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There are nine powerhouse women performing in Neptune Theatre<\/a>\u2019s production of Calendar Girls<\/em>, based on the Miramax Motion Picture by Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth, which opens on March 6, 2020. I had the opportunity to sit down with three of them, Martha Irving (Chris), Francine Deschepper (Celia), and Gil Anderson (Elaine) yesterday at the theatre. The entire cast that director Jeremy Webb has assembled for this show are local. Deschepper was last on the Scotiabank stage in Little Thing, Big Thing <\/em>in May, Irving has done over forty productions at Neptune, and this show is Anderson\u2019s Neptune debut. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rehearsal hall for Calendar Girls<\/em> has been full of tasty treats. Irving tells me about the cake she has made today: chocolate whiskey cake with raspberry buttercream frosting. There is a scene in the play that revolves around a Victoria Sponge cake and Irving explains, \u201cFranny [is] our resident baker. Jeremy said, \u2018Franny, make us a Victoria Sponge!\u2019 \u201cSo, I did!\u201d says Deschepper. \u201cThat started it. Franny made an excellent Victoria Sponge.\u201d \u201cWe thought an excellent idea would be for all of us to bring a cake in every day to rehearsal. We\u2019ve had beautiful cakes every day since,\u201d says Deschepper, \u201cVictoria Sponge is like a spongy pound cake, and I guess it was quite popular in the Queen Victoria reign because baking powder had just been invented, and suddenly cakes could rise to these like tower heights where they couldn\u2019t before, so it was very fancy to have a cake that could be fluffy and light and rise up like that. The Victoria Sponge is basically a sponge cake, vanilla flavoured, and it has layers of buttercream or, in my case, I made a mascarpone cream inside with fresh berries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike Deschepper, Irving\u2019s character, Chris, in Calendar Girls<\/em>, is not<\/em> a baker. \u201cI\u2019m crap at everything,\u201d Irving says of Chris, \u201cI shouldn\u2019t actually be in the Women\u2019s Institute because I can\u2019t actually do anything.\u201d Annie, played by Shelley Thompson, is Chris\u2019 best friend of many years, and her husband, John (Daniel Lillford), has been diagnosed with cancer. She normally bakes the group\u2019s cake entry for the Spring F\u00eate, but because she is busy caring for her husband Chris decides to provide the cake instead. At the same time, in spending time with John at the hospital Annie and Chris realize that the furniture in the relatives\u2019 waiting area is worn and uncomfortable. As members of the Women\u2019s Institute they decide that they are going to raise money through their annual calendar to buy a new settee for the hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the past our WI has not really ever raised a lot of money doing our calendars,\u201d says Deschepper, who plays Celia, a recent addition to the group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And they\u2019re really boring,\u201d adds Irving, \u201cThey\u2019re views of churches and bridges in Yorkshire\u2026 as one would expect.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo Annie and Chris cook up this idea and present it to the other four of us,\u201d adds Deschepper, \u201cwho decide to do this calendar of these sort of beautiful, artful renditions of nudes, but nudes taken in the everyday practice of what the WI does: so there\u2019s knitting, and there\u2019s baking, and there\u2019s flower arranging, and there\u2019s painting, and piano playing- we set up all these scenarios where we are doing these ordinary things, but there\u2019s these beautiful, artful renditions of the mature woman\u2019s body, in all its various shapes and sizes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd all of its glory,\u201d adds Irving, \u201cAnd in doing so it changes the women\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe learn to be more confident, we learn to bond together as women, we all grow a little bit from the experience,\u201d says Deschepper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe learn to feel beautiful,\u201d says Irving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe learn to accept who we are, and we learn that, especially with cancer being a theme in this play, and aging being a theme in this play, we learn to accept those things that we can\u2019t change in life, and to appreciate what we have. It\u2019s quite empowering,\u201d says Deschepper, \u201cI have to say, we were all quite, various degrees of reluctant or nervous to finally get to that scene in rehearsal, but I think we\u2019ve all kind of found it quite empowering.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irving agrees, \u201cYeah, there\u2019s a real bonding that happens over the whole process because you are being open and vulnerable, but also in the end, you\u2019re celebrating the human form, the mature human form, which is wonderful.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a quote in the play that John says”, adds Deschepper, \u201cnot to give away too much, but he has a poem that he\u2019s written and one of the lines is about the phases of a woman\u2019s life and he says the last phase is \u201cthe most glorious.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deschepper’s character, Celia, has a wealthy husband and comes from a higher class town where she had hung out in a golf club before joining the Yorkshire WI. \u201cShe seems to be very confident and self assured, but as the story unfolds we find out, actually, the women at the golf club don\u2019t accept her, they think that she is a little trashier, and they talk behind her back, and it’s through the bonding with these <\/em>women, who she calls the \u201creal women of Yorkshire County,\u201d that she [realizes] for the first time that she can make a choice: \u2018I don\u2019t need to hang out and pretend to be someone I\u2019m not, I can be myself.\u2019 I think that\u2019s a really powerful message in the play as well.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson plays Elaine, who she describes as \u201ca device of another character\u2019s storyline,\u201d saying, \u201cher husband is cheating on her and I\u2019m the other woman, and she confronts me. She may not have found that sense of self before doing the calendar.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful that the playwright has made your character a \u201cbeautician,\u201d says Irving, \u201cso you\u2019re all about young, female beauty by painting it on, but what we\u2019re finding out is that our beauty is inherent within us.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd with the relationships that we have with each other, and our partners, and with ourselves,\u201d adds Deschepper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, as an actor, it tears me up to think about it, but watching a group a women, the cast, watching in my real life, real women portray this group of real women has been a total mind blowing experience for me. I feel like I\u2019ve gotten paid to take a masterclass, in many ways, watching them in rehearsal, watching from the wings. I feel empowered just being in the room with them. I can\u2019t wait for people to see it. I really can\u2019t wait to talk about it with my girlfriends and just to share it with everybody,\u201d says Anderson.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The play is based on a true story, and in real life Angela Baker and her friends’ efforts have since raised over 5 million pounds for Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research in the United Kingdom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of really funny moments [in this play],\u201d says Deschepper, \u201cbut at the heart of it, it\u2019s a really beautiful story about life and aging and loss. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd friendship,\u201d adds Anderson, \u201cand one little action that these women did that has grown- it\u2019s still making money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIsn\u2019t that incredible?\u201d adds Deschepper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause they thought: \u201cWe can do this.\u201d says Anderson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c- We\u2019ll be really brave and do this uncomfortable thing,\u201d says Irving, “and look at the pay off.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calendar Girls <\/em>plays at Neptune Theatre’s Fountain Hall (1593 Argyle Street, Halifax) until March 29th, 2020. March 6th is Opening Night, March 10th is Industry Night, March 11 is Talkback Night, and March 25 is a Relaxed Performance. Tickets are $30.00-$84.00 and are available <\/strong>ONLINE HERE<\/strong><\/a>, by phone at 902.429.7070 or at the Box Office on Argyle Street. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can follow Neptune Theatre on Social Media: Facebook<\/a>. Twitter<\/a>. Instagram (@NeptuneTheatre)<\/strong>. Join the Conversation using<\/strong> #HfxCalendarGirls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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