Taking a step back from acting, Molly Parker is to direct her first feature in Canada. Parker ("Swingtown," "Deadwood") is to shoot "
The Ballad of Maura MacKenzie" in Newfoundland and Toronto in late summer 2011 for indie producers Markham Street Films and Rock Island Productions.
The drama is based on the Joan Clark novel "An Audience of Chairs," which portrays the struggles of woman alone in a Cape Breton farmhouse, battling mental illness while grieving the loss of her two daughters.