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mary

About Me

I am an incurable romantic at heart, but I'm not the lady of shallot in her ivory tower content to die a tragically poetic death floating down some river because sir lancelot did not know of my existence. Sometimes I find I can be too much of an idealist, but is that dangerous in this world? I'm a playwright, poet, actor, stage manager, director and a voracious reader and I adore being in used book stores and running my hands along the spines of the books.

My Interests

Books, theatre, all sorts of music (movie and broadway soundtracks, acoustic, classical, the folk that I was raised on and I'm coming back to), movies, hanging out with my friends, being with family, writing, acting, stage managing, working in theatre, creating.

Music:

In no particular order: Joni Mitchell, The Undesirables, Sarah McLachlan, Dala, Jeremy Fisher, Liam Titcomb, Sarah Harmer, Vivaldi, Great Big Sea, Barenaked Ladies, Maroon 5, John Mayer, Tom Waits, Jewel. Broadway soundtracks (Hair, Rent and Les Miserables being the current favourites), Movie Soundtracks (Chicago, Empire Records, Romeo + Juliet, The Breakfast Club, Return of the King, etc.), Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Melissa Etheridge, etc.

Movies:

Musicals (so many musicals), Romeo + Juliet, Dreamchild (Dennis Potter), Harry Potter movies, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Finding Neverland, hbo Angels in America, Pirates of the Caribbean, Some Like It Hot, Mermaids, Chicago, Love Actually, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones Diary, Legally Blonde, Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing & Love Labour's Lost, Shakespeare in Love, Sky Captain and the World of Tommorrow, Empire Records, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Dead Poet's Society, A Midwinter's Tale, Stage Beauty, The Breakfast Club...and the list goes on and on and on...

Television:

Grey's Anatomy

Books:

Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Bridget Jones Diary, Chronicles of Narnia, The Wars & Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley, Fall on Your Knees, The Way The Crow Flies, Changing Heaven, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Alice in Wonderland, Alice's Through the Looking Glass, Diary of Anne Frank, Rosalind Miles Guenvere Trilogy, etc.Plays: Complete Works of Shakespeare, Elizabeth Rex, Amadeus, An Ideal Husband, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, Mary's Wedding, Angels in America Part I: Millenium Approaches & Part II: Perestroika, Peter Pan , etc.

My Blog

Change of Summer Plans

My summer plans have changed, and in the biggest news: I will be back in Ottawa for the summer and perhaps even longer. I have gotten a job in Ottawa, with Shouldice, who I worked with last summer. It...
Posted by mary on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 02:38:00 PST

Current state of existence, in third person

Mary doesn't really feel like going to rehearsal but she must. Current state of existence: rehearsal (oh and class). Mary is always very tired, exhausted in fact. Mary has succumbed to coffee after al...
Posted by mary on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:38:00 PST

Notes on Longing I

I call myself a proud incurable romantic and yet on the other hand an independent woman coming into her own. The balancing of paradoxes and contradictions is such a difficult thing. Perhaps somewhere ...
Posted by mary on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:57:00 PST

What I've been up too lately...Rehearsals, Rehearsals, and more Rehearsals

Let me see, what have I been up too? Well the usual- rehearsals, rehearsals and more (you guessed it) rehearsals. The Cazalet theatre is now my second home, with its wonderful air quality (that's sarc...
Posted by mary on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:13:00 PST

two words: tech week

Apologize for the rareness of entries lately, been quite busy since I arrived back in Montreal. And now I'm in the middle of a tech week, theatre people you know exactly what I mean when I place those...
Posted by mary on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:43:00 PST

three entries for different dates

July 24: I now definetly have an apartment for next year!!! Three cheers for this, with two other roomates and I am of course back in notre dame de grace, the neighbourhood I've lived in for the past ...
Posted by mary on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:31:00 PST

Update after first week of work

Update after first week of work: Sometimes I'm not busy at all and I'm bored, sometimes I'm not busy at all but I'm not bored (like when it gives me a chance to read a couple pages or make more basket...
Posted by mary on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:54:00 PST

Final year of my BFA coming up, plans for the future

I'm really looking forward to September and my fourth year, my final year of my BFA which is both terrifying and exciting at the same time (entirely possible believe me for these two emotions to exist...
Posted by mary on Fri, 26 May 2006 05:34:00 PST

feeling a little...i don't know...odd lately

Feeling a little...I don't know...odd lately. I do not like feeling this, I've been like this before and I never know what to make of it. But this time is different but I can't even place a finger on ...
Posted by mary on Wed, 24 May 2006 07:42:00 PST

day after the 2006 Canadian Election

Sigh, Canada has elected a Conserative minority. But what can I say? At least it isn't a Conservative majority. The Liberals still have over a hundred seats, 103 to be exact, so they're a pretty stron...
Posted by mary on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:48:00 PST