HARUKI MURAKAMI’ S
SLEEP
PHOTO © SLEEP BY MAX GORDON, 2017.
2017–18 NO BOUNDA SERIES RIES
MARCH 1–3, 2018 YALE REPERTORY THEATRE James Bundy, Artistic Director
Victoria Nolan, Managing Director
PRESENTS
HARUKI MURAKAMI’S SLEEP DIRECTED AND DEVISED BY
RACHEL DICKSTEIN AND RIPE TIME ADAPTED FOR THE STAGE BY NAOMI IIZUKA
PRODUCED IN ASSOCIATION WITH OCTOPUS
THEATRICALS
CREATIVE TEAM Scenic and Object Design Costume Design Lighting Design Projection Design Sound Design Dramaturg
SUSAN ZEEMAN ROGERS ILONA SOMOGYI JIYOUN CHANG HANNAH WASILESKI MATT STINE JOY MEADS
PERFORMERS The Woman The Shadow The Child, Ensemble The Stranger, Ensemble The Husband, Policeman, Ensemble Anna, Ensemble
JIEHAE PARK SAORI TSUKADA TAKEMI KITAMURA AKIKO AIZAWA BRAD CULVER PAULA McGONAGLE
ORIGINAL SCORE CREATED AND PERFORMED BY NEWBORN TRIO Shakuhachi, Xiao, Tanso, Bawu Glass and Metal Objects Glass Percussion
JEFFREY LEPENDORF KATIE DOWN MIGUEL FRASCONI
FOR RIPE TIME Artistic Director Production Stage Manager Production Manager Technical Director Video Supervisor Audio Supervisor Publicity Accountants Bookkeeper
RACHEL DICKSTEIN DEE DEE KATCHEN BRYAN HUNT DAVID FOLEY JESSE GARRISON AJ SURASKY JOHN WYSZNIEWSKI/ EVERYMAN AGENCY MARTIN BERKOWITZ/LUTZ AND CARR MELANIE HOPKINS
FOR OCTOPUS THEATRICALS Founder and Executive/Creative Producer MARA ISAACS Associate Producer/Tour Producer RONEE PENOI Production Coordinator BRYAN HUNT
Running time is 70 minutes. There is no intermission. Sleep was co-commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the 2017 Next Wave Festival and by the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Sleep was developed with generous support from Center Theatre Group. This presentation is funded in part by
RIPE TIME is an OBIE-winning theatre company founded in 2000 and led by director and deviser Rachel Dickstein. It develops and presents ensemble based theatre with rich language, visual power, and physical rigor. It tells stories from the inside out, using the language of memory and imagination to trace how women negotiate identity in the face of cultural constrictions. Inspired by the most searing novels and stories, it creates original multidisciplinary events for the 21st century celebrating women’s dreams and awakenings. Since their founding, Ripe Time has created large-scale ensemble works that have received three OBIE Awards and nominations from the Drama Desk, the Drama League, and the Joe A. Calloway Award for outstanding direction. Its work has been commissioned by BAM, CTG, and Annenberg Center for the Arts and presented at such venues as BAMFisher, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, the Baruch Performing Arts Center, 3LD Art & Technology Center, the Ohio Theatre, PS 122, and the Clark Studio at Lincoln Center. Ripe Time Designs were featured in the 2015 USITT Prague Quadrennial, an international exhibit featuring excellence in design from across the globe. ripetime.org Sleep is contained within the book The Elephant Vanishes: Stories, by Haruki Murakami, published by Random House in various formats, and is available for purchase at major booksellers and online retailers.
SLEEP was originally commissioned and developed for the stage by The Play Company, Kate Loewald Founding Producer, Lauren Weigel, Executive Producer and Ripe Time, Rachel Dickstein, Artistic Director. Sleep was developed with support from The Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory, Theatre, Berkeley, California. A work-in-progress presentation of Sleep was presented with The Play Company at Japan Society in New York City in Winter 2016. This adaptation of Sleep has been commissioned by Ripe Time in special arrangement with Haruki Murakami and ICM Partners. Excerpts from the original text are included from Sleep, by Haruki Murakami and translated from the Japanese by Alfred Birnbaum and Jay Rubin. This production is supported, in part, by public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. The project has been supported by the Japan Foundation through the Performing Arts JAPAN program. Made possible from a generous grant from the Leo Shull Foundation for the Arts. Production design support provided by A.R.T/ New York’s Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation. Generous support also provided by The Jerome Robbins Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts—a State Agency, the Alex and Rita Hillman Foundation, the Dramatists Guild, Off-Broadway Angels, a NET/TEN Travel Grant, a LMCC Process Space residency, the Purchase College Foundation, a Purchase College Faculty Support grant, Lord, Abbett, Alliance Bernstein and co-producers circle members: Constance and Henry Christensen III, Philip Halpern, Thomas James, and Joseph Triebwasser. Sleep is supported at Yale Repertory Theatre in part by The Root Boy Slim Fund.
ABOUT YALE REPERTORY THEATRE Yale Repertory Theatre, the internationally celebrated professional theatre in residence at Yale School of Drama, has championed new work since 1966, producing well over 100 premieres—including two Pulitzer Prize winners and four other nominated finalists. Seventeen Yale Rep productions have advanced to Broadway, garnering more than 40 Tony Award nominations and 10 Tony Awards. Yale Rep is also the recipient of the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre. Yale Rep’s NO BOUNDARIES series explores the frontiers of theatrical invention through cutting-edge and thoughtprovoking performance from around the world. NO BOUNDARIES has introduced Yale Rep audiences to an astonishing array of performances—including theatre, dance, music, and multimedia—from the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Poland, Peru, Colombia, Spain, Germany, Japan, Israel, Georgia, East Africa, West Africa, and right here in the United States.
STAFF ARTISTIC Jennifer Kiger, Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Programs Amy Boratko, Literary Manager Kay Perdue Meadows, Artistic Associate Jocelyn Prince, Artistic Coordinator Ashley Chang, Literary Associate PRODUCTION C. Nikki Mills, Associate Head of Production and Student Labor Supervisor Valerie Tu, Associate Production Manager and Projection Engineer Steph Waaser, Technical Director Matt Davis, Master Electrician Janet Cunningham, Stage Carpenter Stephanie Smith, Sound Engineer Bianca A. Hooi, Props Runner Tye Hunt Fitzgerald, FOH Mix Engineer Yaara Bar, A2/Projections Assistant Elizabeth Bolster, Wardrobe Coordinator David Willmore, Light Board Programmer and Operator ADMINISTRATION Kelvin Dinkins, Jr., General Manager Ruoran (Kathy) Li, Associate Managing Director Armando Huipe, Assistant Managing Director Markie Gray, Management Assistant Adam Frank, House Manager The NO BOUNDARIES series is supported by the work of more than 200 Yale Rep staff and Yale School of Drama faculty members. Sleep, March 1–3, 2018 Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel Street
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