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Group effort still works for SUMWAT i Longâ€"lasting artistic collaboraâ€" tions are rare; even the successâ€" ful ones are frequently laced with acrimony. â€" O Waterioo‘s SUMWAT Theatre is that rarity â€" the creation of five individuals who continue to collaborate in relative harmony in their fourth summer of writing and presenting orig_inal plays. The group‘s production of Hat Trick opens at the University of Waterloo‘s Theatre of the Arts tonight (July 15) and continues nightly . through Saturday (July 18). * Ian Allen, who directs two parts of the threeâ€"part show, laughs when asked if they work well together because they all feel the same way about the same things. "Oh, my goodness, no! "One of the reasons we‘ve managed to stay together this year is that we have, in effect, three plays of different styles. So, even though you may object to an overall play that sounds funny, you can say, ‘Well, Act 2â€"will be funny and I‘m not interested in that. I‘m interested more in making sure Act 1 stays serious.‘ So there‘s something for everyâ€" ‘"‘The final script that goes on stage is actually a community effort; it has lines from each of us altered and changed to someâ€" thing that we‘ve all agreed on." Allen is a graduate student in computer science at UW. His SUMWAT cohorts also all are UW graduates or in post:â€" graduate studies there. Jim Gardner has his masters in Math and is a technical writer for one of the university‘s computing departments. Marney Heatley is working on ber MA in English and is a m MA in English and is a â€"lance writer who was reâ€" cently named runnerâ€"up in a ‘Toronto Star shortâ€"story compeâ€" "I think we all recognize that theâ€" scripts do come out being better when we tend to put aside our individual feelings about things a bit. C "Goodness knows, we have disagreements on things, but often we can &et a consensus that ‘Yes, this is the way we‘d like to _ Ron Dragushan also has an MA in Math and is a local manageâ€" ment consultant. Steve Hull graduated in honors seeoytl‘;:a l.i;leâ€";" tm-; is what it means,‘ and we have people go back and rewrite the script. "The final script is actually a community effort." By VICTOR STANTON masters program in computer science at the University of Toâ€" _(SUMWAT is computer lanâ€" guage for summer at Waterioo). Allen says the five of them became acquainted in 1978 while working together on the campus FASS show, an annual theatrical event that‘s a mix of satire and revue. That show went on in Februâ€" ary, and at the closingâ€"night party Jim and I and a couple of other people sat around and talked about doing something together that summer. "Eventually, it was the five of us who got together, threw around some ideas for a script and actually talked to some people about getting some supâ€" port for a summerâ€"theatre projâ€" ect." The UW Fedération of Students wouldn‘t give the group any money, but it did agree to loan it some. "So, we gathered ourselves together and tried to put on something a little more demandâ€" ing than FASS was. Our first two productions were comedies, folâ€" lowing somewhat in the same trend as FASS. Our third producâ€" tion (last year‘s Murder Take Two) was a mystery, and it turned out quite well. "This year, we‘re again trying something a little different. We‘re trying for an actual serious drama with the first act. The second act is one of the funniest things we‘ve ever put down on paper. And the third act could end up being quite poignant. It has neither the darkness of the drama of the first act nor the outrageous lightheartedness of the second act." The Hat Trick plays are both complete units individually and interconnected. All are set in the attic of an isolated resort hotel and trace three generations of two families. The <other writers also get involved in other aspects of the productions. Steve Hull is one of the lead actors in the first act; Marney Heatley and Jim Gardner play leading roles in Act 3, and Ron Dragushan is doing sound for the entire presentaâ€" The director of Act 2 is lan Chaprin. Allen says that the group‘s initial production in 1978 ‘"made money, the second year we broke even, last year we lost money and this year we‘re going to try our damnedest to make it back." ‘‘We‘re again trying something a little different." Performances begin at 8 p.m. rt lan Alien (right) gives direction to Marney Heatliey (kneeling), Peter Dibble and Jim Gardner (hoilding fish) in preparation for the upcoming production by SUMMWAT theatre at the University of Waterioo. > 618 King 51. 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