Heisenberg - Program

Nov 28 – Dec 17, 2017 berkeley street Theatre

heisenberg BY

SIMON STEPHENS

17.18 Season Sponsor

17.18 Berkeley Season Sponsor

A CANADIAN STAGE PRODUCTION

cast G EO RG I E

Carly Street A LE X

David Schurmann

creative team

Carly Street

David Schurmann

Simon Stephens

Matthew Jocelyn

Teresa Przybylski

Steve Lucas

Creighton Doane

Michael Hart

Melanie Hall

D I R EC TO R

Matthew Jocelyn S E T & COS T U M E D E S I G N

Teresa Przybylski LI G HTI N G D E S I G N

Steve Lucas SO U N D D E S I G N

Creighton Doane S TAG E M A N AG E R

Michael Hart A P P R E NTI C E S TAG E M A N AG E R

Melanie Hall

Run time : 8 0 minutes , no intermission

Please note the use of cameras and recording devices during performances is strictly prohibited. As a courtesy to artists and audiences, latecomers will be seated at an appropriate break in the performance, if possible.

Special thanks to our dance choreographer Julia Aplin.

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Director’s Note

Matthew Jocelyn

Artistic + General Director

In the 1920s, German scientist Werner Karl Heisenberg developed what became known as “The Uncertainty Principle” according to which, in lay terms, it is impossible at any given moment to know both the position (or nature) of an object and its momentum, or direction.

For Georgie, in this beautifully chiseled jewel of a play, this idea has particular resonance: how could she possibly have known where her only son Jason was going when she was constantly watching where he was with such intensity? And now he is gone.

Thus begins Georgie’s quest, impossible, improbable, necessary, to find her son - or at least to prove to herself that she is capable of the journey.

Simon Stephens writes about the improbable with disturbing accuracy, bringing to the stage the impossibilities each of us might possibly encounter daily in our lives, or of which, if we stick to absolute logic and deny them access, we are most sadly deprived. He makes the impossible possible, the improbable necessary, and it all has to do with love.

It feels a fitting adieu to my directorial work here at Canadian Stage, delving once again into the work of this most acutely aware, most unexpected of playwrights, a kind of living tribute to a team of exceptionally engaged collaborators and adventuresome audience members who together, these past nine years, have tried to make the impossible possible, the improbable necessary. And it has all had to do with love.

CARLY STREET Georgie

Carly was most recently seen onstage in Toronto in the Tarragon Theatre production of MIDSUMMER, and as Viola in Twelfth Night at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre. This summer marked her 3rd play with Broadway’s Roundabout Theatre Company. She has performed with The Denver Centre, Geva Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In-The-Park, and made her Broadway debut in the Tony-Award winning production of Clybourne Park. In Canada: numerous performances with Canadian Stage and the Stratford Festival, as well as appearances with Mirvish Productions, The Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, The Grand Theatre, The Segal Centre, Theatre Aquarius, Thousand Islands Playhouse, and Theatre 20, of which she was a co-founder. Carly has been nominated for three Dora Awards, winning for her last appearance with Canadian Stage in Venus in Fur. She is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

DAVID SCHURMANN Alex

David was most recently seen on stage at the 2016 Shaw Festival as Professor Willard in Our Town and Serebryakov in Uncle Vanya. Since 1981, he has appeared in more than 40 productions at the Shaw

Festival, including: The Entertainer, Getting Married, The Circle, Man and Superman, Three Sisters, The King in His Majesty, The Apple Cart, Henry Trebell in Waste, Blithe Spirit, title role in Henry IV, This Happy Breed, and Camille, and directed Present Laughter. Other selected credits: How Do I Love Thee? (Canadian Rep); The Retreat From Moscow (Theatre Calgary); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Hamlet (NAC); and four seasons with the Stratford Festival. David has also directed productions with Neptune Theatre, Muskoka Summer Theatre, Royal MTC, Persephone Theatre, Citadel, and City Stage. His recent theatre credits include strangers, babies (Theatre Panik) and he will be featured in the upcoming production of King Charles III for Studio 180 and Mirvish Productions in January 2018.

Film/television appearances: Murdoch Mysteries, Rookie Blue, Reign, and Rogue.

SIMON STEPHENS Playwright

Simon Stephens is an award-winning British playwright. His earlier works include: Motortown, Birdland (Royal Court Theatre); Harper Regan (National Theatre, Canadian Stage); Sea Wall (Bush); Pornography, Carmen Distruption (Deutsches Schauspielhaus); Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith/Manchester Royal Exchange); Three Kingdoms (London, Tallinn and Munich); Morning (the Lyric Theatre), and

new versions of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at the Young Vic. His adaption of Mark Haddon’s novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime won the Oliver and Tony Awards for Best New Play. In 2015, Heisenberg opened at New York’s Manhattan Theatre Club and transferred to Broadway in 2016. Recent plays include: The Funfair; Song from Away, directed by award-winning Belgian director Ivo van Hove (Young Vic); an adaptation of Brecht and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera (National Theatre); Nuclear War (Royal Court); Obsession (Barbican); Fatherland (Royal Exchange); and a new adaptation of The Seagull at the Lyric Hammersmith. Simon also writes for radio: Five Letters Home to Elizabeth, Digging (BBC Radio4), and for the screen: Dive (Granada / BBC); a short film adaptation of Pornography (Channel 4), and Cargese for Sprout Pictures (Sky). Other awards include the Pearson Award for Best Play for Port, the 2005 Olivier Award for Best New Play for On the Shore of the Wide World, and the Theater Heute’s Award for Motortown, Pornography and Wastwater. Simon is an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Theatre and an Associate Playwright at the Royal Court.

MATTHEW JOCELYN Director

Matthew Jocelyn is Canadian Stage’s Artistic and General Director. Canadian Stage credits include: Liv Stein (director), Julie (director), Harper Regan (director), THIS (director), The Game of Love and Chance (director) and Fernando Krapp Wrote Me This Letter (director and translator). Recent directing credits include: Requiem for a Nun, a new opera by Oscar Strasnoy and Matthew Jocelyn based on the story by William Faulkner (Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires), voted best opera of the year in Argentina in 2014, Le roi Arthus, Die Frau ohne Schatten (Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Brussels); Erwartung, Das Gehege, Le Bal (Hamburg Staatsoper); The Architect, Macbeth, The Love of the Nightingale (Atelier du Rhin); The Liar (Stratford Shakespeare Festival). Translations include: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s The Love of the Nightingale, David Greig’s The Architect (Atelier du Rhin); Marivaux’s La Double Inconstance (University of Toronto). Matthew was formerly the Artistic and General Director of the Atelier du Rhin

(Alsace, France). Recent projects include a new opera libretto based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with composer Brett Dean, for the prestigious Glyndebourne Festival in England.

He is a recipient of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (French Ministry of Culture) and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Mount Allison University (May, 2015), in recognition of his significant contribution to theatre in Canada and internationally.

TERESA PRZYBYLSKI Set & Costume Design

Teresa Przybylski is an architect and a stage designer. She is known for her work in theatre, opera, dance and film. Canadian Stage credits include: Hamlet + All’s Well That Ends Well and Julius Caesar + Comedy of Errors, The Palace of the End, and Lucy.

Other companies she has designed for include: the Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Canadian Opera Company, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Blyth Festival, Necessary Angel, Tarragon Theatre, Factory Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Native Earth, Volcano Theatre, Theatre Smith-Gilmour, and others. For her design work she has been awarded five Dora Mavor Moore Awards and two Gemini Awards. She is a member of The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and The Associated Designers of Canada. Teresa teaches stage design at York University.

STEVE LUCAS Lighting Design

Steve has designed award-winning sets and lighting for more than 400 productions of theatre, dance and performance art. His work has toured extensively and has been seen all across Canada and the United States, as well as the UK, Europe, Scandinavia, Russia, Australia, and Asia. Select credits include Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom (Canadian Stage); 1837, The Farmer’s Revolt (Shaw Festival); The Physicists (Stratford Festival); 2 Pianos, 4 Hands (Talking Fingers); The Winter’s Tale (Coal Mine/Groundling Theatre); Passing Strange (Obsidian Theatre/ Musical Stage Company), and BREATH[e] (Theatre 2.0). Steve has received four Dora Mavor Moore Awards and has been nominated for several of Canada’s most prestigious awards, including The Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, and 31 Dora nominations.

The Main (NAC/Canadian Stage); Romeo and Juliet (NAC); Mother Courage and Her Children (NAC/MTC); Wit (Centaur); Einstein’s Gift (Grand); Real Live Girl (MTC Warehouse), and Hamlet (Neptune). Upcoming: Silence (Grand) and The Rocky Horror Show (Stratford).

CREIGHTON DOANE Sound Design

Creighton’s composition for theatre includes: Frost/Nixon (Canadian Stage); Tuesdays with Morrie (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company); Salt-Water Moon, Jitters, The Norman Conquests (Soulpepper); The 39 Steps, The Pitmen Painters (Theatre Aquarius); The Importance of Being Earnest (NAC), David Widdicombe’s Science Fiction (the play), and Rick Miller’s BOOM.

Melanie Hall

Apprentice Stage Manager Melanie is a Toronto-based stage manager working regularly in both English and French. She graduated with honours from the Ryerson Theatre School’s Performance Production program and completed the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts’ Stage Management Summer School. Previous credits include: Invictus Games Ceremonies (Patrick Roberge Productions); Richard III (Perchance Theatre); L’elisir d’amore (Opera York); The (Post) Mistress/Zesty Gopher s’est fait écraser par un frigo (Théâtre français de Toronto and Pleides Theatre); Peau (She Said Films); Les Zinspirés: Puissance quatre (Théâtre français de Toronto); PanAm Games Closing Ceremony & ParapanAm Games Opening and Closing Ceremonies (B5C); and Les Zinspirés : 3D (Théâtre français de Toronto).

MICHAEL HART Stage Manager

Michael has spent 21 seasons at the Stratford Festival, working on productions including: Timon of Athens, The Madwoman of Chaillot, The Adventures of Pericles, The Tempest starring Christopher Plummer, The Importance of Being Earnest & King Lear (both starring Brian Bedford), The Duchess of Malfi, and The Swanne Trilogy, amongst others. Other credits include Liv Stein (Canadian Stage); Constellations (Centaur/Canadian Stage); Body Politic (Buddies); The Death Of The King (Modern Times); The Winter’s Tale (Groundling 2016); Bombay Black (Factory); Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary (Pleiades); Saint Carmen of 17.18 Season Sponsor

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