Cincinnati Shakespeare - Little Women

women. Big dreams.

CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY

2022-2023 Season Sponsored by The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation and Rosemary and Mark Schlachter

Brian Isaac Phillips, Producing Artistic Director presents

Directed By

Jemma Alix Levy

Scenic Designer Shannon Moore Costume Designer Abbi Howson Costume Coordinator Rainy Edwards Lighting Designer Justen N. Locke Sound Designer Robert Carlton Stimmel Properties Designer Kara Eble Trusty

Fight Director Gina Cerimele-Mechley Dance Choreographer Rachel Perin

LITTLE WOMEN was commissioned and originally produced by the Jungle Theater (Sarah Rasmussen, Artistic Director), Minneapolis, MN

New York City premiere at Primary Stages (Andrew Leynse, Artistic Director; Shane D. Hudson, Executive Director; Casey Childs, Founder), June 2019 Developed at the Colorado New Play Festival, Steamboat Springs, June 2018

LITTLE WOMEN is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

There will be one fifteen minute intermission. Video or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited.

Design Sponsor

Pete and Ginger Strange

Women Cast and Production Staff

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Beth Angelique Archer

Mr. Laurence/Robert March/Mr. Dashwood Geoffrey Warren Barnes II* Hannah/Mrs. Mingott/Messenger Shelley Delaney* John Brooke/Doctor/Parrot Justin McCombs* Jo Elizabeth Chinn Molloy Amy Emelie O’Hara* Laurie Patrick Earl Phillips* Meg Maggie Lou Rader* Marmie/Aunt March Torie Wiggins*

P RODUCTION S TAFF

Production Manager Kate Bindus Production Stage Manager Brenna Bishop* Assistant Stage Manager Arran Bowen Sticher/Draper Rainy Edwards Technical Director Chris Holloway General Technician Drew Homan Wardrobe Supervisor Emily Kemmerer Scenic Associate/Master Electrician Justen N. Locke Charge Artist Samantha Reno Technical Director Robert Carlton Stimmel Properties Supervisor Kara Eble Trusty

*Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre, the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

*Appearing through an Agreement between this theatre, the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Maggie Lou Rader*

Geoffrey Warren Barnes II*

Elizabeth Chinn Molloy

Patrick Earl Phillips*

Angelique Archer

Justin McCombs*

Torie Wiggins*

Shelley Delaney*

Emelie O’Hara*

Brian Isaac Phillips, Producing Artistic Director

Production:

Kate Bindus, Production Manager

Brenna Bishop, Resident Stage Manager

Arran Bowen, Production Associate

Rainy Edwards, Resident Costume Designer

Chris Holloway, Technical Director

Drew Homan, General Technician

Emily Kemmerer, Wardrobe Supervisor

Justen N. Locke, Resident Lighting Designer and Scenic Associate

Samantha Reno, Resident Scenic Designer

Robert Carlton Stimmel, Technical Director

Kara Eble Trusty, Properties Supervisor

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Administration:

Sara Clark, Director of Development

Colleen Dougherty, Education Associate

Shelby Flynn, Operations Manager

Candice Handy, Director of Education

Colleen Ladrick, Front of House Manager

Justin McCombs, Company Manager

Kyrié Owen, Communications and Engagement Manager

Patricia Ryan, Development Associate

Lettie Van Hemert, General Manager

Jeanna Vella, Director of Marketing and Data Analytics

As of November 2022

Director

Dexter

Special Thanks

We wish to thank the following corporations, foundations, agencies, and individuals for their support of the 2022-2023 Season. We are forever grateful.

As of September 30, 2022.

We endeavor to correctly recognize all of our supporters. If you see a problem with this list, please accept our apologies and email sara.clark@cincyshakes.com to correct. Thank you.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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The National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest presents Shakespeare in American Communities. Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is one of 40 professional theater companies across the nation selected to perform a Shakespeare play with a professional team of actors for middle- and high-schools and conduct related educational activities for students.

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is a leader in workplace equity, earning an Ellequate Bronze in 2022. Ellequate-certified employers are leaders in making diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces the norm rather than the exception. Employers that are certified as Leaders In Workplace Equity meet standards of performance and accountability in six key measures of workplace culture, demonstrated by people-first policies, practices, and benefits, as well as employee experience. Ellequate is the nation's leading data-informed employer certification and cohort-based leadership program for intersectional workplace equity.

Director, Jemma Alix Levy

Director's Note by Jemma Alix Levy:

I am Jo. My mom was Jo. My friends were all Jo. I strongly suspect my grandmother was Jo. In fact, every single person I’ve ever talked to who read Little Women in their youth identified with Jo. Which is ironic, of course, because in Jo’s world, she is the outlier, the one who doesn’t fit in, the one who is somehow intrinsically “different.”

What does that say about us? What does it say about Jo? And what does it say about the way things have changed since Louisa May Alcott wrote her book in 1868? The transition to adulthood is difficult for just about everyone and presumably always has been. It invariably includes feeling alone, misunderstood, hopelessly out of sync, and just plain “wrong.” Jo March shares these feelings with us through Louisa May Alcott’s book, and therefore it is difficult not to empathize with her, and to feel seen by her creator. But all of the sisters are “little women,” girls on the cusp of womanhood. Each is facing her own fears about what it means to grow up.

When I first read Kate Hamill’s adaptation, I was struck by the differences between her play and the original novel. And while some of them initially provoked some nostalgia-laced ire, I quickly found that her adaptation made the March sisters feel real to me in a new way: no longer historical children living in a distant and therefore somewhat unimaginable era, but actual teenagers dealing with struggles that felt familiar from my own youth, and that I watch my children and my students face every day. What is deemed “appropriate” or “adult” behavior has changed since the Civil War, and I think the power of this script is the way the playwright chooses to have her characters fighting against those changed expectations without feeling the need to reset the entire story into a contemporary world.

My wish for you, the audience, is that you see in our Little Women the story Louisa May Alcott wrote, and of which you may or may not have fond memories. But I also hope you see the real struggles that face today’s youth every day, particularly the struggles to fully embrace themselves without fear and to fight against the injustice they see around them. I also hope you see the power of love to protect, to nurture, and to sustain them. As Jo reminds us, this story isn’t a great epic. It is our story, all of ours. That’s why it needs to be told. - Jemma Alix Levy

Jemma Alix Levy (Director, 2nd Season) is an Associate Professor of Theater at Washington and Lee University. She has directed nationally and internationally for over 20 years, including critically acclaimed productions in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Texas, and Illinois, where she spent ten years as Artistic Director of Muse of Fire Theatre Company. Jemma received her Bachelor’s degree from Amherst College, then graduated from The Juilliard School's directing program, where she studied with JoAnne Akalaitis, Michael Kahn, and Garland Wright. She also earned a Master’s degree in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University’s program in association with the American Shakespeare Center. Recent directing work includes a multi-media production of Natsu Onoda Power’s kamishibai adaptation of Thumbelina, Moliere’s Tartuffe at Prague Shakespeare Company, and Miss Holmes at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.

“Miss Holmes” directed by Jemma Alix Levy at CSC in 2019.

Kate Hamill's work returns to returns to Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s stage with her adaption of Little Woman. CSC audiences will know her work from past seasons' productions of Pride and Prejudice!

Can you recall the first time you read Little Women?

Kate Hamill: I, like so many others, was given the novel as a rite of passage. It was my mother’s favorite book, and I was given it just before adolescence. The play is actually dedicated to my mom. When re-reading the novel with an eye toward adaptation, I was really moved by the wit and the depth of the relationships. It’s far more original and quirkier than how it’s often remembered.

Which March sister do you relate to the most?

KH: I find parts of myself in each one of them, but the two that are closest are probably Jo and Meg. Temperamentally, I’m a bit of a Jo. And since she’s an artist, her arc is familiar. Meg’s perfectionism and self-criticism are deeply familiar to me, and I played her in the NYC run.

So, in what ways have you put a modern stamp on your adaptation?

KH: I believe in radical adaptation—in bringing new lenses to old stories and approaching adaptation very much as a new play speaking to modern audiences, as a collaboration between myself and the original author. I feel like adaptations that bring nothing new to the table are doing a disservice to both the original and the play, which must stand by itself as a work of theater.

I specifically wanted my Little Women to reflect American women today. It is requisite that the play be cast in an inclusive fashion: No production of this play ever may be cast with all white actors; all young girls and women deserve to see themselves onstage in a universal story, particularly within the limitless imaginative bounds of theater.

Excerpts from San Diego Magazine, Feb. 27, 2020: “Kate Hamill’s ‘Radical’ Remake of ‘Little Women’ in San Diego”By Sarah Pfledderer.

Kate Hamill (Playwright, 3rd Season) is an actor/playwright. Wall Street Journal’s Playwright of the Year, 2017. Her work includes her play Sense And Sensibility (in which she originated the role of Marianne). Other plays include Vanity Fair at the Pearl Theatre (in which she originated the role of Becky Sharp), Pride and Prejudice at Primary Stages and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (originated the role of Lizzy Bennet). Her plays have been produced off-Broadway, at A.R.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Dallas Theater Center, PlayMaker’s Rep, Folger Theatre (Arvada Center and others; upcoming productions at Shakespeare Theatre of DC, A.C.T., Trinity Rep, Portland Center Stage, Syracuse Stage, Pittsburgh Public, Kansas City Rep, Dorset Theatre Festival and more. Upcoming world premieres: Little Women at the Jungle Theater and Primary Stages; Mansfield Park at Northlight Theatre. She is currently working on new adaptations of The Odyssey and The Scarlet Letter, as well as several new original plays (Prostitute Play, In The Mines, Love Poem). Kate was one of the top 20 most-produced playwrights in the country this season. www.kate-hamill.com

Kate Hamill’s “Pride and Prejudice” at CSC in 2022

Theater Policies and Information

The little details count when it comes to a memorable evening at the theater. The following information and guidelines will help you enjoy your evening with us.

A CCESSIBILITY /S PECIAL S EATING

Seating for people with disabilities is available in multiple locations in the Lower and Upper Galleries and can be reached by elevator and/or ramp. These seats can be purchased online or by calling our Box Office. For assistance upon arrival, please see any of our front of house staff. We also offer many seats that can be reached without walking up or down stairs.

A SSISTED L ISTENING D EVICES

Devices may be reserved in advance with the Box Office staff or requested from the House Manager at the performance.

L ATE S EATING

Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the House Manager.

L AND A CKNOWLEDGMENT

Cincinnati Shakespeare would like to respectfully acknowledge the Osage, Shawnee, and Miami People who have stewarded the land we are currently located on throughout the generations.

Board of Directors

P HOTOGRAPY

To avoid disruptions and copyright infringement, unauthorized recording on cameras, cell phones, or other devices inside the theater before, during, or following the performance is prohibited. Photography taken inside the lobby is encouraged!

F OOD A ND D RINK

A variety of concessions are available in the lobby including a full bar at Bob’s Bar. Beverages are allowed back into the theater. Smoking is prohibited in the theater and directly in front of the theater’s entrance.

Y OUNG T HEATER -G OERS

Children younger than 5 are not permitted in the theater. For children older than 5, please call the Box Office to determine whether a particular production is suitable for your child.

I N T HE E VENT O F A N E MERGENCY

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The Winter’s Tale, Act I, Scene ii

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Cincinnati Shakespeare Company relies on the sustained commitment of a strong community of supporters to fuel CSC’s mission of bringing Shakespeare and the Classics to life for all. We send special thanks to our Monthly Giving Circle for their monthly commitment to support Cincinnati Shakespeare Company now and for seasons to come.

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A DDITIONAL C OVID -19 R ELIEF F UNDING

Throughout 2020-2022, CSC was the grateful beneficiary in COVID-related relief funds from the following federal, state, and local sources – the direct result of the advocacy of arts supporters like you.

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