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Graham
Kosakoski, left, works with his anger ball as he
rehearses a scene from House under the watchful eye of
director Trent Scherer. The one-man play will be at
Pavilion Theatre next week.
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07/31/2002
Welcome to the House
By Allan Wishart
It’s quite a House Graham Kosakoski and Trent Scherer are
building.
Scherer will be directing Kosakoski in the one-man, one-act play
by Daniel MacIvor.
“Graham went to Queen’s University this year, two and a half
hours from Toronto, where I was at University of Toronto,” says
Scherer. “We got together a few times and I asked ‘Would you
like to do a one-man show?’”
The two had worked together before in last year’s The Bar Off
Melrose but this is a totally different piece. It’s the first
one-man play Scherer has directed and the first one Kosakoski has
performed. The amount of script is something he noticed right
away.
“In a regular play, there may be 100 pages in the script but you
only need to worry about maybe 10 or 15 of them. This is a 50-page
script and it’s all me.”
The play is a dark comedy about one man’s reality, which should
come as no surprise to those who attended MacIvor’s Never Swim
Alone, presented earlier this year by the University College of
the Cariboo drama department.
“Ten-year-olds won’t get some of the jokes,” Kosakoski says,
“not because they’re dirty or anything but because they relate
to life experiences.”
Both actor and director agree a problem with rehearsals is not
having an audience to work with. Scherer says the play demands
interaction between the character and the audience, something they
can’t reproduce in rehearsal.
“I still don’t know what the audience is going to find
funny,” Kosakoski says. “It will change night by night
depending on their mood.”
House will be performed at Pavilion Theatre Aug. 8 to 10 with a
special preview Aug. 7.
Tickets are available at Kamloops Live! Box Office, 1025 Lorne St. |
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Coming soon:
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Phaedra's Love
by Sarah Kane
Date TBA
Kingston, Ontario
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