Forward Theatre - Love Stories

FORWARD THEATER COMPANY presents

Love Stories Three One-Act Plays by Bertolt Brecht, Dorothy Parker, and George Bernard Shaw Directed by Paula Suozzi Set Designer Frank Schneeberger

Lighting Designer John G. Frautschy

Costume Designer Holly Payne

Original Music Joe Cerqua

Properties Designer Charles J. Trieloff II

Assistant Director/Dramaturg Frank Honts

Stage Manager Jacqueline Singleton*

Assistant Stage Manager Kim Patch

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and the Pleasant Rowland Great Performance Fund for Theater, a component fund of the Madison Community Foundation

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

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F R O M T H E A R T I S T I C D I R E C TO R , J E N N I F E R U P H O F F G R A Y Welcome to Forward Theater! We are so happy you could join us today for our production of Love Stories – three short plays exploring love and marriage. This collection of plays has special meaning for me -- I directed this progression of one-acts about complicated relationships in an Off- Off-Broadway production when I was just starting out as a director in New York City. The juxtaposition of stories intrigued me then, when I was barely in my twenties. They resonate with me in many deeper, more meaningful ways now that I have spent two decades in love with Peter – first as my boyfriend, then as my husband, and now the father of my three children. The nature of love does indeed change over the years, and I’m sure will continue to grow and evolve each year we are together.

As happy as I am to present our final production of the 2011-2012 season, I am even more excited to announce the lineup of plays for our 2012-2013 season! We are celebrating the quest for the American dream with plays that range from the stories of politicians, soldiers, and statesmen aspiring to be president (44 Plays for 44 Presidents); writers struggling for fame and critical success while keeping their integrity intact (Collected Stories); and a woman desperate to escape her downand-out neighborhood and precarious life, balancing just above the poverty line (Good People). In addition, our second monologue festival will truly be “as American as apple pie” – focusing on heartwarming, hilarious, and harrowing stories about food.

I hope you’ll join Forward Theater for another incredible season! It will be our first as an official resident company in Overture Center!

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F R O M T H E D I R E C TO R ... PAU L A S U O Z Z I A chance meeting followed by the dance of courtship. A marriage beginning and a marriage ending. These are the tales heard in this trio of plays that we’ve entitled Love Stories. Pulling classic stories into a modern context offers the chance to glimpse “what might have been” from the perspective of “what is.”

We have the opportunity to see two fine actors arriving for rehearsal with all of life trailing them in the door. Why does one put down the phone, computer, children, and life to spend time in a dark theater enacting parts that aren’t real?

What pulls us towards this life and as audience members, what pulls us in? There are so many issues tugging at us, there are so many demands to take care of, is it really necessary to stop and allow time to move at a pace dictated by playwrights who are no longer living? We think it is. We think one must “remember the honeymoon” all throughout the days, months, and years of a marriage and a life.

To move forward one needs to look back, if only for a couple of hours.

As I write this, I’ve just spent another hour with my husband working through the ridiculously complex schedule that will be our lives while I rehearse these plays.

We often remind ourselves that the scheduling talks are a necessary means to an end — that rare moment when we can sit on the couch together and focus one thing — each other.

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F R O M T H E B OA R D O F D I R E C TO R S ... K AT H I E N I C H O L S As the president of the FTC board of directors, let me tell you two things: First, I am extremely proud of our current season. Forward’s stages have been filled with virtuoso performances of some of the most evocative, challenging, humorous, and poignant stories you’ve ever seen. The characters in The Farnsworth Invention, A Thousand Words, and Love Stories, and the actors who embodied them, will live in your memory long after the final applause fades.

Second, I am thrilled to be finishing my first year as president of Forward’s board of directors. I’ve been on the board for most of Forward’s young life, and I cannot tell you how proud I am of this start-up professional theater company in Madison. We have received nothing but positive reviews for our productions to date (thanks in no small part to our incredibly talented artistic director, Jennifer Uphoff Gray). Our subscriber base has increased by 43% over last year, and 78% of previous subscribers renewed their tickets—figures that are almost unheard of in the performing arts. And I’m even more proud to say we’ve done all of this without having to borrow a cent. We ended each of our previous seasons “in the black,” and we are budgeting carefully to do the same this season.

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F R O M T H E D R A M AT U R G ... F R A N K H O N T S Love is the beauty of the soul. Love is blind. Love is the irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly. Love is a temporary madness. Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart. Love is a fire. Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Love is the emblem of eternity. Love is a game that two can play and both win. Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few. Love is the answer. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Love is a many splendored thing. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

- Writers, artists, and thinkers through the ages Love Stories offers a multi-faceted glimpse into three great writers’ views on love, written roughly around the same time, enduring in their underlying themes. The production focuses on couples in various stages of their relationships—a man and woman engaged in a courtship, two newlyweds on their honeymoon, and a husband and wife whose marriage is coming apart. Their interactions reveal the complex and often disjointed nature of affection, demonstrating that falling in (and out) of love is rarely a straight progression from point A to point B. Taken together, these plays invite us to consider questions like: Is love ever true? How do two people come to love one another? What happens when someone falls out of love?

More than a simple romance, these plays examine the journey from “feelings of love” to “the act of marriage.” Ostensibly, marriage is a permanent, legal expression of mutual devotion. Of course, most of us have had relationships that began as love and ended as . . . something less. And if our feelings of love are ephemeral, so too are the institutions that are supposed to uphold the rules of marriage. Legal definitions of marriage—and who gets to marry whom —are specific to time and place, fluid and dynamic across the ages. Societies rely upon rituals and customs to affirm the underlying values of marriage: the honeymoon, the exchange of vows, and even the gifts people are expected to bestow, all signify what matters most in marriage.

In the “love stories” of Dorothy Parker, George Bernard Shaw, and Bertolt Brecht, marriage is a tenuous state. Each couple feels anxious about the formalized ritual of marriage, regardless of the stage of their relationships, or their feelings for one another. At the same time, these writers recognize the fleeting nature of their characters’ emotions. Each play takes place in the midst of a journey—on a leisurely cruise, toward a honeymoon destination, and away from a fractured relationship. While it is easy to see the pessimism and impermanence of love in each of these plays, we should take heart in the fact that love never disappears completely. Indeed, love always endures.

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L OV E S TO R I E S Here We Are............................................................................................................. Dorothy Parker The Jewish Wife.........................................................................................................Bertolt Brecht Village Wooing..........................................................................................George Bernard Shaw

L OV E S TO R I E S C A S T Colleen Madden*.................................................................................................. She, The Wife, Z James Ridge*..................................................................................................He, The Husband, A * member, Actors’ Equity Association Please Note The audience is asked to silence cell phones during the performance. The video and/ or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

Technical assistance for this production has been provided by the Children’s Theater of Madison and Madison Arts Production Cooperative.

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ARTIST BIOGR APHIES Colleen Madden is a core company member of American Players Theatre, a Wisconsin treasure.

This production of Love Stories is her third endeavor with Forward Theater Company. Previously, she has appeared here in Going to St. Ives and Why Torture is Wrong and the People who Love Them (Midwest premiere). In Wisconsin, she has appeared on the stages of Renaissance Theaterworks and the Milwaukee Rep, as well as with the former Madison Rep. She holds an MFA from the University of Delaware’s Professional Theater Training Program.

James Ridge joins Forward for the first time. He has spent the last 14 summers at American Players Theatre in Spring Green where past roles include Petruchio, Vladimir (Didi), Jacques, Shylock, Tartuffe, Malvolio, Puck, Chorus, Lickcheese, Col. Pickering, Trophimov, and Bluntchli. He recently performed with Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra narrating Britton’s The Night Mail and CTM’s A Christmas Carol, which was adapted by his talented wife, Colleen Madden. Jim has also performed with the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Next Act Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Madison Repertory Theatre. Jim lives in Spring Green with Colleen and their sons, where he enjoys gardening and baking bread. Thank you for supporting the theater! Ps118:14.

TECHNICAL ARTISTS Joe Cerqua (Composer) is a freelance composer, producer, vocalist, and sound designer. He has composed original scores for more than 250 productions around the nation and abroad. Joe is thrilled to be working with Forward Theater again after composing original scores for The Farnsworth Invention, Going to St. Ives, In the Next Room or the vibrator play, and Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. A regular sound designer and composer for APT, his music was featured in this year’s production of The Taming of the Shrew. Joe was also the resident composer at Madison Rep, where he wrote original music for The Diary of Anne Frank, Death of a Salesman, The Price, Talley’s Folly, Home, Anna Christie, Our Town, Moon For The Misbegotten, Copenhagen, The Drawer Boy, and others. Recent projects include concerts with Cerqua Rivera, original music and sound design for Ten Chimneys at Northlight Theatre, and sound 14 Forward Theater Company

design for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at University Theatre.

John G. Frautschy (Lighting Designer) is a freelance designer and production manager based in Madison, as well as a theater technician and lighting supervisor for Overture Center Foundation. Local designs include: In the Next Room or the vibrator play for Forward Theater, The Irving Berlin Songbook for Four Seasons Theater; Threepenny Opera, Eugene Onegin, Romeo et Juliette, Il Travatore, and Don Giovanni for Madison Opera. Other design credits include: Children of War, Deshima, After Sorrow, and numerous tours with Ping Chong & Co. and Muna Tseng Dance Projects, both based in New York City.

Jennifer Uphoff Gray (FTC Artistic Director) directed Forward Theater’s productions of A Thousand Words, The Farnsworth Invention, Moonlight

TECHNICAL ARTISTS and Magnolias, In the Next Room or the vibrator play, All About Eve, and Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. Before helping to found Forward Theater, she directed a staged reading of A Thousand Words for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Love’s Labour’s Lost for Milwaukee Shakespeare (“Best of 2008”) and The Diary of Anne Frank for Madison Repertory Theatre (“Best of 2008”). She also produced (and directed for) the Madison Rep’s 2007 New Play Festival.

Other credits include; the national tour of Copenhagen, associate director of Copenhagen, Cabaret, The Blue Room (starring Nicole Kidman) and The Life on Broadway. Off-Broadway, she directed the world premiere of the musical Suburb. Jen grew up in the Madison area and is now raising her family on the near west side with her husband Peter.

Frank Honts (Asssistant Director/ Dramaturg) is happy to be working with Forward for a second season, this year as an artistic associate. In this role he participates in play evaluation and casting for upcoming seasons, oversees the management of a literary database, and assists with outreach and educational programs. Frank has worked with Madison Opera, Wisconsin Wrights, the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and the Children’s Theater of Madison.

In March he directed the staged reading of Wisconsin Story Project’s Uncivil Disobedience, and in May he will direct another staged reading -- Sam White’s Oatesland.

Ric Lantz (MAPC Technical Direction Services) received a BA in theater from Colorado State University. He then worked as a scenic craftsman at Pittsburgh Public Theater. His freelance projects include PBS’s This Land is Your Land and the motion picture Wonderboys. Ric earned an MFA in production technology and management from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. Upon graduation he served as the technical director for Madison Repertory Theatre until

it closed in 2009. In addition to his current role as technical director at the Children’s Theater of Madison, Ric is also a co-founder of The Bricks Theatre.

Kim Patch (Assistant Stage Manager) received her BFA in stage management from the University of Southern California. This is her sixth production with Forward Theater Company, and she is looking forward to her third season at American Players Theatre as an assistant stage manager. In Los Angeles she stage managed the world premiere of Oliver Mayer’s Laws of Sympathy for Playwrights’ Arena. She also assisted the production manager for the USC School of Theatre.

Holly Payne (Costume Designer) is currently the costume director at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Holly graduated with an MFA in costume design and technology from the University of Arkansas. She has designed elsewhere at Skylight Opera Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, University of Tulsa, American Players Theatre, Florentine Opera, First Stage Children’s Theater and Theatre Squared in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Some of her favorite designs include Bomb-itty of Errors, My Name is Asher Lev, and Speaking in Tongues, at the Milwaukee Rep. Much love to ACB for being a fantastic partner.

Jacqueline Singleton (Stage Manager) is happy to be returning to Forward Theater after stage managing A Thousand Words, The Farnsworth Invention, Going to St. Ives, In the Next Room or the vibrator play, and Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. Her Wisconsin credits include ten seasons with American Players Theatre and seven seasons with the Madison Repertory Theatre.

Some favorite shows include Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Timon of Athens, The Merchant of Venice, Hay Fever, Lobby Hero, Topdog/Underdog, I Am My Own Wife, and Anna Christie. Originally Love Stories 15

TECHNICAL ARTISTS from Chicago, she worked for the Goodman Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, Next Theatre Company, and Stage Left Theatre, among many others. She now lives in Spring Green (with A. Bulldog), and operates the café at Arcadia Books, and a small personal chef business, Bananas on Fire (bananasonfire.com).

Frank Schneeberger (Set Designer) is currently a theater technician for the Overture Center for the Performing Arts. From 1978-2002, he was the resident designer/technical director for Madison Repertory Theatre, helping it to grow from a small community theater to a nationally-recognized, professional, regional company. Frank is a founding member of Forward Theater and serves on the advisory company.

is thrilled to direct her first production with Forward Theater Company. A native of the East Coast, Paula has called Milwaukee home for the past 15 years. She was the associate artistic director for Skylight Music Theatre, the artistic director of Milwaukee Shakespeare, and has directed opera across the country, from the San Francisco Opera, to the Lyric Opera of Chicago, to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Until this spring, most of her time spent in Madison has been in the saddle of her bicycle training for Ironman Wisconsin. Many thanks to Jen for getting her “back in the saddle” directing two fantastic actors in this great city. Love to Jonathan, Dorothea, and Carmela, and thanks for putting up with “Mommy’s long commute!”

Charles J. Trieloff II (Properties Paula Suozzi (Director), co-owner Designer) received his MFA in set of Starting Line Athletics, a personal design from the University of Wisconsin, training company located in Milwaukee, Madison. For Forward Theater Charles

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TECHNICAL ARTISTS previously designed A Thousand Words, The Farnsworth Invention, and Going to St. Ives. For University Theatre he has designed Antigone, The Passion of Dracula, A Little Night Music, Man of La Mancha, The Water Station, Smash, Steel Magnolias, True West, and Stop Kiss. For Children’s Theater of Madison he designed the recent productions of Little Women, Narnia, Goodnight Moon, and A Wonderful Life. Charles is also the designer for Madison Opera’s Opera in the Park events. As a visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, he designed A Lie of the Mind, Hay Fever, Guys and Dolls, and Antigone. In Madison he was the prop master at Madison Repertory Theatre for nine years, and is currently the prop master at American Players Theatre. Outside of the theater world Charles designed the themed reception areas for the Old Sauk location of Children’s Dental Health.

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SPECIAL THANKS The faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin, Madison Department of Theatre and Drama/University Theatres, First United Methodist Church, the Wisconsin Historical Society, Eric Ferguson Photography, Jessica Lanius, Courtney Neckar, Archil Pitimashvili, the Overture Center staff, Four Seasons Theatre, John Frautschy, Scott Thornton, Erin Wenzel, Karen Saunders, Evelyn Link, Rebecca Baumbach, Zane Williams, Paul Simon Heckel, David Wells, The Terry Family Foundation, Nick Berard, Peter Gray, and Joe Rice.

Thanks to our Friends of Forward Theater volunteers!

Lindsay Bradish Duncan Carlsmith Nina Cheney Hannah Craig Jane Elder Jackie Ferris Kathy Harker Liz Kiefer Gail Kohl Evan Kohl Ann Kohl-Re Kathy Lederhause Jeannie McCarville Rex Owens Susan Paddock Lynda Sharpe Daryl Sherman Nancy Schultz Myrna Williamson Volunteers help Forward Theater by staffing events, papering the town with posters and postcards, making food for our hungry cast and production staff, helping with mailings, and other office support. If you’d like more information, please visit our website at forwardtheater.com or call Julia Nicholas at 608-234-5001 *1 for Audience Services.

Forward Theater Company is a member of the Madison Arts Production Center (MAPC), which provides high quality, functional, affordable production space, equipment, and theatrical inventory for Madison area artists and arts organizations. For information on rentals and membership options go to ctmtheater.org or contact Mike Lawler at 255-2080.

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