Ovation Vol. 21 No. 2

ROYAL MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE

VOL 21 NO 2 | NOV/DEC 2013

BY

PHILIP GRECIAN BASED ON THE FILM BY

JEAN SHEPHERD, LEIGH BROWN & BOB CLARK

BY

TOM HENDRY WAREHOUSE SEASON SPONSOR

ALON NASHMAN PAUL THOMPSON AND

HIRSCH SPONSORED BY

Proudly continuing our family legacy of supporting the arts community that engages audiences today and inspires the artists of tomorrow.

MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

At the recent wedding of a friend,

survived, alone and hungry, but never forgot the world

the minister read a passage

he’d left behind. He set out to

from the New Testament

recreate the wonders of his

with the line, “when I became

childhood in his adopted city

a man, I put away childish

of Winnipeg and, like Ralphie

things.” He made me glad I’m an artist for, in

with his BB gun, wouldn’t stop until he got what

some ways, we artists never put away childish

he wanted.

things. It would be like burning a treasure map, or shooting out the stars that light our way forward.

Thank goodness John Hirsch and Jean Shepherd never put away childish things. If Hirsch had, this

Look at Jean Shepherd, the creative force behind

theatre simply would not exist and our imagina-

A Christmas Story. He mined his childhood in

tions would not play across this stage. If Shepherd

Indiana, embellished it, and then shared it with

had, the Library of Congress wouldn’t have pre-

the world, turning something uniquely his into

served the film A Christmas Story for its “enduring

something universally ours. He makes us see

importance to American culture.” Not all of Hirsch

that the texture of youth – love and fear, play

and Shepherd’s childhood memories (or ours) are

and study, hope and despair – hasn’t really

pleasant. The bullies are always there, with yellow

changed since Shepherd was a boy in the ‘30s.

eyes or swastikas on their armbands. Yet the best

We recognize, in Ralphie’s quest for a Red Ryder

memories of childhood can feed our spirits and

BB gun, our own youthful longings for a seemingly

enrich the world around us.

unattainable object of desire, whether it was a bicycle, an Xbox, or even the girl next door.

Yours always,

Like Shepherd, John Hirsch never really left his Hungarian childhood behind. Its cultured magic (puppets and Schiller and dancing for Nijinsky) was shattered by the Nazis, who made him paint over the stars on the ceiling of his synagogue, before they destroyed the young boy’s family. Hirsch

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Arts Club Arts Club Theatre Company, Vancouver BC

ATF Atlantic Theatre Festival, Wolfville NS

ATP Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary AB

BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music, NYC Bard on the Beach Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival, Vancouver BC

Belfry The Belfry Theatre, Victoria BC

Blyth Blyth Theatre Festival, Blyth ON

Broadway New York Theatre District

CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Centaur Centaur Theatre Company, Montreal QC

Citadel The Citadel Theatre, Edmonton AB

COC Canadian Opera Company, Toronto ON

CS Canadian Stage, Toronto ON

Dora Dora Mavor Moore Award, Toronto ON

Drayton Drayton Entertainment, Ontario

Dry Cold Dry Cold Productions, Winnipeg MB

Factory Factory Theatre, Toronto ON

GCTC The Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa ON

Grand The Grand Theatre, London ON

Mirvish Mirvish Productions, Toronto ON

MTYP Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Winnipeg MB

NAC National Arts Centre, Ottawa ON Necessary Angel Necessary Angel Theatre Company, Toronto ON

Neptune Neptune Theatre, Halifax NS

NFB National Film Board of Canada

NTS National Theatre School of Canada, Montreal QC

Persephone Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon SK

PTAM Popular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB

PTE Prairie Theatre Exchange, Winnipeg MB

Rainbow Rainbow Stage, Winnipeg MB

RNT Royal National Theatre, London, England

Royal Alex The Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto ON

RSC Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England

RWB Royal Winnipeg Ballet

Segal The Segal Centre for Performing Arts, Montreal QC

Shaw Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake ON

SIR Shakespeare in the Ruins, Winnipeg MB

SNAC St. Norbert Arts Centre, Winnipeg MB

Soulpepper Soulpepper Theatre Company, Toronto ON

Stratford Stratford Festival, Stratford ON

SummerWorks SummerWorks Theatre Festival, Toronto ON

TA Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton ON

Tarragon Tarragon Theatre, Toronto ON

TBTR Theatre By the River, Winnipeg MB

TC Theatre Calgary, Calgary AB

TNB Theatre New Brunswick, Fredericton NB

Toronto Free Toronto Free Theatre, Toronto ON

TPM Theatre Projects Manitoba, Winnipeg MB

TSO Toronto Symphony Orchestra

U of M University of Manitoba

U of T University of Toronto

U of W University of Winnipeg

VP Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company, Vancouver BC

West End Theatre District, London, England

WJT Winnipeg Jewish Theatre

WSO Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

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We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $154 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.

With the generous support of the Manitoba Arts Council

With the generous support of the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council

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L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 154 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

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SETTING THE STAGE Inspired by short stories and the movie of the same name, A Christmas Story is set in 1938 in the fictional town of Hohman, Indiana and is based on Jean Shepherd’s childhood recollections. It is a memory play that explores a child’s perspective on Christmas, family, friends and life in small town middleAmerica during the latter stages of the Great Depression. Because it is based on recollections of childhood, not only are the main characters children, but reality is seen through a child’s eyes.

Adult Ralph, the narrator, tells the audience how young Ralphie felt at the time the events were happening as well as how he now sees these same events. Adult Ralph is able to find humour in the everyday adventures of an American family preparing to celebrate Christmas.

Glossary Air rifle/BB gun A replica rifle that uses air pressure to shoot small round pellets or BBs. Although an air rifle does not have enough air pressure to kill or seriously injure someone, you could shoot your eye out.

Black Bart Full name Charles Earl Bowles, “Black Bart” was a notorious outlaw of the American Old West. In his fantasies, Ralphie uses his Red Ryder air rifle to defeat Black Bart and his gang.

Decoder ring A device that allowed a person to encrypt or decipher a secret coded message. The decoder ring allowed Ralphie to participate in the adventures of his favourite radio show.

GLOSSARY CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

AVERAGE PRICES OF 1940

1938 TRIVIA

MILK 34¢/gallon EGGS About 45¢/dozen BREAD 8¢/loaf POSTAGE STAMP 3¢ CAR $800 GASOLINE 18¢/gallon MOVIE TICKET About 24¢ HOUSE $6,550 AVERAGE ANNUAL SALARY $1,900 MINIMUM WAGE 30¢/hour (MINIMUM WAGE WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED IN 1938)

• Franklin D. Roosevelt was the President of the US from 1933 to 1945.

• Orson Welles broadcast his radio play War of the Worlds on October 30, creating nation-wide panic as listeners believed aliens had landed in New Jersey.

• US unemployment was at 19%.

• George and Ladislav Biro invented the ballpoint pen.

A CHRISTMAS STORY Flit gun A hand-pumped bug-spray dispensing tool that dispenses “Flit,” a brand-name insecticide.

Schwartz gets his father a Flit gun for Christmas.

THE RINGING OF A CELL PHONE DURING A PERFORMANCE CAN BE QUITE DISTRACTING FOR BOTH ACTORS ONSTAGE AND AUDIENCE MEMBERS. DID YOU KNOW TEXTING AND VIBRATING PHONES CAN BE EQUALLY DISRUPTIVE?

Galoshes Rubber boots worn in winter or in wet and muddy weather.

Lincoln Logs A children’s toy consisting of miniature “logs” that can be linked in order to build log structures such as cabins. Ralphie considers Lincoln Logs an inferior Christmas present, especially compared to a BB gun.

IN AN EFFORT TO ELIMINATE CELL PHONE DISRUPTIONS DURING PERFORMANCES, THE ROYAL MANITOBA THEATRE CENTRE WILL MAKE A DONATION TO THE ACTORS’ FUND OF CANADA FOR EVERY CELL PHONE-FREE PERFORMANCE.

Little Orphan Annie A popular comic strip character during the 1930s. Little Orphan Annie’s adventures were turned into a 15-minute radio serial that aired in the 1930s and 1940s. Ralphie is a devoted listener of the radio show.

AS OF

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9

Lug nuts A nut or screw-on fastener that secures wheels to an automobile. Ralphie is told to hold onto the lug nuts while his father changes a tire on their car.

WE’VE HAD

Monsoon A heavy rain occurring seasonally in parts of Asia.

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Ovaltine A usually chocolate-flavoured milk additive derived from malt syrup. Ovaltine is the sponsor of the Little Orphan Annie radio show.

SHOWS THIS SEASON WITHOUT A

Peacemaker Slang term for a gun, especially one used by a lawman defending the innocent from criminals. Ralphie refers to his gun as a “peacemaker” when imagining himself defeating outlaws.

RING, BUZZ BEEP OR

Red Ryder The title character from a 1930s comic book series. Red Ryder was known as “America’s Famous Fighting Cowboy” and carried a Winchester rifle with him at all times, although he shot to disarm rather than kill his targets. Ralphie wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas to be just like his hero.

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NCE OUR AUDIE

Zeppelin Another name for an airship or blimp.

These flying machines used hot air or hydrogen contained in a balloon in order to stay aloft.

Ralphie is getting his kid brother Randy a toy tin Zeppelin for Christmas.

GREG ELLWAND IN STRONG POISON (2009/10). PHOTO BY BRUCE MONK.

Simoniz A brand name line of automobile products. In this case it refers to a product that is used to treat the exterior of a car to make it shine.

Ralphie buys a family-size can of Simoniz as a Christmas present for his father.

IF YOU USE YOUR CELL PHONE AT INTERMISSION, TO PLEASE REMEMBER E TURN IT OFF BEFOR RE-ENTERING THE THEATRE.

SETTING THE STAGE

A CHRISTMAS STORY

Playwright’s Notes

by Philip Grecian In the early 1970s Playboy magazine published Jean Shepherd’s short stories about his Indiana childhood. I loved them, but even better than that, my children loved them, and insisted upon them as bedtime stories. Shepherd’s stories did not appear in every issue, and so when one did (after months of waiting and disappointment), it was a family event.

One evening, during the Christmas season of 1983, we decided to take the children to a film.

There was a new one at the mall theatre about which we knew nothing; it was called A Christmas Story. We sat in the darkness as the coming attractions ended. The feature began, and these words appeared: “A film from the works of Jean Shepherd.” We jumped. Our Jean Shepherd?

Yes! Our Jean Shepherd! There on the screen

were some of the stories we’d loved, woven together into a cinematic whole, narrated by Jean Shepherd! Our Jean Shepherd!

As it turned out, everybody’s Jean Shepherd.

A Christmas Story was an instant American Christmas classic.

Sixteen years later, Dana Wolworth, my editor at Dramatic Publishing, asked me, “Have you ever seen the movie A Christmas Story? I think it’d make a great play.” By this time I owned the book, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, which collected the stories that had been so much a part of our lives.

I didn’t wait for the contracts to be signed, I began writing. I was three-quarters of the way through the first draft when all signatures were on the dotted lines. I could hardly wait for Shep (by this time I was referring to him by the nickname he preferred) to read the play.

Two days later, Jean Shepherd died.

I mourned his loss. We had never met, but he had helped me raise my children. He was an unbilled family member, a favourite uncle. He never got to read the play. That weighed heavily on me.

But as I finished the first draft and moved on to the second, polished draft, I found myself asking more and more, “Would Shep do it this way?

What would he think of this?” I read the original stories over and over again, trying to capture Jean Shepherd’s rhythms, the way he puts his words together. Sometimes, writing dialogue, I fancied that he stood over my shoulder, giving me pointers. Often, in my imagination, I heard that wonderful laugh of his when I made a scene work particularly well.

So thank you to Dramatic Publishing, thank you, Dana, my friend and editor, and thank you, Jean Shepherd, the dear friend I never met. Ralphie Parker will ever continue in his quest for that Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle, on the printed page, on the screen and on countless stages.

And you will live on.

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PRESENTS

PLAY BY

PHILIP GRECIAN

A CHRISTMAS STORY

, BASED UPON © 1983 TURNER ENTERTAINMENT CO. DISTRIBUTED BY WARNER BROS. WRITTEN BY

JEAN SHEPHERD, LEIGH BROWN & BOB CLARK AND

IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH

BY JEAN SHEPHERD NOVEMBER 21 – DECEMBER 14, 2013 PREVIEWS | NOVEMBER 19 & 20

Director Set & Costume Designer

Lighting Designer

Sound Designer

Fight Director

Assistant Director

Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

Child Supervisor

Robb Paterson Brian Perchaluk Scott Henderson John Bent Jr. Jacqueline Loewen

Benjamin Wiebe Karyn Kumhyr Candace Maxwell Linsey Callaghan Kelly Wilson

THE CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Mother Understudy – Ralphie/Randy/Flick

Flick/Desperado 1 Understudy – Helen/Esther Jane

Understudy – Scut/Schwartz

Miss Shields/

Voice of Mrs. Schwartz

Schwartz/Desperado 2

Ralphie Parker

Scut Farkas/Black Bart

Sharon Bajer Omar Benson

William Krovats

Montana Lehmann

Tyler Leighton Jennifer Lyon

Tristan Mackid Ben McIntyre-Ridd

Daniel McIntyre-Ridd

Ralph (as an Adult)/ Cowboy/Tree Lot Owner/ Delivery Man/ Voice of Neighbour/ Radio Announcer/ Goldblatt’s PA Voice Helen Weathers The Old Man/Santa Claus Esther Jane Alberry Randy

Rob McLaughlin

Meguire McRae-King Gordon Tanner Natalie Viebrock Mackenzie Wojcik

SETTING

Place: Hohman, Indiana Time: 1938

A Christmas Story is performed with one intermission.

PRODUCED BY SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY OF WOODSTOCK, ILLINOIS

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ARTISTS

Sharon Bajer

William Krovats

Mother

Flick/Desperado 1

MTC The Penelopiad, August: Osage County, Top Girls, Steel Magnolias, Humble Boy, Of Mice and Men (with Citadel), Six Degrees of Separation (with CS), Angels in America, The Good Sisters (Les Belles-Soeurs), Our Country’s Good, Romeo and Juliet (Theatre for Young Audiences production).

OTHER THEATRE The Secret Mask, Here on the Flight

Path, Marion Bridge, Liar, Zadie’s Shoes, The Edible Woman, Walking on Water, Marvin’s Room, The Stone Angel (PTE); Urinetown, Company (Dry Cold); Molly’s Veil, Boeing-Boeing (Festival Antigonish); Footloose (Rainbow); The Weir (Belfry/Western Canada Theatre).

MTC First appearance.

FILM Lead in What If (2011, NFB).

TRAINING Manitoba Theatre for Young People.

ET CETERA William is excited to be in his first

production at MTC. He would like to thank his family, friends and teachers. Also a special thanks to Leslee Silverman and MTYP.

Montana Lehmann Understudy – Helen/Esther Jane

TRAINING Studio 58, Michael Langham Workshop in

Classical Direction (two seasons, Stratford Festival).

ET CETERA Sharon is the playwright of Molly’s Veil,

Burnin’ Love and Hersteria. Upcoming: Arkadina in The Seagull at the Tom Hendry Warehouse and Directing Artist-in-Residence at Rainbow Stage (2014 season). Thanks to my mother for looking after my own son while I mother my stage sons.

Happy holidays, everyone!

Omar Benson Understudy – Ralphie/Randy/Flick

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE The Nutcracker – 2008, 2009 (RWB);

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Rainbow).

FILM/TV Bunks (Disney XD), Cry/Fly, National Curling

Association commercial.

TRAINING RWB, MTYP, Spirited Music, Talent Inc.

Canada, Expressions Studio.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Sunday in the Park with George

(Gallery Works/SondheimFest 2013); The House at Pooh Corner (MTYP); Strike! The Musical (Danny Shur/MTYP 2009, 2010); Honk! (MTYP).

FILM/TV Voice work for radio, including commercials for HUB Insurance, Recycle Everywhere and the Manitoba Children’s Museum; Tayo the Little Bus (animated series). Various independent films and appearances as an extra in major movie and TV productions.

TRAINING/TEACHING Teacher assistant at MTYP; PTE Young Company; Canadian Conservatory Voice (six years) and Theory (three years); Randolph Academy Master Class 2013; RWB Dance Intensive; MTYP. ET CETERA Winnipeg Music Festival’s Rainbow

Stage Trophy Award and Scholarship winner, 2010; Manitoba Children’s Museum Great Friends to Kids Award recipient, 2010. Montana is very excited and proud to be working with such a wonderful cast and crew on this classic winter tale.

FOR A FULL LIST OF THEATRE ABBREVIATIONS, PLEASE REFER TO LEGEND ON PAGE 4

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Tyler Leighton

Tristan Mackid

Understudy – Scut/Schwartz

Schwartz/Desperado 2

MTC First appearance.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Peter Pan, Joseph and the Amazing

OTHER THEATRE The House at Pooh Corner (MTYP);

Technicolor Dreamcoat (Rainbow); 13: The Musical (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Gypsy (MTC/MBA Lawyers Play); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Edmund Partridge School).

FILM/TV An American Girl: McKenna Shoots for the

Stars, Bunks (Disney XD).

TRAINING Dance: Ken Peters Dance Express (seven

years); Theatre & Voice: Brenda Gorlick through Winnipeg Studio Theatre.

The Who’s Tommy – Winnipeg Fringe, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Winnipeg Broadway Theatre); My Son Pinocchio, The Music Man (St. James School Division Musical Theatre).

TV Bunks (Disney XD).

TRAINING MTYP. ET CETERA Tristan will also be featured in the upcom-

ing animated film Santa’s Apprentice 2. He would like to thank his parents and his little brother Sawyer… who always claps the loudest.

ET CETERA Tyler would like to thank Robbie for this

Ben McIntyre-Ridd

opportunity, as well as his family for their support.

Ralphie Parker

Jennifer Lyon Miss Shields/ Voice of Mrs. Schwartz MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE As You Like It, The Tempest (Knavish MTC The Penelopiad, Next to Normal, White Christmas, Pride and Prejudice, Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel), My Fair Lady, A Christmas Carol – The Musical, Steel Magnolias (1993). Assistant Director: The Fighting Days.

OTHER THEATRE Selected: The Drowsy Chaperone

(Globe); Guys and Dolls (Talk Is Free Theatre); The Father (WJT); My Fair Lady (Arts Club); Skylight (TNB); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (PTE, Belfry); The Road to Hell, Communicating Doors (Persephone); Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Godspell (PTE); Hairspray, Footloose (Rainbow); Comet in Moominland (MTYP, YPT, Montreal, NYC); Camelot, Man of La Mancha, The Miracle Worker (Stratford); The Who’s Tommy (Elgin Theatre, Canadian Tour).

Hedgehog Productions, Winnipeg Fringe Festival); Raising Roger (getting there productions, Winnipeg Fringe Festival); Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Tempest (Such Stuff Players).

TRAINING Voice: Melanie Whyte; Acting: Mariam

Bernstein, Susan Proctor, Jacquie Loewen; Screen: Lois Brothers; Piano: Tricia Reimer; Dance & Musical Theatre: RWB. ET CETERA Thank you to all my teachers! Thank you

to Robb and everybody involved at MTC for this great opportunity!

Daniel McIntyre-Ridd Scut Farkas/Black Bart

TRAINING York University BFA (Hons.) program

(theatre performance).

ET CETERA Dedicated with love and gratitude

to all of my wonderful teachers at Oakenwald Elementary School.

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE As You Like It, The Tempest (Knavish

Hedgehog Productions, Winnipeg Fringe Festival);

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ARTISTS Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night (Such Stuff Players).

FILM/TV Sarah (Omand’s Creek Films).

TRAINING Voice: Melanie Whyte; Acting: Mariam

Bernstein, B. Pat Burns (MTYP).

ET CETERA Daniel would like to say a huge thank-you

to everyone who has ever acted with him, directed him or supported him in any way. Watch for Daniel in The Devil and Anton Chekhov as part of MTC’s upcoming Master Playwright Festival, and watch for Daniel, his brother Ben, and Meguire in Such Stuff Players’ performance of Cymbeline in April at the U of W Asper Centre for Theatre and Film.

OTHER THEATRE The Merry Wives of Windsor, Othello,

The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It (SIR); Grand-Guignol On The Prairie (Echo Theatre); The Universal Wolf (No Sugar Added Productions); Blue Kettle (ChurchillFest 2010).

FILM/TV Capote, Nobody, Something Beneath (movie of the week).

Meguire McRae-King Helen Weathers

Rob McLaughlin

MTC First appearance.

Ralph (as an Adult)/Cowboy/ Tree Lot Owner/Delivery Man/ Voice of Neighbour/ Radio Announcer/ Goldblatt’s PA Voice

OTHER THEATRE Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,

MTC Gone With the Wind, The Shunning, The Seafarer, Pride and Prejudice. Assistant to the Director: Fiddler on the Roof.

The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night (Such Stuff Players).

TRAINING Voice/Violin: Zohreh Gervais; Acting:

Karen Ridd & Marilyn Firth, Such Stuff Players; Dance/Aerial/Acrobatics: Monica’s Danz Gym. ET CETERA Meguire would like to thank all of her

mentors, friends and family for their support. Watch for Meguire as Adele in MTC’s upcoming production of Jane Eyre!

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ARTISTS TRAINING Acting classes at MTYP and PTE.

Gordon Tanner

ET CETERA Mackenzie would like to thank his family,

The Old Man/Santa Claus

especially his father, for all the love and support.

Philip Grecian Playwright MTC Mrs. Warren’s Profession, in the next room or the vibrator play (with Tarragon), Calendar Girls (with Mirvish), White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Strong Poison, Our Town, The Retreat from Moscow, Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel), A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing, The Winslow Boy (with TA), The History of Manitoba from the Beginning of Time to the Present in 45 Minutes.

OTHER THEATRE Favourites include: Three Sisters, In

The Chamber, The Elmwood Visitation (TPM); Death of a Salesman, Lebensraum (WJT); Magical Mystery Munsch, Moonlight and Magnolias, Something Drastic (PTE); The Full Monty (Rainbow); Des Fraises en janvier, La Trappe (Le Cercle Molière); The Mousetrap (Segal); Paradise Lost (Adhere And Deny); Assassins (Dry Cold).

ET CETERA Best wishes for a very merry Christmas

and a happy New Year!

Natalie Viebrock

Philip Grecian’s authorized stage adaptation of the film A Christmas Story is performed by over 100 professional and amateur companies annually. His adaptations of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and his staged radio version of It’s a Wonderful Life (seen on MTC’s stage in 2009) are also popular seasonal productions.

Grecian is an alumnus of the Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado. Other stage works include The Dragon of Nitt, The Lion and the Lyre, In His Steps, Little Pills, Toby Saves the Farm, and a translation of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. His work has been produced throughout North America.

Additionally, he has written numerous staged and televised radio scripts, including: Twisted Tales of Poe, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Blood Countess, Frankenstein and Dracula, which won an Emmy in 2010.

Esther Jane Alberry

Jean Shepherd Author MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Helena in A Midsummer Night’s

Dream (Queenston School).

TV What’s Your News? (Nick Jr./CBC Kids).

TRAINING MTYP, RWB (Winnipeg); YPT (Toronto).

ET CETERA Big thanks to all my friends, teachers and

especially family for all your love and support!

Mackenzie Wojcik Randy

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Into the Woods (District Theatre

Collective/SondheimFest); The House at Pooh Corner (MTYP).

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Jean Shepherd (1921-1999) was a master storyteller. He took bits and pieces from his own life to weave tales of the joy, humour, intrigue and angst of growing up. His youth in Hammond, Indiana and his adventures in the Army Signal Corps were both fertile sources for his tales. For almost three decades, he told these stories to eager radio audiences, in Cincinnati from 1950 to 1954 and on WOR in New York from 1956 to 1977.

His producer at WOR, Leigh Brown, would later become his wife and collaborator, and help pen the screenplay – along with director Bob Clark – of his most popular and enduring work: the film A Christmas Story (1983). Shepherd, no stranger to performance, also narrated the film.

Shepherd began his entertainment career in Chicago as a performer at the Goodman Theatre, later performing in nightclubs and revues in addition to his

ARTISTS radio broadcasts. In the 1970s he took his talents to television for PBS. He wrote articles for several magazines, including Playboy and Omni, and was an early contributor to The Village Voice. His books include The America of George Ade, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters, The Ferrari in the Bedroom and A Fistful of Fig Newtons.

The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (WJT); Beauty and the Beast (2005, 2009), Peter Pan, The King and I, Crazy for You, 42nd Street (Rainbow); Rick: The Rick Hansen Story, Seussical the Musical, Pippi Longstocking (MTYP).

Other acting credits include roles at PTE, Centaur, Rainbow, WJT, Neptune, Vancouver Playhouse.

ET CETERA Robb has appeared in more than 150 productions in Canada over the past 33 years.

Robb Paterson

Brian Perchaluk

Director

Set & Costume Designer

MTC Directing credits include: Miracle on South Division Street, Next to Normal, The Fighting Days, The Shunning, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Bleeding Hearts, Pride and Prejudice, Our Town, Trying, My Fair Lady, The Retreat from Moscow.

Acting credits include: True West, Little Shop of Horrors, Hamlet, Billy Bishop Goes to War, A Christmas Carol – The Musical.

MTC Recent and favourites: Harvey, Other People’s Money, Miracle on South Division Street, August: Osage County, The Fighting Days, The Shunning, After Miss Julie, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Pride and Prejudice, Our Town, Trying, My Fair Lady, The Lonesome West, To Kill a Mockingbird (with Citadel), Patience, Quills, Travels with My Aunt, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Oleanna, M. Butterfly (with NAC).

OTHER THEATRE Directing credits include: The Drowsy

OTHER THEATRE Brian’s work has been featured at

Chaperone (Globe); Oliver! (Centaur); The Immigrant,

theatres across the country, including two seasons

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ARTISTS each at the Shaw and Stratford festivals. Selected recent credits include: The Drowsy Chaperone (Globe); Vimy (NAC/GCTC); To Kill a Mockingbird (TC); The Dishwashers, The Brink, Till It Hurts, The Secret Mask (PTE); Sweeney Todd, The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold); King Lear, Fidelio (Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada); John & Beatrice (TPM); Spring Awakening (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Les Disparus (Théâtre Vice Versa Theatre); Henry V (SIR).

in the Streets (Sage Theatre); Some Assembly Required (Northern Light Theatre).

ET CETERA Two Betty Mitchell Awards (Grace, Lion in

the Streets). Member of IATSE Local 63 and the Eclub.

Founding member of Eternal Rose Theatre.

Jacqueline Loewen Fight Director

Scott Henderson Lighting Designer MTC Fight Director: Gone With the Wind, August: Osage County, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer. Actor: Top Girls. Assistant Director: Other People’s Money.

MTC More than 40 productions since 1995, including

Miracle on South Division Street, Next to Normal, The 39 Steps, White Christmas, Doubt, A Parable (with TC), Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), Humble Boy (Mainstage); Red (with Belfry), Top Girls, The Shape of Things, Closer, Poor Super Man (Warehouse).

OTHER THEATRE Recent credits: The Best Brothers

OTHER THEATRE Selected fight directing: Tosca,

Carmen (Manitoba Opera); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); All Restaurant Fires Are Arson (PTE).

TEACHING Jacqueline has taught stage combat at MTYP and PTE, and assistant taught at the U of W. ET CETERA Jacqueline is very pleased to be working

with both MTC and such fine performers.

(PTE); The Miser of Middlegate (zone41 theatre/ TPM). Scott has designed for opera, dance and theatre companies in Winnipeg and across Canada, including the Stratford and Shaw festivals.

Benjamin Wiebe Assistant Director

TRAINING Scott is a graduate of Ryerson Theatre

School and a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

ET CETERA Special thanks to Karen, Sean and Alex

for love and support.

MTC The Shunning, Pride and Prejudice.

OTHER THEATRE Director: Noises Off!, Miss Julie,

John Bent Jr. Sound Designer

Surrender Dorothy, Chopsticks, The Long Christmas Dinner (Winnipeg Mennonite Theatre). Playwright: Notes from the Nuthouse, Chopsticks.

TRAINING Stratford Shakespeare Festival Directing

Workshop I and II. ET CETERA Ben would like to gratefully acknowledge

support from the Winnipeg Arts Council.

MTC More than 40 shows since ‘98, including Harvey,

Other People’s Money, Gone With the Wind, Miracle on South Division Street, Next to Normal, The 39 Steps, The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), The Syringa Tree, Fiddler on the Roof, Over the Tavern, The Rocky Horror Show (with CS), Evita (with TC), Camelot (with TC/Citadel), King Lear, Wit.

Karyn Kumhyr Stage Manager

OTHER THEATRE The Shadowy Waters (Eternal Rose

Theatre); The Diary of Anne Frank (Segal/Neptune); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Keely and Du, The Heart as It Lived, Grace (ATP); Lion

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MTC Ed’s Garage, Next to Normal, The Shunning, Steel Magnolias, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Bleeding Hearts, Pride and Prejudice, Fiddler on the Roof, Our

ARTISTS Town, The Tempest, Driving Miss Daisy, The History of Manitoba from the Beginning of Time to the Present in 45 Minutes. Assistant Stage Manager: A Christmas Carol, The Foreigner, Doc. Crew: The Gin Game, Thimblerig, A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Tempest (1981), Side by Side by Sondheim.

TRAINING University of Winnipeg (Production &

Design); The Banff Centre.

ET CETERA Candace is thrilled to be in the Christmas

spirit with this wonderful cast and crew. Love and thanks to my family and friends for putting up with this Christmas elf since October! Merry Christmas!

OTHER THEATRE Anne & Gilbert (The Guild, PEI);

Rick: The Rick Hansen Story, Frog and Toad, Invisible Girl, The Happy Prince (MTYP); Altar Boyz, The Secret Mask, The Fly Fisher’s Companion, Here on the Flight Path, Unity (1918) (PTE); Molière, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (ATP); The Woman in Black, The Gin Game (Valley Summer Theatre); Bump, Snow Dance (Ship’s Company Theatre); Urinetown (Dry Cold); The Drawer Boy (ATF).

Linsey Callaghan Apprentice Stage Manager

MTC First engagement.

Candace Maxwell Assistant Stage Manager

MTC The Fighting Days, The Boys in the Photograph (with

Mirvish), The Syringa Tree, Over the Tavern, Fiddler on the Roof, The Constant Wife, Driving Miss Daisy.

OTHER THEATRE Pride and Prejudice (Banff Centre/

Citadel); Siren Song, The Tragedy of Carmen (Banff Centre); Aida, The Magic Flute, Carmen (Manitoba Opera); Aida, Tales of Hoffman (Edmonton Opera); Munscha Meeya, Bingo!, The Savannah Disputation (PTE).

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Juliet, Fiddler on the Roof, The Three Musketeers, The Merchant of Venice (Stratford). Apprentice Stage Manager: Gifts of the Magi, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Initiation Trilogy (Electric Theatre Company).

Assistant Stage Manager: Gordon (SideMart Theatrical Grocery).

TRAINING Production graduate 2012, National Theatre

School of Canada.

ET CETERA Upcoming: Apprentice Stage Manager for

The Seagull at the Tom Hendry Warehouse.

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Christmas Curiosities: Odd, Dark, and Forgotten Christmas

by John Grossman THE ORIGINAL STORIES

A Christmas Story by Jean Shepherd Gathers in one volume the stories that inspired the movie, which were previously published in separate collections.

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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson The horrible Herdman kids hijack the Christmas pageant – and surprise everyone with their version.

The original book for children has been adapted into both a play and a picture book.

The Dreaded Feast: Writers on Enduring the Holidays Edited by Michele Clarke & Taylor Plimpton Numerous contributors offer (at times, darkly) humorous musings on those parts of the holidays that don’t often make it into the storybooks.

Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris Hysterically funny essays on the difficulties of the holiday season, including the SantaLand Diaries, his unforgettable tale of what it’s like to be a Macy’s elf (not for kids!).

Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Christmas by Mélanie Watt Everyone’s favourite neurotic squirrel prepares for Christmas in this fun children’s picture book.

The Shepherd, the Angel, and Walter the Christmas Miracle Dog

by Dave Barry It’s 1960 in a small town, and drama and holiday miracles surround Doug Barnes, his family and the annual church Christmas pageant.

Surviving the Holidays with Lewis Black [DVD] A comedian’s take on staying sane during the holiday craziness.

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A revealing look into the little-known origins and forgotten traditions of Christmas past.

God Rest Ye Grumpy Scroogeymen: New Traditions for Comfort & Joy at Christmas by Laura Jensen Walker & Michael K. Walker A dose of practicality and insight for those looking for alternative ways to participate in the holiday season.

Christmas Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Christmas by Jonathan Green More trivia and facts about the most well-known Christmas symbols and customs, from stockings to reindeer to mistletoe.

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What we want for Christmas “What I want for Christmas is a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock.” – Ralphie Parker Oh, how Ralphie Parker dreamed of that BB gun!

He asked his parents; he asked Santa Claus; he wrote a persuasive school paper; and he stuffed the family mailbox with Red Ryder ads. But, alas, almost everyone told him, “You’ll shoot your eye out!”

Here at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre there are many individuals, like Ralphie, who are also asking for a very special gift this holiday season.

For example, here is the request from the folks who manage the budgets and who know too well that only half of MTC’s revenue comes from ticket sales: “What we want for Christmas are legendary, official and generous donations from loyal MTC patrons who value the arts and who wish to express their love for the theatre in a powerful and significant way.”

On further checking, we discovered that others at MTC want the very same special gift for the holidays! People like: • The Outreach Department, who look forward to providing educational opportunities and discounted tickets for young people, as well as special events and programs such as the Talkback series, Play on Words and Backstage Pass; • Those who are taking Miracle on South Division Street on the Regional Tour to more than 25 communities in Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario; • The good folks who bring us the Master Playwright Festival and the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival; • Artisans who build our wonderful sets, props and costumes; • Actors from near and far who bring to life over 250 performances annually on the John Hirsch and Tom Hendry stages.

What a coincidence! And to think, all legendary, official and generous donors also get great benefits in return, depending on the level of their gift. *ALL FULL PRIORITY SUBSCRIPTION PACKAGES INCLUDE ONE FREE EXCHANGE FOR EACH PRODUCTION. A $5 PER TICKET SERVICE CHARGE FOR SAME-DAY EXCHANGES AND/OR UPGRADE CHARGES TO HIGHER-PRICED SEATING MAY APPLY. SORRY, EXCHANGES NOT AVAILABLE FOR AN ALTERNATE PLAY OR MISSED PERFORMANCE.

With a $75 donation to the Annual Fund, donors become Star Patrons and receive benefits at the Friend level, plus their ticket exchange fees will be waived for the 2013/14 season!* Also, as part of the 2013 federal budget, the First Time Donors Super Credit (FTDSC) gives first-time donors and those who have not claimed a charitable donation in the last five years an extra 25% on their tax credit for charitable gifts. The FTDSC is applicable to any single cash donation of up to $1,000 made by an individual or couple between now and 2017.

Goodness, so many benefits for MTC and for our donors! And no one is going to warn us about shooting our eye out. But MTC’s 2013/14 season is so great, so exciting and so fabulous, it might just knock your socks off!

Donate by mail, phone or online at www.mtc.mb.ca.

For more information, contact Garth in the Development Office at 204-956-1340 ext. 240.

Fresh adaptation breathes new life into Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre “Literature, meet theatre.” – BOOK-IT THEATRE

JAN. 8 – FEB. 1

On the strength of literary classics such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, the Brontë sisters have a following that has reached near cult status, which is ironic considering how many of us can’t seem to keep them straight. Wuthering Heights – Emily. Agnes Grey – Anne. Jane Eyre – Charlotte.

Thanks to its omnipresence on school curricula and book club lists, Jane Eyre has retained a storied place on the worldwide literary scene. Charlotte’s romantic novel has inspired a myriad of film, radio and stage adaptations, and even one fan website called ‘The Enthusiast’s Guide to Jane Eyre Adaptations’. For years, MTC had been searching for the perfect Jane Eyre for our audience and we knew we’d found it with Julie Beckman’s fresh and original adaptation for Seattle’s Book-It Theatre.

Book-It Theatre’s mission is “to transform great literature into great theatre.” Their singular approach incorporates the novel’s original narrative without using a physical narrator. Instead, all the characters tell the story. The result is anything but a sleepy period piece. Needless to say, we’re thrilled to share our own production of Julie Beckman’s exciting adaptation with you.

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About

John Hirsch 1930–45 | Born in Hungary to a cultured, upper middle-class Jewish family. After the Nazi invasion of Hungary, he lived with his grandfather and other Jews in the Budapest ghetto and suffered greatly during the war years. His grandfather did not survive the war and Hirsch learned his mother and brother had perished in Auschwitz and the Nazis had executed his father.

1947 | Came to Canada with the help of the Canadian Jewish Congress. Hirsch insisted on Winnipeg because its geographical location made it feel safe from potential invasions. Arriving in Winnipeg, Hirsch was taken into the home of Alex (Sasha) and Pauline Shack. He remained close to the Shacks for the rest of his life.

1949 | Enrolled at the University of Manitoba and became an active member of the Winnipeg performing arts scene through the Winnipeg Little Theatre (WLT). He also toured a puppet show around Manitoba schools through the Children’s Theatre, and produced musicals for the newly established Rainbow Stage.

1953–57 | Established Muddiwater Puppet troupe and was hired by WLT as their first paid director/ manager. Directed William Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life (1953). He worked at CBC as one of Canada’s first television producers. Directed Jean Giraudoux’s The Enchanted (1954). In partnership with Tom Hendry, he formed Theatre 77 in the old Dominion Theatre, 77 footsteps from Portage and Main.

Opposite: Drawing by Sylvia Drake of John Hirsch directing The Dybbuk at the Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1975, from Journey Into Our Heritage: The Story of the Jewish Peaple in the Canadian West

by Harry Gutkin, Lester & Orpen Dennys Publishers, 1980.

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1958–65 | Became founding artistic director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, which was formed by the merger of Theatre 77 and WLT. MTC was the first professional regional theatre in Canada and became a model for similar theatres across North America. In MTC’s first seven seasons, he directed 31 plays, including Of Mice and Men (1959); Anastasia (1960); An Enemy of the People (1962); Pygmalion (1963); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1964); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1965); and The Importance of Being Earnest (1965). He also directed numerous plays for Rainbow Stage and children’s theatre groups.

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1970–74 | Directed Brecht’s A 1965–66 | Directed Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at Stratford and became a resident director at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theatre in New York.

1967 | Directed a modern version of Richard III at Stratford.

1968 | Met Bryan Trottier, who became his partner for the rest of his life. Directed James Rainey’s Colours in the Dark, only the second Canadian play ever produced at Stratford, and won an Outer Critics’ Circle Award for his production of St. Joan at Lincoln Center.

Man’s a Man, the opening production at MTC’s new theatre.

He also directed Orton’s What the Butler Saw in 1971 and his own version of The Dybbuk for MTC in 1974.

1974–78 | Served as Head of Television Drama in English for CBC.

1969 | Reaction to his production

1979-85 | Became Consulting Artistic Director of Seattle Repertory Theatre while also accepting Artistic Directorship of Stratford. During this time, he was a visiting lecturer at universities such as Yale, New York, Columbia and Southern Methodist.

of Petronius’ Satyricon caused him to leave Stratford.

1988–89 | While preparing

1971 | Won an Obie for Distinguished Direction of his off-Broadway production of Heathcoate Williams’ AC/DC.

a production of You Can’t Take It with You for Southern Methodist, he became ill and had to return to Toronto, where he died on August 1, 1989.

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HIRSCH Far left: Nashman channels Hirsch. PHOTO BY LEIF NORMAN Inset: Sybil Shack, Hirsch’s adoptive sister, left an heirloom at their house on Churchill Drive: a collection of matchbooks and a picture of her and Ma Shack, which has been passed from homeowner to homeowner. PHOTO BY CASEY SHAPIRA

at Yad Vashem. Paul went to a refugee camp in Aschau, Germany, where John Hirsch had set up a puppet theatre. We scoured archives in New York, Israel, Ottawa, Stratford and Winnipeg.

Then there were the people we met. John affected umpteen lives and we had the privilege of speaking with many of these individuals, such as Len Cariou, Zoe Caldwell, Martha Henry, Tom Hendry, Roberta Maxwell, Brian Bedford, Maggie Smith and Gordon Pinsent. Stories about John abound, and every actor and colleague we spoke to had some illuminating memory, often inspiring and intimidating in equal measure.

In search of John Hirsch

by Alon Nashman

IN A CHURCHILL DRIVE BUNGALOW,

where John Hirsch kept a basement bedroom until the day he died, Paul Thompson and I were shown a shoebox full of matchbooks. Not a single match in the vast collection had been struck. The matchbooks were souvenirs of John’s travels, part of a collection kept by his stepsister Sybil, a noted Winnipeg educator. New York, Istanbul, Budapest, Tel Aviv, Seattle, Montreal, Ottawa, theatres, hotels, restaurants, airlines, bowling alleys, political campaigns and gas stations were all represented.

They formed pinpoints on the map of John’s life.

Over the past five years, director Paul Thompson and I have travelled to many of those pinpoints in search of John Hirsch. We visited the home where he was born, in a Hungarian lakeside resort, and the puppet theatre in Budapest where he spent hours as a boy. Paul and I researched in Jerusalem where John’s UN refugee documents are stored

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Wherever we could we’d create scenes for the play, in particular the rehearsal hall at Stratford where John often worked. Paul would suggest a topic or a style, such as “try the Paris orphanage episode, but as done by Steve Martin,” and off I would go. My improvs were recorded and then massaged into script form. As much as possible, we would invite the spirit of John into the room with us. Certain scenes would stick, prove themselves to be theatrically piquant, and we’d keep them.

In the North End, we met the family who now lives in John’s first Winnipeg home on Polson Avenue. Wonderfully friendly, active boosters of the community and local school, the youngest son walking proud with a snake around his neck, this family is like the buoyant brood at the heart of You Can’t Take It with You, the play John was directing in 1989 when he was diagnosed with AIDS. We could not help thinking that the house itself seemed imbued with the joyful spirit of the Shack family, who welcomed John into a new life in Winnipeg.

These homes, on Churchill, Polson, and on the very stage of MTC, were a refuge for a lost and lonely, yet vibrantly creative young soul, who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and changed the course of Canadian culture. It is our great joy to bring him back home again.

We are proud to support the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and bring you the 2013/2014 season at the Tom Hendry Warehouse.

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Steven Schipper, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Camilla Holland, GENERAL MANAGER

PRESENTS

BY

ALON NASHMAN

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PAUL THOMPSON

PRODUCED BY THEATURTLE, RICHARD JORDAN PRODUCTIONS AND ELIZABETH BRADLEY ARTS ENTERPRISES (IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE PLEASANCE)

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Director Set & Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Dramaturge Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager Research Assistant/Apprentice Stage Manager

Paul Thompson Gillian Gallow Itai Erdal Verne Good Bob White Lisa Nelson Suzie Martin Casey Shapira

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John Hirsch Alon Nashman

Hirsch is performed without an intermission.

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HIRSCH WAS ORIGINALLY COMMISSIONED AND THE WORLD PREMIERE WAS PRODUCED BY THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL DES MCANUFF, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND ANTONI CIMOLINO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OPENING NIGHT: JULY 12, 2012 HIRSCH WAS DEVELOPED OUT OF EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND GUIDED IMPROVISATIONS, MOST NOTABLY IN THE MAGIC ZONE OF THE TYRONE GUTHRIE REHEARSAL HALL AT THE FESTIVAL THEATRE, STRATFORD. GIL GARRETT SERVED AS SCRIBE AND COLLABORATOR IN THE EARLY WORKSHOPS. THANK YOU TO OTHER ARTISTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PIECE: ROBERT BLACKER, SOO GARAY, RENATE HANSON, JULIA LEDERER, KEIRA LOUGHRAN, BOB WHITE SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING WHO GENEROUSLY SHARED THEIR PERSONAL MEMORIES OF JOHN HIRSCH: GRAHAM ABBEY EVIE ANDERSON ANNE ANGLIN LOUIS BAKO BRIAN BEDFORD JOHN BLUETHNER DOREEN BROWNSTONE ZOE CALDWELL DOUGLAS CAMPBELL LEN CARIOU RAY CONLOGUE VICTOR DAVIES MADONNA DECKER ELSIE DOUGLAS ROSEMARY DUNSMORE

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DAVID EHRLICH COLM FEORE DEAN GABOURIE TOM HENDRY MARTHA HENRY PAUL HENTELEFF PETER HERRNDORF SPENCER & ROBYN HOLMES TIM & MONIKA HOOPER & FAMILY JOHN JARVIS MARY JOLLIFFE KATI KEMENY MARTIN KNELMAN ALAN LAING LILLIAN LEWIS

MARILYN LIGHTSTONE BRIAN MACDONALD MARTI MARADEN DR. FRANCESCA MARINI FRAIDIE MARTZ ROBERTA MAXWELL DES MCANUFF CATHERINE MCKEEHAN SEANA MCKENNA BILL NEEDLES LOUIS NEGIN RICHARD OUZOUNIAN CHARLES PACHTER GORDON PINSENT MILES POTTER

VIVIAN RAKOFF JUDITH RICHARDSON KATHLEEN RICHARDSON BRIAN RINTOUL JIM ROE DORA ROSENBAUM JAMES ROY RORY RUNNELLS STEVEN SCHIPPER MICHAL SCHONBERG DESMOND SCOTT MICHAEL SHAMATA PAUL SHAW DAVID SILCOX STANLEY SILVERMAN

GAIL SINGER REG SKENE CEDRIC SMITH R.H. THOMSON DAVID & PHYLLIS TODD BRYAN TROTTIER KEITH TURNBULL YAD VASHEM TWYLA WEIXL KENNETH WELSH ANDREW WILSON FRANK WINEFELD MOSES ZNAIMER

ARTISTS ET CETERA Instrumental in the formation of a group

Alon Nashman Playwright/John Hirsch

of companies creating Canadian plays across the country, such as Codco (Newfoundland), 25th Street (Saskatchewan) and Theatre Network (Alberta).

Officer of the Order of Canada and recipient of the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in the Performing Arts.

MTC Advisor: Romeo and Juliet. Actor: None is Too Many.

Gillian Gallow

OTHER THEATRE Scorched – Dora nomination,

Set & Costume Designer

Remnants – Dora Award for Outstanding Production (Tarragon); Talley’s Folly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Resurgence Theatre); Hedda Gabler (Volcano); A Short History of Night, Reading Hebron (Factory); THIS – Toronto Theatre Critics Award 2013, Picasso at the Lapin Agile – Dora nomination (CS); Howl (Buddies in Bad Times/Threshold Theatre); If Jesus Met Nanabush (De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre); The Wild Duck (Soulpepper). With the creation of Theaturtle, Alon has nurtured new work such as The Song (Dora nomination) and Kafka and Son (Outstanding Performance at Prague Fringe 2013, Brickenden Award, Dora nomination), which toured across Canada, to the National Theatre of Iceland and throughout Europe, Wajdi Mouawad’s Alphonse (Dora and Brickenden nominations) and The Snow Queen, developed with the Banff Centre for the Arts, which toured across Canada (Dora nominations).

FILM/TV It Was You Charlie, The Newsroom, Cracked,

Slings and Arrows, Due South, Cinderella Man.

MTC Venus in Fur, God of Carnage (with VP), One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (costumes, with TC).

OTHER THEATRE Costume Designer: The Three

Musketeers (Stratford); The Kite Runner (TC/ Citadel); Dust (ATP/Human Cargo); Awake and Sing! (Soulpepper); Pride and Prejudice, Cinderella (Grand). Set & Costume Designer: Hirsch (Stratford); King Lear, Thirsty (NAC); Night (Human Cargo/ NAC); Calendar Girls (Grand); Appetite (Volcano/ Theatre Passe Muraille). Set Designer: The Mill (Theatrefront). Upcoming: Mary Poppins (Citadel/ TC); The Red Priest (ATP).

TRAINING York University, BFA. ET CETERA Gillian is the recipient of three Dora

Mavor Moore awards.

TRAINING Graduate of the National Theatre School

of Canada.

Itai Erdal

ET CETERA Alon is thrilled to bring this commemo-

Lighting Designer

ration of John Hirsch home to Winnipeg. www.alonnashman.com

Paul Thompson Playwright/Director

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Titus Andronicus, Elektra, The

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Co-founder and longtime Artistic

Director, Theatre Passe Muraille (Toronto).

Implemented an approach to “writing” plays called collective creation – created more than 50 original Canadian plays, including The Farm Show, 1837, Maggie and Pierre and The West Show.

TV Several of the above works for CBC and TVOntario.

TEACHING Director General of the National Theatre School of Canada.

Best Brothers, Hirsch, Taking Shakespeare, The Thrill (Stratford); Vincent in Brixton, A Christmas Carol, Where the Blood Mixes (VP); Billy Bishop Goes to War, Intimate Apparel, She Stoops to Conquer (Arts Club); Sweeney Todd, Rick: The Rick Hansen Story (Citadel).

ET CETERA Itai has won the Jack King award in

2005, a Dora Mavor Moore award in 2007, the Best Design award in the Dublin Fringe in 2008, Jessie Richardson awards in 2003, 2009 and 2011 and Victoria’s Critics’ Choice Spotlight Award in 2012.

His one-man show How to Disappear Completely (The Chop), was produced in Vancouver and toured to Seattle, Victoria, Toronto, Portland and Stratford. It is scheduled to travel to Whitehorse, Halifax, Montreal and Albuquerque. He is the artistic director of The Elbow Theatre. www.itaierdal.com

FOR A FULL LIST OF THEATRE ABBREVIATIONS, PLEASE REFER TO LEGEND ON PAGE 4

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ARTISTS

Verne Good Sound Designer

(Prairie Scene Festival & Stage One English Festival/ WJT). Apprentice Stage Manager: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Way to Heaven, Sunday Father (WJT); The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (TPM); Hybrid Human (Wanda Koop: On the Edge of Experience/Winnipeg Art Gallery).

Suzie Martin

MTC Assistant Sound Designer: in the next room or

Apprentice Stage Manager

the vibrator play (with Tarragon).

OTHER THEATRE In This World (Roseneath); Communion,

Was Spring (Tarragon); The Normal Heart (Studio 180); Free as Injuns (Native Earth); Alphonse (Theaturtle); Eurydice (The Theatre); The Epic of Gilgamesh (Groundwater Productions); Stockholm, The Red Queen Effect, Or, 9 Parts of Desire (Seventh Stage); Buried (Theatre Awakening); Assistant Sound Designer at the Stratford Festival for three seasons.

Upcoming: Daniel MacIvor’s Bingo! at Factory Theatre.

Bob White Dramaturge

MTC Director: Clearances (1984).

OTHER THEATRE Directed more than 75 productions,

most recently: Mary’s Wedding, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre (ATP); Cosi fan Tutte (Calgary Opera/Emerging Artists); The Clockmaker (Tarragon and ATP). Dramaturge: Taking Shakespeare, Hirsch, Hosanna, King of Thieves (Stratford). Artistic Director, Alberta Theatre Projects (1999-2009); Co-director, Banff Playwrights Colony (1997-2009); Artistic Director, Factory Theatre (1978-87).

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Apprentice Stage Manager: Angels

in America: Perestroika (WJT). Stage Manager: The Walworth Farce (Incompletely Strangled Theatre Co.); Sunday in the Park with George (Gallery Works/SondheimFest). Stage Manager/Assistant Director: The Universal Wolf (No Sugar Added Productions); The Story of a Sinking Man (Theatre Dirigible). Director: Feet of the Angels, Four Lives of Marie (readings for TPM’s Salon Series); Artichoke Heart, The Gas Heart (Theatre Outgrabe); Shabbat (WJT); Pariah (Fancy Bred Theatre/StrindbergFest).

Assistant Director: North Main Gothic (TPM); The Winter’s Tale (Tom Tom Theatre).

TRAINING University of Winnipeg.

ET CETERA Next up, directing The Cherry Orchard for

Theatre by the River & Little Echo Theatre as part of ChekhovFest. Love to Dylan and Mom!

Casey Shapira Research Assistant/ Apprentice Stage Manager

ET CETERA He has received eight nominations and

three wins for Outstanding Direction at Calgary’s Betty Mitchell Awards. This past January, Bob was appointed Director of New Plays at the Stratford Festival after serving four seasons as a consulting director.

MTC First engagement.

OTHER THEATRE Dramaturge: The Miser of Middlegate

Lisa Nelson Stage Manager

(TPM/zone 41 theatre); Transit Diaries (Humber Theatre/Chameleon Co-Op). Actor: June’s Window, Above the Empress of China (Theatre Anywhere); Thimblerig (MAP); Spinning You Home (Sarasvàti Productions); wasted on the young, Year 25 Vigil, The Backspace Project (Humber Theatre).

TRAINING Graduate of Humber College’s theatre

MTC Apprentice Stage Manager: The Fighting Days.

OTHER THEATRE Stage Manager: The Miser of Middlegate, Encore (TPM); Angels in America: Perestroika (WJT); Magical Mystery Munsch (PTE); Tough Case (MTYP); Henry V, Julius Caesar (SIR); Talk

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conservatory program and the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Theatre and Film.

ET CETERA Casey is entering her third year as the

Literary Apprentice in MTC’s Artistic Department.

Special thanks to Mom, Dad, Stephen, Paul, Alon and Laurie. This one’s for the late Tom Hendry.

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Elizabeth Bradley is an educator, producer, festival founder and international arts consultant. After a 25-year career in the performing arts in her native Canada, notably working with John Hirsch during his tenure as artistic director at the Stratford Festival, she was recruited in 2001 to serve as Head of the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University, and subsequently as Chair of Drama at the Tisch School for the Arts, New York University, where she remains a professor. Recently Bradley returned to Stratford as senior artistic associate under Artistic Director Des McAnuff. Currently she is a strategic and creative consultant to Seattle’s Intiman Theatre, chair of the US Board of the National Theatre of Scotland, and on the advisory board of Bejing-based Ping Pong Productions. In August, after the opening of Hirsch in Edinburgh, she travelled to South Africa to teach “Artistic Entrepreneurship” at the Market Theatre to emerging and mid-career artists.

Richard Jordan Productions Ltd. is a UK and international Olivier- and Tony award-winning theatre production company. Since 1998, under the leadership of producer Richard Jordan, the company has produced over 180 productions in 18 different countries, including 56 world premieres. Described

by The Stage newspaper as “one of the UK’s most prolific theatre producers,” Richard has been at the forefront of developing and presenting works by a diverse range of established and emerging writers and artists. Richard has previously produced Alon Nashman’s work in the award-winning plays Alphonse and Kafka and Son. In the UK his co-production of Roadkill received the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement at an Affiliate Theatre. In New York, his co-production of Christopher Durang’s new play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike was the 2013 Tony Award winner for Best New Play and also the Drama Desk, Drama League, New York Critics and Outer Critic Circle Best New Play Awards.

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BETWEEN THEN AND NOW: TWENTY YEARS OF THEATRE PROJECTS MANITOBA

By Gordon Tanner, 2012, Canada, 16 min.

Made to celebrate Theatre Projects Manitoba’s 20th anniversary in 2010, this documentary explores the origins of the company and the critical role it plays in encouraging new growth in Winnipeg’s vibrant theatre ecosystem.

JOHN HIRSCH: PORTRAIT OF A MAN AND A THEATRE

By Mort Ransen, 1965, Canada, 29 min.

This rarely-seen portrait of the MTC pioneer reflects his radical beliefs about what theatre means. John Hirsch’s infectious enthusiasm led to the creation of the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

This film is about his passion for theatre and its contribution to the city of Winnipeg.

HIRSCH Dir. Noam Gonick, 2010, Canada, 11 min.

Noam Gonick’s Hirsch is a creative interpretation of Hirsch’s life with inventive set design and innovative visuals. As a teenaged World War II orphan, Hirsch came to Winnipeg from Europe, his only possession a suitcase puppet show. He became an agitator for culture on the Canadian prairies, co-founding the Manitoba Theatre Centre and going on to direct on New York’s Lincoln Center stage. He died in Toronto in 1989 at age 59 from complications due to AIDS.

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One of the founders of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, John Hirsch was a pioneer in the Winnipeg theatre community for his outspoken views on developing drama and the need to take risks in presenting live theatre. In conjunction with Hirsch at the Tom Hendry Warehouse, the Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque presents two films which speak to his legacy and one on the importance of the independent theatre group Theatre Projects Manitoba, which champions independent theatre in Winnipeg.

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Although he lived to only 44, Anton Chekhov left behind a serious body of work. Plays like The Seagull, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard and hundreds of short stories have stood the test of time. Chekhov counted stalwarts such as Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Nabokov and Tennessee Williams among his admirers. Even his life outside of writing bore a certain gravitas. After a childhood Chekhov described as a “tyranny,” he trained as a medical doctor. Throughout his life, he remained a practicing physician, saying, “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.”

While Anton Chekhov earned his lofty place among the pantheon of master playwrights for his dramatic prowess, his gift for comedy sometimes goes unheralded. During medical school, Chekhov supported his family by publishing comic short stories. His deft touch with comedy is evident in many of his short stories and plays, including The Seagull.

MTC’s production of The Seagull won’t be your only chance to experience the range of Anton Chekhov’s work. The 14th Master Playwright Festival features 22 companies presenting stage and radio plays, readings, films and short stories. We encourage you to take a serious look.

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