Eatdrink #76 March/April 2019

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She credits their decision to make
Stratford a home base since 1997 as key to
being able to manage two show business
careers while raising a family. Feore says the
location gives them room to breathe and that
they actually enjoy the drives from Toronto
Pearson airport to Stratford while Colm
commutes to film shoots and she to stage
and film work around the world. And, with
her trademark big personality, she jokes that
her choice in a husband was quite practical.
“The other smart thing I did was marry a
man who is an absolutely fabulous cook!
First question when you meet someone is:
do you golf, the answer is no then you carry
on. Second question is do you cook and the
answer is yes then you carry on!”
Feore’s theatre work is vast and expanding.
The hit The Hockey Sweater, the Musical that
she directed and choreographed ran at the
National Arts Centre in Ottawa, and is now
being translated to French for the Montreal
stage. She hopes that show will travel out west.
She is developing a new musical in New York
and another for Stratford, she hints, possibly
for 2020. Her multi-media production, Life
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Reflected, will run on International Women’s
Day in Ottawa, and she continues to work as a
director with operas, including The Marriage of
Figaro in Ottawa.
Despite all her career success, Feore
says that in the end she has a small target
audience: her family. “Honestly: every choice
I make in my life, from choices of what
material I am going to do, what I won’t do, I
think of my daughter. I want my daughter to
be proud of me. Sometimes we have to make
hard ones, and we have to speak up and have
hard things to say. The one thing I’ve always
taught my children is that there is a very big
difference between assertive and aggressive.
Being assertive is about being clear and it
will take you a long way. There is nothing
gray about me. I take the word director
seriously — it has the word direct in it and
it’s never been so important. Do what you
mean and mean what you say.”
JANE ANTONIAK is a regular contributor to Eatdrink.
She is also Manager, Communications & Media Relations,
at King’s University College in London.
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