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By KAREN PETERSON Neighbors Reporter Edmonton's own wunderkind of scripts, Lyle Victor Albert, is at it again. The 26-year-old south-side resident, who is currently the play-wright-in-residence at Northern Light Theatre, has a new play all set for the Fringe Festival. It's called Ba Ha Ha and it's about would you believe(?) architecture. "When you tell people that you are writing about (the Bauhaus movement in architecture), they tend to think, 'I won't have to take a sleeping said Albert. Soporific conjectures aside, Albert is certain that starkly angular buildings make for good comedy.

"I think it'll be fun. "There are two really good actors in the cast, well-known in Edmonton: Christine Maclnnis and Earl Klein. "It's directed by Wendell Smith, my partner in crime. Actually, Wendell's been involved in every show I've done, as an actor or director, so I feel really comfortable working with him." Lyle Victor Albert, or Vic, as he likes to be called, was born in Bon-nyville, Alberta. He took technical theatre classes His next play was called White on White, about the Ku Klux KJan in Alberta.

"I found out that there was actually a KKK in Alberta and I was really surprised, so I did research on it." Next came Cuts, a play about "characters that were cut from last drafts of famous plays. They all live in a sort of old folks home for cut characters." Cuts was done for the Fringe Festival in 1985. Last October, Theatre Francaise had it translated, "and it played here. "Then we went to Paris, Luxem-borg and Berlin. I kind of tagged along." After Cuts came The Big Sell, a commissioned work about Fort McMurray, done last October.

Albert's current baby, Ba Ha Ha, was inspired by the Tom Wolfe book, "From Bauhaus to Our House" and by Albert's older brother, a draftsman. "(My brother is) 14 years older than me and he'd show me stuff when he was going to school." Does the prolific young playwright have any advice for aspiring script writers? "Write what you want to write. "I think my plays have all been different because I just write what I'm interested in." in high school and later enrolled at Grant MacEwan Community College. "I took Theatre Production, which is really odd for a guy who couldn't pound a nail to save his life. "(After two years) I went to University and that's when I started writing." His first play, The Prairie Church of Buster Calloway, was started when he was 20.

It was performed when he was 22 (in the spring of 1983). Albert's light-hearted look at prairie life, set in a grain elevator, was soon picked up by the CBC and also had a successful run in western Canada. "That play got me in a lot of trouble with the Alberta Wheat Pool," laughed Albert. "The central character of the play is an elevator manager and he's been stealing grain!" Albert drew on his farm background when he penned his first script. "I thought, 'Where can I start a play? and I thought, 'I don't think I've ever read a play set in a grain "I think I came up with the title before I ever came up with the play." AFT.

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