Winter Solstice
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Winter Solstice
(Wintersonnenwende) by Roland Schimmelpfennig
Translated by David Tushingham Performing Rights S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; ©
Cast
Frank Cox-O’Connell Konrad
Diego Matamoros Rudolph
Roland Schimmelpfennig Playwright
David Tushingham Translator
Alan Dilworth Director
Lorenzo Savoini Set & Lighting Designer
Kira Guloien Bettina
Nancy Palk Corinna
Creative
Debashis Sinha Composer & Sound Designer
Ming Wong Costume Designer
Ellie Koffman Associate Costume Designer
Rick Banville Production Manager & Technical Director
Josh Vlodarchyk Head Technician, Lighting
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Cyrus Lane Albert
Jalen Innis Associate Production Manager
Sarah Miller Stage Manager
Alysse Szatkowski Assistant Stage Manager
Erin Halls Stitcher
Ben Junor House Technician, Audio
Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C major, Prelude & Fugue No. 12 in F Minor, Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in G minor, Prelude and Fugue No. 17 in A-flat major, and Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1. Performed by John Lewis Grant
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*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local SC659
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Director’s Note
Alan Dilworth
Thank you for joining us for the Canadian English language premiere of Winter Solstice. Necessary Angel has been on a five year journey to bring this formally audacious, politically prescient, and sharply funny play to the stage. We are thrilled to share it with you.
Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the world’s finest living playwrights. His razor sharp works challenge and implicate, they prod and poke and make fun of, while asking us to look at ourselves as social and political creatures, in a world awash with human inequity.
We have assembled an extraordinary cast and creative team to bring this remarkable text to life. We hope you find something of yourself in this world to take with you as you leave the theatre.
Finally, I would like to thank our excellent in association producing partners Canadian Stage and BirdLand Theatre.
Frank Cox-O’Connell - Konrad
He/Him. For Necessary Angel: Hedda Gabler. With Alan Dilworth: Idomeneus and Wedding At Aulis (Soulpepper). Selected Stage: over 50 productions including Hamlet (Canadian Stage), Hand To God (Coal Mine), and Spoon River (Soulpepper). Kristian on the CBC TV sitcom Strays. Currently the Slaight Family Director of Music at Soulpepper. Dora Awards for performance and musical direction, shortlisted for the John Hirsch Director’s Award, My Entertainment Awards for direction and acting and a SummerWorks Spotlight Award for performance. Frank studied directing at the Soulpepper Academy with his mentor Daniel Brooks, acting at The National Theatre School of Canada and music in the arts programs of the Toronto District School Board.
Kira Guloien - Bettina
She/Her. For Necessary Angel: Debut. Selected Stage: Ghost Quartet (Crow’s/Eclipse), Tommy (Stratford Festival), Doctor Zhivago (Broadway), Hadestown (Pre-Broadway/Citadel), Dr. Silver and Grey Gardens (Musical Stage Company). Selected Film/TV: Women Talking (MGM/Orion/Plan B), Brilliant Minds (NBC), The Good Doctor (ABC), Coroner (CBC), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Robyn Hood (Boatrocker/Global). Kira is a Dora Award nominee, a Canadian Screen Award nominee, and a recipient of The Robert Altman Award for Best Ensemble, and The National Board of Review Award for Best Ensemble. She has upcoming projects with Netflix, Paramount +, and Amazon Prime. Huge thanks to Alan Dilworth, John Gordon, Evan Buliung and Vivien Endicott Douglas, and all my love to Ollie.
Cyrus Lane - Albert
He/Him. Necessary Angel: Debut. Selected Stage: Madame Minister (Talk Is Free Theatre), Come From Away (You Are Here Productions, Gander, NFLD), Wedding Band and Much Ado about Nothing (Stratford Festival), Sweeney Todd (Talk Is Free Theatre, Toronto & Buenos Aires), The Secret Chord (Soulpepper). Other: Dora Award for Sweeney Todd. Love to Joanne and Eliza, always.
Diego Matamoros - Rudolph
A founding member of the Soulpepper Theatre Company, Diego Matamoros has an international acting career spanning now more than forty years, in theatre, as well as in film and television, working in Canada, the U.S., as well as in London, England. For Soulpepper, he has acted in more than seventy productions since the company’s first season in 1998. In 2022, the played the role of Gloucester in King Lear at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England, and last year, the role of Hugo Dorn in Chekhov’s The Seagull for Soulpepper. He played two roles in Bad Roads, an important new Ukranian play, produced by Crow’s Theatre in 2023, and in the Spring of 2024 he played the role of Walt Disney in a Lucas Hnath play entitled A Public Reading Of An Unproduced Screenplay About The Death Of Walt Disney, for Outside The March Theatre Co.
He co-founded the Soulpepper Academy in 2006, a theatre training program for professional artists, and was Head of Acting there for almost a decade. He has directed and taught at several universities, theatre schools and colleges, including the National Theatre School in Montreal and the University of Toronto. He is the recipient of several Dora Mavor Moore awards for his acting work as well as a Gemini award for his work on television.
Nancy Palk - Corinna
Nancy has been acting in Toronto for over 40 years. She recently performed in Infinite Life (Coal Mine), Withrow Park (Tarragon), Bremen Town (Next Stage), Prodigal (Howland Company) and Mad Madge (Nightwood). She is a founding member of Soulpepper Theatre Company (Queen Goneril, King Lear, August Osage County, Testament of Mary, Angels in America, Ghosts, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Hamlet, A Winter’s Tale). Nancy has performed across Canada at The Belfry, The Citadel, Theatre Calgary, MTC, Tarragon, NAC, Centaur, Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, and in NYC for Theatre for a New Audience, and The Public. She has taught at Coal Mine, NTS, Humber, George Brown, Tarragon, Soulpepper, ESA. Film/TV credits include How To Work A Crowd, Catch and Release, The Other Half, and Rogue
Roland Schimmelpfennig - Playwright
Roland Schimmelpfennig is one of the most produced European playwrights. His plays have been translated into over 20 languages. He made his US debut in 2007 with a production of his play Arabian Nights, produced by NYC’s Play Company. He first worked as a freelance journalist and author in Istanbul before studying as a theatre director in Munich’s Otto Falkenberg School. He then became an assistant director and later a member of the artistic team at Munich’s Kammerspiele. Roland Schimmelpfennig was then engaged as dramaturg and author at the Berlin Schaubühne for the 1999/2000 season and was resident playwright at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. In 2010, Schimmelpfennig was awarded the Mühlheimer Dramatists Award for his play The Golden Dragon. Schimmelpfennig is the recipient of the highest Playwriting Award in Germany, the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Prize, to honor his entire Oeuvre.
David Tushingham - Translator
David Tushingham’s translations of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s plays have been performed in Great Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India. His other translations include: Mr. Kolpert, Waiting Room Germany, Stranger’s House, Jeff Koons, State of Emergency and The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. He has worked as a dramaturg and curator for numerous highprofile European institutions and is currently Artistic Advisor to the Salzburg Festival.
Alan Dilworth - Director He/Him. For Necessary Angel: Letters From Max, a ritual, New, The Events, The Great Fire, CRASH, and CRASH (the film). Other Selected: The Last Wife, The Virgin Trial, Mother’s Daughter (Stratford); Idomeneus, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Incident at Vichy, Eurydice, Happy Place, Twelve Angry Men, La Ronde (Soulpepper); This Is War (Porta, Athens); The De Chardin Project (TPM); If We Were Birds, After Akhmatova (Tarragon), The Middle Place, Small Axe (Project Humanity) and many more. Alan is a Christopher Plummer Award laureate, a twelvetime Dora Award nominee for outstanding direction and production and the recipient of three SummerWorks Jury Prizes. Alan has staged over 25 world premieres in addition to his work on classical and established texts. Alan co-founded award-winning indie companies Belltower Theatre and Sheep No Wool, and was a Drummond Dorrance Fellow and Acting Artistic Director at Soulpepper Theatre Company. Alan has both an MFA in Directing and a BEd from York University, and a BA in International Relations from UBC.
Lorenzo Savoini - Set & Lighting Designer
Lorenzo Savoini is an award winning set, costume, and lighting designer for the theatre, ballet and opera. His work has been seen throughout Canada, United States, England and Cuba. He is the recipient of five Dora Awards for outstanding design and is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada. He resides in Stratford, Ontario. www.lorenzosavoini.com
Debashis Sinha - Composer & Sound Designer
He/Him. For Necessary Angel: Letters from Max, The Great Fire, Are You OK. Selected stage: nine seasons and multiple world premieres at the Stratford Festival, A Streetcar Named Desire (Soulpepper Theatre), RUR A Torrent of Life (Tapestry Opera), You Can’t Get There From Here, Seasons I and II (Factory Theatre), and many others. Other: Siminovitch Prize finalist, 2024, Dora Awards for Outstanding Sound Design/Composition and Outstanding Achievement in Design (Opera Category); Louis Applebaum Composers Award Laureate. Currently assistant professor at the School of Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University.
Ming Wong - Costume Designer
She/Her. For Necessary Angel: Is God Is. Selected credits: The Wedding Party, Uncle Vanya, Red Velvet, Orphans for the Czar, The Master Plan, Natasha, Pierre, & The Great Comet of 1812 (co-production with Musical Stage Company), The Wrong Bashir, Rosmersholm (Crow’s), Three Sisters, De Profundiis, The Guide to Being Fabulous, Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Pipeline (Soulpepper), Once (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Salesman in China, Rent, Hamlet 911 (Stratford), Candida, Just to Get Married, Trouble in Mind (Shaw Festival), The Wizard of Oz, The Inheritance, Public Enemy (Canadian Stage), Alice in Wonderland (Bad Hats), Peter’s Final Flight, Alice in Winterland (Ross Petty Productions), Things I Know to be True (Company Theatre/Mirvish), Hansel und Gretel (COC). Upcoming Projects: Fat Ham (Canadian Stage), Wights, Trident Moon, Flex (Crow’s), Kim’s Convenience (Soulpepper). Education/Training: Bachelor of Arts-Integrated Media major, OCADu. More: 2021 recipient of the Virginia & Myrtle Cooper Award; two-time Dora Award winner (Alice in Wonderland, Is God Is).
Ellie Koffman - Associate Costume Designer
She/Her. For Necessary Angel: What The Constitution Means to Me (and Soulpepper). Selected Stage: Into The Woods (The Royal Conservatory of Music), Alligator Pie (Soulpepper), Dissonant Species (Theatre Gargantua), Feu Monsieur Feydeau! (Théâtre Français de Toronto), A Little Night Music (The Royal Conservatory of Music), Rock of Ages (More Entertainment), 4 Minutes 12 Seconds (Studio 180), The 39 Steps (The Grove Theatre), Ghost The Musical (Starvox Entertainment).
Rick Banville - Production Manager & Technical Director
He/Him. For Necessary Angel: The Events, The Great Fire, Letters From Max. Rick has been a Production Manager for over 25 years, working alongside some of Canada’s leading artists and companies while having the great fortune of touring theatre, opera, dance and music through Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, the United States, and Canada. With over 100 productions to his credit, Rick has managed the production departments for The Blyth Festival, Opera Atelier, The Stratford Summer Music Festival, Volcano, Bluewater Summer Playhouse, Opera Lyra Ottawa and most recently, Young People’s Theatre. Rick currently consults with arts organisations on labour negotiations, strategic planning & policy, and safe workplace practice. Rick returned to YPT in 2020 as the Project Manager for their $13.5 million renovation project, Room for Imagination. Although Rick still produces and manages the occasional project, his primary focus of late has been on developing and delivering courses in national and international touring, communications, and production management for Humber College and the National Theatre School of Canada in Montreal. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
Sarah Miller - Stage Manager
She/Her. For Necessary Angel: What Makes a Man. Selected Stage: 1939, Fall on Your Knees (Canadian Stage), A Year with Frog & Toad, Little Shop of Horrors, (Capitol Theatre), Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Crow’s Theatre/Musical Stage Company), Bang Bang (Factory Theatre), The Runner (Human Cargo/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Mirvish), Lil’ Red Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions), Sizwe Banzi is Dead, Innocence Lost, Of Human Bondage, Spoon River, A Christmas Carol, Hosanna, The Heidi Chronicles, Angels in America (Soulpepper Theatre), Orestes, Yaga (Tarragon Theatre), The De Chardin Project (Theatre Passe Muraille), Freedom Singer (Project Humanity).
Alysse Szatkowski - Assistant Stage Manager
She/Her. For Necessary Angel: Debut. Elsewhere: Things I Know To Be True (The Company Theatre/Mirvish), Trojan Girls and the Outhouse of Atreus (Factory Theatre/Outside the March), The Rez Sisters (Stratford), Copy That, Orestes, Orphan Song (Tarragon Theatre), The Seagull, Copenhagen (Soulpepper), The Mountaintop, Venus in Fur (Theatre Kingston), The Flick (Single Thread Theatre Company), Two Pianos Four Hands, Shirley Valentine, BOOM X, Perfect Wedding, Jersey Boys, Baskerville (Thousand Islands Playhouse), Orpheus and Eurydice, Acis and Galatea (Opera Atelier), Richard Three, The Tempest: A Witch in Algiers (Shakespeare in the Ruff), The Last Timbit (Marquis Entertainment) Baskerville (Western Canada Theatre), Hedda Gabler (Coal Mine), Dialogues des Carmelites (The Glenn Gould School), Prison Dancer (The National Arts Centre), Madame Minister (Talk Is Free Theatre). Other: Alysse graduated from Queen’s University with a Bachelor of Music. She currently lives in Toronto with her cat Rick.
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Auction Support
Estée Lauder
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Lifetime Giving
Canadian Stage wishes to acknowledge the generous contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations whose lifetime financial contributions to the company exceed $100,000.
Above $2,000,000
Bram & Bluma Appel
The Bluma Appel Community Trust
BMO Financial Group
TD Bank Group
$1,000,000 - $1,999,999
Marilyn Baillie, C.M. & Charles Baillie, O.C
CIBC
Sandra Simpson
$500,000 - $999,999
BMO Harris Private Banking
Susan Crocker, C.M. & John Hunkin, C.M.
John & Nancy Embry
Imperial Oil Foundation
Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys
William MacKinnon
Manulife Financial
Maureen & Roger Parkinson
RBC Foundation
Scotiabank
The Slaight Family Foundation
St. Josephs Communications
Anonymous
$250,000 - $499,999
Alexandra Bailie
David W. Binet
Canada Life
Hal Jackman Foundation
The William & Nona Macdonald
Heaslip Foundation
The Henry White Kinnear Foundation
Elaine Kierans & Shawn McReynolds
Laidlaw Foundation
Trina McQueen, O.C.
Metcalf Foundation
Ontario Trillium Foundation
Jack & Judith Rose
The Sabourin Family Foundation
Sylvia Soyka
Sun Life Financial Anonymous
$100,000 - $249,999
The Azrieli Foundation
Cathy Bateman
Jill E. Black & Barry Allan
The Brian Linehan Charitable Foundation
M. Joan Chalmers C.C., O.Ont & Barbara Amesbury
Peter & Frances Chiddy
Ed & Fran Clark
Hugh Clark
Mark & Ann Curry
Deloitte Foundation
Ernst & Young LLP
Margaret & Jim Fleck, O.C.
GE Canada
Peter & Dianne Gillin
Gluskin Sheff & Associates Inc.
Sheila Goldman
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Barbara Hackett & John Tory
Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation
Hewlett Packard Canada
HSBC Bank Canada
Ken Hugessen & Jennifer Connolly
Intact Insurance Company
Ed & Ann Kerwin
KPMG Canada
Adrian Lang & Ash Taylor
Don & Marjorie Lenz
Gail MacNaughton
John & Kay McKellar
Molson Coors Brewing Company
Sandra & Jim Pitblado
Polar Asset Management Partners
Polar Foundation
Emmanuel Pressman
Timothy & Frances Price
PwC Canada
The Racioppo Family Foundation
Penny & Robert Richards
Jim Riley & Nicole Sigouin
Edward S. Rogers
Rogers Communications Inc.
Ellen & Brian Rose
Schuyler Bankes & Family
SvN
TC Energy
Tridel Corporation
Chip & Barbara Vallis
Arlene & Michael Willis
Julie, Peter & James in Memory of John David Wood
Anonymous (2)
Legacy Giving
We are grateful to the following individuals who have very thoughtfully and generously remembered Canadian Stage in their estates.
The Estate of Bluma Appel
The Estate of Kenneth C. Dawe
The Estate of John Gordon Hunter Larry Lubin
The Estate of Stanley Shaw
The Estate of Helen Joan Kates
The annual donor listing includes donations received between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.
We have made every effort to ensure proper recognition. If, however, your name has been accidentally omitted, listed incorrectly, or misspelled, we apologize. Please notify us at donate@canadianstage.com with any corrections.
Alexandra Baillie Legacy Fund Donors
Matching and Lead Donor
$10,000+
Mark & Gail Appel
Bob & Mary Pat Armstrong
Alexandra Baillie
Marilyn & Charles Baillie
Hugh Clark
The Krstajic Foundation
Trina McQueen
Vafa Mirzaagha
Maureen & Roger Parkinson
Drew Sinclair & Liza J. Stiff
Julie Sutherland & Greg Lemaich
$5,000 - $9,999
Michael Angel and Sara Angel
Upkar & Nita Arora
Tony Baylis & Jacqueline Kirk
Navin Bhat
Burstyn Family Charitable Fund
Susan Crocker & John Hunkin
Robert Foster, C.M. & Julia Foster, C.M.
Good & Well Inc
Colin Hennigar & Justine Turner
Nina Josefowitz
Elaine Kierans & Shawn McReynolds
The Henry White Kinnear Foundation
Ron Lalonde & Jane Humphreys
John Montesano
Chip & Barbara Vallis
$100 - $4,999
David Bronskill
Adam & Gayle Burke
Doone & George Estey
Huw Evans & Kathryn Bird
Brendan Healy
Qasim Mohammad
Daniel & Sandra Sullivan
Vandana Taxali
Thanks to our 24.25 Season Sponsors and Funders
Season Sponsor and Access Partner Bluma Appel Season Underwriter
John & Nancy Embry
Dream in High Park
Lead Corporate Sponsor Foundation Support
Production Underwriters & Sponsors
Alexandra Baillie
William and Nona Heaslip Foundation
Paul Maranger & Robert Brown
David W. Binet
Elaine Kierans & Shawn McReynolds
Trina McQueen, O.C.
Ian & Kiki Delaney
Marilyn & Charles Baillie Family Foundation Education & Community Outreach
Lead Donor
Fabio Mascarin Foundation New Work Development
Lead Donor Emerging Artists Support
Supporting Donor
Future Forward Fund Lead Donor
Ed & Fran Clark
Catherine Graham & Katy Graham Debost EmpowHer Founding Donors
Foundation and Corporate Supporters
Marion Armstrong Charitable Foundation
Henry White Kinnear Foundation
City Builders Principal Member
Kingfisher Foundation
Otto & Marie Pick Charitable Foundation
Hotel Sponsor
The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation
Government Support
Media Sponsor
TORONTO DOWNTOWN
Canadian Stage
Board of Directors
Hugh Clark Chair
Sara Angel
Nimal Amitirigala
Alexandra Baillie
Navin Bhat
David Bronskill
Rupinder Dhillon Councillor Paula Fletcher
Management
Brendan Healy Artistic Director
Monica Esteves Executive Director
Daniel Bennett Director of Production and Facilities
Tanya Doroslovac Director of Marketing and Communications
Heather McMartin Director of Development and Campaigns
Beth Toombs Director of Finance and Administration
Artistic
Lynanne Sparrow Producer
Jordan Laffrenier Associate Artistic Director
Laurie Merredew Assistant Producer
Manuel Chaves Manager of Education and Community Engagement
Finance & Administration
Sunitha Rai Manager, Payroll Administration and HR Support
Kari Seppen
Intermediate Accountant
Brian Parsons Senior Manager, IT Services
Ruth-Anne Yiu
Executive Assistant and Board Liaison
Adam Burke Treasurer
Colin Hennigar
Nina Josefowitz
Elaine Kierans
Frances Mahil
Fabio Mascarin
Trina McQueen
Vafa Mirzaagha
Development
Leslie Francombe
Associate Director, Corporate Giving and Partnerships
Chris Faulkner Senior Manager, Government Relations and Foundations
Luisa Kurtz Senior Manager, Individual Giving
Gillian Hoff Manager of Special Events
Shaneill Floyd-Wlazlak Development Coordinator
Marketing and Communications
Shannon Tigert
Senior Marketing Manager, Loyalty & Growth
Madison Zinger
Senior Marketing Manager, New Audiences
Derek Ma Graphic and Digital Manager
Vaishnavi Panwar Marketing Coordinator
Michael Crumpton Senior Sales Specialist
Audience Services
Conor Copeland Ticketing and Audience Services Manager
Faisal Butt Assistant Ticketing Manager
Huw Evans Secretary
Qasim Mohammad
John Montesano
Daniel Sinniah
James Spearing
Julie Sutherland
Maple Tam Vandana Taxali
Abbas Abbas
Peter Genoway
Elyssia Giancola
Mima Higashi
Alex Jackson
Mackenzie Kerr
Colette Mbariko
Seamus Murphy
Sydnie Phillips
Henrique Santsper
Sienna Singh
Mya Wong
Audience Services Staff
Production
Brayden Crawford
Technical Director
Meg Woods Production & Site Manager
Matthew Hadley
Building Operations Manager
Marshall Kidd
Associate Technical Director
Kendalin Bishop Assistant Technical Director
Ian Kowalski Production Coordinator
Mary Spyrakis Head of Properties
Janet Pym Head of Wardrobe
Chynah Philadelphia Properties Assistant
Josh Vlodarchyk Head Technician
Karen Elizabeth Head Technician
Ben Junor
House Technician
Great performances live here.
BMO is pleased to support artists that are captivating audiences with exciting, innovative and entertaining productions. We are proud to be the 2024/25 Season Sponsor for Canadian Stage and the Necessary Angel Theatre Company.
By Roland Schimmelpfennig | Translated by David Tushingham
