Who Killed Spalding Gray? - Program

NOV 30 - DEC 11, 2016 BERKELEY STREET THEATRE

who killed spalding gray?

PRODUCED BY REWORK PRODUCTIONS, PRESENTED BY CANADIAN STAGE

WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY

DANIEL MACIVOR DIRECTED BY

DANIEL BROOKS

WRITTEN & PERFORMED BY

DANIEL MACIVOR*

THIS PRESENTATION IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF IRIS TURCOTT.

DIRECTOR

DANIEL BROOKS* DRAMATURGY

IRIS TURCOTT PRODUCER & STAGE MANAGER

MARCIE JANUSKA* LIGHTING DESIGN

KIMBERLY PURTELL This production runs approximately 80 minutes with no intermission Special Thanks to Ellae Elinwood and Susan Stackhouse.

From her Celtic ancestors, Ellae Elinwood inherited the gift of great inner sight and faith. If you are interested in working with Ellae, please call her at 619-559-1962.

PROUD SPONSOR: 16.17 BERKELEY SEASON MEDIA SPONSOR

Developed with the support of Necessary Angel and Factory Theatre International Agent: Menno Plukker Theatre Agent, Inc. reWork is generously supported by * reWork Productions engages under the terms of the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association

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CAST & CREATORS

IRIS TURCOTT

DANIEL MACIVOR

DANIEL BROOKS

KIMBERLY PURTELL

MARCIE JANUSKA

DANIEL MACIVOR WRITER, PERFORMER A playwright, director, actor and artistic director of da da kamera from 1987 to 2007, Daniel’s work has toured extensively internationally and in Canada. His plays include In On It, A Beautiful View and the solo shows House, Here Lies Henry, Monster, and Cul-de-sac. From 2007 to 2015 he was playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto where many of his plays including Communion and The Best Brothers were produced. As a playwright his work has been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, German and Japanese. He is the recipient of a Governor General’s Award, an Obie Award, a GLAAD Award and the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre and the co-founder of reWork Productions.

DANIEL BROOKS DIRECTOR Daniel has created shows with some of Canada’s great theatre talents. He has made a series of monologues with Daniel MacIvor, directed work by John Mighton and The Drowsy Chaperone.

His many creations include Insomnia, The Good Life, The Eco Show, Bigger Than Jesus, Divisadero with Michael Ondaatje, The Noam Chomsky Lectures with Guillermo Verdecchia, and a series of plays devised with Don McKellar and Tracy Wright (The Augusta Company). He was Artistic Director of Necessary Angel from 2003-2012. He has taught extensively, and mentored many artists. Awards include the Siminovitch Prize. His work has toured around the world.

IRIS TURCOTT DRAMATURGY Iris was the company dramaturge at Canadian Stage for 17 years and at Factory Theatre six years. She spent many years dividing her time between her freelance career and teaching at the National Theatre School of Canada. She worked at theatre companies across Canada including the Stratford Festival, the National Arts Centre, Artistic Fraud and Buddies in Bad Times, and was dramaturge on many projects at The Banff Playwrights Colony over the course of two decades. She was involved in a number of international co-commissions and international Festivals and continued to be a vital advocate for theatre both here and abroad until her untimely death in September of 2016.

MARCIE JANUSKA PRODUCER, STAGE MANAGER Marcie is an arts administrator and stage manager. As a Producer she has worked for Appledore Productions, fu-GEN Theatre, Theatre Direct, Coal Mine Theatre, Northan Industries and Eldritch Theatre. She has worked as an administrator at The Banff Centre’s opera training program and the Calgary International Children’s Festival. She has stage managed over 125 shows with companies across Canada, including reWork, Tarragon Theatre, Studio 180 Theatre, Modern Times Stage, Canadian Stage, Studio 180, Necessary Angel, Signal Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Small Wooden Shoe, Alberta Theatre Projects, Vertigo Theatre, The Banff Centre, and Lunchbox Theatre. She is the cofounder of reWork Productions.

KIMBERLY PURTELL LIGHTING DESIGN Kimberly is a Toronto-based lighting designer for theatre, opera and dance.

Kimberly’s designs have been seen across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Prague, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Russia. She has designed for various companies in Canada including Mirvish Productions, Stratford Festival, Canadian Stage, Citadel Theatre, Manitoba Theatre Centre, Vancouver Playhouse, Soulpepper, Dancemakers, Harbourfront World Stage, Tarragon Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Necessary Angel, Tapestry New Opera, Vancouver & Beijing Cultural Olympiads, The Banff Centre, Studio 180, and many others.

ABOUT reWORK PRODUCTIONS reWork is a theatre company with a focus on the continued development of production through public workshops and international touring. Our creative energies are equally focused on all elements of production: performance, text, direction, design and marketing.

We believe that theatre is an essential service to the human spirit and aspire to both enlighten and entertain.

Who Killed Spalding Gray? premiered at the Magnetic North Theatre Festival as part of the Stages Festival in June 2014. It has since been presented at the Luminato Festival, the Ontario Scene Festival (2015) and the High Performance Rodeo in Calgary (2016). reWork is currently developing a new work by MacIvor called The Myth of Authenticity.

Find out more at reworkproductions.com or @reworktheatre

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NOTES Some twenty-five years ago, my father sent me an impassioned letter to Paris where I was then living, saying that he had just attended the most extraordinary piece of theatre, House – written and performed by one Daniel MacIvor, directed by another Daniel Brooks. A week later the script arrived in my mailbox (remember mailboxes, the real ones?!), and I too became hooked by the bitingly acute, smartly chiselled language of Daniel MacIvor, his capacity to craft such insightful, at times agonizingly, familiar perceptions with such graciously snarly humour!

The other Daniel, Brooks, I had met in Paris a couple of years earlier, when he had spent some time working with the great French director Roger Planchon.

I could only imagine his own craft, precise, word-perfect, scalpel-like, in building his stage images and in bringing forth the meaning of the text.

Rare are the artistic collaborations which last a decade. This one has lasted three decades, and continues to bring us rare and exacting moments of theatre.

Who Killed Spalding Gray? is yet another new departure, another episode of unexpectedness, as Daniel and Daniel try to unravel a great mystery, and ravel us up in doing so. I am beyond words happy to share this work with you.

And a big shout out to the Luminato Festival, who first presented this work in Toronto in 2014.

MATTHEW JOCELYN

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