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Saturday, February 09, 2008

A chance meeting.....

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” so said Winnie-the-Pooh.

At the Berkshire Theatre Festival cocktail party I was introduced to Chuck Schwager, a very pleasant fellow who is on the board of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Since that theater is also on my favorites list, I was very happy to meet him and anticipated a little conversation about their 2008 season. Instead I was in for a treat. Just as I have reinvented myself as The Countess Bedelia, Chuck Schwager took a look at life one day and decided to become an actor.

He is quoted in this 11/10/07 New York Times article, "Lessons in Shakespeare, From Stage to Boardroom", stating "There are sensitivities about power that Shakespeare knew better than I did, and I wanted to find out what those were.”

According to the Concord Players website, "Chuck comes to acting late in life as another way of connecting with his daughter who focused her high school and college life on acting. He is an ardent lover of Shakespeare and trained at Shakespeare and Company, Lenox, MA, and was elected to their Board of Trustees. In real life, he is President and CEO of Polaris Healthcare Services, a health care management firm specializing in improving care to the poor and chronically mentally ill."

Chuck has already accumulated an impressive resume of acting jobs in the Boston area. He appeared last year in The Boston Center for the Arts premiere production of Tom Stoppard's "Indian Ink" for which he got a rave review from EDGE Boston: "....Chuck Schwager, who invests an almost too-obvious character with degrees of subtlety) exert a gravitationally dramatic pull that seems to tip the stage in their direction."

Chuck was very excited about his next production, Sub-Zero, an original play written expressly for him. Sub-Zero is being performed from March 6 to 23 at The Factory Theatre, 791 Tremont Street, Boston. You can be sure that The Countess will be at one of the performances.

Chuck, it was such a delight to meet you.

As Winnie the Pooh would say, "It's so much more friendly with two."