Outside Mullingar Program

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James A Glen Design

By

John Patrick SHANLEY

Oct 19 - NOV 3

Mark DuMez

Artistic Director

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Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

James O’Leary Mary Downes Wendy Lundgren Claire Friedrich Zoe Bellis

CAST Tony Reilly Anthony Reilly Aoife Muldoon Rosemary Muldoon

Brian Hinson Garett Ross Kathryn Kerbes Emma Slipp

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MANAGING DIRECTOR’S NOTES RANDAL HUBER Cẻad Mile Fảilte This traditional Irish greeting captures the heart of perfect hospitality, and its’ our goal for your experience here today.

You are welcome, a thousand times, wherever you come from, whosoever you be.

We are enjoying a stellar season and just set some new company records with our summer production of Grease, including the most tickets ever sold for a production at nearly 27,000. Even more remarkable is that every single performance in the continuous 98 show run was sold out.

We are now partway through our 26th season and the fact that we continue to set new records is a testament to audience and community support. Your patronage brings everything together and has helped us flourish well into our 3rd decade of theatre.

All of our 2018 mainstage productions have been built and rehearsed right here in Chemainus. Our production facilities, located just down the street adjacent to the Best Western hotel, house a rehearsal hall and costume, scenery and props shops.

John Patrick Shanley wrote Outside Mullingar with you – the audience – in mind. Now we have taken his script and built all of the production elements around it, specifically and only for you. You are the final element needed to complete the process.

After all, it is said “an actor without an audience is rehearsing.”

May you connect with this play; be entertained and engaged.

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ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S NOTES MARK DUMEZ

We hope you will take pleasure in this gentle play, full of love and hope.

A lovely actor and voice teacher, Erin Ormond, brought Outside Mullingar home to read. She suggested we consider it for Chemainus. A bit later Maria Ridewood, who is on the CTF Board, suggested I check out this quirky, heart-strong Irish comedy she had seen on Broadway. The play surprised me. I laughed out loud at the characters and the situations, the bittersweet longings, and the pinpoint turns the piece walked. This was a story I wanted to bring to Chemainus.

We wrote the publisher to request some language accommodations from the script, knowing it might impact the cadence and tone of the play but also certain audience members. We received a note from Mr. Shanley, who spoke about his play as one full of love and hope with no disrespect in it. It was written with the language of his family in Ireland who are devout people.

We chose to do the play as he wrote it. It has been a pleasure to work on this show and get to know these talented artists and the characters and worlds they create. We hope you will take pleasure in this gentle play, full of love and hope.

Mark has served as Artistic Director at the Chemainus Theatre Festival since 2009, where directing credits include Million Dollar Quartet, Silent Sky, Elf: the Musical, Hilda’s Yard, Mousetrap, Ring of Fire, Amadeus, A Shayna Maidel, Harvest, Christmas Carol, Jeeves in Bloom and Jeeves Take a Bow. Favourite acting roles in other regions include Queen Milli of Galt, Mass Appeal and Streetcar Named Desire (Chemainus Theatre Festival), John Gabriel Borkman (Theatre X) and the Dauphin in Henry V (Kentucky Shakespeare Festival). He has developed new work and adaptations for children and adults (Pet the Fish, Little Women) and is glad to be working on this show at the Chemainus Theatre Festival with the many exciting and talented artists who come to play on our stage.

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ZOE BELLIS

Apprentice Stage Manager

Zoe is thrilled to be making her Chemainus debut with this wonderful show! Select credits include Apprentice Stage Manager - Timon of Athens, Lysistrata (Bard on the Beach), Stage Manager - The Fabulous Lipitones (Miracle Theatre Prince George), Production Assistant - EastVan Panto: Snow White (Theatre Replacement). Thanks and love to Mom, Dad and Chris for supporting me and cheering me on. Zoe is a graduate of Studio 58.

MARY DOWNES

Costume Designer

Mary thanks Mark for being given this opportunity to design for Outside Mullingar. She was also excited to have an excuse to cross Ireland off her travel bucket list! For Chemainus she has designed for Munchercise, was the costume co-ordinator for the puppeteers in James and the Giant Peach, and was one of the co-designers for Countryside Christmas and All Shook Up.

CLAIRE FRIEDRICH

Stage Manager

Claire is thrilled to be stage managing her first production in Chemainus! Claire holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria and enjoys splitting her time between theatre and opera. Recent credits include Stage Manager on The Secret Garden (Kaleidoscope) and ASM on A Christmas Story (CTF), Rinaldo & Jenufa (Pacific Opera), HMS Pinafore (Edmonton Opera) and Otello (Vancouver Opera). Thanks to Nathan for his love and support.

BRIAN HINSON

Tony Reilly

Brian is delighted to be working at Chemainus. Favourite roles on the mainland: Now or Later--John, Sr. (US Democratic President Elect); The Temperamentals--Harry Hay (father of US gay rights movement); Taken at Midnight--Dr. Conrad (Gestapo interrogator); Romance--Judge (judicator on cold medication); Take Me Out--Mason (loquacious accountant). Brian is a graduate of the Professional Actors Training Program at Southern Methodist University.

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KATHRYN KERBES

Aoife Muldoon

For Chemainus Theatre Festival: Anything Goes, Murder on the Nile, Mr. Pim Passes By, Harvey, Glorious! Elsewhere (selected): Flight Risk, Book Club (Lunchbox Theatre), The Hollow, Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem (Vertigo Theatre), Enron (Theatre Calgary), Wizard of Oz, Shakespeare’s Dog, The Penelopiad (ATP). Kathryn is both a Calgarian and a proud Chemainiac.

WENDY LUNDGREN

Lighting Designer

Elsewhere: Pride and Prejudice (Persephone Theatre – SATA Nominee, Outstanding Lighting Design); Mamma Mia!, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, Man of La Mancha, Tuesdays With Morrie (Globe Theatre); HMS Pinafore (Stratford Festival); Dream A Little Dream, Annie (The Grand Theatre). Theatrical Lighting Design for Film/TV: Zombies (Disney) and Rocky Horror Picture Show 2016 (Fox TV). Thanks for having me!

JAMES O’LEARY

Set Designer

As Head Carpenter at Chemainus, James is delighted with the opportunity to design what he builds. For Outside Mullingar he not only calls upon his memories of travelling rural Ireland with his father, but also 30 years in international theatre, working with Rambert, Alvin Ailey, Ninagawa, the RSC and Zurich Opera to name but a few. James also designs and builds for Brentwood College. For Max and Seamus. Let’s Keep Theatre Live.

GARETT ROSS

Anthony Reilly

Garett Ross has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from the University of Alberta. Past shows include: Peter and the Starcatcher, Shakespeare in Love (The Citadel Theatre), Chicago, Hairspray (Mayfield Dinner Theatre), Nevermore, Vigilante (Catalyst Theatre), The Best Brothers, Beginning of August, Jack Goes Boating (Shadow Theatre). He also provides the voice for Kallo Jath in Bioware’s Mass Effect: Andromeda.

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EMMA SLIPP

Rosemary Muldoon

Emma’s recent Chemainus performances include Silent Sky, Hilda’s Yard, and Singing in the Rain. She has worked across Canada for such companies as Arts Club, Touchstone, Greenthumb, Mermaid, Globe, Vertigo, Drayton, Belfry, Two Planks and a Passion, Solo Collective, WTC, and Bard on the Beach. Coming up next, she will be in Boeing Boeing at Persephone. She is a graduate of Studio 58.

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John Patrick SHANLEY

It has been said that no one goes to see a romantic comedy to be surprised; we all know the characters are destined to be together. However, in Outside Mullingar we are never quite sure how that will happen. When it does, it’s a thing we never could have anticipated!

This play is “an entertainingly sweet journey to the intersection of past and present in the Emerald Isle – and the magic that can spark there.”

- Joff Schmidt, CBC

characters and lyrical language we encounter in Outside Mullingar and in his other iconic works such as Moonstruck.

He has written more than 25 plays and screenplays. His 1987 Moonstruck won three Academy awards; he wrote and directed the film Joe Versus the Volcano; and the Broadway smash hit Doubt: A Parable, which won the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2005.

Outside Mullingar is Shanley’s compact telling of a story which spans years, In simplest terms, Outside Mullingar is the pulling us into the compelling world of the tale of two people who have lived next to Reillys and Muldoons, who have owned each other their whole lives; She has been adjacent farms since – forever. It is a love in love with Him for years and He’s been story of the Irish people for the land as oblivious. Then of course there are family much as it is about the love story between rivalries, land disputes, laugh-out-loud jokes Rosemary and Anthony. It is a story of and, in fine Irish tradition, heartrending parents and children, legacies and poetry. inheritance, of people connecting with one another and moving forward. Rosemary Playwright John Patrick Shanley is, and Anthony’s story happens in that grey himself, a poet. He was the proverbial area between the past and an uncertain ‘tough guy’ raised in the Bronx and so was future, conflicted both by the dispute over once ashamed of his poetic inclination, a tiny parcel of land between the two until he saw a production of Cyrano de farms and their own complicated feelings.

Bererac which he describes as being These two find their way to a piece of “about a poet who was the toughest guy in happiness together in one of the most the room.” Shanley’s quirky insight into unromantic and yet amusing courtships human emotions informs his work as a you will ever see. writer. It is apparent in the quirky, vibrant VA N C O U V E R

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Jim HODGKINSON Little Women is a timeless and enduring classic featuring the journey of the March sisters’ transition from childhood to maturity in the time of the American Civil War. Louisa May Alcott’s beloved holiday story is a buoyant musical of romantic escapades, sibling rivalries and Christmas wishes.

Little Women follows the lives and adventures of Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo, known among the four as the fiery Tom-Boy, is trying to sell her stories to publishers; however, they are uninterested. When a friend suggests that she write more personally, Jo begrudgingly begins to pen the story of herself and her sisters, and their personal experience with the joys and pains of growing up during the Civil War. With their father off to fight, the four March sisters have many imagined and real adventures.

As they dream of their futures, encounter growing pains of youth and rise with courage to face their destiny, the March girls learn the true value of hope and family.

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