I Can't Go On. I'll Go On-University Theatre

University Theatre Department of Theatre and Drama University of Wisconsin-Madison presents

I CAN’T GO ON. I’LL GO ON. An evening of short plays by Samuel Beckett

October 18-November 4, 2012 Hemsley and Mitchell Theatres

Director – Patricia Boyette Set Designer – Dan Lisowski Costume Designer – Gail Brassard Lighting Designer – Paul Timmel Sound Designer- Jeff Parulski Technical Director – Allyn Weber Stage Manager – Melanie Kulas Dramaturg – Niccole Carner

Produced through special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York, New York. Eh Joe produced through special arrangement with Georges Borchardt, Inc. New York, New York.

This production is made possible with grant support from The College of Letters and Science Anonymous Fund.

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THE PROGR A M OHIO IMPROMPTU Hemsley Theatre Reader/Listener................................................................................................................................... Chris Damen Reader/Listener......................................................................................................................................Kailen Fleck Assistant Director............................................................................................................................ Alanna Reeves Pause and move to Scene Shop PLAY Scene shop Man............................................................................................................................................................. Trevor Rees Woman 1.....................................................................................................................................Chelsea Anderson Woman 2........................................................................................................................................... Shannon Davis Light Operator........................................................................................................................................Riley Faison Assistant Director.................................................................................................................Tina Machele Brown Pause and move to Hemsley Theatre EH JOE Hemsley Theatre Joe.............................................................................................................................................................John Cooper Voice.............................................................................................................................................. Heather Pickering Camera Operator.........................................................................................................................Daniel Millhouse Assistant Director........................................................................................................................Daniel Millhouse INTERMISSION CATASTROPHE Mitchell Theatre Director...........................................................................................................................................Daniel Millhouse Protagonist..............................................................................................................................................Riley Faison Assistant...................................................................................................................................Tina Machele Brown Assistant Director................................................................................................................................John Cooper Pause and move into the Hemsley COME AND GO Hemsley Theatre Vi.....................................................................................................................................................Chelsea Anderson Flo........................................................................................................................................................ Shannon Davis Ru................................................................................................................................................... Heather Pickering Assistant Directors................................................................................................................................ Trevor Rees Pause NOT I Hemsley Theatre Auditor................................................................................................................................................... Chris Damen Mouth.................................................................................................................................................. Alanna Reeves Assistant Directors.................................................................................................Chris Damen & Kailen Fleck

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F R O M T H E D I R E C TO R O F T H E AT R E P R O D U C T I O N I am thrilled to be the Director of Theatre Production this year and to welcome you all in our theatre spaces! We are facing an exiting new year at the Department of Theatre and Drama. First, a heartfelt thank you to David Furumoto for his work and leadership as Director of Theatre Production for the last three years. David will return to full time teaching, directing, and playwriting and you will be able to see his new production Wondrous Tales of Old Japan II in the spring of 2013. Second, I like to introduce some new faces. Shuxing Fan has joined us as resident Set Designer and professor. He brings in a wealth of experience in design and new media, both from his native China and his decades of work in the United States. Rob Wagner joins us as Scenic Studio Supervisor. Rob, too, has extensive experience running scene shops. Michael Cobb joins us this year from the Denver Center Theatre Company as Visiting Assistant Professor in voice. For the fall semester Jessie Vacchiano is our Production Stage Manager and alumnus Jono de Leon joins us as Light Studio Supervisor. Finally, alumnus Jim Stauffer is our new Undergraduate Advisor, thanks to the Madison Undergraduate Initiative. Jim will advise the Theatre and Drama undergrads as well as students in the Asian American Studies Program.

We kick off the season with some more new faces. I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On features the new MFA Acting/Directing students in six short plays by Samuel Beckett, directed by Beckett performance specialist Patricia Boyette. This production, as well as the other shows in the season, also involves the new MFA students in Tech and Design, as well as students in the MA/PhD program. Next, we produce the 1937 Federal Theatre Project Musical, The Cradle Will Rock, a critique of corruption, commerce and humanity’s value in the face of unchecked capitalism— issues that continue to divide our country and state. This production is directed by Norma Saldivar, with music direction by Scott Foss. In the spring semester we see George Büchner’s Woyzeck, a retelling of a news account about a young soldier who murdered his lover, directed by Kristin Hunt. David Furumoto’s Wondrous Tales of Old Japan is our annual Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) Production, which, as last year’s TYA Production will travel to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hillside Theatre in Taliesin for an extended run for local schools, thanks to the Ira and Ineva Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Grant. We will close the season with Caryl Churchill’s sexy Cloud Nine, a race and gender-bending exploration of the struggle for sexual, political, and personal identity, directed by Patrick Sims.

Theatre and performance needs an audience. The productions above could not happen without your patronage and your enthusiastic support of the performing arts. Whether you come to the theatre for the first time or are a lifelong follower, we welcome you and promise to offer you the best productions we can. Please consider becoming a friend of University Theatre and email us at UTFriends@theatre.wisc.edu.

Let the show begin!

Manon van de Water Director of Theatre Production

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D I R E C TO R ’ S N O T E In 1995 I had the good fortune of meeting the acclaimed British actress, Billie Whitelaw, whose association with Samuel Beckett spanned thirty years during which time she performed nearly all of the parts he wrote for women (including FOOTFALLS which he wrote for her and several pieces in which he directed her). Billie had been invited to our campus as a guest artist to speak of her work with Beckett and to lead workshops in the performance of his work. One of the many wonderful outcomes of this visit was her generous agreement to mentor me and my colleague, Phillip Zarrilli (now at the University of Exeter and artistic director of the Llanarth Group in Wales), in “The Beckett Project”—a collaboration in which we dedicated ourselves to directing and performing works of Samuel Beckett under her tutelage. The Beckett Project has, to date, performed ten of Beckett’s short later plays in several cities throughout the U.S., England, Wales, Ireland, Austria, Singapore and, most recently, performances of HAPPY DAYS at the Malta Arts Festival this past summer.

Billie made it her mission to “pass the torch” of her professional experiences with Beckett to anyone interested in the performance of his work as he wished it to be performed. For me, the sharing of her experiences and insights opened a door to accessing work that had long fascinated, but eluded me. In addition, the actor training developed by Phillip Zarrilli based in Asian mediation and martial arts provided another “way in” to realizing the performance of perhaps the most challenging of dramaturgies for the actor.

Now these experiences are being passed to our new group of MFA Acting/Directing students who are performing tonight. They have begun their first semester of actor training here at UW-Madison by studying the unique challenges of performing Beckett not only as an end in itself, but also as a way of providing a useful and effective foundation for any and all acting work that they will do in future regardless of style or dramaturgy.

Beckett takes the actor, and by extension the audience, to a place of extremis that is entirely original with Beckett. This demands for most of us a different kind of theatrical experience. As the director George Devine stated in his program notes for PLAY at the National Theatre in London: “To approach Beckett openly we have to give up asking ‘What is it to mean?’ with the kind of panic which leads to rejection or scorn. The short answer can only be ‘It means what it says…’ we are invited to undergo an experience. It may be a strange one, an unusual one, even a nerve wracking on, but taken rightly it will be a dramatic one by a profound and brilliant poet of the theatre”.

Thank you for sharing in this journey with us.

Patricia Boyette, Director

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G O I N G O N : B E C K E T T ’ S D E S PA I R A N D H O P E “…it’s the simple that complicates.”

–Herbert Blau, Take Up the Bodies

Samuel Beckett caricature by Edmund S. Valtman

In January 1953, theatrical history and production was forever altered as Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot opened in Paris. The play featured five actors and a deserted landscape, dominated by a lone, barren tree. The sparse production aroused more questions than answers. What are the men doing? Who is Godot? Why are they waiting for him? What does it all mean? However, the play answers none of these questions, but instead rejects any one interpretation. Waiting for Godot opened new horizons for design and playwriting featuring multiple interpretations and sparse realities. Beckett’s first major production rattled the critics and audiences and birthed a new, modern theatre.

Samuel Beckett was born on Good Friday, in April 1906. He was raised in a Dublin suburb and soon began to show his prowess as an athlete. He eventually earned an entry in Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, the “bible” of cricket, and is the only Nobel laureate to receive such an honor. Beckett went on to attend Trinity College, and became a lecturer in Paris in 1927. It was in Paris that Beckett met and worked with James Joyce, a fellow Irish author. Joyce’s work would end up shaping Beckett’s writing throughout his career. Beckett continued to travel throughout Europe while writing articles, poems and short novels. After falling out with his mother in 1938, Beckett settled in Paris, which allowed him to closely observe the Nazi regime’s take-over during World War II. Immediately after the War, Beckett began to establish his unique writing style and escaped the shadow of Joyce.

Throughout Beckett’s career he struggled with insomnia, night terrors, and later in his career he also began to experience panic attacks when he felt a “feeling of suffocation, which often came on him in his room as night was falling” (Cronin). His own pain, suffering, doubts and fears would soon serve as the basis for his future, and most famous, work. Beckett’s plays,“spring from the deepest strata of the mind and probe the darkest wells of anxiety,” and “must be the outcome of a painful struggle with the medium of their expression” (Esslin). As a result, Beckett’s plays resist categorization and create new conventions Billie Whitelaw in Happy utilizing repetition, dark humor and wordplay, to name a few.

Days in 1979 These aspects, amongst others, were noted in Martin Esslin’s (photo John Haynes) theory of the “Theatre of the Absurd” and provide one type of framework for looking at Beckett’s work, though the legitimacy of “Theatre of the Absurd” as a genre is hotly debated.

The title I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On. comes from the final line in Beckett’s The Unnamable. The six dramaticules (short dramas) featured in this work highlight Beckett’s drama at its most demanding. These pieces represent Beckett’s later works, in which his plays are boiled down to their most elemental; they are clean and unforgiving, consisting of little dialogue I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On.

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and specific stage directions. The six dramaticules were written between 1962-1982, but still address the fears and despair of audiences today. These pieces are not without hope, but instead highlight the link between hope and despair, for despair cannot even be envisioned without the concept of hope: “By accepting failure as the premise of modern art, Beckett demystifies literature and its production and can thus explore new possibilities of self-doubting, self-conscious writing” and as a result has inspired theatre practitioners, audiences, artists, writers and readers for decades (Mundhenk). Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969, and his influence continues today with the issuing of a commemorative Euro featuring Beckett’s face in 2006 to celebrate his 100th birthday, and the 2009 erection of the Samuel Beckett Bridge crossing the Rivery Liffey in Dublin, amongst many other honors and awards.

Nicole Carner, Dramaturg Works Cited Cronin, Anthony. Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist. London: Flamingo, 1997. 130. Print.

Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. 3rd Ed. New York: Vintage, 2004. 38. Print.

Mundhenk, Michael. “Samuel Beckett: The Dialectics of Hope and Despair.”

College Literature. 8.3 (1981): 227–248. Print.

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P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Vocal Coach.............................................................................................................................. Michael Cobb Assistant Costume Designer.................................................................................................. Jami Klagos Assistant Stage Manager...........................................................................................................Jolie LeBell Master Carpenters.................................................................. Bethany M. Reinfeld, John Van Arsdale Scenic Artist........................................................................................................................Melanie Treuhaft Properties Master..................................................................................................................Vincent Davey Wardrobe Supervisor.............................................................................................................. Jennie Mintz Master Electrician........................................................................................................................Rob Stepek Assistant Master Electrician........................................................................................... Dane Styczynski Light Board Operator.................................................................................................................Ross Morey Sound Board Operator...............................................................................................Cassandra Evansen Shop Crews........................................................................................................... TH 160: Bruin Armwald,

Shawn Avery, Rachel Brewer, Jessica Brooke, Jacob Burleson,

Kaitlin Dunn, Quinn Elmer, Hannah Hetue, Karl Iglesias,

Shannon Jones, Peter Langeress, Beeshoua Lee, Yachao Li,

Alex Librie, Cody Luck, Briana Miller, Cynthia Miller,

Natalie Perry, Isabella Virrueta, Tyler Wagner

TH 161: Francesca Atlian, Christine Chang, Leigh Drogemiller,

Victoria Kemnetz, Haley Kosup-Kennedy, Ling Lei, Joshua Levin,

Joe Ly, Danielle Maciver, Brent Mecikalski, Melissa Meister,

Eden Morrison, Emily Nelson, Danielle Otto,

Robin Purman, Hannah Ripp-Dieter, Wang Yan-Jofo

TH 361: Katie Behrend, Katherine Busalacchi, Julia St. Pierre

Additional: Amy Bohnenkamp, Catherine Roddy,

Cassie Schmidt, Sasha Weist, Chue Xiong BIOGR APHIES Actors Chelsea Anderson (Woman 1, Play, Vi, Come and Go) Chelsea is a first year MFA Acting/Directing student. She earned a BS in Theatre from the University of Indianapolis in 2010. Past productions include Don’t Dress for Dinner (Jacqueline), Red Herring (Maggie), Into the Woods (assistant director/master electrician), Spike Heels (Lydia), Leading Ladies (Meg), One for the Road (director), Comedy of Errors (lighting designer/Lady Abbess) all at UIndy; This Is How It Goes (Woman) at The Theater Within; The Last Night of Ballyhoo (assistant director/props designer) at Indianapolis Civic Theatre; Confessions of a Highway Flirt (playwright/director/Ally) at Acting Up Productions; and The Playground (playwright/director) at The Vagabonds’ Bridge Theatre Company.

Tina Machele Brown (Assistant, Catastrophe, A.D. Play) Tina is delighted to be at UW Madison. Most recently she performed with Morning Star Productions Dearly Beloved. Tina has also performed in productions geared to addressing social issues with The Milwaukee Repertory Theater and Public Awareness Theater. She worked with Cotter Smith in The Gingham Dog, CAPITA Productions, The Wiz, Hansberry Sands Theater, and several other theaters. Tina has been teaching for over 10 years. She is an on-camera actress and a voice-over talent. Tina is a graduate of Alverno College. Tina thanks God for this awesome journey and thanks to her husband, family, and friends for their support.

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John Cooper (Joe, Eh Joe, Luke & AD Catastrophe) John is the Artistic Director , Producer, Founder of Turtle Shell Productions located in Times Square, NY , which has produced over four hundred full-length and short plays, including Five

by Tenn, Blues for Mister Charlie, PUCK’d, Ourselves Alone and The annual event The 8-Minute Madness Playwright Festival for the past 10 years. He has been nominated for the Irene Ryan National Award and was awarded Best Actor in the European Tournament of plays. He is grateful to be able to work with such talented artists.

Special thanks to Norma, Patricia, and the love of his life.

Chris Damen (Reader/Listener, Ohio Impromptu, A.D. Not I) Chris is a first year graduate MFA acting and directing student and is very humbled to be part of this production. This past May, Chris graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a BA in performance and was able to be a part of numerous productions there including The Crucible, Noises Off, Mr. Marmalade, Twelfth Night, Antigone, and The Lark to name a few. His performance as the title character in Mr. Marmalade garnered him a special commendation for performance from the Kennedy Center in 2011. He thanks Patricia, the lovely cast, and his family!

Shannon Davis (Woman 2, Play, Flo, Come and Go) Ms. Davis earned her undergraduate degree from UWWhitewater in theatre and has studied with the The Moscow Art Theatre. She has worked professionally with Renaissance Theaterworks, City Theatre, Vortex Reperatory, Echo Players, and Paradox Players, among others. Ms. Davis won the Ken Lampart Award in Directing, The Angela Peckenpaugh Award for Superior Writing, and was nominated for an Irene Ryan Award. She is a founding member and teacher at Echo Players and Beyond Acting 8

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programs. Noteworthy performances include Bunny in Desk Set, Kess in Independence, Elain in The Miss Firecracker Contest, Sally in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Ophelia in Hamlet.

Riley Faison (Light Operator, Play, Protagonist, Catastrophe) Riley is originally from Southern California. For undergraduate education, he attended the Boston Conservatory for his first two years, and then transferred to Point Park University in Pittsburgh for his final two years, where he earned a BA in Acting. In addition to theatre, he has been an active film actor throughout Southern California, and his most recent film “Burmese Refugee” premiered this past spring at the Phoenix Film Festival. Thank you to Patricia Boyette and Patrick Sims for the opportunity to bring my talents to Madison.

Kailen Fleck (Reader/Listener, Ohio Impromptu, A.D. Not I) Kailen returns home to Wisconsin this semester from Bowling Green State University, where he just completed his MA in theatre. Before BGSU he was studying theatre in Northwestern College in Orang City, IA. During his career, Kailen has appeared in a variety of shows, including The Grapes of Wrath, The Foreigner, It’s a Wonderful Life, and The Arabian Nights.

Thanks go out to many people, but mostly to the two most influential people in his life: his mother, who spurs him on to pursue his dream; and his wife, who is willing to go on the journey with him.

Daniel Millhouse (Camera Operator, A.D. Eh Joe, Director, Catastrophe) Daniel is grateful to be a newcomer to the MFA program here at UW-Madison. Recently Daniel graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BS in Theatre Arts.

Notable performances at EMU included Angels in America (Parts 1 & 2), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The 39 Steps. This past year, Daniel was seen in

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the Michigan Shakespeare Festival’s High School Tour productions of Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. He would like to thank everyone involved in the production, the department, his family, and the lovely Emily for their continuous support.

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Trevor Rees (Man, Play, A.D. Come and Go) Trevor is very excited to be performing in his first show as a member of the UWMadison MFA Acting/Directing program.

He is also very excited to finally tackle the works of Samuel Beckett! A few of Trevor’s past roles have included: Man in Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone, Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Dromio of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, and the Baker in Into the Woods.

This summer, he was most recently seen at American Folklore Theatre playing the role of Gizmo in Cheeseheads: The musical.

Trevor would like to thank all of his friends and family for their constant love and endless support! Enjoy the show!

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Alanna Reeves (Mouth, Not I, A.D. Ohio Impromptu) Alanna is excited to return to UW-Madison for her MFA in Acting/ Directing. She is grateful for the patience, care, and dedication from everyone

October 18 – November 3, 2012

I Can’t Go on.

I’ll Go on.

A Collection of Short Plays

by Samuel Beckett

November 16 – December 8, 2012

the Cradle WIll roCk a play in music by Marc Blitzstein

March 1 – 16, 2013

by Georg Büchner

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Heather Pickering (Voice, Eh Joe, Ru, Come and Go) Heather studied theatre at Colorado State University, and education at Chadron State. She is the founder of Flutter Productions (2011 ANCOR National Community Building Award), the Artistic Director/Director of the Storybook Island Children’s Theatre (2008 – 2012) and the Director of Theatre for Outright Dance Theatre prior to Madison. Acting credits include: Mary in Dublin Carol, Blanche in Broadway Bound, Ellen Latimer in Take a Number Darling, Constanza in Amadeus, and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Recent directing credits include: Dakota Dreams, Quintessence, The Elves and the Shoemakers, The Kids Left, The Dog Died, Now What? and The Vagina Monologues.

April 5 – 13, 2013

Wondrous tales of old Japan II A Theatre for Youth production

April 19 – May 4, 2013

Cloud nIne

by Caryl Churchill

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involved in I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On. and is humbled by the opportunity to tackle such a beast of a role. Recent credits include Phoebe in As You Like It, Speed in Two Gentlemen of Verona and Bolette in Lady From the Sea. Alanna thanks her friends and family for encouraging her to boldly pursue her dreams wherever they take her and sends a special “thanks” to Joe for always being there to lend a hand when the load becomes too great to carry alone.

Artistic/Production Staff Patricia Boyette (Director) Patricia joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in 1992. Before coming to UW-Madison, she taught acting at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Cal State-Long Beach, San Jose State and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She trained professionally at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, American Conservatory Theatre and the Stratford Festival, Ontario, and her graduate degree is from the University of ColoradoBoulder. She is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and the Michael Chekhov Association. Patricia’s recent stage credits include performing internationally in a series of plays by Samuel Beckett. In 1995, she and director/actor/actor-trainer Phillip Zarrilli co-founded THE BECKETT PROJECT in consultation with Beckett’s premiere actress, Billie Whitelaw. Since that time she has performed in and directed a variety of Beckett’s plays throughout the U.S., the U.K., Europe and the Far East.

Most recently she performed HAPPY DAYS, ROCKABY and NOT I at the Malta Arts Festival in the summer of 2012. Some of her other recent performances include playing Artemis and Hecuba in THE GREEKS, Linda Loman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN, Esther Franz in THE PRICE and Mrs. Webb in OUR TOWN for Madison Repertory Theatre; developing the role of Gwynen in THE ALMOND AND THE SEAHORSE at 10

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Victory Gardens Theatre; performing Gertrude in HAMLET, Elvira Condomine in BLITHE SPIRIT and Sally Talley in TALLEY’S FOLLY at the Grove Theatre Center in Los Angeles. Other professional credits include playing major roles for such theatres as the California Actors Theatre, California Repertory Theatre, the Magic Theatre, the Michigan Ensemble Theatre, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and others. She is the recipient of several awards for her performance and performance research.

Dan Lisowski (Scenic Designer) Dan rejoined the UW faculty in the fall of 2009 after previously being in residence during the 2006-07 academic year. He spent his two years away as the Head of Electrical Design at Fisher Technical Services, a leading automation and control equipment company. Dan continues to work on significant international entertainment automation controls projects while teaching and serving as Head of the Theatre Technology MFA program. Although he has been the Technical Director on many shows, this is Dan’s first realized set design.

Dan holds a BS in Theatre & Drama from the UW and an MFA in Technical Design and Production from the Yale School of Drama.

He and his wife, Meghan (also a UW alum), have four children.

Gail Brassard (Costume Designer) has designed Grapes of Wrath, Urinetown, Pride and Prejudice, No Exit, Bon Apettit, Arabian Nights, War of the Worlds and Oxygen for University Theatre. She has also designed costumes for the Bad Dates for the Indiana Repertory Theatre and Madison Repertory Theatre, where she also designed Dirty Blonde, Mercy of a Storm and Our Town. She designed the Off-Broadway hit, Altar Boyz (Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination) and its 20 city national tour; and shared an Emmy Award for the “Live From Lincoln

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Center” broadcast of Sondheim’s Passion, starring Patti LuPone, Michael Cerveris and Audra McDonald for PBS. She has also designed the Emmy-winning Sweeney Todd in 2001, also produced by PBS. New York Credits include The Miser and Taking Steps on Broadway, Children’s Letters to God, Visiting Mr. Green with Eli Wallach, Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World and The Rothschilds off-Broadway. She has designed the concerts of Sweeney Todd, A Little Night Music and Passion for Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, London Assurance at APT, and numerous productions for regional theatres such as Indiana Rep, Northlight Theatre (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Pride and Prejudice), Geva Theatre in Rochester NY, La Jolla Playhouse and Studio Arena in Buffalo NY. Other productions include Pride and Prejudice for Cleveland Play House, Permanent Collection at Madison Rep and the critically acclaimed Othello for Shakespeare and Company. Also the PBS Special “BellAria.” She is currently an Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Operator for BatBoy, Sound Designer for Pedro and the War Cantata and The Mousetrap, and Foley Sound Artist for the radio play The Time Machine. Going into his final year at Madison, Jeff is looking forward to working closely with the directors at UT and having the opportunity to be challenged and grow creatively.

Paul Timmel (Lighting Designer) Paul is a junior undergraduate in the Theatre and Drama Department, focusing on lighting design. This is his first show designing for University Theatre, and is excited for the opportunity to be designing for this production. Past work includes lighting designer for UTA and JTP’s production of The Odd Couple, assistant designer for University Theatre’s The Mousetrap, and Ti-Jean and His Brothers, as well as master electrician for UT’s Two Gentlemen of Verona and Ti-Jean and His Brothers. Paul would like to thank his family and friends, as well as all of his past and present teachers, for all of their support.

Allyn Weber (Technical Director) Allyn, a veteran of University Theatre, is happy to be serving as the Technical Director for University Theatre’s production of I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On. His recent work includes Werther with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (as Assistant Technical Director), The Mousetrap, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Ti Jean and His Brothers and Eurydice for University Theatre and Grease and The Music Man for The Heartland Festival at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville (as Technical Director), and productions of La Boheme, Carmen, The Barber of Seville, among many others with Washington National Opera (as Properties Coordinator). Allyn would like to thank his loving wife Anne Marie, daughter Katelyn for their support and Penny and Guinness, his two vigilant guard dogs, for keeping the house safe and the yard free of squirrels.

Jeffrey Parulski (Sound Designer) Jeffrey is a senior at UW-Madison majoring in Theatre with an emphasis on Electrics.

His credits with UT include Sound Board

Michael Cobb (Vocal Coach) Michael, pleased to be joining the Department of Theatre and Drama as Visiting Assistant Professor, has served as Head of Voice, Speech, and Text at the National Theatre Conservatory and vocal coach for the Denver Center Theatre Company and the American Repertory Theatre. He has taught at the A.R.T./Moscow Art Theatre School Institute, the University of Utah, Saint Lawrence University, the State University of New York at Potsdam, and Rhode Island College. He holds an M.F.A. from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard, an M.A. from Brown University, and is a graduate of the Trinity Rep Conservatory.

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Melanie Kulas (Stage Manager) Melanie is in her senior year at UW-Madison finishing up her Theatre and Social Welfare degrees.

She feels so fortunate to be able to include work from Ti-Jean and His Brothers, Bat-Boy: The Musical, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and others to her technical credits with University Theatre. Over the summer, Melanie worked as Stage Manager with the wonderful cast and crew of The Mousetrap, also with UT. Melanie would like to thank all of her family and friends for helping her through each production process, especially Mom, Dad, Stephanie, Courtnie, team SMUT, and her wonderful boyfriend Joe. Thank you.

Niccole Carner (Dramaturg) Niccole, a third-year PhD student, most recently appeared on the UT stage as Mollie Ralston in The Mousetrap. Niccole was also a dramaturg for UT’s Two Gentlemen of Verona and Eurydice. Her primary area of research is modern Scottish nationalist theatre, specifically new works within Scottish theatre. She is also interested in the Irish dramatic revival and how Irish drama has influenced and shaped Scottish works. She proudly owns a kilt.

U N I V E R S I T Y T H E AT R E S TA F F Director of University Theatre.............................................................................. Manon van de Water Production Stage Manager..........................................................................................Jessica Vacchiano Head of Theatre Technology................................................................................................Dan Lisowski Scene Studio Supervisor......................................................................................................... Rob Wagner Costume Studio Supervisor........................................................................................................Jim Greco Electrics and Sound Studio Supervisor ......................................................................... Jono De Leon UT Office Manager..............................................................................................................Cindy Schkirkie House Managers........................................................................................... Molly Budke, Carol Carlson,

Erin Hood, Mary McAvoy Student Production Stage Manager.................................................................................... Lisa Marten Scene Shop Assistants............................................................... John Van Arsdale, Bethany Reinfeld,

Melanie Treuhaft, Vincent Davey, Jennifer Pflager Lighting Assistants............................................................................................................ Dane Styczynski

Benjamin Golden, Robert Stepek Costume Assistants........................................................... Sarah Woodworth, Christa Lewandowski

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Department Chair ........................................................................................................... Ann M. Archbold Acting/Directing Faculty/Staff Patricia Boyette, Michael Cobb, David Furumoto,

Norma Saldivar, Patrick Sims Design/Technical Faculty/Staff........................................................ Ann M. Archbold, Gail Brassard,

Jim Greco, Dan Lisowski, Shuxing Fan Theatre Research Faculty/Staff................................................... Aparna Dharwadker, Kristin Hunt,

Michael Peterson, Mary Trotter,

Michael Vanden Heuvel, Manon van de Water Theatre for Youth Director.................................................................................... Manon van de Water Theatre for Cultural and Social Awareness Director......................................................Patrick Sims Department Administrator............................................................................................Melinda Menard Departmental Office Staff............................Terri Bonner, Jan Bachman-Daggett, Brenda Weiss Department Advisor.................................................................................................................. Jim Stauffer University Theatre

F R I E N D S O F T H E U N I V E R S I T Y T H E AT R E The FRIENDS of UT is a group of individuals that serves as a support organization for UW Madison’s University Theatre, providing members waith opportunities to connect with and offer support for student actors, dramaturgs, directors, and designers involved in University Theatre productions. FRIENDS of UT plan and host receptions prior to productions, enjoy exceptional performances together, and work to encourage broader awareness and appreciation of the UW Department of Theatre and Drama throughout the community.

Funds raised by FRIENDS of UT will provide much needed production support, including technical enhancements such as state-of-the-art equipment upgrades, as well as special guest artist residencies that will support the training of our students.

In the past, Friends of UT have enjoyed invitations to a special post-performance reception with Olympia Dukakis as well as a pre-performance discussion with show directors. They sponsored a visit with Anthony Rapp (from the original Broadway cast of RENT). Funds raised were used to support a Suzuki acting workshop with Brandeis Professor Eric Hill and several guest sound designers.

The group sponsored a day trip for FUT members and UT students to Ten Chimneys in Genesee Depot, WI. Recently, the group attended a performance of the play Ten Chimneys being produced by the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre.

We are proud to share the names of the FRIENDS of UT with you throughout this season.

If you would like to become a Friend of University Theatre, simply call the University Theatre office at 608-262-1582 or contribute online at utmadison.com FRIEND ($50-$249) Prof. Maurice and Sybil Better Norlin & Cynthia Benevenga Prof. Barbara Buenger Laura & Barry Burden Tim & Rhonda Current Roger & Elizabeth Gray William & Sharon Koenen Bonnie Lewis Heather & Samuel Murn Eric Mueller & Torrie Kopp Mueller

Peter & Donna Napoleone Ernest Peterson Guy Plunkett III & Joanne Harper Plunkett Louis & Julie Swedarsky David & Shirley Susan Katherine & Bailey Walsh A. Erick Weber John & Nancy Webster Elwyn & Evelyn Weible Hallman and Shirley Winsborough Mary Zellmer

ANGEL ($250 and up) Merry Anderson Dennis Dorn Shana Lewis & Rob Magasano Steven Scholze & Michael McFadden Tim & Pat Size Maureen Skelton Jon Sorenson Jennifer Swan Distillery Design

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Katherine M. Charron Peter M. and Susan Cole Kirk A. Domer Jane L. Forsyth Chris P. Jaehnig Rachel D. Johnson Patricia Kugler Whitely Allen J. Kuharski Marie T. Leithauser Gretchen J. Michlitsch Peter and Donna Napoleone John H. and Gretchen H. Oakley Ernest J. Peterson Stacie J. Pierce Mona J. Poehling Bernice R. Ruswick Steven M. Scholze Daniel J. Sebald Mark W. Stanley Harvey Sweet Sybil J. Trubin Steven M. Woolf $1-99 Barry C. and Laura R. Burden Timothy R. Dewart Mariam A. Duckwall Rebecca B. Entel

Deborah L. Ferris Sarah Hasan Fannie E. Hicklin Ademola Iyi-Eweka James H. Lieberthal Robert D. Magasano and Shana R. Lewis Eric V. and Torrie K. Mueller Charlotte M. Mullen Samuel and Heather L. Murn Nicholas L. Neds and Lindsey Hoel-Neds Gretchen H. Page Guy D., III and Joanne H. Plunkett Peter M. Reader Kathryn M. Rohe Ephraim J. Stanfield David J. and Shirley J. Susan Louis H. and Julie S. Swedarsky Nicholas H. Tamarkin Bailey G., Jr. and Katherine C. Walsh Erik W. and Tina M. Walstad Elwyn L. and Evelyn B. Weible William R. and Christine M. Wiegert

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University Theatre

H OW TO C O N T R I B U T E There are many ways to contribute to the Department of Theater and Drama, including: • Gifts of appreciated securities, personal property, and real estate • Deferred gifts such as bequests, trusts, and life income agreements • Permanently endowed scholarships, fellowships, and professorships named • for a relative or friend For more information about all giving opportunities, please call the UW Foundation, (800) 443-6162 or (608) 262-7211.

Please make your check payable to University of Wisconsin Foundation and mail to University of Wisconsin Foundation, US Bank Lockbox, PO Box 78807, Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807. Indicate that your contribution should be credited to the Department of Theater and Drama F O R YO U R I N F O R M AT I O N Cameras and Recorders: No photographs or recordings may be made during the performance.

Restrooms: Restrooms and drinking fountains for patron use are located in the lower level of the theatre lobby. Wheelchair accessible facilities are available on the lobby level. Please use lower level facilities unless special needs dictate otherwise.

Emergency Calls: Doctors and parents are asked to leave the campus security phone number, 264-2677, with their service or sitter. Please inform the house manager of your seat location if the possibility of a call exists.

In order not to disturb other patrons, please turn off all paging devices, electonic devices, cell phones and watch alarms.

Latecomers: Performances begin promptly. Latecomers will be seated only at a suitable break, which in some cases may not be until intermission.

Exchanges and Refunds: No refunds are given, but exchanges may be made up to 24 hours prior to the ticketed performance date when tickets are available. Patrons who cannot use their tickets are asked to contact the Vilas Hall Box Office 24 hours in advance of the performance. Postdated tickets have no value and cannot be exchanged.

Unused tickets can be donated to the theatre for resale, the proceeds of which will go to improvements of the theatre.

Ticketing: Any person entering the theatre must have a ticket. Babes in arms can not be admitted. UT discourages bringing small children to the theatre except when the production is specifically for young audiences.

Accessibility: University Theatre can accommodate your special needs. Call 265-2787 for information regarding wheelchair accessibility and hearing-assist systems.

Parking: Parking passes are available for purchase by arts patrons in UW owned parking lots close to venues. Call Campus Arts Ticketing at 265-2787 for more information.

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2012-2013 South Milwaukee Performing Arts Series

FORWARD THEATER COMPANY presents

Andrew Whiteʋ

Rachel E. Kraft

Artistic Director

44 Plays for 44 Presidents

Edgar Dobie

Executive Director

proudly presents

Written and Directed by

Original Music Joe Cerqua**

Choreographer Maureen Janson

Assistant Director Annelise Dickinson

Stage Manager Mark Sahba*

Assistant Stage Manager Erin McConnell

MARY ZIMMERMANĘ‹

Based on a translation by David Slavitt of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Production Sponsor

Opening Night Sponsor

Additional support provided by Lisa Naparstek Green and Howard Green, Todd and Barbara Leland and The Pauls Foundation Daniel Ostlingʋ, USA Scenic Designer

Mara Blumenfeldʋ, USA Costume Designer

Andre Pluessʋ, USA Sound Designer

44 Plays for 44 Presidents is generously sponsored by:

T.J. Gerckens, USA

Production Stage Manager

Lighting Designer

Willie Schwarz

Maria DeFabo

Joel Hobson

Sean K. Walters

Original Music Composition

Cynthia Cahill*

The Burish Group of UBS Financial Services Inc.

Production Manager

Properties Designer Technical Director

CAST

Sunday, September 9, 2012 6:30 pm

Ceyx and Others..............................Usman Ally* Myrrha and Others......................Anjali Bhimani* Hermes and Others..........Lawrence E. DiStasiʋ* Therapist and Others.........Marilyn Dodds Frank* Aphrodite and Others...................Anne Fogarty*

with funds from the Wisconsin Arts Board.

Season sponsors:

2012-2013 Season Sponsors

Midas and Others......................Raymond Foxʋ* Phaeton and Others.......................Doug Haraʋ* Erysichthon and Others...............Chris Kipiniak* Alcyon and Others..................Louise Lamsonʋ* Eurydice and Others.....................Lauren Orkus*

UNDERSTUDIES

Connie U’Ren and Jacky U’Ren Official Caterer of the SMPAC

Artistic Director of New Work

Arena Stage

Artistic Director

Lighting Designer Greg Hoffman

Costume Designer Monica Butler

John Gurda The history of the south shore region

Heidi Stillmanʋ

Producing Artistic Director

in association with Molly Smith

Directed by Jennifer Uphoff Gray Set & Properties Designer Charles J. Trieloff II

Philip R. Smithʋ

Executive Director

By Andy Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, Genevra Gallo-Bayiates, ChloĂŤ Johnston, and Karen Weinberg

Matthew Q. Fahey*, Will Gillespie, Ashleigh Lathrop, Makha Mthembu, Tempe Thomas* and Coy Benning Wentworth

Emerald City

CATERiNG LLC

Richard Cotovsky Kirsten Mulvey and the Pleasant Rowland Great Performance Fund for Theater, Director Artistic Managing Director

C. Michael Wright Producing Artistic Director

note that Metamorphoses includes a scene which contains male nudity.

Carlo Please Lorenzo Garcia Producing *MemberDirector of Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers ʋ/RRNLQJJODVV 7KHDWUH &RPSDQ\ (QVHPEOH 0HPEHU $UWLVWLF $VVRFLDWH RU 3URGXFWLRQ $IÀOLDWH

a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation

Official Cleaning Services of the SMPAC: TASC Services LLC

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers. ** Member, United Scenic Artists Local USA 829 IATSE

The South Milwaukee Performing Arts Center 2011-2012 Season was supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Opening Night Restaurant Sponsor

Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com)

presents

44 Plays for 44 Presidents

Lookingglass Theatre Company is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for American Theatre, and of the League of Chicago Theatres, the local service organization for theatre.

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by Herb Gardner

GEOGRAPHY OF A HORSE DREAMER

August 9-26, 2012 Jonathan West Director

By Sam Shepard

Brandy Kline* Stage Manager/Producton Manager/Company Manager Brandon Kirkham Scenic Designer

Kristina L.Van Slyke Costume Designer

Dana Fralick Properties Designer

Directed by Carlo Lorenzo Garcia

Scenic Design by Amanda Rozmiarek Lighting Design by Claire Sangster Costume Design by Stefin Steberl Fight Design by Ryan Bourque Prop Design by Gaby Labotka Sound Design by Laura Oleska Projection Design by Michelle Underwood Technical Direction by Dereck Garner Stage Management by Casey Peek Asst. Direction by Gaby Labotka

Eric Appleton Lighting Designer

Josh Schmidt** Sound Designer

*Performers appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

**Member of United Scenic Artists, local 829.

A THOUSAND CLOWNS is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

CO-SPONSORED BY: Briggs & Stratton Corporation Foundation, Inc. Lloyd & Mary Ann Gerlach George & Julie Mosher PREVIEW SPONSOR:

This program is partially funded by grants from The Illinois Arts Council, The Alphawood Foundation and The Richard H.Driehaus Foundation

MEDIA SPONSOR:

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