November 21, 2012 Volume 8 • Number 47 50¢ Newsstand Price
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Clothes may make the man… but they define a woman Performing Arts Westsyde is a cross-curricular company from Westsyde Secondary School that weaves together music, art and theatre. An offshoot of this is the Acting Alumni Theatre Company which is comprised of past theatre performers. This alumni group is proud to bring back four of the greatest female actors ever to grace the Westsyde stage. These ladies have gone on to professional and academic careers in theatre and are now returning home to perform once again on their first stage. Stephen Sawka has been involved with running the theatre productions at Westsyde Secondary for 17 years and over time has had the opportunity to previously work with each alumni cast member in their latest theatre show, Love, Loss and What I Wore. Westsyde graduates, Terri Runnalls, Chelesa Isenor, Paige Cross, Kayla Sorley along with special guest Giovanna Rondinelli are the five principal women in the production. Love, Loss and What I Wore was co-written by Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail) and her sister Delia. The material was sourced largely from the book by Ilene Beckerman. The Ephron sisters identified with the stories because
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Westsyde graduates, Terri Runnalls (on the left) with Kayla Sorley rehearsing for their upcoming performance of Love, Loss, and What I Wore. The show is presented by Acting Alumni Theatre Company and opens tonight at Westsyde Secondary School. Photo by Sarah Schrauwen
the book “is not about fashion; it is about what clothes really are to us, those moments when we are constantly trying to find our identity through them.” As the director and co-producer Stephen observed, “Women have an emotional connection with their clothes. I wanted to explore this unique emotional connection they have with their clothing. Nearly every woman has their favourite shirt or can remember their prom dress or describe their wedding gown down to the last detail. This is something men don’t do and often don’t understand.” The production is organized as a series of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memories covering all the important subjects—mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why some woman wear only black. Each of the characters uses the interaction of personal relationships and wardrobes as a time capsule for their life. The unapologetically low-tech play has been presented as an ongoing commercial theatrical production at the Westside Theatre in New York, where it continues to run as the second-longest running show in the theatre’s history. – continued on page 2
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