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Ft PAGE A20 _ WATERLOO CHRONICLE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23. Theatre and Company Scardon-Wattles and Drake continued to work on the piece and sent the maternal to the author of the book. seekmg exclu- swe nghts to produce a full-length musical adaptation of the book. I got many responses from her, but nothmg definihve. I've done adaptations before, and I didn t want to be In the position of dong an adaptation of the wk - I wanted theriqhtstothsthe adaptation of the book.‘ Scad. ron-WattIes says "That takes time and negotiations and capitol If you've got It, which I don't. Sol had to convince her that we had the nght new for t that we were the decode who had the taIent for It, and that we could pull It oft" Hero and his younger brother manage to escape the oty and find then! way to the Greet Park, a forest where a king in trxtbtt Is rumored to be living and canng for other exnles. Three years ago. when Scar. 0ron-Wames learned that Karen Mains was to speak to a womens' group In Niagara Fans, he ar- ranged a meeting With her, and it was at that meeting that he Sealed the deal? Since then, Scatirtm-Wattims has been devemnq and adapt. Ing the work. a time-consuming taskattheveryleast.sincsboth books were a series of stories (Continued from page A15) Thus magical place IS filled with dragons. quests, girls who are really pnnoesses. gardeners who are realty warmers. and. of course, the King, Scadron-Wames had been con. onced from the onset that any stage production would have to be a muscal, and so the couabo- ration with Drake worked well . The other thing that fasci- nates me atom the story, IS that when Hero comes unto the tam tasy world, there's still troubte - ts not a fairy story In the classic sense where you come unto a particular work! where every- thing s tine There are problems here that have to be solved," Scadron-Wames says The play vefson first began to take form when Scardtm.Watttes' wtfe Linda (an actress with Theat- re a Company). suggested to him that he adapt the story for a group of theatre students she was teaching at a pnvata schoot She wanted some mo of final prolect that they could all get lnvolved In and sand. 'why 6on't I you adapt one of those stones I sand that I'd need to collaborate With someone, and that someone l ended up collaborating mth was RICK Drake who was actually the musc teacher at the school F 1ilr,',ii'i'ii't,sitii" There was no question In my mmd that It needed to be a musical - there were too may great evems tor n not to be a musical, V Scadrun-Wattitts says As a Mrarght play It would be dramatic. but I dont thank um- marely It would achsve " poten- tial _. Au. In" which share the same locale and sometimes the same characters. Scadrtm-Watttes had to rework "Karen had comprised the std ries to teach the principles of the Kingdom of God. and so each one has a discrete little story and a moral at the end - they were nice, they were charming, (F Scad- ron-Wattles says. "But Rick and I had a choice - we could either have a narrator and present these stories in story-theatre style. or we could creat a narrative. Karen had given us freedom to do either. We thought there was enough material in the book that it would make a good narrative musical, but we knew wed have to leave out some of stories and we'd have to change the picture a little bit" Karen and David Mains had the opportunity to see the production In workshop form in Cambridge last year, After the performance. the authors and ScadrryrWat%s and Drake were athe to discuss any changes deemed necessary. In the book, Hero is a very Saturday. NW2 (8p m) Humanities Thoaxre, University of Waterloo Attlt-ts-t... 317 ?e'ttt1ttrreee.eeeaatrs-o-o,.ats.oa, mmummnmdmummnuoumrmnnmcww -tit------"-"-"'""'"-""'L"i"'. Presents . .. MARGARET VISSER fall Authors at Seagram Museum Tuesday Oct. 29 T 7:30 pm. open, 8:00 pm. start Admission $7.00 Refreshments included 23. 1991 Historian and author of Plague (Montreal Smallpox 1885) Rituals of Dinner WCHAEL BLISS, Open Evenings lil? frightened character - Scadron- Watties wanted to make him more dynamic tor stage, and so gave him a revenge motive. M) mg st, South "Rick and" I changed the story and just sort of gave it to Karen, who said, Sounds great'. We sad, 'Now wait, Karen, you understand that this is not in the book'. But she even began bram- storming with us. And then she said, 'Wait, this is your play, this is your musical L you make it yours, You have the spirit of the book. you see what's going on - asudtor anything more Incorporating the talents of Theatre ' Company members as well as students of Eastwood Collegiate Institute's periorming arts program, the tum-orche- strated adaptation with its cast of 24 will hit the stage for the first time Friday night. Tales of the Kingdom will con- tinue to run every Friday and Saturday at 8 pm. and Saturday at 2 pm Tickets are $12 tor adults and $10 for students and WITH it'. I comdn't have [Tm Award Winners'. with special opening act Terry Odette THURSDAY, NOVEMIEB T, 1991 tt Fm. 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