How The Other Half Loves

LOVE IS CHAOS

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CAST

DAVID CHRISTOFFEL FRANK FOSTER

GENEVIÈVE STEELE FIONA FOSTER

AARON REID RYDER BOB PHILLIPS

KAIT POST TERRY PHILLIPS

MATTHEW GORMAN WILLIAM FEATHERSTONE

SOPHIE WILCOTT MARY FEATHERSTONE

CREATIVE TEAM

JEREMY WEBB DIRECTOR

VICKIE MARSTON SET DESIGNER

KAELEN MACDONALD COSTUME DESIGNER

LEIGH ANN VARDY LIGHTING DESIGNER

ANDREW CRAWFORD LIGHTING DESIGNER

MADDIE BAUTISTA SOUND DESIGNER

KEVIN ROBINSON FIGHT DIRECTOR

JENN HEWITT STAGE MANAGER

EVE ROWLETT APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER

Greetings, everyone!

Welcome to this performance of Alan Ayckbourn’s How The Other Half Loves. What a complete delight it was to bring this cast and team together back in May, in Gananoque, Ontario, and work with the folks at Thousand Islands Playhouse to bring you this crazy British comedy.

We have assembled a wonderful creative team and cast to bring this odd comedy to life. It’s a joy to bring it home to the Neptune audience with this cast of East Coasters on stage and off. I am happy to report the show was a smash hit in Ontario.

How The Other Half Loves was written in 1969 and hit London’s West End for the first time in 1970. It’s the play that cemented Ayckbourn’s reputation as a master of farce and comedy in the UK. (Side note: I was in the very theatre it premiered in - The Lyric on Shaftesbury Avenue - earlier this year watching the musical Hadestown.)

We plan to give you a silly, fun night at the theatre with extra-marital affairs, manners, farce, mishaps, and a whole bunch of mayhem!

There’s SO much more to see and enjoy in our 2025-26 Season. I would like to thank the entire TIP team for making this East Coast ‘come from away’ feel so welcome. See how I mentioned the show we are ending the season with there. Come From Away - the most requested show ever will be live on our Fountain Hall stage in a brand new production created right here by our team. There is so much theatre before that production! The Wizard of Oz, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Mad Madge (which I also get to direct) and two co-productions with local theatre companies Chase The Ace (produced by Ship’s Company Theatre, Parrsboro) and The Ghost of Violet Shaw (all the way from Dartmouth’s Eastern Front Theatre.)

So much happening.

I have been hard at work preparing the 2026-27 Season and I plan on unveiling it in January 2026.

Jeremy Webb

Artistic Director, Neptune Theatre Director, How The Other Half Loves

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As artists, we are grateful to work and build community here. As stewards of culture, we commit to continuing to improve our relations with Indigenous people and upholding values of collaboration and inclusivity in all that we do.

Any videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. The use of cameras, cellular phones, paging devices and all other recording devices is strictly prohibited in the theatre. Please ensure all cellular phones and watch alarms are turned off. Neptune Theatre is a scent-free environment.

Neptune Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Neptune Theatre engages professional technicians represented by IATSE Local 680.

Neptune Theatre acknowledges the support of our government partners:

STOTHART

DANCE AND VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS BY PETER HOWARD ORCHESTRATION BY LARRY WILCOX

ADAPTED BY JOHN KANE

MUNRO

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S

Thank you for joining us for How the Other Half Loves! This show is part of our continuing partnership with the Thousand Islands Playhouse in Gananoque, Ontario, and we’re delighted to be hosting this production here on the Scotiabank Stage.

Creative partnerships with theatres across the country are how Neptune Theatre continues to grow its brand and reach across Canada, which further allows us to produce new and exciting shows right here in Halifax.

This chaotic, laugh-out-loud funny, farce is a fantastically light-hearted theatrical event that is a perfect distraction during these dreary Fall days. There is so much more theatre to come in our 2025-26 season, so as we look ahead to the Holidays, don’t forget that a Pick 3 or 5 Package makes a wonderful gift!

Kimberlee Stadelmann Executive Director

DAVID CHRISTOFFEL

ROLE: Frank Foster NEPTUNE: Art, Devil’s Disciple, High School Musical OTHER THEATRE: Unconscious at the Sistine Chapel (2B); Counsellor-at-Law, The Millionairess, Overruled (Shaw Festival) FILM/TV: 111, 8:37 Rebirth, Escaping the NXIVM Cult, To Have and to Holiday, Relative Happiness; Sullivan’s Crossing, Washington Black, Diggstown, From, Mr. D

GENEVIÈVE STEELE

ROLE: Fiona Foster NEPTUNE: Calendar Girls OTHER THEATRE: The Myth of the Ostrich (Theatre Baddeck); Cottagers and Indians (Watermark Theatre), as well as many happy summers at Two Planks a Passion, Ship’s Company Theatre, Festival Antigonish, and Shakespeare by the Sea UPCOMING: A Beginner’s Guide to the Night Sky (The Villains Theatre) OTHER: Geneviève is thrilled to be joining this wonderful team, and ever grateful to her family for keeping the home ﬁres burning, and to you for supporting live theatre!

AARON REID RYDER

ROLE: Bob Phillips NEPTUNE: Debut OTHER THEATRE: Discovering Allan Sherman (Harold Green); The Play That Goes Wrong (Charlottetown); Maggie (Charlottetown/Aquarius/Savoy); Written in Blood (Talk Is Free) FILM/TV: What We Do In The Shadows (FX/Hulu), FUBAR (Netﬂix), Fellow Travellers (Showtime), Finale (CBC Gem) OTHER: Aaron was born and raised in Charlottetown, PEI, and is now based in Toronto. Many thanks to this wonderful cast and crew, to director Jeremy and the entire team at TIP, and to Tovah and Michele at Meridian Artists. He sends love to Mum, Dad, Ruby, and his family and friends.

KAIT POST

ROLE: Terry Phillips

NEPTUNE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

OTHER THEATRE: Maggie (Charlottetown/Aquarius/Savoy); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Stage West Calgary) UPCOMING: Bittergirl, Flowers (County Stage); Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Capitol Theatre Moncton) OTHER: Kait is originally from Sussex, NB.

MATTHEW GORMAN

ROLE: William Featherstone NEPTUNE: Great Expectations OTHER THEATRE: Intimate Apparel (Belfry); Bobbie (Theatre by the Bay); Jamie Cavanaugh (Roseneath); Rum & Vodka, Vincent River (Cart/Horse); Hana’s Suitcase (Grand) DIRECTOR: Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Hart House, Port Stanley Festival Theatre, Cart/Horse Theatre PLAYWRIGHT: Adventure!, Our Lady of the Sea, Western CO-WRITTEN WITH ARLIN DIXON: Giving Up the Ghost, Baby Steps FILM/TV: The Boys (Sony/Amazon); Surreal Estate (SyFy); Law & Order Toronto (City); Hudson & Rex (City); The Big Cigar (Warner Bros.)

SOPHIE WILCOTT

ROLE: Mary Featherstone NEPTUNE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream OTHER THEATRE: Sidewalk Chalk, Beneath Springhill (Theatre New Brunswick Young Company); The Loyalist Burial Ground Project (Atlantic Repertory Company) OTHER: Love to Jacob, Kate & Mike, the cast and crew. Thank you for supporting the arts.

CREATIVE TEAM

JEREMY WEBB

(HE/HIM)

ROLE: Director NEPTUNE: Mamma Mia!, Little Shop of Horrors, Disney’s Frozen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (also for Mirvish Productions), Murder For Two (also Festival Antigonish, Thousand Island Playhouse), The Play That Goes Wrong, Billy Elliot The Musical, Elf The Musical, Misery, The Rocky Horror Show, Alice in Pantoland, The Woman in Black, Fully Committed, Calendar Girls, Peter Pan, Little Thing, Big Thing, Noises Off, Cinderella, Shakespeare in Love, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol UPCOMING: Mad Madge, Come From Away, Disney’s Frozen (Theatre Aquarius, Hamilton) ACTOR: Beauty and the Beast, Great Expectations, Rexy!, The Comedy of Errors, The Wizard of Oz, Romeo & Juliet, The Producers, Beauty & The Beast (2007), Oliver, What The Butler Saw, Sylvia, Blood Brothers, Rumors OTHER THEATRE: The Hobbit, Stage Kiss, The Hound of The Baskervilles (Festival Antigonish,) 25 years of building a career in Nova Scotia theatre, including Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Fishing, Shakespeare On Trial, Broadway on Argyle St, Under Milk Wood (Off The Leash Creative.) OTHER: His BEST productions are his sons, Samuel & Dylan. With love and gratitiude to Melissa for 15+ years of support. Offtheleashhfx.com

VICKIE MARSTON

ROLE: Set Designer NEPTUNE: Hockey Mom Hockey Dad, Marion Bridge, His Greatness, Murder for 2, Alice in Pantoland SET DESIGNER: Murder For Two (Thousand Island Playhouse); Fishing For Frank, The Net, Maritime Way of Life (Ship’s Company); Beauty Queen of Leenane, Proud, As Loved Our Fathers, Fly Me to The Moon (Gros Morne Theatre Festival); In the Next Room, A Lie of the Mind, Romeo & Juliet, The Way of the World, Under Milkwood (Theatre at Grenfell); COSTUME DESIGNER: Henry 4 (Theatre at Grenfell); SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER: Brazil Square (Gros Morne Theatre Festival); Cymbeline, The Sea, and Ring Round The Moon (Theatre at Grenfell) OTHER: Two time Robert Merrit Award winner for Outstanding Set Design, and has taught Set, Costume and Prop Design at Grenfell Campus Memorial University.

KAELEN MACDONALD

ROLE: Costume Designer NEPTUNE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Ballad of the Motherland (Costume Design), Dear Rita (Stylist) Peter Pan, Cinderella, Shakespeare in Love (Assistant Costume Design) OTHER SELECT THEATRE: ‘Til Death Do Us Part (Costume Design, Ships Company Theatre), Leaving Home, (Costume Design, Matchstick Theatre) SELECT FILM/TV: To Have and to Holiday (Assistant Costume Design, Hallmark), 111 (Costume Set Supervisor), Escape the Usual (Costume & Production Design, MacRad Productions), From S1&2 (Costume Truck Supervisor), Washington Black (Costume Truck Supervisor) OTHER: Thank you to the amazing costume department, and always my love to Colby and his gracious support every show.

LEIGH ANN VARDY

ROLE: Lighting Designer NEPTUNE: Mischief, Mamma Mia!, Disney’s Frozen, Dear Rita, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Misery, The Rocky Horror Show, Fall On Your Knees OTHER THEATRE: From Alaska, The Lehman Trilogy (Belfry), Guilt, A Love Story (Tarragon), Richard II (Stratford), The Breathing Hole, Metamorphosis (NAC), February (Opera on the Avalon), Between Breaths (Artistic Fraud) OTHER: Leigh Ann is a teacher and coach at NTS.

CREATIVE TEAM

ANDREW CRAWFORD

ROLE: Lighting Designer NEPTUNE: Beneath Springhill, Dancing with Rage, Seven years as head electrician. OTHER THEATRE: Wonderbolt Circus (bolt out of the Blue, Circus glorious, and The st. john’s international circus festival) , the GMTF, the GBRTF (three years as in house disigner/tech), C2C, RTT (5 years as head of lighting and in house designer), TSJ, Halfhandsome (Almost baymous 2016-17), Heist (Creative Nova Scotia Awards Gala), and MUN opera (The magic flute, and cosi Fan Tutte).

MADDIE BAUTISTA

ROLE: Sound Deisgner NEPTUNE: Mischief, How the Other Half Loves OTHER THEATRE: Steel Magnolias (Capitol Theatre); Pride & Prejudice, Kim’s Convenience (The Grand Theatre); Get That Hope, Les Belles-Soeurs, I Am William (Stratford Festival), Table for Two, Wildwoman (Soulpepper), Stag & Doe (Thousand Islands Playhouse), King James (Theatre Aquarius and Alberta Theatre Projects) AWARDS: Winner of 2 Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and recipient of 3 nominations TRAINING: Proud Alumni of Humber College’s Theatre Program OTHER: To John -- life on the road is sweeter with you! maddiebautista.com

KEVIN ROBINSON

ROLE: Fight Director NEPTUNE: Debut TRAINING: Kevin Robinson is a graduate of the Sheridan College/University of Toronto joint Theatre and Drama Specialist program. He is also a certified Fight Instructor with Fight Directors Canada and a founding member of the internationally award winning stunt team Riot A.C.T. OTHER THEATRE: Fight Directing Credits include Evil Dead: The Musical (North American Tour-Starvox Productions), Cannibal: The Musical (North American Tour-Starvox Productions), Stag and Doe (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Emma Bovary (National Ballet of Canada), Cymbaline (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Pirates of Penzance (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Jesus Christ Superstar (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Stunt Coordinator credits include Curious and Unusual Deaths (The Discovery Channel), Close Encounters (The Discovery Channel), Fire Girls (Think Feel West LLC) OTHER: He has taught at Rapier Wit, Humber College, Sheridan College, The Randolph Academy, University of Toronto, Redeemer College.

JENN HEWITT

ROLE: Stage Manager NEPTUNE: SM: The New Canadian Curling Club ASM: The Full Monty, A Few Good Men OTHER THEATRE: Touring Stage Manager: Olivier award-nominated, Best New Show award winning Best of Last Vegas Potted Potter, The Crown (Seabright Productions); Evil Dead the Musical, Disenchanted the Musical (Starvox Entertainment). Stage Manager: 11 seasons at the Chester Playhouse Summer Theatre Festival; Just for Laughs Festival Montreal; Those Who Can’t Do (Theatre Passe Muraille); Spin (Outspoke Productions/Buddies in Bad)

EVE ROWLETT

ROLE: Apprentice Stage Manager NEPTUNE: Debut OTHER THEATRE: The Secret Garden of An Sìthean (Festival Antigonish); The Marvellous Wonderettes (The Mack); Spring AwakeningThe Musical, She Kills Monsters (Centennial Theatre, Bishop’s University) FILM/TV: 111 (Auguste Content); Sullivan’s Crossing (CTV); You’re Killing Me (AMC) OTHER: Thank you to the wonderful staff, cast and crew for this opportunity; and all my love to my Mum and sister for always sticking beside me!