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STEPHEN KING’S CHILLING THRILLER
MISERY
WELCOME Staging a thriller by the master of the genre, Stephen King, is a rare opportunity and we’re excited to bring you something quite different. Director Rachel Ditor has given our longtime Props Master Michael Gall and his team the chance to really show off their talent for special effects. Hold your neighbour’s hand if you need to, as we aim to have you jumping out of your seats!
On behalf of the Arts Club Theatre Company, I’d like to wish you all a happy New Year! 2018 marks a year of transition for the Arts Club, and we are grateful to our audience at home and out here on the road for taking this journey with us. As we move into the second half of my final season as Artistic Managing Director, Incoming Artistic Director Ashlie Corcoran is putting the final touches on her very first season with the company. Stay tuned for the announcement of the 2018/2019 lineup—there’s a lot to look forward to!
Also on tour right now, the cast and crew of Onegin are enjoying an extended season. They began in the fall with a sold-out run at the Belfry Theatre in Victoria and then spent the holiday season at home on the Granville Island Stage. They will hit up Calgary, Edmonton, and Whitehorse for the month of January, then head back this way to move and shake B.C. audiences some more, before finishing the tour in Saskatoon this April. As the Georgia Straight said, “You’re lucky to be alive right now… because you get to see Onegin.” Bill Millerd Artistic Managing Director
Misery is a show we’ve all been looking forward to for some time.
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MISERY Jan 5 – Feb 8, 2018
By William Goldman Based on the novel by Stephen King
STARRING
CREATIVE TEAM
Lucia Frangione Annie Wilkes Andrew McNee Paul Sheldon Munish Sharma Buster
Rachel Ditor Director Lauchlin Johnston Set Designer Stephanie Kong Costume Designer Andrew Pye Lighting Designer Murray Price Original Music & Sound Designer Rick Rinder Stage Manager Shelby Bushell Apprentice Stage Manager
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DIRECTOR’S NOTES I have been an avid reader my whole life. For us lot, curling up with a good book is one of life’s greatest pleasures. I went through a phase in my teens of loving horror stories, Stephen King first among my favourites. There was something delicious to my friends and I about being too scared to turn the page and too thrilled to put the book down. And being able to tell a good scary story live? Well, that was the best. Delivering the goriest parts like a punch line to a joke was an enviable skill. Misery provides that same good sport of knowing something icky is going
to happen and looking forward to it anyway. On top of that, the play version of the story also gives us the good sport of compelling live performances. Our production of Misery features two outstanding actors. Andrew McNee, who plays our stranded author Paul Sheldon, is a magnetic performer. Funny, honest, and inventive—you can’t take your eyes off him. And playing Annie Wilkes is Lucia Frangione, one of the most fearless artists I know, willing to risk everything to tell a great story. I trust you will enjoy them as much as they enjoy sharing with you this classic thriller about one writer’s number one fan… Rachel Ditor
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ABOUT THE CREATORS Stephen King is the author of over 50 best-selling novels, among them Misery, Salem’s Lot, The Shining, The Stand, Pet Cemetery, Cujo, Christine, Firestarter, It, The Green Mile, and 11/22/63. Widely regarded as the modern master of horror fiction, he has also written around 200 published short stories and collaborated on numerous successful film and television adaptations of his work. King was born in 1947, in Portland, Maine, the state where many of his stories are set and where he continues to primarily reside with his wife, the novelist Tabitha King. His first published short story was “The Glass Floor,” which appeared in Startling Mystery Stories in 1967; his first novel, Carrie, was published by Doubleday in 1973. King has also won dozens of prominent awards, most notably the O. Henry Award in 1996 and the National Medal of the Arts for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2015. William Goldman is a novelist, memoirist, playwright, and screenwriter. Born in Chicago in 1931, Goldman published his first novel, The Temple of Gold, in 1957; subsequent novels include Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow, Soldier in the Rain, The Princess Bride, and Marathon Man. Among Goldman’s most well-known screenplays—spanning a 50-year career in Hollywood—are Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (for which he won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay), The Stepford Wives, All the President’s Men (for which he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay), Misery, Dolores Claiborne, and Absolute Power. In addition to Misery, which he adapted for the stage from his earlier screenplay, his works for the theatre include Blood, Sweat, and Stanley Poole and A Family Affair, both co-written with his brother, James Goldman.
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THE COMPANY Lucia Frangione Annie Wilkes For the Arts Club: Paradise Garden (debut, 2010); Farewell, My Lovely Other theatre: Holy Mo: A Christmas Show, Espresso (Pacific Theatre); Annapurna (Christy Webb); Big Bad (Boca de Lupo); In the Unlikely Event of War (Pi Theatre); No Exit (Electric Co./Virtual); Brief Encounter (Playhouse/RMTC); The Full Monty (Patrick Street Productions/ Persephone); Nix (ATP/The Only Animal) Film & TV: The Driftless Area, Timeless, Love & Demons Other: Award-winning, internationally-produced playwright; winner of CAEA Emerging Artist award, the Sydney J. Risk award, and two Gordon Armstrong awards. Andrew McNee Paul Sheldon For the Arts Club: To Kill a Mockingbird (debut, 2002); Griffin and Sabine, It’s Snowing on Saltspring, It’s a Wonderful Life, Boeing-Boeing, The Odd Couple, One Man, Two Guvnors, Onegin Other theatre: Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, Henry V, Falstaff, The Merchant of Venice
(Bard on the Beach); Crime and Punishment, The Idiot (Neworld); Little Red Riding Hood: An East Van Panto, Dress Me up in Your Love (Theatre Replacement); After Jerusalem (Solo Collective); Lazy Susan, Cozy Catastrophe (Theatre Melee) Film & TV: Public Schooled, Grand Unified Theory, Aim for the Roses, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Supergirl, Supernatural, My Little Pony, Mega Man Other: Husband to Karen, Dad to rascals Finn and Thom; multiple Jessie award nominee and two-time winner; graduate of Studio 58. Munish Sharma Buster For the Arts Club: The Men in White (debut, 2017) Other theatre: The Ridiculous Darkness (Alley Theatre); Bombay Black (Raghupriya Productions); Brothel #9 (Touchstone Theatre); The Invisible Hand (Pi Theatre) Other: Jessie award nominee: The Invisible Hand; Pick of the Fringe, 2017: Bombay Black; Pick of the Fringe, 2015: Mrs. Singh and Me. University of Regina graduate, 2006. Rachel Ditor Director For the Arts Club: The Matka King, Enchanted April, Here on the Flight Misery 7
“YOU’RE LUCKY TO BE ALIVE RIGHT NOW... BECAUSE YOU GET TO SEE ONEGIN ” —The Georgia Straight
THE HIT MUSICAL AS IMMERSIVE AS LOVE ITSELF Book, music, and lyrics by Amiel Gladstone and Veda Hille Based on the poem by Pushkin and the opera by Tchaikovsky
On tour Feb 6–Mar 15 the cast of onegin. photo by david cooper
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Path, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Optimists, Rabbit Hole, Doubt, Becky’s New Car, The Philanderer, Calendar Girls, How Has My Love Affected You?, My Turquoise Years, Other Desert Cities, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Good People, The Men in White. As Literary Manager, Rachel runs the Silver Commissions and ReACT public readings programs, and frequently acts as dramaturg for new productions. Other theatre: (selected directing credits) Elizabeth Rex, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merchant of Venice (Bard on the Beach); The Tiger of Malaya, The Fly Fisher’s Companion, Shirley Valentine (Gateway); Hippies and Bolsheviks (Alberta Theatre Projects) Other: Rachel is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas; author of several articles on theatre for publications, including Canadian Theatre Review and Theatre Topics (John Hopkins University Press); editor of The Arts Club Anthology: 50 years of Canadian Theatre in Vancouver (Playwrights Canada Press). She has worked in new play development with companies across the country since 1992, including two seasons as faculty dramaturg at The Banff Centre.
Lauchlin Johnston Set Designer For the Arts Club: Good People, The Foreigner, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Flick Other theatre: The Motherf*cker with the Hat (Firehall); Are We Cool Now? (Western Canada Theatre); The Stanley Park Ghost Train (Mortal Coil); Stationary (Delinquent Theatre); The Wizard of Oz, The Grandkid, Sylvia (Gateway); Titanic, The Music Man (Theatre under the Stars); The Whipping Man, Leave of Absence (Pacific Theatre); Chickens (Chemainus); The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Rosebud Theatre, Alberta) Other: Thirteen-time Jessie award nominee, two-time recipient; Ovation award winner. Member of the Associated Designers of Canada. Stephanie Kong Costume Designer For the Arts Club: The Flick (debut, 2016) Other theatre: City of Angels (PIT Collective); Go Dog Go! (Carousel Theatre for Young People); Les Liaisons dangereuses (Exit 22); very still & hard to see (SHIFT Theatre); Jack and the Bean (Presentation House Theatre) Film & TV: Wardrobe dept.: The Magicians, seasons 2 and 3 Other: Jessie award winner (2014); Graduate of UBC Theatre Design and Production. www.stephaniekong.com Misery 9
“THIS IS MUSICAL THEATRE AT ITS BEST”
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MUSIC BY JEANINE TESORI BOOK AND LYRICS BY LISA KRON BASED ON THE GRAPHIC NOVEL BY ALISON BECHDEL
FUN HOME
Feb 8–Mar 10 THE COMING-OF-AGE MUSICAL
A COMING OF AGE MUSICAL
playing at stanley industrial alliance stage
granville island stage
goldcorp stage at the bmo theatre centre
Andrew Pye Lighting Designer Arts Club Debut Other theatre: Wilderness (Studio 58); Light Breaking Broken (Karen Jamieson Dance); Flare Path (Slamming Door Collective); The Lion in Winter (United Players); Spark (Lamondance); Triumph of Love, Twelfth Night (UBC Theatre); Rivulets (Babelle Theatre); I Love Mondays (Theatre Terrific); Seussical: The Musical, The Little Mermaid (Talmud Torah) Other: Two-time Jessie award nominee; Larissa Fayad Award; Bill Millerd Theatre Award; diploma in Production and Design from Vancouver Island University. Special thank you to Keith Smith. Murray Price Original Music & Sound Designer For the Arts Club: The 39 Steps, The School for Scandal, The Odd Couple, One Man, Two Guvnors, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Importance of Being Ernest, Boeing-Boeing, Peter and the Starcatcher, Good People, The Flick, The Men in White Other theatre: Shakespeare’s Rebel, King John, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado, Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night (Bard on the Beach); Habit of Art, Democracy, American Pilot (Jericho Arts) Film & TV: Nico Can Dance
(BBC Kids Knowledge Network); numerous Radio TV productions Other: awards: IBA, Clio, Jessie, Composition & Sound Design; KOKO Productions/Little Mountain Sound. Rick Rinder Stage Manager For the Arts Club: For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (debut), Bakersfield Mist, 4000 Miles (tour), a bit of Les Misérables, Glorious, King Charles III Other theatre: Over his long career, Rick has worked coast to coast in Canada’s regional theatres. Other: Rick was raised in Burnaby, did some early theatre in New Westminster (Vagabond Playhouse), and has done much work in West Vancouver (Kay Meek Centre) and Port Coquitlam (Terry Fox Theatre). He lives in rainy Maple Ridge with the sunshine of his life, Nadine. Shelby Bushell Apprentice Stage Manager For the Arts Club: A Brimful of Asha (debut, 2014); The Foreigner Other theatre: The Society of the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius (Rumble Theatre); The Lonesome West (Cave Canem Productions) Other: Emerging director and stage manager who runs Wunderdog Theatre. Graduate of UBC Theatre Production and Design, 2014. Misery 11
COMING NEXT AT THE ARTS CLUB’S Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage JITTERS By David French
January 25–February 25 Four actors, a director, a playwright, and one grand dream of Broadwaybound success. Can this motley crew set aside their egos and anxieties in order to make it to the big time? Find out in this raucous comedy that celebrates the ups and downs of life in the theatre.
JITTERS
“A COMEDIC MASTERPIECE”
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BOARD & STAFF Bill Millerd, Artistic Managing Director Peter Cathie White, Executive Director Ashlie Corcoran, Incoming Artistic Director BOARD OF DIRECTORS Chair Mr. Richard Bell Immediate Past Chair Mr. Bruce Flexman, FCPA, FCA Treasurer Mr. John Dawson, FCPA, FCA Secretary Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie Mr. Mike Black, Ms. Teo Dechev, Ms. Anna Fung QC, Mr. James Kitamura, Mr. Eugen Klein, Mr. Bryan Mabee, Ms. Heather McKay, Ms. Bonnie Mah, Mr. Dave Morton, Dr. Ross Paul, C.M., PhD., Ms. Kerry Suffolk, Ms. Erika Tse, Mr. Shawn Williamson, Mr. Art Vertlieb QC COUNCIL OF GOVERNORS Ms. Roberta Beiser, Mr. Philip Bernard, Ms. Donna Celle, Mr. Axel Conradi, Mr. Jamie Corbett, Mr. Christopher Gimpel, Dr. Stanley Hamilton, Ms. Catharine Herb-Kelly QC, Mr. Bruce Milley FCA, Mr. Morris Nord, Mrs. Joan Pitman, Ms. Janet Rogers, Mr. Al C. Schultz, Ms. Lisa Seed, Mr. Jim Storie, Mr. John J. Sutherland, Mr. Ian Waddell QC ARTS CLUB OF VANCOUVER THEATRE FOUNDATION President Mr. Jamie Corbett Treasurer Mr. John J. Sutherland Secretary Ms. Lisa Seed Mr. Eugen Klein, Ms. Bonnie Mah, Mr. Morris Nord ARTISTIC Resident Designer Ted Roberts Artist Liaison Stephanie Hargreaves Literary Manager Rachel Ditor Literary Assistant Veronique West Dramaturg Intern Gavan Cheema LEAP Leader Shawn Macdonald LEAP Assistant Sasha Singer-Wilson Music Theatre Intensive Director Peter Jorgensen Actor’s Intensive Program Director Dean Paul Gibson Actor’s Intensive Head Instructor Scott Bellis Teen Creative Program Leader Nitasha Rajoo PRODUCTION Director of Production Stephan Baeuml Technical Director, Stanley Jayson McLean Technical Director, Granville Island & Goldcorp Craig Fulker Pre-Production Manager Ace Martens Technical Director, Tours & Special Events Patsy Tomkins Facilities Manager Jack Holmes Rentals Manager Catherine Wilson Production Secretary Dawn Padget Production Assistants Josh Tompke, Eli Funk Head Electrician (Stanley) Cody Biles Head Electrician (Granville Island) Darren Hales Goldcorp Stage Technician Garreth Lau Second Electrician Kianna Skelly Head Sound Technician Sebastian Finch Assistant Sound Technician Kevin Gault Head Stage Carpenter (Stanley) Lucas Hall Stage Carpenter (Granville Island) Bret Roach Second Stage Carpenters Jeff Leard, Jeremy Vreeken Head Dresser Oriana Camporese Tour Technician Alberto White Rentals Technician Darren John Head Carpenter Joao Carlos d’Almeida Scenic Carpenter Alex Pauls Lead Carpenters Lorraine West, Chris White Head of Properties Michael Gall Second Properties Robyn Volk Head Scenic Artist Kristine Kavalec Head of Costumes Kirsten McGhie Costumes Assistant Tiffany Bishop Cutter Sarah Marchant Seamster Victoria Klippenstein Wardrobe Maintenance Mary Jane Cox, Sean Malmas Building Maintenance Kris Jankovic Archival Intern Jasper Lastoria Stage Managers Angela Beaulieu, Shelby Bushell*, Sandra Drag, Caryn Fehr, Ronaye Haynes, Jan Hodgson, Pamela Jakobs, Geoff Jones*, Becca Jorgensen*, Peter Jotkus, Jenny Kim*, Alannah Korf*, April Starr Land, Koh McRadu*, Rebecca Mulvihill, Rick Rinder, Tanya Schwaerzle*, Allison Spearin,
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Colleen Totten, Yvonne Yip *Apprentice Stage Managers FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Director of Finance Valerie Prodanuk Manager of Administration Teddy Forsyth Director of Education Natasha Klein Education and Outreach Manager Kevan Ellis IT Manager Allan Kong Application Specialist & Developer Lou Ann Mendoza Accountant Igor Rozenberg Accounting Assistant Eileen Craig Administrative Assistant Heather Kemski DEVELOPMENT Director of Development Kathy MacKenzie Fundraising Campaign Manager Jen Challinor Manager of Corporate Sponsorship & Foundations Andrea Hebert Events Associate Misty Oakes Development Coordinator Catherine Gautreau Development Associate Liz Costa MARKETING Director of Sales & Marketing Bryan Woo Publications & Communications Manager Susan Cho Marketing Manager Jaime Fletcher Publicist Sarah Barton-Bridges Writer & Editor Angela Caravan Graphic Designer Sean Gordon Tour Coordinator April Green Digital Marketing Coordinator Linda Pitt Sales System Specialist Gabriel Kirkley Digital Storyteller Mark Halliday BOX OFFICE Ticket Operations Manager Andrea Francom Ticket Sales Supervisor Natalie Pawson, Erica McLachlin Ticket Sales Supervisor, Groups Danny Mak Ticket Sales Agents Ria Antonopoulos, Elaine Bevans, Jo B., Sarah Cooper, Alexandra Eaton, Angela Espinoza, Brett Harris, Shawn Harrison, Rebecca Lees, Gwenda Lorenzetti, Jennifer Lynch, Tim Mahoney, Emma Middleton, Grace Newson, Kirk Olson, Yvette Rizzo, Erin Schneider, Michael Wilkinson FRONT OF HOUSE Guest Services Manager Peter Chapek Front of House Managers Laura Eveleigh, Janelle Sheppard Front of House Attendants Brendan Blanchard, Susan Chalmers, Bonnie Dane, Meredith Hambrock, Ronaye Haynes, Noah Heyl, Vanessa Ho, Linda Guthrie, Michelle Kaesar, Aaron Lee, Shirley Lum, Nicola Nasedkin, Kirsten Niedtner, Sandy Peters, Mylyn Ramos, Veronica Rozenberg, Ryan Scramstad, Nathan Smith, Karen Worrod, Vanessa Yee BAR AND LOUNGE Director of Food and Beverage Torrance Jestadt Bar Managers Colin Speir, Chris Schonfeldt, Lucas Floody Bar and Lounge Staff Chari Agellon, Shane Booth, Paddy Cole, Mike Frydenlund, Nucet Gonzalez, Jamie Gourley, Max Hill, Gizele Hourvash, Rachel Hugheson, Savanna Junjek, Cody Kearsley, George Koumbounis, Chloe Lloyd, Fernanda Mattos, Tara McGlone, Jessica McLeod, Ron Mill, Shayla Oulette, Emilda Radjah, Dallas Richards, Dillan Simard, Jason Simmer, George Smith, Alanna Spence, Stephanie Thompson, Paul Vigano, Joshua White-Pidhirney, Derya Whaley-Kalaora, Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora, Katarzyna Zacheja ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & SPECIAL THANKS Emma Morgan, Tiffany Monk & Arlena Lennon – Prosthetic Molding & Casting Mike Kovac & Ryan McNeil Bolton – Fight Directors The Arts Club thanks its many volunteers for their support The Arts Club Theatre Company is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT), The Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance, and the Alliance for Arts and Culture, and operates under the jurisdiction of Canadian Actors Equity Association. Preproduction personnel and stage crew are members of Local118 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, and guest services staff are members of Unifor 3000.
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