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My preview of Globe Theatre’s upcoming production of Marion Bridge…
…is in today’s Regina Leader Post. It begins:
The 18th-century French poet Jacques Delille famously noted that while we can choose our friends, “Fate chooses our relatives.”
More than one family has fractured because siblings discover they have nothing in common with each other … which is exactly what has happened to the family in Marion Bridge, Globe Theatre’s next mainstage production, running Jan. 20 to Feb. 6.
Written by Canadian playwright Daniel MacIvor, Marion Bridge is set in Cape Breton, where the three MacKeigan sisters have come together to care for their dying mother.
Aside from their last names, they have nothing in common. Theresa (Laura Condlin) is a nun. Agnes (Liz Gilroy) is a struggling actor.
And then there’s the soap opera-obsessed youngest, Louise, played by Judy Wensel, a recent graduate of the University of Regina’s drama department.
“She’s the only sister who still lives in the home where they all grew up,” Wensel explains. “She feels a bit of frustration. They’re in her space. But over the course of the play they find some common ground and they become sisters again. They lost sight of how family is important, and by the end of it they discover that again.”
Read the rest.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2010/01/my-preview-of-globe-theatres-upcoming-production-of-marion-bridge/