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Excerpt from The Toronto Star 10/13/09: Tom McCamus

Stratford casts some heavy lifters
Richard Ouzounian
Published On Tue Oct 13 2009

Clap your hands if you believe in clever casting.

When first announced, it may have seemed like Peter Pan was just a kiddie surprise tossed into the picnic basket of the 2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival season.

But now that some of the actors involved are coming to light, it takes on a weightier feeling.

Before the Stratford swans are put away for the winter, my own favourite informant, Deep Swan, had many choice bits of news to convey.

Chief among them was that the dashing Tom McCamus would play Captain Hook. If anyone can combine charm and villainy, it's McCamus. (The new president of his fan club is Patricia Clarkson, who recently told me that working with him on Cairo Time was "just incredible, because he's so dreamy and such a good actor.")

We also hear that ingénue extraordinaire, Sarah Topham, fresh from another triumph as Gwendolyn in The Importance of Being Earnest, will play Wendy, a nice sign that director Tim Carroll is looking for some heavy lifting in the acting department.

But what of the eponymous Pan himself, the "boy who won't grow up"? Our most covert spies report that Michael Therriault slipped into town last week to read for the part. He told me in New York recently that "the happiest years of my life were (at Stratford) and I definitely want to be a part of it again one day."

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