Acting Passion

Catherine Nicholson, a young actor with Shropshire Youth Theatre, has landed the lead role in a new play, 'Yvette' by Paul Higgins. The play is based on the novella by Maupassant and is being produced by Dogpole Drama Company, a new theatre group based in Shrewsbury.

It's Paris in the 1880s, a city of romance and pleasure. Yvette is a young girl who has just left a convent. Her mother, the Marquise Obardi, runs a gambling house and bordello. What happens when Yvette and the Marquise are pursued by Saval and Servigny, two playboy bachelors?

Catherine says: 'I've wanted to act for as long as I remember.' She puts her passion down to 'an over-active imagination'. 'Acting is real. I live that person. I'm not me any more. I like fantasy things, fantasy characters.'

Her last role was with the Shropshire Youth Theatre in Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge, which was performed in the Walker Theatre. Now she has joined a show which is touring Shropshire and Wolverhampton in November and December.

So how does she feel about taking on a lead role with experienced actors in a play with adult themes of love and desire? 'It's all fantastic! I feel pressured to be better than ever, but it's exciting. You can't replicate the energy, the adrenalin rush, you get from an audience with a great performance.'

And how does she feel about the part? 'Yvette is confusing. She's smart, but naïve. She's honest, but she's a bit selfish, wanting to change her mother's life. In her head everything is simple, but life is complicated.'

Yvette will be performed around Shropshire and Wolverhampton in late November and early December. Details of the show are at www.dogpoledramacompany.com

 

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