in the last few years. He’s starred as a leading man in a number of feature films, among them, the locally-filmed Kootenai Brown, Killer Image, and the psychological thriller Pin, which was shot three years ago in Mon- treal. His stage experience (Romeo and Juliet, Gravel Run, Silly Season, to name just a few) leads him to criticize, albeit mildly, Ca- nadian scriptwriting. Pyper-Ferguson believes that writers are too quick to see their work published. "it’s a tendency of the TV gen- eration to look for quick returns and not to fook at it (the script) again,” he says. “Very few writers are courageous enough to continue to work on their scripts after their work has been produc- ed.” Fraser’s script, he says, isn’t free of problems. But both actors feel it works well as a performance piece. “it’s our jab to make it work,” says Kavadas. Old machines never die. CCThey j just get” less expensive: Right now we have a bunch of machines in stock. True, they're mature. Experienced. But hardly decrepid. 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