Oct 7, 2012 - Electric Company's Tear the Curtain! .... in the one-man show Jesus, My Boy, .... Theatre) and All The Way
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An enthusiastic welcome to the opening production of Canadian Stage’s 25th anniversary season! We are celebrating this milestone by presenting a selection of the most outstanding and innovative work from Canada and around the world, spanning every theatrical discipline.
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Electric Company’s Tear the Curtain! is a theatrical, visual, and cinematic marvel that fully embodies our company’s mandate. Inspired by the history of the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver, this clever, at times vertiginous work examines the insidious yet passionate battle between cinema and live theatre at the dawn of blockbuster “talkies” in the 1930s. Devised as a detective story, Tear the Curtain! exposes this battle as it is waged between the mafias controlling these two empires, each trying to outwit the other for domination of the audio-visual world. The war unravels on stage in a seamless blend of filmed and live performance, making it sometimes impossible for us to decipher which medium we are viewing. And through it all we are faced with the opportunity to examine what exactly it is we want - or expect from art: to be challenged and pushed out of our comfort zones, or for convention and order to be upheld.
Having debuted in Vancouver last year, Tear the Curtain! is the invention of Canadian Stage Resident Artist Kim Collier and her long-standing collaborators Jonathon Young and Kevin Kerr. This is the team that brought us the wonderful Studies in Motion in 2010.11, and last season Kim directed our nationally acclaimed production of Red. We are delighted to showcase this multidisciplinary adventure to launch a particularly vibrant and thought-provoking season. Thank you for celebrating 25 years with us, and many more to come.
Matthew Jocelyn ARTISTIC & GENERAL DIRECTOR
COVER PHOTO: LAURA MENNELL & JONATHON YOUNG IN TEAR THE CURTAIN! PHOTO BY TIM MATHESON
political mother
PRESENTS
tear the curtain! A N E LEC TR I C CO M PAN Y PRO D U C TI O N I N A S SO C IATI O N WITH VA N CO U V ER ' S ARTS C LU B TH E ATR E CO M PA N Y PR ES ENTED BY C A NAD IAN S TAG E
CHOREOGRAPHED AND COMPOSED BY
PERFORMED BY
HOFESH SHECHTER
HOFESH SHECHTER COMPANY
OCT 7–OCT 20, 2012 BLUMA APPEL THEATRE
BY
JONATHON YOUNG & KEVIN KERR C R E ATE D WITH AN D D I R EC TE D BY
KIM COLLIER
PRESENTED BY
POLITICAL MOTHER BY HOFESH SHECHTER. PHOTO BY TOM MEDWELL.
CANADIAN STAGE
CAST
CREATIVE
EDITOR, ET AL.
CO - DIR EC TO R
DAVID ADAMS
JONATHON YOUNG
BLIN, QUINCEY, BARNEY
PRO DUC TION DE SIG N E R
SCOTT BELLIS
DAVID ROBERTS
KRISTIAN, CAPTAIN, ET AL.
COSTU M E DE SIG N E R
CRAIG ERICKSON
NANCY BRYANT
ASSOCIATE LIG HTING DE SIG N E R
SENDER, ET AL.
LIG HTING DE SIG N E R
HIRO KANAGAWA
ALAN BRODIE
JASON HAND
MAX PAMPLONI, ET AL.
CIN E MATOG R APH E R
TOM MCBEATH
BRIAN JOHNSON
MILA BROOK
COMPOSER
LAURA MENNELL
PETER ALLEN
MAVIS
SOUND DESIGNER/ RE-RECORDING MIXER
DAWN PETTEN PATRICK DUGAN, ET AL.
GERARD PLUNKETT STANLEY LEE
STAG E MANAG E R
JAN HODGSON ASSISTANT STAG E MANAG E R
JENNIFER SWAN
PRO DUCE RS
NATHAN MEDD BILL MILLERD OLIVER LINSLEY
MIGUEL NUNES EDITOR
ALEX CRAIG
JAMES FAGAN TAIT ALEX BRAITHWAITE
JONATHON YOUNG
6 SHOWS
ONLY! AN ELECTRIFYING DANCE AND ROCK SPECTACLE THAT HAS CAPTIVATED AUDIENCES AROUND THE WORLD
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Please be advised that this performance contains strong language and uses theatrical haze. This performance runs approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including an intermission.
CREATORS' NOTE
KIM COLLIER, JONATHON YOUNG & LAURA MENNELL AT WORK. PHOTO BY TIM MATHESON.
WHY TEAR THE CURTAIN! OR IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT?
WE DON’T EXACTLY KNOW, OR, THERE WILL BE MORE THAN ONE ANSWER. In the spirit of the surrealist art movement of the 1920s, we have allowed the forces of random chance and free association to shape the world of our play. THE IMPULSE TO “DISMANTLE”. The play is inspired by all the serious “isms” in art which began to dismantle everything around the turn of the last century; at first with a kind of childlike innocence, and then with a kind of scientific sophistication, and then with a kind of spiritual brutality, and then with a kind of heartless awareness of their own eventual commodification. NOSTALGIA for a time and place when a radical new play or film could stir the masses into a riotous mob. Were we more innocent before the cinema and the television? Were we more “whole”? What have we gained from such obsessive social reflection? What’s been lost? Is nostalgia an escapist cop-out or in fact a genuine longing for authenticity?
ARTIFICIALITY. Tear the Curtain! is full of imitation and convention and will reuse old-fashioned stereotypes with both a fondness for them and a desire to bust them up.
IT’S A HYBRID. Tear the Curtain! has an identity crisis, but there will be no real fight waged here between stage and screen – it’s more like a conversation between the two mediums and their respective strengths and weaknesses. The cinematic image can bring us within a hair’s-breadth of our idols, tricking us with the delirious illusion of intimacy. By contrast, the live theatre keeps us at a distance but reveals to us our vulnerability, our very humanness. Which form is more intimate? And how do they come to our rescue when we need them? The actual battle lines tonight will be drawn between the mainstream and the avant-garde; inspired on the one hand by Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Antonin Artaud, Hakim
ORIGINALITY. It’s a commonly held truth that there are no truly original ideas. But is it still possible that with courage and a little recklessness we can create a form that, like Alex our protagonist, risks everything and takes itself apart to expose a glimpse of the new, the now, the unseen? THE MODERN-DAY BLOCKBUSTER and how they literally seize our attention. We leave feeling force-fed, stunned and maybe abducted, wondering: While we were in there being gobbled up by that story, was something implanted and something else irreplaceably replaced?
THE CAST & CREATIVE TEAM WORKING ON THE FILM. PHOTO BY TIM MATHESON.
Bey, Jean Cocteau, David Lynch (taking it all apart) and on the other James Cameron, Walt Disney and all Hollywood (keeping it together). And by these books: Mediated by Thomas De Zengotita and Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman, reminding us to keep watch even as we are swept away.
JONATHON YOUNG KIM COLLIER KEVIN KERR
CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM CAST
CAST (CONT.) EDITOR, ET AL.
KRISTIAN, CAPTAIN, ET AL.
MAX PAMPLONI, ET AL.
MAVIS
David Adams
Craig Erickson
Tom McBeath
Dawn Petten
David’s varied career ranges from megamusicals Showboat, Phantom of the Opera and Sunset Blvd., to three seasons at The Shaw Festival, from various roles in theatres across the country, to many appearances on TV & Film and an extensive list of voice-over credits. Recently, David played Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, was featured in the one-man show Jesus, My Boy, played Daddy Warbucks in Annie, Dara in My Granny the Goldfish, Marley/Christmas Present/Joe in Jeremy Tow’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol, Mr. Green in Visiting Mr. Green, Gino Barbieri in Mambo Italiano, Monsieur Renaud in La Cage aux Folles, General Yepanchin in The Idiot and Isador Strauss in Titanic.
For Canadian Stage: Vinci (2003). Craig is delighted to return to Toronto with Tear the Curtain!. Before moving to Vancouver in 2002, he spent 7 years in Toronto. Highlights of that time include S.S. Tenacity, Lord of the Flies (Shaw), Gross Indecency (Techtonic/ Berkley St.), and Our Country's Good (Theatrefront). Recent: Dostoyevsky's The Idiot (Neworld), Macbeth, Taming of the Shrew, All's Well that Ends Well, Richard II (Bard on the Beach), Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Blackbird/Arts Club - Jessie Award, best actor), and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire (CTF). Upcoming: Mamet's Race and writing and performing in one of Electric Company's next projects, You are Very Star. SENDER, ET AL.
BLIN, QUINCEY, BARNEY
Scott Bellis Scott Bellis has been an actor in his hometown Vancouver for 25 years, and he is very happy to reunite with Electric Company for this unique show. He is a founding company member and Artistic Associate of Bard on the Beach, where he has appeared in most of Shakespeare's plays since 1990. Last summer's roles: Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor and the title role in King John. He has been nominated 15 times for Jessie Awards. Upcoming: plays by Sally Stubbs, Drew Macreadie, Willy Russell, and Anton Chekhov. This is his first appearance in Toronto.
Hiro Kanagawa Like many Canadian artists, Hiro has forged a career for himself wearing many hats: actor, teacher, playwright, screenwriter. Among his distinctions are a Jessie Award and an MFA from Simon Fraser University. Stage writing credits include Tiger of Malaya (Factory Theatre/National Arts Centre), The Patron Saint of Stanley Park (Arts Club) and the collaborative creation Sexual Practices of the Japanese (Theatre Replacement). Later this fall he will appear with Vancouver’s Solo Collective for the premiere of Aaron Bushkowsky’s Play with Monsters. He is currently story editor on the gritty rez drama Blackstone and teaches playwriting at Capilano University.
Electric Company: exciting. The project: totally exciting. The cast and crew: honoured to be among them. Celebrating 40 years as a freelance actor. (Amazing in so many ways.) Still here. Still working. Still loving it. MILA BROOK
Laura Mennell After years of working in film and television, Laura Mennell is thrilled to revisit her role of Mila in Tear the Curtain!—for which she was nominated for a Jessie Award in 2011. In 2012 Laura was nominated for a Leo Award for her current series-lead role in the hit television show Alphas (Syfy/NBC Universal). Her previous work also includes guest appearances in Fringe and Smallville to supporting roles in the Emmy-nominated Flight 93, and as Janey Slater in the blockbuster Watchmen. Laura is excited and grateful to be working again with such a wonderfully talented cast and crew!
Dawn is pleased as punch to share one of her favourite theatrical experiences with her hometown of Toronto and her family and friends. She previously appeared at Canadian Stage as Susan in Electric Company's production of Studies in Motion. Dawn, a graduate of UBC's BFA Acting Program, resides in Vancouver and has performed at the Arts Club, the Playhouse (sigh), Caravan Farm Theatre, MTC, and PTE among others. She just concluded a season at Bard on the Beach where she acted in The Taming of the Shrew and Macbeth, and is a multiple Jessie Award nominee and winner. Special love to her parents and her brother (who worked on the film crew for Tear!). PATRICK DUGAN, ET AL.
Gerard Plunkett Gerard Plunkett is a Dubliner who loves Canada and has made it his home for the past thirty years. On the big screen the veteran actor has appeared in such movies as Eight Below, 2012, Sucker Punch, Snakes on a Plane and has just completed shooting The Seventh Son alongside Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore. He has appeared in numerous TV series such as DaVinci's Inquest, Intelligence, Fringe, and Sanctuary to name but a few. On stage Plunkett is a multiple Jessie Award nominee. He took home the best actor award for his portrayal of Shelley "The Machine" Levene in Glengarry Glen Ross in 2010.
CAST (CONT.) Gerard is delighted to be back with all the gang in Tear the Curtain!.
CREATIVE PLAYWRIGHT/CO-DIRECTOR AS CAST: ALEX BRAITHWAITE
Jonathon Young STANLEY LEE
James Fagan Tait James Fagan Tait is from Cornwall, Ontario and lived in Toronto for many years. For the last fifteen years, he has acted, directed, and/or written plays in Vancouver, BC at the Arts Club, Bard on the Beach, Boca del Lupo, The Belfry, Neworld, The Playhouse and others. He recently created Thank You, You’re Not Welcome with dancer Noam Gagnon and adapted The Book of Eve by Constance Beresford-Howe for actress Susan Hogan. He just completed the illustrated book A lion in the bedroom and is thrilled to be working on this project again in such close proximity to family and friends.
Now based in Toronto, Jonathon is co-founder of Electric Company and has collaborated on the making of a dozen original productions since the company began creating work together in 1996. Jonathon has performed in theatres across Canada: The Belfry (Skylight), Vancouver Playhouse (Romeo and Juliet), Arts Club (Intimate Apparel), Citadel (Tartuffe), ATP (Studies in Motion), Centaur (The Invisible Life of Joseph Finch), and the National Arts Centre (Beauty Queen of Leenane). Recent work in Toronto: No Exit (which he adapted with Kim Collier), Studies in Motion (also at Canadian Stage) and Stockholm (Seventh Stage). For the past four years he has had a regular role on the SyFy series Sanctuary. Tear the Curtain! is dedicated to Azra who once, when she was nine, walked into the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver and exclaimed "it's like coming home!" PLAYWRIGHT
Kevin Kerr Kevin Kerr is playwright and founding member of Electric Company, with whom he’s co-written numerous plays including The Wake, The Score, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Flop, The Fall, and Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla. He received the Governor General’s Literary Award for his play Unity (1918) in 2002. Electric Company’s production of his play Studies in
CREATIVE (CONT.) Motion was seen at Canadian Stage in the 2010.11 season. He was recently appointed to the faculty at University of Victoria’s Department of Writing and is serving as the current Artistic Director at Electric Company. CO-CREATOR/DIRECTOR
Kim Collier Kim is currently the Resident Artist at Canadian Stage and was for 14 years Co-Artistic Director of Electric Company, with whom she continues to create work that tours nationally and internationally. Last season she directed Red (Canadian Stage, Vancouver Playhouse, Citadel Theatre) and All The Way Home (Electric Company/Vancouver Playhouse). She has directed/co-created such Electric Company productions as: Studies in Motion (part of the Canadian Stage 2010.11 season) and a live-video adaptation of Jean Paul Sartre’s No Exit. In 2005, Kim made her debut as a film director with the feature length adaptation of Electric Company’s The Score for Screen Siren Pictures and CBC. Kim is the recipient of the prestigious Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize for Directing and numerous other directing, production, writing and innovation awards with her collaborators.
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
David Roberts David is a Vancouverbased scenographer who has worked across Canada and Europe. He is pleased for all involved that this amazing production is coming to Toronto. Recent projects include Hotel Bethlehem (Ruby Slippers) and Don Pasquale (Saskatoon Opera). Upcoming projects include She Stoops to Conquer (Arts Club), Attempts on her Life (Studio 58), Eternal Hydra (Touchstone), and Terminus (Pi Theatre, Vancouver). David represented Canada at the Prague Quadrennials 2003 and 2011. David received his Masters in Scenography at Central Saint Martins, London and DAMU, Prague. David is a member of The Associated Designers of Canada. COSTUME DESIGNER
Nancy Bryant Selected costume design credits include: The Overcoat, Amadeus and Sweeney Todd (Canadian Stage); You Never Can Tell and Hotel Peccadillo (The Shaw Festival); The Flying Dutchman, Rodelinda and The Rake’s Progress (Pacific Opera Victoria); The Threepenny Opera (Vancouver Opera); The Importance of Being Earnest, Tear the Curtain!, The Constant Wife, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl and She Loves Me (Arts Club Theatre); The Amorous Adventures of Anatol, Oliver and Fiddler on the Roof (The Vancouver Playhouse); The Tempest Replica (Kidd Pivot); Plot Point (The Netherlands Dance Theatre);
CREATIVE (CONT.) productions for Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Stuttgart Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballet BC and Dancemakers. Film and television credits as a costume designer include: The Legend of Earthsea, The Snow Queen, A Wrinkle in Time, Snow White, The Mermaid Chair and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Nancy is the recipient of twelve Jessie Awards and a Leo Award. www.nancybryant.ca LIGHTING DESIGNER
Alan Brodie Since 1989 Vancouverbased lighting designer Alan Brodie has worked for regional theatres across Canada. He has created lighting for opera productions including Turn of the Screw (COC), Magic Flute (Vancouver Opera), Macbeth (Pacific Opera) and dance works including Emergence (National Ballet of Canada) and Plot Point (Nederlands Dans Theater). Alan has 10+ seasons at The Shaw Festival (Ragtime) and 5 seasons at Stratford (Wanderlust). Canadian Stage credits include Red, 7 Stories, Miss Julie: Freedom Summer, Frost/Nixon, Glorious!, Little Shop of Horrors, Vigil and The Overcoat. A graduate of Theatre@UBC, Alan is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. www.alanbrodie.ca
CREATIVE (CONT.) CINEMATOGRAPHER
Brian Johnson Brian has received numerous awards and accolades for his work as a director and as a cinematographer. He has won two Golden Sheaf awards, a Leo and been nominated for a Gemini for his work as a cinematographer on feature films such as On the Corner and The Delicate Art of Parking. Brian has recently completed direction of a one-hour anthology on BC artists for Knowledge Network. He is a frequent collaborator with Electric Company, The Hard Rubber Orchestra, and contemporary dance artists such as Katy McLeod–Harris, Josh Martin and Crystal Pite. His most recent work, Lornezo, Isabella and the Pot of Basil was programed at the 2011 New Forms Festival in Vancouver, British Columbia.
SOUND DESIGNER / RE-RECORDING MIXER
Miguel Nunes Miguel Nunes is one of Canada’s leading independent film sound artists. He has received numerous awards including 2 Gemini Awards and 10 Leo Awards. In addition, he has received 28 nominations including 2 Genie nominations, 24 Leo nominations and 1 Jessie Award nomination. Miguel is currently working on several film, television, video game and web series projects at his personal studio and in partnership with various sound major facilities. Recent credits include: feature films Donovan’s Echo, Repeaters, Year of the Carnivore; as well as television series Da Vinci’s Inquest, Intelligence, Hiccups, and R.L Stine’s The Haunting Hour. www.miguelnunes.com
Anatol (Tarragon Theatre); The Tales of Hoffman (Edmonton Opera); THIS (Canadian Stage); Blue Planet (Young People’s Theatre). STAGE MANAGER
Jan Hodgson Previous credits for Canadian Stage: Studies In Motion and The Overcoat. Credits for Electric Company: Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands; The One That Got Away; Brilliant!; Palace Grand; No Exit; Studies in Motion; Everyone; Tear the Curtain!. Recent Credits: La Cage Aux Folles and Catalyst Theatre’s production of Hunchback for the Vancouver Playhouse; Right Robert and His Notorious Robber Bride for Caravan Farm Theatre. ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
COMPOSER
Peter Allen Peter is an active member of the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music Centre. Peter has been commissioned to write numerous pieces which were often recorded and broadcast by the CBC, and has also been active in the jazz and rock communities as a player and a writer, and also as a church musician and composer of sacred music. To date Peter has scored over 100 films for a wide variety of Los Angeles and Canadian film companies including Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Hallmark, Lifetime, Cinetel, the CBC and the National Film Board of Canada.
ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER
Jason Hand Recent theatre credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter's Tale (Canadian Stage); The Trespassers (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); The Ugly One (Dora nomination), Tijuana Cure (Theatre Smash); and Man of Mode, Ivona Princess of Burgundia (George Brown College). Operas include Giulio Cesare (Orchestra London); Dido and Aeneas (Opera on the Avalon) and Turn of the Screw, La Bohème (Against the Grain). In March, he was part of a Canadian creative team that placed third in the biennial European Opera-Directing Prize. Upcoming: The Arsonists (Canadian Stage); The Amorous Adventures of
Jennifer Swan This past year, Jen stage managed Hansel & Gretel for Vancouver Opera in Schools and God of Carnage at the Belfry Theatre, and Assistant Stage Managed La Cage Aux Folles for the Vancouver Playhouse. The last time she was at Canadian Stage was in 2010 with Electric Company’s production of Studies in Motion. Prior to that, she toured here several times with Victoria’s Theatre SKAM, performing shows at the Tarragon, Theatre Passe Muraille, Dufferin Grove Park, and most memorably, the loading dock behind Honest Ed’s.
ABOUT THE SHOW CREATION HISTORY Tear the Curtain! was developed over several years beginning with a commission from Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre in 2006. Inspired by the historic Stanley Theatre’s dual identity as a live theatre and former cinema, Electric Company set forth to create a piece that would live equally in both forms. As a result, the project was an unprecedented collaboration between artists from Vancouver's thriving film and theatre communities. Looking into the actual history of the venue revealed that the Stanley was originally conceived as a vaudeville theatre but, perhaps as a response to the growing popularity of the cinema and the advent of the “talkies,” plans had changed before construction even began. In 1930, the Stanley opened as a motion picture house with Lillian Gish’s first talking picture, a film adaptation of Ferenc Molnar’s stage play The Swan. These events from the theatre's past were woven into a fictional history, drawing the spectator into a liminal state between illusion and reality.
SYNOPSIS The script was written as a screenplay making the project particularly difficult to stage. This “beautiful problem” was an opportunity for innovation as the entire creative team reverse-engineered cinematic language for the live theatre. In February 2010, a three-week film shoot resulted in 70 minutes of edited footage – approximately half of a production where narrative flows seamlessly between stage and screen. Tear the Curtain! was shot almost entirely on location at the theatre, with scenes at the ticket window, in the lobby, the auditorium, in the wings, the catwalks, dressing rooms and under the stage.
LEFT: A WORK IN PROGRESS: THE CREATIVE TEAM DESIGNED THE SET FOR THE STAGE, THEN ADAPTED IT FOR FILM. THESE ARE SOME EARLY SET SKETCHES FROM PRODUCTION DESIGNER DAVID ROBERTS. RIGHT: JONATHON YOUNG AND LAURA MENNELL IN TEAR THE CURTAIN! PHOTO BY TIM MATHESON.
Tear the Curtain! is set in a fictional Vancouver during the 1930s, when the popularity of the cinema and the advent of the "talkies" is threatening the existence of theatre. At the height of the Great Depression, local mob families are running the show - and deciding what gets shown. Pat Dugan controls the live venues and has his eyes on a plot of land on the Southside rise. The rival Pamploni family would prefer that property be developed as a movie theatre. Amidst that conflict, Tear the Curtain! follows the story of Alex Braithwaite, the city's most revered theatre critic
whose sense of identity begins to fracture after a chance encounter in the city park. Alex believes he has found the long lost Stanley Lee, director of an infamous, avant-garde theatre called The Empty Space. As Alex digs deeper into Lee's past he becomes convinced that a resurgence of Lee’s radically subversive ideas is what he needs to awaken minds, shatter complacency and save a threatened art form. Tear the Curtain! pitches a battle between stage and cinema but is ultimately a quest for an authentic expression of self in a world of imitations and stereotypes.
INSPIRATION AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT In its use of conventional cinematic language and genre, the project speaks to our fears of being caught in an irresistible cultural undertow stemming from Hollywood. But as a merging of avant-garde and “mainstream,” the piece experiments with the push and pull between surrealist strategies of disorientation and the well-worn screenwriting formulas that give the viewer a sense of order and catharsis. As Electric Company began to imagine a story set at the time of the Stanley’s opening, they were drawn to the work of the European avant-garde. The emergence of the surrealist movement in the ‘20s set out to challenge the accepted conventions of artistic practice and question the very function of art. The cinema was a
popular medium of expression for these artists with many in the avant-garde believing it was the perfect vehicle for transmitting new and radical ideas. Antonin Artaud was one such artist who began in the theatre, and came to view cinema as a powerful means of stirring the senses and engendering a primal reaction in the audience. Essentially, Artaud believed that Western civilization has resulted in our being removed from our authentic selves—our spiritual and animal connection to the world. He also believed that the function of art should be to restore this connection, activate our senses, and work directly upon our subconscious. The pursuit of authenticity resonated with the show's creators as being increasingly relevant in today’s media saturated world.
ELECTRIC COMPANY ELECTRIC COMPANY IS: PRODUCTION HISTORY Tear the Curtain! was originally commissioned by Vancouver’s Arts Club Theatre Company. The premiere production opened in September 2010 at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage, produced by the Arts Club in association with Electric Company, presented with the 2010 Cultural Olympiad.
award for playwriting, the first Alcan Performing Arts Award for Theatre, and numerous other industry honours around the country. Electric Company is headquartered at Progress Lab 1422, a theatre production studio in Vancouver’s Commercial Drive neighbourhood that is shared with Boca del Lupo, Neworld Theatre, and Rumble Productions. WWW.ELECTRICCOMPANYTHEATRE.COM
ABOUT ELECTRIC COMPANY 2012 marks Electric Company’s third visit to Toronto, following the live-cinematic No Exit (Nightwood Theatre, 2009) and Studies in Motion (Canadian Stage, 2010). The company is known throughout Canada for creating daring, original performances that are rich in spectacle and adventurous in form, strong in narrative, and developed with creative teams that often include experts in film, digital media, dance, visual art, and the sciences. Electric Company was originally formed as a collective in 1996 by Kim Collier, David Hudgins, Jonathon Young, and Kevin Kerr, who met while training at Vancouver’s Studio 58. Currently steered by artistic director Kevin Kerr, the company’s methodology has evolved over 15 years, but the creative process remains highly collaborative, blurring traditional boundaries between playwright, director, dramaturgy and design. With a growing body of work, Electric Company has created 15 mainstage productions, toured ten times (Canada, USA, UK), and made a feature film with CBC (The Score). The company and its members have been recognized with the Siminovitch Prize for direction, the Governor General’s
SPECIAL THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Electric Company sends thanks to their fans and donors in Toronto and around the world; to the entire staff and crew at Canadian Stage; to the entire staff and crew at the Arts Club Theatre Company; to Theatre Cares; and to Silver Commission Founders and Donors, Stan & Kathy Hamilton. The Playwrights acknowledge the assistance of the 2009 Banff Playwrights Colony – a partnership between the Canada Council for the Arts, The Banff Centre and Alberta Theatre Projects. Electric Company receives ongoing support from the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, City of Vancouver, the Melusine Foundation, the Vancouver Foundation, the Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation, and countless individual and business supporters.
TEAR THE CURTAIN! ADDITIONAL FILM CREDITS
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PRODUCER
Kevin Kerr
Nathan Medd
MANAGING PRODUCER
PRODUCER
Nathan Medd
Bill Millerd
PRODUCER
PRODUCER
Jessie van Rijn
Oliver Linsley
COMPANY MANAGER
FILM EDITORS
Jennifer Swan
Alex Craig Alex Leigh Barker
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES
Kim Collier Jonathon Young David Hudgins INTERNS
Linsey Callaghan Natalie Lefebvre Gnam 2012-13 RESIDENT DESIGNER
Naomi Sider BOARD PRESIDENT
Jessica Bouchard PAST PRESIDENT
TOURING TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Ace Martens VIDEO WRANGLER
Michael Sider HEAD PROPS
Michael Gall, Robyn Volk HEAD WARDROBE
Kendra Cooper Jodi Jacyk Jayme Cline HEAD SOUND
Karen Berkhout
Geoff Hollingshead
VICE PRESIDENT
EARLY STORY DEVELOPMENT
Margaret Tom-Wing TREASURER
John Mackenzie SECRETARY
Gillian Behnke AT LARGE
Mitch Anderson Mavis Dixon Julia Mackey + Many Associates, Partners & Donors across North America.
David Hudgins ADDITIONAL DRAMATURGY
Rachel Ditor FIRST ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Greg Milton SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Jan Hodgson SCRIPT SUPERVISOR
Alex Craig FIRST ASSISTANT CAMERA
Jos Oman Kieran Humphries Robin Smith SECOND ASSISTANT CAMERA
Werner Thomas Eric Zhang
ADDITIONAL FILM CREDITS (CONT.)
ADDITIONAL FILM CREDITS (CONT.)
ADDITIONAL CAST ON FILM
KEY GRIPS
SET DECORATOR
Mike Branham Trevor Gray
EXTRAS WRANGLER
LaVonne Girard
VARIOUS
Katherine Hazen
Robert Moloney
SOUND RECORDIST
FIRST AID
DOLLY GRIP
Jeff Carter
BEATRICE
Aaron James
Patti Allan
David Kershaw GRIPS
John William Parrott Harvey Thompson Vincent Phillips GAFFERS
Andrew Macleod John Helme
FOLEY ARTISTS
Don Harrison Ian Mackie
CRAFT SERVICE
ESS TICKET WOMAN
The Butler Did It
Barbara Bourget
SPECIAL EFFECTS
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
STAGE MANAGER
Michael Wheeler
Louis-Marie Bournival
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
GOON 1
Josh Epstein Blake William Turner
Alex Diakun
Brant McIlroy Martin Testa STUNT COORDINATOR
Rob Hayter
MAKE-UP
STAGE FIGHTS
Rexford Bangle
Kevin James
BACKGROUND MAKE-UP
ADDITIONAL EDITING
Deborah Slonowski
Brian Johnson
HAIR STYLIST
COLOURIST-TECHNICOLOUR
Janie Mackay
Claudio Sepulveda
HAIR
CARPENTERS
Codey Blair
Sylvia Betts Darel Boyes Joseph Chung Brett Eaton David Gagnon Joseph Lilly Dana Lindahl Gal Minnes Francesca Moore Paul Walker Philip Piper Chris Willis Mark Ransom Isabelle Rubin Robert Scurrah
ON-SET WARDROBE
Naomi Sider ON-SET WARDROBE ASSISTANT
Nicola Ryall BACKGROUND WARDROBE
Trina Skare BACKSTAGE WARDROBE
Patti King PROPS ASSISTANTS
Corey Adams Michael Wheeler PAPER PROPS
Corwin Ferguson PORTRAIT PAINTER
Linda Chinfen
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Craig Petten BOOKKEEPER
Jennifer Swan DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION – ARTS CLUB
Stephan Baeuml
HYACINTH
Duncan Fraser NEWSBOY
Julien Galipeau FENCING DOUBLE
Claudia Golombiewski GOON 2
Kim Kondrashoff WOMAN IN LOBBY
Samantha Mouchet FENCING TUTOR
David Roberts WAITER, ESS AGENT
Parnelli Parnes YOUNG ALEX
Emmett Plunkett MAYOR
Robin Mossley MAN IN CAFE
Nathan Medd A complete list of film performers appears in the show’s rolling end credits.
ELECTRICIANS
Robin West Isa Mills
SCENIC ARTISTS
LIGHTING TECHNICIAN
Skai Fowler, Beth Snelgrove
Adrian Muir
ART DEPARTMENT ASSISTANT
VIDEO TECHNICIAN
Yvonne Albert
Robin Greenwood
FIND OUT MORE:
Please visit Electric Company’s display in the lobby for more information.
WE ARE 25 YEARS OLD AND WE HAVE YOU TO THANK FOR IT.
CANADIAN STAGE IN OUR SCHOOLS
We have come a long way and the path has been full of colour, twists and turns and sizzle. Canadian Stage has been on the Toronto theatre arts scene for a quarter century and we share this moment of pride with you —our supporters. Each year, 35% of our operating budget comes from private sources. The best part is that we arrive at this number through a wide range of donations. As they say, “every little bit counts” and when we do the math, it all adds up!
PHOTO BY ERIN SCHACHTER
But we can only look back for so long. We are eager to bound forth and embrace turning 26, 34, 42 and of course 50 and beyond. We can truly dream, aspire, plan and grow if you empower us with an investment in the life of our company, and in your own experience of the theatre. If you are currently amongst our valued contributors, thank you and bravo to you. If you have not taken this step yet, I encourage you to join us. There is no limit to how large our circle can get. You know what it takes to keep live theatre alive—you!
Tenny Nigoghossian EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT
“Our students were thrilled with every aspect of the experience. In a time when the arts are often underfunded or seen as a ‘frill,’ an experience like today's visit is a credit to your company and to its benefactors." —JENNIFER WHITE (EDUCATOR, JARVIS COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE) Theatre is an invaluable medium through which we educate and inspire, particularly when audiences are given the tools to engage more meaningfully with the material we present on stage. Through educator preview nights, student workshops, comprehensive study guides, and matinee performance talkbacks, Canadian Stage provides dynamic enrichment materials and creative experiences that bring our productions alive for over 10,000 teachers and students involved in our Education Programs annually.
25 SEASONS
To make a contribution to our Education Program, contact Marielle Bryck at 416.367.8243 x327 or
[email protected].
OF SPECTACULAR PERFORMANCES TAMARA PODEMSKI, JOHN CLELAND, RICHARD LEE, MARK CRAWFORD, PIERRE SIMPSON IN A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. PHOTO BY CHRIS GALLOW.
DONATE TODAY TO CELEBRATE YOUR FAVOURITE! To make a gift and join our partnership program: visit https://www.canadianstage.com/support or contact Marielle Bryck, Patron Development Officer, at 416.367.8243 x327 or
[email protected].
THANK YOU FOR MAKING OUR DREAM COME TRUE Thank you to the nearly 30,000 patrons, 120 volunteers, countless donors, the entire cast, crew, and creative team of this summer’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream for making the 30th anniversary of Shakespeare in High Park such a success! We look forward to seeing you again next summer in High Park.
12.13 MAJOR CORPORATE SPONSORS Proud Sponsor: 12.13 Berkeley Season
Production Sponsor: TEAR THE CURTAIN!
Production Sponsor
Production Sponsor: POLITICAL MOTHER
Primary Supporter: Emerging Artist Program
Volunteer Program Sponsor
Official Television Sponsor
Official Hotel
PERFORMANCE SPONSORS Davis + Henderson KPMG LLP Gluskin Sheff & Associates Mackenzie Financial Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP
2012 CANADIAN STAGE
CORPORATE CAMPAIGN CIBC Mellon Front Print Giesecke & Devrient (Education Program Support) IBM
CORPORATE DONORS Barrick Gold Corporation Investor's Group Greg & Susan Guichon SAP Canada Inc. Minto High Park Village
Discount Ticket Programs Sponsor
Educator Outreach Program Sponsor
Program Sponsor
CORPORATE SUPPORT
RAFFLE PRIZE Mindham Fine Jewellery MAJOR AUCTION DONORS Alf Wirth Atom Egoyan & Arsinée Khanjian Bernard Langer Bryan Graham Caesars Entertainment Colliers International & Tim Bristow
SHAKESPEARE IN HIGH PARK
David Allan Exclusive Resorts Foley & Fredricks JLEntertainment John Tory & Barb Hackett Merrithew Health & Fitness Rob Richards Shay Lowe Jewellery Design Susan Crocker & John Hunkin Tailor Medical The Emergency Task Force The Investors Group Stars on Ice Tour presented by Lindt Tom McEwan Tom Woods V. Tony Hauser
FOUNDATION SUPPORT Radio Sponsors
GENERAL The Bennett Family Foundation The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation The Judith Teller Foundation The Japan Foundation Toronto DANCE PROGRAMMING The Hal Jackman Foundation
ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES The J.P. Bickell Foundation The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation The Henry White Kinnear Foundation The John McKellar Charitable Foundation PERFORMING ARTS INTERNSHIP The George Cedric Metcalf Foundation
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT
ARTISTIC PATRONS' CIRCLE
MAJOR GIFTS
The Artistic Patrons' Circle (APC) is a passionate group of cultural advocates whose invaluable contributions to Canadian Stage help us bring the best contemporary theatre to our audiences. For more information about the APC, please contact Heather McDonald, Associate Director of Development, at 416.367.8243 x244 or
[email protected].
Canadian Stage would like to acknowledge the generous leadership of the following individuals: Susan Crocker & John Hunkin Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys John & Nancy Embry
Maureen & Roger Parkinson
John & Nancy Embry* Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys**
ENDOWMENT FUND The outstanding gifts of the following supporters play an ongoing role in sustaining the vitality of Canadian Stage’s artistic programming and community outreach initiatives. J.P. Bickell Foundation
William A. MacKinnon
The Sarmite D. Bulte Musical Commission Fund
The John McKellar Charitable Foundation
The Bluma Appel Artistic and Audience Development Fund
The James W. Leech Playwright Fund
The Henry N.R. Jackman Foundation
The Martin Bragg Fund
In Memory of John D’Angelo
TAKE A SEAT CAMPAIGN We thank the generous donors who have contributed to our Take a Seat Campaign. For more information on naming a seat, contact Heather McDonald, Associate Director of Development, at 416.367.8243 x244 or
[email protected]. BOX: The Appel Family Foundation Trevor Lloyd & Margaret Craw Craig & Kim Loudon Maureen & Roger Parkinson Jack & Judith Rose
* Two Orchestra seats
ORCHESTRA AND BALCONY SEATS: The Abel & Mason Families David G.P. Allan & Cynthia Young* Hans & Suzy Brenninkmeyer Wendy Marion Cecil Susan Crocker & John Hunkin* In Memory of J. Gordon Fleming
PACESETTERS $50,000 +
Peter & Dianne Gillin* In memory of Marilyn Gould Richard & Pamela Hallisey* Frances & Peter Hogg Edward & Ann Kerwin Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys* Catherine Lawrence & Jerome Morse Margaret Ann Pattison Robert & Penny Richards*
Jane Sanderson The Staff & Crew of The St Lawrence Centre for the Arts Sylvia Soyka Tim Thompson & Matthew Campbell George Turnbull & Family In Memory of John David Wood James Peter Howitt Wood
AMBASSADORS $25,000 - $49,999 Susan Crocker & John Hunkin** Maureen & Roger Parkinson**
ARTISTS UNDERWRITERS $10,000 - $24,999 Appel Family Foundation Nita Farmer & Ken Stowe* The Fleck Family Foundation* Barbara Hackett & John Tory* Jack & Judith Rose** Sylvia Soyka**
DIRECTORS $7,500 - $9,999 Andrée Appleton & Alex Leman* Jill E. Black & Barry Allan** Adrian Lang & Ash Taylor Doug & Alexa Murphy* Gabrielle M.R. Richards
SUPERSTARS $5,000 - $7,499 Cathy Bateman Susan & Hans Brenninkmeyer** John Dimitrieff & Patricia Biesecke Dimitrieff* Angela & Bryan Gransden* Peter Jelley
Mike Leshyk & Andrea Waddell* John & Gail MacNaughton** Emmanuel Pressman James Riley* Robert Rowe Daniel & Sandra Sullivan** Stephen Williamson & Margot Hallman** Susan Willmot Anonymous
STARS $2,500 - $4,999 David G. P. Allan & Cynthia A. Young** Schuyler Bankes and Family** Martha Burns & Paul Gross Helen Burstyn* Bruce & Mary Ann Burton* Patti & Gordon Cunningham** Brian Doyle & Victoria Welsh Bob & Irene Gillespie** Peter & Dianne Gillin** The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation** Robert Hutchison** Kathy Inch & Steve Simpson* Matthew Jocelyn† Donald & Marjorie Lenz** Cheryl Longo Ian & Patti Milne Noel D. Mowat Anne Marie O'Donovan & Steve Lunn* Sarah Perry & Ronan McGrath Tim & Frances Price** Len & Vivian Racioppo** Rob & Penny Richards**
Ellen & Brian Rose** Joy Rychlik Stephen & Leslie Sigurdson* David Staines Jean & Linda Taillon* Antoinette Tummillo & John Carter Julie Walters & Gerry Frascione George & Mary Turnbull Foundation at the Toronto Community Foundation** In Memory of John David Wood Anonymous
CAST MEMBERS $1,500 - $2,499 Richard T. Adams & Ken Burke** Anne-Marie H. Applin* Richard Archbold** Ernest Balmer Tony Baylis & Jacqueline Kirk John & Randi Bitove Murray & Ellen Blankstein** Walter M & Lisa Balfour Bowen Louise Cannon** Melanie Carr & Donald Livingstone Wendy M. Cecil** Margaret Craw & Trevor Lloyd Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney* Ken Drope** Dr. Roy Eappen* Robert & Julia Foster* Ralph & Roslyn Halbert** Pamela Hallisey** Robert Henderson & Diana Burke* Kathleen Hermant* Jane Hill
Ken Hugessen & Jennifer Connolly Su Hutchinson & Graham Mitchell Brian Imrie & Carol Sewell** Edward & Ann Kerwin** Catherine Lawrence & Jerome Morse* Simon & Cathy Lewis Janet & Sid Lindsay** Larry Lubin** Peter Lyman & Judith Moses Brian & Susan Magee* Jason Martin & Susan Bedford-Martin Heather McDonald† & Dale Marsden The Don Middleton & Clayton Wilson Fund** Tenny Nigoghossian†* Perry Orestes & Tim Giguere* Greg & Jennifer Rowe* George & Henri Stalk Doug & Gail Todgham** Chip & Barbara Vallis** Stuart Watson Dr. Blossom T. Wigdor, C.M.** Carole Winberg Chung Yue Berta Zaccardi & Craig Robertson Anonymous **10 or more years of support *5 or more years of support †Canadian Stage Staff Member
PARTNERSHIP With their support, Partners demonstrate their passion for innovative theatre. Canadian Stage salutes our partners for their generosity. For more information about the Partnership Program, please contact Marielle Bryck, Patron Development Officer, at 416.367.8243 x327 or
[email protected]. PATRONS $1,000 - $1,499 Karen & Bill Barnett Frank L. Bilotta & Stacey Lynn Bilotta Denise & Bob Graham** Shawn McReynolds & Elaine Kierans* M. A. Pattison** Winsor & Ruth Ann Pepall** The Schaal Family** Sam Sniderman** Chris TwiggeMolecey** Carole Winberg Anonymous ASSOCIATES $750 - $999 David & Patti Bragg** H. Ian & Dorothy Macdonald** Jim Milligan** Elizabeth Terry** BENEFACTORS $500 - $749 Phyllis & David Agg* Blaine Allan* Marilyn Balan** Rory Barnes Nani Beutel** Andrew & Ann Brown* Michael Christian Margaret E. Cockshutt** Kim Collier† Maggie Dickson** Robert & Ellen Eisenberg**
Paul Ellis** Lorne Fox* Lei-Beng Goh* Sheila Goldman** Ellen Hand* Nancy Howe** Patrick & Barbara Keenan** Ruth Kenins** Helen McArthur* Susan Moellers** Robert Morassutti** Julian Mulock** Ed & Cindy Nowina Eric E. Parker** Maureen Parry** David Robertson** Patricia & David Rubin* Ivor Simmons** Peter H. Sims** Tony Stapells** Martin Teplitsky Professor Paul Thompson & Jennifer McShane** Jennifer Tory* Dr. Paul Truelove** Karen Wynnychuk* Morden Yolles* Eb & Jane Zeidler* Joyce & Fred Zemans Mary Zuberec** Anonymous (2) SUPPORTERS $250 - $499 Malcolm S. Archibald** Joshua & Karen Auslander** Carmel P. Badour** Laurie Barrett &
Giles Meikle** The Bhabha Family* Alec Bollini** Clare Booker* Barbara Bruser** Cansfield Family** Marjorie Clark** Robert Cook Jill Craigie** Tom & Nancy Cutler** Leslie Dan** Thelma Davidson Alan & Joan Dessau** William Dunk-Green* Brodie Edmonds** Buddy & Leigh Eisenberg** Christopher Ferguson** Carol & Russell Finch** Carol & Peter Foster** Briar Foster Lynn From** Darren Gobert John & Susan Goddard* Diana Goldsborough Stephen Greiner** Colin Gruchy** Mr. Matthew Hassell Karen Henderson** Frances Hogg** Richard & Susan Horner S. Iyer** Seona Jennings* Sharon Jorgensen Karin Kalchhauser** Diane King S. Kirschbaum**
Samuel Kolber** Jill Koplowitz Mr. & Mrs. Alex Korn** Kevin Lamotte Anita & Leon Lapidus** Sheila Laredo & Richard Marcovitz* Hernando Lopez Sallie Lyons Farrell Macdonald** Jo-Anne Mackie** Mrs. Isabell McDorman Mr. Gordon McKay* Fiona & Anson McKim** Jamie McRoberts* Dr. & Mrs. Meghory* James Moore** Lea & Syd Moscoe* Ann Murphy Mary S. Nutson** Maureen & John Orton** Roger Pearce M. Penrose** Graham & Edie Pett** Mr. Walter Pitman* Margaret Planck* Harold Povilaitis** Georgia Quartaro** Bob Rempel Gretta RiddellDixon** Janice Romaldi Yvonne Rosenberg* Deanna Rosenswig* Sue Russell** J. Douglas Sanderson** Robert & Kathleen
Saunders** Ron Schlumpf Esther Schrieder* Hart Schutz** Jason Silzer** L. E. Smith & G. Kozorys-Smith** Lorraine Spragg* R. G. Stackhouse** Myrna & Chris Stait-Gardner** Julia Stavreff** John C.
Stephenson** John Stout Earle & Iris Toppings** John & Elizabeth Tory** In memory of Art & Thelma Trotter** Kaley Walker** Nick & Marg Walker** Ruth WattsGransden**
Joan York & Peter Webb** L. S. C. White** Lance & Joycelyn Williams James H. Wilson** Donald L. Woods & Alida Dubray** Joe Wright** Anonymous (6)
**10 or more years of support *5 or more years of support v Visionaries member † Canadian Stage Staff Member Canadian Stage is also grateful for the support of Partners at the Donor and Member levels.
As of September 12, 2012 we have made every effort to ensure appropriate recognition. If, however, your name has been accidentally omitted, listed incorrectly or misspelled, please notify us of this error. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. Your name will be added to our patron list when you book tickets, request a brochure or make a donation to Canadian Stage. However, your privacy is our top priority. Canadian Stage is committed to using your information solely for the purpose of communicating with you about special offers, events, and occasional information about other arts organizations we think may be of interest to you. If you prefer not to receive this information, you can inform us by mail: Canadian Stage, 26 Berkeley St, Toronto, ON M5A 2W3, Attention: Privacy Officer. Privacy policy information is also available on our website canadianstage.com.
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Canadian Stage recognizes the significant support of our public funders:
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada The Social Investment Fund of Toronto Community Housing Corporation
We acknowledge the support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage Nous reconnaissons l’appui du gouvernement du Canada par l’entremise du ministère du Patrimoine canadien
GENERAL INFORMATION
CANADIAN STAGE STAFF
Cellphones, pagers, candy wrappers and beeping watches are distracting for performers and audience members. For those who must have access to pagers for emergencies, please leave them with the House Manager who will record your seat number and name.
FOR MORE INFORMATION & CUSTOMER SERVICE Canadian Stage, 26 Berkeley St, Toronto, ON M5A 2W3
Matthew Jocelyn Artistic & General Director Su Hutchinson Managing Director
Box Office 416.368.3110 Administration 416.367.8243 Facsimile 416.367.1768 Email
[email protected]
ARTISTIC
Please respect other patrons with sensitivity to perfumes. LATE ARRIVALS As a courtesy to the audience and artists, latecomers will be seated at an appropriate break in the performance if possible. PHOTOS AND RECORDINGS The use of cameras and recording devices during performances is strictly prohibited.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Stagehands and wardrobe/wig attendants engaged
by Canadian Stage are represented by Locals 58 and 822, respectively, of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Canadian Stage is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) and engages, under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. Canadian Stage is a member of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA)
ST. LAWRENCE CENTRE STAFF James Roe General Manager Carol Henderson Director of Sales & Marketing Karen Kingsmill Box Office Manager Thomas Quinlan Assistant Box Office Manager Yvette LeClair Ticket Services Supervisor Leif Conti-Groome Simon Esler Michael Hiscock Davor Mamuzic
Max Rubino Kathleen Strader Ticket Service Representatives Sean Tasson Director of Production and Communications Heather Lacey Production Co-ordinator MK Piatkowski Stage Door Supervisor David Pearsons Director of Guest and Client Services James Ufton Event Manager
Lynn Frenette House Manager Hayde Boccia Director of Finance Darwin Kan Accountant Jennifer Oracion Accountant Andrea Bragg HR/Payroll Peter Kincaid Systems Manager JANE MALLETT THEATRE Eric Meadows Head Technician
BLUMA APPEL THEATRE Ashley Rose Head Electrician Reg Taylor Head Carpenter Douglas Parker Property Master Keijo Makela Sound Operator Kevin Lake Flyman, Theatre Technician Susan Batchelor Head of Wardrobe
Kim Collier Resident Artist Natasha Mytnowych Associate Artistic Producer Joanne Williams Artistic & Company Manager Birgit Schreyer-Duarte Artistic Consultant Heather Bellingham Mandy E. MacLean Cydney Penner Artistic Programs Interns
Steve Levitan Chair
Councillor Gary Crawford Carrol Anne Curry M. Ann Hughes Edward Kerwin
Councillor Pam McConnell Nalini Stewart
Stage employees of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts are represented by Local 58 and Local 822 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Usher and concession staff of the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts are represented by Local 2652 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Ted Glaszewski Graphic Design Manager Stefanie Gnys Marketing Coordinator James Metcalfe Sales Manager Alison Uttley Communications Manager
Tenny Nigoghossian Executive Director of Advancement
Erin Schachter Education & Audience Development Manager
Heather McDonald Associate Director of Development
Cameron Johnston Audience Services Manager Allan Gillespie Senior Patron Services Supervisor Mark Crawford Ellen Hurley Shaun Shetty Audience Services Supervisors Guy Legault Berkeley House Manager
Katie Mills Corporate & Special Projects Officer Elise Chalmers Corporate & Foundations Officer Marielle Bryck Patron Development Officer Ellen Burch Development Assistant
Sharon Karn Hilary Prue Berkeley Front of House Supervisors
PRODUCTION Vladimir Vukovic Director of Production Peter Eaton Interim Technical Director Mary Spyrakis Head of Properties Kate Ann Vandermeer Assistant Production Manager Douglas Arculus Operations Manager Jasmine Knox Production Assistant Alex Vass Metcalf Foundation Intern Susan Batchelor Bluma Wardrobe Mistress
ADMINISTRATION Sandra Cesario Controller Joycelyn Williams Senior Accountant Pathma Mahadeva Accounts Payable Coordinator Janet Llewellyn Payroll & Benefits Coordinator Gianna Ceci Executive Coordinator Emma Letki Administrative & Artistic Intern
Colin Benoit Berkeley Senior Head Technician Jay Blencowe Berkeley Head Technician Julie Cloutier Manager of Volunteer Resources & Rentals Coordinator
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair
Sabrina Kolbegger Ron Lalonde Mona Lee
Shawn Hernden Director of Marketing & Communications Amar Bajracharya Patron Systems Administrator Ashley Ballantyne Publicist (rock-it promotions) Trevor Campbell Online & Social Media Coordinator
DEVELOPMENT
Ron Lalonde*
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Tony Baylis* Barbara Hackett* Vice-Chairs
* Executive Committee
Andrée Appleton* Cathy Bateman Frank Carnevale Councillor Gary Crawford Brian Doyle Peter Jelley Patrick Keeley Adrian Lang* Cheryl Longo Fernando Lopez
Peter Lyman* Councillor Pam McConnell Jason Martin Doug Murphy* Anne Marie O’Donovan John Ozikizler* Manny Pressman Gabrielle M.R. Richards James A. Riley* Robert Rowe
Joy Rychlik* Monika Skiba David Staines Kathy Steffan Daniel F. Sullivan Jean Taillon Antoinette R. Tummillo* Stuart Watson M. Scott Wetmore Susan Willmot
AN OLD TROUT PUPPET WORKSHOP PRODUCTION PRESENTED BY CANADIAN STAGE
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THE OLD TROUT PUPPET WORKSHOP A WILDLY INVENTIVE, TOTALLY GROWN-UP PUPPET SHOW
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DATES
ADDED
DEC 10 -15
PHOTO BY JASON STANG PHOTOGRAPHY
BERKELEY STREET THEATRE
NOV 27-DEC 15
25TH ANNIVERSARY CIBC PROUD SPONSOR: 12.13 BERKELEY SEASON
GET THE INSIDE SCOOP! Join us on the following dates and attend a free post-performance Q&A with select members of the cast and/or creative team. Visit our website for details. WED, NOV 28, 2012 1:30 PM
THURS, NOV 29, 2012 8 PM
WED, DEC 5, 2012 1:30 PM
THURS, DEC 6, 2012 8 PM
WED, DEC 12, 2012 1:30 PM
THURS, DEC 13, 2012 8 PM
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