Artists to Watch

CAMILLE STUBEL
Who: Performer in Amiel Gladstone's The Black Box, a trio of stories about the human fascination with flight.
Buzz: Having charmed us in last season's all-female A Midsummer Night's Dream, Stubel rejoins Victoria's Theatre SKAM (the outdoor Aerwacol) for this new show. Will it also take wing?

RAE ELLEN BODIE
Who: Plays half of a brother-and-sister act in A. Shay Hahn's Lemon Water, in which siblings deal with family secrets.
Buzz: Impressive in recent productions of The Old Neighbourhood and Ota, the transplanted Westerner is one of Toronto's new talents.

HUME BAUGH
Who: Actor in adaptation of Diane Schoemperlen's book Forms Of Devotion, in which a recently separated couple seek a new grounding in their lives.
Buzz: Baugh, who gets to the emotional guts of a role (The Erotic Curve Of The Earth, Smoke), is reunited with director Mark Cassidy (Howl) to explore the pain of love gone sour. How wrenching can he be?

MARY FRANCIS MOORE
Who: Directs Alison Lawrence's Going For Groceries and performs in Sean Reycraft's One Good Marriage That One, That One.
Buzz: After her great work in Top Gun! The Musical, the talented bittergirl (the play, not the person) juggles two SummerWorks jobs. Can she highlight the sometimes tense links between mother and 10-year-old daughter (Going) and play up a marriage on the rocks (One Good) without one angst-ridden relationship slopping over into the other?

MICHAEL MacLEAN
Who: Author of Greenland, about two bookstore workers, one who escapes life through literature and the other who hates the volumes he sells.
Buzz: MacLean's been absent from the Toronto stage since his Fringe hit Smoke, which made NOW's list of the top 10 theatre productions of 1997. Let's see if this new work captures the same theatrical poetics and quirky comedy.