The murderous ways

HE VANCOUVER Playhouse Theatre Company’s

West Seventh headquarters is abuzz wiih activity in

anticipation of its biggest budget performance of the
season, Macbeth, Shakespeare’s nightmarish classic of
assassination and deception.

The drone of sewing machines
filters through the hallway into a
large room where costume fitters
position themselves by the rehear-
sal room doorway, waiting to
snatch actors for last-minute fit-
tings.

Seamstresses stitch together .
metallic-looking material to olive
green army fatigues, translating
sketches into real-life costumes —
and there are 60 of them in all.

In the middle of ail the excite-
ment, leading man Hardee
Lineham relaxes between scenes
with Playhouse artistic director
Larry Lillo, who hunches over a
sandwich.

Looking weary and ashen-faced,

Evelyn Jacob
SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

Lillo is pulling the whole preduc-
tion together — coordinating 16
actors, a fight choreographer and a
mammoth design team — while
suffering from the wasting symp-

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HANDSWORTH GRAD Paiti Allan plays the caiculating Lady
Macbeth in. the Vancouver Playhouse production of
Shakespeare's classic play. It opens Friday, Feb. 14.

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I'm escorted into a room when a
tall, slender blond woman with
her hair pulled back behind her
ears comes bounding into the
room, sipping take-out coffee
through a skinny straw.

Like a potent zap of caffeine,
Patti Allan’s presence is electrify-
ing. | was expecting to hear her
mutter something about ‘‘a
damned spot,’’ but got a close-up
of rows of tiny teeth instead.

It’s hard to believe I’m in the
company of one of the most
notorious, greediest, most
power-hungry women in the his-
tory of English literature and all
she can do is smile.

Allan, a North Vancouver born
and bred actor, was chosen to
portray Shakespeare's villainous
Lady Macbeth for the Playhouse
production following a country-
wide search, according to publicist
Diana King.

“Larry interviewed women
from all across Canada. It’s a very
sought-after role and a real break
for Patti.”

Allan, on the other hand, who is
tugging on a pair of space-age lime

Lady Macbeth

green earrings, plays all the hoopla
down.

“It’s true Lady Macbeth is an
enormous presence,” she says,
“but I've certainly done roles
that are bigger and longer and
much more physically demanding.”

it's this kind of confidence that
Allan brings to the stage time and
time again.

A-selative latecomer to the
theatre (Allan taught elementary
schoo! for five years in Gibsons
and didn’t seriously step on to the
stage until her 30s}, she received
the Sam Payne Award in 1988,
handed out each year to new-
comers to the theatre.

She has been nominated for a
Jessie Richardson Award for best
actress twice since then, cnce for
her role in Touchstone Theatre’s
production of Lost Souls and Miss-
ing Persons and for Morris
Panych’s Necessary Steps.

She’s perforrned for the big
screen (she appeared in The
Legend of Kootenai Brown as a
tough-talking whore, she proudly
reveals), sings regularly with the
allevioman swing quartet, The Sw-
ing Sisters, and has always been

deeply involved in Vancouver
Youth Theatre.

Understandably, she says she
would never be happy just being
an actor.

Her current role in the
Playhouse production is the first
time Allan has acted on a
mainstage in Vancouver, and the
first time she’s worked with Lillo
and Shakespearean Nick Hutchin-
son, who was brought in to advise
on the text.

lronically, Lady Macbeth wasn’t
a role she desperately wanted.

“When ! got a call from my
agent saying Larry wanted me to
come in to audition for Lady
Macbeth, | was delighted, but
surprised.” ;

She was so excited, she says,
that shé let out a couple of shrieks.
When she came back to reality,
she immediately started boning up
on her Shakespeare. It helped that
she had played the role before.

in Tamanhous Theatre’s 1987
contemporary version of the Scot-
tish play, called Mr. and Mrs.
Macbeth, she played not only the

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