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“You have 18 minutes and 35 seconds -
‘to dig before you get a ticket.” :

“corner painting, gazing out at the »,
* sea.

- also contradictions and a lot of.

* contrasts to play Noel's character’

Worked with husband _
on Homeward Bound

she’s so insensitive to me,” Noel
says smiling. ‘She treads ir-
reverently over my brother, And

‘ she covers up her own fears about
John’ s cancer with a flurry of ace
tivity,”

For the last 15 years or so Noel :
has criss-crossed the country, per-.
forming at the Shaw and Blyth
Festivals and at the Globe, Bastion
and Alberta Theatre companies,

Last year she won her second
Jessie Richardson Award for her -°
performance in Judith ‘Thompson’s*
much-praised ‘Lion in the Streets,

Another highlight was the Belfry .-
Theatre's production of Home:
ward Bound, directed by Noel’s °
husband Bill Dow. © +

(There was also a minox role as
one of the witches in the -
Playhouse production of Macbeth,
“was the most attractive. ..,
witch," she says with a grin.)

. In an'eerie coincidence, Noel,
who has three-year-old twin boys,
played the mother of twins in the, .
Belity. production.:”

- She says of her cha acter: “She :
wasn’t the most likable’ person.
You wouldn't want to invite her. to’.
dinner or anything.!’;;.. ©:

As for the play itself;: ‘Noel’ offers
- “only, praise: “The central figure.
‘was an older wamain in her late,

* 60s.:She was: ‘intelligent and had’a a
great sense of humor...
There's nota lot of | paris: like?
that these days,:and | know it was
really’ appreciated by the audience
to see a woinan of her age por-,
trayed with such Bf din-
telligence."” ae

It was the first time that é and
“Dow had worked together, so ‘it -
~ required : setting a few ‘sround, :

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middle-class America.

The characters -- Sally, her
husband Sam (played by Deep
Cove's Stephen E. Miller), Chloe
“(Goldie Semple) and John (Nor-
man Browning) — get together to
celebrate the Fourth of July
weekend on the gay community of

‘dinate amount of time pondering -
the minutiae of life -- Semple’s: ~
character devotes endless energy
to making coffee and grilling the
hamburger to perfection — and
ignore the deeper issues. «

McNally has said it’s easier for .
him to find the things that drive.
-people apart rather than connect
them.

The characters are detached
from one another physically and —:_,
‘emotionally, and rather than con-
front the issues that are ripping...
them apart they erect walls to pro- -
tect their vulnerability.

Terrified at the thought of losing
her sanity, Sally — who is really
the centre of the show — spends
‘much of the time sitting alone ina

Contained and yet ieetering on
the edge of collapse, she grapples. ™:
with the meaning of life through
_ interior monologues the others do.
not hear.

“The more we work on it; the
more respect | have for McNally," na
says the baby-faced actor, who

+ made her professional acting .
debut with Carousel Theatre i in
19777

: “He doesn’t write in neat
packages. There are some
- enigmatic qualities that give ‘the:

_ play poetic resonance. There are .

ot The only tricky part was when:

"we were in performance. 1 no

mally. look to Bill for support,.but

this time he couldn't be there for
me. | said,.Hey, | don’t want you |
one minute and incredibly moved : tobe in that role, | want to tell you,
the next.””" -> 1, how. horrible the director is!".”".’

“. McNally uses the comedy of ay :* Compared to' most actors,” Noel -
-. has been fortunate in that'she:
hasn’t had to look for. work out-
“side'the. theatre : since the’ age of

£22. But she: ‘Says § she. has i never

surprises that:have you laughing:

off of Chloe, who is all glitter and’
~ gab, While Chloe talks an ann
‘ving blue streak ‘and changes’ her
. loud wardrobe five times during :
“the course of the play, Sally
despairs. : : oe

‘But as Noel points out, all the :
‘characters are at’a crisis point in,
their lives and manifest fear in a ~
different way. _ vat

“Chloe says the most outra-
geous things for shock value. And

career,”
"q Son’ t icok a atit it like’ a ‘ot of

‘ people do, and! don’t find it: -
stressful because "ve diversifi ed.

. My kids will be three’ this month.’
“The one thing | | appreciate ‘about ™
te is that it’s not a narrow".

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