Then, just seven days before he succumbed to throat cancer last September, Bill Glassco attended a reading that he had organized of The Seven Days of Simon Labrosse by Carole Frechette. Pleiades Theatre's full production of that play, with the director and most of the cast that Glassco had assembled, opens at Toronto's Artword Theatre tonight. After a number of years in Quebec, however, Glassco decided to get involved in the formation of yet another theatre company. "He had been doing a lot of teaching at the National Theatre School in Montreal and was really enjoying working with young people," recalls Michael Shamata, who was mentored by Glassco at Centrestage in the '80s. "He perceived there was a need for somewhere where actors who were recent graduates could have their first experience in a professional world." Unfortunately, after two years of critically acclaimed productions, the funding for the MYC fell through. The company remained on hiatus until last year when Glassco started to reassemble the pieces to put on The Seven Days of Simon Labrosse, a poetic tale about a man who hires actors to put on the story of his life. Its presentation in March was the first time the work of Frechette, who was awarded the Siminovitch Prize the year Glassco was chairman of the $100,000 award, had been done in English in Quebec.