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PAGE 14 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1984 Coral Andrews Chronicle Special Lily Ann Green sipped her coffee and slowly smiled at a recollection of a recent phase in her life. *‘*Did you know there really is a Puddledock Road? It‘s in England. That‘s where the Mermaid Theatre is. Mind you, the dock isn‘t there anymore," said Green, an increasâ€" ing English lilt in her accent, the kind of lilt that becomes a lady of artistic status. ‘‘We thought referâ€" ence to it in The Mumberley Inheriâ€" tance was purely fictional." Green was referring to the Kitchâ€" enerâ€"Waterloo Little Theatre‘s 1983 production of The Mumberley Inâ€" heritance. Puddledgqek Road. Who would have thought there was really such a place? It would have to exist in Merry Olde England, a playwright‘s perfect locale. Only a playwright‘s keen mind would be sharp enough to recall such intimate, yet insignifiâ€" cant detail. Plucking up all the spirit for adventure she could muster, believâ€" ing she was too ‘safe‘ in her familiar drama circles, Green left for Engâ€" land recently and another chapter in her already hectic life. Her thespian cohorts had successâ€" fully weaned her onto Guinness beer, knowing full well the ample amount of pubbing she would ‘‘*study" overseas. Just turned 27, Lily Ann Green, like the Duchess, doesn‘t pull any punches. During her first month there, she entered Duchess of Drury in a national play writing competition, winning as Young Playwright of the Year, and a chance to see her play performed at the intimate theatre setting of the Nightingale in Brightâ€" on, for a two and a half week run in January. Green has coined many a phrase since the age of five, mostly short stories, and plays based on shortâ€" story context. Through her work over the years she has developed a sixth sense for detail and has honed this into a fine writer‘s device. The art of play conception and creation was at first a theatrical hobby. But in Green‘s second year at Brock University, she realized she had found her professional niche, through a love affair with historical personnage and a flair for the pen. She wrote several plays, including Reflections, a oneâ€"act play when she studied drama at Waterâ€" loo, and Foreward to the Right based on the life of Joan Of Arc, but it was Green‘s third effort which proved to be a major turning point in her life. The Duchess of Drury, became a passion with postâ€"graduate Green. She nurtured it, mastered it, living and breathing every moment of this leading lady Nell Gwynne‘s exuberâ€" ant existence at the typewriter. Through her work over the years she has _ developed a sixth sense for detail and honed this into a fine writer‘s device. Green‘s Duchess makes big splash across the water At the insistence of UW dramatic kindred spirit, and teacher Douglas Abel, Green herself brought the dynamic 17th century actress/misâ€" tress of King Charles II to life in a riveting oneâ€"woman monodrama entitled The Duchess Of Drury. *‘The more l read about her in my research, the more 1 began to empathize with the character. Peoâ€" ple were also telling me, The Duchess sounded like me. Nell Gwynne, that‘s likely how the Enâ€" glish would have spelled it with a double ‘N‘E, was like Kate from Taming of the Shrew. She‘s reminiâ€" scent of the Merry Wives of Windâ€" sor. She has that bawdy wit about her. She‘s not afraid to tell it like it is and lay her cards down on the table." The cards were stacked in Nell‘s and Green‘s favor, for Duchess of Drury was to become a blossoming success during its threeâ€"day debut at the Theatre Of The Arts in April of 1983. The Duchess gave Green the boost and confidence she needed to fly from her Kâ€"W theatrical nest. Nell is dear to Lily Ann Green‘s literal heart, like all history seems to be. Green has a seasoned fascinaâ€" tion with it, and is developing a pattern with historical heroines. Foreward To The Right won first prize at Oakville‘s One Act Play Festival. From Joan of Arc Lily discovered Nell Gwynne, but Lily is a slave to any written page. Unlike Maxim Mazumdar‘s exquiâ€" site Oscar Remembered, a monoâ€" drama based on the life of Oscar Wilde, Duchess of Drury has no imaginary characters. She simply addresses an ‘audience‘ in her sitting room. *‘*Feminists would look down on her. because she stood for everyâ€" thing they are against. She was a king‘s mistress but she didn‘t flaunt the fact. She was strongâ€"willed and, and lasted through it all. She‘s a survivor. That‘s why I like her." said Green. Lily Ann Green knows the ins and outs of Nell Gwynne yet she is not assuming lead role responsibilities on British soil. ‘"After I won the contest, I made various connections within theatre society. My artistic director Colin Fisher, and I are searching for an established actress to play Nell. There is talk of Prunella Scales, who I‘m positive would do Nell wonderâ€" ful justice." Scales appeared last year at UW‘s Humanities Theatre in a hilarious oneâ€"woman show called a Night with Queen Victoria. She‘s known everyâ€" where as the henâ€"pecking Cybil Fawlty, from the British television series Fawlty Towers. , Lily‘s audiences love her work, be it here or in England. The enterprisâ€" ing young talett has another perâ€" sonna up her sleeve but won‘t reveal the lady in question yet. The woman is already a singing legend in bher own time, but this is a pet project for now. Green is still hard at work Green leaves for England after the new year, and she is anxious to get back to her historical extension, though she has seen a variety of monodramas and multiâ€"cast proâ€" ductions since her first visit. on a reâ€"write of her first play Reflections, Anglicizing it for the chess to perfection. ‘*Who wouldn‘t like to see their Broadway," laughed the Duches: heartily. ‘‘*That‘s every play wright‘s dream .‘ . and honing the Duâ€" i at the West End or Coral Andrews Chronicle Special ‘"My God. It‘s full of stars‘" That‘s about the only comparison you can make between Stanley Kubrick‘s magnificent 2001: A Space Odyessy, and Peter Hyam‘s 2010 (A Space Idiocy!) now at the Lyric. Written, directed, produced by Hyams, 2010 does Clarke‘s work no justice. Roy Scheider is the nailâ€"crunching Captain Harold Lloyd, whose twoâ€"year mission is to explore new horizons, to boldly go where no man has gone before, since the last time U.S.S. Discovery left for Planet Europa on its fateful mission in 2001. All he keeps saying is ‘Something wonderful is going to happen‘, with a manic grin on his face. I‘m still trying to figure out what that is. Just what in Hal‘s name is that huge black Monolith, floating around planet Europa with the distorted Gerber baby face superâ€"imposed on its shiny ebony exterior??~ Lloyd, because he feels personally responsible for the crew‘s demise, is driven to find out what happened to Capt. ‘Dave‘ Computer Hal and the rest on Discovery, before Dave‘s famous last words. Keir Dullea returns as Dave, floating around in Lloyd‘s spaceship quarters and strategic Earth locales like a silverâ€"haired Messiah. Richard Edlund‘s special effects are stellar Movie review Cold and chrome 2010 injustice to predecessor Lily Ann Green attractions. It‘s all executed with the smoothest of computer graphic effort. In 70MM cinematic splendor with maximum ‘Dolbyâ€"fication‘ what better way to escape into your own universe of thought. Hyam‘s makes a point of this, by depicting business at the White House as usual, with the superpowers assuming loggerhead status. But don‘t worry. Baseball is still the American dream. The whole scenario‘s a bit more highâ€"tech, with chrome accessories for ultraâ€" cosmic effect. The year 2010 is not unlike the year 1984 only this time Big Brother is watching from another galaxy. 2010‘s only saving grace is the master supporting character mind of John Lithgow (Garp, Twilight Zone). Every role he touches turns to gold. This one is no exception. He‘s memorable as a whizâ€"kid engineer, with solar stage fright as he travels on a gravitational tightrope to the dusty old Discovery in search of Bob Balaban recreates his role as the Doctor and creator of Hal the computer, rather like a crazed scientific Richard Dreyfuss. Infatuated by this complicated series nuts and bolts, Balaban as a modernâ€"day Wizard of Oz, proves that Hal is no ordinary tinâ€"manâ€"made machine. He too has a heart. Helen Mirren (Excalibur, Cal), one of Briâ€" the truth. (Continued on page 15)