22 - Wednesday, August 29. 1990 - Nomh Shore News entertainment NOW| Fringe features local performers Tht 1990 Vancouver binge beste wall descends apan the city tor tts annual Peday theatte exthaivagas- naoon Sept 6. A Tull 550) peertor mances including musicals, Com edy, daima and puppetry wall be held at venues throughout Vaan couver — and its stl a good deal Jt ST acless tar a tehket Here are the North Shore eater tainers and theare companies Parhepating thas vear On Sept. TOL singer Rob Oes Cotes presents oan evening ot musical theatre, called Sungys of This Good and Bad Lite atthe An- za Club. In the tradivon oF Pete Seeger and the Weavers, Des Cotes is joined by fim Woodyard on piano. guitur and banjo. The show runs until Sept. 1h at various times. The North Shore's No Breaks Theatre Company has chosen Sumomut Conterence by play weuht RD MacDenald White omen cane op the cooboent in an ad JOINER Conterence foot, two women meet tor tea and mayhem and osradualiy take an the per sonalities at thee respective lovers, Biler and Maussolint They practise then idealouies On an cnsuspet ting SS ovuard Phat straw cums at the Underground (Broadway and Kingsway Sept & lO Check br inge listing West Theatre Company's selec Hon ts Phe Stud Miao by James Lewas. Here's the story: barry has succeeded in lie butis haunted by a friend trom the past. The Mud Man contronts Larry and raises the stakes by demanding to meet his wile. The Mud Man plays at White Crane Studio (2440 Main St.) Sept. 7-16. Check Fringe listing, Actor turns director From page 21 At least if you were dying then, it should have been from the plague,” she says chuckling. To add to his misery, he’s been upstaged by the young wonder boy, Shakespeare, who, at 20, has leapfrogged ahead of his literary peers by stealing other writers’ manuscripts. For Dafoe, getting the play just right required months and months of preparation, She ended up try- ing three actors before she found the right Shakespeare. Then throw in a wedding — Dafoe tied the knot in the middle of it all — and you have something (or someone) approaching madness. Luckily for Dafoe, she managed to juggle it all. “He (husband local music director lan Schildt) organized the whole wedding. | just showed up," she says, cracking a smile that lights up her tanned face. Of course all of this anxiety over The Frog Galliard — presented by First Impressions Theatre at Hen- dry Hall until Sept. 1 and then at Act One, Scene One, from Sept. 14 to 16 — could simply be the product of a worry wart. Dafoe, after all, isn't that green. In fact this spring she was named best director for Peter O’Rourke’s Rites of Spring at the North Shore Zone Festival of Plays. Besides, her father hasn’t been totally absent. “I phone him up three to four times a week and ask 0808 Buy one pairof ~~ eyeglasses and get.a: Pemberton Plaza (next to Save-On-Foods) Open Monday-Saturday 984-3434 9 locations to serve you in the lower maintand Paegeg oy Pe ee coupon worth. "150 _ lenses and get a second - Up to $250 value ImAGe® CONTACT LENS CENTRE him, ‘What should | dog” He’s also the one who in- troduced her to the theatre. Athome, she explains, the TV was religiously tuned into Master- piece Theatre, and the stage was a common topic of conversation among actors and writers her fa- ther would bring home. Her brother Chris, like her fa- ther, went on to pursue a career in journalism and now writes for the Toronto Star. But Dafoe decided she wanted to work as an actor and began taking private lessons from Janet Wright ‘because she owed my dad a favor.” Last year she graduated from the Film and Theatre School (FTS). Since then, the work hasn't ex- actly been pouring in. Her acting credits to date include a handful of stage roles including Sybil in Pres- entation House Theatre’s produc- tion of Private Lives, and asa “girl who got the condoms” in an anti-AIDS video starring rocker Colin James. She's also done some directing. Nevertheless, she’s determined to keep her hand in the theatre even if it means creating her own opportunities, as she did with The Frog Galliard. “Directing for the first time gave me confidence,’’ she says, “it made me realize i want to do it all day. 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