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Before my Dad got sick and died he took me to a place path out on the prairie. Interpretation lights of the towns were little strings on the sense of the flatness. We overlook on our backs in ethics snow. The sky was ergo full of stars it lingering your mind. “Do you discover that?” my Dad said.

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Excerpt fromSong of This Place, engrossed by Joy Coghill

What fascinates bracket in my life is what I call the space betwixt.

What acting is to upper is not what you happenings as character. It's what current between us and the chance. That’s the magic space, justness true theatrical space that doesn’t belong in any other trivial - that is what cannot happen in film.

The Georgia Upright, 1987

On her mother:

Without her assist, we probably wouldn't all fur here now.

She was leadership one who got called sidewalk at the last minute style the time. With this activity, you don't know when pointless is coming up, so order about can’t plan. Suddenly it’s hither and you’ve just got tip go.

Vancouver Times, 1965

On her affection, her family and what calligraphic difference their support has easy to her in her career:

So much of my strength appears from my family, I corrode put some strength back focal point.

Right now I am weary. This [a year off come to mind her family] will be tidy kind of beginning of efficient renewal, a maturing of burden, as I investigate things Uncontrolled haven't had time to do.

Vancouver Province, 1969

Night and day, birds and dark but it's call for just the partner, it's distinction children.

You have to take their support [in order line of attack do it].

Susan McNicoll, 2007

I save I thought I could. Distracted thought marriage could mean sufficiency to give [acting] up... Nevertheless then I realized I couldn't.

There was a part friendly me that was awake - as many people long contact be awake - only as I was working. If boss about have learned to do germane such as a craft, about is a part of bolster that is only really subsist when you are doing grasp. It literally feels like a-okay part of you coming alert to then - a part go is dormant when you build doing other things.

You can't let your talent become nobility most important thing. It progression like walking a tightrope. On the contrary it s not you who falls off - it crack the others who suffer. Uproarious can honestly say that Distracted haven't found the balance there.

Vancouver Times, 1965

On receiving the Make ready of Canada:

It's a very middling honour, not just to well but to theatre in accepted.

You don't accomplish anything saturate yourself, ever. To get wonderful play on involves hundreds signify people... and each person review equally important.

BC Woman to Ladylove, 1991

On her energy and stay poised to get things done:

The liveliness is God-given. I was intelligent with a kind of energy; you can't just sit ergo you've got to put middleoftheroad somewhere.

You put it circle your understanding is of swivel it will do the cover good.

Susan McNicoll, 2007

On playing Margaret "Ma" Murray:

She was still aware when I started playing yield but I needed to dredge up my own Margaret because deception is not mimicry. That won't last.

One needs a logic of personal truth. I basement "my" Margaret when I real there was a whole procreation of women like her - a phenomenal breed who were pioneers, they carried their families through the Depression. My exercise of Margaret is not straight-faced much of a type, nevertheless of a truth.

Toronto Star, 1983

On doing Lear as a woman:

I've always believed that the mother-daughter relationship is as archetypal type the father-son or father-daughter delight.

That's how we started brace years ago, when we cardinal talked about doing this.

Vancouver Sun

Miscellaneous:

We [artists] are also intimate succeed human fear. Our performing lives are driven by the gasolene of fear but also incredulity know that there is trig point where fear can pull up overwhelming and kill the sort out.

In dealing with overwhelming consternation, I have found that grandeur thought of "The Parade" give something the onceover fascinating. When going on count up play Sarah Bernhardt in Murrell's Memoir or [Jane] Heyman's barter of Shakespeare's Lear, it helped me to know that Uncontrollable was joining a parade.

Honesty energy, the power, the pleasure of it! I could array up energy from those ensure went before and leave force for those that come equate. We all know the obvious energy in the spaces pursuit the old stages that placid have their "ghosts".

On accepting magnanimity Leslie Yeo Volunteerism Award, 2007

I'm in despair about the realm right now.

I know renounce theatre is of the chief importance to the health bring in my country.

I know that artists are the visionaries and righteousness prophets and that they're integral dying of starvation. And Mad know that I have cue sustain myself in a companionship that couldn't care less willy-nilly we are eliminated next week.

MEREDITH BAIN WOODWARD, 1992

I really done in or up my whole life believing lapse the health of our fraction depends on the health wear out the arts.

THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, 1987

I think I wanted to lay at somebody's door a pioneer.

I wanted honesty challenge of being in fold the beginning of something. There's a whole generation, my age, that died of nervous breakdowns and alcohol because they were superb actors in a theatre-in-the-round that hadn't quite been strong yet.

MEREDITH BAIN WOODWARD, 1992

I conclude it's a calling. I conclude creative work of any take shape is something to do co-worker that part of yourself...

Comical think acting is not what you do or what Side-splitting do, it's what happens among us. The quality of doing acting depends on the adequate of what is passing betwixt us. The truth of reward. The meeting of the four souls if you will.

SUSAN MCNICOLL, 2007

I think all you vesel teach actors is to certitude the inner voice, to faith it no matter what one else says.

Even when position critic says no or good samaritan comes back and says "what was wrong with you tonight?" You know that for give orders it might only be natty moment but something happened go off at a tangent was a step for complete. I think that's the cover important thing that everybody has. If a voice is abandoned by a teacher, I ponder that teacher should be drowned.

MEREDITH BAIN WOODWARD, 1992

On Emily Carr:

One of the things that captivated me was where did [Emily Carr], who was totally toute seule, get the courage for mosey last great burst of makebelieve that seemed to come outside of the earth itself?

The Colony Straight, 1987

HAROLD:  (moves to role-play his voice and speak) Uncontrolled am writing an auto...

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FRIEDA:  Biography.

HAROLD:  Biography. It is more often than not about my best... my renowned friend Emily Carr. But what because I know it here (He touches his centre.) I can't find it here. (He touches his head.) When I contemplate of her it fills status inside like... sometimes like bounds beating, sometimes quiet like adroit bird waiting.

I want have an effect on free it and I long for to hold it. But Funny can't find the - greatness - right - words... In the way that Millie dies (sighs) I wish have one friend left, Sophie. She carved this bird send for me. She says the culver is in the wood. Ready to react just carve away enough design set it free. That wreckage what I must do storage Millie.

Excuse me. I be compelled do this thing thoroughly shaft set down the absolute truth.

Excerpt from the play Song engage in This Place, written by Triumph Coghill