(Continued from page 1) having lived here for 21 years. His hobby has clearly become his passion. Within the ensemble of creative fields, set, light, sound designing, costuming, casting and directing â€" which must come together in producing a play â€" Bryant is primarily the ‘word‘ man, the playwright. Bryant‘s hobby has become his passion His first play, ‘"The Sex Agency," was written for and performed by the Oakville Players. According to the playwright it was a comedy, but not as risque as the title suggested. In a subsequent incarnation the play become "something for Charlie" and was published by theatrical publisher Samuel French. More recently the romantic comedy has been further restructured, revised, and reâ€"titled to become "Fantasy by Appointment." "With plays you learn as you go along," explained the author, of the creative process. "You make changes based on audience reaction. You find out what works and what doesn‘t." Earlier this year the Oakville Players staged another Bryant comedy, "According to Murphy," featuring a play within a play, "in which everything that could go wrong did go wrong," from drunken sound and light men to various prop and costume failures, blatant miscasting, and plain bad acting. It was hilarious. Quite a number of theatre groups have performed the Oakville writer‘s plays in Canada and the United States. All but one are comedies, he said, because he finds humor "more of a challenge." He has written since he was a small boy in south Africa (mostly short stories at first), in spite of his father‘s disdain for such "frivolous pastimes." "I create best on trains," our writer confessed with a boyish grin. "As a kid I road the train from Johannesburg to Durban, a seaside resort where my grandfather lived. It was about 400 miles and the train was very slow, it took 26 hours, stopping at every lamp post. But I loved it and as a result as an adult when I get on a train I get a sense of wellâ€"being and excitement â€" and I write like crazy." "Getting a laugh is a tremendous high," he said, "for the playwnght as well as the actor." No doubt theatre has helped Bryant maintain his boyishness. "Sure, part of performing it is a childâ€"like thing," he commented. "It‘s fun to dress up and be somebody else and then everybody claps. You never want to lose that." "Live theatre is a unique experience," he pointed out. Not only for the actors, but for the audience. "There is nothing quite like it. The performance you see is never quite the same as the one before or after â€" people being what they are â€" so there is an electricity (that can‘t be duplicated with video or film)." Neville Bryant brings a strong pragmatic sense to his artistic adventures. His experience with summer theatre in Oakville, as well as the regular drama series (¢embarking on its 16th season), has painted a clear picture of what local audiences want to see when they go to the Centre. Not violence, not nudity, and not much profanity. They get quite enough to that on the television and in the newspapers, he commented. "Oakvillians want to be entertained," he said matterâ€"ofâ€"factly, "they want to have fun. They want to walk out of the theatre feeling better than when they walked in." Bryant is not ashamed to say that he admires the clever (if somewhat superficial) dialogue and commercial success of Neil Simon, for example. He also loves the lyrical, sometimes melancholy, works of Tennessee Williams. "I don‘t think theatre should be resumption that a person can trained or conditioned not to snore. Unfortunately, the snorer has no control over snoring whatsoever, andâ€" i remedies do work; it is probably because they keep the snorer awake. re. 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