Originally produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer, The London Theatre Company, Nicholas Hytner, Nick Starr, in association with Penguin Random House Audio on January 15, 2020.
MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON was originally produced by Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr for the London Theatre Company at the Bridge Theatre in June 2018.
Underwritten by Ian & Kiki Delaney and by
The 24.25 Bluma Appel Theatre Season is underwritten by John & Nancy Embry
Maev Beaty,
Photo: Lorne Brigman
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My Name is Lucy Barton
Cast
Maev Beaty Lucy Barton
Creative
Elizabeth Strout Author
Michael Gianfrancesco* Set & Costume Designer
Amelia Scott Projection Designer
Jane Gooderham Voice & Dialect Coach
Giulia D’Amanzo Head of Lighting
Keijo Makela Head of Audio
Rona Munro Adaptor
Bonnie Beecher* Lighting Designer
Sruthi Suresan Assistant Lighting Designer
Wei Qing Tan Assistant Stage Manager
Crew
Jay Blencowe Head Carpenter
Wes Allen Head of Props
Jackie Maxwell Director
Jacob Lin* Sound Designer & Composer
Debashis Sinha Sound Mentor
Anna R. Kaltenbach Stage Manager
A very special thanks to Kristen Thomson
Susan Batchelor Head of Wardrobe
Priscilla Yuen Head of Video
Canadian Stage is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres and engages professional Artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association under the terms of the jointly negotiated Canadian Theatre Agreement. Stage Employees are represented by IATSE Local 58 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. *Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local SC659
My Name is Lucy Barton is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
This performance runs 90 minutes, with no intermission
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Programme Note: My Name is Lucy Barton
I vividly remember reading Elizabeth Strout’s brilliant novel My Name is Lucy Barton for the first time. I came to the finish both shattered and exhilarated – a combination of feelings I never really considered possible. This is a story, however, that goes so far in both directions, with a humanity underscoring it all and an ability to make us reconsider how we judge and how we can forgive.
When I was asked by Canadian Stage to direct the stage adaptation, I was once again buffeted by contrasting feelings. I was thrilled, I was terrified and of course I wondered how such an adaptation would work. As I read Rona Munro’s stage version, however, I could see the hospital with the everchanging worlds of New York and Amgash, Illinois brilliantly evoked and the theatrical conceit of having one actress play both Lucy and her mother taking us through the complex central struggle as a wonderful central idea. With thoughtful, imaginative designers aboard, we needed an extraordinary actress at the centre of it all. How glorious, then, to have Maev Beaty to give her huge heart, her vast skill and indomitable spirit to this complex, theatrical re-telling of My Name is Lucy Barton.
Elizabeth Strout has said that ”Nothing should be as transforming as telling the truth”. Now we get to watch and partake in Lucy Barton’s brave struggle to do just that.
Jackie Maxwell
Maev Beaty – Lucy Barton
For Canadian Stage: Midsummer Night’s Dream, Palace of the End and Tartuffe. Maev has originated roles in over two dozen Canadian premieres including Hannah Moscovitch’s Bunny, Michael Healey’s Proud, Kate Hennig’s The Last Wife, and her co-creations Montparnasse and Secret Life of a Mother (avail. Playwrights Canada Press). Most recently appearing in Necessary Angel’s The Great Fire and Letters From Max, and a new adaption of Mary’s Wedding at Thousand Islands Playhouse. She’s played at theatres across Turtle Island; such as Soulpepper, Tarragon, the Globe, La Mama in NYC, and the Stratford Festival. Film/TV include Murdoch Mysteries; Nurses; Mouthpiece (Patricia Rozema); and recently featured in Beau is Afraid (Ari Aster) and Dream Scenario (Kristoffer Borgli). Maev is a TTCA Winner, multiple Dora Award winner and fourteen-time nominee. Upcoming: ninth season starring at the Stratford Festival in Kat Sandler’s new adaptation of Anne of Green Gables and Erin Shields’ Ransacking Troy. This is for my mother Mary, and my daughter Esmé and all their towering courage.
Creative
Elizabeth Strout – Author
Elizabeth Strout is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge, the #1 New York Times bestseller My Name Is Lucy Barton (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016), The Burgess Boys, Abide with Me, Amy and Isabelle and Anything Is Possible. Her most recent book, Tell Me Everything was Oprah’s Book Club pick and a New York Times bestseller.
Rona Munro – Adaptor
Rona Munro has written extensively for stage, radio, film and television, including the trilogy The James Plays for the National Theatre of Scotland, The National Theatre of Great Britain, and the Edinburgh International Festival. Other credits include award-winning plays Iron, which won the John Whiting award; The Maiden Stone, which won the Peggy Ramsay Memorial award; Little Eagles and The Indian Boy for the Royal Shakespeare Company; and Bold Girls, which won the Evening Standard award, Critics Circle award and Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Film and TV work includes Oranges and Sunshine directed by Jim Loach and starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving; the Ken Loach film Ladybird Ladybird, which won a Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival; and Aimée & Jaguar (Silver Bear winner and Golden Globe nominee). She has written many single plays for TV and contributed to series such as Dr. Who.
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Jackie Maxwell – Director
Jackie Maxwell is one of Canada’s most celebrated artists, well-known as a director, Artistic Director, dramaturge, and teacher. She has directed for theatres across the country as well as in the US. Jackie served as Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival from 2002 to 2016 and Factory Theatre from 1987 to 1995. Past productions include: Infinite Life (Coal Mine Theatre), Withrow Park, Light (Tarragon Theatre), The Importance of Being Earnest (Citadel Theatre), Playboy of the Western World (Shaw Festival), Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Ayad Akhtar’s Junk (Arena Stage), Paradise Lost (Stratford), The Humans, London Road (Canadian Stage). Ms Maxwell is the recipient of the Order of Canada (2023), The Queen’s Jubilee Medal, Order of Ontario, two Dora Mavor Moore Awards and holds two Honorary Doctorates.
Michael Gianfrancesco – Set & Costume Designer
Michael’s designs for musical theatre, plays, opera and dance have been seen across Canada, in Europe and the US. He has worked with the Stratford Festival for 20 seasons and the Shaw Festival for 10 seasons. Productions include The Inheritance (set, Canadian Stage), Something Rotten (set & costumes, Stratford), Richard II (set, Stratford), Emma Bovary (set & costumes, National Ballet of Canada), La Dame aux Camélias (set, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens), Jasper (set & costumes, Signature Theatre NYC), Embrasse (set, Théâtre du Nouveau Monde), Ricciardo e Zoraide (costumes, Rossini Festival, Italy), costumes for Frame By Frame created by Robert Lepage and Guillaume Côté with Ex Machina and the National Ballet of Canada, and Hadrian (set, Canadian Opera Company).
Bonnie Beecher – Lighting Designer
Bonnie is an award winning lighting designer from Toronto, Canada. She has designed the lighting for over 400 productions for theatre, opera and dance. Her work has been seen in most theatres in Canada including The Shaw Festival, The Stratford Festival, The Canadian Opera, Opera Atelier, Soulpepper theatre, The National Ballet of Canada, Tarragon theatre, The Citadel and Ballet British Columbia. International work includes lighting designs for The Dutch National Ballet, The Versailles Royal Opera, The Royal Shakespeare Company, Ballet du Rhin in Mulhouse, The State ballet of Georgia, Ballet Im Reveir, The Dusseldorf Ballet, The Stuttgart Ballet, and Ballett Mannheim. Recent productions include Something Rotten and Twelfth night for Stratford.
Sruthi Suresan – Associate Lighting Designer
Sruthi is a Toronto-based Lighting Designer. Past credits include Lighting Design: The Two Noble Kingsman (Shakespeare BASH’d) Legally Blonde, London Road (MacEwan University); La Boheme, Is He Dead?, Almost Maine, The Underpants, Stupid F***ing Bird, Threads: Impact (University of Wisconsin); The Drawer Boy (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Three Sisters (University of Windsor). Associate Lighting Designer: FRONTIERS | FRONTIÈRES and WATER SPIRIT (Lua Shayenne Dance Company); Maggie: the Musical (The Savoy Theatre), The Rhubarb Festival (Buddies in Bad Times). Assistant Lighting Designer: Something Rotten, Romeo and Juliet, London Assurance, Rent, Much Ado About Nothing and Les Belles-Soeurs, Chicago, Hamlet, The Miser (Stratford Festival); White Girls In Moccasins (Buddies in Bad Times).
Jacob Lin – Sound Designer & Composer
Jacob Lin 林鴻恩 is a Designer, Writer and Producer based in Tkaronto. He is excited to make his Canadian Stage debut as Sound Designer for Lucy Barton. Jacob has worked with theatre companies such as Shaw Festival, Factory Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times, Fu-gen Theatre, Young Peoples Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, The Howland Company and Crow’s Theatre. Selected credits include: The House That Will Not Stand (Shaw Festival), Doubt (Thousand Island Playhouse) ABFE47 (Summerworks), The Wrong Bashir (Crows Theatre), Guilt (Tarragon Theatre), Withrow Park (Tarragon Theatre), Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Howland Company/Crow’s), The Hooves Belonged to the Deer (Tarragon Theatre), Prodigal (Howland Company), Post-Democracy (Tarragon Theatre) and Cast Iron (Factory Theatre). Upcoming projects include: Fat Ham (Canadian Stage).
Debashis Sinha – Sound Mentor
Debashis Sinha has over the years created scores of sound designs and music for contemporary dance, video, film, and theatre, and has enjoyed a long relationship with many of Canada’s premiere performing arts companies and stages. Sinha has received multiple awards and nominations for his work, notably a 2022 Dora Award for Outstanding Achievement in Design (Opera) and the 2023 Ontario Arts Council’s Louis Applebaum Composer’s Award. His live performances and research have taken him from Japan to Yellowknife to Berlin to virtual worlds online. As an educator, Sinha has taught at the National Theatre School of Canada, York University, and the University of Toronto, and is currently an assistant professor at The School of Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University.
Amelia Scott – Projection Designer
Amelia Scott is a video designer, projection technologist, and new media artist, working in theatre, opera, dance, live music, and beyond. She is also an instructor of Video Technology and Design at the National Theatre School of Canada and has been a guest lecturer at Concordia University. Based out of Montreal, her work has been presented nationally and internationally. Notable collaborations include: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Munich Kammerspiel, The Barbican Centre, LA Philharmonic, Santa Fe Opera, New Zealand Opera, Festival Trans Amériques, Théatre du Nouveau Monde, The Citadel Theatre, Porte Parole, Crow’s Theatre, Ottawa Chamber Festival, National Kaunas Drama Theatre, Espace Go, Théatre aux Écuries, Théatre Denise-Pelletier, The Segal Centre, Alberta Theatre Projects.
Jane Gooderham – Voice & Dialect Coach
For Canadian Stage: Maanomaa, My Brother, Fairview, Fall On Your Knees, London Road, The Syringa Tree, Rock ’n’ Roll. Other: 20 seasons with The Stratford Festival; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Cloud Nine, The Lord of the Rings, The Producers (Mirvish); Shaw Festival; War Horse, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Royal National Theatre/Mirvish); Matilda (Royal Shakespeare Company/Mirvish); Oroonoko, Chair (Theatre for a New Audience, New York). Television: Good Sam (CBS), Reacher (Amazon), Republic of Doyle (CBC). Teaching: Head of Voice, National Theatre School of Canada (2009-16); Centre for Indigenous Theatre; Birmingham Conservatory. Training: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Voice), Guildhall School of Music & Drama (BA Acting).
Anna R. Kaltenbach – Stage Manager
Canadian Stage: Hamlet, Lehman Trilogy, Topdog/Underdog, Maanomaa My Brother. Other Toronto: Dana H (Crow’s), Truth (YPT), Anahita’s Republic (Bustle & Beast), King’s Playlist (Culchahworks), Bright Star (Garner Theatre Productions), CHEW (Project:Humanity). Broadway/NY: Motown, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Broadway Inspirational Voices. Tours: Hamilton, Motown, Once, Memphis, Shrek, A Chorus Line, Mamma Mia!, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Joseph... (Tokyo). West End: Motown. Regional US: Marriott Lincolnshire, Chicago Shakespeare, Other Theatre Company, Western Stage, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, Colorado Ballet, Opera Colorado.
Wei Qing Tan – Assistant Stage Manager
Wei Qing Tan is a theatre artist based in Tkaronto, mainly practicing stage management and production management. Selected credits include: ASM – Bed & Breakfast, The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom (Capitol Theatre); Apprentice SM - Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats Theatre/ Soulpepper Theatre), Storybook Search (Bad Hats Theatre); SM – Everything Has Disappeared (Mammalian Diving Reflex/UNIT Productions), Picky, Peasy, Nappy Head/ YGB Workshop (Obsidian Theatre), They Know Not What They Do (NEPA), Between a Wok and a Hot Pot (Cahoots Theatre); Production Management – A Witch in Algiers (Shakespeare in the Ruff), Elephant (bluemouth inc.), Woking Phoenix (Silk Bath Collective/Theatre Passe Muraille), Burning Mom (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), SummerWorks Festival 2022.
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