April 5, 2002

Touché, eh?

By JANICE PASKEY

The 12 women and 5 men in Mount Royal College's senior theater class straggle into the large classroom, shaking off frosted clothing, their sabers in hand. "Your sword is over there by thy stuff," one student quips. Outside it's 15 below, sunny, still, and bitter. A panoramic view of the Rocky Mountains unfolds in the distance. But inside the class is warming to its task, sword fighting, guided by Jean-Pierre Fournier, one of Canada's leading fight directors and head of acting at Mount