Playing Relentlessly - Jamie Konchak on her role in Sage Theatre's Fool for Love

Jamie Konchak is playing May in Sage Theatre's production of Fool for Love. And she's pretty excited about it. Back in November she was been away doing a project in Prince George, and now is performing Fool for Love in Edmonton with Shadow Theatre.The cast is bringing the show to Calgary next week and she's thrilled to be coming home. "I've had a great time in Edmonton, but I'm excited to be back home among my friends and well known colleagues in the Calgary theatre community," Konchak says when prompted about her return.

The creative team is adapting Sam Shepard's play to the small space of the Joyce Doolittle Theatre in the Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary, and it's going to be a bit of a challenge. The play tells of the tainted romance between Eddie and May, and looks at how the desires of one generation can wreak destruction in the next."It's intense," Konchak says when asked about what she likes about the play, "it asks a lot of everybody emotionally. It's not a very long play, but you go through a lot in a short period of time while you're on stage. You don't really have a lot of time to breathe," she adds. She explains that it's a bit of a pressure cooker and that's going to be stepped up when in Calgary. "The Joyce is a really intimate space," she says,"and we're confined to [that] small space."

Photo Credit: Rick MacWilliam for the Edmonton Journal