Photograph By Keith Anderson
Two of Canada s best-known Aboriginal actors take to the Sagebrush stage next week for performances that promise to lift mid-winter s deep chill.
Lorne Cardinal and Margo Kane play the narrator and Nana in For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Michel Tremblay s heartwarming homage to his mother. As soon as I read it, I said I want to do this, Cardinal said during rehearsal at Pavilion Theatre on Wednesday. Margo fit the bill and was my first choice for Nana.
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is a work of universal experience, a memory play by Quebec s most prominent playwright. Since his breakthrough in the mid- 60s - the influential Les Belles-Soeurs - Tremblay has been distinguished for bringing a distinctly Quebecois theatre to national and international audiences. He is known for his deft portrayals of women, obviously a key aspect in this play.