The program to WCT's LIBERATION DAYS

By David van Belle Produced in collaboration with Theatre Calgary

January 22 to 31, 2015 SAGEBRUSH THEATRE

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in collaboration with Theatre Calgary PRESENTS

LIBERATION DAYS

By DAVID VAN BELLE

FEATURING BYRON ALLEN LINDSEY ANGELL KELSEY GILKER DUVAL LANG VALERIE PLANCHE TREVOR RUEGER JONATHAN SEINEN

(in alphabetical order) Alex King Emma de Bruijn Marijke Bos Dominee Herman van Egmond Aaltje de Bruijn Miles Cavendish Jan van Edmond

ARTISTIC PERSONNEL DARYL CLORAN CORY SINCENNES GERALD KING JAMIE NESBITT JONATHAN LEWIS CAMERON FRASER SHARI WATTLING JANE MACFARLANE DYMPHNY DRONYK KARL H. SINE BYRON ALLEN LISA RUSSELL SKYLAR NAKAZAWA CHRISTINE LEROUX

Director Set & Costume Designer Lighting Designer Projection Designer Original Music & Sound Designer Assistant Projection Designer Dramaturg Vocal Coach Dutch Language & Cultural Consultant Fight Director Fight Captain Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

There will be one 15-minute intermission in this performance.

LIBERATION DAYS was developed with the support of FUSE: The Enbridge New Play Development Program, as well as additional support from Alberta Playwrights’ Network and the Canada Council for the Arts.

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE How do you direct a scene, if it’s in a language you don’t speak? That’s a dilemma I run into frequently in my directing, because it’s the kind of work I’m most drawn to – stories about people from different cultures trying to find ways to connect with each other through the barriers of different languages and different beliefs. That interest has recently drawn me to direct plays in languages such as Bosnian, Xhosa, and American Sign Language.

Liberation Days, set in the Netherlands and full of Dutch-speaking characters, is a perfect example of this kind of exciting cross-cultural storytelling.

The rehearsal process was amazingly insightful. The cast worked tirelessly learning the language – training with experts such as our Dutch language consultant Dymphny Dronyk and our Dialect Coach Jane Macfarlane. These incredibly brave actors are performing for you in a language they don’t speak (or at least, didn’t speak until rehearsals started!). We learned so much about the Netherlands, about Dutch culture and personality, about Dutch “directness”. But ultimately what makes this story so engaging and important is that it is not only about a country far across the ocean from us, it is about the inextricable connection between Canada and the Netherlands. It’s a story about how our two countries were flung together during a particular period in history and how that changed the people of both countries forever. That is why I do theatre. To dig deep into another culture in order to learn more about my own.

Through rehearsals we got to the heart of these characters, whether they speak English or Dutch. We know what they want, what stands in their way, and what they’re willing to do to get it. We know them emotionally and physically and know how their language helps shape who they are. So, to that end, it doesn’t matter if I speak the language, or if you do for that matter. You may not understand each and every word the characters say tonight, but you will understand everything they’re trying to communicate. You will see these vibrant compelling characters striving to find love, find escape, find answers, and they will do it with the tools they have available to them, which sometimes involves words and sometimes transcends language altogether.

It’s an innovative, exciting, beautiful new play, produced in partnership with our friends at Theatre Calgary. I’m so proud to bring it to you.

Geniet van de voorstelling! (Enjoy the show!)

Daryl Cloran Artistic Director PS - I hope you’ll join us for the rest of our amazing season. Next up is 2 Pianos 4 Hands, a fantastic Canadian show that has played around the world and now comes here to Kamloops. It’s the story of two aspiring concert pianists and is filled with virtuosic piano playing and a lot of laughs.

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Theatre Calgary is thrilled to collaborate with Western Canada Theatre in co-presenting the world premiere production of David van Belle’s Liberation Days. The play was developed at Theatre Calgary through FUSE: The Enbridge New Play Development Program and now this partnership has created a tremendous opportunity to bring this exciting premiere to audiences in both Calgary and Kamloops.

On behalf of everyone at Theatre Calgary, congratulations to Daryl, the cast, crew, staff and board on the premiere of Liberation Days at WCT. FOR THEATRE CALGARY

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PLAYWRIGHT’S MESSAGE The liberation of the Netherlands is one of those stories that we love to tell.

And it’s a good one, especially because it happens to be true – for the most part it was Canadian soldiers that brought freedom from violence, hunger and fear to the Dutch people in April and May of 1945. They were welcomed as the heroes that they were, with joy and celebration. It’s a good story.

It’s not only a good national story, it’s a powerful personal story for me, and not just because my birthday happens to be May 5, which is celebrated as Liberation Day in the Netherlands. Both of my parents were children during the war and were liberated by the Canadians. And that contact changed my life – both my mother and my father’s families were so impressed by the soldiers that when they decided to emigrate in 1951, they chose Canada. The liberation is the reason I’m a Canadian, not a New Zealander or a South African.

But when my parents returned to the Netherlands for my dad’s doctoral studies in 1967, after they had met and married in Canada, they discovered a country that was vastly different from the one they had left. Old social, religious and economic divisions had broken down, and the country resembled the progressive, secular society it is today.

Something akin to Quebec’s Quiet Revolution had taken place. My parents moved back to Canada in 1971, after my brother and I were born, having themselves been transformed religiously and politically by their experience in their changed homeland.

The roots of this change are the other part of this national story, an aspect that not many of us know about in Canada. When the Canadians rolled into the Netherlands in the last weeks of the war they found a society that had experienced the catastrophes of destruction, starvation and betrayal. As the dust of war settled, the Dutch began to consider all that had happened and to determine how or if they wanted to reassemble their damaged society. At the same time, two nations who had become friends soon became roommates during the months that followed. And as we all know, even the best of friends don’t always make ideal roommates. Therein lies the action of the play.

I find it a satisfying paradox that while most of the characters in Liberation Days are Dutch, the play is profoundly about Canada, as seen from the outside. And while it’s a portrayal that’s certainly more complex than the story we know, it’s no less heroic.

Canada, as seen by the Dutch, is downright sexy. It represents the opportunity to change: the chance to build new lives out of the rubble. But Canada is also dangerous. It challenges your loyalties and your deeply-held beliefs. And if you decide to emigrate to Canada, especially in the days before weekly KLM flights from Calgary to Amsterdam, you’ll never be seen again.

I’m so grateful to Theatre Calgary and Western Canada Theatre for premiering this work. It’s been a profoundly enjoyable experience to have their support through the play’s development, as well as that of the Canada Council, Vicki Stroich and the Alberta Playwrights’ Network.

This play is dedicated to Emma and Aaltje and Vanessa and Wren. I hope you enjoy it.

David van Belle

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PLAYWRIGHT’S BIOGRAPHY David van Belle Playwright For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Playwright – The Highest Step in the World (w/ Eric Rose) (Ghost River/ Alberta Theatre Projects); Everything is Terribly Nice Here, Reverie (w/ Eric Rose) (Ghost River); Buzz Job! The True Story of Cal Cavendish (Calgary Folk Festival); Friction (w/ Blake Brooker) (One Yellow Rabbit). Performer – The Highest Step in the World (Ghost River/ ATP); Dream Machine, Heavens to Murgatroid, Friction (OYR). Director – Of Fighting Age (Verb Theatre); Twisted (Forte). Film/ Television: Klondike. Awards: Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Production of a Play, Betty Mitchell Award nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Play, Gwen Pharis Ringwood Prize short list, CITT Award for Technical Merit for The Highest Step in the World. David is Co-Artistic Director of Ghost River Theatre with Eric Rose. Their new play, The Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst, will premiere at ATP in February 2015.

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BIOGRAPHIES Byron Allen Alex King, Fight Captain For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare in the Park, Theatre Calgary); The Diary of Anne Frank, Our Town (Rosebud Theatre); The Lover (Lunchbox); Kung Fu Panties (Rebecca Northan & Loose Moose Theatre); Hamlet (Shakespeare Company); IC (Ignite!); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Theatre MRU). Film/Television: Women in the Bible, Pain Killers. Awards: 2012 Stephen Hair Emerging Actor Award. Byron would like to thank his family and mentors for their love and support and would like to dedicate this show to his grandfather John Allen.

Lindsey Angell Emma de Bruijn For WCT: Noises Off Elsewhere: Iceland (Dirt Road Productions); The Romeo Initiative (Touchstone Theatre); Venus in Fur, Becky’s New Car (Arts Club); Merchant of Venice, As You Like It (Bard on the Beach). Film/ Television: The Write Man, Hallmark; SGU Stargate Universe, MGM. Awards: 2010, 2014 Jessie Richardson Nominee – Actress in Supporting, Lead Roles.

Hnatyshyn Foundation Grant – English Theatre Canada. Up next, Lindsey will play in Love’s Labours Lost and Comedy of Errors at Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach.

Lindsey is a graduate of Studio 58.

Daryl Cloran Director At WCT: Peter and the Starcatcher, Closer Than Ever, Les Misérables, Boeing Boeing, Fiddler on the Roof, A Christmas Story, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, UBUNTU (The Cape Town Project), Betrayal, and Noises Off. Elsewhere: Tribes (Canadian Stage); RETURN (The Sarajevo Project) and The Mill (Theatrefront); All For Love (National Arts Centre); Generous (Tarragon Theatre); Afterplay (Shaw Festival); The Last Five Years (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Time Stands Still (Theatre Aquarius); and This is How it Goes (Neptune Theatre). Daryl has received the Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Director, the Toronto Emerging Theatre Artist Award, a Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding Director, and numerous Dora Award nominations. Daryl was honoured as one of Kamloops Business Magazine’s Top 10 Under 40. Upcoming: Daryl is directing Love’s Labours Lost (Bard on the Beach, Vancouver). Daryl lives in Kamloops with his wife, Holly, and two sons, Liam & Jack.

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BIOGRAPHIES Dymphny Dronyk Dutch Language & Cultural Consultant For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Dymphny has been involved in amateur theatre as an actor, director, set decorator, and playwright. Highlights include gala fundraisers Hearts Journey and The Vagina Monologues (Grande Prairie Live Theatre). She also served as Culture Coach, Performing Arts Chair, and Gala Director for the Arctic Winter Games (2007- 2010). Film/Television: Projects for the United Way; BC Music Project (BCTV).

Founding member of the Reel Shorts Film Fest, Grande Prairie. Awards: Her first volume of poetry Contrary Infatuations was short listed for two prestigious awards.

Dymphny is the copublisher of House of Blue Skies and has co-edited several bestselling anthologies of poetry, including The Calgary Project – A City Map in Verse and Visual (2014). She is a founding member of the RE:act Art & Community Together Collective, Past President of the Writers Guild of Alberta, and currently serves as the President of the League of Canadian Poets National Council.

Kelsey Gilker Marijke Bos For WCT: Silent Chap Elsewhere: Alice in Wonderland, The Last of the Dragons, James and the Giant Peach, Romeo and Juliet (Project X);Village of Idiots, Antigone, The Tempest, (TRU Actors Workshop Theatre).

Kelsey is a Kamloops native where she is completing her Bachelor of Arts at Thompson Rivers University. Up next Kelsey will be working on two collective projects: co-creating educational puppet shows to tour locally, and a movementbased theatre piece with Chimera Theatre.

Gerald King Lighting Design For WCT: Les Misérables, Educating Rita, UBUNTU (The Cape Town Project), For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Wit, A Christmas Carol, The Syringa Tree, The Man Who Shot Chance Delaney, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Dreamer’s Quest, Jake’s Gift, Scandal, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, Dear Santa, Unity (1918), Witness for the Prosecution, Merlin, Respectable, 52 Pick-Up, The Weir, Little Shop of Horrors, Romeo & Juliet and Anne.

Elsewhere: Opera – Madama Butterfly (Opera Omaha); Tosca, Carmen, Vanessa, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin, Madama Butterfly (Pacific Opera); Don Carlo, Tosca, La Boheme, Romeo et Julietta, Salome, La Traviatta, Cosi Fan Tutti, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, La Clemenza Di Tito (Vancouver Opera); La Boheme (Manitoba Opera Centre); The Tales of Hoffman (Opera Lyra). Dance – A Streetcar Named Desire, The Rite of Spring (Ballet BC); A Simple Way, (Brackets), LSD, Sunyata (Kokoro Dance). Theatre – Anne of Green Gables, Cats, Much Ado About Nothing, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Heiress, The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Calgary); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Macbeth, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice (Bard on the Beach); Death of a Salesman, The Fantasticks, Vancouver Playhouse; Spamalot, Educating Rita, Xanadu (Arts Club); The Drowsy Chaperone (Citadel/ NAC); Toronto Mississippi (Theatre Aquarius).

Between 1942 and 1947, 48,000 young European war brides, mostly British, and their 22,000 children, came to Canada.

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BIOGRAPHIES Duval Lang Dominee Herman van Egmond For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: To Kill a Mockingbird, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet (selected, Theatre Calgary). Duval is very excited to be in Kamloops and at WTC for the second leg of Liberation Days. Duve’s association with Theatre Calgary goes back to the mid 70s and the Stage Coach Players where he acted, directed and eventually led the program. He then went on to co-found Quest Theatre where he served as Artistic Director for 25 years.

Since then he has been very fortunate to have been featured on virtually every stage in Calgary and many more beyond.

Recent credits include: Mesa (Station Arts, Rosthern, SK); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Company); You Will Remember Me (Alberta Theatre Projects); The Erotic Anguish of Don Juan (Old Trout Puppet Workshop/ ATP). In 2013 Duval toured Australia, performing with symphonies in Little Red Riding Hood. He has garnered several Betty Mitchell and Sterling awards and nominations, as well as the Harry and Martha Cohen award for his overall contribution to the theatre scene in Calgary.

Jonathan Lewis Original Music & Sound Design For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Composer – Enron, Jake and the Kid, Our Town, A Christmas Carol (2003 - 2005), Death of a Salesman (Theatre Calgary); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Company); Treasure Island (composer/ sound designer), Pinocchio (with David Rhymer and the Old Trouts) (Alberta Theatre Projects); Dream Machine, In

Klezskavania, Mata Hari One Yellow Rabbit.

Designer/Composer – The Valley, The Gift of the Coat, Get Away (Alberta Theatre Projects); numerous shows for Quest. Film/Television: The Tall Tailor, Xstine Cook; The Greeks of San Andres, Nikos Lebessis (documentary); Things That Go Bump in the Night, Redhanded Films; The Ice Climber’s Waltz, Reckseidler Films; Rhoda & the Fantastic Flying Machine, Reckseidler Films, in collaboration with David Rhymer. Jonathan is a regular performer, on violin, with music ensembles The Fedora Club, The Rembetika Hipsters, The Hackamores, and The Plaid Tongued Devils.

Christine Leroux Apprentice Stage Manager At WCT: Peter and the Starcatcher, Driving Miss Daisy, Closer Than Ever, Les Misérables and High-Wire Festival.

Christine, a recent graduate from Thompson Rivers University, is very excited to be joining WCT as their apprentice for the season! Past productions include Assistant Stage Manager for Alice in Wonderland and The Last of the Dragons (Project X Theatre); Stage Manager for Catch, Curse of the Starving Class and Gossip, and Actor in Bright. Apple. Crush (TRU Actors Workshop Theatre); and a member of the 2013 Rivertown Players. Christine is very grateful for all of the support that she has received and would like to thank everyone who helped make this year possible!

The first war bride of WWII married just 43 days after Canadian soldiers arrived in England in December 1939.

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BIOGRAPHIES Jane MacFarlane Vocal Coach For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: One Man, Two Guvnors, The Mountaintop, The Great Gatsby, The Kite Runner, Pride and Prejudice, Enron, To Kill a Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 7 Stories, Ideal Husband, Miracle Worker and 13 years of A Christmas Carol (selected, Theatre Calgary); Venus in Fur, Motherf*cker With the Hat, Toad of Toad Hall, That Elusive Spark, Treasure Island, Vincent in Brixton, Syringa Tree (Alberta Theatre Projects); Filth, Trainspotting (Sage); Submarine (Lunchbox). Recently, Jane directed James and the Giant Peach for Storybook Theatre. She taught Voice for the Actor & Acting in the Department of Theatre, Speech & Music at MRU for 13 years. Jane is the Resident Voice Coach for Theatre Calgary.

Skylar Nakazawa Assistant Stage Manager At WCT: As Stage Manager: Closer Than Ever; As Assistant Stage Manager: Peter and the Starcatcher, Driving Miss Daisy, Waiting for the Parade, Silent Chap, Les Misérables, Boeing Boeing; As Apprentice Stage Manager: Fiddler on the Roof, The Importance of Being Earnest, Educating Rita, A Christmas Story, Harvest, and Noises Off. Elsewhere: Skylar is ecstatic to be working with this amazing team! Some of Skylar’s favourite credits include You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Alice in Wonderland, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Project X) and Noises Off (Chemainus Theatre Festival). She wants to thank Daryl for having her be part of this spirited show.

And special thanks to Krista and Terris for their constant support.

Jamie Nesbitt Projection Design For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Jamie designs across North America and Europe. His resume includes: Theatre Calgary, Canadian Stage, NAC, Soulpepper, Vancouver Playhouse, Palazzo Circus (Berlin), Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show, Bard on the Beach, Arts Club, Charlottetown Festival, Electric Company, Kidd Pivot (Germany/ Canada), Pacific Opera, Opera de Quebec, Company 14 (New York), Vancouver Opera, Why Not, Neptune, Belfry, Old Trout Puppet Workshop, ARC, Cahoots, PTE, Touchstone, Citadel, Vertigo, Pi Theatre, Theatre Network, Birdland Theatre, Rumble Productions, Gateway, Greenthumb, Yukon Arts Centre, and many more. awards: Recipient of seven Jessie Richardson Award nominations, one Jessie Richardson Award, a Betty Mitchell Award, the 2008 Mayor Arts Award, the 2007 Sam Payne Award and the 2006 Earl Klien Memorial Scholarship. He is a graduate of the acclaimed theatre school Studio 58.

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BIOGRAPHIES Valerie Planche Aaltje de Bruijn For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Major Barbara, A Christmas Carol (1992 – 98, 2011), Much Ado About Nothing, Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Amadeus (Theatre Calgary); Little Elephants (Shadow Theatre); Equus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible (Citadel); Half Life, Age of Arousal, Treasure Island, Marion Bridge, Down the Main Drag, Perfect Pie, Red Lips (Alberta Theatre Projects); Jekyll and Hyde, Blood Relations, Mousetrap, Snake in the Grass, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (Vertigo); Music for Contortionist, Frozen, Scorched (Sage); The Constant Wife, Boy Gets Girl, The Good Life (Theatre Junction); Elizabeth Rex (Mob Hit); and many theatres across Canada. Film/Television: Blackstone, Brokeback Mountain, Right Side of Wrong, In Cold Blood, Shanghai Noon, The Jack Bull, Heartland, Terminal City, Tom Stone, Caitlin’s Way and Honey I Shrunk the Kids.

Awards: Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Little Elephants, Betty Mitchell Award for Communion and The Good Life, Betty Mitchell Award nominations for Music for Contortionist, Elizabeth Rex, The Constant Wife, Perfect Pie. Trevor Rueger Miles Cavendish For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Theatre Calgary); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Sage Theatre); Black Coffee, Beautiful Lake Winnipeg (Vertigo); A Christmas Carol (Citadel); Cheek to Cheek (Lunchbox); Noises Off (Stage West); Arsenic and Old Lace (Shadow Productions); Equus, Death of a

Salesman (Garry Theatre). Awards: Betty Mitchell Award – Actor in a Supporting Role – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Trevor has also directed a number of plays at various Calgary theatres and is the Executive Director of Alberta Playwrights’ Network, which is devoted to the development of playwrights at all stages for all stages.

Lisa Russell Stage Manager At WCT: Les Misérables, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls.

Other: Selected credits include Over the River and Through the Woods (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Madame Butterfly (Calgary Opera); Becky’s New Car, Shangri-La, O.C.Dean, Pride and Prejudice, Shout Sister, Robin Hood, A Doll’s House (Globe Theatre); Souvenirs, The December Man, Steel Kiss (Green Thumb Theatre); Doubt, A Parable (Theatre Calgary/ Manitoba Theatre Centre); Shirley Valentine and Anything Goes (The Grand Theatre).

Lisa was the interim production manager for Calgary Opera’s 2014 summer festival and the production stage manager for the Summer Arts Festival at the Banff Centre for four summers. She also worked for seven seasons at the Stratford Festival.

Lisa is thrilled to be back among old friends in Kamloops at WCT.

In 1945 and 1946, 1,886 Dutch wives of Canadian servicemen and 428 children voyaged to Canada, making the Dutch contingent the second largest group of war brides immigrating to Canada.

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BIOGRAPHIES Jonathan Seinen Jan van Egmond For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: A God in Need of Help (Tarragon); The Normal Heart (Studio 180/ Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show (Theatre Passe Muraille/Architect Theatre/Tour); As You Like It (Citadel). Film/Television: Defiance, Cosmopolis, The Conspiracy, Degrassi. Jonathan is also a director and playwright, as well as Co-Artistic Producer of Architect Theatre. Selected directing: His latest script Unknown Soldier (SummerWorks) and the collective creation This Must be the Place (TPM/Architect). Born in Terrace, BC, raised in Slave Lake, Alberta, and now based in Toronto, Jonathan is a graduate of the University of Alberta and the National Theatre School. Jonathan dedicates his performance to his Dutch ancestors: those who died during the occupation, and those who lived to see the liberation.

Cory Sincennes Set and Costume Designer For WCT: Peter and the Starcatcher, Les Misérables and Where the Blood Mixes.

Elsewhere: Mary Poppins, Next to Normal, (Theatre Calgary/Citadel Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Rocky Horror Show (Citadel); Mump and Smoot (Alberta Theatre Projects); The Huron Bride, Vertigo; Julius Caesar, The Tempest (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Bigshot (Surreal SoReal/ Ghost River); Michel and Ti-Jean, Let The Light Of Day Through, Little One, Woman in Black (Theatre Network).

Cory is an award winning designer,

currently residing in Edmonton.

His set, costume, lighting and video designs have received both national and international recognition. His work has been seen throughout Canada, as well as Germany, Austria, England, Belgium and Russia. Cory earned a degree in Architectural Studies from Carleton University before studying design at Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto. He also holds a MFA in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta. www.corysincennes.com Shari Watling Dramaturg For WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Dramaturg – The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, A Christmas Carol (2011–14), Much Ado About Nothing, Jake and the Kid, Beyond Eden, Lost – A Memoir. Assistant Director – Enron.

Actor – A Christmas Carol (2004–2005) (Theatre Calgary). As a freelance dramaturg, Shari has worked with a wide range of playwrights and plays-indevelopment at Calgary theatres such as Swallow-A-Bicycle, Vertigo, Quest and Lunchbox to name a few. Prior to joining Theatre Calgary, she was Resident Dramaturg at Alberta Playwrights’ Network. Also a professional actor, she has appeared at Vertigo, ATP, Lunchbox, Stage West, Forte, Quest, Shadow Productions and Dirty Laundry: Calgary’s live, improvised soap- opera. Shari is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and has been with Theatre Calgary since 2007, as Literary Manager and currently as Artistic Associate – New Play Development.

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PROGRAM NOTES

By Shari Wattling, Artisitic Associate, and Zachary Moull, Assistant Dramaturg, Theatre Calgary THE NETHERLANDS IN WORLD WAR II At the outset of the Second World War in 1939, the Netherlands had hoped to remain neutral as it did during World War I. But despite reassurances from Germany, the Netherlands was invaded in the spring of 1940 in a ferocious assault of airborne troops, bombings, and blitzkrieg attacks. With little hope of military support from France or Britain, the Netherlands soon surrendered and five long years of German occupation began.

The German administration implemented a policy of “forced conformity,� hoping to quickly absorb the Netherlands into the German Reich. From 1941 to 1944, the occupation took a more violent turn, including harsh acts of public repression such as confiscation of property, the involuntary transportation Rotterdam after German terror bombing, May 1940 of more than 300,000 Dutch citizens (U.S. Defense Visual Information Center) to Germany as forced labour, and the murder of Jews and members of resistance groups. Approximately 250,000 Netherlanders died as a result of the war, including 104,000 Jews who represented 75% of the pre-war Jewish population.

THE HUNGER WINTER In the months after the Allied landing in Normandy in June 1944, conditions grew worse in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Convinced that the Allies would soon end the war, the Dutch government-in-exile called for a general railway strike to disrupt the flow of German troops and supplies. The Germans retaliated by cutting off all fuel and food shipments to much of the country, just as an unusually harsh and early winter set in.

Fuel shortages meant that village trees were cut down for fuel, and wood from furniture, railroad ties, and public buildings was scavenged as well. Many Dutch men were forced into hiding or had been transported to labour camps, so women and children became responsible for gathering food and fuel, often trekking for dozens of kilometres to forage and barter. In November 1944, the average daily ration (composed mainly of bread, potatoes and sugar beets) was 1,040 calories. By January 1945, the ration was about 580 calories, and by April it had fallen to 320 calories. Over the course of the winter, approximately 20,000 Netherlanders died from starvation or cold.

THE END OF THE WAR AND BEYOND The First Canadian Army advanced northwest through the Netherlands in the spring of 1945, liberating village after village against pockets of German resistance. As they went, they were greeted with enthusiastic celebrations by Dutch citizens. Nearly 21

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PROGRAM NOTES - continued 200,000 Canadians came through the Netherlands during the war and tens of thousands remained stationed there for several months after the German surrender in May, 1945.

As the weeks and months went on, tensions emerged as supplies remained scarce and cultures began to clash.

Before the war, Dutch society had been dominated by paternalistic and conservative codes of social and sexual behavior, particularly in villages and rural communities where the Catholic and Reformed churches held strong influence. The war altered these practices as women and young people became the primary providers in many households. The presence of Canadian soldiers in small villages Canadian Troops in Rijssen-Holten, April 1945 accentuated the cultural (Lt. D. Gurevitch, National Archives & Records Administration) shift – the soldiers were an attractive diversion for young Dutch women. Religious leaders tried in vain to discourage fraternization with servicemen, and several popular songs of the day warned women of the dangers of being seduced by Canadian soldiers.

For most Netherlanders, however, these concerns could not diminish their overwhelming respect for Canadian bravery and loss in the fight to free their country. As the final Canadian soldiers left for home a year after liberation, they took with them an entire country’s gratitude.

Sources Lance Goddard, Canada and the Liberation of the Netherlands, May 1945. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2005.

Michiel Horn, “The Canadian Army and the Liberated Netherlands.” Pro Rege. June, 1991. Retrieved from http://www.aadas.nl/sites/default/files/proceedings/1990_4_Horn.pdf David Kaufman and Michiel Horn, A Liberation Album. Toronto: McGraw Hill, 1980.

Mark Zuehlke, On To Victory: The Canadian Liberation of the Netherlands March 23 – May 5, 1945. Toronto: Douglas and McIntyre, 2010.

Veterans Affairs Canada, “Canadian War Brides.”

Remembrance Series. Last modified Feb. 02, 2014.

Retrieved from http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/ remembrance/history/second-world-war/canadianwarbrides

There are around 900,000 people of Dutch descent in Canada, making it one of the largest diasporas.

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