Playwright had ‘so much enthusiasm’
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Harry Rintoul, founder of a theatre company dedicated to Manitoba works and performers, died suddenly Monday of an apparent heart attack. He was 45.
Rintoul is survived by his wife, Dolores, and daughter, Linnaea, 30 months.
The Alberta-born, but long-time Manitoban was the driving force behind the establishment in 1990 of Theatre Projects, a stage which produced the first works of many local dramatists.
As a playwright, Rintoul specialized in gritty realism in such plays as Montana, Refugees, Brave Hearts and Jack of Hearts.
A fixture on the Winnipeg theatre scene, Rintoul spent the last four years running a general store/post office in the Lake Audy area near Riding Mountain National Park. He remained involved with the Manitoba Association of Playwrights, running its open-door playwriting program this year.
“I feel horrible, he was a young man who had many years of theatre ahead of him,” said playwright Bruce McManus, who also served as a Theatre Projects artistic director.
“He had so much enthusiasm, for theatre and for being a playwright.”
A memorial service will take place tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Prairie Theatre Exchange’s Colin Jackson Studio Theatre. It was the home stage of Theatre Projects, and where Jack of Hearts was premiered.
“I think it’s a brilliant idea to have it there because Theatre Projects was something he was very proud of,” said his wife yesterday. “He’d have wanted it there. For me, it’s bringing him full circle.”
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