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Venus in Fur

by David Ives October 18 - November 17, 2013

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Mad Cow Theatre Presents

Venus in Fur

by David Ives October 18 - November 17, 2013 The BLACK BOX

- FEATURING Piper Patterson Tim Williams* Scenic Design William Elliott

Lighting Design Erin Miner

Costume Design Mike and Kathy Buck

Sound Design Will Carlson

Stage Manager Linda Marie Romanello

Director Peg O’Keef

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. VENUS IN FUR is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York..

Originally produced by Classic Stage Company (Brian Kulick, Artistic Director; Jessica R. Jenen, Executive Director).

Originally produced on Broadway by the Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer) by special arrangement with Jon B. Platt, Scott Landis and Classic Stage Company, at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre on October 13, 2011.

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Cast of Characters In order of appearance Tim Williams............................................................ Thomas Piper Patterson......................................................... Vanda PLACE AND TIME A bare, rented studio, a stormy afternoon, the present PRODUCTION TEAM Audio...................................................................... Will Carlson Fight Choreographer................................................ Stephan Jones House Carpenter...................................................... Daniel Cooksley Master Electrician..................................................... David Clenney Props Master & Set Décor......................................... Frank Siano Scenic Charge......................................................... Lisa Buck Scenic Assistant........................................................ Melissa Cooper Venus in Fur is 90 minutes long and is performed without intermission.

Out of respect for the audience and the artists, patrons who leave the theatre during the performance and patrons who arrive late will be re-admitted at house manager’s discretion.

The photographing, video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

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About the Playwright David Ives (Playwright) is perhaps best known for his evening of one-act plays, All in the Timing (he has been included in the Best Short Plays series seven times), and for his drama Venus in Fur, which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. His plays include New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch De Spinoza (adapted from Molière’s The Misanthrope); The Liar (adapted from Corneille); Time Flies; and Is He Dead? (adapted from Mark Twain). He has also translated Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear and Yasmina Reza’s A Spanish Play A former Guggenheim Fellow in play writing and a graduate of The Yale School of Drama, he lives in New York City.

THE ORIGINAL VENUS IN FURS In the play, the character Thomas mentions the inspiration for his adaptation, Leopold von SacherMasoch’s Venus in Furs. The novella, published in 1870, contains a story within a story: A man is telling his friend Severin of a dream he has in which he talks to the goddess Venus – while she wears furs – about love. Severin recommends that the man read Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man in order to cure him of his fascination with cruel women.

Memoirs of a Suprasensual Man tells the tale of Severin von Kusiemski, who is infatuated with a woman named Wanda von Dunajew. He desires to be her slave, asking to be treated in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda is reluctant to obey his requests, but she does so to humor him, eventually discovering that she does indeed enjoy the control she has over him.

VENUS IN FURS IN POPULAR CULTURE Leopold von Sacher -Masoch’s novella, Venus in Furs, has inspired a lot more than just David Ives’ play. A well-known pop culture reference is the Velvet Underground’s song Venus in Furs, which includes lyrics that directly allude to the book, such as “Severin, your servant, comes in bells, please don’t forsake him.”

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Venus in Fur mike and kathy buck designs (Costumes) are delighted to work again with Mad Cow Theatre. Their work was last seen this summer in Mad Cow’s productions of Dreamgirls.

MKBD is honored to receive the critics choice award from Creative Loafing’s best of Tampa Bay Awards for the third consecutive year. Look for MKBD designs at American Stage Theatre in this month’s production of The Birds.

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Will Carlson (Sound Designer) This is Will Carlson’s first design credit at Mad Cow Theatre. Recently from Illinois, Will previously designed sound for theatre, dance, and opera.

Most recently he was the sound

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designer for Florencia en el Amazonas, as well as Spring Awakening, Cabaret, and Studio Dance, the MFA thesis presentation at the University of Illinois. Will would like to thank the cast and crew for their support on this production.

William ElliotT (Scenic Designer) has designed scenery and lighting for over 200 productions during his career and many of them in the Central Florida area. They include operas at Stetson University’s School of Music and plays and musicals at Stetson’s Theatre Arts program. He designed many productions for the Civic Theatre of Central Florida and Orlando Opera Company. Some of his credits with Mad Cow Theatre include Fool for Love, Blithe Spirit, Desdemona, Burn This, The Glass Menagerie, The Cherry Orchard, Crimes of the Heart, The Odd Couple, The Laramie Project, Ghosts (scenery and lighting), The Life of Galileo, Stop Kiss, The Butter and Egg Man, Legacy of Light, Next to Normal and The Understudy. He has designed not only for theatre and opera, but also television, film, corporate productions and theme parks.

Erin Miner (Lighting Designer) Other Desert Cities marks Erin’s 64th show with Mad Cow Theatre. She is excited to be working with Peg. When not at Mad Cow, she can be found in the fields of Apopka High School as a drama teacher.

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Peg O’Keef (Director) is thrilled to be at Mad Cow, in whose legendary pastures she has had the most excellent acting adventures, including Under Milk Wood, Our Town, Delicate Balance, Happy Days,

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Piper Patterson (Vanda) Piper’s previous Mad Cow productions include Collected Stories (Lisa), Enchanted April (Lady Caroline), and Dancing at Lughnasa (Christina). She performed in Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s Sense and Sensibility as Marianne earlier this year and will return for It’s a Wonderful Life in December. Piper has spent her summers working for Missoula Children’s Theatre touring across the country, bringing the arts to rural communities.

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Venus in Fur Linda Marie Romanello (Stage Manager) Linda is a recent graduate from UCF with a Theatre BFA in stage management. She began her theatre career at University Of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), Department of Theatre Dance and Film. This is her sixth production with Mad Cow; she has previously worked on Collected Stories as the stage manager. While she is not in the booth, Linda moonlights as a photographer at Walt Disney World or spending every spare minute with her husband Joe and incredible son Joseph. She would like to thank her family for all their love and support.

Timothy Williams (Thomas) received a BA in theater from the University of Central Florida.

He has performed in 16 main stage productions with Orlando Shakespeare Theater including Othello, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Arms and the Man; the Artist’s Collaborative Theater production of The Kentucky Cycle; Mad Cow Theatre’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Billy Bishop Goes to War, and Laughter on the 23rd

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Floor; The Vine Theatre’s Bullshot Crummond, The Turn of the Screw and Fully Committed at the Cape May Stage; and Alpine Theater Project’s productions of Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Godspell, and Stones in His Pockets. Timothy is an actor at the Walt Disney World and directed Private Lives, Next To Normal, Sunday in the Park with George and Death of a Salesman here at Mad Cow Theatre.

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