“Which skill set do you bring to bear on the process? “When we first started this process, we didn’t know what to make of it,” admits Ryder. Helen Lawrence is part film, part theatre, with an intricate script by Chris Haddock, best known for the CBC drama Da Vinci’s Inquest, and a story by Haddock and visual artist Stan Douglas. There were times I’d be running away from an 80-foot-high pile of goop with nothing but sticks to wave at it and they’d later replace the sticks with lasers in post-production.” “It was green screen there and it’s blue screen here, but I spent five years imagining a lot of scenery. What she’s referring to her is her five-season role as Beka Valentine in Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda. I’ve been living Galaxy Quest for five years.” “You have to be careful to hit just the right spikes on the floor or you’ll be standing on the couch or levitating the phone.”īut as Ryder notes, “ Helen Lawrence isn’t the first imaginary rodeo I’ve been to. “We’re standing on a bare blue stage and everything is projected around us,” laughs Ryder, who plays the title role. What it doesn’t have is three-dimensional scenery. Helen Lawrence has a brooding musical score, snappy 1940s repartee and actors who excel at bringing its emotional shadows to life. You wouldn’t think a role in a science fiction TV series would help lay the groundwork for a film noir stage production.īut Lisa Ryder’s experience playing a starship first officer helped with the challenges of playing a femme fatale in the Canadian Stage co-production Helen Lawrence, the multimedia extravaganza that finally opens here Thursday at the Bluma Appel Theatre after runs across Canada and Europe.
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