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FOR ONLY $10 A TICKET treat your family to an unforgettable Sunday afternoon with classical concerts conducted for children of all ages! Join us at Merrill Auditorium from 1:00-1:45 PM for pre-concert activities and opportunities to connect with the stars on the stage! Touch, play, and hear instruments with demonstrations by professional PSO musicians!
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 | 2:30 PM
ALL ABOARD THE ORCHESTRA
Join the Portland Symphony Orchestra as we take the whole family on a journey through sound, celebrating all the ways we move—from soaring through the skies to chugging down the tracks.
SUNDAY, MARCH 8 | 2:30 PM
DINOSAURS & DRAGONS!
Step into a world of prehistoric roars and mythical flights for a musical adventure that will ignite your imagination!
SUNDAY, APRIL 12 | 2:30 PM
A TOOT, A BOOM, A STRING, A STRUM: From Student to Symphony
Join the PSO for a musical adventure exploring the instruments of the Orchestra!
PORTLAND SYMPHONY
SUNDAY, OCT 5
TUESDAY, OCT 7 2:30 PM 7:00 PM
TCHAIKOVSKY & BRAHMS
ECKART PREU MUSIC DIRECTOR
RANDALL GOOSBY VIOLIN
TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto in D Major
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1 in C minor
SATURDAY, OCT 18
SUNDAY, OCT 19 7:00 PM 2:30 PM
SPOOKY SYMPHONY
From the eerie and unsettling to the downright bone chilling, experience a concert filled with ghostly melodies, eerie soundscapes, and spinetingling surprises. From playful chills to magical thrills, it’s the perfect way to celebrate the spookiest time of year with friends and family!
TUESDAY, OCT 28 7:00 PM
MOZART’S JUPITER SYMPHONY
DAVID AMADO GUEST CONDUCTOR
Missy MAZZOLI Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
BARBER Medea’s Meditation and Dance of Vengeance
MOZART Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
SATURDAY, NOV 8
SUNDAY, NOV 9
7:00 PM 2:30 PM
RICK STEVES' EUROPE
RICK STEVES NARRATOR
Usually, you’ll find Rick Steves touring the great destinations of Europe. Now you can join him on a different journey: a Symphonic Journey. In this unique concert experience, Rick Steves teams up with the Portland Symphony Orchestra for a musical journey, combining Europe’s most stirring Romantic-era anthems with beautiful high-definition cinematography and Rick’s insights into European history.
SUNDAY, NOV 18 2:30 PM
SCHEHERAZADE
ECKART PREU MUSIC DIRECTOR
CLAYTON STEPHENSON PIANO
Jessie MONTGOMERY Coincident Dances
RAVEL Piano Concerto in G Major
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade
FRIDAY, DEC 12–SUNDAY DEC 21
MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS
ECKART PREU MUSIC DIRECTOR
MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS CHORUS
PSO CHILDREN'S CHORUS
SUNDAY, JAN 25
MONDAY, JAN 26 2:30 PM 7:00 PM
DAWNLAND TO THE PLANETS
The Music of the Wabanaki and Holst ECKART PREU MUSIC DIRECTOR FIREFLY
Max RICHTER On the Nature of Daylight FIREFLY “Militakwat”
HOLST The Planets
SATURDAY, FEB 14
SUNDAY, FEB 15 7:00 PM 2:30 PM
JURASSIC PARK IN CONCERT
Featuring visually stunning imagery and groundbreaking special effects, the actionpacked adventure of Jurassic Park pits man against prehistoric predators in the ultimate battle for survival. Experience it now, as the Portland Symphony Orchestra performs John Williams’ iconic score live to picture.
MORIHIKO NAKAHARA GUEST CONDUCTOR
and actionman ultimate the John
SUNDAY, MAR 1 2:30 PM
NORTHERN FOLKTALES:
Copland & Sibelius
MORIHIKO NAKAHARA GUEST CONDUCTOR
Takashi YOSHIMATSU Ode to Birds and Rainbow
COPLAND Suite from The Tender Land
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major
SATURDAY, MAR 14
SUNDAY, MAR 15 7:00 PM 1:00 PM
STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK IN CONCERT
After the destruction of the Death Star, Darth Vader pursues Luke Skywalker, who is studying the ways of the Force with Jedi Master Yoda. Experience the critically acclaimed second installment of the original Star Wars triology, as The Empire Strikes Back is projected on the big screen at Merrill Auditorium, with John Williams’ iconic score performed live by your Portland Symphony Orchestra.
TUESDAY, MAR 31 7:00 PM
BRAHMS DOUBLE CONCERTO
ECKART PREU MUSIC DIRECTOR
CHARLES DIMMICK CONCERTMASTER
BRENT SELBY PRINCIPAL CELLO
Elena KATS-CHERNIN Big Rhap
BRAHMS Double Concerto in A minor for Violin and Violoncello
WEBER Overture and March from Turandot HINDEMITH Symphonic Metamorphosis
SUNDAY, APR 26
TUESDAY, APR 28 2:30 PM 7:00 PM
BACH’S B MINOR MASS
ECKART PREU MUSIC DIRECTOR
CHORALART
BACH Mass in B minor
TUESDAY, MAY 19 7:00 PM
MAHLER’S 6TH
ECKART PREU MUSIC DIRECTOR
MAHLER Symphony No. 6 in A minor, “Tragic”
GOOSBY
About the Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO)
The Symphony’s mission is to serve our community by enriching lives through music.
The Portland Symphony Orchestra recognizes that fostering inclusive, accessible environments that advance equity and cultivate diversity is inseparable from our pursuit of excellence. We, therefore, resolve to learn, grow, and evolve to effectively serve, reflect, and inspire our community through the transformative power of music.
Today’s concert is located in Machigonne, the ancestral home of the Abenaki people who have stewarded this land throughout generations.
With its delightful combination of nostalgic traditions, wonderous surprises, and an array of holiday favorites, Magic of Christmas promises to be a memorable celebration of joy, wonder, and the spirit of the season. Featuring exceptional musical performances from your Portland Symphony Orchestra, the Magic of Christmas Chorus, the PSO Children’s Chorus, and special guests, it’s no wonder this has been one of Maine’s favorite holiday traditions for over 40 years.
And when the show’s over, we welcome the chance to help our local Maine neighbors tend to their real-world needs. That includes providing the coverage that can protect your business from all major exposures. Because we believe the best place for drama is on the stage.
Welcome to Merrill Auditorium, Portland’s Premier Performing Arts Venue
Home to Prime Tenants - Portland Symphony Orchestra, Portland Ovations and The Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ.
Each year we host a variety of concerts, dance performances, children’s programming, comedy shows, corporate meetings and non-profit events with over 150,000 patrons in attendance annually!
Thank you for being a guest at our theater, please enjoy the show!
Merrill Auditorium is managed by the City of Portland Public Assembly Facilities Division Andrew J Downs, Director
- UPCOMING EVENTS -
September 5th ~ TASTE OF IRELAND
Sept.7th ~ HEAR, HERE III
Sept. 9th ~ PHIL ROSENTHAL
Sept. 12th ~ PRINCESS BRIDE: AN INCONCEIVABLE EVENING WITH CARY ELWES
Sept. 20th ~ FRIENDS OF THE KOTZSCHMAR ORGAN SOUND WAVES
Sept. 26th ~ COMEDIAN KEVIN JAMES
Oct. 8th ~ DAVID BYRNE
Oct. 10th ~ FORTUNE FEIMSTER
Oct. 11th ~ WANDA SYKES
October 17th ~ AIR SUPPLY: 50TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
Oct. 25th ~ FRIENDS OF THE KOTZSCHMAR ORGAN SPOOKTACULAR
Oct. 25th ~ FRIENDS OF THE KOTZSCHMAR ORGAN THE CAT & THE CANARY
November 1st ~ AN EVENING WITH JON STEWART
November 12th ~ OSHER YOUTH ENSEMBLE PRESENTS FALL CONCERT
November 13th ~ TWILIGHT IN CONCERT
November 18th ~ CODY JINKS & WARD DAVIS
November 22nd ~ Lives in the Balance presents THE WAILIN’ JENNYS
November 28th, 29th, 30th / December 6th, 7th ~ MAINE STATE BALLET’S NUTCRACKER
December 16th ~ PORTLAND BALLET’S VICTORIAN NUTCRACKER
December 23rd ~ FRIENDS OF THE KOTZSCHMAR ORGAN CHRISTMAS WITH KENNERLEY
For more information about these and all our performances or to purchase tickets please visit PortTix.com or Call 207-842-0800
PortTix is the Official Box Office for Merrill Auditorium. Please make sure when purchasing tickets, you are buying from PortTix.
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Top: Shannon Campbell and Thomas Ian Campbell. Photo by Aressa Goodrich.
Right: From the 2024 production of Conscience by Joe DiPietro, Kate Udall* and Liam Craig*. Photo by James A. Hadley.
MAINSTAGE
Mainstage Performances
CREATING THE CLASSICS OF THE FUTURE
NEW WORK
Maggie Kearnan, writer of Like Flies, is a Bostonbased playwright and a member of the Boston University MFA playwriting class of 2025. Her plays have been produced at Boston College, Newton Theater Company, and the Boston Theater Marathon. ON STAGE •MARCH 4 - MARCH 22, 2025
Portland Stage is committed to cultivating our region’s playwrights while introducing our audience to the creative process. We inspire, nurture, and launch plays that will delight audiences for decades to come by incubating new work.
Since its debut in 1990, the Little Festival of the Unexpected (LFU) has established a tradition of nurturing artists, invigorating audiences, and exploring new voices, visions, and forms of theater. Past LFU scripts include Almost, Maine (LFU 2003) and Papermaker (LFU 2014).
Still in Perfect Tune
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LEONARDO! A WONDERFUL SHOW ABOUT A TERRIBLE MONSTER
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RECYCLED PERCUSSION
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2026 • 7 PM
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WABANAKI STORIES
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SATURDAY, MAY 16, 2026 • 11 AM & 2 PM RIVERTON COMMUNITY CENTER, PORTLAND
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PICTURED: WABANAKI STORIES. PHOTO: KATIE DAY
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Ovations Offstage connects audiences with artists by bringing experiences directly to the community. Programming includes pre-performance lectures before each chamber music concert, masterclasses and public workshops with visiting artists, community conversations, post-performance Q&A’s, film screenings, the popular Drag Storytime series and more.
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We believe every student deserves the opportunity to reach their full potential. Schedule your personalized campus tour to see our approach in action.
Architecture: Meyer Davis
“We look forward to seeing you at the theater!”
Welcome to our 52nd season!
We hope you will join us.
From classics to comedies to the Clauder Competition celebrating new plays from the New England region, we have a fantastic season full of great theater for you.
Each play in this year’s season is about a seemingly inconsequential person who ends up rocking their world: a small-town cop who is laughed at by an island’s inhabitants; a young girl who realizes the preciousness of life; an assistant trying to find a tenor; a mysterious midwife in a rural community; a female comedy writer in the 1950s; and a First Lady of the United States who redefined the role. Each person’s actions alter both their community and our perspective on the world.
In our turbulent world, seeing unexpected heroes change outcomes reminds us that we all can make a difference if we decide to play a part.
Whether you’ve been attending our shows for years or have never been in our space, I’m confident there will be a production that fills you with delight.
We look forward to seeing you at the theater!
Anita Stewart, Artistic Director
CELEBRATING 52 YEARS OF CREATING THEATER
Portland Stage Mission
Portland Stage is committed to creating great art, passionate about using the theater to educate, and dedicated to enriching our community. WE:
•Engage, connect, inform: Through intimate, personal exchanges that can only happen in a live theater, we foster a shared empathy and sense of belonging.
•Build community: We create productions from the ground up, combining local talent with artists from away: enriching both through lasting relationships and deeper understanding of each other and the world.
•Evolve to stay relevant: We innovate, cultivate, and incubate new ideas on our stages, in our classrooms, and with community partners.
Board of Trustees
Todd Nicholson, President
Ellen Alderman
Sarah Campbell
Susan Carter
Peter H. Clough
Scott Cowger
Daryl Fort
Cameron Goodwin
Margaret Groban
Edith Iyer-Hernandez
Bradford Knowles
John F. Leonard IV
Dan Marra
Theresa McCarthy
Alisa Conroy Morton
Kathleen Pacella
Carole Ann Palmer
Tony San Antonio
Cathy Stankard
Robin Talbot
Courtney Thorpe
Nina Trowbridge
Daniel Tucker
Meg Villarreal
Anne Wade
Wendy Winer
CELEBRATING 52 YEARS OF CREATING THEATER
Pictured: Ross Cowan (*member AEA) from the 2024-25 Portland Stage production of The Play That Goes Wrong written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, & Henry Shields. Photo by James A. Hadley.
Portland Stage Team
Portland Stage Team
Portland Stage Team
LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP
Artistic Director ................................................................................ Anita Stewart
Artistic Director ................................................................................ Anita Stewart
Artisttic Director ............................................................................... Anita Stewart
Managing Director ........................................................................... Martin Lodish
Managing Director ........................................................................... Martin Lodish
Managing Director ........................................................................... Martin Lodish
ARTISTIC
• PRODUCTION
ARTISTIC • PRODUCTION
ARTISTIC • PRODUCTION
Company Manager ......................................................... Carrigan O’Brian Danish
Company Manager ......................................................... Carrigan O’Brian Danish
Company Manager ......................................................... Carrigan O’Brian Danish
Costume Shop Manager................................................................. Susan Thomas
Costume Shop Manager................................................................. Susan Thomas
Costume Shop Manager ................................................................. Susan Thomas
Literary Manager ................................................................... .... .Todd Brian Backus
Literary Manager ..................................................................... Todd Brian Backus
Literary Manager ..................................................................... Todd Brian Backus
Production Manager • L Lighting Supervisor ................................. Mary Lana Rice
Production Manager • Lighting Supervisor ............................... Mary Lana Rice
Production Manager • Lighting Supervisor ............................... Mary Lana Rice
Props Manager ......................................................................................... Elliot Nye
Props Manager ......................................................................................... Elliot Nye
Props Manager ......................................................................................... Elliot Nye
Sound D Designer • S Sound Supervisor ............................................ Seth Asa Sengel
Stage Management .................................................... Rori Haft & Sidney Phillips
Stage Management .................................................... Rori Haft & Sidney Phillips
Subscribers are the Backbone of Our Organization Providing ongoing support for the theater both within our community as well as financially.
Seated Subscription
A full 6-show seated subscription, same days and seats throughout the season, plus the ability to exchange tickets if your plans change. I If you are interested in getting a seated subscription for the remainder of the season, contact the Box Office.
of a seated
with the flexibility to choose your dates and make your reservations as the season progresses. Choose a package of 4 or 6 tickets, or combine packages to see more of the season.
Choose the best plan for you!
1 Misplaced or forgotten tickets can be easily reprinted at the Box Office on the day of the sho
2 Per-ticket price is lower than average single ticket prices and you only pay a one-time handling fee for each subscription package in your purchase.
3 Get access to reservations, exchanges, and additional tickets before shows go on sale to the general public.
4 The first exchange for each show is at no extra charge for a performance of the same price (i.e., evening to evening).
Pictured: Robbie Harrison and Joe Bliss from the 2025-26 Portland Stage production of Murder for Two, book and music by Joe Kinosian & book and lyrics by Kellen Blair. Photo by Noli French.
Pictured: Emily Upton, Patrick O’Brien*, Moira Driscoll*, Jenny Woodward, & Liam Craig* from the 2023-24 Portland Stage production of Saint Dad by Monica Wood. (*Member
AEA) Photo by James A. Hadley.
Your Support Matters
Because each contribution is an investment in the arts. Tax-deductible contributions keep Portland Stage a living, breathing, thriving theater, and ultimately ensure the fulfillment of our mission and the enrichment of our community. The generosity of individual donors, corporations, and foundations enables us to surround the work on our Mainstage with Education Programs, New Work Development Initiatives, and Community Engagement Events that deepen and broaden the impact of the shows themselves.
WAYS TO GIVE
Pictured: Casey Turner from the 2024-25 Dramatic Repertory Company's production Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika (presented by Portland Stage). Photo by James A. Hadley.
Educational Camps & Classes
The classes and camps at Portland Stage produce a safe environment for young people to find a higher sense of play stretch their imaginations, and gain valuable social skills.
Serving children pre-K to grade 12 year-round in our theater, the community, and schools.
Theater for Kids is made possible by the support & vision of Susie Konkel.
Photo by Kat Moraros Photography.
New picture books & activities each week!
Theater for Kids is made possible by the support & vision of Susie Konkel.
Photo by Kat Moraros Photography.
Discussion Series Script Club
Join us for a book club discussion of the plays in our 52nd season at the Portland Public Library. Portland Stage Literary Manager Todd Brian Backus will lead discussions alongside assistant directors, dramaturgs, and special guests. Scripts are available at the Main Branch Reference Desk at the Portland Public Library and take place in the Rines Auditorium at the following dates and times.
Eleanor ..................................................... Saturday, September 13th • 1:30 - 2:30pm
Lend Me a Tenor ........................................... Saturday, January 17th • 1:30 - 2:30pm
Like Flies ......................................................Saturday, February 21st • 1:30 - 2:30pm
Our Town ......................................................... Saturday, March 21st • 1:30 - 2:30pm
The Laugh Track ................................................ Saturday, April 25th • 1:30 - 2:30pm
The Artistic Perspective
Join us after the first Sunday Matinee of each production for a discussion with Artistic Director Anita Stewart, as well as artists and scholars related to the production. These discussions are always free and open to the public, and attendees can join even if they didn’t attend the matinee itself. Check in with the Box Office for runtimes and try to arrive at Portland Stage about five minutes before curtain to join the audience after bows.
Curtain Call
Join us after second Manager
after the second Sunday Matinee of each production for a discussion with the cast of each show, moderated by Literary Manager Todd Brian Backus. These discussions are always free and open to the public, and attendees can join even if they didn’t attend the matinee itself. Check in with the Box Office for runtimes and try to arrive at Portland Stage about five minutes before curtain to join the audience after bows.
CELEBRATING
52 YEARS OF CREATING THEATER
Pictured: Lizz Mangan, Hannah Cordes, Sam Rosentrater*, John Cariani*, Kathy McCafferty*, & Raymond McAnally* during Almost, Maine discussion (2020) (* Member AEA).
Aaron Cannan Nick DiMatteo Russ Johnston
Craig Robinson Lauren Carpenter
Karyn MacLeod
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MAR 4 - MAR 22
“Here’s to inspiring new work!”
What happens when you no longer believe in the world order? When you realize that you are stuck with little to no agency? From the Angel Makers of Nagyrév in 1930s Hungary to the Women, Life, Freedom protests in modern-day Iran, people put up with the despair of their lives—until they don’t.
In Like Flies by Maggie Kearnan, a group of women lament their fate while gossiping along the laundry line. The conversation veers from husbands, to children, and back again. Their lives are static until a new midwife
arrives in town, bringing potions and possibilities. The landscape changes. A trickle of disenchantment turns into a thundering, raging river, and the oppressed becomes the oppressor. We are left questioning how far is too far, and we wonder what has improved in the end. It’s a story that feels both timeless and timely, which is one of the reasons that Like Flies was selected from 170 submissions as the grand prize winner of the 2025 Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights.
Since 1981, the Clauder has supported writers from this region, and since 1998, Portland Stage has been its home. The visionary behind the competition, Jeb Brooks, a writer himself, lamented the lack of response from theaters when submitting new work. Often there would be no response at all, or you’d get your self-addressed stamped envelope returned with a “no thanks.” As a result, the Clauder ensures every writer has their play considered by at least two readers and receives an individualized response to their work. Portland Stage has committed to ensuring that the blind submission plays we receive in each competition get this valuable feedback.
Here’s to inspiring new work!
Anita Stewart, Artistic Director
Like Flies
written by Maggie Kearnan
ON STAGE • MAR 4 - MAR 22
SETTING
This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
*Members of the Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
A fictional time in the fictional town of Navestead, parallel to a New England of the past.
CAST
and Sound Designers in LORT are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
**The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, ***The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society is the theatrical union that unites, empowers, & protects professional Stage Directors and Choreographers throughout the United States.
The video and/or audio recording of this live production by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited.
Special Thanks: Boston University School of Theater, Kate Emerdello, Adam Thibodeau, and USM
Like Flies was workshopped in the 2025 Little Festival of the Unexpected and was the Grand Prize Winner of the Clauder Competition for New England Playwrights.
PLAYWRIGHT
Maggie Kearnan
Maggie Kearnan (she/her) is a Boston-based playwright and multi-hyphenate theater artist. Her plays have been produced at Boston College, Newton Theatre Company, and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. She is also a director, performer, educator, and scenic artist with a growing TikTok following, sharing tips for painting theatrical sets for theater educators with limited resources. Maggie writes about characters clumsily trying to make the world a better place. Her plays have ghosts, murder, primal screams, Catholic guilt, climate anxiety, nature, music, dance, laughter, friendship, and family. Her optimistic apocalyptic comedy The Plume is the first runner-up for the Earth Matters on Stage Festival 2025–26. She was a regional finalist at ACTF 2023 for ten-minute plays. How to Not Save the World with Mr. Bezos was produced in the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Fall Rep Festival in November 2024 and at Great Barrington Public Theater in 2025. Maggie holds an MFA in playwriting from Boston University and teaches at Boston College.
DIRECTOR Sally Wood
Sally Wood is thrilled to be back at Portland Stage. A three-ring circus of professor, fight choreographer, and side hustle enthusiast, she’s managed to squeeze in acting with the Portland Theater Festival this summer. She’s 87% certain Like Flies is her NINTH world premiere at PSC (a fact she’s trying to play cool about, but seriously, that’s a lot). Massive gratitude to the Portland Stage team for giving so many Portland-based artists a home and for championing so many new voices.
CAST BIOGRAPHIES
Cynthia Barnett* Edna Ingram
Cynthia Barnett, last seen in Portland Stage’s Senior Living (Judith Ivey, director), is very pleased to be a part of Maggie Kearnan’s Clauder Award-winning rage play, Like Flies. As a founding ensemble member of Mad Horse Theatre Company (Michael Rafkin, artistic director), her favorite roles include Martha/ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Beatrice/A View From the Bridge, Gertrude/Hamlet, and Ellen/Squats, written by Martin Jones, MHTC resident playwright. After moving part time to Charleston, SC, Cynthia became an ensemble member of Pure Theatre (Sharon Graci, artistic director). Favorite roles include Mag/Beauty Queen of Leenane, Polly/Other Desert Cities, and Anna/Our Mother’s Brief Affair. Cynthia also had the opportunity to work with Good Theatre (Brian Allen, artistic director) Mattie Faye in August Osage County. Her NYC years were filled with dozens of commercials, voice overs, soap opera guest appearances, and exploring new theater works with 79 St. Theatre Lab, the Drilling Company, and Abington Theatre, among others. Thanks, as always, to WMD and LMR.
DeAnna S. Wright* Meg Dooley
DeAnna S Wright, was brought up in small town Florida. Her work spans theater, film, voiceover work, and she is also an emerging director. A few of DeAnna’s most recent theater credits include Cleopatra in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Peaches in the world premiere of Oak, Olga in Anton Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, and Angela in Lauren Gunderson’s Natural Shocks (a one-woman play). DeAnna’s artistry is shaped by many years of diverse experiences as a performer, and she is excited to continue the adventure by making her debut at Portland Stage. (*Member
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Catherine Buxton Retta Longwood
Catherine is a Portland-based theater-maker. She is honored to return to Portland Stage after appearing in Callie Kimball’s Perseverance. Catherine has also performed with the Portland Theater Festival, Theater at Monmouth, and in many other venues, dive bars, parks, and weird old buildings throughout New England. When not on stage, she lobbies state lawmakers on behalf of lowincome and working people, a vocation where her theater degree is shockingly useful. Endless thanks to my MEJ colleagues and my partner for giving me time and space to make art, and to Maggie for creating this beautiful, messy, rage-filled play.
Luz Lopez* Polly Platt
Luz Lopez, she/her/hers, is excited to make her Portland Stage debut. Recent credits include Mrs.Warren’s Profession (Central Square Theater), Between Riverside & Crazy (The Gamm Theatre), Laughs in Spanish (Speakeasy Stage), Fade (Teatro Chelsea), and Don’t Eat The Mangos (Teatro Chelsea/Apollinaire Theatre, Elliot Norton Nominated – Best Featured Performance). You can learn more about Luz at LuzLopez.com or follow her @itsluzlopez
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Carina Higgins Lenny Rutledge
Carina is beyond thrilled to be a part of this production and to be making her Portland Stage debut! Recent credits include Lydia Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Lyric Music Theater) and Ross/Young Siward in Macbeth (Portland Players). Carina has a BFA in Theatre and Performance from Emerson College. She would like to thank her family and friends for all their love and support, as well as everyone here at Portland Stage. Enjoy the show!
Jordan Hurley* Julia Winship
Jordan Hurley is over the moon to be making her Portland Stage debut! Recent credits: The Criminologist in Rocky Horror (Kitchen Sink Theatre Company @ Brooklyn Art Haus); Chatbot in a sold-out reading of Molly Kirschenbaum’s Starfuckers! (The Tank); Coach/ Cult Admin Lady in the world premiere of Eliya Smith’s Then We’ll Rest (ISLE Theater Company); Eliza in Madison Mayer’s Bombshell (The Center at West Park, Caveat). Jordan is an Affiliate Artist of ISLE Theater Company. She was a two-time member of Clubbed Thumb’s New Play Directing Fellowship Acting Company. BFA: NYU Tisch Drama. Jordan would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support, especially her parents, who changed their flights to be here for opening night, and her uncles and cousins who are graciously hosting her in Portland.
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Kelly Chick* Vee Malcolm
Kelly Chick (she/her) is making her Portland Stage debut. She’s a Boston-based actor and graduate of the BFA Acting program at Emerson College. Regional credits include Tiny Beautiful Things (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production, Gloucester Stage Company), Bright Half Life (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), The Edge of Peace (Central Square Theater), and the world premieres of Three (Boston Public Works), Dark Room (Bridge Rep Theatre), and Parlor Tricks (NYC Fresh Fruit Festival). @kellythechick
LAND & SLAVERY ACKNOWLEDGMENT
We are creating theater on land that has been cared for by the Wabanaki. We honor their community and invite you to go to the Wabanaki Reach website to learn more about the Wabanaki culture, as well as about restorative justice and truth-telling that is necessary for healing.
We encourage you to learn more about the peoples who cared for the land that you now reside on whether you’re from here in Portland or are visiting from away. For more information about the Wabanaki Confederacy, visit mainewabanakireach.org, and to find out whose land you are on, visit native-land.ca.
We also want to acknowledge that the history of Maine is deeply connected to the institution of slavery in the United States, and that residents of Maine participated in both slavery and the transatlantic slave trade even after slavery was outlawed in the District of Maine. While it may be easy to think of Maine and more specifically Portland as a very White place, we recognize that this is simply not the case and we are working to dismantle these harmful ideas. We encourage our audiences to visit the Abyssinian Meeting House (learn more at abyssinianmeetinghouse.org) or the Eastern Cemetery here in Portland, and to explore scholarship on the subject, like Lives of Consequence by Patricia Q. Wall, to learn more about this oft-neglected part of Maine’s history.
We recognize that the American Theater has also exploited, misrepresented, and excluded communities of Latine, Asian, Indigenous, and Middle Eastern descent for centuries. Portland Stage is recommitting to telling authentic stories from diverse backgrounds that all of our audiences can experience and enjoy.
CENTERSPREAD TOPICS
MIDWIFERY & THE MEDICALIZATION OF CHILDBIRTH
By Skyler Brianna
Meg and Edna’s clash of traditional versus medical knowledge forms a tension-filled foundation for the tenuous partnership they embark on in Like Flies. The conflict between traditional birthgiving methods and industrialized medical ones is not new, nor isolated to fiction. Midwives have played an integral role in the continuation of the human species for millennia. They have a rich history across several cultures as touchstones of medicine, wellbeing, and community support. Midwifery is deeply rooted in a variety of cultures and originates as a woman-centered practice that was passed down between generations. The midwifery that American settlers would eventually come to know is a direct product of other cultures—namely, the influence of enslaved African women and their descendants.
Historically, the skills of midwives extended far beyond their technical ability to bring life into the world. They often acted as a general practitioner, offering cures for a wide array of everyday ailments, especially for women and especially in smaller villages, preindustrialization. Midwifery was overtaken by the rise of obstetric medicine in the 18th and 19th centuries, when “white male physicians began to explore childbirth with greater interest. Their approach was based on a colonialization framework, which devalued birth as ceremony and focused instead on the physical aspect of wellbeing” (Oregon Health and Science University). Their methods often prioritized the convenience of the practitioner over the comfort and safety of the patient. While many of the technologies and methods introduced in the early years of healthcare have since been phased out for being unsafe or ineffective, some methods remain—like birthing on one’s back, and the “husband stitch.” For more on these, see the full length article in PlayNotes.
Although the medicalization of childbirth resulted in a decline in the popularity of midwives, they never became obsolete, and we are seeing an increase in their prevalence once again in recent years. Midwives are an essential resource for birthgivers and families, before, during, and after pregnancy.
FROM MIDWIVES TO WITCHES: THE DEMONIZATION OF WOMEN’S KNOWLEDGE
By Max Lerin
Back before we had modern medicine, before Dayquil and Advil and over-thecounter pre-made medication, before we even had the science to understand what caused illness and disease in the first place, women were often making homemade remedies. Housewives would often compile recipes for remedies and cures in a notebook that they would then pass down to their daughter. The women of the household would test the efficacy, safety, and reliability of the recipes they’d collected. Hiding beneath the denigrated labels “domesticity” and “housewifery” was keen scientific aptitude and daily involvement in knowledgebuilding endeavors.
Class often played a large role in how women’s cultivation and dissemination of knowledge was received by society. Peasant women who served their communities were most often deemed as witches and burned at the stake for their heresy. Healers were often the only general medical practitioners for people who had no doctors and no hospitals and who were bitterly afflicted with poverty and disease. In particular, the association of the witch and the midwife was strong. Midwives were incredibly threatening to the Church for multiple reasons; they valued scientific method over faith, they exhibited power over life and death, and they represented a conglomeration of female knowledge networks distilled into one profession. In their book Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, Ehrenreich and English explain that a witch-healer “relied on her senses rather than on faith or doctrine, she believed in trial and error, cause and effect. Her attitude was not religiously passive, but actively inquiring..…In the persecution of the witch, the anti-empiricist and the misogynist, anti-sexual obsessions of the Church coincide: Empiricism and sexuality both represent a surrender to the senses, a betrayal of faith.”
It did not matter if their medicine helped people–sometimes a successful cure was more reason to accuse a woman of being a witch. Whether the patient was cured or not was beside the point. If a midwife or healer was able to cure an ailment that a male doctor could not, it was almost guaranteed that she would be persecuted as a witch. The witch trail proved to be an incredibly effective tool in subjugating women and demonizing their cultivation of knowledge while simultaneously championing the men who persecute them. The Salem witch trials are common knowledge, but the age of witch-hunting spanned more than four centuries (from the 14th to the 17th century) in its sweep from Germany to England. One writer has estimated the number of executions at an average of 600 a year for certain German cities— almost two a day. Many writers have estimated the total number killed to have been in the millions. Out of all of the deaths wrought by the sanctioned ritual of witch-hunting, women made up some 85 percent of those executed—old women, young women, and children.
PLAYNOTES PERSPECTIVES
AN INTERVIEW WITH PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR: MAGGIE KEARNAN AND SALLY WOOD
Directing and Dramaturgy Apprentice Skyler Brianna interviewed playwright Maggie Kearnan and director Sally Wood about their process and experience bringing Like Flies to the stage.
Skyler Brianna (SB): What was the inspiration for the play?
Maggie Kearnan (MK): This play was inspired by the true crime story of the Angel Makers of Nagyrév. I first learned about them on one of my murder podcasts. I went to the Wikipedia page and I read that, and then I just started writing the play and didn’t return to research, I just leaned into the inspiration. That story is about a group of women who, in a small village in Hungary between the world wars, poisoned their husbands. It started with abusive husbands and got a little out of control. Several years ago, I had written 20 or 30 pages of this script and I couldn’t unlock what the play was. I couldn’t figure out where I was headed with it and I was being very careful, I didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings by writing what could be perceived as a “manhating” play. And then Roe v. Wade was overturned and I gave myself permission to be angry and to sit with that and to channel it into the play and not worry about hurting feelings anymore. So that’s when it became a rage play.
SB: Can you speak to how rage was channeled into the rehearsal room?
SW: I think there’s nothing scarier than a group of people who feel like they haven’t been heard. But rage is scary—it is tough to tap into, but it’s also really fun to be given permission to feel it. I would say with rage comes tears and relief and exhaustion and then energy. It’s a pretty cool thing.
MK: In the text of the play, the rage exists in the rhythm and mostly in these clothesline moments. They are breathing and growling and snarling and in the rehearsal room, it’s coming up in the movement language that we’re building in the room. Those moments exist on the page, but there isn’t much language about them on the page, so really seeing the physicalization of rage in the rehearsal room as opportunities for when words fail, when there is nothing else to be said, but there is rage to be expressed. I’ve just been watching the actors process the weight of this play and figuring out how to carry their rage safely in this process. There have been moments when actors have brought up, “You know what really sucks? You know
what really sucks about being a woman?” and the rehearsal room has become a place where they have the safety to do that, [be] held and validated in the moment. Everybody also just checks in with each other in the in-between moments and gives everyone the space to approach the rage of this project in a healthy way.
SB: What do you want audiences to take away from this story?
SW: I hope this play feels empowering. That some people who feel like they don’t have a choice or don’t have a say in how their own life develops feel like they can get some control back. Perhaps not through poison, but maybe there are other ways we can band together to gain strength against those who we feel like always have the upper hand.
MK: This play is all about catharsis for me. Creating somewhere to put my own anger about the state of the world so that it’s channeled and it’s in this little box of this play, and then I can move forward with intention and clarity and hopefully action. I hope for the play to do something similar for audiences, for it to spark conversation about the how and when and why of violence, and that violence isn’t the answer, so then what is?
SB: Why is it important that this story be heard now?
MK: There is a lot going on [in the world], there are a lot of stories to be told in response to what is going on. This [story] comes from conversations around violence, who deserves to live and who deserves to live happily and safely, conversations around women’s health, and this frustration about how we make the world a better place? Is it possible? Do we have to burn it down first? Is there one right answer? What happens when we fail? What are our next steps?
Playwright Maggie Kearnan and Anita Stewart** (member USA). Photo by Aressa Goodrich.
Anita Stewart** (Scenic Designer) has worked as a set and costume designer at leading theaters across the country, including the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Canadian Opera Company, Minnesota Opera, A.R.T., Steppenwolf, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Boise Contemporary Theater, New Jersey Shakespeare, and Portland Stage. Anita’s desire to play a meaningful role as an artist in a specific community brought her to Portland Stage as Artistic Director, a company for which she had previously done significant freelance design. Anita holds an MFA in Design from the Yale School of Drama.
Michelle Handley (Costume Designer) is glad and grateful to be creating with the lovely humans of Portland Stage! She also designs with Theater at Monmouth, University of Maine Orono School of Performing Arts, Good Theater, Penobscot Theatre Company, and Colby College. Additionally, she is Costume Shop Manager with Colby College. Michelle hangs her hat in Winthrop and draws her life’s greatest delight from kiddos Lydia and Ethan, who hang the moon and fill her world with sunshine. Thanks and love to you, audience friends, for sharing in our art and caring. So glad you are here!
Mary Lana Rice (Lighting Designer) is a recent transplant to Maine after several years working around the country as a Lighting Designer and Electrician. She is thrilled to have joined the Portland Stage family and is grateful to all of her fellow collaborators! Her design work was last seen at Portland Stage in Lend Me a Tenor. Some of her favorite design credits also include Clyde’s, Murder For Two, Murder on the Links, and What the Constitution Means to Me (Portland Stage); Sanctuary City, Wolf Play, and Make Believe (Portland Theater Festival); The Three Little Pigs and Aladdin (MSMT); Born Yesterday and Murder for Two (Cortland Repertory Theatre, NY); Wait Until Dark, I Am My Own Wife, and Five Guys Named Moe (Fulton Theatre, PA). All my love to Seth, Hazel, and Logan!
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Kate Wecker (Sound Designer) (she/her) is thrilled to be making her Portland Stage design debut. She has won awards for her designs of Animal Farm at A Noise Within (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award) and Footloose at Meadow Brook Theatre (Andes Subscriber Choice Award). She was the Resident Sound Designer at Laguna Playhouse and Pioneer Theatre Company. She is a proud member of the Philadelphia chapter of Sound Girls.
Rey Hankinson (Stage Manager) (they/them) is thrilled to be working on Like Flies, a rage play for its world premiere! Rey holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Rochester, and since graduating has worked as the assistant stage manager on Forever Plaid, Fully Committed, and Boca (Florida Rep); stage-managed Hairspray (Florida Rep Conservatory), Comedy of Errors, and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Camden Shakespeare Festival); and most recently was the assistant stage manager of A Christmas Carol here at Portland Stage. They are a lifelong Mainer and eager to be working with an incredible Maine theater! Thanks to Rayne and everyone at Portland Stage for their love and support.
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Julia E. Edelstein in Honor of Martin Lodish
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Kelly Cutler in Memory of Barbara J. Cutler
Kelly Cutler in Memory of Hallee Anne
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John Cariani and John Lloyd
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Danielle Mulkern Couture
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Mical Hutson
Martin Lodish and Kristin Schardt
Jackie Oliveri
Adrianna Pizzo
Jacqueline Robinov
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Anita Stewart and Ron Botting
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Ella Tabasky
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