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Tony Simotes, Artistic Director
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Tempest, 2012. Playbill Design: Studio Two. Photography: Kevin Sprague.
BOARD and STAFF.................................................................................................. 6 MEMBERSHIP and Giving...................................................................................... 8 IN MEMORIAM...................................................................................................... 22 SHAKESPEARE’S WILL................................................................................... 26 WHO'S WHO - COMPANY BIOS................................................................................ 28 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM................................................................. 36 SHAKESPEARE'S 450TH BIRTHDAY by Jonathan Croy................................................ 42 KRISTIN WOLD: COMING FULL CIRCLE, TO THE WILL by Molly Clancy..................... 46 THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS................................................................ 50 BANKSIDE FESTIVAL............................................................................................. 54 SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY'S EDUCATION PROGRAM............................................. 56 THE HISTORY CYCLE by Dennis Krausnick............................................................... 60 SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY'S TRAINING PROGRAM............................................... 62 THE HISTORY PLAYS by Jonathan Epstein............................................................... 68 JULIUS CAESAR.............................................................................................. 70 THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)..... 76 MYSTERY, MAGIC, AND MYTHOLOGY: THE DREAM OF NEW ORLEANS by Jon Héd.... 82 ROMEO AND JULIET....................................................................................... 86 IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE PLAY ON! by Elizabeth Aspenlieder....................... 90 HENRY IV PARTS I & II................................................................................... 94 EXPLORING SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY................................................................ 98 5 QUESTIONS WITH JONATHAN CROY.................................................................. 100 VANYA AND SONIA AND MASHA AND SPIKE........................................... 104 DIBBLEDANCE............................................................................................... 108 SHAKESPEARE AND THE LANGUAGE THAT SHAPED A WORLD.......... 112 PRIVATE EYES................................................................................................ 116 ACTOR CONSERVATORY AT SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY........................................ 120 It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play........................................ 124 2014 PERFORMANCE CALENDAR........................................................................ 126 ADVERTISERS INDEX........................................................................................... 128
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Dear Friends,
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illiam Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday just happens to fall in our 37th Season. To celebrate this historic birthday, we have put together a terrific lineup that we hope will entertain, inform and bring you and your family back many times over. I wanted this celebratory season to be more Shakespeare-centric—thus many of the plays feature his poetry or stories that are inspired by William Shakespeare and his writings. We are also highlighting some of our seminal productions and premiering new work along with a contemporary, Tony Award-winning play, all while still offering the highest quality theater for your Berkshire visit! In 1978, I played “Puck” as we brought life to The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home, in our Company’s first season; this summer I direct A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the Packer Playhouse stage set in New Orleans in the Jazz Era of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Julius Caesar was re-born as a ‘bare Bard’ in The Stables Theatre in our Company’s second decade at The Mount by Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer; I’ve asked Tina to refocus her creative vision to imagine Julius Caesar once more for us, this time in our Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre. Recently, I challenged our Company to take on Shakespeare’s History Cycle and last year’s Richard II kicked the series off; we continue this with a special production of both parts of Henry IV in an adaptation by its director, Jonathan Epstein—one never before seen on our Kemble Street campus stages. Shakespeare’s Will tells the story of Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s enigmatic wife, on a journey of the heart and soul. Told through dance, song and inspired poetic language, she recounts her improbable life and love with the genius of the Elizabethan stage. We have also created a style of comedy that has kept our audiences laughing and crying out for more; thus, I wanted you all to see a show that epitomizes our use of text and pratfalls, the merry lark that turns classic theater on its head, The Complete Works
of William Shakespeare (Abridged). We return to our Company’s first home once again with an outdoor production of Romeo and Juliet in the Dell at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home, and Jenna Ware’s expert hand brings us a family-friendly, world premiere translation and production of The Servant of Two Masters in our tented Rose Footprint Theatre. The summer will draw to a close with a Tony Award-winning play by Christopher Durang, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, under the capable direction of Matthew Penn. Mystery prevails in the fall with Private Eyes, Steven Dietz’ masterpiece of sleuth! And back by popular demand is last season’s holiday hit: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Add our Midsummer Night’s Celebration on June 28, the 4th of July Celebration, The Fall Festival of Shakespeare, the Conservatory production and all the events and pageants that S&Co. supports and produces—we truly make this 37th Season a tribute to Shakespeare’s enduring legacy 450 years after his humble beginnings in Stratford-Upon-Avon. Enjoy, celebrate, and be inspired by everything we have to offer. On behalf of the entire community of Shakespeare & Company, I say welcome! All my best
Tony Simotes Artistic Director
“But my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy.” Vincent van Gogh
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s Chair of the Board of Trustees, I am pleased to welcome you to the 37th Performance Season at Shakespeare & Company. With our mainstage productions in the Tina Packer Playhouse, the extended season of exciting works at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, the family-friendly fare at the Rose Footprint Theatre, and our outdoor production at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home, there is so much to enjoy!
to that end, as I write this, we are in the process of hiring an Executive Director to further strengthen and ensure its success.
We are proud of the Company’s education activities which have touched the lives of over 25,000 young people over the course of the year via the Riotous Youth summer programs, residencies in local schools, the Northeast Tour of Shakespeare, and our prestigious Shakespeare in the Courts Program. Of course, the cornerstone of our Education aesthetic is our Fall Festival of Shakespeare, the laboratory for the development of our philosophy of self-discovery and exploration. We look forward to having you celebrate with us at our 26th Festival this November.
Last but not least, we are thrilled to announce that we have paid off our $3,000,000 Guaranteed Note a full year ahead of schedule! We are grateful to former Congressman John Olver for his championship when we obtained the note in 2010 and to all the generous donors who supported our 35th Anniversary Campaign to eliminate our short-term debt. None of this would be possible without the support of our loyal patrons, donors, volunteers, Trustees, and Overseers. New friends and long-time fans, I welcome you to our new season and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support.
Up-and-coming artists continue to develop and hone their skills via our Summer Training Institute, Conservatory, and Month-Long Intensive, providing unique opportunities for professional actors to work with our master teachers in a supportive environment. The Board of Trustees continues to maintain our strong stewardship of this enormously talented organization, and
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Brooke Parks, Jason Asprey, Nafeesa Monroe, Mark Bedard, Love’s Labors Lost, 2013.
Sarah E. Hancock, Chair Charles R. Schader, Vice Chair Dorothy Altman Weber, Vice Chair Paul D. Reddick, Treasurer Michael A. Miller, Clerk & Chair Emeritus Jerry Bilik, Interim Executive Director Tony Simotes, Artistic Director/President Tina Packer, Founding Artistic Director Jerome Berko Gene M. Bernstein Patrick Brennan Joan Buccino Kevin G. Coleman Gerald Friedman MD PhD Phoebe Giddon Susan Grausman Carole Hyatt Jeffrey B. Konowitch Dennis Krausnick Harry B. Mathews Richard A. Mescon, Chair Emeritus Kate Millonzi Helga S. Orthofer Claudia Perles Victoria Rhoades Carraro William M. Ryan Sol Schwartz Barry R. Shapiro David A. Smith Robert B. Strassler John Douglas Thompson Kenneth Werner Rose Zoltek-Jick
BOARD OF OVERSEERS Kate Millonzi, Chair Katherine Abraham Mia Andersen Helene Berger Roberta and George Berry Stanley and Gail Bleifer Roxanne and Scott Bok Janet Carey Linda Benedict Colvin Michael J. Considine and Shawn Leary Considine Peter Davenport Gretchen DeKalb Diane Durgin Janet Egelhofer Sonya Hamlin Eleanor Lord and Margaret Wheeler Annette Miller Carolyn Newberger The Honorable Paul E. Perachi (ret.) Carol Seldin Natalie and Howard Shawn Harriet Vines Marian Warden Rhea Werner Leone T. Young
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MISSION The mission of Shakespeare & Company is to deliver a sustainable and vital program of Performance, Training, and Education, integrated for the deepened experience of the artists, the audience, the Company, and the community. We embrace the core values of Shakespeare’s work: collaboration, commitment to language, visceral experience and classical ideals, expressed with physical prowess and an embodied contemporary voice.
VISION Shakespeare & Company strives to be a thriving center of theatrical and creative excellence, rooted in Shakespeare’s work and the Elizabethan ideals of inquiry, balance and harmony. We are committed to nurturing the creative impulse, exploring the universal themes of human experience, engaging with the widest possible audience, and influencing future generations, using the works of Shakespeare as our foundation.
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We value the pursuit of excellence in each element of our creative endeavors.
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We value connection and collaboration among theatre artists, Trustees, audience and community.
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We value the incorporation of ideas that allow us to run our organization with elegance and generosity.
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We value storytelling that is both dramatic and illuminating.
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We value language that is poetic, expansive and employed to reveal the truth.
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We value the integration of Performance, Training and Education, believing that shared techniques, knowledge and experience better develops artists, builds audience and sustains the company.
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We value the incorporation of new and recent material so as to be responsive to the interests and pleasure of our contemporary audience.
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We value the artistic risk and experimentation necessary to the creation and sustaining of great theatre and teaching.
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We value the relationship between the Company and the Board of Trustees as one of mutual understanding and support: the Company commits itself to understanding the role of the Trustees, and the Trustees endeavor to understand the work and work methods of the Company as deeply as possible.
Shakespeare & Company Staff Jerry Bilik, Interim Executive Director Tony Simotes, Artistic Director Administrative Founding Artistic Director: Tina Packer General Manager: Stephen Ball Executive Assistant: Catherine E. Wheeler Company Manager: Jessie Chapman Costumes Costume Director: Govane Lohbauer Costume Shop & Rentals Manager: Mary Readinger Drapers: Lillian Dunham and Ann Marie Donnelly Design Assistants / First Hands / Stitchers / Wardrobe: Mary Boyce, Caroline Coenen, Ben Hover, Herin Kaputkin, Katie Kenna, Lezlie Lee, Adrienne Nixon, Audrey Pugh, Melissa Rao, Carl Ramsey, Mary Readinger, Bailey Rosenberg, Connie Russo, Stella Schwartz, Sue Thomas, Peggy Walsh, Kate Washington and Adina Wells Development Director: Ute DeFarlo Director of Annual Giving: Patrick Buckley Manager of Institutional Giving and Events Coordinator: Ariel Bock Education Director: Kevin G. Coleman Associate Director: Jenna Ware Youth Programs Director and Artistic Associate: Jonathan Croy Summer Youth Faculty & Staff: Alexandra Allen, Caroline Calkins, Jessie Chapman, Jonathan Croy, Kelly Galvin, Tom Jaeger, Caitlin Kraft, Luke Reed, Corinna May,
Connie Russo, Sarah Jeanette Taylor, Josie Wilson, Sara Holt, Mairead Kohler, and Zoe Wohlfeld (apprentices) Facilities Manager: Phil Hiser, Jr. Associates: Albert Hiser, Phil Hiser III and Bruce Kupiec Finance & IT Controller: Richard Martelle Information Technology Manager: Renee M. Speltz Front of House Audience Services: Tyisha Turner (Manager), Annie Cosidine, Kaileela Hobby, Kelly Kilgore, Carmen Mandley, and Eric Corbett Williams Housekeeping Manager: Bonnie Wilson Associates: Janet LeBlanc & Richard Wood Production Production Manager: Thomas L. Rindge Production Stage Manager: Hope Rose Kelly Assistant Production Manager: Brendan Conroy Technical Director / Changeover Crew Chief: Kevin Harvell Carpentry: Markus Weinfurter (Master), Connell Gess, Ben Hover, Marcus Kearns, Isaak van der Meulen & Robyn Warfield Electrics: Keith Chapman (Master), Ben Hover, Erika Johnson, Cooper Stone, Isaak van der Meulen, & Robyn Warfield Properties: Patrick Brennan (Master), Devon Drohan, Zoe Lohmann and Megan Radish Sound: Michael Pfeiffer (Engineer), Brendan Conroy, Iain Fisher & Cooper Stone Scenic Artistry: Jessica Atanas (Charge), Atty Siegel Weapons Master: Bob Lohbauer
Public Relations & Marketing Director of Communications & Artistic Associate: Elizabeth Aspenlieder Group Sales and Facilities Rental Director: David Joseph Publicity and Playbill Director: Molly Clancy Marketing and New Media Director: Jon Hed Communications Associate: Alissa Mesibov Graphic Designer: Kevin Sprague at Studio Two, Lenox Ticketing & Food Services Ticketing and Food Services Director: Ron Werth Box Office Asst. Manager: Jessica Burlingame Concessions Manager: Adam Huff Sous Chef: Miles Harrison Sales Associates: Brooke Brigadan, Adam Brown, Greg Boover, Tori Hines, Cloteal Horne, Arden Levesque, Colby Lewis, Briana Maia, Conor Moroney, Connie Russo, Courtney Vinson and Josie Wilson Training Director: Dennis Krausnick Assistant to the Director of Training: Elizabeth “Lily” Cardaropoli Faculty: Jason Asprey, Ariel Bock, Andrew Borthwick-Leslie, Kevin G. Coleman, Tori Rhoades Carraro, Dave Demke, Susan Dibble, John Hadden, Charls Hall, Elizabeth Ingram, Isobel Kirk, Corinna May, Tina Packer, Tod Randolph, Doug Seldin, Robert Serrell, Tony Simotes, Michael Toomey, Kristin Wold and Walton Wilson
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Become A Member Your gift matters
Membership
Income from our performances covers only 40% of our annual operating budget. Your support makes all the difference.
Friend $50-$99 You receive: • Email updates with advance announcements of the season and current shows and special productions • 10% discount at the Shakespeare & Company Gift Shop (does not apply to online store) • Complimentary attendance at a Behind-the-Scenes Tour
Contributor $100-$249 Above benefits plus: • Acknowledgement in our annual Playbill • Complimentary attendance at one of our Tuesday Talks
Supporter $250-$499 Above benefits plus: • Invitation to attend working rehearsals with the artists
Benefactor $500-$1,499 Above benefits plus: • Invitation to our exclusive Season Preview Party • Two complimentary tickets to a Fall Festival of Shakespeare performance • 15% discount on event and studio space rentals (restrictions apply)
The Players’ Society Silver $1,500-$2,499 Benefactor benefits plus: • Two complimentary tickets to a performance of your choice • Complimentary Players’ Society Event • Players’ Society ticket hotline for priority seating • Free ticket exchange • VIP parking
Gold $2,500-$4,999
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Above benefits plus: • Two additional complimentary tickets to a performance of your choice • Priority registration for our Riotous Youth summer camp sessions • Invitation for you and up to 4 guests to attend the final dress rehearsal of a performance
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Platinum $5,000-$9,999 Above benefits plus: • Guaranteed seating for two to any Tina Packer Playhouse mainstage performance (with 24 hours notice) • Invitation to attend the first reading of a play in rehearsal • Complimentary Voice coaching session with an S&Co. master teacher
Student Erin Butcher with text teacher Tod Randolph. Photo: Enrico Spada.
You are an important player Please contribute and take pride in knowing that you are bringing top-tier performances, world-class artist training and award-winning education to children throughout the Northeast.
Become an Underwriter Director $10,000-$24,999 Platinum benefits plus: • Lunch with our Artistic Director • Opportunity to underwrite a production • Opportunity to sponsor an actor-in-training
Producer $25,000+
Elliot Norton and “Best of Boston” Award winner Johnny Lee Davenport and Kelley Curran in As You Like It, 2011. Photo: Kevin Sprague.
Springfield Central High School’s The Taming of the Shrew, Fall Festival ‘10. Photo: Enrico Spada.
• For information on personalized benefits at this level, call 413-637-1199 x146
Contact our Development Office at 413-637-1199 ext. 105 or email us at development@shakespeare.org
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Saturday, June 28, 2014
celebrate the magic... 450 Years of William Shakespeare 37 Seasons of Shakespeare & Company 1 MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S CELEBRATION Honor the world’s greatest poet at a party for the centuries with his most enduring and mischievous comic fantasy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Indulge in an evening of cocktails, dinner, theater, and dancing and celebrate with your friends.
Guests of Honor
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Call the Development Office at 413-637-1199 ext. 117 for details.
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n June 30, 2012, Shakespeare & Company renamed its mainstage The Tina Packer Playhouse in recognition of Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer and her invaluable contributions to the organization. We also created The Tina Packer Fund to support annual facilities expenses and create an operating reserve, allowing us to look into the future with confidence.
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Tina Packer, Women of Will, 2012.
In addition to those friends who continue to honor their pledges, we would like to express our tremendous gratitude to the following individuals and institutions who made generous contributions during the past year.
Artistic Director Tony Simotes, the late Elayne P. Bernstein and Sol Schwartz.
We would like to express special thanks to Shera Cohen, Claire Cox, Gretchen DeKalb, Stuart M. Fischman, Esq., Robert B. and M. Lee+ Neff, Abigail Rubinstein, Richard Russell, Dr. Raymond Schneider, Nancy Vale, and two anonymous donors for including Shakespeare & Company in their giving plans.
We have surpassed our initial goal of $1 million but continue to receive gifts in order to strengthen the Company over the next several years. To make a gift, please contact Patrick Buckley at 413-637-1199 x105 or pbuckley@shakespeare.org
Janet Carey Sean and Michelle Hennessey Tara Hobby IBM Corporation Matching Grants Program Louise and George+ Kaminow Donna Lefkowitz Rochelle and Steven Rubin David and Susan Saul Rita E. Shawn State Street Foundation, Inc. Matching Gift Program
planned gift to Shakespeare & Company is a unique and personally meaningful way to support the Company and all its artistic, educational, and actor training programs for years to come. Planned Giving also offers beneficial tax incentives for the donor. Please consider including Shakespeare & Company in your will or as a beneficiary to an annuity, trust, life insurance policy, or charitable remainder trust. It is truly a gift to our future. For more information about Planned Giving, please contact Ute DeFarlo, Director of Development, at 413-637-1199 x146 or by e-mail at udefarlo@shakespeare.org.
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he Players’ Society is Shakespeare & Company’s leadership gift society. Through their philanthropy, leadership, and service, these donors demonstrate the highest level of friendship and commitment to the organization. We are grateful for their support. Producer ($25,000+)
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Director ($10,000+)
Joe and Kathy Buckley Felda and Dena Hardymon John Martinson Joseph Martinson Memorial Fund Richard A. and Jane Mescon Dan+ and Susan Rothenberg Carol and Peter Seldin Marvin Seline Natalie and Howard Shawn Rhea and Ken Werner
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Steve, Angela, Andrew, and Natalie Bader Jerry and Helga Bilik Sydelle and Lee Blatt Diane Cataldo Hermine Drezner and Jan Winkler Susan and Richard Grausman The Estate of Marilyn Brachman Hoffman Gordon and Carole Hyatt Leslie and Stephen Jerome Jeffrey Konowitch and Wendy Laurin Enid Michelman Victoria Rhoades Carraro and Alvaro Carraro Richards Kibbe & Orbe, LLP Antoine and Emily van Agtmael Rose Zoltek-Jick
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Bonnie and Terry Burman Richard and Karin Counts Gretchen DeKalb Barbara and Saul Eisenberg and the Charles L. Read Foundation Liz and John Hart Rebecca M. Hedgecock Eleanor Lord and Margaret Wheeler Barbara A. Mahony Joan and Robert Rechnitz Alison Akin Righter Dr. Robert and Esther Rosenthal Rochelle and Steven Rubin David Smith and Ranny Cooper
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Katherine and Lee Abraham Stephen and Shari Ashman Helene Berger Dr. Stanley and Gail Bleifer Barbara Petit and CJ Bolster Vicki Bonnington and David Schecker Judy and Tim Boomer Marie Cavanaugh and James Barrese Linda Benedict Colvin in loving memory of her brother, Mark A. Benedict Considine-Leary Family Claire Cox Diane Durgin John and Janet Egelhofer Dorothea R. Endicott Ann and Joseph Gallo Mr. and Mrs. James W. Giddens Marilyn and Allan Glick Dr. Marc and Susan Goldman Sonya B. Hamlin and Bernard Berkowitz Laurel and James Higgins Joan and Jim Hunter Lola Jaffe Jon and Rosemary Masters Kate and Joel Millonzi Drs. Carolyn and Eli Newberger Mark Palermo and Carole Robinson Carol Parrish and Paul Clark Peter B. F. and Helen G. Randolph Joyce Scheffey David and Marie Louise Scudder Dr. Michael A. and Jean S. Shirley Edward and Carla Slomin Richard and Ingrid Taylor Marian M. Warden Reid and Laird White Anonymous
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We also gratefully acknowledge the generosity of so many friends of the organization whose gifts of under $100 make a difference every year! If we inadvertently omitted your name or listed it incorrectly, please accept our sincere apologies and contact the Development Office at 413-637-1199 x105 or development@shakespeare.org.
We are particularly grateful to those donors who have generously contributed clothing, accessories, shoes, and fabric to our Costume Shop; props and paint to our Prop Shop; furniture for Company housing; and cars to our motor fleet. We appreciate you thinking about Shakespeare & Company before you discard these treasures! We also recognize those who have donated food, beverages, and specialized skills, including photography and design services. Our profound thanks go out to you all!
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In Memoriam Daniel E. Rothenberg, 1923 – 2013
Sam Farber 1924 – 2013
Dan Rothenberg and his wife Susan have been among Shakespeare & Company’s closest friends for nearly 20 years. An extraordinarily successful real estate developer in New England, Dan decicated a signficant portion of his life to philanthropy, quietly and generously supporting countless causes, not-for-profits and individuals throughout the Commonwealth “to make their lives better.” He was also a connoisseur and patron of the arts and supported Shakespeare & Company and its Education and outreach programming over the course of many years. We will be forever grateful.
Jane Pratt Fitzpatrick 1923 – 2013
“When I first came to the Berkshires in 1978, Jane Fitzpatrick was the force to be reckoned with,” says Tina Packer. “Everywhere I went, people asked me, ‘have you spoken to Jane Fitzpatrick yet?’. When I finally did get to meet her, as Shakespeare & Company performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream on the lawn at the Mount, I found out why. She gave me a rundown of all the arts organizations in the Berkshires and asked me very directly if I was sure I wanted to join this very crowded field. When I said I did, she agreed to see me in six months’ time. After it had become obvious that Shakespeare & Company was here to stay, she would meet me annually to grill me and, with directness and charm, tell me what she thought I ought to know. My gratitude to her is infinite, and the company immeasurably strengthened because of her.” Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick were philanthropic giants for all the numerous cultural organizations in the county. They significantly and generously backed Shakespeare & Company’s move to the Kemble Street property in 2000 and supported the creation of the Bernstein Center and our second stage. The Armory will always bear their names! But most importantly, Jane and Jack supported the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, our flagship education program, for well over a decade, allowing it to thrive and create life-transforming experiences for many generations of Berkshire teenagers. 22
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Sam Farber loved good design, courageous people, and his life with his wife Betsey. Their Manhattan apartment was filled with outsider art (art which is not part of the mainstream art world - Sam trusted his own judgment and his choices were validated many times over). He was introduced to Shakespeare & Company through the late Frances Martinson, with whom he served on the Board of the American Folk Art Museum. His famous OXO line of easy-to-use kitchen utensils made him an unsung hero to many a cook across the country, while his quick wit, drive, and energy as a member of our Board of Overseers allowed him to come up with several ideas for the Company, not least an annual craft fair. His outside thinking will be much missed.
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hakespeare & Company would like to extend special thanks to the following foundations, corporations and local businesses, organizations, and government agencies for their generous support.
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Aetna Foundation Alchemy Foundation The Altschul Foundation Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation, Inc. Arts Midwest Barrow Foundation The Barrington Foundation, Inc. Barry Engineers & Constructors, Inc. Ben’s Shop Berkshire Bank Berkshire Organics Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Black Swan Inn Blue Q Bonsecours Productions, Inc. The Boston Foundation Boston SoundWorks The Brownington Foundation Calvert Foundation Canyon Ranch Casablanca CEO Roundtable, LLC The Charles H. Hall Foundation Close Encounters With Music Combined Federal Campaign of Eastern Massachusetts Commonwealth of Massachusetts Berkshire District Attorney Commonwealth of Massachusetts Employees Charitable Campaign The Community Foundation of Sarasota County Country Curtains The Dayton Foundation The Dobbins Foundation Dresser Hull Company The Edgerton Foundation Elwer Foundation, Inc. The Feigenbaum Foundation Special thanks to the Central Market Florist at Price Chopper in Lenox for donating the flowers arranged by Shakespeare & Company’s volunteers in the Tina Packer Playhouse, to Monument Mountain Regional High School’s Horticulture Program for their donation of plants for Shakespeare’s Garden, and to Stop & Shop in Pittsfield for providing gift bags for arriving artists and staff.
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And sitting on the bed we make a vow: To live our own lives… It will be our own kind of marriage. Shakespeare’s Will
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hakespeare’s Will, set in 1616 in Stratfordupon-Avon, imagines the tumultuous life of Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s ellusive wife, to whom he infamously bequeathed his “secondbest bed.” This bold, brash, and unapologetic exploration of Anne’s mind and heart illuminates an uncharted aspect of Shakespeare’s world, giving voice to the woman who spent 34 years married to a genius she rarely saw. Humor, passion, and mystery abound in this sensual and provocative tale by award-winning Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen. Vern Thiessen’s plays (Einstein’s Gift, Uncle Vimy…) have been produced at the Stratford Festival, Off-Broadway, regionally throughout Canada and the U.S., and around the world. Long-time Company actor Kristin Wold (King Lear, The Tempest, Sea Marks) takes on this powerful one-woman show, guided by the astute hand of director Daniela Varon (Romeo and Juliet, Sea Marks, Martha Mitchell Calling).
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As we celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, we can rejoice not only in the continued survival and world-wide popularity of his works, but also in the uncountable works of scholarship, criticism, and literature that he has inspired. Has any artist ever had so much written about him? Every year that passes brings us more ideas about and responses to Shakespeare the artist and his works. But the years do not bring us more facts about Shakespeare the man, and what facts we have about his life are surprisingly few. About his wife, Anne Hathaway, we know even less. We do have Shakespeare’s last will and testament, amended in March 1616, the month before his death. Vern Thiessen draws inspiration from the facts and from the will for this play loosely based on the life of Anne Hathaway, but he would be the first to tell you that he plays fast and loose with even these few facts and their meaning. His play is not a biography. Thiessen’s Anne is no more the historical Anne than Shakespeare’s Richard III was the historical Richard. Shakespeare’s Will is a work of imagination and exploration, and the writer’s goal is to imagine and explore the journey of a woman who faces adversity and rises above it. Theater critic and theorist Jan Kott wrote a book famously called Shakespeare Our Contemporary, interpreting Shakespeare’s plays through the events and experiences of the 20th century and of his own life as a 20th century man. I believe Thiessen goes in search of “Mrs. Shakespeare Our Contemporary,” imagining an unconventional woman and her unconventional marriage through the prism of our own times, bringing Anne into the modern age as he brings us into hers. – Daniela Varon Shakespeare.org
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Who’s Who
Matthew Adelson^ fourth season (Lighting Designer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Henry IV) S&Co.: Mother Courage and Her Children, Richard II, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Satchmo at the Waldorf, The Tempest, King Lear, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Recent credits: Diary of Anne Frank (Burning Coal), The Wier (Theatreworks), A Christmas Carol (Berkshire Theatre Group) and Our Town (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). From 2005 to 2014, Matthew was the Director of Production at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. Lighting Designer: Williams College Dance Department. MFA: Yale Drama School. Alexandra ‘Ally’ Allen third season (Clarice, The Servant of Two Masters, Riotous Youth Faculty) S&Co.: Les Faux Pas: Or, The Counter Plots (Jeanette), Shakespeare & Young Company—Boys of York (Queen Margaret) and Distract (Ensemble). Mount Holyoke College: Hamlet (Horatio), Juliet & Her Romeo (Juliet), The Glass Menagerie (Jim). BA: Mount Holyoke College.
Barbara Allen fourth season (Movement Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) is a NYC-based choreographer. She has choreographed and created movement for Stage, Film, Cabaret and Light Opera. She has been a guest artist at various colleges including Skidmore College, CAL ARTS and Columbia University. Barbara is currently an instructor at New Studio Broadway at NYU – Tisch School of the Arts. She is thrilled to be working again with Tony Simotes along with the wonderful cast of Midsummer. Barbara is an associate member of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC).
Elizabeth Aspenlieder* nineteenth season (Masha, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Communications Director; Artistic Associate). S&Co. favorites: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (directed by Matthew Penn), Parasite Drag (by Mark Roberts), Merry Wives of Windsor, The Winter’s Tale (Hermione), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Marquise), Bad Dates (Elliot Norton Award Best Solo Performance), Rough Crossing, King Lear (Regan), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia), Richard III (Anne). Barrington Stage Co.: 10x10 Play Fest.; Merrimack Rep.: Bad Dates; Boston Theatre Works: Angel’s in America (Angel), Othello (Emelia). Indies: Trigger Finger, Seriously Twisted.
Jason Asprey* twentieth season (Cassius/Ensemble, Julius Caesar; CoDirector, Conservatory’s Romeo and Juliet) recent S&Co.: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Ferdinand), Accomplice (Derek), The 39 Steps (Richard Hannay), Parasite Drag, The Memory of Water (Frank), The Winter’s Tale (Autolycus), Richard III (Lord Hastings/Oxford), and Hamlet (Title Role). Recent Regional: Julius Caesar (Cassius) at Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Betrayal (Robert) at Nora Theatre, Einstein’s Dreams (Eduard Einstein) at Culture Project NYC, and Romeo and Juliet (Mercutio) at Swine Palace, and theatre, TV, and film in England. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 38
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Volunteers Volunteers help our company grow, prosper, and affect the community around us. They are teachers, tradesmen, artists, and entrepreneurs giving freely of their time and talents. You’ll see them ushering, designing, and caring for our gardens, operating the gift shop, giving tours, helping with carpentry and other building needs, and always ready to help out at special events. They are our sustenance, ambassadors, advisors and front line. We give them infinite thanks for their tremendous efforts; they are our Company’s secret strength.
SHAKE IT UP WITH SHAKESPEARE WANTED: Ushers, Retail Associates, Guides, Gardeners, Office Staff, Meeters and Greeters QUALIFICATIONS: Enthusiasm, Energy, High Spirits, Love of Community, Willingness to Learn, Appreciation of Great Theatre REWARDS: Play a key role in our theatre company. Make new friends, reunite with old friends, and incorporate the wonder of Shakespeare as a part of your life. YOU CAN JOIN US by contacting volunteers@ shakespeare.org or call us at 413-637-1199 x177.
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Stephen Ball twenty-sixth season (General Manager) Steve is the proud recipient of the 2002 Achievement Award from the Town of Ripton, MA, Candlelight Council; an MFA from Tisch School of the Arts; an MBA from the University of Miami; and Executive Education in non-profit management from Harvard’s Kennedy School. Lighting & Set Designs: Boston, Falmouth, Foxboro, Lenox, MA; Sharon, CT; New York, NY; New Hope, PA; Marietta, GA; Miami, FL.
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ARIEL BOCK* thirtieth season (Mistress Quickly, Henry IV, Manager of Institutional Giving) A long-time member of S&Co., Ariel has worked in the Education Program, been a faculty member at countless workshops and has performed in many productions. Locally she has acted with The Wharton Salon, Mixed Company and WAM Theatre. For The Ensemble for the Romantic Century she most recently played Nadezhda von Meck in None But the Lonely Heart at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Ariel is a Designated Linklater Voice Teacher.
Andrew Borthwick-Leslie twentythird season (Casca, Julius Caesar) Recent S&Co: Hamlet (Guildenstern/ Osric), Lettice and Lovage (Mr. Bardolph). Regional: Vieux Carre (Nightingale) at Egopo; Lake Street Extension (Fuller), Raised in Captivity (Kip) at Bckstreet. Recent Directing, NYC: Merchant of Venice, Love’s Labour’s Lost (the Shakespeare Forum); Francis Goes to War (the Humanist Project). Andrew is a happy member of the Shakespeare Forum, a proud founding co-artistic director of the Humanist Project, and the pleased husband-to-be of James Lynes. Patrick Brennan eleventh season (Properties Master; Set Designer, Shakespeare’s Will, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, DibbleDance, Private Eyes, and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Board Trustee) BA, Interior Design from Academy of Art College, San Francisco; enjoys restoring houses. Laura Ashley, Pierre-Deux, Anthropologie, Open House Living, S&Co Set Design and Props Mastery.
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Greg Boover second season (Friar Lawrence/Nurse/Peter, Romeo and Juliet) S&Co.: The Tempest (Ensemble), Tartuffe (Damis); Hampshire Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick); Greg is a proud recent graduate of UMass Amherst, where his love for Shakespeare began with roles such as Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Demetrius in Midsummer, and in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). He is ever thankful for the inspiration & love of family and friends.
Deborah A. Brothers fourth season (Costume Designer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) S&Co.: The Tempest, Maisie. Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Physicists. Berkeley Repertory Theatre, As You Like It, Tonight at 8:30. Williams College: Fefu and Her Friends, Electra, A Streetcar Named Desire. California Institute of the Arts MFA. University of New Orleans BA. Costume Director and Lecturer at Williams College. Produced Mardi Gras costuming and traditions videos and New Orleans Photo Essay “Refuse/Relics.” Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 40
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Codirector). Lily holds a BA in Theatre and Arts Management from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
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CAROLINE CALKINS fourth season (Juliet/Lady Montague/Abram, Romeo and Juliet; Riotous Youth Faculty) S&Co.: The Northeastern Regional Tours of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Macbeth, Les Faux Pas: Or, The Counter Plots (Celie), King Lear (Ensemble), The Venetian Twins (Columbina), SLaW. Fall Festival of Shakespeare Director, 2011– 13. BA: Brown University. Other training: NTI, SITI Company.
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Elizabeth ‘Lily’ Cardaropoli third season (Ensemble, The Servant of Two Masters; Nickel Shakespeare Girl; Assistant to the Director of Training) S&Co.: Private Lives (Louise), S&Co. 2013 Conservatory Julius Caesar (Calpurnia, Cinna, Messala, et al.), Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (select): Hedda Gabler (Hedda), Hamlet (Ophelia), As You Like It (Celia), Titus Andronicus (Lavinia),
Barby Cardillo third season (The Doctor/Ensemble, The Servant of Two Masters) Playwrights’ Theatre: The Seahorse (Gertrude Blum); Berkshire Theatre Group: Babes in Arms (Phyllis Owen); WAM Theatre: The Attic, the Pearls and Three Fine Girls (Jojo Fine); The Joyous Stage: Othello (Emilia), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania), The Seagull (Arkadina). A teaching artist who has worked with many of the local theatres, she is also the Artistic Director of the Royal Berkshire Improv Troupe (see us fall, winter and spring at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield). Jessie Chapman third season (Company Manager; Production Assistant, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)) Since 2011 Jessie has worked for S&Co. as an administrator, non-Equity Stage Manager, and as an Education Artist on residencies, Riotous Youth, and the Fall Festival of Shakespeare. Jessie is also a member of the humble New Hampshire Shakespeare Company, Advice To The Players. This fall Jessie will be starting her MFA in Performing Arts Management at Brooklyn College. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 44
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No one knows the circumstances surrounding Shakespeare’s death, although there is some evidence to believe that he died on his 52nd birthday, April 23rd, 1616. We do know that he left his wife Anne his ‘second best bed’, and that he was buried in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon in Holy Trinity Church.
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his year, April 23rd marked the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare.
This year is a milestone celebration of the birth of an individual who has had the widest and deepest impact on our language – on how we frame our thoughts and express our feelings – on the way we discover and reveal our humanity, arguably more than any other individual in history. His youth was fairly humble. He was born in 1564 to John and Mary Shakespeare, the third of eight children (and eldest son), in the small town of Stratford, on the Avon River. His father was a glove maker, and served as High Bailiff, an office much like mayor. His youth probably passed as youth usually does, a mad muddle of family, friends and schooling. At eighteen, he married then-twenty-six year old Anne Hathaway; they had three children--Susannah and the twins, Judith and Hamnet. The next we hear of Shakespeare, he became a player and playwright in London. By the early 1590, documents show William Shakespeare was a managing partner in the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, a company of players that soon became the most popular company in London. Shakespeare’s early plays included sprawling histories of England, broad comedies, and tragedies that began to hint at the great work he was yet to write.
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Seven years after his death, John Heminges and Henry Condell, two of his fellow-players collected most of his plays and published them in what is called “The First Folio.” They said they did it “Only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare.” One would have to say they succeeded. Happy 450th birthday, Will. We wish you many, many more.
A few facts have become familiar: • The plays are still popular. Shakespeare is not only the most-produced playwright in America each year, he is the most-produced playwright world-wide. • The plays are far-reaching. His plays have been translated into more than 80 languages, including Chinese, Italian, Armenian, Bengali, Tagalog, Uzbek and Krio, spoken by freed slaves in Sierra Leone. • The plays are on our minds. Almost four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death there are 157 million pages referring to him on Google. (There are 132 million for God, and 2.7 million for Elvis). • The plays are in our lives. Shakespeare has been credited by the Oxford English Dictionary with introducing almost 3,000 words to the English language. And hundreds of phrases coined by Shakespeare are unknowingly part of our everyday parlance. • Today, his plays are wildly popular, constantly studied in school, and continually reinterpreted in performances with diverse cultural and political contexts. The genius of Shakespeare’s characters and plots are that they reveal the truth of our actions and interactions, presenting real human beings in a wide range of relationship and conflict that transcend their origins in Elizabethan England. We apparently have not changed as much as our circumstances.
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Keith Chapman third season (Master Electrician; Lighting Designer, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play) Lighting Design Credits – S&Co.: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Leap Year. Regional - Oldcastle Theatre Company: recent credits include Grandma Moses: An American Primitive; Sherlock Holmes-Knight’s Gambit. Education: BFA - Technical Theatre and Design, Central Connecticut State University.
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Jonathan Croy* twenty-ninth season (Artistic Associate; Director of Youth Programs; Director, Fight Choreographer, Set & Sound Designer, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); Director, Fight Choreographer, Set & Sound Designer, Romeo and Juliet; Old Man Potter, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play) A Company member since 1982, Jon has played more than 70 roles in over 60 plays, including Richard II (John of Gaunt), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Potter, Uncle Billy), King Lear (Gloucester), Kaufman’s Barber Shop (Morris), and The Hound of the Baskervilles (Dr. Watson). In recent seasons, he has directed Richard III, Twelfth Night, The 39 Steps, The Real Inspector Hound, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Scapin, and for last season’s return to The Mount, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
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JOHNNY LEE DAVENPORT* fourteenth season (Bottom, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Glendower, Henry IV). Recent S&Co.: Richard II, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Richard III, and Twelfth Night. Boston’s 2013-2014 season: The Unbleached American (Stoneham Theatre), The Whipping Man (New Rep), Water by the Spoonful (Lyric Stage), and Driving Miss Daisy (Gloucester Stage Company, IRNE for Best Actor). Stage career spans 115 plays in 15 states and four countries. He has played more than 50 roles in 25 of Shakespeare’s plays. Henry IV takes him one step closer to his goal of completing the canon. www.johnnyleedavenport.com Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 48
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Kristin Wold: Coming Full Circle, to The Will by Molly Clancy
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ristin Wold has taken on many different roles at Shakespeare & Company, from Teaching Artist in its renowned Education Program, to acting and exploring characters of comedy, tragedy, and everything in between on its many stages, and most recently teaching in the Company’s world-class Professional Actor Training Program. This year Kristin celebrates her 25th season with S&Co., and with her undeniable diversity as an artist she has major staying power. You might be surprised to know that Shakespeare’s Will, opening in the Elyane Bernstein Theatre on May 24, is Kristin’s first onewoman show. 46
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Kristin, who first came to S&Co. when it was still at Edith Wharton’s bucolic estate, The Mount, was blown away by the Company’s aesthetic and approach to acting. Always an eager and avid student, she quickly soaked up everything the Company had to offer. Over the years, she continued to stretch herself further, not only becoming a critically acclaimed actress within the Company but also becoming an educator. She joined the faculty of the Company’s Training Program over two decades ago teaching text and movement and also worked as an assistant director and choreographer on several productions for the Program. Kristin later branched out to other institutions including the University of Connecticut as an Assistant Professor in Residence,
teaching acting and movement, where she still works today. “It has been a joy to split my time between the classroom and the stage,” says Wold. Her desire to continue learning and exploring new texts, playwrights, and roles has been the driving force in her work for Shakespeare’s Will— doing a one-woman show is a testament to her desire to stretch herself even further as an artist. She adds, “My teaching and acting have gone hand-in-hand. I have been fortunate to be a part of an artistic community here in the Berkshires which supports and encourages both.”
it truly will be a wonderful journey of Will. I’ve actually never done a one-woman show, and I was really drawn to this script. There’s music and song, movement and dance, it’s quite theatrical—it doesn’t live in a place of realism and I like that. Anne is really quite fun and a bit bawdy—‘I like men’ she says ‘I like the company of lots of men’” Kristin quotes with a laugh.
Kristin’s drive is a perfect match for Shakespeare’s Will, which is filled with passion, humor, and mystery. The incendiary tale by award-winning Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen is set in 1616 in Stratford-upon-Avon. The play explores the turbulent life of Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s mysterious wife, and gives voice to the woman.
Kristin is truly a model to all students, showing how even once you’ve mastered an art form well enough to teach it, you should continue to feed your passion— there are always new depths to
“I see this story as Hathaway’s response to and survival of a harsh life. The play is incredibly poetic and its provocative language sets a joyful tone in the face of some very tough stuff. In the play,
“Wold… is lively, gracious, eye-catching and sublime.” – Talkin’ Broadway “At first I wasn’t sure if I would be able to take on this role, it was a leap of faith for me, but after reading the script I was hooked,” said Wold when we caught up over lattes in April. “I have worked with Daniela Varon on several other projects in the past, and when wej talked about this piece I started to get quite excited about the prospect of working with her again. She is such an astute, passionate and precise director— J
explore, and new boundaries to push. “I am currently learning lines and starting to dig into some research,” continues Wold. “I always get to the opening and still feel like there is so much more research I want to do. Right now I am reading about the playwright who very loosely bases the play around a few facts he knows about Anne Hathaway. It’s interesting to see how a few threads of truth can spark an entire story.”
Hathaway’s father worked on a ship, so there is a lot of talk about returning to the sea… I think to Hathaway it’s perhaps a sort of homecoming refreshing her soul and spirit.” Shakespeare’s Will by Vern Thiessen, starring Kristin Wold and directed by Daniela Varon, plays in the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre from May 24 – August 24.
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Ute de Farlo tenth season (Director of Development) Credits include significant roles in Bernstein Center Campaign and Kresge Challenge Grant, 35th Anniversary Campaign and Tina Packer Fund, and organizing roles in eight annual gala events. Other proud achievements include husband Tony and sons Christopher (two time Fall Festival participant) and Alex/Agi (Riotous Youth).
Susan Dibble thirty-third season (Director/Choreographer & Sound Designer, DibbleDance; Movement Director, Shakespeare’s Will; Movement Director, Henry IV; STI faculty) Professor Susan Dibble is the Barbara Sherman ’54 and Malcolm L. Sherman Chair of the Theater Arts Department at Brandeis University where she teaches movement for actors and dance. Susan received the 2006 Leonard Bernstein Festival of Creative Arts Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts at Brandeis. Susan is grateful to S&Co. for offering her a stage and the freedom to create new dances for so many years. Steven Dietz (Playwright, Private Eyes) Selected plays include Yankee Tavern, Becky’s New Car, Last of the Boys, Lonely Planet, Shooting Star, Inventing Van Gogh, and The Nina Variations — have been seen at over one hundred regional theatres, as well as Off-Broadway and in fifteen countries internationally. A twotime finalist for the Steinberg New Play Award, Mr. Dietz received the PEN USA Award in Drama for Lonely Planet, and the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play for Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. Christopher Durang (Playwright, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) Plays include A History of the American Film (Tony nomination, Best Book of a Musical), The Actor’s Nightmare, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Obie Award, Off-Broadway run), Beyond Therapy (Broadway), Baby with the Bathwater (Playwrights Horizons), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Public Theater, Obie Award, Dramatists Guild
Hull Warriner Award), Laughing Wild (Playwrights Horizons), and Durang Durang (an evening of six plays at Manhattan Theatre Club, including the Tennessee Williams parody For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls).
Benjamin Epstein second season (Francis/Prince John, Henry IV) first appeared professionally at S&Co. in a walk-on role in The Merry Wives of Windsor when he was just a small boy and also played the Goldsmith’s Servant in The Comedy of Errors. At LMMHS he has played Caliban (The Tempest), Buckingham (Richard III), Florizel (The Winter’s Tale), Borrachio (Much Ado About Nothing), King Sextimus (Once Upon A Mattress), and Charlemagne (Pippin).
Jonathan Epstein* twenty-third season (Peter Quince, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Director/King Henry, Henry IV) S&Co.: More than 50 productions including King Lear, The Tempest, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Women of Will, Private Eyes, Brief Lives. He has performed on and off-Broadway and at scores of regional theatres around the country including Berkshire Theatre Festival (Amadeus, Cuckoo’s Nest, Via Dolorosa, Educating Rita…) and ART (Merchant of Venice, Phaedra, Paradise Lost). During the year he teaches Shakespeare Performance to the MFA students at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 52
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I would like to see how I do in the service of two! The Servant of Two Masters
Director’s Take Early Commedia was street theater—improvisational theater. General scenarios or scene descriptions were written for stock characters: the greedy old man, the young ingénue, the romantic lover, the blustering fighter, the pompous lawyer or professor. Carlo Goldoni was one of the first to begin scripting the stories and writing lines for the actors to memorize— legend has it that some of the actors were not pleased. This is fortunate for us since it gives a clearer image of what Commedia may have been. When I create adaptations for the Rose Footprint, I am trying to take scripted Commedia back to a more relaxed, a more free-wheeling street feel. The actors sing, run through fields, clash swords and play with the audience. This freedom allows the actors to bring their own life to the characters, to invite the audience into their story and to have fun with it! – Jenna Ware Shakespeare.org
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Jim Frangione* first season (Vanya, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) NY: Romance, Hobson’s Choice, Hellhound On My Trail, The Night Heron (all w/Atlantic); Oleanna (Off B’way, Nat’l tour and Alley Theatre); Regional: Humana Festival 2013, Long Wharf, Berkshire Theater Festival (American Buffalo), Mark Taper Forum; Film: Spartan, Heist, State and Main, The Spanish Prisoner, and Homicide. Co-Artistic Director, Berkshire Playwrights Lab.
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Kelly Galvin seventh season (Hermia, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Riotous Youth Faculty) S&Co.: Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, The Learned Ladies, The Venetian Twins, The Winter’s Tale, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, SLaW, Director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare (2008-2013), Assistant Director for Twelfth Night and All’s Well that Ends Well. WAM Theatre: Artistic Associate, Fresh Takes Play Reading Series (curator and director of Blue Stockings), Emilie (Associate Producer). Regional: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Kitchen Theatre Company, Boston Publick Theatre, Wellesley Summer Theatre Company. Education: Wellesley College. Travis George first season (Set Designer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV) Designs include: Pride & Prejudice, Spring Awakening, Connecticut Rep.; The Great Gatsby, The Atlanta Ballet; Time After Time, The Harrt School; Body Awareness, Turn of the Screw, The Swan, Chester Theater; The Miser, LSU; Little Red Riding Hood,
The Atlanta Opera; Sound of Music, High School Musical, Jewpotia, Center Theatre; Born Guilty, The Ride Down Mount Morgan, The Jewish Theatre of the South. Theatre in the Square; the Horizon Theatre. www.travisageorge.com Carlo Goldoni (Playwright, The Servant of Two Masters) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy’s most famous and bestloved plays, including The Venetian Twins done at S&Co. in 2011. Goldoni was the first writer to fully script Commedia dell’arte plays instead of improvisations of scenarios (outlines of plot). Goldoni, a prolific writer, is best known for his comic play The Servant of Two Masters, which has been translated and adapted internationally numerous times. Laura Kathryne Gomez* first season (Stage Manager, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) OffBroadway: 17 Orchard Point (DiMaggio House Creative), The Architecture of Becoming (Women’s Project Theater), Philip Goes Forth (Mint Theater Co.), Forbidden Broadway: Alive and Kicking! (47th Street Theatre), Wild With Happy (The Public Theater), Sleep No More (Emursive), American Jornalero (INTAR). Regional: Life Science (Berkshire Playwrights Lab). Proud member of AEA.
Nigel Gore* seventh season (Caesar/Ensemble, Julius Caesar) Recent: Women of Will (Off-Broadway), Richard III (Richard), Best actor award, WestWord Denver; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (George), Public Theatre, Boston, Eliot Norton Award Outstanding Actor. Macbeth (Macbeth), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (Bottom), Colorado Shakespeare Festival. Twelfth Night (Sir Toby Belch), All’s Well That Ends Well (Lavache), Shakespeare & Company. Hamlet (Claudius), Prague Shakespeare Festival. FILM: The Last Knights. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 64
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e’re pleased to celebrate the 13th season of our annual summer-long Bankside Festival with the outrageously funny The Servant of Two Masters on the tented Rose Footprint. We’re also throwing another blowout July Fourth Celebration, which draws crowds upwards of 800 people joining together to share in a fun-filled day of music, song, delectable food, and an awe-inspiring reading of The Declaration of Independence.
Those searching excitement in Elizabethan England looked to the South Bank of the Thames River. Just across the London Bridge, the South Bank (or “Banksyde”) played host to businesses and activities that authorities deemed morally reprehensible, such as gambling, drinking, and—London’s premiere playhouses. It was there that many of Shakespeare’s plays were first performed.
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Bankside’s vivacious, free spirit fits perfectly with the merry days of summer in the Berkshires. Always free to kids, the Festival includes hilarious shows on the Rose Footprint, bite-size Prelude performances outside of Tina Packer Playhouse, and our muchcelebrated Fourth of July Celebration. Patrons are encouraged to bring a picnic to enjoy on our lawns and join us for a jolly afternoon or evening filled with an atmosphere of theatrical fun, music, whirling words, swordplay, jesting, and laughter. Long live Bankside!
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SHAKESPEARE & YOUNG COMPANY Rose Footprint / August 13 & 15 / 5PM
No one has captured the powerful emotions of adolescence better than Shakespeare. Join our Young Company actors as they perform Shakespeare’s works with a fierce and fiery temperament, exploring their passion for friendship, love, justice, and hope. Shakespeare & Young Company runs all summer long. Visit www.Shakespeare.org for more information!
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Sessions run June 30 – August 22
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At the end of each two-week session young actors create a performance piece based on scenes from a play, which they share with family, friends, S&Co. members, and the public! Visit www.Shakespeare.org to sign your child up today! The 2014 Youth Programs Are GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY Deborah and Bill Ryan
FOURTH of July Celebrations: Outdoors at Bankside (rain or shine)
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Reading of The Declaration of Independence 3pm / Rose Meadow / FREE
Each Fourth of July, Shakespeare & Company presents a remarkable reading of The Declaration of Independence. Written in 1776, The Declaration of Independence is a vital part of our shared legacy and possibly the most historically-significant text ever penned. The Declaration of Independence features some of the most stirring words of political rhetoric ever written, spoken out loud by Company actors, community members, state and local dignitaries!
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1:30-5pm / Outside at Tina Packer Playhouse A La Carte Pricing Enjoy our All-American BBQ with a variety of palate pleasing treats from grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, to salads, desserts, and more! Josie’s Place will also be open serving up some great spirits and a wide selection of ice-cold beverages, sodas, beer and wine. Includes live music by the Eagle Band. Reading of The Declaration of Independence Generously sponsored by Michael A. Miller
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Shakespeare in the Hands FALL FESTIVAL OF SHAKESPEARE Immersing youth in the most active, compelling, and transformative ways, last November 500 students from 10 high schools took part in our 25th annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare, a program that Boston’s WBUR compared to “a rock concert. Show after show the theater is jammed with kids cheering for each other.” The tradition continues with four days’ worth of Shakespeare that is passionately performed and enthusiastically—even raucously—received, all in an atmosphere of joy and celebration. These performances are uniquely insightful, heart-rending, and laugh out-loud hilarious. Our Tina Packer Playhouse is barely able to contain the excitement of this non-competitive celebration of the students’ performances. You really must join us. This coming November 20-23 is the 26th Anniversary of the Fall Festival. 26 years of Shakespeare in the hearts and minds, souls and bodies, voices and hands of adolescents. 56
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SHAKESPEARE IN THE COURTS Over the past fourteen years, our education team has worked with the Juvenile Court judges and the Probation Officers of the Berkshire Juvenile Court System to develop a program for adolescent offenders and those in need of special support to study, rehearse, and perform Shakespeare as an alternative to traditional punitive consequences. This innovative, effective, and action-oriented social program has garnered overwhelming local and national media attention and has been covered by NPR, the BBC, the Boston Globe, the Albany Times Union, and The Wall Street Journal. In 2007, the Courts Project was awarded the Coming Up Taller Award at a special White House ceremony. In 2008, it doubled in scope with the addition of a North Adams session to the original Pittsfield program. Additionally, in March 2011, Shakespeare in the Courts
was honored as an outstanding community arts program with a Gold Star Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Hamlet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, and Henry V have all been performed by Courts Project participants. Shakespeare & Company gratefully and warmly acknowledges the innovative leadership of Judge Paul E. Perachi, who recently retired after a distinguished career of public service. Shakespeare in the Courts has also thrived with the steadfast support of First Justice, the Hon. Judge Joan McMenemy, the Hon. Judge Judith Locke, Chief Probation Officer William Gale, Probation Officer Nancy Macauley, and others, the City of Pittsfield and the City of North Adams. Their efforts have changed the course of so many lives, and brought this important program to national attention.
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SHAKESPEARE & YOUNG COMPANY Now in its 24th year, Shakespeare & Young Company is serious training for serious students, led by the teachers and senior education artists of Shakespeare & Company. Young Company sessions occur in the winter/spring and in the summer, offering high school and college students the chance to explore scene work indepth. If you haven’t found “it” in a Drama Club or a BFA program, you will certainly find it here.
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Riotous Youth Now in its 15th year, Riotous Youth is a two-week program for multiple age groups designed to introduce young actors to Shakespeare through a series of fun and creative workshops.
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eart-stirring, crowd-rousing, life-changing education programs are a bedrock tradition at Shakespeare & Company, and this ethos is exemplified by the Northeast Tour of Shakespeare. Performed at schools and theatres across the Northeast (including Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, and New Jersey), the Tour uses innovative performances and workshops to take Shakespeare off the bookshelf and place him within the hearts, minds, and bodies of students and teachers. The annual Tour brings the beauty and wonder of Shakespeare’s verse to audiences as it was originally intended. While most school curricula includes classroom study of his works, Shakespeare wrote plays to be heard, seen, and experienced— not read on a page. Witnessing Shakespeare in performance makes all the difference, and our Education staff is dedicated to bringing Shakespeare to life for every generation.
The Tour presents a 90-minute version of Shakespeare’s best-loved titles, and includes a post-show discussion with the audience and indepth, hands-on workshops led by the cast which allow students to get up on their feet and tackle Shakespeare’s language themselves. As part of the Tour, educators are provided with additional tools and resources to support and complement the classroom experience.
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The sold out 2014 tour of Romeo & Juliet played to both small, rural schools and large performing arts centers (with audiences of 1,000 or more!). The Tour also performed at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse, giving local audiences a chance to catch this one-of-a-kind theatrical experience. With continuing generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts, Shakespeare & Company has been selected as a participant in the “Shakespeare in American Communities” initiative, allowing us to bring this important program to more students at affordable prices. We anticipate the same success with the 2015 tour of Hamlet, directed by Jonathan Croy, and we seek to build on the Tour’s remarkable success with more performances, more venues, and more return visits.
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The first one Shakespeare wrote quite early in his career: and this covers what we now call “the Wars of the Roses,” a title given to this period of history in the 17th and 18th centuries because of a scene from the first part of Henry VI. The scene never happened historically, but was invented by Shakespeare to help his audience keep track of who is who in the chaotic, bloody struggle for the throne of England—a series of murders, depositions and rebellions that wracked England from about 1435 to 1485. In the scene, each of the Lords present plucks a rose from the bushes growing in the courtyard of the Inns of Court. They pluck either a red rose (House of Lancaster) or a white one (House of York) to indicate which dynastic house they believe has the appropriate claim to sit on the throne of Kings.
Subject King’s Reign End of 100 Years’ War 1422-1461 Wars of Roses 1422-1461 Wars of Roses 1422-1461 End of Wars of Roses 1483-1485 and Founding of the Tudor Dynasty
The second “Tetralogy” covers the period earlier than the first one and was written somewhat later in Shakespeare’s career. The final play of this sequence was completed the same year that Shakespeare’s Company built and moved into the Globe Playhouse on the south bank of the Thames River, just outside the jurisdiction of the City of London. This part of the Cycle consists the following plays: Play Richard II 1 Henry IV 2 Henry IV Henry V
Subject King’s Reign Usurpation of 1377-1399 the Throne Rebellions/Falstaff 1399-1413 Rebellions/Falstaff 1399-1413 100 Years’ War 1413-1422 and Victory at Agincourt
A few interesting facts about the short handful of other history plays that Shakespeare wrote—there are only three of them—are quite surprising. King John was the guy who signed the Magna Carta in the early 13th Century; Edward III was recently added to the Canon of Shakespeare’s plays because sections of it match his style so perfectly that it’s obvious that he wrote some of it; and Henry VIII, or All is One, is about England’s separation from Rome and the founding of the Church of England, the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, and the divorce of Catherine of Aragon, the first of Henry’s wives.
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o what is this History Cycle from Shakespeare’s point of view? What people who use the phrase mean is actually two series of plays, each consisting of four works.
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he way in which this company of actors speaks Shakespeare text with compelling and illuminating ease is at the heart of Shakespeare & Company’s Training Program. At the behest of Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer, cofounders Kristin Linklater, John Broome, and B.H. Barry brought their talent and expertise to create the Company aesthetic along with actors Tony Simotes, Dennis Krausnick, Kevin G. Coleman, and many others in the early years of Shakespeare & Company. Our actor training programs have influenced the way Shakespeare performance is taught to actors across the U.S. and the across the whole of the Englishspeaking world. Many of the actors you’ll see on stage at Shakespeare & Company are alumni of our training programs. OBIE Award-winning actor John Douglas Thompson, acclaimed for his performances of Othello, Richard III, and Louis Armstrong in Satchmo at the Waldorf as well as many New York credits, sought our training early in his career. The New York Times calls Thompson “the best actor of his generation.” Also, three time OBIE Award-winner Rocco Sisto, who frequents our stage, trained with us in the early days and has frequently joined our faculty. 62
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Other alumni such as Lauren Ambrose, Bill Murray, Sigourney Weaver, Oliver Platt, and Olympia Dukakis are just some of the thousands of professionals, locally, nationally and internationally, who have explored their craft with us. Alumni of our training can be found worldwide performing in theatres, teaching at colleges and universities, leading workshops for businesses and corporations, working in film and television, and creating new theatre companies of their own to speak to their communities and beyond.Our Training faculty travels the country teaching and coaching for universities, theatre companies, and even businesses. In our 37th season, we continue to evolve in its position as a revolutionary voice in the theatre community and the world at large. Throughout the year, we provide training opportunities for actors of every experience level and background, both at our campus in Lenox, MA and at locations throughout the United States, Canada, and abroad. By integrating a full range of disciplines—including clown, stage fight, rhetoric, and dance—into the rigorous programs, Shakespeare & Company arms actors with a broad skill set, thereby preparing them for life in the professional theatre world.
Samantha Yeates and Peter G. Andersen with the ensemble. Conservatory, Julius Caesar, 2013. Photo: Alissa Mesibov.
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The Month-Long Intensive Our cornerstone MonthLong Intensive is the core of Shakespeare & Company’s training disciplines. All of the training devised to create the power and aesthetic of the Company is condensed into four weeks of fourteen-hour days, which challenge, discombobulate and illuminate actors from all over the world who come to train here. These actors train their voices and bodies with a daily regimen of demanding classes. Delve deep into your own imagination, intellect and emotional life to bring the whole of the actor’s being into the moment of theater.
The Summer Training Institute Our Summer Training Institute provides an eye-opening theatrical immersion for college students and emerging actors from throughout the world. Modeled after the training sequence of the Month-Long Intensive, the Summer Training Institute provides young actors the opportunity to immerse themselves in Shakespeare for six days a week for five weeks during the height of our performance season. The Institute seeks to meet the needs of young actors who desire to break through what keeps them from realizing their full abilities and achieve new creative heights. For more information about Shakespeare & Company’s Center For Actor Training call the Training Office at 413-637-1199 x114, email training@shakepeare.org or visit Shakespeare.org/training/.
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e are extraordinarily grateful to the Board of Overseers for creating the Overseers’ Training Scholarship Fund in an effort to broaden access to the career-advancing training programs available from Shakespeare & Company. We thank the following donors for their generous contributions which provide critical support to exceptional actors who qualify for the Month-Long Intensive and the Summer Training Institute.
Katherine and Lee Abraham Maggie Barkin The Barrington Foundation, Inc. Teresa Bayer Joan and Mark Bergen Brina Bolden Con Breece Jill Brody Doug Brown Nathan Butera Jeffrey Campau Janet Carey Jamie Concha-Smith Jay Critchley Neal Cross Gretchen DeKalb William Docker Michelle Doucette Ms. Roberta Eggart Michael and Nancy Ehlinger Michael Ekman Jack Fahey Donna Flax Joy Foster Dolores R. Goble R.F. Griffith Charls Sedgwick Hall Peggy Hammond Jane Harper Conny Hatch
Robert Henderson and Marybeth Andersen Ms. Emily Hewitt David Hoback Kenneth and Wendy Hoback David Horne Jenna Jones Alan Kay and Bonnie MacBird Jackie Kelly Dede Ketover Eric Knudsen Jim Koerber Rose Koerber Diane Lawrence Jane Lea Rachel Leslie Bonnie Lewis Edward Lewis Eleanor Lord and Margaret Wheeler Angel Love Jane Macdonald James Mack Diana Maher Shirley Maniece Janice Markham Damali Mason Gloria Mattson Tim McCarthy Kate and Joel Millonzi
Jennifer Moller Mary Jane Moriarty Neil Moskowitz A.J. Muhammad Debbie Nadolney Demola Quadri Alonso Rodriguez Glenn Rothfeld Korey Rothman Nicholas Russo Gregory Sargeant Emily Shaw Michael Sottile Fonda Stephens-Kelly Judy Tice Mary Urban Margaret Van Sant Frank Vasello Harriet and Elliott Vines Matthew Welton Rhea and Ken Werner Colleen Werthmann Constance Wilkinson Kate Wilkinson Matt Willms Anupama Yadav Adriane Zacharoff Anonymous (3)
The Conservatory The Conservatory at Shakespeare & Company prepares actors to establish themselves and learn how to succeed as working professionals by integrating a full range of disciplines in a rigorous thirteen week, academically accredited program. Participants take in-depth classes on auditioning and business of theatre in order to give them a solid foundation as they begin their careers. They also lend a hand to our Education Department’s annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare (see page 56). The training culminates in a full production of a Shakespeare play, performed in the Tina Packer Playhouse. This year’s production will be Romeo and Juliet, co-directed by Victoria Rhoades Carraro and Jason Asprey (see page 120). Shakespeare.org
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Tori Grace first season (Lady Mortimer, Henry IV) Recent graduate of the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training where she played Nina (Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike), Aggie Wainwright (The Grapes of Wrath), Sarah (Stop/Kiss) and Maria (Twelfth Night). She is grateful for the honor of collaborating with the excellent artists of Shakespeare & Company.
Charls Sedgwick Hall* fifth season (Charls, The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged)) S&Co.: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Mother Courage and Her Children, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors. Regional Theatre: Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, The Next Fairy Tale, The Color Purple-The Musical, The Firebugs, Our Country’s Good, The Little Foxes, A Christmas Carol, Measure for Measure, Faith and the Good Thing, Exit the King, Angels of Lemnos.
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S&Co.: Private Lives (Amanda), Les Faux Pas: Or, The Counter Plots (Anselm), The Liar (Isabelle/Sabine), The Learned Ladies (Philemente), As You Like It (Phebe); War of the Worlds (Melinda McGuire), The Real Inspector Hound (Lady Cynthia Muldoon), The Winter’s Tale (Emelia/Mopsa), White People (Mara Lynn Dodson), Othello (u/s-performed Desdemona), Scapin (Nerine), SLaW (Lady Anne/Beatrice/ Constance/Juliet). WAM: Measure for Measure (Lucio), 24hr Theatre festivals. London and Edinburgh Fringe: Dancing at Lughnasa (Christina Mundy), Macbeth (Third Witch), The Tempest (Trinculo), King Lear (Goneril). MA, Emerson College. Diane Healy* sixth season (Stage Manager, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV) Love’s Labours’ Lost, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Tempest, Satchmo at the Waldorf, Women of Will, Hound of the Baskervilles, All’s Well That Ends Well. NYC: Bill W. & Dr. Bob; Hit The Wall; Tribes; Keen Company, LCT3, LaMama. 10 seasons with Oldcastle Theatre Company; The Civilians. Bard College, East Tennessee State University. Love to Tini & Nick.
Kaileela Hobby first season (Tybalt/ Lady Capulet/Sister Joan/Peter, Romeo and Juliet) S&Co.: Tybalt/Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet 2014 Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare), Blanche (King John S&Co. Conservatory) Off-Off Broadway: Ariel (The Tempest), Cinderella (Cinderella), Frog Prince (Princess) Regional: Rosalind (As You Like It), Juliet (Romeo and Juliet), Olivia (Twelfth Night), Longaville (Love’s Labour’s Lost), Ulysses/Helen of Troy (Troilus and Cressida), Maid Marian (Robin Hood), Miranda (The Tempest), Anne (Anne Frank), Phebe (As You Like It). Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 66
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Sara Holt first season (Beatrice/ Ensemble, The Servant of Two Masters) Past roles include Twelfth Night (Olivia); Richard III (Queen Elizabeth); As You Like It (Phebe); Hamlet (Horatio); In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe (Maria Montage). Sara holds a BA in Acting from Emerson College and currently resides in Los Angeles.
Cloteal L. Horne first season (Helena, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) A proud alumnus of S&Co. Conservatory, she is thrilled make her debut! Off-Broadway: The Steadfast (Siyah Powell); Dirty Blood (Billie Holiday Theatre). Regional: To Kill a Mockingbird (Weston Playhouse); A Funny Thing Happened… (BarnStormers); Little Row Boat (Huntington Theatre); How We Got On (CompanyOne); Romeo & Juliet (New Rep.). Holds a BFA from Boston University.
Bastard). Regional: Hamlet (Hamlet), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Valentine/ Speed/Thurio), Hamlet (Laertes/Ghost/ Guildenstern/Player King), William Shakespeares’ Star Wars: A New Hope, Verily (Han Solo), Seussical! TYA (Cat in the Hat). Adam holds BFA Acting and BS Mass Media Arts degrees from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
Malcolm Ingram* nineteenth season (Starveling, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Falstaff, Henry IV) recent S&Co. credits include: Heroes (Phillipe), Kaufman’s Barber Shop (Jesse), The Allergist’s Wife (Ira), As You Like It (Adam), Blue/Orange (Robert), and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Falstaff). London West End: Dirty Linen, Half Life, Popkiss. Broadway: Match, The Rivals. BTF: Rat in the Skull, Hay Fever. Actors Theater of Lousiville: All My Sons. Plus many other regional theatre productions in the USA & UK. TV includes: “The Camerons”, “Beloved Enemy”, and most recently in the US “Chapelle’s Show”. Lavina Jadhwani first season (Assistant Director, Henry IV) Recent: Twelfth Night, Hamlet (Oak Park Festival Theatre); Much Ado About Nothing (Rasaka Theatre-in-residence at Victory Gardens). Recipient of the Drama League’s Classical Directing Fellowship, an SDCF Observership, and an LMDA Residency Award for MERCHANT ON VENICE at Silk Road Rising, where she is an Artistic Associate. Proud graduate of Carnegie Mellon; currently pursuing an MFA from The Theatre School at DePaul University. www.lavinajadhwani.com Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 72
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The History Plays by Jonathan Epstein
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t is something of an annual ritual here in Lenox. We gather in our thousands, some under a shed roof and some under the stars, and as we hear our own bard mention our neighboring town, our capitol city, our highway, our county, the words are met with a murmur, a sussuration, a cheer, which greet no other words and no other singer. It is as if his naming these places gives them, and we who live in them, a reality beyond the immediate present. We become part of a story, a myth, with a little history behind us and an unmeasurable future before us.
It may seem surprising to start a consideration of Shakespeare’s History Plays with James Taylor at Tanglewood, but the parallels are striking. Shakespeare’s audience made the History plays the most popular of his works during his lifetime. As we do now, they gathered in their thousands in a makeshift space. And what they heard, no matter what events were being described, were the placenames of their homeland. In the struggles of Richard II they heard Westminster and Carlisle, Norfolk and Salisbury. As Henry VI fought for his sanity in an insane world, and his wife Margaret fought for her right to love and power, the names which echoed were York and Suffolk, Warwick and Gloucester, Somerville and Exeter and Sheffield and Pembroke. The characters themselves are often inseparable from their fiefdoms or birthplaces—Harry Monmouth, Elizabeth of York and so on. We in New England recognize the names if not the places as integral to our own heritage, for the same names still surround us here today—I grew up in Cambridge, across the wall was Somerville, my school was called Buckingham... There is a magic in the naming of things. The Elizabethans used to say: “Naming calls!” by which they meant that if you gave something its true name you made it real, and present, and gave it power. They carefully spoke of “Fairies” lest by calling on “Pict-sies” an angry Pict might show up and ask for land back. It’s one of the oldest beliefs about language—the Greeks spoke not of Furies but of Eumenides – Kindly Ones, and one of the Jews’ strongest prohibitions was against pronouncing YHWH—indeed, the pronunciation was finally lost. In the plays, however, the litany of
troubling, and could usually be summarized as “Englishmen behaving badly.” In Henry VI, Part 1 they behave badly toward French women. In Part 2 they keep doing This bringing of history into the that while also behaving badly present is what gives a culture towards the men of Kent. In Part endurance and vigor. We become 3 they behave badly toward each connected to our heritage as if it were our parentage. In the Passover other. In Henry V they behave badly toward the French again. In Henry Seder we hear: “On that day, tell IV they get very drunk and steal your son: This is because of what stuff, in Richard II when they’re not the almighty did for me…” as if badgering each other they behave it happened not 3000 years ago badly toward the Irish, in King but 30. In Henry V we hear: “This John and Richard III they behave story shall the good man teach badly towards their cousins, and his son…” (Shakespeare just isn’t in Henry VIII they invent divorce. any more gender-neutral than the Bible, but that’s another story) and But still the hero, or heroine, is England, and the only thing which what he must tell him is names: stops them all from behaving even “Then shall our names, worse is the fear of Familiar in his mouth as household words – disgracing her, and Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, doing things that Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, “shall ill become the flower of Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered” England’s face.” names serves to bring the action into the present and to make us participants in it.
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It’s so much a part of my own experience of these plays that I no longer remember where I first heard or read it, but it’s no less true for that: No matter the title or plot, the true hero of a Shakespeare history play is always England itself. The great Charles Laughton is reported to have visited Laurence Olivier backstage and said: “Do you know why you are so good in this part (Henry V)?” “No,” replied Olivier, “please tell me.” Said Laughton: “You are England, that’s all.” Olivier, surely one of the flashiest actors who ever lived, somehow managed to make the agon England’s agon and England, not himself, the protagonist. This is really just as well, because if all you look at is the ostensible story of the plays it’s pretty
It’s a strange alchemy—England gave us Elizabeth, Elizabeth gave us the Age, the Age gave us Shakespeare, and Shakespeare gave England an image of itself as valiant, enduring, the savior of the innocent, the slayer of dragons, incorruptible amidst corruption – in fact, as St. George. And we, in the audience, hearing the country named with such detail and devotion, become part of that transformation. As Yeats says: “Our part, to murmur name upon name, as a mother names her child…” And surely as anyone murmurs “MacDonagh, and MacBride, and Connolly and Pearse…” they become for a moment just a little Irish, so we become, for three hours or so, as we murmur: “ Norfolk, Suffolk, Surrey, Lincoln…” just a little English. Shakespeare.org
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Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare directed by Tina Packer
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onspiracy, greed, ambition, betrayal, and the lust for power—echoes of our own modern day politics—are all on tap in Shakespeare’s riveting and bloody Julius Caesar. This poetryfilled psychological and political thriller follows the conspiracy against and the assassination of the Roman Dictator and the aftermath that ensues from his brutal murder. Founding Artistic Director Tina Packer delivers a pared-down, fast-paced and incisive ‘bare Bard’ production, in which 7 actors play all the roles. Packer (Women of Will the critically-acclaimed Off Broadway run, and last seen onstage in the Company’s 2013 The Beauty Queen of Leenane) unleashes her visionary take on Caesar and delivers an action-packed and provocative drama.
Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. Julius Caesar, Act I, ii.
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Rome is at a time of crisis. One man, Julius Caesar, has amassed so much power and wealth through conquest of countries far beyond Italy’s borders that it looks as if he is going to be made King. Leading Romans got rid of their kings many generations before, and are staunch republicans— though the ordinary people blindly worship their leaders. Before Caesar, they followed Pompey. Women, slaves, bondsmen have little or no voice in the power structure of Rome. The dilemma for Brutus, a deeply philosophic man, is: should Caesar be assassinated to prevent him becoming King? Caesar is his friend. For Cassius, another Roman senator, the moment has come when Caesar must be stopped—and Mark Antony, Caesar’s favorite, should be assassinated with him. Brutus joins Cassius and others, but refuses to kill anyone other than Caesar himself. The ensuing events—violent, dramatic, and universal, create a tale for our time just as much as that of Rome over 2000 years ago. This production marks its third incarnation for us this year. We first worked on Caesar at the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, and then we took it to the Prague Shakespeare Festival in the Czech Republic, before coming to Lenox. We’ve had a few of the cast members change out along the way but Jason Asprey, Nigel Gore, Eric Tucker (Prague and Lenox productions) and James Udom have been our core players from the get-go. I’ve gone back to our ‘bare Bard’ format in this production, which I find quite exciting to watch and equally as challenging to work on. We have 7 actors brilliantly playing all the roles, and it comes in around 2 hours with the emphasis placed more on Shakespeare’s text. The design elements are minimal and language is the focus, as are the relationships between not only the actors onstage but the actors and the audience. It is a roller coaster of action, deeply held ideas, passion and sadness, a play Shakespeare wrote just before he went into Hamlet and Macbeth. – Tina Packer Shakespeare.org
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Jennie M. Jadow thirteenth season (Truffaldino/Ensemble, The Jennie Servant M Jadow of Two Masters; Violet/Zuzu, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play) is an actress with extensive regional acting credits. Her work has been seen at S&Co., Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theater Group, Jacob’s Pillow, and Mixed Company, to name a few. Jennie is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and, most recently, completed her MA in Movement Therapy and Counseling with a primary focus in the treatment of adolescents with psychiatric diagnosis. Jennie also works as an Education Artist for S&Co.’s nationally recognized education team. www.jenniejadow.com TOM JAEGER tenth season (Director, Shakespeare & Young Company) S&Co.: Director of SYCo 2011, 2012, 2013, The Comedy of Errors (Duke Solinus), Berkeley Square (Mr. Throstle), Twelfth Night Tour/Stables (Malvolio/ Sebastian), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Snug), Hamlet Tour/Stables (Hamlet), Troilus and Cressida (Hector/Ulysses/ Patroclus), Souls Belated (Gannett), Romeo and Juliet (Peter), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Snout/Tank the Dog). Three years as Co-Director/Faculty of Shakespeare & Young Company, Director for 18 productions for the Spring and Fall Festivals of Shakespeare.
MERRITT JANSON* fifth season (Titania/Hippolyta, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) S&Co.: The Tempest (Miranda), King Lear (u/s-performed Goneril), As You Like It (Rosalind), Twelfth
Night (Viola), Othello (Desdemona). OffBroadway: The Last Will, House For Sale, Notes From Underground. Regional: Yale Repertory Theatre, American Repertory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Denver Center Theatre, Wilma Theater, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Vineyard Playhouse. Film: Otto and Anna, Mail Order Wife. American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard University MFA.
David Joseph ninth season (Group Sales and Facilities Rental Manager; Lysander, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; George Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play) S&Co.: Private Lives (Elyot), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (George Bailey), The Liar (Durante), War of the Worlds (Jack), The Tempest (Sebastian), The Venetian Twins (Tonino/Zanetto), The Real Inspector Hound (Simon), The Amorous Quarrel (Hugh), Twelfth Night (Sea Captain), Cindy Bella (Dandini), The Mad Pirate and The Mermaid (Cyrus), Scapin (Octave), Kerfol (Herve), The Servant of Two Masters (Florindo), and five tours of SLaW.
Marcus Kearns fourth season (Romeo/Balthasar/Peter, Romeo and Juliet; Education Artist; Technician) S&Co.: Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (Romeo), Les Faux Pas: Or, The Counter Plots (Andres), SLaW (Marcus), The Liar (Philiste) Constructed sets for Private Lives, Mother Courage and Her Children, Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Tempest, King Lear, The Liar, Learned Ladies. Training: Clown Intensive 2013, S&Co. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 78
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his production of Julius Caesar is a special partnership between three different Shakespeare companies. All three productions will be directed by Tina Packer and share the same designers, with the actors varying from production to production. The first production played at Orlando Shakespeare Theater from March 19 – April 20, 2014, the second in Prague, Czech Republic with Prague Shakespeare Company from May 7 – 19, 2014, and the final production will perform this summer from June 27 – August 30, 2014 at Shakespeare & Company. This process allows each production to draw from the individual strengths of all three companies, while also benefiting from the collaborative powers of working together.
Founded in 1989, Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF produces classic, contemporary, and children’s plays and musicals. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Jim Helsinger and Managing Director PJ Albert, Orlando Shakes has grown into one of the region’s most acclaimed professional Equity theaters, garnering national recognition from The Wall Street Journal’s Terry Teachout. “Hence the high quality of Orlando Shakespeare, a company that deserves to be far more widely known outside Florida.” With ambitious, high-caliber productions like 2014’s The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II, or 2008’s chilling Macbeth performed “in the round”, the Theater continues to provide an innovative world-class theatrical experience to its guests, while showcasing William Shakespeare’s legacy as the cornerstone of the company. Orlando Shakes also offers immersive educational programming that serves Central Florida schools and the local community at large.
Founded in 2008 by Artistic Director Guy Roberts, Prague Shakespeare Company is Continental Europe’s premiere professional English-language classical theatre company. The core of our artistic aesthetic is creating imaginative and eminently accessible performances, conducted primarily in English, by a multinational ensemble of professional theatre artists, with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare. PSC fulfills a vital need for English-language theatre events for both native and expat audiences, enriching the lives of audiences and students through a variety of public events including performances, workshops, lectures, and classes in the Czech Republic and on international tours to France, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, and the United States. Working in association with Národní divadlo (National Theatre of the Czech Republic), and housed in the historic Kolowratský palác, PSC’s artistic offerings provide world audiences with performances connecting the truths of the past with the challenges and possibilities of today.
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield directed by Jonathan Croy
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hilarious medley of mayhem, comedy, and lunacy, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) provides a lightning fast pace, and a devilishly new take. There is something for audiences of all ages to love in this hilarious tongue-in-cheek pastiche of the Bard’s works. Director Jonathan Croy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, Twelfth Night) harnesses the power of three wily actors and 37 of Shakespeare’s plays, including a feverish version of Romeo and Juliet and Titus Andronicus which finds deep resonance for the actors in the form of a cooking show that may or may not have you adding new cards to your recipe file. Several sets of identical twins, a tempest, sharp-tongued shrews, air-headed bimbos, fairies, aphrodisiacs, jackasses, murderers, lobotomies and a happy ending–and all in under two hours. With a wink and a nod (and perhaps a pinch of the bottom), this clever parody whirls through the entire canon, leaving you laughing long after we’re done with you! Warning: Although there is nothing in this play that would offend children, parents should be forewarned that strong language, like “varlet,” “calumnious,” “rabbit-sucker,” and “fart” will be in use. Expectant mothers, expectant fathers, people experiencing back pain, dizziness, or general shortness of breath should consult a medical professional before seeing this play.
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Director’s Take This is what many scholars over the years have referred to as “a romp.” Think of it as a “Survey” of Shakespeare’s work— you remember, like those “Survey” History classes they used to have in High School, where you “study” the entire history of the world in threeand-a-half hours a week and then have to write a thousand word paper on the totality of the social, economic and political forces in seventeen countries spread out all across Europe in the thirties and early forties that then resulted in World War Two… This is like that. In our Clown work here at Shakespeare & Company (sometimes called “European Clown,” or “Serious Clown,” or even “Really Painful and Self-Confrontational Clown”), we talk about the importance of the Clown’s relentlessly positive approach to an insurmountable task. And although that has nothing to do with our show, it sounds good, so I’ll go with it. You should see this show. And bring lots of friends. It had better be a good time. – Jonathan Croy Shakespeare.org
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Caitlin is very excited to be back on The Rose Footprint again this summer. Previously at Shakespeare & Company, you may have seen her in Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World, Tartuffe (Elmire), and Cymbeline (Pisanio). Caitlin is a proud member of the Nickel Shakespeare Girls street performance troupe. She gives much love to her family for all their continuous support.
DENNIS KRAUSNICK founding member (Director of Training; Board of Trustees; Summer Training Institute faculty) Krausnick played the title role in King Lear at S&Co. in 2012 and at other theaters on three previous occasions. He teaches and directs in theater programs across the country as well as designing and leading the actor-training programs for S&Co.; long-time audience members will remember his adaptations of the fiction of Edith Wharton performed over two decades in the Salon of The Mount during Shakespeare & Company’s time there. Joe Landry (Adapter, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play) Joe’s published plays include It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (named one of the top ten most-produced plays in America by American Theatre magazine), Vintage Hitchcock and Reefer Madness. Other works for stage include Lifeboat, Dahling! (with Bert Bernardi) and the musical Mothers and Sons (with Kevin Connors). He is founder of Second Guess Theatre Company in Westport, CT, where he produced and directed over two dozen original plays. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 84
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ew Orleans is a city of contrasts. As a formerly French, and then Spanish colony, the city retained a distinctive feel even after more than a century of American rule. The influx of varied groups of aristocrats as well as enslaved and free people of African descent into this environment set the stage for the emergence of New Orleans Voodoo, with its complex blend of Haitian Vodou and Roman Catholicism. These contrasts and concomitances make for a natural setting for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For Director Tony Simotes, the city “that encapsulated the idea of mystery, magic, and mythology and wild passionate romance” is New Orleans. His desire to create an entirely new vision of a centuries-old play—to embrace its innate mystery, mythology and sexuality—influences the choice of 1930s New Orleans as the setting for this year’s production at Shakespeare & Company.
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Shakespeare embeds within his text the dichotomy between the city and the forest, between reality and fantasy—it’s difficult not to extrapolate this to the battle of order against chaos, or the spread of Christianity over paganism. New Orleans lives on the borders of such divergence, and thrives upon it. “New Orleans, at that time,” says Simotes, “in the late twenties, early thirties, was such an incredible laboratory for humanity.” The city and the swamps of the Bayou naturally represent the same contrasts that were set up by Shakespeare, and the contrasts between Christian religion and Voodoo mirror those of the Athenians and the Fairy Kingdom. In the 19th century, Voodoo “queens” and “doctors” led diverse congregations of worshipers in weekly worship services comprising Catholic prayers and more esoteric ritual. In particular, on the Eve of St. John the Baptist, which roughly coincided with the summer solstice, Voodoo practitioners believed that the boundary between the human and spirit worlds would dissolve, much as it does in the world of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. New Orleans was a poor city, but one that was rich in culture. By 1930, though tensions in the one-party city were at a peak, New Orleans had a reputation for flamboyance and licentiousness. As the nascent genre of jazz music was considered nearly, if not equally, as disreputable as the other activities within its boundaries, the city became the perfect incubator for the genre and provided venues for musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong. “I had been intrigued about the whole idea of the Jazz Era,” says Simotes, “and that partly came out of our recent work with Satchmo at the Waldorf and that early ‘30s world—where Louis Armstrong really evolved as the iconic American musician that helped to create jazz as we know it. I was thinking a lot about it.”
landscape of the region, and had a lasting effect on the national stage. The 1930s also saw the unique and diverse Voodoo culture of New Orleans being slowly driven out of sight by a rising tourist industry. The festival atmosphere, complete with bonfires to attract desirable spirits and expel the malicious ones, would begin to diminish. Similarly, the free-flowing improvisation of the small jazz groups of the late ‘20s faced possible extinction due to the rise of radio and big bands that followed more regimented scores. Of the original members of that New Orleans scene, Louis Armstrong remained the longest, but in time backed by a big band miles from the style that vaulted him to fame. It is in this transitional period, this world-betweenworlds, that this year’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is set. Music and Midsummer have a proven history together, two of the most famous examples being Felix Mendelssohn’s incidental music and Benjamin Britten’s adaptation of the play into an opera; this production will be a jazz Midsummer in New Orleans—where everything and everyone is changeable and changed, and nothing is as it has seemed. “If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream…”
In the early 1930s, the Depression was just beginning, Prohibition was still in force—though many simply ignored its restrictions—and the effects of the disastrous Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 were still resonating. Responding to public frustration over the government’s failure to adequately respond to the flood, the husband and wife team Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie wrote the famous blues song “When the Levee Breaks” to commemorate what was called “the greatest peace-time calamity in the history of the country.” As with Hurricane Katrina in 2005, this flood vastly altered both the physical and political Shakespeare.org
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Learned Ladies, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Taster, Mengelberg and Mahler, Twelfth Night, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Shirley Valentine, Golda’s Balcony, The Ladies Man, Enchanted April, Ice Glen, Lettice and Lovage, Ethan Frome, Macbeth, Glimpses of the Moon, Summer, Wit, House of Mirth; Regional: Emilie, Arabian Nights, Red Noses, Metamorphosis, Once Upon A Mattress, Top Girls, H.M.S. Pinafore, Gianni Schicci, Carousel, The Merry Widow, La Finta Giardiniera.
Robert Lohbauer* eighteenth season (Snout, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Justice, Henry IV) Selected S&Co.: Heroes (Henri), Kaufman’s Barber Shop (Jake Kaufman), Mengelberg and Mahler (Willem Mengelberg), The Venetian Twins (Dr. Balanzoni), Twelfth Night (Curio/Priest), Chekov One Acts (Luka and Nikita), Romeo and Juliet (Lord Montague), Glimpses of the Moon (Lord Streffington), Selected Regional: Hamlet (Polonius), The Jewish Jester (King), Equus (Dysart), Dear Liar (GB Shaw), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Father Donnelly), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Gaston), Red Noses (Le Grue), To Kill a Mockingbird (Judge Taylor/Cunningham). Adam Long (Playwright, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)) founding member/writer/ director of the Reduced Shakespeare Company. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), which Adam directed and co-wrote, ran in London’s West End for nine years and was nominated for an Olivier Award. Shakespeare (Abridged) also ran Off-Broadway twice and continues to enjoy numerous successful tours throughout the world. Other stage shows include The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged) and The Complete History of America (Abridged) (Reduced Shakespeare Company); and Deconstructing Albert (The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield). Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 88
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miracle of human expression, Romeo and Juliet reminds us of what it is to swear by the moon, to see the sun in another person, and to risk the consequences hanging in the stars. Love, passion, and the power of Shakespeare’s words resonate throughout the natural woodlands of the Dell at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home. This moving production of Shakespeare’s timeless tale of love is performed ‘bare Bard’ style with only 6 actors playing all the roles. Trimmed to a concise and fast-moving 90 minutes, this production marks the second year the Company has performed at The Mount. You won’t want to miss our Northeast Regional Tour of Shakespeare as it comes home for the summer.
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Director’s Take I keep thinking about “identity.” Among the points Shakespeare was making in this play was that we craft our perceptions of each other from shallow pieces; from assumptions that we make based on family, economic status, race, religion, gender, age, on where we live or who we befriend. This play is loaded with thoughts about how to look past the labels we put on each other and instead measure the actuality of them… Add to that the particular circumstances of this production—our six-actor touring model asks each actor to play multiple roles by drawing on different aspects of their personalities; crossing age, family and even gender boundaries constantly—and I find that this production, at heart, is about determining the actual substance of identity… the truest place in each of us that lies at the intersection of each of our facets. – Jonathan Croy Shakespeare.org
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Accomplice; Mother Courage and Her Children; Love’s Labour’s Lost; The 39 Steps; Parasite Drag; The Hound of the Baskervilles; As You Like It. Off-Broadway: Peep Show at Actor’s Playhouse. Regional: Madison Repertory Theatre, Forward Theater, Milwaukee’s Chamber Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Milwaukee’s Renaissance Theaterworks, PSNBC @ Here, and The Director’s Company. National commercials, daytime serials and “Saturday Night Live.” Proud to be a part of S&Co.’s Education Dept., member of AEA & SAG-AFTRA. Ryan McGettigan first season (Set Designer, Julius Caesar) Houston: Clean/Through and Old as Hell (World Premieres), Catastrophic Theatre; Classical Theatre Company; Stages Repertory Theatre; Black Lab Theatre; Henry V and Richard III, Prague Shakespeare Company/Main Street Theater. Regional: Nora Theatre Company; Legacy Theatre; Abilene Shakespeare Festival; Cape Rep. Theatre: Goodbye Mary Rose (World Premiere). Opera: Shepherd School of Music; Bound (World Premiere), From My Mother’s Mother (World Premiere), Your Name Means the Sea (World Premiere), Houston Grand Opera. www.RyanMcGettigan.com Alissa Mesibov second season (Dramaturg, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Communications Associate) S&Co.: Dramaturg for Mother Courage and Her Children. Dramaturgy: Turbulence at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe (Entita Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UMass Amherst), Twelfth Night (UMass Amherst). Playwright: Missed Connections Festival (Off-Off Broadway 13th Street Rep), NJ Young Playwrights Festival finalist. Director’s assistant: The Three Musketeers (Connecticut Repertory Theatre). Internships: 13th Street Rep, New Georges Theater. BA UMass Amherst 2013.
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IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE PLAY ON! Following the meters of Company Artists Luke Reed and Alexander Sovronsky by Elizabeth Aspenlieder
but the music was constantly updated to reflect the fashion of the time in which it was being presented.”
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Shakespeare’s genius has affected countless artists who flock to his works for inspiration—bands such as the hip ‘Titus Andronicus’ drew from his play of the same title to create their name. Company artists Luke Reed and Alexander Sovronsky are no exception when it comes to their respect of the Bard and other great writers. William Shakespeare wrote songs for many of his 37 plays that the Globe Playhouse musicians played music during his performances. Reed and Sovronsky are charged with both tasks as well. As Lady Macbeth says, they are ‘not without ambition.’ Luke Reed at the rehearsal of Tartuffe on the Rose Footprint, 2012.
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Luke Reed, also a Company actor and composer, adds, “To work on material written by such a vibrant poet/playwright as Shakespeare is a joy. I find that he has a real knack for song—meaning he fully understands why a moment needs to be musicalized in some way. For example, Twelfth Night is a play that just sings. With ‘If music be the food of love...’ Shakespeare tells you right from the beginning that this play is built upon a foundation of music. ‘The Wind and the Rain,’ being the play’s final moment, feels like the final note in his symphony, bringing the story to a bittersweet conclusion. It’s a needed release, which happens to be deeply moving because it is done in song.”
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Music is always the one design element that connects the contemporary audience with the immediate action of the play unfolding before them, making the stories seem current and essential for the time. Many playwrights have used music and musical references in their works but none as masterfully as Shakespeare,” says Company actor and composer Alex Sovronsky. “Shakespeare used music very similarly to how he used rhetoric. Music in his plays help the audience and actors signify status (for nobility and royalty), offstage action (such as battles), time and place, weather conditions, and even magic in plays like Midsummer, Pericles, and The Tempest. Shakespeare utilizes not only original lyrics & music, but songs that the audiences would have been familiar with. Throughout all the plays, his characters constantly use musical metaphors and quote lyrics from popular songs. This consistent peppering of recognizable musical references was placed there to consciously draw the audiences further into the worlds of the plays. Shakespeare is also quite a genius when it comes to using recognizable tunes and original ones; he is acutely aware of the audience’s relationship to each. The ways in which songs are used to connect the audience to the play is astounding and indicates his distinct awareness of the power of music. Even after Shakespeare’s death, the plays were still performed
Both Sovronsky and Reed are musicians, actors, and composers who use their imaginations and artistry to delve into the themes of some of the world’s greatest playwrights. “When I’m composing music for a character to sing or perform,” Sovronsky continues, “I put myself in the shoes of the character to find out what they are trying to express with the song. I work with the actors involved to make sure that their character’s intentions and needs are being explored and communicated through the music. I then have to balance that with the director’s vision of the moment, my own musical design, and the needs of the production. As an actor and composer, I am switching back and forth between many different viewpoints and angles from which to view the play—it makes me feel connected, closer to the core of the storytelling.” Luke Reed interjects that “as an actor, my job is to be in the story, living moment by moment, not know what’s ahead. As a composer my job is to step outside and think about the big picture—Where are we going? What is the rhythm of this world? How does it sing? What does this part of the story need to keep it alive and interesting? Composing, like any other art, is about expression. There’s a reason why in musical theater the composer’s fingerprints are the most evident: music is a language and the composer is a writer. I am sitting in the writer’s chair with the playwright trying to find a musical vocabulary worthy of the play. The sound and feel of the music is just as important as the words it’s set to; it’s informative as well as expressive.” Music is deeply connected to the fabric of a culture. People need to sing, play, and dance, it’s in our blood. Our bodies have a natural rhythm, as does the world around us; music is simply an auditory explosion of who we are and what we see. Reed is acting in and composed the music for Romeo and Juliet and will also be composing music for The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni and our holiday show It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. Sovronsky is composing/sound designing Shakespeare’s Will as well as acting in, and composing/sound designing for, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Henry IV. The result—creative, compelling, and moving music that succeeds in supporting the director’s vision of the play, the playwright’s text and the actors’ work on the stage, will, as Oberon says ‘rock the ground upon where these lovers be.’ Shakespeare.org
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Arthur Oliver twenty-fourth season (Costume Designer, Henry IV) Broadway/Off-Broadway/NYC: Broadway Bares 2005–2013, 59E59, New Victory (2016), Laurie Beechman. Regional: ART, Merrimack Repertory, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Virginia Arts Festival, Atlanta Opera, Bardavon Opera, The Yard, Chester Theatre, Berkshire Opera, Berkshire Theatre Group. Television/Film: Specks Last Stand, Evening at Pops, Party Poop, Voices Over the Water. International: Edinburgh Fringe, The Moscow Ballet. Arthur was the recipient of the Wall Street Journal’s BEST of 2010 year end review. www.arthuroliver.com
Tina Packer founder (Founding Artistic Director; Director, Julius Caesar) started Shakespeare & Company 37 years ago. She has directed most of Shakespeare’s plays, many modern ones, and is an actor, teacher, writer as well as a director. For the last year Tina has been performing Women of Will in Boulder Colorado, The Hague in the Netherlands, Mexico, Prague, and New York City. The book Women of Will will be published by Knopf this year. Maegan Passafume second season (Stage Manager, DibbleDance; Production Assistant, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV) S&Co.: Mother Courage and Her Children, Accomplice (Assistant Stage Manager); Conservatory Production of Julius Caesar, Private Lives (Stage Manager). Maegan holds a BFA in Stage Management from Millikin University in Decatur, IL.
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Henry IV Parts I & II by William Shakespeare directed by Jonathan Epstein
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sweeping spectacle of bawdy buffoonery and bloody rebellion, this razor sharp and condensed adaptation of Henry IV delivers both parts in one dynamic evening of theatre. Shakespeare’s take on honor, war, sex and violence has never been more acute than in this riotous comedy that intermingles the youngrascal-that-would-be-king with the psychological underpinnings of father/son relationships. Epstein (The Hollow Crown, Henry V) sets Shakespeare’s wildest history tale between a bustling 15th century Eastcheap and a more contemporary London, where both settings blend together as we follow this stirring history of succession to the throne. Meet the notorious Prince Hal, heir apparent, who rebels against his father, forsakes the court and engages in petty crime with that huge ‘bombast of sack’, the unruly knight Falstaff. When the prince’s nemesis, Hotspur, and the northern lords rebel, will Hal stay and continue carousing with his surrogate ‘father’ Falstaff or heed the call of duty from the ailing King Henry? An exhilarating and potent journey through time and history, Henry IV offers many of the most memorable characters and lines in Shakespeare’s canon as it continues to captivate and mesmerize audiences over four centuries later.
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King Henrie the Fourth continuing to his Death and Coronation of Henry the Fifth, with The Humorous Conceits of Sir John Falstalffe, and Swaggering Pistol with the life and death of Henry Sirnamed Hotspurre… Those are the subtitles of Henry IV, and very exciting they sound, too, but they’re too long of course, so we just call it Henry IV and people ask me why we can’t do something fun instead. Well it is fun—it’s the best fun in Shakespeare and maybe in Theatre. Falstaff is the consummate invention of a supremely inventive mind. Hotspur and his lady are the hottest, boldest couple, burning up in the fast lane before there was a fast lane. Pistol is the most outrageous swaggerer, and the coronation of Henry V is the climax of one of the most poignant coming-of-age stories ever written. This summer’s adaptation is an attempt to capture all of the best of that, and more. It began three years ago, when I looked around the dressing room during our production of As You Like It, and saw the most marvelous people I know, and thought how much more they all have to offer than we ever get a chance to ask of them, for even the greatest Shakespearean roles are so much littler than we ourselves—actors and audience—can be if we’re allowed. We adapted Part One then as a first step, and decided not to limit ourselves to one time or place, but to find such times and settings as made each event most vivid—sobriety in Court, a wreckage of Solo cups in scenes of sophomoric braggadocio in Falstaff’s hideout, Rebel cellphones sending treasonous texts to the wrongest person at the wrongest time in the rebel camp, and death by gunfire in the battle. This summer’s compilation of both parts is the next step on the journey. – Jonathan Epstein Shakespeare.org
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Matthew Penn† second season (Director, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) S&Co.: Director, The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Directing career began at New York’s Ensemble Studio Theater. Penn has directed and/or produced over 150 episodes of some of TV’s best known series: Law and Order, Orange Is the New Black, Damages, The Sopranos, House, NYPD Blue, Royal Pains and Blue Bloods. Penn received an Emmy Nomination for his direction of the 200th episode of L&O starring Julia Roberts. He was also the show’s Executive Producer for 4 seasons. He is co-artistic director of the Berkshire Playwrights Lab.
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Night’s Dream (2013), Julius Ceasar (2013 Conservatory), The 39 Steps (2012), FFS 2010–13. Other Design: Francis Goes to War (The Humanist Project, 2014).
Luke Reed third season (Sound Designer/Composer, The Servant of Two Masters, Romeo and Juliet, and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Mercutio/Lord Capulet/Peter, Romeo and Juliet; Riotous Youth Faculty) S&Co.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander/ Flute), Master Class (Manny), Tartuffe (Laurent); Composed music for Romeo and Juliet, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, and Tartuffe; Director in the Fall Festival of Shakespeare 2012– 2013. BA University of Massachusetts Amherst; other training STI at S&Co.
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Tod Randolph* seventeenth season (Sonia, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) S&Co.: Cassandra Speaks; As You Like It; Richard III; Enchanted April; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Vita & Virginia; Love’s Labor’s Lost; A Room of One’s Own; King Lear; The Merchant of Venice; Othello; The Fiery Rain; Mrs. Klein; Virginia; Duet for One; Julius Caesar; Twelfth Night; Macbeth; Much Ado About Nothing; Director: The Dreamer Examines His Pillow. NY & Regional: Palm Beach Dramaworks; Theatre Row Theatre; Syracuse Stage; Portland Stage; Trinity Rep; The Wharton Salon; Mixed Company; Stageworks/ Hudson. Film: Infinitely Polar Bear. Mary Readinger sixth season (Costume Shop Manager; Costume Designer, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Romeo and Juliet) Past S&Co. Design: A Midsummer
Victoria Rhoades tenth season (Movement Director, Julius Caesar; Training Faculty; Co-Director, Conservatory’s Romeo and Juliet; Board Trustee) Actor, director, acting and movement teacher. BS (acting), Northwestern; Masters, NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study (integrated study of S&Co.’s teaching with adolescent psychological development); PhD, NYU’s School of Culture, Education and Human Development (developed approaches resisting cultural pressures around gender, voice, relationship and the body). S&Co.: DibbleDance (2013, 2012, 1999), Summer and Merchant of Venice. Regional: As You Like It, Turn of the Screw, Oleanna; various films, commercials. Member, AEA and SAG. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 102
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Join the directors, designers, and scholars of Shakespeare & Company for an intimate discussion of the key themes of these thought provoking plays and the process behind creating this season’s productions. All talks take place in the lobby of their respective theaters.
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Julius Caesar A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) Shakespeare’s Will Julius Caesar A Midsummer Night’s Dream Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Henry IV, parts 1 & 2 Henry IV, parts 1 & 2
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What’s it like directing Complete Works after being an actor in it?
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Every year you direct incredible, full-scale, small-cast productions of Shakespeare and shows like 39 Steps, or The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), that involve actors playing multiple roles. How do you go about assembling the best cast of players for these? That’s the easy part. With Shakespeare, he creates characters from the words up—the language is inherently different from character to character. Our company is loaded with actors that are able to fully inhabit a broad range of emotions and live momentto-moment in his roles as well as the roles in the contemporary plays as they change and shift from character to character. That’s the hard part.
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You often refer to yourself not as a Director but as a “Co-Collaborator”. Do you have any specific methods that support the other collaborators in their work during rehearsal and the run to help them inhabit these rolls and moments fully? Well, here’s the advantage of being part of a resident company. Like with Romeo and Juliet this season, I can see the show several times throughout the run. I give notes, but they are more observational, from the perspective of an audience member. I try to give them plainer observations, tell them what I see and ask them if that is the story they are trying to tell. We build these plays together, and it’s important to me that they continue to explore the text, even when they’re in front of audiences. In fact, we often don’t lock down the “staging” of scenes (outside of Fights and Dances); instead, the actors are challenged to retell the stories each performance, to move with each other, respond to each other in any given scene in a way that supports their text and feelings in the moment. “Improv” is a dangerous word with lots of baggage, but I generally allow them to follow their body’s physical impulses as they may change.
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That happens fairly often… to play a role more than once, or switch roles in a particular play, or to direct a show that you have been in… again, it’s an advantage of being part of a resident company— we take turns. Note: Jon has played more than 70 roles in over 60 plays in his 29 seasons with Shakespeare & Company.
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What do you love most about multi-character, small-cast shows like Complete Works?
First of all, I believe that Complete Works is about these three guys and an audience, not about making fun of Shakespeare. I think that this is a play that was born of a deep love of Shakespeare’s works—I honestly believe it’s not a simple parody. I love that. The three actors (Ryan Winkles, Charles Hall, Josh Aaron McCabe) need to be highly skilled actors. They each have the incredible ability to read and connect with an audience almost instantaneously. And Complete Works employs an unusually broad range of comedic styles—it’s really challenging-so you really need a group of actors this adept to elevate it from simple sketch comedy. Note: Jon once tried his hand at stand-up comedy.
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This year is Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday. How do you think he would feel about being in the audience on his Birthday and seeing Complete Works or Romeo and Juliet? I’d like to think Shakespeare would love these shows! The reason why Shakespeare is still the relevant today and beloved around the globe is because his shows run the gamut of the human experience. The comedy in Complete Works flows both high and low, much like the comedies he wrote. And Romeo and Juliet starts as a real comedy and ends as a tragedy. If it’s an indicator, our production recently toured all over New England to High Schools, Middle Schools, colleges, and communities, audiences as diverse as Shakespeare’s own audiences, and the response they got was very positive. Both of these shows will have something for everyone to enjoy, experience, and learn, about being human.
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Fran Rubenstein* second season (Stage Manager, Julius Caesar) S&Co.: Heroes. Recent NY credits: 17 Orchard Point, The Preacher & The Shrink, Branched, Scrambled Eggs, Lawnpeople, 7th Monarch, The Fartiste, Reading Under the Influence. Four seasons at The New Group including: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Abigail’s Party, and Hurlyburly. Regional: Dorset Theatre Festival 2010 & 2011: Dial M for Murder, Mauritius, Fallen Angels, The Novelist. Member AEA.
Concetta Russo first season (Pantalone/Ensemble, The Servant of Two Masters) Theatre West Virginia: The Honey in the Rock (Melinda); Anthem Theatre Co.: A Christmas Carol (Katherine). Concetta, a 2011 UMass Amherst grad, is excited to be in the Berkshires after recently completing a children’s theatre tour around Italy. Many thanks to family and friends, as always.
Olivia Saccomanno first season (Nina, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) Past credits include: Three Musketeers (Milady), His Girl Friday (Hildy Johnson), Big Love (Thyona), The Winter’s Tale (Hermione), Educating Rita (Rita Susan White), Doubt (Sister James), The Lion in Winter (Alais Capet), and Antigone (Ismene). Olivia studied at the Moscow Art Theater School in Russia, through the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. MFA from the University of Connecticut. www.oliviasaccomanno.com Britt Sandusky first season (Sound Designer, Julius Caesar) Formally
trained at the Audio Recording Technology Institute in Orlando. Orlando Shakespeare Theater: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Othello, Sense and Sensibility, Race, The Importance Of Being Earnest, The 39 Steps, Shotgun, Schoolhouse Rock Live, Robinson Crusoe. Foley artist, re-recording engineer, ADR supervisor, dialog mixer, and sound effects supervisor. STELLA GIULIETTA SCHWARTZ fourth season (Costume Designer, The Servant of Two Masters) S&Co.: Costume Designer for Les Faux Pas: Or, The Counter Plots; Costumer for S&Co.’s Education Program, 2011–2014. She studied Costume Design and Classics at Smith College. William Shakespeare (Playwright, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, and Julius Caesar) is spending the summer celebrating his 450th birthday with S&Co. He was an English poet and playwright (1564–1616) widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of 37 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Tori Sheehan* third season (Stage Manager, Shakespeare’s Will) S&Co.: Measure for Measure, Wordplay, Love’s Labours Lost. New York: Bill W. & Dr. Bob (Soho Playhouse); The Nance (Lincoln Center Theatre); Assistance; Milk Like Sugar, and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons); Top Girls and The Bartered Bride (The Juilliard School). Regittttonal: Les Miserables (Cohoes Music Hall), Man of la Mancha (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). Proud member of AEA and graduate of Ithaca College.
Atalanta Siegel fourth season (Faerie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Assistant Scenic Charge) From DC. Youth: Lumina Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 106
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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Originally produced on Broadway by: Joey Parnes, Larry Hirschhorn, Joan Raffe/Jhett Tolentino, Martin Platt & David Elliot, Pat Flicker Addiss, Catherine Adler, John O’Boyle, Joshua Goodman, Jamie deRoy/Richard Winkler, Cricket Hooper, Jiranek/Michael Palitz, Mark S. Golub & David S. Golub, Radio Mouse Entertainment, Shawdowcatcher Entertainment, Mary Cossette/Barbara Manocherian, Megan Savage/Meredith Lynsey Schade, Hugh Hysell/Richard Jordan, Cheryl Wiesenfeld/Ron Simons, S.D. Wagner, John Johnson in association with McCarter Theater Center and Lincoln Center Theater. • Originally commissioned and produced by McCarter Center Theater, Princeton N.J. Emily Mann, Artistic Director; Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director; Mara Isaacs, Producing Director; And produced by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City Under the direction of Andre Bishop and Bernard Gerstein in 2012. • “Here Comes the Sun” Written by George Harrison Published by Harrisongs, Ltd. (ASCAP Used By Permission. All Rights Reserved.
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TONY AWARD WINNER! Berkshires Premiere! Director’s Take Whenever I direct a play I always begin by asking myself, why? What is important about this story? What is this writer telling us that is worthy of our time, our thoughts, our passion? What will we leave the theater with? With Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Christopher Durang has succeeded in writing a play that is both a satire of, and tribute to, the works of Anton Chekov. What is wonderful about this play is whether you are a Chekovian theater scholar or a casual theatergoer, there is fun to be had for all. Durang brings three adult siblings together who battle with the monotony and repetition that surrounds them. They make an effort to find each other again. They try to understand what is missing in their lives and try to attain what they believe they have lost. And they battle their own fear because while predictability is dull, it is at least reassuringly certain. Change is scary and each character resists the very things they seek. Families are at the core of many of the greatest plays ever written because they are complicated and combustible entities. There are few bonds as powerful and few betrayals as bitter than those that take place inside a family. It is in this concept of self-inflicted monotony that Durang and Chekov intersect. They both portray lives stuck in emotional grown-up despair in which change and therefore hope are elusive….and yet in Durang’s comedically adroit hands that despair is very funny. As one of the characters says, “If everyone took anti-depressants Chekov would have had nothing to write about”. It is this kind of affectionate wit that characterizes the play and perhaps urges us all to take a chance and change our lives for the better. – Matthew Penn Shakespeare.org
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Studios. BA Oberlin College, multiple workshops with S&Co. Recent S&Co.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena/ Snout/Faerie), Northeast Regional Tour; Keely and Du (Keely), Fringe Festival. Regional: Lysistrata (Myrrhine), Lavender Door Theater; Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret), Oberlin Summer Theater Festival; Fewer Emergencies (#1), Pinter Theatre of London. Film: 16mm Film Project (Marie), I am Wednesday (Wednesday), and Copious Amounts (Edan).
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Rocco Sisto* founding member (Theseus/Oberon, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) last season Richard (Richard II). Broadway: To Be Or Not To Be, A Month In The Country, The Comedy Of Errors. Off-Broadway: Loot, (Red Bull Theatre), Old Fashioned Prostitutes (Public Theater), Iphenia 2.0 (Signature Theatre). Regional theatre credits throughout the country. Films: Donnie Brasco, Frequency, Eraser, Carlito’s Way, The American Astronaut. Television: “Mildred Pierce,” “The Sopranos,” Many “Law & Order,” Star Trek, TNG. Awards: Three OBIES, one for Sustained Excellence, Drama Desk nomination and Drama League Award for Quills (NYTW). Student of Peter Kass.
Alexander Sovronsky* sixth season (Sound Designer/Composer, Shakespeare’s Will, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Henry IV; Flute, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Westmoreland, Henry IV) Performance & design credits include— BROADWAY: Cyrano de Bergerac with Kevin Kline. OFF-BROADWAY: various productions at The Public, Atlantic Theatre, Theatre For A New Audience, Red Bull Theatre, and Classical Theater of Harlem. REGIONAL: Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Walnut Street Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Co., Ford’s Theatre, The Wharton Salon. INTERNATIONAL: title role in Hamlet with Hyperion Theatre Co (Milan, Italy). For a good time, check out www.AlexanderSovronsky.com Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 110
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different shoes, reflecting the changing movement derived from the kind of shoes the performers are wearing (or not wearing). “I frequently use objects, accessories, costume pieces, and furniture in order to highlight story lines, suggest a mood, feeling, activity, or encourage a type of relationship for the performers,” says Dibble. “My experience from early years as a dancer when I would sneak into a studio and take off my ballet shoes and dance barefoot is at the core of this piece,” Dibble continues. “The shoe as an object and the bare foot as an object are in this work.” Dibble hopes these elements will motivate the audience to ask the question, “what do these two contrasting objects dictate, and how are they seen in a dance?” “The spirit of the place and my attraction to making dances for all kinds of people are behind the annual event,” says Dibble. “Over the years I’ve continued to devote my work to a basic need... to give people a place to feel free and safe while performing dances that tell stories. I am always grateful to Shakespeare & Company for giving me the opportunity to make these dances that are truly in the spirit of the company from the very beginning of its conception. Freedom and joy, with touches of truth about the human condition, the tragedy and the comedy combined in dances.” Samuel Beckett said it best, “Dance first, think after. It’s the natural order.”
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Sarah Jeanette Taylor* ninth season (Mary Bailey, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Director of Shakespeare & Young Company) S&Co.: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, The Tamer Tamed, The Tempest, A View Beyond, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World, DibbleDance, S&Co. Spring Tours: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet. Regional: Clara (Ventfort Hall); Cymbeline, Trolius and Cressida (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); Macbeth, Twelfth Night (Back Room Shakespeare Project); Macbeth (Worcester Foothills Theatre). BFA in Acting University of Central Florida, MFA in Acting Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Vern Thiessen (Playwright, Shakespeare’s Will) is fast becoming one of Canada’s most-produced playwrights. His plays have been seen across Canada, the US, and Europe. Thiessen has received numerous awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, Canada’s highest honor for playwriting. He has served as Playwright in Residence at Workshop West Theatre, the University of Alberta, and The Blue Heron Theatre. Kristina Tollefson^ first season (Costume Designer, Julius Caesar) has designed costumes across the country including Orlando Shakespeare Theater (FL), Orlando Repertory Theatre (FL), Maples Repertory Theatre (MO), Summer Stage Repertory Theatre (TX), Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis (IN), St. Lawrence University (NY), DeSales University (PA). She is an Associate Professor/Resident Costume and Makeup Designer at the University of Central Florida. MFA from Purdue University, BA Degree from South Dakota State University, and a proud member of USA.
Michael F. Toomey* fifteenth season (Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Peto, Henry IV) Michael is Performer, Teacher, and Creator. At S&Co., Michael has appeared in numerous roles including Macbeth, Caesar, and Costard. He is the Co-Artistic Director of The Humanist Project which performs in NYC. He is a founding member of Split Knuckle theatre which tours new works throughout the world. Michael would like to send his love to Sarah Brown for making him laugh. www. Michaelftoomey.com
Eric Tucker* fourth season (Brutus/ Ensemble, Julius Caesar) Off-Broadway: Title role in Hamlet (Time Out NY and Backstage Critics Pick, Wall Street Journal noted revival of 2013) and multiple roles in Saint Joan (Time Magazine top 10 plays and musicals of 2013; NY Times, Backstage Magazine critics pick; Best Revival 2012, Wall Street Journal). Favorite roles include: Iago, Henry V, Macbeth, Romeo, Malvolio, Orsino, Prince Hal, Master Ford, Benedick, Orlando, Laertes, Demetrius. Eric is Artistic Director of Bedlam in New York City. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 114
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Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World will tour middle and elementary schools throughout the Northeast in the early spring of 2015. It lit up the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre for a successful run this year, and will return to Shakespeare & Company for a series of special weekend and Spring Break presentations in 2015. Each show is followed by a free, interactive workshop based on one of Shakespeare’s plays, and is open to all.
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Tyisha Turner first season (Brighella/ Ensemble, The Servant of Two Masters) An alumna of the Fall Festival and Young Company education programs, Tyisha is thrilled to be back at S&Co. for her first official season. Favorite credits include: Othello, Cymbeline (Imogen), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), and Hamlet. Williams Theatre: Eurydice (Little Stone), Twelfth Night (Olivia), Glengarry Glen Ross (Moss). Tyisha holds a BA in Theatre from Williams College.
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James Udom first season (Marc Antony/Ensemble, Julius Caesar) This is James’ debut season with S&Co. After just having finished the Month-long Intensive training, he is pleased to be able to put that training to practice on the S&Co. stage. Other regional credits include; Of Mice and Men (George), King Lear (Edgar), Scamoramaland (Freddie), Macbeth (Malcolm). James is the 2012 Irene Ryan National acting award winner and 2013 regional best partner winner. Many thanks to my friends, family and mentors. Daniela Varon† nineteenth season (Director, Shakespeare’s Will) S&Co: Director, Romeo and Juliet, Sea Marks, Martha Mitchell Calling, Shrew, Much Ado, Love Letters, Collected Stories, Winter’s Tale, Wit, Room of One’s Own, Turn of the Screw. NY: Abingdon; Culture Project; EST; HERE; Joe’s Pub; Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab; Mud/Bone; the Public; Shakespeare Society; Symphony Space; Vineyard Theatre. Regional: Boston Playwrights’; Connecticut Rep; LA Women’s Shakespeare; Sun Valley Shakespeare;
Tygre’s Heart Shakespeare; Vineyard Playhouse; Wharton Salon. Co-founder, The Company of Women; co-creator, Conversations with Shakespeare; founding faculty, The Linklater Center; Drama League Fellow; NYTW Usual Suspect.
TIMothy Adam VENABLE* first season (Hotspur, Henry IV) BA, Illinois State. Member, SAG-AFTRA & AEA. TRAINING: 2013 Intensive at S&Co.; Pig Iron Theatre; Christopher Sivertsen (Sckapf Los Angeles/The Awake Projects); The Antaeus Company; IOWest. Regional: Mother Courage and Her Children (The Antaeus Company); Playboy of the Western World, Taming of the Shrew, Oliver Twist, Hamlet, Night of the Iguana, Romeo and Juliet, A Touch of the Poet (A Noise Within); Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Illinois Shakespeare). www.timvenable.com
Courtney A. Vinson first season (Cassandra, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) The New School for Drama: The Ladder (Kara), Blue Window (Emily), Macbeth (Hecate); DC Fringe Festival: Making Love Legal (Abrahim); Pennsylvania State University: Medea (Medea), Bug (Agnes), Dracula (Mina). Courtney is a recent graduate of The New School for Drama MFA Acting program. Jenna Ware twenty-first season (Director, The Servant of Two Masters and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play; Associate Director of Education) S&Co. director: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Les Faux Pas: Or, Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 118
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The World Premiere of PRIVATE EYES was produced by Arizona Theatre Company, Tucson/Phoenix, Arizona David Ira Goldstein, Artistic Director Jessica L. Andrews, Managing Director Produced in the 1997 Humana Festival of New American Plays at ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE. SPECIAL NOTE ON POEM Excerpt from “Loving the Killer” from LOVE POEMS. Copyright © 1967, 1969, Anne Sexton. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. All rights reserved.
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Private Eyes
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“Dietz has created a romantic comedy in which what’s real inevitably turns out to be an illusion. It’s a play within a play, within a play, within a play within a psychiatrist’s office— a Chinese box full of tricks and surprises.”
Passion and suspicion— they are twin fevers. Private Eyes
Private Eyes
by Steven Dietz directed by Kevin G. Coleman
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othing is ever quite what it seems in this zany comedy of suspicion. When theatre and life intertwine, actors Matthew and Lisa, a happily married couple, find the truth nearly impossible to uncover. Is Lisa having an affair with a British director, or is the affair part of the play being rehearsed? Or perhaps Matthew has imagined all of it—or perhaps only Cory, the mysterious house detective is the only one who can bring the tale to its unexpected conclusion. Or is she? The audience itself plays the role of ‘private eye’ in this sidesplitting relationship thriller about love, desire and the power of deception. Kevin G. Coleman (Memory of Water, Winters Tale, Rough Crossing) brings the wit and mystery to a head through his direction of this passionate and hysterical piece of theatre. PRIVATE EYES is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
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Director’s Take What to believe? Who to believe? Did that really happen, or was it part of a play… within the play? Who did what, and with which, and to whom? A young married couple—See? It’s complicated already—Matthew and Lisa are rehearsing a scene with director Adrian. It’s a 2-person scene—maybe 3. Then there’s the requisite affair within the play… or the play within the play… or not. Add in the marriage counselor… with an acting resume. And then the private detective… or is she the estranged wife? When Steven Dietz wrote this play back in the mid-90s, he labeled it “comedy of suspicion.” He also said, this play “took my sense of structure for a ride and built a web of such complexity that clarity (aka ‘truth’) was rendered virtually impossible.” But you can never believe the playwright. Churchill would have called it “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” Roger Ebert would— and often did—say, “just write about the damn characters.” It’s a bit like Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, only Dietz gives us more comedy, more kudzu, a shrink and a gun. Come see. You’re not going to believe this. – Kevin G. Coleman Shakespeare.org
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The Counter Plots; The Venetian Twins, Red Hot Patriot, Amorous Quarrel, Shakespeare and the Language that Shaped a World, Shirley Valentine, The Henry VI Chronicles, Macbeth tour. Jenna has directed over 40 productions for S&Co.’s Education Program and is the founder of Shakespeare & Young Company. Jenna recently served as a reviewer for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities ‘Coming Up Taller’ award. Education: BFA from NYU/Tisch.
Emma Weinstein first season (Assistant Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Drama League Classical Directing Fellow. NYC: Removable Alien (OEC Festival), Roast (Alchemical Theatre Lab), Deadline (Galapagos Space). Regional: Kids on Bikes (Baltimore), Marat/Sade (Northampton, MA), Mom Baby God (Ongoing National Tour). Emma is a graduate of Smith College and the National Theatre Institute. www.emmaweinsteindirector.com
Josephine Wilson seventh season (Musician, The Servant of Two Masters) S&Co.: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Northeast Regional Tour (Titania/ Quince), and Macbeth (Lady Macbeth/ Ross), Toad of Toad Hall (Badger), Master Class (Stage Hand). Regional: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Jean Brodie), The Beaux Stratagem (Mrs. Sullen), Frozen (Nancy), Gizmo (Sulla). MFA in acting, Penn State University. She has directed and taught in the nationally recognized Fall Festival of Shakespeare, Shakespeare in the Courts, Shakespeare & Young Company and Riotous Youth programs at S&Co. She is a proud member of AEA. Who’s Who Continued on pAgE 122
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music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim book by Hugh Wheeler orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick suggested by a Film by Ingmar Bergman
by Michael Frayn directed by Eric Hill featuring David Adkins, Corinna May, Barbara Sims, and Walton Wilson
originally produced and directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
by Charles Ludlam
directed by Aaron Mark
June 24–July 19
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directed by Ethan Heard music direction by Nathan Dame choreography by Sam Pinkleton featuring Kate Baldwin, Gregg Edelman, Penny Fuller, Maureen O’Flynn, and Graham Rowat
June 30–July 19
at The Colonial Theatre
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James Naughton WORLD PREMIERE
July 9–July 26
at The Unicorn Theatre The Larry Vaber Stage
July 23–August 9
at The Fitzpatrick Main Stage
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directed by Tom Story
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at The Unicorn Theatre The Larry Vaber Stage
co-conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Eric Idle based on the works of Dr. Seuss directed by Travis G. Daly music direction by Mark Gionfriddo choreography by Kathy Jo Grover
at The Colonial Theatre
Scenes by Giuseppe Verdi, Charles Ludlam and Alexandre Dumas
by Michael V. Gazzo directed by Greg Naughton
August 13–30
at The Fitzpatrick Main Stage
The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas Camille by Charles Ludlam La Traviata by Giuseppe Verde directed by Dustin Wills operatic direction by Carlos Conde
August 23–30
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Conservatory at Shakespeare & Company: ROMEO AND JULIET
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O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
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he Conservatory is an audition-only, three-month intensive training program for professional artists to master their craft. This season Jason Asprey and Tori Rhoades will direct a cast of talented, young actors in this sweeping tale of Romeo and Juliet. A timeless love story, and a story for all times. Featuring: The Conservatory at Shakespeare & Company (See page 63)
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Ryan Winkles* ninth season (Fight Captain & Ryan, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged); Clarence, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play) S&Co.: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Dull), Mother Courage and Her Children (Swiss Cheese), King Lear (Edgar), The Tempest (Ferdinand), The Learned Ladies (Trissotin), Santaland Diaries (Crumpet), As You Like It (Silvius), Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Henry), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Jane/Lord Edgar), Winter’s Tale (Florizel), Richard III (Tyrrel), Twelfth Night (Sir Andrew), Othello (Roderigo), Antony & Cleopatra (Pompey/Eros), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute), Merry Wives of Windsor (Fenton). Other theatres: Madison Rep., WAM Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Outcast Café Theatrix.
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Jess Winfield (Playwright, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)) is an American novelist, selfhelp author, and television writer. He is a co-founder of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and won two Daytime Emmy Awards as a writer-producer for the Walt Disney Company, for the animated features Stitch! The Movie and Leroy and Stitch. His books include: What Would Shakespeare Do (2000) and My Name Is Will (2008).
Twelfth Night (Viola), Measure for Measure (Isabella), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Berkeley Square (Helen). Directing credits include Punk Rock, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party (Connecticut Repertory Theatre); Indian Blood (Mixed Company). Kristin teaches acting and movement for S&Co. and at the University of Connecticut.
Jessica Zivny second season (Stage Manager & Sound Board Operator, Romeo and Juliet; Stage Manager, The Servant of Two Masters) S&Co.: Rehearsal Stage Manager, Les Faux Pas: Or, The Counter Plots; International: Stage Manager/Set Designer, Hamlet, Milan, Italy; Queens College: Set Designer, Romeo and Juliet; Production Manager, Freedom High. Education organizations: The New Victory Theatre, TADA! Youth Theatre, the Repertory Company Theatre High School in NYC. Theatre Director, Technical Director, Choreographer, and Designer for many schools across New York for 9 years. MS in Educational Theatre, City College.
* Appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
† This director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
for its tradition of excellence in the performing arts
^ This designer is represented by United Scenic Artists - Local USA 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
Kristin Wold* twenty-fifth season (Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s Will; Portia/Ensemble/Calpurnia, Julius Caesar) S&Co.: Richard II (Duchess of York/Ross), The Tempest (Ariel), King Lear (Regan/Cordelia), The Memory of Water (Teresa), Sea Marks (Timothea), Othello (Emilia), Ice Glen (Sarah),
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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry from the original screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, Jo Swerling directed by Jenna Ware
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ritten and staged as a live radio play, this wistful trip to the Golden Age of Radio is complete with musical interludes, commercials, home-grown sound effects, and only five actors playing over 50 roles! Follow George Bailey as he discovers the true value of life in this retelling of the classic story. It’s Christmas Eve 1946 George Bailey, owner of a building and loan association in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York loses an $8,000 bank deposit. Believing himself to be a complete failure, it takes a wandering angel and an alternative time line to show George the true value of his life. The hit of our last season, director Jenna Ware (The Servant of Two Masters, Les Faux Pas: Or The Counterplots) reunites with her cast to deliver another inventive, fast-paced production that is full of heart and humor. A heartwarming evening with just the right amount of nostalgia that will remind you to take some time for yourself and remember why this is truly a wonderful life.
Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com)
Utterly beguiling and enchanting…comfort food for the heart and soul.
Director’s Take I believe that It’s a Wonderful Life is to Americans what A Christmas Carol is to the English. While both stories have joyful endings, the moral of our play is less about the obligation of the higher class to take care of those less fortunate, in which case old man Potter would look back on his life and learn to give back to the people of Bedford Falls. Instead it is the hard-working, middle-class everyman, George Bailey, who looks back on his life in a Christmas-time story that reflects the uniquely American ideals of advancement through hard work and of collectively being able to achieve. He learns that there is value in self-sacrifice, dedication, and the power of generosity and love. What we learn with George is that life matters, what we do matters, how we treat each other matters, and who we love matters. Joe Landry’s adaptation, with its inventive concept of staging as an authentic 1946 radio play complete with all the elements of radio theatre— Foley artistry, period costumes, and commercials— honors tradition while also making it a fresh experience for a modern audience. –Jenna Ware Shakespeare.org
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8:30
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3:00
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HENRY p 7:30
DIBBLE p 8:30
VANYA b
VANYA b
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2:00
20
21
22
FFS p
FFS p
FFS p
6:30 8:30
FFS p
December
6:30 8:30
FFS p
7:30
EYES b 7:30
EYES b
1:30
6:15
3:30
8:30
FFS p
FFS p FFS p
2
2:00
EYES b 9
2:00
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1:30
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FFS p
5
6
7
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LIFE b
7:30
7:30
12
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7:00 7:30
LIFE b
7:00
CONS p 20
LIFE b
LIFE b
2:00
26
27
LIFE b
LIFE b
7:30
14
1:00
19
7:30
2:00
2:00
2:00 7:30
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LIFE b 7:30
LIFE b 7:30
LIFE b
21
2:00
LIFE b 28
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