Fiona Hutchison: Her Secret Storm Star Track: Life After Soaps Soap Opera Weekly (12/95) Byline: Robert Schork "PRETTY INTENSE", is how Fiona Hutchison (ex-Jenna Bradshaw, Guiding Light; ex-Gabrielle Medina, OLTL) describes the pace of rehearsals for The Secret Rapture, which opened Dec.2 at The Venue--A Theatrical Space--in Los Angeles.  Written in 1988 by David Hare, the play itself could also be described as pretty intense.  "We open with a dead body, Hutchison laughs. Rapture is a character study of a dysfunctional British family trying to cope with the death of it's patriarch.  "It's not a whodunit, it's not a mystery, it's not a high comedy.  It's a very emotionally charged piece."     Hutchison plays Isabelle, one of the deceased two daughters.  "One daughter is perfectly alright being in the room with a dead body, and the other one is not." Such a dichotomy sets the stage for an intimateexploration of how one's own mortality is confronted or avoided by the characters.  "It's all about, 'We live...what do we live for?  Is it to get to death, and what happens when we face death?' Anybody who's experienced a death in their family will relate to this play. Nobody copes with death,  I suppose that's the underlying theme."     The theme is explored against the backdrop of a twisted array of family dynamics that hare carefully crafted. In addition to the two daughters, the patriarch is survived by his second wife, a strong willed  woman young enough t be his daughter,  Add to the mix an even younger romantic interest for Hutchison's character ("I love this...I've gotten to the age where I have a younger man!" she coos), and a Bible-thumping, one man Greek chorus as a husband to the other daughter, and you've got the recipe for spirited drawing room drama.     Fans of Hutchison's soap stints will recognize a performance not unlike what they've come to admire on daytime,  "It deals exactly as the soap storylines do, dealing with relationships and emotions, and sex and family and all those good things."     The production reunites Hutchison with Neil Dickson, her co-star in Dial M for Murder,   her most recent foray onto the stage.  "This is wonderful for us, because Neil is my dearest and oldest friend.  Neil committed [to Rapture] because I committed, and we both said, "Well, let's go for this; let's do it again!"     Hutchison is quick to draw distinctions between her characters from Rapture and Dial M. She explains, "Because women were extremely repressed in 1953 (the year Dial M was written), you didn't speak your mind, especially in England,  That's very different from the plays written today [like Rapture]...it's very difficult for me not to speak my mind!"     The Secret Rapture runs through Dec.17.