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Local
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The number of ethnic plays and
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It's a blemish that North Van-
couver’s Donna Yamamoto would
like to see erased. The local actor

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DONNA YAMAMOTO is starving in Touchstone Theatre’s Local Col-
our.

“‘Over 1,000 frame samples"

wants to see performers from dif-
ferent cultural backgrounds cast
more often.

A third-generation Japanese Ca-
nadian, she is currently playing the
part of a struggling artist in

couver is slowly opening up.
“Directors will have to change
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Touchstone Theatre’s production
of Local Colour.

“A lot of ethnic actors don’t 983-3734
get chosen for roles so they don’t
get the chance to hone their The beauty of her role, she says,
skills,” she says. is that any culture could have

And Yamamoto, 27, is proof that been cast as Dale. And that gives

it can be done. her hope that theatre in Van-

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