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Chadwick, who has been chairman of the University of Watertoo's drama department since 1973, was looking through some old newspapers one day about three years ago when he came across a story about a murder that took place in Galt in 1897. N "I found the story of the trial first, and being of a ghoulish nature I suppose. I went back through the papers to find what happened when the body was first discovered." The "body" was that of Emma Orr, a wyear- old Galt housewife who was shot and then buried in a corn patch just out- side her kitchen window. (The Orr house. on the Roseville Road, is still standing i Jim Allison, a 17-year-old youth who worked on the Orr fa rm, was eventually convnct- ed and hanged for the murder. Although dur- ing the course of the trial "at least five hard suspects" were named. Chadwick's drama- tization of this real-life incident was selected from among more than 300 entri es as one of five winning plays in last year's Theatre Ontario- A 5 WEEK SESSION OF CLASSES FOR PRE-SCHOOLERS YOUTH AND ADULT IN PHYSICAL & SPECIAL INTEREST PROGRAMS. AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO SAMPLE ONE OR MORE OF OUR PROGRAMS - SHAPE UP FOR YOUR HOLIDAY WAR- DROBE, GET A HEAD START ON CREATING GIFTS IN CERA- MICS, CROCHET, ENJOY A SWIM & SAUNA TO RELAX DURING THIS HECTIC SEASON. WATCH FOR SPECIAL HOLIDAY AC- TIVITIES FOR YOUR CHILDREN. first presented by Guelph Little Theatre to launch its 190-81 season a couple of weeks ago. and last night (Nov ll) the group gave a special performance of the play in Torontotoopena five- night festival of Show- case winners. Chadwick. a resident of Waterloo since 1972, says theNitNdent's first appeal to him as a playwright was that it “was a darn good murder mystery with lots of suspects." “I dtm't think Agatha Christie could have cho sen a better story with more suspects" manned Playwrights‘ Showcase competition. The win brought Chad- wick a $5,000 cam prize and the opportunity to work with a professional director and designer in staging the premiere production of Emma (All during the trial and during the months awaiting execution. Alli- son maintained he was innocent, On the night before h is execution. ho- wever. a confession was published in the paper. and, says Chadwick, "that to me smelled a little bit. "i In his play. Chadwick demonstrates that se- veral people would have had a motive for mur- dering Emma Orr. but right up to opening night in Guelph he went along Wednesday, Nov. 12 REGISTRATION That production was Waterloo Family ENTERTAINMENT FOR MINI-SESSION with the 18trt court deci- sion that young Alum was the me who pulled the trigger. After the first night, however. he and the production's director agreed to make the play's ending more ambiguous by avoiding showing who was hold- ing the rifle that shot Emma, Actually, says the playwright. after getting the basic story, he wasn't really interested “in the history part of it any more." "I'm interested in -I don't know how to put it - the truth. art, wha- tever the play is about. That is more important now than historical fact "My initial aproach was to write a mystery play, and that element is still there, But I quickly became more interested in Emma as a kind of 'free spirit' trapped by her society and yet re- fusing to knuckle under “In that sort of fairly restricted Victorian so- ciety. she had to be wiped out. That. to me, is what the ending is about. Allison may have pulled the trigger, but it was society that was be hind him pulling the trig- ger.” Prior to submitting the play to the Playwrights' Showcase competition. Chad wick had written “10 to If)" different drafts of it. After it was selected as the winning entry from '. 12 Thursday, Nov. 13 . " 9 aan.-9 pan. m '100 Family t)i 55.2500 (ty C the Western Ontario re- gion, he set to making further revisions and continued rewriting "right up to the middle of the Guelph rm" “The first Saturday night, the director and I got together after the performance and cut an- other 15 minutes from the play. BP “On the other side of the coin, I think rd have to say my most frustrat- ing moments were while attending early rehear- sals, I realize that's grossly unfair because during the first few re- hearsals for any play the actors are nowhere near the cha racters they're playing. So I had to watch these people (the Guelph cast) being no- where near m y characters and just sit there when I wanted to scream, 'They aren't even close.' Luckily, I do a little theatre myself two months of getting the play on stage that has provided Chadwick with both his most satis- fying and his most frus- trating moments as a playwright, "Seeing the ac tors wo rh on the parts and seeing the roles coming to life - that's incredi- bly exciting. A Iso, some- thing as egocentric as sitting in an audience and hearing people laughing at words that you wrote __ thaCs very satisfying too. It has been during the and I know that that's just something the actors have to work mm for themselves. And in the end. I feel they've all done a mar- vellous job." l Emma Orr isn't the first play Chadwick has written and seen per- formed, Since im- migrating to Canada from his native Big land he has written a full- length documentary play called The Cyclone, which has had a couple of productions in Saskat- chewan where its action is set, and two one-act “very English" plays, Dead Heat and Statues. which were originally produced in Toronto and have been published by Playwrights Comp. After completing the early drafts of Emma Orr, Chadwick took a year's sabbatical from UW and journeyed to Turkey where he com- pIeted the script for an- other full-length play. Chadwick describes himself as a “lazy" writer and sa ys he has no set routine when he's creating a play. “If I hada routine." he jokes, “it probably would go something like this: I would get up around two o'clock in the afternoon: .J‘d have breakfast for about two hours: I'd start to write at four, stop writing at 4:15 and go back to bed again."