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Layne Christensen

News Reporter layne@nsnews.com

VANCOUVER actor- playwright Alex Ferguson has played with histozy in retelling a classic.

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listory in the making

Feruuson. He claimed authorship of the radio play and discredited his collabora- tor Howard Koch (a screen- writer on Casablanca). Kach hac an assistant, Anne Froelich, on which the char- acter of Sylvia Breach is loosely based.

Deep Cove actor Wendy Van Riesen plays the role of the forgotten secretary. Breach is a woman living ina ume of great economic growth and invention. “She is someone Who js living in the moment, who has little

Welles, just 23 at the time, national attention.

Welles had a reputation for not giving credit where credit was due, says

faith in the future of the

Conmmissioned by Rumble machines,” says the actor.

Productions, Ferguson and composer Peter Hannan were asked to incorporate the broadcast of Orson Welles” famous 1938 radio play War of the Worlds into a live the- atre work, Ferguson’s War of the Worlds makes its debut this evening at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver's Yaletown district. The multi- media presentation explores the making of the radio event that rocked America. Ferguson reinvented the cast ‘of characters behind the historic broadcast. “Welles himself never let the facts get in the way of 2 good story,” says the playwright. “Like him, I don’t have a respect for the official versions of things.” In Ferguson’s version of things, it was Welles’ typist, the fictitious Sylvia Breach, who decided to present as a news broadcast the radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’ stozy of an alien invasion, panicking the listening pub- lic. The prank foreshadowed saciety’s loss of faith in the mass media and brought

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