Ovation Volume 24, Number 4 (January/February/March 2017)

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BLACK COFFEE Derek Moran

Miriam Smith

Richard Amory

Edwina Raynor

ROYAL MTC Jane Eyre, Harvey, Gone with the

ROYAL MTC First appearance. OTHER THEATRE Trip in Other Desert Cities

(The Citadel); Lucianus in Hamlet, Egeus’s Interpreter in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Burgundy in King Lear (Stratford); Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Mario in The Game of Love and Chance (Neptune); Trout Stanley in Trout Stanley (Heart in Hand Theatre); Owen in The Melville Boys (Red Barn Theatre); Cléante in The Miser, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, and Mug in New Canadian Kid (Sudbury Theatre Centre). FILM/TV The Good Witch, Reign, Mayday, Lost Girl, Bomb Girls, Being Erica, Murdoch Mysteries, Life With Derek, October 1970.

Daria Puttaert Barbara Amory

Wind, August: Osage County, Steel Magnolias, Strong Poison, Our Town, The Real Thing, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing. OTHER THEATRE Bingo, Burnin’ Love, Moonlight and Magnolias, How it Works, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Molly’s Veil (PTE); The Father, Broken Glass, Einstein’s Gift (WJT); Urinetown, Assassins (Dry Cold); The Millionairess, The Miser, Nothing Sacred (VP). FILM/TV Psych, The L Word, Amreeka, Holiday Switch, Falcon Beach, The Shields Stories, Agent Cody Banks, Breaking News, Cheaters, 2gether, Nightman, Dead Man’s Gun, X-Files, The Commish. Training/TEACHING UBC, HB studios, NAC apprenticeship program / PTE Theatre School, PTE@PTE, Carousal Theatre for Young People. Et Cetera Love and thanks to Bob, Laura and Maddy.

Agatha Christie ROYAL MTC Clever Little Lies, The Secret

Annex, The Fighting Days, The Shunning, Top Girls, Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), The Tempest, A Christmas Carol. Assistant Director: August: Osage County. OTHER THEATRE Proud, The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, Stretching Hide (TPM); Strawberries in January, Unity (1918) (PTE); Honour (PTE/Belfry); Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure (Tom-Tom Theatre); To the Country (Winnipegger Ensemble); Stripped-Down Hamlet (SIR). FILM Zooey and Adam (KINOsmith Prod.), Undertow (Photoplay Prod.), The Don Cherry Story II (CBC). Training Graduate of the National Theatre School and the University of Winnipeg. Et Cetera Love to Jamie, Malcolm and Norah.

Playwright Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the author not only of The Mousetrap, the longest-running stage production in West End history but also Witness for the Prosecution and And Then There Were None to name but a few of her greatest stage successes. Her novels have sold more than two billion copies around the world, and she is outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Born in 1890, in Torquay, Devon, England, to an American father and English mother, she wrote her first play, Black Coffee, (the only play in which she chose to feature Poirot) in 1930, having been disappointed by the way The Murder of Roger Ackroyd had been adapted into Alibi in 1928. She adapted her bestselling novel And Then There Were

For a complete list of theatre abbreviations, please refer to legend on page 4

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