Holy Days-Marquette

MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY’S J. WILLIAM AND MARY DIEDERICH COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION PERFORMING AND MEDIA ARTS THEATRE ARTS PROGRAM DEBRA KRAJEC, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS

By Sally Nemeth November 10 – 20, 2011 Directed by Debra Krajec Designed by the Computer Applications for the Theatre Class Designed by the Computer-Aided Design Class Supervised by Stephen Hudson-Mairet Scenic Design by Raquel Garces, ’13; Lex Gernon, ’13; and Carissa Saia, ‘13 Costume Design by Adriana Saia, ’13; Andrea Schoening, ’12; and Madelyn Yee, ‘14 Lighting Design by Nic Trapani, ‘14 Sound Design by Jacob Tarnow, ‘13 Stage Managed by Andrea Schoening Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc. The script to this play may be purchased from B P P I at BroadwayPlayPubl.com.

Holy Days premiered in London, England on 16 March 1988. It was produced by the Soho Poly Theatre (Sue Dunderdale, Artistic Director, Annette Clancy, Administrative Director) in association with Alexander E. and Dina Racolin.

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CAST LIST Rosie............................................................................................................................ Katie Callahan Gant............................................................................................................................. Larry Lajewski Will....................................................................................................................................... Tim Braun Molly.................................................................................................................Alexandra Bonesho The action of the play takes place in Rosie and Gant’s kitchen. Will and Molly’s farmhouse is adjacent to Rosie and Gant’s house. The farm is in Western Kansas.

The time of the play is Good Friday to Easter Sunday, 1936.

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

D I R E C TO R ’ S N O T E S The story of the family in Holy Days is one that is similar to the story of many of our own families affected by the Dustbowl during the Great Depression. And yet, that part of relatively recent American history is not one with which many college students today are familiar. And they should be, we all should be. Author Timothy Egan refers to the Dustbowl crisis as “the worst hard time” in his book of the same name, affecting millions more than Hurricane Katrina, to reference a disaster college students do have a familiarity with today. Millions of people across our nation were affected directly or indirectly by nature’s violent, unrelenting reply to years of drought and mistaken agricultural practices. Thousands and thousands of people in the Great Plains struggled to survive the loss of jobs, loss of their property to foreclosure, poverty, homelessness, separation of loved ones, hunger, sickness and death during the “Dirty Thirties”.

There are a number of similarities to the hardships endured by our parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents during the 1930’s and the economic and emotional hardships suffered by a great number of people in our country today. This is a story worth telling, a part of our American History well worth re-visiting. Holy Days takes the plight of one family in Dustbowl Kansas, 1936, certainly not the worst off of the families in the Great Depression but far from the best off, and lets us see how bad things often do happen to good, ordinary people. It happened to our relatives, and is happening today to many in our country, perhaps not the result of nature’s wrath, but due to causes beyond repair by an average Joe. I wonder, if you were confronted with the dilemma faced by Rosie or Gant or Will or Molly, what would you do? Would you pull up roots and leave your home?

Would you separate your family to try and find work elsewhere? Would the stress and strain cause your family to fall apart? Would the loss of so much be too much to bear? There are no easy answers in times like those, or times like these.

I hope this play will bring up thoughts of your own family’s struggles, and encourage discussion about how everyday Americans managed to make it through the tough times back then. And perhaps find hope that our country can manage it once again.

Debra Krajec

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BIOGR APHIES Alexandra Bonesho (Molly) Alexandra is a senior Theatre Arts major.

Recent Marquette Credits: Audrey, Little Shop of Horrors; Romaine Patterson/ Others, The Laramie Project; Cherry, The Beaux’ Stratagem; and Marcy, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Local credits: Alais in the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s The Lion in Winter along with Hair and The Drowsy Chaperone at Sunset Playhouse. Love to Deb for the opportunity to tell such an amazing story and her incredible vision! Thank you to the cast, crew, and design team! And lastly, thank you to my parents for making it possible to follow my dreams!

He would like to thank Deb, Andrea, Al, Kaitlyn, Larry, and Katie for an amazing experience. He would also like to thank his family and friends for their neverending support and love.

Katie Callahan (Rosie) Katie is a sophomore Theatre and Broadcast and Electronic Communications major. This is her third mainstage performance at Marquette. She was previously seen in A Year with Frog and Toad and The Laramie Project. Katie is thrilled to be working with such amazing people on such a powerful show.

Larry Lajewski (Gant) Larry is a freshman at Marquette, and Tim Braun (Will) this is his first college play. Larry has Tim is a senior double majoring in acted before at Notre Dame College Theatre Arts and Public Relations. He Prep in Niles, Illinois. He has enjoyed was last seen on the Helfaer mainstage worked with his fellow actors and direcin Little Shop of Horrors, The Laramie tor on Holy Days. He has learned much Project, The Beaux’ Stratagem, and The from this new experience and is excited 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. about his future at Marquette.

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DESIGN CONCEPT

In 2005, we entered into a remarkable experiment with the design of Everyman. That spring a group of ambitious design students worked together in my Computer Applications for the Theatre class to work as a scenographic team to develop the scenic, lighting, costume and animation design for that production.

This past spring, we decided to attempt the process again. This is somewhat unique in an undergraduate setting. As in 2005, the students enrolled in my Computer Applications for the Theatre class were charged with developing the design, and the only requirement is that the design work be developed on the computer. The resulting scenery, costumes, and lighting need not be technological in nature, but the process needed to be technologically driven. What resulted was an exciting experience of student design teams creating great art together.

I am most proud that this is a student centered design process. The students in this class researched, devised, revised, and designed the elements of the show you see before you tonight. I served as the facilitator in the class, and I want to thank Debra Krajec, Chester Loeffler-Bell, and Connie Petersen for joining us and working with the students in the class to provide feedback and help guide the discussions in the class. And my sincere thank you to the brave students for going through this experiment with me; Scenic team: Lex Gernon, Carissa Saia, Raquel Garces; Costume Team: Maddy Yee, Andrea Schoening, Adriana Saia; Lighting and Sound Team: Nic Trapani (with Noah Greenia class of 2011, and Christian Whitman studying in England this semester). They are to be commended for their great work.

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Raquel Garces (Scenic Design Team) Raquel is junior Theatre Arts major in the College of Communications. This is her first time being a designer or co-designer of a show and is very excited she was able to have this opportunity. She has been previously un-seen 4 Marquette University

in other mainstage shows, most recently assistant stage managing Little Shop of Horrors. She would like to thank her dad for always being able to come see the shows, Lex and Carissa, co-designer buddies, and the cast and the other student designers for their hard work.

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Lex Gernon (Scenic Design Team) Lex is a junior and proud to be part of the scenic design team for Holy Days. He has worked on numerous MU productions as head scenic painter and assistant designer. Some of his favorites include Sunday in the Park with George and The Beaux’ Stratagem. He will be designing the upcoming TYA production of If You Take a Mouse to School. Thanks to the women in my life: Mama, Princess, Momma, Sib, Partner-in-Crime, Yeeha, Bestie, Rocks, and my wonderful Ex-Wife (That is a lot!)!

Stephen Hudson-Mairet (Chair) 2011-12 marks Stephen’s twelfth season at Marquette. Thank you to our loyal patrons for supporting this program and making our students’ important work possible. Stephen has completed numerous scenic or lighting designs on the Helfaer stage. Most recently Stephen completed the scenic design for Little Shop of Horrors. Stephen is extremely proud of all the students from last semester’s Computer Applications for the Theatre class who are serving as the design team for Holy Days. They are a talented group and it is exciting to see them grow as artists. Please take note of their names in the program and congratulate them on work well done.

Stephen lives quite happily in a very old house in Wauwatosa with his wife Heidi, and daughters Emma and Grace.

Debra Krajec (Director/Artistic Director) Deb is very proud of all the performers in this cast and the first ever all student design team, but would like to especially thank the seniors: Allie, Tim, and Andrea. Thank you for a wonderful experience and all your hard work. The best of luck to you - you will be sorely missed. Deb has served as a Director as well as a Costume Designer on MU’s mainstage for the past twenty-eight years.

She received her MFA from Texas Christian University, and has worked professionally as a costume designer, a director, and an actress. In Milwaukee, Deb has designed costumes for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, and Next Act Theatre and directed for In Tandem Productions and Playwrights’ Studio of Milwaukee.

She is very active in the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, where she is a Fellow of the Institute. Deb is a member of Actors Equity Association.

Chester Loeffler-Bell (Technical Director) Chester has served as lighting designer, technical director, and scene shop supervisor since joining the department in the fall of 2001. Professor Loeffler-Bell manages the

scene shop, supervises and advises student lighting designers. Chester has been an active professional lighting designer for the past 20 years, having designed for In Tandem Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Theatre X, Cape Fear Shakespeare Festival, and Carroll College. His recent artistic work includes the lighting design for Little Shop of Horrors and The Lion in Winter for Marquette University, Girl in the Frame for In Tandem Theatre, Poor Tom for Marquette University in collaboration with the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland, and McGuire at Hofstra University. Chester lives in Mukwonago with his wife Susan and sons Harry, Sam, and Joe. Kaitlyn Martin (Assistant Stage Manager) Welcome to Holy Days! This is Kaitlyn’s third show here at Marquette, and she is incredibly excited to be ASM. She would like to thank Deb for her constant energy, Andrea for being a patient, wonderful teacher, and the cast for all of their hard work! She hopes that you enjoy the show!

Kimberly O’Callaghan (Costume Shop Manager) Kimberly is thrilled to be back at Marquette University! After graduating from Marquette in 2007, Kimberly studied at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh where she received her MFA in Costume Design. Kimberly recently returned to Milwaukee and is teaching this fall semester in Marquette’s Theatre Department. Kimberly costume designed Little Shop of Horrors, and will be costume designing Marquette’s upcoming production of If You Take a Mouse to School in January. Previous credits include Crimes of the Heart at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, The Rape of Lucretia at The Pittsburgh Opera, and He Who Gets Slapped and A Dream Play at Carnegie Mellon University. Thanks to Liam, Mary and Jennifer for their love and support.

Adriana Saia (Costume Design Team) Adriana is a junior Theatre Arts major with an emphasis in stage management and design.

This is her first costume design credit at Marquette University, and she is very thankful for this opportunity. Her recent credits include: Assistant Set Designing Marquette’s production of A Year with Frog and Toad, Stage Managing Marquette’s production of The Laramie Project, Assistant Stage Managing Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s production of The Lion in Winter, and Production Intern at American Folklore Theatre. She would like to thank Stephen and Kim for their help and support.

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P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F ( c o n t .) wonderful Costume Design Team along with the rest of the CAD class. It has been a lot of fun designing with all of them. And last but not least she would like to thank her family and friends for their love and support.

Carissa Saia (Scenic Design Team) Carissa is a junior Theatre Arts major with an emphasis in scenic design and management and a minor in Advertising. She is very excited to be a part of the scenic design team for this show. It was a lot of hard work and a long process, but it was worth it to be able to see their design come to life. Recently, she was the Assistant Scenic Designer for The Lion in Winter under Stephen Hudson-Mairet. Later in the year, she will be set designing Defying Gravity.

Her most recent achievement at the Helfaer Theatre was stage managing Little Shop of Horrors. First, she would like to thank Lex and Raquel for being on this team with her. She would like to thank Stephen and Deb for all of the wonderful opportunities to design and stage manage. She would also like to thank her family, friends, and her wonderful boyfriend for all of their support and love.

Andrea Schoening (Stage Manager/Costume Design Team) Andrea is a senior Theatre Arts major and will graduate in the spring with an emphasis in technical theatre (specifically stage management), direction, and design. This is her fifth stage management credit at Marquette with the most recent being The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee last fall, and her second time working on a design team, last time as assistant costume designer for The Laramie Project. She is extremely pleased and proud to have been able to take on both positions in this production and hopes you enjoy the show!

Jacob Tarnow (Sound Designer) Jacob is a junior Broadcasting major with a strong emphasis on sound production and design.

This is his first theatre production that he has worked on, and he is extremely excited about it. Jacob has been doing music and sound since the age of 13, but over the last three years, he has been working more and more with sound design and production.

Jacob thanks the cast and crew for the help and hopes everyone enjoys the show.

Nic Trapani (Lighting Designer) Nic is a Theatre Arts major with an emphasis in lighting design. This is his first main stage design credit. This has been a very exciting experience working on Holy Days since CAD class last semester. Recent involvement has been running sound for Little Shop of Horrors as well as pushing the fog and bubble machine at the same time for The 25th Annual Putman County Spelling Bee. This experience has been great and wants to thank Stephen, Chester, and the rest of my design team.

Also, thanks to my lovely girlfriend, Carissa.

Madelyn Yee (Costume Design Team) Madelyn is sophomore Theatre Arts major with an emphasis in stage management and design. Her previous mainstage credits include assistant stage manager for The Beaux’ Stratagem and The Laramie Project, and assistant scenic design for Little Shop of Horrors. She is very excited for this opportunity to make her mainstage design debut in costumes, especially with such fantastic co-designers. She would like to thank Stephen and the rest of the CAD class, as well as her family and friends for their support throughout this wonderful experience.

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Technical Director...........................................................................................................Chester Loeffler-Bell Stage Manager....................................................................................................................Andrea Schoening Assistant Stage Manager..........................................................................................................Kaitlyn Martin Lighting Designer.............................................................................................................................Nic Trapani Master Electrian.................................................................................................................................Dylan Elhai Light Board Operator................................................................................................................ Brittany Green Scenic Design Team.................................................................. Raquel Garces, Lex Gernon, Carissa Saia Scene Shop Assistants..........................................................Tanner Burke, Dylan Elhai, Raquel Garces,

Lex Gernon, Rory Higgins, Kaitlyn Martin,

Carissa Saia, Nic Trapani, Chris Whitman, Madelyn Yee Scene Shop Build Crew...................................................................................Charles Frank, Danny Smith Deck Crew...........................................................................................................................................Kristi Keiser 6 Marquette University

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F ( c o n t ) Props Masters............................................................................. Raquel Garces, Lex Gernon, Carissa Saia Costume Design Team................................................ Adriana Saia, Andrea Schoening, Madelyn Yee Costume Shop Manager............................................................................................Kimberly O’Callaghan Costume Shop Assistants.............................................................................Alexandra Bonesho, Ian Burr,

Rachel Chrostowski, Emily Daley, Katie Doyle,

Tyler Frost, Alexis Hamburg, Carly Kroll,

Selena Milewski, Joseph Packhem, Bridget

Rzymski, Adriana Saia, Andrea Schoening Costume Shop Build....................................................................Brianne Jaskulski, Cassandra Jaskulski,

Andalysia Masad, Doug Soder, Kristane Thrower Wardrobe Supervisor.............................................................................................................Bridget Rzymski Wardrobe Crew....................................................................................................... Ciara Collins, Kelly Dillon Sound Designer........................................................................................................................... Jacob Turnow Sound Board Operator......................................................................................................... Kathryn DeLapp Assistant to the Chair................................................................................................................. Kelsey Lauren Assistant to the Artistic Director....................................................................................................Tim Braun Box Office Assistant............................................................................. Kaitlyn Barrett, Thomas Meacham Public Relations............................................................................................................................. Emma Gotter House Manager....................................................................................................................... Meghan Bachtel Ushers............................................................................ Madeline Burgeson, Theatre Appreciation Class

The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival™ 44, part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program is generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein.

Additional support is provided by the U.S. Department of Education, the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation, The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein, and the National Committee for the Performing Arts part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program is generously funded by David and Alice Rubenstein.

This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF).

The aims of this national theater education program are to identify an promote quality in collegelevel theatreW production. To this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional KCACTF representative, and selected students and faculty are invited to participate in KCACTF programs involving scholarships, internships, grants and awards for actors, directors dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage managers and critics at both the regional and national levels.

Productions entered on the Participation level are eligible for invitation to the KCACTF regional festival. Those productions invited to the regional festival will be considered for national awards of distinguished achievement, to be presented at the KCACTF national festival at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC in the spring of 2012.

Last year more than 1,300 productions were entered in the KCACTF involving more than 200,000 students nationwide. By entering this production, our theater department is sharing in the KCACTF goals to recognize, reward, and celebrate the exemplary work produced in college and university theaters across the nation.

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T H A N K YO U The Department of Performing Arts wishes to thank: Cardinal Stritch Theatre Department Rob Wagner Sunset Playhouse Community Theatre Jim Guy and the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre Carole Burns M ARQUETTE UNIVERSIT Y College of Communication Lori Bergen, Dean Joyce Wolburg, Associate Dean Erik Ugland, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies & Research Chioma Ugochukwu, Assistant Dean for Student Services Full - Time Faculty Chester Loeffler-Bell Connie Petersen Phylis Ravel Box Office Coordinator Kevin Wleklinski

Performing and Media Arts Stephen Hudson-Mairet, Chairperson Theatre Arts Program Debra Krajec, Artistic Director Part - Time Faculty Amy Brinkman-Sustache James Fletcher Fr. Grant Garinger, S.J. Andrea Johnson Roxanne Kess Maureen Kilmurry Kimberly O’Callaghan John Schneider Mark Weinberg

M ARQUETTE UNIVERSIT Y The Department of Performing Arts wishes to thank the following Donors for their 2011 – 2012 contributions: Theatre Contribution Fund Vanessa Rawls Thomas Anderson Ronald D. Santilli Carole Burns Rosemary H. Selep Margaret Callahan Sandra L. Shrock American Transmission Company Kathleen M. Smith Delphine M. Cannon Mary Beth Tallon Donald A. Cress Peter G. Toumanoff Terry & Diane Duffey Mary C. Utschig James and Joan Hagner Kevin & Ashlea Wleklinski Bud and Sara Hudson Andrew Kienzle Theatre and Social Justice Fund Maureen Kilmurry Anthony Bonta Jay Kirk Helen Boomsma Chester Loeffler-Bell Rafael Garces Marianna C. Markowetz Jay Kirk Paul Milakovich Gary S. Krenz Marquette University Players Laura S. Locher John E. McArdle Mary K. Marzano James J. McGillis John J. Pauly Gary S. Meyer James F. Mitchell Ken Miller & Margie Blodgett Emily A. Schultz Susan Moutin Terry A. Peterson Endowed Drama Fund Sara R. Pforr The Hudson-Mairet Family Michael J. Price John & Mary Ricci 8 Marquette University