Favorite Episode of Road to Avonlea
My favorite episodes of Road to Avonlea have always been the ones where we tried to do something innovative and different. I would have to say that my very favorite episode is from Season Five, episode 54 “Memento Mori.”
In this episode Hetty King comes face to face with her own mortality. In the process she learns to be happy in her own skin. She comes to the quiet realization in this emotional drama, that hers is actually a life well lived despite the fact that she is disappointed with her accomplishments. Her powerful desire to achieve great things, to be an important and even powerful personality, give way to acceptance that the most meaningful things in her life are family and community. They are the aspects of her life that give her purpose and make her cherished.
If you have a chance, go back and watch this episode again, it is such an intriguing inside look at the complex character that is Hetty King. Even though I played a role, along with Jackie Burroughs and the great Lucy Maud Montgomery, in making Aunt Hetty who she is, this episode taught me, and will teach you all, a little bit more about how Hetty King came to be such a strong woman, and can maybe teach us all a little bit about ourselves and how we came to be who we are.
As you all may know, I am currently creating a feature film based on Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’. You can read about the production at www.myspace.com/sullivanflute. I had the amazing opportunity to go to Salzburg to take the photographs that will be used as background for the film. This year is Mozart’s 250th birthday year and his city of birth is celebrating. There are festivals, concerts and operas being put on in every part of the city. I am so excited to be contributing to this celebration with my production. Looking back to when Mozart was alive, it was quite obvious to those around him that he was something incredible. He was performing and writing symphonies by the age of ten. His music has stood the test of time, as it is just as popular now as it ever was. But a part of Mozart that is often overlooked is his talent as a storyteller. His operas contain all the character development and drama of a Shakespeare play and it is all put to music with beautiful arias and incredibly powerful timing and emphasis. ‘The Magic Flute’ has been called his greatest operatic achievement.
