Dracula at Chemainus Theatre

Katie Murphy, Ian Butcher David Cooper Photography

Mark DuMez Artistic Director

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Director

Set Designer Lighting Designer

Costume Designer Sound Designer

Stage Manager

Bernard Cuffling

Ian Butcher Ted Cole Masae Day Ian Harmon Daryl King Michelle Lieffertz Erin Ormond

Count Dracula Abraham Van Helsing Lucy Seward R. M. Renfield Jonathan Harker Miss Wells Dr. Seward

Pam Johnson Marsha Sibthorpe Mara Gottler Paul Tedeschini Ingrid Turk

SETTING ACT I: Library in Dr. Seward’s Sanatorium, England ACT II: Evening of the following day ACT III, Scene 1: Following day ACT III, Scene 2: A vault, just before sunrise INTERMISSION There will be one twenty-minute intermission Presented with the generous assistance of:

The Chemainus Theatre Festival engages, under the terms of the Independent Theatre Agreement, professional Artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. The Chemainus Theatre Festival acknowledges the support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and its members.

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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Message from the President of the society Board of Directors

Message from the artistic director Mark DuMez

Pat Moore

Since time and memorial, we have been fascinated with what happens in the great beyond. Where we go, what we do there, and if such a place exists has been symbolized in tribal rituals described through we see the future epic theologies and treatises, through the eyes and mulled over late-night talk of faith shows – to name just a few. And no matter which way we look at what comes after we die, we see the future through the eyes of faith while we walk this mortal coil.

On behalf of our volunteer Chemainus Theatre Board, and our volunteer corps of 160 members who make it possible for us to open our doors each night, welcome to the Chemainus Theatre production of Dracula. The 1924 stage play by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston brought Bram Stoker’s 1897 multi-themed gothic horror novel to theatre audiences. Through the power of live theatre, this story with its intriguing elements was extended through numerous artistic incarnations up to the recent Twilight series.

In this version of prognostication, Bram Stoker’s Dracula drifts between worlds – a fallen angel of sorts. Through this stage adaptation, we are confronted with the mythic and symbolic battle of good versus symbolic battle of evil – the power of seduction good versus evil and deception clashing with the antidotes of transcendence and divinity. In a mystery scribed with the tools of archetypes and symbols, we are asked to examine our own assumptions of spiritual power, destiny and belief, and assess if we are sure of what we hope for and if we are certain of what we do not see.

The power of live theatre also helped to transform the vision of our Founding Directors in the early nineties of a theatre in Chemainus, to one of the largest in Western Canada. But each show also required the talent and dedication of our production, management and development teams, and our volunteers.

The Chemainus Theatre is funded almost entirely by our patrons – something that would not be possible without the continued generosity of our hundreds of annual donors. Seasons tickets are take in the full now available for the 2014 chemainus theatre season. Please renew, or join experience us as a subscriber for the first time. Take in the full Chemainus Theatre experience at the Playbill Dining Room and the Gallery Gift Shop, as well as local Chemainus attractions.

Thank you for your continued support for live theatre on Vancouver Island – enjoy the show!

Bring your “Dracula” tickets to the Centre to receive 10% off your 2014 BC Forest Discovery Centre Membership valid until December 23, 2013

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Director’s Notes

Ian Butcher Count Dracula

Bernard Cuffling

Ian Butcher is a Vancouver actor and has been performing in film, television and theatre across Canada and Europe, and is thrilled to be back on stage at Chemainus. Selected credits: A View From The Bridge (Birmingham Rep/UK); Tales from Hollywood (The Donmar/London); Arthur: Boy King (Carousel Theatre); Captain Von Trapp in Sound of Music (Gateway Theatre). For Chemainus Festival: Saint Joan, South Pacific, and five seasons at Bard on the Beach. Film/TV selected: Arrow, Almost Human, Robocop, Arctic Air, Fringe, Once Upon a Time.

Dracula is as fascinating now as it was when first a novel

by Bram Stoker. It is a strong part of theatre history having been performed regularly for well over 100 years. So I delighted when Mark DuMez asked strong part was me to direct the play for Chemainus of theatre Theatre Festival. I enjoyed working on history The Woman in Black here a few seasons ago, and so decided to give this Dracula that same gothic ambience. With a wonderful team of designers and an equally talented cast I hope we have achieved just that.

Ted Cole Abraham Van Helsing Chemainus fans may remember Ted Cole from his performance as Emperor Joseph in Amadeus. Recent theatre credits include: The Constant Wife (Arts Club); Copenhagen (The Globe); Jitters (Belfrey); A History of Breathing (Persephone); Don Juan (Blackbird). Ted’s television career has spanned shows like: MacGyver, X-files, Stargate, Supernatural, and recently, Fringe and Bates Motel. Mr. Cole is a voice actor in hundreds of animated episodes and has been a comic improviser with the Vancouver TheatreSports League in over 3000 performances.

Do we believe in vampires? Are there such creatures in existence? Who knows? I leave it up to Do we believe you to decide. But if nothing else I hope in vampires? this production entertains and thrills you and leaves you with a few hours of theatrical enjoyment.

P.S. An interesting theatre fact: Bram Stoker was the stage manager for Sir Henry Irving - the first actor to receive a knighthood.

Masae Day Lucy Seward

Bernard Cuffling Director

This is Masae’s 2nd show in Chemainus after appearing in A Pretty Girl, and she is happy to be working with such lovely and talented people! Recent credits: Balm in Gilead, Spring Awakening, The Government Inspector, Attempts On Her Life (Studio 58); The Great Divorce (Pacific Theatre). As a musician, she has also appeared in The Tempest (Bard on the Beach) and Seussical (Carousel). Masae is a graduate of Studio 58, and holds a BMus from UVic.

Bernard has just completed another successful season at Bard on the Beach in Vancouver acting in Measure for Measure and Elizabeth Rex. For Chemainus Theatre Festival he has directed Woman in Black, Hay Fever and Charley’s Aunt. He has appeared in Amadeus, Woman in Black and An Inspector Calls. Bernard is a recipient of the Jessie Richardson Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatre and the Sam Payne Award.

He is also honored with a star on the BC Walk of Fame.

Mara Gottler Costume Designer Mara is an Artistic Associate, founding member and resident designer of Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. This season’s Measure for Measure and Elizabeth Rex will mark her 63rd production there. Local design credits include: Fall Away Home (Boca del Lupo) and When the Sun Comes Out (QAT).

International credits include: La Tempete and Le Rossignol, created with Robert Lepage and Ex Machina. Mara has been nominated for the prestigious Siminovitch prize and her designs have been featured at two World Stage Design Exhibitions.

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Ian Harmon R. M. Renfield

Erin Ormond Dr. Seward

Ian is thrilled to be back at the Chemainus Theatre Festival.

Past CTF credits include Munsch to Say, Munsch Ado About Nothing, Snow White and The Sunshine Boys. Other select credits include 500 Words (Green Thumb Theatre); Guys and Dolls (Gateway Theatre); Werewolves (Pi Theatre). Ian also works in film and television, recently seen in Once Upon a Time, Cult and the feature film Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-wrecked.

Erin returns to the Chemainus Theatre Festival stage after her last appearance as M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias. Other CTF performances include several roles in A Christmas Carol, Kate in The Miracle Worker, Rose in Enchanted April, Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband and Mona in Queen Milli of Galt. Watch for Erin this fall in The Drama Queens, a part of APTN’s comedy show called She Kills Me. Erin is a graduate from York University’s MFA (Acting) program.

Pam Johnson Set Designer

Marsha sibthorpe Lighting Designer

Pam is thrilled to be working with the wonderful talent in Chemainus. Pam’s work was last seen in Chemainus for A Women in Black. This is Pam’s 33rd year as a set designer since graduating from Studio 58. She was the resident designer at the Vancouver Playhouse for 24 years where she designed over 40 shows. She is a six time Jessie Award winner; her latest Jessie was the “Career Achievement Award”. Her shows have been seen in London, Tokyo, Melbourne and New York. Pam teaches theatre design at Studio 58.

Marsha has designed the lighting for over 525 theatrical productions. Her work was last seen at the Chemainus Festival in Woman in Black. Favourite productions over the years have included Miss Saigon, Les Misérables and Dreamgirls for the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver, Shirley Valentine & The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for the Belfry Theatre in Victoria, and numerous productions across Canada for Mom’s The Word: Unhinged and Remixed.

Daryl King Jonathan Harker

Paul Tedeschini Sound Designer

Daryl was born and raised on the prairies and currently resides in Vancouver. His recent theatre credits include: King John and Merry Wives of Windsor (Bard on the Beach); Endgame (Main Street); Kismet 1 to 100 (The Chop); Vimy (Firehall); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Caravan Farm); The Sea Horse (Arts Club); Brighton Beach Memoirs (Gateway) and a few years back he was involved in Hay Fever here at the Chemainus Theatre Festival. Enjoy the show!

Paul is a sound designer, as well as a full time mixing and mastering audio engineer. Recent sound design credits include: A Pretty Girl, Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story, The Gifts of the Magi, Chickens (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Noises Off (Chemainus Theatre Festival/Western Canada Theatre); Fresco (Shadbolt Centre/The Cultch), Circle Mirror Transformation (Arts Club Theatre). Live mix credits include: Liona Boyd, Sheri Ulrich, Barney Bentall, Tom Taylor and John Gogo.

Michelle LiefFertz Miss Wells

Ingrid Turk Stage Manager

Michelle is delighted to be back after Delicious Lies this past spring! Previous credits for Chemainus Theatre Festival include: Mr. Pim Passes By, Rumpilstiltskin, Charley’s Aunt, Anne of Green Gables, Marvin’s Room, Macbeth, A Christmas Carol. UK credits include: Romeo & Juliet, Eva Perron, Memory of Water, and many Pantos! When not designing costumes, doing Living History or teaching at TWU, she lives locally with her darling daughters and husband. S.D.G.

Ingrid has stage-managed for more than 20 years. Favorite productions: The Orphan Muses (Touchstone Theatre) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Arts Club). Recent credits: My Turquoise Years (Arts Club) and stage-managing at Carousel Theatre.

Previous credits: Shelter from the Storm (Touchstone Theatre) and VIMY (Firehall Arts Centre). Ingrid is a graduate of Studio 58 and House Manager of the Studio Stage at Bard on the Beach. She is also an audio-describer for Vocal Eye, providing live description of performances for patrons with low or limited vision.

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When theatre maven Bernard Cuffling decides he’s going to scare the pants off of you, expect more than just a cheeky threat. You’re in for an imaginative thrilling drama that you’ll never forget.

This fall, we welcome the respected director back to the Chemainus Theatre Festival to you’re in for inject our latest an imaginative production thrilling drama with the same gothic ambiance that was acclaimed by those who saw his previous work, The Woman in Black. Now ‘rising’ to a new occasion, Cuffling is delighted to create a modern version of the Tony Awardwinning Broadway play, Dracula.

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Both timely and timeless, Dracula is the perfect highlight of The Festival’s fall schedule. The darkening season, Halloween in the air, and the play’s universal themes of conflict, love, faith and mysticism all combine to achieve our goal of making high-quality theatre experiences available to everyone.

Thank you for joining us to experience an immortal vampire tale. We hope Dracula will entertain and thrill you with a good jolt of gut-clenching theatre that asks, do you believe in vampires? Are there do you believe in vampires? such creatures in existence? The answer, according to Cuffling, is up to the audience to decide.

From vampire-lovers to theatre-buffs, and white-knuckled folks of any variety, every patron’s wide-eyes will be riveted to stage as Cuffling’s brilliant

The most well-known theatre adaptation of the novel debuted in the 1920’s, with playwright Hamilton Deane’s shortened script (which was later revised

by John L. Balderston).

Now 86 years later, audiences of teens and adults continue to be just as fascinated by the story of the unexpected heroes, led by Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, who set out on a desperate quest to find and destroy Count Dracula (before it is Bram Stoker, 1906 too late to save their

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Pink Starfish, Mayumi Nogami

Based on the novel of the same name, penned

by Bram Stoker in 1897, Dracula’s marvelous history and legendary fear factor have earned widespread status as

the original vampire tale. It depicts the classic battle between good and evil rooted in the terrorizing, terrorizing, lustful, and lustful, and macabre antics macabre antics of real-life bad guy Vlad the Impaler.

Known for its passionate, dramatic plot, the story has grown in popularity, and inspired spin-offs for over a century.

work unfolds. The director credits a wonderful team of designers and talented cast members for creating the scenes, villains, and victims of bloodlust.

The professional group of actors are all veterans with The Festival; whose experience and talents combine with our celebrated production team into three palpable acts of fear and suspense.

White Moon–Arbutus Cove, Mayumi Nogami

Before Twilight & the Vampire Chronicles – there was dracula!

loved ones from his sinister charms).

Armed only with their religious beliefs, scientific knowledge, and the traditional of desperate quest to weapons the vampire find and destroy slayer, their Count Dracula quest will put their own lives at risk, and challenge their innermost beliefs and convictions.

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HEARING SERVICES – Audio assistance for the hearing impaired is available from the coat check 15 minutes to curtain.

PHONES – Please turn off all your cellular phones or pagers in the theatre.

BABES IN ARMS – In consideration of our patrons and performers, children three and under will not be admitted to Mainstage performances (excluding KidzPlay series).

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Coming Next Holiday Musical

A new musical adaption

by Peter Jorgensen Based on the Frank Capra film and the original story by Philip Van Doren Stern

Everyone gets a second chance at “a Wonderful Life”!

What could be better than a holiday surrounded by loved ones? For George Bailey - the everyman of Bedford Falls – Christmas is missing its usual joy. Instead of peace and goodwill, the season has brought only loneliness, despair and a Christmas Eve crisis. Although no fault of his own, the man who traded his youthful dreams of adventure for the happiness of his family, friends and hometown, now faces ruin and disgrace.

From atop the town bridge, George wonders if the world would have been better without him.

It seems only divine intervention and a tenacious guardian angel named Clarence can help George make it through. But will the truth of his past be enough of a miracle to reveal his wonderful life?

to the Chemainus Theatre Festival with an uplifting, bittersweet tale of small town life. The musical features songs, dance, and an inspiring plot performed by our veteran the musical artists – including features song, director and dance, and an choreographer, inspiring plot Peter Jorgensen, musical director, Nico Rhodes, and actors David Leyshon, Jeff Hyslop, Alison McDonald, and Barbara Pollard.

Share a delightful holiday moment with family and friends as you discover the magic of It’s a Wonderful Life! Playing November 22 to December 23. Reserve early; tickets, dinner and getaway packages are on sale now.

Tickets available at chemainustheatre.ca or 1-800-565-7738

Adapted from Frank Capra’s classic Christmas film, It’s a Wonderful Life returns

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