Ovation Vol. 18 No. 3

noËl coward’s

adapted for the stage by by arrangement with

emma rice

David Pugh & Dafydd Rogers and Cineworld

a version of strindberg’s

miss julie by

patrick marber Part of

Message fro m the Artistic Director

Why are we so often torn between what we would like to do and what we feel we should do?

The lovers’ choices are both more and less complicated in Patrick Marber’s After Miss Julie. Neither Julie nor John is married, so the legal impediments to their desire are fewer. Yet the two young

We must choose constantly

people are separated by even

between desire and duty, indul-

more daunting chasms of class

gence and denial, selfishness and sacrifice. Think

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back to a sunny spring morning, the air moist with

years ago (or today, for that matter). And while

dew, and the birds almost drowning out the rush

Julie and John share some tender moments like

hour traffic with their songs of joy. Was it easy to

Laura and Alec’s, their brief romance is more

walk into your office building that morning? Or

like a seductive tug-of-war, where power and

did your body feel itself pulled almost against its

passion collide. Marber’s contemporary version

will to the nearest park or creek?

is as incendiary as August Strindberg’s original

If a job you love can seem like a dull obligation on a fine spring morning, imagine the lure of forbidden fruit to those who have known only

was in 1888; if John and Julie had their own pile of coal, there’d be nothing left but ashes when the curtain falls.

the comforts of marital fidelity. In Noël Coward’s

Rice’s play is all romance and restraint, Marber’s

Brief Encounter, Laura and Alec both have good

carnality and conflict. Yet both show us how

spouses and lovely children, yet their unexpected

temptation—resisted or not—peels back the

passion for each other threatens to destroy their

mask of social convention and exposes our true

orderly lives. I remember seeing Emma Rice’s

nature, the one that walks barefoot on a dewy

adaptation for the first time, and being intrigued

morning while duty takes the elevator.

by the pile of coal heaped at the side of the stage.

Of course, Alec is a doctor working with diseases caused by coal dust, and coal fuels the trains at

Yours always,

the station where they meet. But it also seems to me that Laura and Alec each have a fire burning within them, a fire they keep banked down low most of the time, and the coal is just waiting there on the side of the stage for them to feed the flame. But will they? jan/feb 2011

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setting the stage

Foreword to Brief Encounter

by Emma Rice

I love Romance.

I also love folk tales.

Brief Encounter has surprisingly embraced both these passions. In Still Life, later to become Brief Encounter, Noël Coward wrote a play about an affair. Not a sordid affair, but a love affair between two married people. An impossible affair, a painful affair, an unacceptable affair. It is written with such empathy, such observation, and such tender agony. This man knew what he was writing about. Imagine being gay in the 1930s and you begin to understand Brief Encounter. Imagine the impossibility of expressing the most fundamental of human needs and emotions. Imagine the enforced shame, lies and deceit. Imagine the frustration, imagine the loss, and imagine the anger.

Each of these emotions is delicately and Britishly traced through the meetings of our lovers. They experience a micro marriage, a relationship from beginning to end in a few short hours—and how many of us cannot relate to this careful and painful liaison? Not many, I’m sure. Can many of us go through a lifetime without meeting someone and feeling a spark of recognition that we shouldn’t, an attraction that goes beyond the physical? And what a terrible world it would be if our emotions and spirits and psyches were amputated at the altar.

And here is where real life ends and folk tales begin.

In the language of stories, we are able to examine the bargains that human beings make. We see how we bargain our own needs, the needs of the self, for various reasons. These reasons will be familiar to us all: the fear of being alone or of being

Mairi Babb and Eric Blais in the MTC/Vancouver Playhouse production of Brief Encounter.

Photo by David Cooper

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excluded from “normal” life. In the language of folk stories, the price of this bargain is often physical. A part of the body is chopped off—a hand (The Handless Maiden) or feet (The Red Shoes).

We literally cut a part of ourselves off in order to conform or to be accepted. In Brief Encounter, both our lovers have chopped off part of themselves. It is delicately referred to, but Laura talks of swimming wild and free and of playing the piano. Both of these are forms of personal expression—not pleasing anyone but exploring the deep waters of the soul. Alec turns into a child when he talks of his passions, and fears that Laura will be bored.

These are people trapped by the bargains that

Brief Encounter they have freely made—they have bargained their inner lives for stability, family and love. Oh yes, love. I don't for a moment believe that their marriages are all bad or that they are in any way victims. Presumably, their respective partners are as trapped by their own bargains and by the rules of society itself. None of us are victims, but we can review bargains we make and escape in a profound way.

I have been reading many Selkie stories whilst making this piece. In these stories, a fisherman falls in love with a Selkie—or Seal Woman— whom he sees dancing on the rocks having slipped out of her sealskin. She, too, falls for him.

He takes her home and hides her skin. He cares for her and she for him; they have children and live a life of contentment. One day, she finds her old skin in a cupboard. She washes and dresses the children, kisses them goodbye, puts on her sealskin and dives back into the sea. She never returns but sometimes the children will see a

beautiful seal swimming far out at sea. This teaches us about our true self. No matter how much we try to repress our feelings or how much we wish to conform, our true self will always emerge. There can be no happily ever after until this true self, or nature has been accepted and embraced. In the language of folk tales, in order to find one's true self, it is often vital that there is a near-death experience before our heroes and heroines can begin to heal and to re-form. In Sleeping Beauty and Snow White our heroines are unconscious, almost dead, for long periods of time. In Brief Encounter our lovers also die spiritually when they part. “I never want to feel anything again,” says Laura. This deep depression is an essential part of the process of change. It is something to be endured, understood and then moved away from. The end of the affair is not the end of hope or love. It is part of the process of change. Alec will travel and see the world in a wider context.

Laura will have to re-imagine herself not just as a “respectable wife and mother” but as a person in her own right.

My hope is that, like the Seal Woman, Alec and Laura escape. Not with each other in some idealistic romantic way but an escape provoked by the profound and personal awakening they felt when they met. We humans are fearful by nature—it is often somebody else who provides the catalyst for change but they are not the cause. Change can only happen from within. After our story ends, I like to think that our lovers will change. I imagine that Alec will make a real difference in Africa and find an expanse of spirit that seems untouchable in our story. I hope and dream that Laura will take up the piano again and perform on the world's greatest and most awe-inspiring stages.

As I write this, I wonder if these are, in fact, my dreams? That is the power of a great and enduring story; we can all own it and feel it and find something of ourselves in it.

October 27, 2008

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curtain calls

Deco Dawson’s projection provides the backdrop as Mairi Babb plays piano in Brief Encounter.

Photo by David Cooper

brief encounter

by Tara Seel

In a typical theatrical production, the audience sees the actors and the stage … and that’s it. The art of theatre still seems so simple, so pure, similar to how it has been for centuries—people on stage telling a story. However, what the audience doesn’t see is the hi-tech lighting hang or the huge and complicated sound board or the rafters heaving with the cables pulling scenery in and out. Backstage, the theatre is all about technology. In Brief Encounter, that technology is onstage and incorporated into the very heart of the show.

“The video is integrated throughout the show. It is the first thing you see and the last thing you see in the show,” explains Deco Dawson, Video Design Adaptor & Creator for Brief Encounter.

“There are scenes where characters jump in and out of the screen and appear in projections. And then there’s other things like the backgrounds or smoke or atmospheric montages that help depict the inner consciousness of the characters.

(Video) is used like you would use lighting to change mood and help tell the story.”

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Dawson started in the theatre, but filmmaking held a certain allure.

After collaborating on a few projects with Guy Maddin, Dawson’s film career took off. But as with all true theatre lovers, he has made his way back by merging his two passions—theatre and film.

“MTYP had approached (a local film company) to see if they could contribute some animated sequences (to the play Silverwing) … (but) they didn’t know anything about theatre. Fortunately for me, they suggested MTYP talk to me. For me, having that background in theatre, I know what the rehearsal process is. I know how decisions need to be made on the fly and change is constantly happening. In film, that doesn’t happen. Once someone has signed off on some-

thing, there are no more changes, but in theatre, you’re changing things up until the minute that you open. So for me, this is life rerouting,” says Dawson.

In Brief Encounter, three 5,000-lumen projectors and four computers are used to run everything.

There are approximately 50 video scenes. All the scenes are built ahead of time by shooting on location, shooting in front of a green screen and adding animation, among a myriad of other filmmaking techniques. The combination creates magic. The blending of the original stage play, the film and the new elements infused by adaptor Emma Rice have created something unique. “It has been reinvigorated with a whole bunch of Noël Coward songs, which aren’t in either of the originals, and is made into more of an homage to Noël Coward than a direct adaptation of either the script or the movie,” suggests Dawson.

The creative team worked with a very definite template from the Kneehigh production, then adapted it to their creative leanings. “I knew what I needed to do. In (this) case, the process became figuring out how they did it. (The actors) jump through a screen. Okay. I can see they jumped through a screen, now let me break down the components of what needs to happen in order for someone to be able to do that …, and figure out the most economical and creative way to accomplish that,” explains Dawson of his role in the production.

Technology does have a place in the theatre, but, as Dawson points out, it needs to work with the principles of the medium. “Theatre is live, and all the emotion is coming from the actors and characters on stage. No matter how much multimedia technology you throw in a show, if it doesn’t serve the show, and if it doesn’t serve the actors, then the performance is not there. The show is just empty”—a fate that does not befall this production of Brief Encounter. Theatre is all about experimentation, and incorporating video and other multimedia elements into the world of live theatre opens a whole new realm of possibility for what can take place onstage. jan/feb 2011

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Steven Schipper, Artistic Director

Zaz Bajon, General Manager

Presents

noËl coward’s

adapted for the stage by

emma rice by arrangement with

david pugh & dafydd rogers and cineworld

with original music by stu barker

Original Designer Neil Murray

Original Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth

Original Projection Designers Jon Driscoll & Gemma Carrington Original Sound Designer Simon Baker

january 6 – 29, 2011 a co-production with

Brief Encounter runs approximately two hours, including one intermission.

this stage adaptation was originally produced in english by david pugh & dafydd rogers and cineworld in a kneehigh theatre production in 2007 copyright agent: alan brodie representation ltd www.alanbrodie.com

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Director Music Director Set Design Adaptor & Lighting Designer Costume Designer Sound Designer Video Design Adaptor & Creator Assistant Director Movement Assistant Assistant Lighting Designer Assistant Lighting Designer Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

Beryl/Waitress/Mrs. Rolandson/Dolly/Usherette Laura Jesson Alec Harvey Bill/Musician Myrtle/Margaret/Mrs. Norton/Usherette Stanley/Musician Albert/Fred/Stephen/Usher Musician Bobbie/Johnnie/Musician

Max Reimer Steve Charles Alan Brodie Sheila White Lucas Cooper Deco Dawson Meg Roe Claire French Jason Hand Sarah Mansikka Rick Rinder Wanda Bretecher Michael Duggan

The Cast (in alphabetical order)

Rachel Aberle Mairi Babb Eric Blais Steve Charles Lucia Frangione Charlie Gallant Jonathan Holmes Shelley Marshall Blair Northwood

setting

England, the winter of 1938/39.

Songs

A Room with a View (Coward/arr. Barker) Always (Lyrics—Coward/Music—Barker) Any Little Fish (Coward/arr. Barker) Go Slow, Johnny (Coward/arr. Barker) Kardoma (Barker) Mad About the Boy (Coward) No/So Good at Love (Lyrics—Coward/Music—Barker) Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18 (Rachmaninoff/arr. Barker) Romantic Schoolgirl (Lyrics—Coward/Music—Barker) Tea Room (Barker) The Wide Lagoon (Lyrics—Coward/Music—Barker)

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ARTISTS

Rachel Aberle

Eric Blais

Beryl/Waitress/ Mrs. Rolandson/ Dolly/Usherette

Alec Harvey

MTC First appearance.

MTC Looking Back – West.

OTHER THEATRE Highlights include: Townsville with

OTHER THEATRE North Main Gothic, Stretching Hide,

The Chop Theatre (2008 Magnetic North Theatre Festival); Rosie in Bye Bye Birdie (Studio 58); Souvenirs (Green Thumb Theatre/PTE); NAPathy for Hive3 (Theatre Conspiracy/GasHeart); What You Want (Vancouver Fringe/MachineFair).

TRAINING Rachel is a recent graduate of Studio 58.

ET CETERA Rachel is pleased as punch to be making

her MTC debut in a role where she is called upon to explore her capacity for silliness. This show is for Eva, who enjoyed silliness just as much as Rachel.

Age of Arousal (TPM); The Winter’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure (Tom-Tom Theatre); The Vertical Hour, Munsch Ado About Nothing (PTE); The Odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); Romeo and Juliet, Kindness (MTYP).

FILM/TV Men with Brooms, Zooey & Adam by Sean Garrity, Falcon Beach, Northern Town.

TRAINING Eric graduated with honours from the

University of Winnipeg.

Mairi Babb

Steve Charles

Laura Jesson

Bill/Musician/Music Director

MTC Educating Rita, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, The Rocky Horror Show (with CS), Educating Rita (2007 Regional Tour), The Tempest, Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel), My Fair Lady, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dracula (with TC), The Lonesome West.

OTHER THEATRE The Last Resort (Charlottetown

Festival); The Diary of Anne Frank (TA); Having Hope at Home, Dogbarked (PTE); Moon Over Buffalo, My Fair Lady, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Oklahoma! (Drayton Entertainment); The Sound of Music, Beauty and the Beast (2005), Big: The Musical (Rainbow); Lend Me a Tenor (Red Barn Theatre); West Side Story (Citadel/TC); Marry Me a Little (Lunchbox Theatre); Into the Woods (Dry Cold Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival); Hamlet (English Suitcase Theatre Company); The Tempest (SIR); New Canadian Kid, The Secret Garden (MTYP).

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Dance Marathon (bluemouth inc.);

The Jungle Book, Back to You (Musical TheatreWorks); Spring 2010 (Pacifique En Chanson); Winter Spectacular (Massey Theatre); Vasily the Luckless, The House of Sleeping Beauties, The Perfectionist, The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces (Boca del Lupo); Mesa (Third Street Theatre).

TRAINING B. Mus (Jazz Studies) from Capilano College.

ET CETERA Steve Charles is a musical director,

composer and musician from Vancouver. Winnipeg audiences may remember him from past Fringe Festivals and West End Cultural Centre shows playing banjo with The Fugitives. He is very excited to join the MTC/Playhouse team in this production of Brief Encounter.

FILM/TV Shall We Dance?, Murdoch Mysteries, Everybody’s Doing It. TRAINING Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, University

of Victoria.

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For a full list of theatre abbreviations, please Refer to legend on page 4

ARTISTS

Lucia Frangione

Jonathan Holmes

Myrtle/Margaret/Mrs. Norton/ Usherette

Albert/Fred/Stephen/Usher

MTC First appearance.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Recent: Pam in The Full Monty

OTHER THEATRE The Thing About Men (Arts Club/

(Persephone Theatre/Patrick Street Productions); Layla in Paradise Garden (Arts Club Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage). Other credits include: Estelle in No Exit (Electric Company Theatre/The Virtual Stage/ American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco); Diana in the operetta Via Beatrice (Fugue Theatre); PG in NiX (ATP/Ghost River Theatre/The Only Animal); Shirley Valentine (TheatreOne); Portia in Julius Caesar (MD Theatre Collective); Rosa in Espresso (Pacific Theatre); Claire in The Family Way (Touchstone Theatre); Marilyn in MMM (Ruby Slippers Theatre); Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Chemainus Theatre Festival).

Presentation House); Red Light Winter (Havana Theatre); One Touch of Venus, By Jupiter, Jubilee, DuBarry Was a Lady (Barbican Theatre); L’Amfiparnaso (Trestle Theatre).

FILM/TV Nightwatching, Rembrandt’s J’Accuse, Exes and Ohs, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG1, Helen, Psych, Saved, The 4400, Underfunded, Partition, Reunion, Young Blades, Martian Child, Terminal City, Robson Arms, Cold Squad. Jonathan’s voice has also appeared on numerous animated series.

ET CETERA Upcoming: The Story of My Life (Granville

Island Revue Stage).

TRAINING Studio 58.

Shelley Marshall

ET CETERA In addition to being an actor, Lucia is also

Musician

an internationally produced author of 20 plays. She is thrilled to make her MTC debut with such a beautiful show and cast.

Charlie Gallant Stanley/Musician

MTC First appearance.

FILM/TV Performed for various national broadcasts including: Canada Day Live from Parliament Hill, the Juno Awards 2005 and The Neighbour’s Dog. ET CETERA Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter

MTC First appearance.

with Juno Award-winning roots band Nathan. Love and thanks to my family.

OTHER THEATRE Selected credits include: Dangerous

Corner (VP); Black Comedy, His Greatness (Arts Club); The Real Thing (Belfry/Arts Club); The December Man, Steel Kiss (Green Thumb Theatre); Falstaff, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet (Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival); Guys and Dolls (Studio 58—Ovation Award nomination).

FILM Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief (FOX 2000 Pictures), Brother (Blackspot Films).

TRAINING Graduate of Studio 58.

ET CETERA Charlie is the recipient of two Jessies, the

Sydney J. Risk Award for Acting and the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame’s Star of Tomorrow scholarship.

Blair Northwood Bobbie/Johnnie/Musician

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Blair was most recently onstage with his Los Angeles-based improv group at the West Side Comedy Theatre in Santa Monica and the Los Angeles Comedy Festival (ACME Theatre).

FILM Blair just recently finished production on a selfwritten short film. jan/feb 2011

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ARTISTS TRAINING Graduate of the Mount Royal University

Theatre program.

ET CETERA Blair is very excited to be a part of such

an amazing project. He would like to give special thanks to Christina for all her support.

Noël Coward Author

director include A Matter of Life and Death, Tristan and Yseult (Royal National Theatre); Cymbeline, Don John (RSC); Hansel and Gretel (Bristol Old Vic); The Bacchae, The Wooden Frock (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Nights at the Circus, The Red Shoes (Lyric Hammersmith); Rapunzel (BAC); Pandora’s Box (Northern Stage).

Other composer/music director work includes Shakespeare’s Globe, Bristol Old Vic, Donmar Warehouse, Welfare State International, Contact Theatre, Travelling Light, Horse and Bamboo.

Max Reimer Director Noël Coward began his theatre career as a child actor at the age of 11. His breakthrough came in 1924 with The Vortex. Three major hits soon followed— Hay Fever, Fallen Angels and Easy Virtue—and his successes continued well into the 1930s with Bitter Sweet, Private Lives, Cavalcade, Design for Living and one of his most ambitious ventures: Tonight at 8:30.

After his intelligence work for the British Foreign Office during the Second World War (technically, he was a spy), Coward continued to produce plays and musicals, and performed as a cameo actor in such films as Around the World in 80 Days, Our Man in Havana and The Italian Job. In 1970, Coward finally received a long-deserved knighthood. He died peacefully in Jamaica in 1973.

Emma Rice Adaptor Emma Rice is the Joint Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre, where she has directed The Red Shoes (Theatrical Management Association Theatre Award— Best Director), The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae, Tristan and Yseult, Cymbeline (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company), A Matter of Life and Death (Royal National Theatre production in association with Kneehigh Theatre), Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre), Brief Encounter (tour, West End and New York) and Don John (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bristol Old Vic). She was nominated for the 2009 Olivier Award for Best Director for Brief Encounter.

MTC Actor: Grease, The Boyfriend.

OTHER THEATRE Max has directed more than 200

plays and musicals from Vancouver to Charlottetown, including The Drowsy Chaperone (Jessie Award), Oklahoma!, Cinderella, Oliver!, Peter Pan, The King and I, 10 productions of Anne of Green Gables and nine productions of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He has been a director, associate director, choreographer, actor and dancer at the Stratford Festival (three seasons), Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre (seven seasons), the Charlottetown Festival (seven seasons), the Huron Country Playhouse (also Artistic Director/General Manager, 1992-‘96), Theatre Aquarius (also Managing Artistic Director 19962008), Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company (also Artistic Managing Director 2008-present).

TV MacGyver, Stingray, Airwolf, 21 Jump Street. After

a series of wins, Max and his partner were the first Canadians to reach the semi-finals of Star Search in 1985.

ET CETERA Max co-wrote and directed the original

musicals Canadian Café, The Little Match Girl, and four revues performed with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.

Alan Brodie Set Design Adaptor & Lighting Designer

Stu Barker Composer MTC The Overcoat.

Stu Barker has worked extensively as a composer/ music director with Kneehigh Theatre over the last 15 years. Co-produced shows as composer/music

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OTHER THEATRE Beyond Eden (with Kevin Lamotte),

Miss Julie: Freedom Summer, Frost/Nixon, The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, Vigil, I Am My Own Wife,

ARTISTS Copenhagen, Stones in His Pockets, Mary’s Wedding, Proof, The Overcoat, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The History of Things to Come, 2000, Tons of Money (VP); Tear the Curtain (Electric Company Theatre/Arts Club); The Doctor’s Dilemma, Age of Arousal (Shaw); Plot Point (Nederlands Dans Theater); Vigil (American Conservatory Theatre); 7 Stories (TC/CS); Cyrano de Bergerac (Stratford).

TRAINING Sheila has just completed a textiles course

at Central St. Martins College in London, England.

ET CETERA Sheila is a member of Associated Design-

ers of Canada and IATSE 891.

Lucas Cooper Sound Designer

TRAINING Graduate of UBC. ET CETERA Alan is a member of Associated Design-

ers of Canada. He resides in Vancouver with his wife Michele and their boxer Ellie.

MTC Billy Bishop Goes to War (with Grand/NAC/ Christopher Wootten).

Sheila White Costume Designer

OTHER THEATRE The Fantasticks, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, Oliver! (VP).

MTC First engagement.

ET CETERA Lucas is currently working with Richmond

OTHER THEATRE The Miracle Worker, Top Girls, True

Sound Design providing show-control support for overseas projects.

West (VP); Don Quixote, White Christmas, Home Child, Black Comedy, Altar Boyz (Arts Club); How It Works, Influence—Jessie Award for Outstanding Costume Design (Touchstone Theatre); After the Quake (Pi Theatre); opening and closing ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games.

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Deco Dawson

Claire French

Video Design Adaptor & Creator

Movement Assistant

MTC First engagement.

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE As Video Designer and Production

OTHER THEATRE Claire has worked with numerous

Director: Rick: The Rick Hansen Story (MTYP/VanocCultural Olympiad and MTYP/Citadel). As Video Designer: Ri¢h, Kindness, Silverwing (MTYP); To the Country (The Winnipegger Ensemble). As Writer and Director (selected): The Leitmotif Lives of Nero and Samdi (Little Theatre/Northwest Film Forum); The Incidental Tribulations of Wake Me and My (Endstop and Elsewhere/Fringe).

FILM/TV As Writer and Director (selected): The Last Moment, Defile in Veil, Dumb Angel, Emend, Knout, Luster, Lode, FILM(dzama), Elizabeth Short, Sluice Box and a Rocker, www.decodawson.com.

ET CETERA Deco has received 11 international awards

for his film work, including the Best Short Film Award from the Toronto International Film Festival for FILM(dzama). Big thank you to Heather and Metro.

theatre companies, including Bella Luna, Screaming Flea and Double Helix.

FILM 30-Love (Bravo).

TRAINING/TEACHING Claire holds a BA (Hons.) in Dance with Inter-Arts, Bretton Hall, UK (1994), and a MFA Interdisciplinary Studies, SFU (1999), where she also taught in 2007. She was a dance artist in residence at Leeds University, UK (2005/07), The Dance Centre (2009), and is currently at The Landing.

ET CETERA Claire is an independent choreographer

working in film, theatre, opera and contemporary dance across Canada, Europe and the UK. She runs Project CPR and co-runs the Vancouver Global Dance Project and Restless Productions.

Jason Hand

Meg Roe

Assistant Lighting Designer

Assistant Director

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Director: The Tempest, Henry V (Bard

on the Beach Shakespeare Festival); The Miracle Worker (VP). Meg’s work as an actor, director and sound designer has appeared across the country at the Canadian Stage Company, Factory Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Junction, Citadel Theatre, Ruby Slippers Theatre, Electric Company Theatre, Blackbird Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Arts Club, Belfry, Theatre SKAM, Intrepid Theatre, the Vancouver Playhouse, Western Canada Theatre, the National Arts Centre, Centaur Theatre and the American Conservatory Theatre (San Francisco).

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MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Recent credits: The Trespassers

(Stratford); A Boy Called Newfoundland, Tijuana Cure (Theatre Smash); Peer Gynt, Gorey Story (The Thistle Project); Icarus Redux, The Red Queen Effect, Buried (Next Stage Festival); Giulio Cesare (Orchestra London). As an Assistant Designer: more than 35 productions with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, the Canadian Opera Company, Drayton Entertainment and Dancap Productions.

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Peter is trying to live a good life. but when the Mennonite farmer begins to challenge church teachings, the religious leaders decide to punish him with solitude. Despite domestic and community pressures, he refuses to stop questioning. Manitoba playwright Patrick Friesen weaves a tangled web between faith and the faithful.

Three ghostly brides surface from bathtubs filled with water to gather evidence against their womanizing, murderous husband. based on an actual scotland Yard case, this visually stunning production is told with graceful beauty and gallows humour.

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ARTISTS

Sarah Mansikka Assistant Lighting Designer

(TC); The Magic Flute, The Barber of Seville, Aida, Faust, Madama Butterfly (Manitoba Opera); Zadie’s Shoes, Blue/Orange, Joni Mitchell: River, A Doll’s House (PTE); Fiddler on the Roof (VP).

FILM Recently completed film projects include Cashing In (Season 3), The Year Dolly Parton was My Mom, Amreeka and Keep Your Head Up, Kid – The Don Cherry Story.

MTC First engagement.

ET CETERA Special thanks to partner, Ross McMillan.

OTHER THEATRE Sarah has worked as an Assistant

Lighting Designer with Vancouver Opera and the The Banff Centre; Lighting Designer with Pink Baby Monster and Gas Heart; Lighting Director for the tour of Best Before (Rimini Protokoll).

Michael Duggan Apprentice Stage Manager

TRAINING Sarah is a graduate of the BFA Theatre

Design program at Concordia University.

ET CETERA Sarah is currently based in Vancouver.

MTC The Seafarer, Steel Magnolias.

Rick Rinder Stage Manager

MTC Shirley Valentine, Arsenic and Old Lace, Homeward Bound (with VP), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – A Love Story (with CS/TC/VP), A Perfect Ganesh (with VP), Billy Bishop Goes to War (with Grand/NAC/Christopher Wootten), The Rainmaker (with VP).

OTHER THEATRE The Barber of Seville (Manitoba

Opera); Fen, FemFest (Sarasvàti Productions); Billy Bishop Goes to War, Saint Joan, Habitat (Theatre by the River); Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman (U of W); Zombie Prom (Winnipeg Fringe Festival); Altar Boyz (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); The Late Show (White Rabbit Productions).

TRAINING Mike has recently finished his BA (Hons.)

at the U of W in theatre production/stage management.

ET CETERA Mike is happy to be back at MTC.

OTHER THEATRE Most recently: Beyond Eden (VP/

TC); The Miracle Worker (VP); Shirley Valentine (Centaur Theatre Company/CS, Western Canada Theatre).

ET CETERA Rick lived in Winnipeg when he stage

managed the RWB from 1988 to 1991. He now lives in Maple Ridge, BC, with the woman of his dreams, Nadine.

Wanda Bretecher Assistant Stage Manager

Thank you to all of our patrons who donated to the

Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Theatre Scholarship during our run of White Christmas.

MTC collected $27,500 that will go towards theatre scholarships and

MTC Doubt, A Parable (with TC), Glengarry Glen Ross, Humble Boy, Over the River and Through the Woods, The History of Manitoba from the Beginning of Time to the Present in 45 Minutes, The Rainmaker (with VP), Sylvia.

OTHER THEATRE Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet (SIR); A

Chorus Line (Rainbow); Crimes of the Heart, Atlantis

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Wayne Nicklas saw life as a great adventure, and lived as if each moment had the potential to surprise him. He was kind, smart, curious, generous and fun-loving; he always seemed to be either laughing or making other people laugh. Yet, because of his imposing stature, Wayne often played intimidating characters, like the 120-year-old gunslinger Blue Morphan in The Unseen Hand or the caninekiller Black Shag in Shakespeare’s Dog (right).

Both those productions were important to our theatre: The Unseen Hand was the first play Steven Schipper directed at the Warehouse theatre, and Shakespeare’s Dog had its world premiere during our theatre’s 50th anniversary, before going on to Ottawa’s National Arts Centre. In fact, Wayne collaborated with us on many of MTC’s landmark productions. He worked with Seana McKenna when she made her Mainstage debut in Born Yesterday, with William Hurt on Richard III, and with Keanu Reeves on Hamlet. He was Pozzo in our Waiting for Godot, in the very first Master Playwright Festival.

And to each role, he brought integrity, imagination and craft.

“Perhaps if one of you princes could match him for wit, it would make my choice easier. Perhaps if one of you could come close to him in intelligence, I’d find an easy match. If there were one among you with his breeding, one who shared his reverence for the gods, his love for the world, for beauty, his horror at cruelty …. I’ve looked among you. I haven’t found him.”

photo by Bruce Monk

When an actor dies, we often quote Shakespeare’s “good-night, sweet prince” speech, but Wayne liked surprises, so instead we’ll refer to Rick Chafe’s play The Odyssey, and Penelope’s speech about Odysseus, one of Wayne’s most memorable roles for Shakespeare in the Ruins:

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We sincerely thank our community of sponsors, donors, volunteers and guests for making this evening so memorable. Your kind contributions will support the Manitoba Theatre Centre’s many programs and productions while ensuring that live theatre continues to thrive in our community.

We invite you to join the celebration next year on November 5, 2011, at the 29th annual Black and White Gala Ball.

Photo by Steve Salnikowski, chroniccreative.com

On Saturday, November 6, 2010, the Manitoba Theatre Centre presented its 28th annual Black and White Gala Ball in the historic Fort Garry Hotel’s Grand Ballroom. More than 390 guests were treated to a sumptuous dinner and the marvelous talents of the Danny Kramer Event Band. The evening was truly one to remember as the Grand Ballroom was transformed into the elegant backdrop for an evening showcasing the countless talented artists behind the scenes who bring productions to MTC stages. Our guests, sponsors and donors made the evening complete by lending their generous support to MTC’s signature fundraising event. We are truly grateful

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Gloria Mancini, Co-Chair

Leona MacDonald

Al Snyder

Zaz Bajon, General Manager

Brenda Zaporzan, Co-Chair

Luisa Matheson

Michelle Weinberg

Kristine Betker, Director of Fund Development

Anne-Marie Brownell

Caroline Mehra

Rod Woodcock

Jade Dawson, Assistant Special Events Coordinator

Florence Eastwood

Rosemary Miguez

Gerry Couture, Ex-Officio

Stephanie Lambert, Special & Donor Events Coordinator

Gail Granger

Lawrence Prout

Gary Hannaford, Ex-Officio

Daphne MacMillan, Administrative Secretary

Mariyka Hirschfeld

Wayne Rogers

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Setting The Stage August Strindberg was prolific, to say the least.

He wrote many works of fiction, nonfiction and, of course, plays. What is it, then, that makes his play Miss Julie so seminal, and why is it constantly being reinvented and re-imagined, as is the case with this production of After Miss Julie?

Strindberg was an artist ahead of his time. Miss Julie dealt with Freudian ideas before Freud had even formulated them, it presented the play in real time without the artifice of typical act-driven theatre and it discussed several taboo subjects—pre-marital sex and desire being but one example. The play took women out of the demure sitting rooms of the upper class and showed the nitty-gritty—that women were individuals with strength, determination and yes, even sexual desire.

Societal constructs that place women at a disadvantage are still prevalent today, and the fierce determination and strength of Miss Julie, with her desire to free herself from society’s expectations and prescribed roles, still resonates strongly with modern audiences. However, with talk of counts and the like, the play can seem a bit dated on today’s stages. The re-imagining of Strindberg’s work can take the intensity of the strength and conflict of the main characters and place them in a period – Ross McMillan modern audiences find more relatable.

The play dwells in the intersection between social hierarchy and relationships between the sexes Miss Julie in a certain sense, not because of her rich background, but because she is trapped in this constructed society where women are supposed to behave in a certain way, and she is rebelling.”

“The play dwells in the intersection between social hierarchy and relationships between the sexes—two intersecting power relations, and when they’re both embodied in the same couple,

Some Noteworthy

1986 Bob Heaney and Mikael Wahlforss directed

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an adaptation of Miss Julie set in South Africa in the 1980s. In their version, the two main characters had to contend with the conflict of being separated by race as well as class and gender.

Portrait of August Strindberg by Richard Bergh, 1905

John Bluethner, a local actor and professor of English at École technique et professionnelle at Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface, will kick off StrindbergFest with a talk entitled Madman, Misogynist or Genius?. “(Miss Julie) is very strong, and exists in an era where women are supposed to basically kowtow to men, and let’s face it, there are still a lot of men in society who would prefer that.” says Bluethner. “Today, women relate to

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there’s the possibility for the kind of intense fireworks that we all keep suppressed in our own lives. The play is a vicarious possibility of personal revolution, so why not adapt that power in order to animate and magnify other times and places?” asks Ross McMillan, co-author of Miss Julie at the Gates, an adaptation of Strindberg’s classic that takes place in Winnipeg.

Any reinvention of Miss Julie has to stay true to the original. “For the play to work, the stakes still have to be strong enough that it makes sense to the audience that Miss Julie ends so tragically,” explains Bluethner. “It still has to maintain that kind of societal pressure that forces (the characters) into that kind of tragedy so the audience will still accept it and be moved by it.”

about her. You gotta’ play hard to get.’ The game is still afoot, so to speak.”

One would think, then, that with this premise still so prevalent today, playwrights would not need to use Strindberg’s work as a starting point. After all, we have our modern experience to draw from when it comes to the conflicts of class structure, gender roles and the sexes. Yet, the ideas and conflicts apparent in Miss Julie often remain elusive to modern playwrights—perhaps unnerving those who attempt to recreate them on their own.

Despite our claims to modernity, the battle between the sexes still exists. As Bluethner points out, many Hollywood movies still take as their premise the manipulation that happens between men and women. “I’ve seen lots of movies where the advice is ‘Don’t really let her know you care

“There’s something downright spooky about Strindberg,” says McMillan. “And although Miss Julie is, on the surface, a naturalistic play, it conjures devils. We don’t trust ourselves to get it right in the original context. We think it will slip through our fingers, so we anchor it closer to home. Partly, it’s a lack of confidence when confronted with something profoundly powerful.

Partly, it is what all artists do: use that uncertainty to make a leap into something new and unknown, which is how Strindberg would have wanted it, I think.”

2006 Frank McGuinness penned an adaptation of

2009 Toronto’s Canadian Stage Company staged

Miss Julie set in Northern Ireland in the 19th century.

This version used the tension between the Roman Catholic Irish servant class and the Anglo-Irish Protestant gentry.

a version of Miss Julie set in 1964 Mississippi with themes of racial violence, interracial sex and the American Civil Rights Movement.

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Bethany Jillard

has quite an impressive resume for someone so new to the acting

profession. Despite her great success in the theatre world, Jillard remains humble and approaches every new role as a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Her excitement about the theatre is infectious, and she shared some of her thoughts on her craft and her anticipated turn as Miss Julie in After Miss Julie with MTC’s Tara Seel.

Bethany Jillard as CĂŠcile Volanges in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival production of Dangerous Liaisons.

Photo by David Hou

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I understand you’ve just come off a great season at Stratford, and you recently won a prestigious award.

Yes. I won the Stage West – Equity Emerging Theatre Artist Award, which is annually awarded by the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. It is funded by Stage West basically to recognize an actor who’s been part of the union for less than three years but has made a significant impact on the theatre scene.

Congratulations. That’s quite an honour!

Thanks! I was really excited. A company here in Toronto that I’ve worked with quite a bit, called Theatre Gargantua, nominated me, and a couple other artists stood behind the nomination. I got the call, and (my reaction was) “Oh my God! Cool!”

What is it like now for you to say you’re a professional actor, having this award and Stratford on your resume?

It’s pretty awesome to be able to do what I love to do, to be able to call the thing I’m most passionate about my career. For my job, I do what I would do for free. It’s a neat thing to be able to do something that I love that much. Having been so positively embraced, supported and encouraged by the community of artists that we have here in Canada has been a real honour and a real treat.

To consider myself part of that community is really exciting.

I remember the first time I got a part at the Tarragon, Daniel McIvor had written it and was directing, and that was really my first professional break, and I remember walking on the street after I got it and thinking, “What?!” It was this weird feeling of “I’m going to be doing that! I’m a real actor now.” It’s a pretty amazing feeling, for sure.

Has this always been your dream? Is this what you’ve always wanted to do?

It’s funny. I grew up performing. It’s always been a big part of my life, particularly through dance.

I danced for a long time and did community theatre. My mom was a drama teacher. The arts and performing arts were always a part of my life, but I never really thought you could do it as a career.

It was something I did for fun.

When the time came for me to go to university, I got a scholarship to go to Guelph for its science program, and at the time, I wanted to be a veterinarian. It was a really great opportunity, and I was

pretty stoked about it. I accepted the scholarship and went. Halfway through my first year, I realized what life would be like if I didn’t have the arts in it at all because I didn’t really have time to do any acting or dancing, and I think at that point, I started to ask, “Do I really want to do this? Is this what I want my life to be like?” It was a really huge moment for me. Everything kind of came together at once, and I knew I had to go to school for acting—that’s what I really want to do.

I put together this whole binder for my parents about why I was going to switch. I built this great presentation and had this very passionate letter written about how acting was in my soul and it was my dream. I went on and on. It was quite extraordinary! I got home, and I said, “Mom, Dad, I’d just like to say a few things before you comment, but I’m switching out of my program to go into theatre.” And they both started laughing. I was confused, and they said, “We were wondering how long it would take.” It was pretty funny. I was so ready for them to ask, “Are you sure that’s a good idea?” But they were great!

It’s pretty incredible to have that kind of support.

Yes! My whole family, and my husband as well.

I’m really lucky to be surrounded by incredibly supportive people who believe in me and who believe in the arts and who believe in theatre. I feel very lucky in that regard.

What have been some of your most memorable experiences so far? What stands out for you?

Every time I start a new part, I think, “This is my favourite project! This is the best thing I’ve ever done!” But there are some things that really stand out. This season at Stratford was a big one for me. Seana McKenna was one of the actresses I’ve admired my whole life. I grew up going to see her at Stratford and wherever we could see her. Her craft is so inspiring to me. When I found out that she was in Dangerous Liaisons and I was cast in it, I was so incredibly excited. She was amazing.

She became a friend and a mentor. It was such a beautiful experience to work with someone I’d admired so fully for so long, and the whole cast was really like that—Tom McCamus and Martha Henry, who I had auditioned for when I was nine for something at the Grand Theatre. I had a letter from her that she wrote to me when I was nine years old that said, “We haven’t found the person that is perfect for this part yet, but we really enjoyed your audition. I hope you keep training jan/feb 2011

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curtain calls and working, and hopefully we’ll see you again sometime.” I showed up to the first rehearsals for Dangerous Liaisons, and I said, “Hi, Martha. You’re not going to remember me, but …”

A full circle moment?

Exactly! Working on that show, there were so many people who are incredibly gifted artists.

That was really a big moment for me. Then, I did My Name is Rachel Corrie here in Toronto, which was my first one-woman show. It really changed my life being able to play that role and step into that world both professionally and personally. It was such a profound experience.

How do you approach your craft? When you get a role, how do you start to even wrap your head around it? (laughs) It’s something that just happens. I’m not even going to sit back and try to define it and say, “Oh, that’s the first thing I do, and then the next thing is.” I don’t know, exactly, if there is a formula for how I approach anything, but usually, I just read the play—a lot for the first while. I just keep reading it, and I really try as much as possible to explore the work without making assumptions about it. I find reading the play over and over again allows me to get inside the role in an organic way. I’m not trying to make any decisions about it. I’m just trying to hear it the way it is on the page.

Last night, I read After Miss Julie again. It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve looked at it, so new things jump out. It’s such a passionate, and in some ways, such a cruel play. There were some real moments that just jumped out for me that didn’t last time—lines that I hadn’t quite heard, for example, and I start to feel more and more connected to it.

For my own sake, rather than trying to figure out a character, I try to connect to it. Another thing I try to do is figure out the facts of the play.

What are the things that are absolute truths?

What are some of the things the characters say about Miss Julie and what do they say about the other characters. In this play, there’s a particular time period we’re going to be working with, so I’m doing some research about that period. What’s going on in England at that time? Particularly for a role like this, what are the gender issues surrounding that culture? All of that stuff. Anything that can fill in the background a little bit will be helpful at some point.

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after miss julie Prior to stepping into rehearsal, I’ll do some table work-type stuff on my own—objectives and actions. I walk into the rehearsal hall ready to dive in and forget all of the prep I have done, let it become background, trusting myself that all that is setting up the foundation for where we can jump off. I really allow myself to be in the room with the team that has been assembled and create the play we’re going to create as a team. I love the rehearsal process. If I depended too much on the work I do on my own, it would rob me of the opportunity to be alive in the room.

We’ve talked a bit about how you are preparing for your role in After Miss Julie, but what about the role appealed to you?

There (was) a lot …. To be totally honest, right off the bat when my agent called me and said I had an audition for the role of Miss Julie in After Miss Julie, there’s that moment you stop and think because it is such an iconic role. It’s one of those roles that you say, “I’m not going to say no to that.” I’d read Miss Julie and studied it, but I hadn’t read this re-imagining of it. “It’s so good,” I thought. “I love it!” So there’s that—just knowing that it is the kind of role that the opportunity to explore isn’t going to come around all the time; it is definitely worth it.

Once I read the play and started to prepare for that audition, I just got more and more of a feeling—I have to do this. It gets under my skin. I’m a little nervous to talk about who she is, but she has such a passion. She might be totally messed up, but I’d like to get into that world and be that alive and have the stakes be that high, be shattered.

The play is so rich with moments and wit and pain and joy—it runs the gamut of all those really big human emotions and experiences. I thought right from the beginning that it would be incredibly exciting to be part of bringing that to life.

Part of the appeal for me, too, was being able to come to MTC. I’ve never worked outside of Ontario, so having the chance to travel there is appealing, and I’ve only heard wonderful things about the community and the theatre community in Winnipeg, so there’s that that is really exciting as well. It’s a really good team they’ve assembled, so there’s a lot of reasons why. Also, I just love to work (laughs). Any opportunity to be on contract and do what I love, I’ll do it.

To hear part of the chat between Bethany and Tara, visit our website at www.mtc.mb.ca and click on After Miss Julie extras.

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Director Set & Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

John Bourgeois Brian Perchaluk Hugh Conacher Michael Wright Michelle Lagassé Ayden Buss

The Cast (in alphabetical order)

Christine Sarah Constible Miss Julie Bethany Jillard John Peter Mooney setting

The kitchen of a large country house outside London.

July 26, 1945. The evening of the British Labour Party’s General Election victory.

World stage premiere presented at the Donmar Warehouse, London, November 20th 2003.

Originally produced in the United States on September 18, 2009, by Roundabout Theatre Company, Todd Haimes, Artistic Director.

After Miss Julie is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

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ARTISTS

Sarah Constible

Measure for Measure, Heartbreak House, Sled (NTS); Romeo and Juliet, The Odyssey, The Hobbit (MTYP).

MTC Bleeding Hearts, The Threepenny Opera.

FILM/TV Camelot (Starz/CBC); Being Erica (CBC); CSI: Miami, The Tower (CBS); The Twelve Men of Christmas (Fox); Harriet the Spy (Disney Channel); ZOS: Zone of Separation (TMN); Summer (ZedFilmworks); Murdoch Mysteries (CHUM/CITY/Bravo); Category 7: The End of the World (CBS/Paramount); Falcon Beach (Global/ ABC Family).

OTHER THEATRE The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello,

TRAINING Peter is a graduate of the National Theatre

The Merchant of Venice, Richard III, The Tempest, The Odyssey (SIR); The Monster Trilogy, Murder Ballads, Between Then and Now (TPM); The Edible Woman, Godspell, Unity (1918), Strawberries in January (PTE).

ET CETERA Peter is a three-time recipient of the Jean

Christine

School of Canada.

Murray – Moray Sinclair Scholarship.

FILM/TV The Stone Angel, Less Than Kind, House Party, High Life, The Many Trials of One Jane Doe, The Haunting in Connecticut, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil.

August Strindberg Playwright of Miss Julie

Bethany Jillard Miss Julie

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Dangerous Liaisons, Peter Pan

(Stratford); That Face (Nightwood Theatre); fIBBER (Theatre Gargantua); My Name is Rachel Corrie (theatre PANIK); How It Works (Tarragon); A Man of No Importance (Acting Up Stage Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winter’s Tale (The Driftwood Theatre Group).

FILM/TV If I Were You, Rookie Blue, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, Murdoch Mysteries.

ET CETERA In 2010, Bethany was honoured by the

Canadian Actors’ Equity Association with the Stage West – Equity Emerging Theatre Artist Award. Much love and many thanks to my wonderful husband, Chris, and to all the people who make my life rich with inspiration, love, laughter and faith.

Peter Mooney John

MTC Jitters, Pride and Prejudice, Our Town, The Tempest.

OTHER THEATRE The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (GCTC);

Tales from Ovid (Centaur Theatre Company/NTS); For a full list of theatre abbreviations, please Refer to legend on page 4

Johan August Strindberg was born in Stockholm on January 22, 1849. He attended the University of Uppsala, but would often leave to perform at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, or to teach and write plays. He left the university in 1872. In 1879, Strindberg published his novel The Red Room, making him famous in Sweden. His play Master Olof, a historical drama published in 1872, was finally performed in 1881, and he wrote several plays criticizing the social conventions in Sweden, including Lucky Peter’s Travels, The Father, Miss Julie, Creditors, The Stronger and Playing with Fire. After being hospitalized for emotional stress during the 1890s, he wrote 36 plays from 1898 to 1909, including To Damascus, The Dance of Death, A Dream Play, Queen Christina and The Ghost Sonata. He died in Stockholm on May 14, 1912.

Patrick Marber Playwright Patrick Marber was born in London. His first play, Dealer’s Choice, opened at the Royal National Theatre in February 1995. Dealer’s Choice received the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writer’s Guild Award for Best West End Play. His second play, Closer, opened at the National Theatre in May 1997 and was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy, the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play. Closer opened on Broadway in March 1999 and received nominations for a Tony Award for Best Play, an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play and a jan/feb 2011

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ARTISTS Drama Desk Award for Best Play, and was awarded the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. Marber’s television work includes After Miss Julie, which he adapted and directed for BBC Two.

John Bourgeois

TRAINING Brian is a graduate of the National Theatre

School and the University of Winnipeg.

ET CETERA Brian has received a Gemini Award for

production design and a Jessie Richardson Award for set design. He is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Director

Hugh Conacher Lighting Designer

MTC The Price, Prospero in The Tempest, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Cherry Docs, Oleanna, Lost in Yonkers, Frankie & Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Broadway Bound.

OTHER THEATRE Three seasons with the Stratford

Shakespeare Festival; Gaslight (Walnut Street Theatre); Tamara (Off-Broadway); M. Butterfly (TA); The Half of It (CS); Bea’s Niece (Tarragon); Bag Babies (Theatre Passe Muraille); Rough Crossing (Centaur Theatre Company).

FILM/TV A Different Loyalty (with Sharon Stone); Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani Story (with James Woods); XIII: The Conspiracy (NBC); The 19th Wife (Lifetime); Haven (Showtime). Upcoming:The Kennedys (with Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes).

TEACHING Director of Humber College’s Acting for

Film & TV Program.

Brian Perchaluk Set & Costume Designer

MTC Macbeth, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Glass Menagerie, Beautiful Lake Winnipeg, A Walk in the Woods, Frankenstein: Playing with Fire.

OTHER THEATRE Hugh has collaborated with

choreographers, dance companies and theatres across Canada for more than 30 years. In Winnipeg, he regularly works with Theatre Projects Manitoba, Winnipeg Jewish Theatre and Manitoba Theatre for Young People and is currently designing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s new production, Wonderland.

ET CETERA Hugh has expanded his process to include

various forms of interactive media and photography, as recently seen in Hybrid Human at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Jolene Bailie’s Sensory Life, Infinite World and in Freya Olafson’s Avatar. His photographic work has been published throughout North America and beyond. HughConacher.com

Michael Wright Sound Designer MTC More than 40 productions, including recent and favourites: Steel Magnolias, Educating Rita, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), Our Town, Trying, My Fair Lady, The Lonesome West, To Kill a Mockingbird, Patience, Quills, Travels with My Aunt, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Oleanna, M. Butterfly (with NAC), Morning’s at Seven, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Filthy Rich.

OTHER THEATRE Brian’s work has been featured at

theatres across the country, including two seasons each at the Shaw and Stratford Festivals. Selected recent credits include: Vimy (NAC/GCTC); Semele (Pacific Opera Victoria); Souvenirs, Bordertown Café, Lawrence and Holloman, Glorious (PTE); Transit of Venus (Manitoba Opera); The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold Productions); King Lear, Fidelio (Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada).

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MTC The Seafarer, Looking Back – West, Top Girls, Rope’s End, Fully Committed, The Last Five Years, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Cherry Docs.

OTHER THEATRE North Main Gothic, The Monster

Trilogy, The Elmwood Visitation, Age of Arousal (TPM); Everything is Coming Up Roses (Gearshifting Performance Works); Mmm Munsch, Something Drastic, Puppet Munsch (PTE); Macbeth (SIR); The Designated Mourner (Persona Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival); Hedwig and the Angry Inch Atrocity Tour 2004 (Rose Tinted Productions, UK).

FILM Métis, Métis Not, The Last Havest.

ET CETERA Michael is active in the music world with

over two dozen album credits. He lives in Winnipeg with his partner Arlea and is a member of IATSE 63.

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Michelle Lagassé

Ayden Buss

Stage Manager

Apprentice Stage Manager

MTC Top Girls, Jitters, The Constant Wife (with Citadel), The Last Five Years, Feelgood (with GCTC).

MTC It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play.

OTHER THEATRE Recent productions: Strike! – The

Musical (Danny Schur); Glorious (PTE); Lenin’s Embalmers (WJT/Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company); Remember the Night (Moving Target Theatre Company).

You: The Life and Music of Lucille Starr (PTE); Strike!

– The Musical (Danny Schur); The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold Productions). Stage Manager: Early Man, Merry Tyll and the Three Rogues, Dragon of the Winds (MTYP Theatre School).

TRAINING A graduate of the National Theatre School

TRAINING Ten years of Theatre School at MTYP, four

of Canada.

years in MTYP’s Young Company.

ET CETERA Up next: Burnin’ Love (PTE).

ET CETERA Thank you to my parents for everything they provide, and thank you, Liz, for being my light.

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individual giving sharing stories with audiences in an auditorium speaks to a basic desire for communal experiences.

As we embark on a new year, I wonder if we should resolve to be more engaged in the world around us. The challenge of creating a better Since it’s virtually unavoidable this time of year, I’ve been thinking about resolutions. Although it feels a bit disheartening to face the New Year by making a laundry list of personal shortcomings, my spirits were recently buoyed by some funny resolutions I found on the internet.

world is daunting, but we shouldn’t overlook the difference we can all make as individuals.

Whether this means supporting a cause, volunteering for a worthwhile organization, cheering for the home team or attending a live performance, there’s nothing as effective as participating in the activities that shape our community.

My favourites were: “I will think of a password other than password,” “I will not chase that stick unless I actually see it leave his hand” (for my

On behalf of MTC’s artists, board and staff, I wish you the very best in 2011.

dog Molly) and “I will stop sending e-mail, instant messages and be on the phone at the same time

Yours always,

with the same person.”

Although this last one was written in jest, it does speak to the pervasiveness of technology in today’s world. And this makes me appreciate that theatre is still a very personal experience. We make use of technology, it’s true, but the act of

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Greg Edmond & Irene Groot-Koerkamp Brenda & Michael Evans Denzil Feinberg & June Wells Marion Fellinger Nelma Fetterman Dr. & Mrs. D.D. & B.M. Fillis Lee Finch John & Clara Fjeldsted Helen Fontaine Janice & Russ Foster Cathy & Mark Freedman Gitta Fricke Mrs. J. Fujii Ms. Linda Garwood-Filbert Lynne Gauld Kimberly & Barry Gembey Eileen George Lillian Gibson Trish Gibson Carole Giesbrecht Patricia Glover Elisabeth Gordon Mrs. Joyce Graham Patrick Graham Libby Greenfield Mr. J.E. Guthrie Mr. & Mrs. S. Hackbart J.R. Halaiko Dr. Linda Hamilton & Cst. Grange Morrow

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Margaret Morran Fern Morris Marlene A. Mortimer Kenneth Mount Shelley Muir Judy Naaykens Ken & Jane Nattrass Mr. & Mrs. V. & M. Nelson Debra & John Neufeld † Glenn & Neva Nicholls Robert J. Nickel & Barbara E. Nickel Vivienne Nickerson Esther Nisenholt Mr. Patrick O’Connor Terry & Karen Ogden Doris Mae Oulton & Cam Mackie James E. Parker Sonjia Pasiechnik Mr. & Mrs. Robert Patrick Edmund & Arlene Patzer Liz Patzer Wayne Pauls Leanne Peleck Frank Pisa Keith Powls Donald & Connie Price Ron & Sylvia Pryhitko Diana & Bryan Purdy Bill Rennie Henry & Sheila Riendeau David & Helene Riesen Sherry Ripak Elaine Roznatoski John S. Russell Michael T. Ruta F.E. Sanderson Gwen Satran Grant & Janet Saunders Anita Savage Rebecca Schindle Ivor & Lorna Schledewitz Frank & Roseanne Scholz Adolph & Diane Schurek Mr. Hartley Schwark Douglas & Wendy Scott Faye Scott Tamara Selene Mares Jim & Susan Shaw Joyce Shead Shirley E. Sherwood Bryce & Jenna Simes Howard & Sue Simpson M.A. Skatfeld David Skinner Miss Debbie Spracklin David Stacey Eileen & Ed Stanton K.J. Steen Lydia Sykes Brenda Taylor Peter & Sharon Taylor Douglas & Leeann Thompson Gordon L. & Mary E. Toombs James & Marcella Towle

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W. Tretiak & B. Baydock Sharon, Stephen & Joseph Tritt Grant Tweed Helmet Unruh Gabor Vamos & Brenda Silver Jackie Van Winkle † Elaine Walker Paula Walker George Waters Donna Webb Allan & Mavis Whicker Linda L. Wiebe Mark Wiese Leslie Wilson Murray & Ivy Wilson Donna Winstone Richard Woodhouse Grant & Sheila Woods Graham Wren Carrie Yudai Mary & Peter Zadorozny Ken Zealand 32 Anonymous Tribute Gifts In loving memory of Giuseppa & Giuseppe Bueti —Caterina Sotiriadis In memory of Winn Burns —Charlotte Murrell In honour of Robert Ferguson on his 90th birthday —Marina Plett-Lyle & David Lyle

Happy birthday to Kerri —Kimberly & Barry Gembey In memory of Dora (Mae) Luckhurst —Roy & Nancy Vincent, Geoff & Margie Luckhurst, the Murray Family, Barbara Hamilton & Jim Smith, Anthony Fischer from Scotia Private Client Group, David S. Morse, Marc Monnin & Donna Miller, Marilyn & Norman Goldberg, Robert Doyle, Dossie Harrison, G. William Luckhurst, Joyce McLauchlan, Kevin & Els Kavanagh, Lee & Carol MacKenzie, Leslie & Michael Kapon, Rita Eyer, Albert & Marilyn Clearwater, Anthea & Roger Murray, Cathy Everett, Dave, Diane, Matt & Will Johnston, Faye Weinstein & George Schultz, Grace Johnson, Robyn & Harvey Diamond In memory of Judge Ron Meyers; husband, father & grandfather —Gwen Satran & Eugene Baron In memory of Heather Elizabeth Roylance —Leona MacDonald In honour of the visit of Robb Paterson & Zaz Bajon —Unitarian Church Theatre Group

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DiD you know your ticket price only pays for half your seat?

The other half is covered by grants, endowment income, sponsorships and individual donations. To continue offering exciting and innovative productions at accessible prices, we need your full support. DONATE TODAY!

Call 956-1340 | www.mtc.mb.ca

Individual Giving Eric Blais and Mairi Babb in Brief Encounter.

Giving Program

Make a

difference with a Monthly Gift

MTC’s Monthly Giving Program offers a simple and convenient way for donors to lend their support on a regular basis. By making a donation each month, even smaller contributions add up in a very big way. Gifts of all sizes have a real impact: both onstage and off. A donation of just $5 a month helps fill the bathtubs in The Drowning Girls at the Tom Hendry Theatre; $10 a month “makes it snow” during White Christmas; and a $40 monthly gift covers General Waverly’s crisp military uniform for the showstopping finale. As you might guess, larger gifts make even more of a dramatic impact. A monthly gift of $125 helps dress the Calendar Girls set (cupcakes and pastries included) and a tremendously generous gift of $250 per month builds the rowboat in Brief Encounter or purchases the fuel needed to transport equipment for our annual regional tour.

Why become a monthly donor?

• It’s simple and efficient—we simply debit your credit card as instructed.

• You’re able to spread your annual gift over several months.

• This program reduces our administration and fundraising costs.

• No need for stamps, envelopes, phone calls or the steps you usually take to make a gift.

• You receive your receipts in December for tax purposes, showing total contributions for the tax year.

• You can discontinue payments at any time.

• And, most importantly, a small contribution each month makes a BIG difference at year’s end.

Your monthly gift is especially important to MTC because it provides a steady and predictable source of income and allows us to better plan and budget our season. When you make a monthly gift, you can take comfort in knowing that your contributions work—day in and day out—to ensure audiences enjoy memorable performances in plays that enlighten, inspire and entertain. With your help, MTC’s productions, outreach programs and educational initiatives will meet the high standards expected by subscribers and members of our community.

Joining is easy. Your monthly donation can be charged automatically to your credit card with the freedom to change or cancel your contributions at any time.

When you renew your annual support this season, or if you’re thinking of making a new gift to our Annual Fund, please consider donating through our Monthly Giving Plan. Donor cards are available in the lobby or you can contact Garth Johnson at 956-1340 ext. 240.

Make a commitment today and MTC audiences will reap the rewards all year long.

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Su pporting Partners MTC expresses sincere thanks to our major corporate and government sponsors.

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John Hirsch Theatre |

Babs & Gail Asper

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Tom Hendry Theatre | production sponsor

Pantone

John Hirsch Theatre |

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theatre for young | audiences

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Gala Ball

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Behind the scen es Honorary Members

Accounting/Finance

Patron Services Office

His Honour, Lt. Governor Philip S. Lee The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba His Worship, Mayor Sam Katz

Sharon Burden, Accounting Yvonne O’Connor, Accounting Shelley Stroski, Controller

Executive Officers

Administration

Gary Hannaford, FCA, Chair Gerry Couture, past chair Jim McLandress, Secretary,

Brian Adolph, IT Manager Zaz Bajon, General Manager Natascha Hainsworth, Outreach Coordinator Daphne MacMillan, Administrative Secretary Debbie Neufeld, Reception/Marketing Assistant Alan Waite, Assistant General Manager

Laurie Fletcher, Patron Services Office Manager Melanie Sexton, Ticketing Services Director Jennifer Skelly, Tessitura Application Coordinator Patron Services Representatives: Katie Adamson, Sheena Baird, Natercia Doucet, Alana Odokeychuk, Michaela Porter, Ali Robson, Jessica Ross

chair, governance & Strategic planning

Patrick Green, Treasurer Kerry Dangerfield, chair, community relations Robert Eastwood, chair, resource development Shannon Ernst, Chair, Organizational Performance

Trustees David Carefoot David Christie Derrick Coupland Anthony C. Fletcher Debbie Gray Jeff Lamothe Bruce Leslie Michelle Weinberg Rod Woodcock Rick Workman Brenda Zaporzan

Advisory Council Lawrence Prout, Chair Gail Asper Morley Blankstein Doneta Brotchie Angus Campbell Albert D. Cohen Hy Dashevsky Glen Dyrda, FCA John F. Fraser Jean Giguere Charron Hamilton Yude Henteleff Ken Houssin Gordon Keatch Colin R. MacArthur, QC Patrick J. Matthews Claire W. Miller Jeffrey Morton, FCA Hon. Jack Murta Lillian Neaman Shelley Nimchonok Andrew Ogaranko, QC James Pappas John Petersmeyer Jeff Quinton Patricia Rabson Margaret Redmond Susan Skinner Al Snyder Maureen Watchorn

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Artistic Jeff Kennedy, Wordplay Coordinator Laurie Lam, Producer Robb Paterson, Associate Artistic Director Steven Schipper, Artistic Director Melinda Tallin, Artistic Coordinator

Carpentry Louis Gagne, Layout Carpenter Brent Letain, Master Carpenter Chris Seida, Scenic Carpenter

Production Laura Enns, Bookkeeper/Assistant Ian Kirk, Assistant to the Technical Director Laura Lindeblom, Assistant to the Production Manager Rick MacPherson, Technical Director, Tom Hendry Theatre Russell Martin, Production Manager Crystal L. Spicer, Technical Director, John Hirsch Theatre

Properties Larry Demedash, Senior Properties Builder Kari Hagness, Head of Properties Lorne Morriss, Properties Buyer James Sutherland, Properties Builder

Stage Crew

Sue Caughlin, Marketing & Communications Manager Doowah Design, Design Bruce Monk, Photographer Brent Phillips, Director of Marketing & Communications Mark Saunders, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Tara Seel, Publicist/Web Editor

Doug Antoine, Stage Crew Arlo C. Bates, Stage Crew John Bent Jr., Head of Sound Hart Greenberg, Head Carpenter Joan Lees-Miller, Head of Wardrobe Raymond Lemieux, stage crew Benjamin Ross, Head Electrician John Tomiuk, House Stage Hand

Development

Tele-Sales Representative

Kristine Betker, Director of Fund Development Garth Johnson, Major, individual & planned Giving Officer Michael Joyal, Development Assistant Stephanie Lambert, Special & Donor Events Coordinator

Sandra Rubin

Communications

John Hirsch Theatre Front-of-House Deborah Gay-de Vries, Front-of-House Manager Sheena Baird, Assistant House Manager Jamie Chapman, Kim Cossette, Jenny Hall, Jonny Hall, Elfie Harvey, Heather Kennedy, Sherri Kostecki, Erica Lasker, Tia Levine, Rex McTavish, Robyn Milligan, Jessica Olson, Chris Pearce, Amariah Peterson, Angela Rajfur, Ray Strachan, Jennifer Schmidt, Caroline Shields, Cristin Sinclair, Kevin Stroski, Phyllis Van Drunen, Rita Vande Vyvere, Chelsea Zacharias, Derek Zorniak

Maintenance

Tom Hendry Theatre Rick MacPherson, Technical Director Alison Nutt, Head Carpenter Claude Robert, Head Electrician Michael Wright, Head of Sound

Tom Hendry Theatre Front-of-House Kim Cossette, Front-of-House Manager Phyllis Hildebrand, Pam Neal, Cristin Sinclair, Scott Tweedy

Wardrobe Thora Lamont, Cutter Lorraine O’Leary, Head of Wardrobe/Cutter Lois Powne, First Hand Jackie Van Winkle, Buyer/Accessories

Andrew Drinnan, Building Superintendent Chris Fletcher, Assistant Building Superintendent

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Susan Groff, Head Scenic Artist Lawrence Van Went, Scenic Artist

Beverly Covert, Wigs & Makeup Supervisor

Deborah Axelrod, Festival Coordinator Chuck McEwen, Executive Producer

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