One-woman wonder by JENNIFER CAMPBELL Move over, Academy Award-toting, Nicole Kidman. You have competition, particularly, when assuming the role of insightful writer Virginia Woolf. For six nights in March, Perspehone Productions artistic director Gabrielle Soskin performed Patrick Garland's one-woman show A Room of One's Own - based on a lecture Woolf presented in 1928 - in order to raise funds for coming performances. And speaking of rooms, Soskin managed to fill hers at Monument National's La Balustrade to overflowing. Receptive audience members included Mary and Ian Smith; John Abbott professor Carole Harwood and poet Endre Farkas; Raymond Busbridge; Geordie Theatre's Elsa Bolam; Marielle and Michael Wertheimer; arts journalist Anna Fuerstenberg; Andrée and David Tait; actress/publicist Janis Kirshner; Imsoo Kim; Centre Greene board members Erica Bloom, Beth Tayler and Lindsay Chipman; Doreen Croll and actress Becky Croll; Foundation of Greater Montreal president and CEO Kathleen Weil and Michael Novak, president and CEO of SNC Technologies; New York's Hugo Soskin and Chicago's Penny and Tony Soskin. Take that, Kidman! Reprinted from The Montreal Gazette April 3, 2005 |