A NUMBER Program

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artistic and managing directors Thank you for joining us for acclaimed playwright Caryl Churchill’s A Number.

This play perfectly exemplifies our season’s theme of IDENTITY as issues of intrinsic individuality are explored through the playwright’s legendary use of language. We hope you enjoy this fascinating look into a world that is not so very different from our own, in which the debate of nature versus nurture shines through the lens of one our greatest living playwrights.

This season we’ve increased the number of opportunities for you to add your voice and engage in conversation about our productions with the addition of more talkbacks and the return of our Spotlight Symposium Series. Plus, you can continue the discussion after the play by using #NewRepConversation on social media. We’re eager to hear what you have to say!

As our season continues, please join us for The Snow Queen, an exciting new pop/rock musical, faithfully adapted from Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale by Kirsten Brandt, Haddon Kime, and former New Rep Artistic Director, Rick Lombardo.

This production is sure to enchant the entire family this holiday season. And return again in the New Year as we celebrate the third annual Next Rep Black Box Festival with Via Dolorosa by David Hare and The Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín, two stunning one-person productions connected in setting yet separated in time.

At New Rep, many hands contribute to making our season happen. But there is another critical person we rely on to tell our stories: you. Nothing would be possible without you, our audience, to share the stories, to delve into thoughtful conversation, and to share in the process of bringing a play to life. We’d like to be able to tell you that ticket sales alone can sustain a theatre like New Rep, but the truth is that donors make it all possible. We’d like to ask you to step into the spotlight and consider a gift in support of New Rep this fall. Recognize your part in sustaining New Rep as a vital cultural touchstone in our community and a place where theatre is available and accessible for all.

Thank you again for visiting us today. We look forward to seeing you again soon as we continue a season filled with thought-provoking and exciting productions.

Jim Petosa Artistic Director

Harriet Sheets Managing Director

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Jim Petosa Artistic Director

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A NUMBER presents

A NUMBER BY

CARYL CHURCHILL DIRECTED BY

CLAY HOPPER◊ SCENIC DESIGNER

COSTUME DESIGNER

CRISTINA TODESCOº

PENNEY PINETTE

LIGHTING DESIGNER

COMPOSER & SOUND DESIGNER

MARY ELLEN STEBBINSº

PHIL SCHROEDER

STAGE MANAGER

LESLIE SEARS* CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

NAEL NACER* Bernard 1, Bernard 2, Michael Black

DALE PLACE* Salter A NUMBER is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. A NUMBER was first presented by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London, September 2002 U.S. Premiere by New York Theatre Workshop, December 2004 * member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States ◊ member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union

º member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.

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A Number represents one of our greatest English playwrights operating at the height of her powers. In classic Churchill style, she chooses the phenomenon of cloning as a jumping off point to explore the intersection of genetics, identity, masculinity, fathers and sons, abuse, neglect, redemption, and ultimate responsibility; all in five breathtaking variations over the course of an hour.

The play excites me for many reasons, not the least of which is that it’s not really about cloning, but rather uses the idea to eliminate the validity of biological determinism. In one deft theatrical conceit, Churchill manages to set up a highly charged dramatic situation that begs the question: in a world where we are not determined by our biology, what exactly are we responsible for? If the question of “Nature vs. Nurture� is settled, then what goes in to making our identity, and how much of our moral choices is inextricably linked to this identity? And are there moral choices at all when they can not be separated from who we are?

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meet the artists NAEL NACER* (Bernard 1, Bernard 2, Michael Black) returns to New Repertory Theatre after performing in Pattern of Life, Lungs, and The Kite Runner.

Other area credits include The Flick (Gloucester Stage Company); Come Back, Little Sheba, Awake and Sing!, The Seagull, and Our Town (Huntington Theatre Company); Intimate Apparel, The Temperamentals, and Animal Crackers (Lyric Stage Company); A Future Perfect and Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Windowmen, The Farm, and Gary (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Sila and Distracted (Underground Railway Theater); Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse); Love Person, 1001, The Aliens, and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Company One); The Flu Season (Whistler in the Dark); Waters Rising, Shouting Theatre in a Crowded Fire (National Theatre of Allston); Bent (SouthCity Theatre); and Polaroid Stories (Tinderbox Stage Company). Off-Broadway credits include The Hiding Place (59E59 Theatres) and Lemonade (NYC Fringe Festival). He is the recipient of a 2013 IRNE award for his work in David Cromer’s production of Our Town, and a 2015 Elliot Norton award for his work in Intimate Apparel. Mr. Nacer was born and raised in Paris, France and currently resides in Brookline, MA. He can next be seen in It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Wesley Savick’s adaptation of Rhinoceros (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), and Mr. Burns, A PostElectric Play (Lyric Stage Company).

DALE PLACE* (Salter) returns to New Repertory Theatre after performing in The Kite Runner and afterlife: a ghost story. New York credits include King Lear (New York Shakespeare Festival); and Nikolai and the Others (Lincoln Center Theater). He has performed regionally with The Cleveland Play House, Northern Stage, The Public Theatre of Maine, NorthEast Shakespeare Ensemble, and over 30 seasons with The Barnstormers Theatre. Recent local credits include Our Town (Huntington Theatre Company); The Farm (IRNE Award nomination, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre). He has performed locally with Lyric Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, and Wheelock Family Theatre. Mr. Place’s film and television credits include The Fighter, The Proposal, Joy, Gone Baby Gone, What’s Your Number, and Gilded Lilys.

CARYL CHURCHILL (Playwright) wrote her first play, Downstairs, while at Oxford University. It was staged in 1958 and won the award at the Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival. Her plays have been performed on international stages, on the BBC radio, and adapted for BBC television. They include Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Cloud Nine, Fen, Three More Sleepless Nights, Top Girls, Serious Money (which won the Laurence Olivier/BBC Award for Best New Play), Mad Forest, The Skriker, Far Away, A Number, and a new version of August Strindberg’s A Dream Play. Her latest play, Drunk Enough to say I Love You?, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, where she served as Resident Dramatist in 1974 and 1975. She lives in London.

CLAY HOPPER◊ (Director) returns to New Repertory Theatre after directing Classic Repertory Company’s 1984, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Of Mice and Men, Macbeth, Great Expectations, Romeo and Juliet, and To Kill A Mockingbird. In Washington D.C., he served as the Associate Artistic Director of Olney Theatre Center and Director of both the National Players and the Summer Shakespeare Festival. He now serves as lecturer in Directing and Theatre Arts at Boston University’s School of Theatre. Directing credits include columbinus, Macbeth, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Amadeus, Farragut North, Triumph of Love, and Call of the Wild (Olney Theatre).

Other recent credits include On the Verge, or The Geography of Yearning (Contemporary America Theatre Festival Actor’s Lab). Off-off-Broadway credits include A Home Without and Different Zen (Third Eye Rep); Earthworms (The Working Group); and Triage and The Interrogation (The Miranda Theatre). He founded and produced a new play series called New Works/After Hours at Lincoln Center Institute’s Clarke Studio Theatre.

He has taught at Woolly Mammoth’s Theatre School and College of Wooster, where he directed King Lear and was visiting assistant professor in 2006, and served as Assistant Director at The Old Globe Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Woolly Mammoth Theater Company. Mr. Hopper earned his BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts and his MFA from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.

CRISTINA TODESCOº (Scenic Designer) returns to New Repertory Theatre after designing On the Verge, Amadeus, Three Viewings, The Last Five Years, Opus, afterlife: a ghost story, Picasso at the

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Lapin Agile, The Clean House, House with No Walls, Silence, and The Santaland Diaries. Area credits include appropriate, A Future Perfect, and Necessary Monsters (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Edith Shoots Things and Hits Them (Company One); Albatross (The Poet’s Theater); God’s Ear and Phedre (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Twelfth Night and Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare); and Pinocchio (Wheelock Family Theater). Her work has earned four Elliot Norton Awards including Best Design for The Flick (Company One), Twelfth Night (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), The Aliens (Company One), and The Clean House (New Repertory Theatre). Ms. Todesco has worked in film for many years and most recently worked in the art department on Black Mass. She earned her MFA at Boston University’s School of Theatre, where she also teaches. Originally from Milton, she currently resides in Dorchester.

PENNEY PINETTE (Costume Designer) makes her New Repertory Theatre debut. She is a Boston-based designer focusing in dance and theatre. In addition to designing for the stage she also teaches costume production at Boston University where she is currently pursuing her MFA. Some of her work has been with local puppeteer Bonnie Duncan of They Gotta Be Secret Agents, and the local dance community including Prometheus Dance, Contrapose Dance, and Fort Point Theatre Channel. This year will be her fourth year designing costumes for the Boston Conservatory dance department.

MARY ELLEN STEBBINSº (Lighting Designer) returns to New Repertory Theatre after designing On the Verge, Amadeus, and The Kite Runner.

Recent Boston credits include Song Cycle and Orpheus (Peabody Essex Museum). New York credits include Chicago (Professional Performing Arts School); The Subtle Body (Gold No Trade); The Wedding Singer (NYFA); The Seven (Columbia Stages); A Spare Me (Waterwell); and Hold Music and One Arm and a Leg (Sightline Theatre). Other credits include Godspell (Bristol Valley Theater); Spring Awakening (Princeton University); Lear on the Second Floor (University of California, San Diego); and Colombine’s Paradise Theater (eighth blackbird); as well as associate design with Jane Cox for The Ambassador (BAM, UCLA). New York film credits include Hotel Room (Sightline Theater/Tisch). Ms. Stebbins is the resident designer for the Encounters Ensemble and howl ensemble, co-founder of Helikon Repertory Company, and lighting designer for The Orbiting Human Circus. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her AB from Harvard College. She is a 2014 Live Design Young Designer to Watch, the recipient of the USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award and was a Hangar Theatre Lab Company Design Fellow. Originally from 8

Georgia, she resides in New York and will next design with Third Space Theater at the New York Fringe Festival.

PHIL SCHROEDER (Composer & Sound Designer) makes his New Repertory Theatre debut. He composed music professionally in San Francisco for twenty-five years prior to moving to Boston to pursue an MFA in Playwriting at Boston University. His first full-length play, Equal Writes, was produced at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre as part of the collection of plays by graduating MFA candidates in the spring of 2015. He has had three short plays produced at the Boston Theater Marathon, including Rogue River, Oregon, Bad Dogs and Best Friends, and The House of All Alone. His composing and sound design work has included clients such as Dole Foods, Lincoln/Mercury, Apple, Wells Fargo and many more. His work for theatre includes productions in the Bay Area as well as Richard Schotter’s The Sussman Variations, for which he composed original music for piano and violin. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Mr. Schroeder currently resides in Brookline. He is currently working on a new play involving ghosts.

LESLIE SEARS* (Stage Manager) returns to New Repertory Theatre after stage managing Scenes from an Adultery, The Whipping Man, Rancho Mirage, and Amadeus, and assistant stage managing Assassins and Camelot. Other productions include Albatross (The Poets’ Theater); Private Lives (Shakespeare Theater Company and Huntington Theatre Company); Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout Theater and Huntington Theatre Company); A Raisin in the Sun, Invisible Man, Ruined, Prelude to a Kiss, All My Sons, A Civil War Christmas, Fences, and Miracle at Naples (Huntington Theatre Company); three seasons at Boston Lyric Opera, four seasons at Tanglewood Music Center, mira, Niobe, Orpheo, Poppea, and Psyche (Boston Early Music Festival).

Ms. Sears is a graduate of Boston University where she currently teaches stage management.

JIM PETOSA (Artistic Director) joined New Repertory Theatre as an award-winning theatre artist, educator, and leader in 2012. He has served as Director of the School of Theatre, College of Fine Arts, at Boston University since 2002, and Artistic Director of Maryland’s Olney Theatre Center for the Arts and its National Players educational touring company (1994-2012). While at BU, he established the Boston Center for American Performance (BCAP), the professional production extension of the BU School of Theatre, in 2008.

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work was nominated for two IRNE awards for A Question of Mercy (BCAP). He has served as one of three artistic leaders for the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP/NYC) since 1987. In Maryland, his work earned over 25 Helen Hayes Award nominations as well as the award for outstanding direction of a musical for Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well… His production of Look! We Have Come Through! was nominated for the Charles MacArthur Award for outstanding new play, and he earned the Montgomery County Executive’s Excellence in the Arts and Humanities Award for Outstanding Artist/Scholar. A member of Actors’ Equity Association, Mr. Petosa has served on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for StageSource. Originally from New Jersey, he was educated at The Catholic University of America and resides in Quincy.

HARRIET SHEETS (Managing Director) joined New Repertory Theatre in 2000, bringing with her experience in human resources, union contracts and negotiations, budgeting, and cash-flow management, as well as marketing, development, and special events. During her tenure, Ms. Sheets has successfully managed the theatre’s increasing

operational budget, and moved the company from Newton Highlands to the Arsenal Center for the Arts. Prior to working at New Rep, she was the General Manager at Merrimack Repertory Theatre, where she worked for nine years. Ms. Sheets began her career as an Actors’ Equity Association Stage Manager, working at North Shore Music Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Opera Company of Boston and others. Originally from Arizona, she holds a BFA from Arizona State University and resides in Methuen. * member of Actors’ Equity Association ◊ member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc. º member of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829

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Imagining the Future: A Number in Context CARYL CHURCHILL, PLAYWRIGHT PHOTO: THE GUARDIAN

In A Number, Caryl Churchill contemplates the ramifications of cloning through the story of a father and his three sons, two of whom are clones of the original. By placing the action of the play in a futuristic time that still reminds us of our own, Churchill investigates our contemporary relationship to bioethics and warns against the potential consequences of advances in biotechnology.

From the time they began telling stories, storytellers have set their tales in far-off lands and imaginary worlds. Homer took us to distant shores where we encountered Cyclopes, witches, and cannibals as we followed Odysseus on his journey home. Dante dragged us through the ninth circle of hell.

Shakespeare, in The Tempest, transported us to a magical island inhabited by sorcerers and spirits. But it wasn’t until the late nineteenth century, when H.G. Wells published his seminal work The Time Machine (1895), that writers took us to the future.

New discoveries and inventions have often bred unprecedented fear, and much futuristic literature has been written in response to rapid and often inconceivable advances in science and technology. In ancient times, it was oracles and prophets who delivered warnings about the future. In modern times, it is often writers who offer the deepest insight into what the future might hold for humankind.

BRAVE NEW WORLD, ALDOUS HUXLEY (1932)

Aldous Huxley’s imagined society in Brave New World is run by a benevolent dictatorship, the World State, which promotes a chemically engineered breeding system. In lieu of natural reproduction and live birth, human embryos are raised in hatcheries. Some fetuses are allowed to develop relatively normally, while

others are injected with intelligence-stunting chemicals that predetermine their low station in life. Those endowed with higher levels of intelligence are elevated on the social and economic ladder, while those in the lower castes perform menial labor. Literature and art are eliminated and critical thinking is discouraged. Any individual initiative or action is crushed. No romantic relationships exist, sex is purely recreational, and everyone is encouraged to consume soma, a hallucinogenic drug that promotes feelings of elation and thus keeps the populace distracted and content.

The character of John, whom many in the novel refer to as “the Savage,” stands in stark contrast to the rest of the characters in Huxley’s universe. John grew up on a “savage reservation” outside the World State and has read the collected works of Shakespeare. In one of the final scenes of the novel, Huxley pits John against Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, to champion the virtues of the old ways. John fights for all of the things that define the human experience, even though they hold the potential to cause unhappiness: “I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”

Almost three decades later, in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley observed that society was moving toward the one he’d imagined more quickly than he’d anticipated. Men and women were losing their individual freedom in many places worldwide. Even for those living in democracies, Huxley said, the “desire for freedom is on the wane.”

ANTHEM, AYN RAND (1938)

In her novella, Anthem, Ayn Rand paints a bleak picture of the future through the tale

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of two lovers, Equality 7-2521 and Liberty 5-3000. Rand sets the story in an unspecified time, presumably during another of humanity’s dark ages. The narrative is told from the perspective of Equality 7-2521, who uses firstperson plural pronouns because there are no words in this society to refer only to oneself.

All individuality has been purged. Children are raised in collective homes away from their parents. Strict rules govern the behavior of the citizens—a rigid curfew is enforced and no one is even permitted to write. Although everyone is expected to be referred to not by name but by number, the two lovers create covert, illegal names for one another: The Golden One and The Unconquered.

Following persecution by the World Council of Scholars, The Unconquered escapes into the Uncharted Forest, with The Golden One not far behind. Together, they come upon a house from the “Unmentionable Times” (presumably our present-day), wherein they begin to read books. They finally discover the language to express their individual love for one another, the sacred word “I.” 1984, GEORGE ORWELL (1949)

HUXLEY’S BRAVE NEW WORLD, RAND’S ANTHEM, AND ORWELL’S 1984 FIRST EDITION COVER ART

In George Orwell’s most famous work, 1984, the group in power—the Party—relies heavily on human psychology to wield control over the populace. The citizens are expected to pay homage each day to Big Brother, the benevolent world leader whose image is plastered on the walls of every room in every building. Citizens are carefully monitored through telescreens that track their every move. To thwart critical thinking and rebellion, the government initiated an overhaul of the English language, converting it to Newspeak, a language with limited vocabulary and means of expression. If there are no words for antithetical sentiments, the Party reasons, they will not be expressed.

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When the main character, Winston, rebels against the powers that be in order to be with his true love, Julia, he is imprisoned and tortured for months on end, until he finally breaks. Threatened with being eaten alive by rats, his greatest fear, he begs for mercy, wishes his fate would befall Julia instead, and declares his love for Big Brother. Because he is willing to sacrifice another person to save himself, to inflict unspeakable cruelty on the person he supposedly loves most, he is welcomed back into the Party. Because Orwell’s bleak projection of the future draws on what makes us human—our psychological tendency toward self-preservation—it is all the more disturbing.

A NUMBER, CARYL CHURCHILL (2002)

Caryl Churchill is a political playwright whose work is borne out of the challenges of its time but also resonates with audiences across cultures long after its original production date.

A Number is not the first of Churchill’s plays to be set in a dystopian landscape. Far Away (2000), takes place in a futuristic society in order to indict the contemporary military agenda and the removed attitude of the privileged towards violence and war. Churchill has also explored fantasy worlds in plays that serve as warnings about our own society.

The Skriker (1994), which takes place half in our world and half in an underground fairy realm, provides insightful commentary on our destructive relationship to our environment and natural ecology.

Like the writers who precede her, Churchill explores issues of human identity in A Number. Her play asks us to consider what shapes our identity and to articulate what makes us individuals. Unlike her predecessors, Churchill writes from a distinctly contemporary perspective. At the time of her writing, cloning was not an entirely futuristic concept. While George Orwell imagined the telescreens of 1984, Churchill took something that already existed in our contemporary zeitgeist and expanded on it. Whereas many past works examine the tension between individuality and the state, A Number pits individuality against the scientific advances that threaten to render it meaningless. ■ Visit newrep.org/anumber for additional dramaturgical information!

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Martha (Marty) Karoff New Rep dedicates our 2015-2016 season in memory of Martha (Marty) Karoff and her longstanding devotion to New Rep and the art of theatre. Marty Karoff, founding board chair of New Rep, spent 42 wonderful years in her beloved West Newton home where she held the first-ever fundraiser for New Rep with a scene from A.R. Gurney’s The Dining Room staged around her dining room table. In her role as “unofficial mayor” of West Newton Hill, she brought together two generations of neighbors who shared her love of community and of great theatre. In New Rep’s first decade, Marty and her husband Peter were instrumental in forming New Rep’s first Board of Directors. Their drive to involve community members in the company gave New Rep a loyal base of patrons and supporters that have sustained the theatre during its three decades of life.

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Thank you to all who donated to our 30th Anniversary Comprehensive Campaign! Your generosity and passion for New Rep made a difference and we are grateful to you. New Rep raised $2.4 million, the most we've ever raised in a campaign. 20% of our donors increased their giving and we welcomed an 18% increase in new donors. In addition, 100% of the Board gave to the campaign, and we hosted the most successful New Rep fundraising event in our history.

It's our turn to applaud you, and on behalf of the artists, staff, board of directors, and those whom your gift benefits, our standing ovation for your generous performance is thunderous!

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A BOUT

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New Repertory Theatre is the award-winning, professional theatre company in residence at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, MA. For over 30 years, New Rep has been a leader of self-produced theatre in greater Boston, producing contemporary and classic dramas, comedies, and musicals in both the 340-seat Charles Mosesian Theater and the 90-seat Black Box Theater. Annually, New Rep serves over 40,000 patrons, including 2,000 season subscribers. In addition to its mainstage productions, New Rep produces Next Voices, a program dedicated to developing new plays with four playwrights through three staged readings and one world premiere production. Under its Lifelong Enrichment Arts Programs (LEAP), New Rep also produces its Classic Repertory Company, Page To Stage, Insider Experiences, and Spotlight Symposium Series.

New Repertory Theatre, Inc. is a not-for-profit theatre company operating under a New England Area Theatres (NEAT) contract with Actors’ Equity Association. New Repertory Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group, a national service organization for non-profit professional theaters; StageSource, the Alliance of Theatre Artists and Producers; ArtsBoston; the Producer’s Association of New England Area Theatres (NEAT); New England Theatre Conference; VSA Arts-Massachusetts, a service and support organization promoting accessibility; Theatre Arts Marketing Alliance (TAMA); Boston Arts Marketing Alliance (BAMA); National New Play Network (NNPN); and Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities.

mission STATEMENT New Repertory Theatre produces plays that speak powerfully to the essential ideas of our time. Through the passion and electricity of live theater performed to the highest standards of excellence, New Rep expands and challenges the human spirit of both artists and audience. New Rep presents world premieres, contemporary and classic works in several intimate settings. We are committed to education and outreach, including special dedication to the creation of innovative in-school programming and providing access to underserved audiences. New Rep is an active advocate for the arts and a major voice in the national dialogue defining the role of theater in our culture.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

ADVISORY COUNCIL

A.W. (Chip) Phinney III TREASURER Jon Harris CLERK Wendy Liebow IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Paul Levine

James Bourdon, Gregory E. Bulger, Diane DiCarlo, Richard Dix, Jane Feigenson, Christopher Flynn, Ralph Fuccillo, Blake Jordan, H. Peter Karoff, B.J. Krintzman, Ted Kurland, Michael McCay, Fred Miller, Peter Nessen, Daniel S. Newton, Mary Rivet, Dan Salera, Richard Walker, Curtis Whitney

CHAIR

Lillian Sober Ain, Ruth Budd, Marcy Crary, Carol S. Fischman, Joan Gallos, Jonathan Garlick, Richard Jacobs, David Kluchman, Shari Malyn, Anita Meiklejohn, Chris Meyer, Laurie H. Nash, Pamela Taylor, Susan Murphy Warren, Miriam Gillitt Winer ARTISTIC AND PRODUCTION ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Jim Petosa

ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

ADMINISTRATION MANAGING DIRECTOR Harriet GENERAL MANAGER Alexis

Sheets Dearborn

Bridget Kathleen O’Leary Eric Sauter EDUCATION ASSOCIATE Hayley Sherwood NNPN PRODUCER-IN-RESIDENCE Adrienne Boris

DEVELOPMENT

BOX OFFICE

MARKETING

BOX OFFICE MANAGER Jessica

Weinstein BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATES Hillary Arsenault, Danielle Cournoyer HOUSE MANAGERS Deb Antonelli, Anna Burnham, Ben Morrison, Julie Murray, Barbara Pierre, Kai Tshikosi

MARKETING & PR DIRECTOR Michael Duncan MARKETING & CREATIVE SERVICES MANAGER

artistic interns

legal counselor

Beth Gilchrist, Eden Ohayon, Lea Phillips

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PRODUCTION MANAGER

Jill Holland, John Hill, Bridget McCarthy production interns

Whitney Arnold, MaggieMarie Casto, Joe Clavell

CLASSIC REPERTORY COMPANY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Karen Coyle Alyward, Kimo Carter, Jonathan Garlick, Clay Hopper, Marie Raduazzo, Lisa Stott CLASSIC REPERTORY COMPANY

Heather Darrow Jillian Smith GRANT WRITER Mark W. Soucy DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE

Smith

Tyler Prendergast GRAPHIC DESIGN Caridossa PHOTOGRAPHERS

Design

Andew Brilliant / Brilliant Pictures, Rob Lorino, Christopher McKenzie Stanley B. Kay Cohen + Associates support Mark W. Soucy, NCGIT

ambassadors

M.J. Campbell, Iris Feldman, Scotty Hart, Virginia Inglis

NEXT VOICES ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Kirsten Greenidge, Melinda Lopez, Bridget Kathleen O’Leary, Jim Petosa, Kate Snodgrass NEXT VOICES PLAYWRITING FELLOWS

Lila Rose Kaplan, Walt McGough, Clay Hopper James McLindon, Cassie M. Seinuk ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Kiera Muckenhirn PRODUCTION DESIGNER Ghazal Hassani DRAMATURG Zach Dyer COMPANY Laura Detwiler, Michael Kelly, Lily Linke, Cory Missildine, Alex Rankine, Kai Tshikosi, Grace Kennedy Woodford DIRECTOR

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2015-2016 Season The Winter’s Tale Dec. 9, 2015 – Jan. 3, 2016 Willet Hall at United Parish, Brookline Richard II February 17 – March 13, 2016 Cambridge YMCA, Cambridge The School for Scandal April 13 – May 8, 2016 Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge a cto rs s h a ke s p e a re p ro j e ct. o r g

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classic repertory company GEORGE ORWELL’S

1984

Saturday, October 17 at 8pm Boston University Theatre 264 HUNTINGTON AVE, BOSTON

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

JULIUS CAESAR Sunday, October 18 at 2pm Boston University Theatre

Monday, October 26 at 7:30pm Arsenal Center for the Arts

264 HUNTINGTON AVE, BOSTON

321 ARSENAL ST, WATERTOWN

$20 general admission / $18 seniors $15 students / $10 new rep subscribers Are you an educator? Reserve a complimentary ticket to any of these performances, join us for a post-show reception celebrating the arts in education, and learn about special discounts to help bring these productions to your school! E-mail education@newrep.org to reserve your ticket today!

Classic Repertory Company is produced in cooperation with Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre Funded in part by generous individual contributors, the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Foundation for MetroWest, Fuller Foundation, The Marshall Home Fund, Roy A. Hunt Foundation, Watertown Community Foundation, and Mintz Levin. This program is also supported in part by grants from the Billerica Arts Council, Brookline Commission for the Arts, Canton Cultural Council, Brockton Cultural Council, Lawrence Cultural Council, Lexington Council for the Arts, Marlborough Cultural Council, Newton Cultural Council, Watertown Cultural Council, and Wilmington Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

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Wicked Local is proud to be the mainstage sponsor of New Rep Theatre's 2015-2016 season!

Stay connected to your community with local news, community issues, sports, entertainment and more.

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This Fall: Two Science Productions - One Cast!

Copenhagen

by Michael Frayn directed by Eric Tucker October 1 - November 15, 2015 History up close and personal.

Featuring Steven Barkhimer, Robert Najarian, and Debra Wise.

Einstein’s Dreams

adapted by Wesley Savick from the book by Alan Lightman directed by Wesley Savick September 24 - November 14, 2015

“Generous doses of wit and insight!”

Oct 23 – Nov 21

– CHICAGO TRIBUNE

It’s about time. And it’s relative.

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information

BOX OFFICE INFORMATION

The New Rep Box Office is open seven days a week from noon until 6pm. On performance days, the window will be open until fifteen minutes after the last performance begins.

ACCESSIBILITY

Patrons requiring wheelchair seating or who are otherwise physically handicapped should inform the Box Office staff when ordering tickets. The theatre is equipped with wheelchair-accessible restrooms on each floor. Hearing-impaired patrons wishing for assistive listening devices may pick up a headset from the Box Office upon arrival at the theatre. Patrons wishing to use large-print programs can pick one up from the Box Office upon arrival. Patrons in need of Braille programs or that will be bringing guide dogs to the theatre should advise the Box Office staff when ordering tickets.

PARKING

There is a free parking garage on the Arsenal campus, directly across from the Arsenal Center.

The parking garage has handicap accessible parking and an elevator on each level. Please do not park in "15 minute" or “1 hour” spaces, the “reserved" spaces next to La Casa de Pedro, or any space designated for a particular company when attending a performance. As the campus is currently under construction, please allow extra time for parking and visit newrep.org/parking for the most up-to-date information.

CHILDREN

Babes-in-arms are not permitted in the theatre during performances. New Rep encourages the introduction of young audiences to the theatre.

Children under 14 years of age are required to have a parent or guardian present with them in the theatre during the performance. Some shows may contain strong language and/or mature themes. Patrons should request additional information when purchasing tickets.

PHOTOGRAPHY & RECORDING

All photography, videotaping, and audio recording are strictly prohibited inside the theater.

LATECOMERS

All latecomers will be seated at the discretion of management in the most accessible seats, in order to minimize distractions.

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