For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again: October 2015 at Gateway Theatre

FOR THE PLEASURE OF SEEING HER AGAIN

By Michel Tremblay • Translated by Linda Gaboriau • Directed by Margo Kane

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OCTOBER 8–24, 2015 • MainStage

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FOR THE PLEASURE OF SEEING HER AGAIN

By Michel Tremblay Translated by Linda Gaboriau Directed by Margo Kane Originally directed by Glynis Leyshon A Full Circle: First Nations Performance Production

OCTOBER 8-24, 2015 • MainStage

THE CAST

Margo Kane Nana Kevin Loring Narrator

THE CREATIVE TEAM Margo Kane Glynis Leyshon Pam Johnson Gerald King Graham Ockley Bruce Ruddell Ingrid Turk Ruth Bruhn Josef Chung

Director Original Director Set & Costume Designer Original Lighting Designer Lighting Associate Composer and Sound Designer Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager Production Manager

The play is approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.

Gateway Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the Alliance for Arts and Culture, and the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance. Gateway Theatre engages under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement professional actors who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

Stage crew are members of Local 118 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.).

Photography, videotaping or other audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

Editor: Andrea Yu Cover: Rare Design On cover: (L-R) Margo Kane, Kevin Loring. Photo: David Cooper Program Design & Production: Gary Slavin

A Chinese synopsis of the play is available at the Coat Check.

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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welcome back, everyone! And a special welcome to those of you who are visiting the Gateway Theatre for the first time.

During this glorious summer, all of us at the Gateway have been working hard to prepare for your return.

I’m delighted that we’re opening our thirty-first season with the modern Canadian classic For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Written by Quebec’s greatest playwright Michel Tremblay, this play is a funny and moving tribute to his late mother.

Translator Linda Gaboriau does a masterful job of capturing the rhythm and tone and joie de vivre of this piece.

Tremblay has long been revered Actor: Margo Kane for his plays that chronicle life in East Montreal. His body of work has been produced around the world. And yet, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again – arguably his most personal play – is also his most frequently produced work.

This is a testament to the universal chord that Tremblay strikes – which of us has not been indelibly shaped by our mother?

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is one of those plays I would describe as deceptively simple. On its surface it appears to be a nostalgic comedy with a larger-than-life

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central character. The risk with this play is that in less capable hands, it could descend into a maudlin evening filled with broad caricature.

Fortunately, the production we are seeing tonight is interpreted by two of Canada’s finest actors – Margo Kane and Kevin Loring. Margo and Kevin mine the hidden depths of their characters and discover all that is below the surface – the sense of loss, the hardships and sacrifices made, and the bond between mother and son – and avoid the trap of sentimentality.

What I love most about this play is its magnificent ending (which I will not spoil here).

Throughout the play the Narrator regales us with stories of his mother Photo: David Cooper and tells us how she bestowed on him the gift of storytelling.

And yet, it is the gift he gives her – in all its theatrical glory – that moves me so profoundly.

I would like to thank Full Circle: First Nations Performance for bringing this beautifully tender memoir to the Gateway. It’s our pleasure to share this jewel of a play with all of you.

–Jovanni Sy

ABOUT THE COMPANY Margo Kane established Full Circle: First Nations Performance in 1992. It is the primary professional arts organization in British Columbia devoted to the support and development of Aboriginal performing arts practice and has initiated, developed, and produced performance works which have been seen in Vancouver, across Canada and internationally. These include: The River - Home, Confessions of an Indian Cowboy, and The Rez Show. Currently two pieces are in development: Xway Xway and Keeping the Fire Burning.

Full Circle is the producer of the annual Talking Stick

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TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE THEATRE -Jovanni Sy I have loved theatre all underscores the feeling I do my life. And almost every not belong here. good thing I have in my life I This is how I as a person owe to my chosen vocation. of colour have felt about Theatre has been good to me Canadian theatre for most of and I am privileged to enjoy my life. Like the traveler in an artistic leadership role in Marrakesh, I see few people a community with so many around me in the audience fellow theatre-lovers who who look like me. Then I look have given so much to make on stage and I see no one the Gateway such a beloved who looks like me. I wonder cultural institution. if I’ve taken a wrong turn and So, as an entrenched ended up somewhere I don’t theatre ‘insider’, it feels belong. strange to confess that when I don’t presume to speak I go to most plays in the for anyone else but I can’t Lower Mainland, I feel like a help but wonder if other gatecrasher at a non-white theatre “Our stages and party to which I audiences should look lovers feel the was not invited. same way. like the communities Those who Common sense we live in.” have been tells me that we –Jovanni Sy fortunate to in Vancouver travel the world will have theatre cannot reasonably probably at one time expect the patronage of experienced a strange people whose existence we sense of displacement or marginalize or deny outright. estrangement. It might occur Throughout my career, I in a market in Bombay, a have been a proponent of bazaar in Marrakesh, or on making Canadian theatre the streets of Kowloon. It’s more inclusive. By ‘inclusive’, that sudden recognition that I mean that our stages and absolutely nobody around audiences should look like me looks like me. It’s not a the communities we live in. scary moment. But it often By any objective measure,

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theatre in the Lower Mainland is anything but inclusive.

Half of our population are women. Yet over threequarters of the playwrights produced and directors hired are men.

Nearly half of our population belong to visible minorities (a term that will have to change to visible majority shortly).

Yet over ninety percent of the performers we see on Vancouver’s professional stages are white.

I believe that this disparity is the single greatest threat to the future of theatre in Vancouver. If we do not address it immediately, professional theatre here will see its audience numbers continue to decline. If we only cater to a sector of our society, we will quickly lose relevance to the whole. I desperately don’t want to see that happen.

Thus, as the leader of a professional theatre, I feel compelled to move the Gateway Theatre towards truly reflecting today’s Richmond. I want to invite

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TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE THEATRE (continued) more people to the party. At the same time, I experience tonight) is that this is a play that want to reassure our current guests that they welcomes everyone into its world. are and will always be welcome here.

So we’ve taken some baby steps at the During my time here, I’ve programmed Gateway towards an inclusive future. Could beloved classics like Crazy For You, The we have done more in the past three years?

Wizard of Oz, and Rodgers and Hammerstein: Absolutely, yet I feel we’re moving in the right Out of a Dream. These are direction. Our tagline for “I want to invite more people plays that are near and the past two seasons has to the party. At the same time, dear to me and there will been You Belong Here and I want to reassure our current continue to be a time and it’s something we seriously guests that they are and will place for plays like this in strive towards. I know that always be welcome here.” the future. Along with them, finding a sense of belonging –Jovanni Sy however, we will feature in a rapidly changing plays that make our tent a little bigger. environment is a hard thing. It involves push The piece you’re watching tonight is a and pull and, occasionally, struggle. I also good example of this. It’s a beloved modern know that theatre is a wonderful means of Canadian classic translated from a different negotiating this struggle. When everyone’s language and reimagined from an Aboriginal voice is heard, there comes understanding. perspective that obliquely references the Obviously this is a topic that is very personal author’s point-of-view as a gay man growing to me and I’ll continue to share some thoughts up in parochial Quebec. But what matters over the season. And, of course, I would very more than all of this (and what I hope you will much like to hear your thoughts as well.

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THE CAST Margo Kane NANA

Cree-Saulteaux performing artist, Margo Kane is the Founder and Artistic Managing Director of Full Circle: First Nations Performance. Moonlodge, her acclaimed one-woman show, toured for over 10 years nationally and internationally. Recent roles include: Bah Humbug! (Vancouver Moving Theatre & SFU), The Unplugging (Arts Club Theatre Company), and the television show Artic Air. She received the Inaugural Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award from Union of BC Performers, a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress (Where the Blood Mixes, Kevin Loring’s Governor General’s Award-winning play),the BC Touring Award of Excellence, the BC Community Achievement Award and she holds a Honourary Doctorate of Letters from University of the Fraser Valley.

Kevin Loring NARRATOR

Kevin is Nlakap’amux (Thompson Indians) from Lytton BC. An actor, playwright and freelance writer based out of Vancouver and a graduate of Studio 58, and Full Circle First Nations Performance: Ensemble Training Program. He has performed in numerous plays across Canada, including the world premieres of Marie Clements’ Burning Vision, Copper Thunderbird and The Edward Curtis Project. He played Edmund in the National Arts Centre production of King Lear featuring an all Aboriginal cast. Kevin is a recipient of the 2005 Vancouver Arts Award for Emerging Theatre Artist, 2007 Herman Voaden prize, Sydney J. Risk Prize, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script and the 2009 Governor General’s Award.

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THE CREATIVE TEAM Pam Johnson

SET and COSTUME DESIGNER

Pam is thrilled to be designing for the Gateway Theatre with Full Circle.

For the Gateway she has designed: Glass Menagerie, Death of a Salesman and Cyrano.

Pam has been a professional set designer for 35 years. Her designs have travelled throughout Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Japan. Pam has received several Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, and in 2012 was honoured with a Career Achievement Award. Pam continues to guide and inspire young talent, as she is a design instructor at Studio 58.

Gerald King

ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER

Gerald has designed lighting for many companies across the country. Some of those include: Ballet BC, Bard on the Beach, Vancouver Opera, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and Kokoro Dance. Outside of Vancouver his work has been seen with The National Ballet of Canada, National Arts Centre, Pacific Opera Victoria, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Edmonton Opera, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Western Canada Theatre and numerous others.

Bruce Ruddell COMPOSER / SOUND DESIGNER

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Special Jury award for a long body of work with First Nations music projects in Canada and the U.S.A. bruceruddell.com

Ingrid Turk

STAGE MANAGER

Ingrid has stagemanaged for more than 25 years. Favorite productions include The Orphan Muses with Touchstone Theatre and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Arts Club Theatre Company.

She recently stage-managed Urinetown for The Firehall Arts Centre and My Fair Lady for Royal City Musical Theatre. Ingrid is a graduate of Studio 58 and is a House Manager at Bard on the Beach.

She is also an audio-describer for Vocal Eye, the organization that provides description of live performances for patrons with limited vision.

Ruth Bruhn

APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER

Ruth is a recent graduate from the production program at Studio 58.

Previous stage management credits include: Grease, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Studio 58); Annie, Great Expectations, The Forbidden Phoenix, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof (Gateway Theatre); Evil Dead: The Musical (Down Stage Right Productions); Titanic: A New Musical (Theatre Under the Stars); and Smile: The Musical, Dracula: The Musical (Awkward Stage Productions).

Other credits include: Wardrobe Intern (Bard on the Beach 2014); and for Studio 58: Assistant to the Set Designer (Kosmic Mambo), Assistant to the Lighting Designer (Innocence Lost); Assistant to the Costume Designer (4Play).

COMING SOON ...DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING Original songs & stories with Beverley Elliott A HappyGoodThings production

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ust as Full Circle: First Nations Performance has re-imagined Michel Tremblay’s For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, we reinterpret a classic with The Wizard of Oz! All of the characters you know and love, such as Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, Tinman and the Cowardly Lion, are cast with the brightest local stars! Our creative team, many of whom were here for last year’s award-winning holiday hit Crazy for You, have got some innovative tricks up their sleeves to make this classic tale fresh and new. Join us this holiday season as we journey down the yellow brick road through the

THE WIZARD OF OZ

By L. Frank Baum With Music & Lyrics by Harold Arlen & E.Y. Harburg Background Music by Herbert Stothart Dance & Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard • Orchestration by Larry Wilcox • Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company

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magical land of Oz. “Dorothy’s adventures have resonated with generations of audiences. She and her companions seek what we all seek: wisdom, heart, courage, and a place called home.”

Jovanni Sy, Artistic Director “A classic musical celebration of color and spectacle.” –Broadway World

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GATEWAY THEATRE ADMINISTRATION Gateway Theatre Board of Directors Seemah Aaron Chak Au, City Council liaison

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Gateway Theatre Staff The Gateway Theatre, owned by the City of Richmond and operated by the Richmond Gateway Theatre Society, is currently producing its 31st season of live theatre.

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