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August 12, 1981

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WEST VAN'S DON ADAMS SAYS

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By PAT RICH

“It’s not the howling,
it’s the growling I find
hard to do,” explains
West Vancouver actor
Don Adams. -

And learning to growl was
just one of the problems
involved in playing a
werewolf in the current
Vancouver Playhouse
production of “The Curse of
the Werewolf, a play which
has been receiving rave
reviews this summer. ™

It also explains why
Adams voice was a bit
hoarse recently when I
interviewed him at his West
Van home. |

For Adams, aged 24, it is
the second season with the
Vancouver Playhouse, and it

is obvious he is really en- .

joying himself.

In his earlier days of
acting, after he had left
Simon Fraser University to
attend the Playhouse Acting
School, Adams used to say
“I can't believe I'm being
paid for this.”

What Adams is being paid
to do at the moment, is play
the role of a German baron,
who besides singing and
dancing and _ acting
mysteriously, also has to
change into a werewolf on
Stage.

He says the role is “ex-
tremely challenging.”

Adams says he finds the
singing the most difficult,
because he has not done any

since high school. Ef-
fectively changing into a
werewolf on stage “was
much easier than I even
imagined,” he said.

Having taught movement
for actors at Studio 58,
Adams was somewhat
prepared for a role which
involves leaping around and
carrying people into the
audience.

_But he admits it is all very
exhausting.

o curse to bea

On opening night, he said,
“I was just wiped.”

But since then the play has

been ‘performed: at least once
a day; and Adams said the
audience ‘has. been largely
responsible for keeping him
going.

“It’s the ideal combination
of kids and adults together.”

For someone -who has
primarily been interested in
Shakespearian theatre,
Adams said the comic role

WHILE LON CHANEY, as the wolfman back in 1941
may have looked mean, West Van's Don Adams says
that a-werewolf really isn’t all that bad.

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educational.

But he is not someone who
wants to get tied into one
sort of role or even just the
theatre.

Adams also has. interests

in film and dancing which he
would like to pursue.
someday. .

“I have the time and space ,

to keep learning,” he says.
‘Tm not in a hurry ... I
think.”
Adams may not be in a

hurry, but events seem to |

have overtaken him
somewhat in the last few

‘months.

First of all he got married
early this summer at about
the same time as he was
performing in ‘Macbeth’ in
Toronto.

Then on the opening night
of ‘The Curse of the

Werewolf’ early in July he

and his wife moved from
North to West Vancouver.

And throughout this time
he was either performing or
rehearsing.

Things were just beginning ~
to become slightly more
settled for Adams, but there

was still the problem of the -
. water system

in the new
house which meant they had
to wash the dishes in the bath.

Which was why
plumber became an _ in-
ieresting counterpoint to our
interview, as he clambered
around on the roof and
asked for assistance every so

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