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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 29 Oct 2008, p. 26

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"You expect She was absolutely thrilled to / other things to get a big laugh, but see a cuckoo clock on the poster ' you never really know that until for the show, pointing out the i you get it in front of an audience." inanimate object that is the centre ”k W Q 1 One of the actors looking for of so much animus for the brother \ . Q .‘ ‘ ward to that audience interaction and sister pairing in her play. ‘ ' ;/ ‘, is Richard Quesnel. who Will play "It gets to be a battle of wills ./ i the brother in the matched pair of over the cuckoo clock." said A i i\ Q siblings. Daniel. explaining how one sibling . A Q ‘\ ‘ "You find what rings true and .. loves to hear its shrill cry while the . j , ' tQ‘ what doesn‘t," said Quesnel. ”The other absolutely can t stand it. ' I \ playwright isn‘t writing in a vacu» "Of course clocks have all sorts ll ‘\ . 1 . um and expecting for you to make Mother resonance, but futidattietir "' i l l , i 1 it work. tally it‘s a power struggle over a ‘ vii .\ ','. "K "The actors can give their cuckootlot'k.” i A i 4 5 ', ‘ insights into where this sits in the Daniel said the inspiration for , ll 4 '; " human psyche," the play came from her own obserâ€" ‘ l l\ ' Quesnel said he's intrigued by rations of those types of power ‘ f t i . the dynamic relationship between struggles that exist in her own ,’Q' 7 ‘ ‘ ‘i the brother and the sister set out extended family And there is a lot ‘ ' Q Q. by Daniel. of comedic material to mine when Q _ Q , Q Q "And because they're siblings the match is strut k and the pow- Local playwright Lea Daniel's new play Naked, a show about family relations, WI“ be staged at the Canadian Clay they can say things that people der keg of repressed memories and Glass Gallery 0" NOV- 7 don't usually say." said Quesnel. finally blows up. “MM mom "They're brutally honest even if Daniel said your sibling are the revert to those old childhood simply recalling the sting of that talks about it,” laughs Daniel they are quite quirky. otiesthat will know you the longest hurts, and have you quaking iii towel hitting flesh opens old "She‘s never reallygot past it." "They also do things to get a in your lifetime. They‘ve been with rage. For instance, her own sister Wounds, And while that sibling rivalry rise out of the other person which you from your childhood to your inâ€"law likes to recall how Daniel's And while it can be painful, it can be bittersweet, it can also be is very human.“ golden years, and they're the only husband flicks her with a wet (an also be hilarious for a play? quite illustrative. 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