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by
Jules
Romains translated and directed by
Gus Kaikkonen
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PUBLICATIONS from the Mint Theater Company TERESA DEEVY RECLAIMED: VOLUME ONE Temporal Powers, Katie Roche, Wife to James Whelan WORTHY BUT NEGLECTED: Plays of the Mint Theater Mr. Pim Passes By by A.A. Milne, The House of Mirth by Edith Warton & Clyde Fitch, Alison’s House by Susan Glaspell, Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale, Welcome to Our City by Thomas Wolfe, Diana of Dobson’s by Cecily Hamilton & Rutherford and Son by Githa Sowerby ARTHUR SCHNITZLER RECLAIMED New English Versions of Far and Wide (Das weite Land) & The Lonely Way (Der einsame Weg) HARLEY GRANVILLE BARKER RECLAIMED The Madras House, The Voysey Inheritance & Farewell to the Theatre ST. JOHN HANKIN RECLAIMED The Return of the Prodigal & The Charity that Began at Home
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Jonathan Bank, Producing Artistic Director Sherri Kotimsky, Finance & Production presents
By
Jules ROmains with
Ross Bickell, Mitch Greenberg , George Morfogen , Jay Patterson Paul Pontrelli, DavE Quay, Douglas Rees , James Riordan , Megan Robinson Kraig Swartz, Scott Thomas , Brian Vaughan , Vladimir Versailles Sets R o ger Hanna
Costumes Sam Flemin g
L i ght s P r i ce Jo h n sto n
O rig ina l M usic & Sound Ja n e Shaw
Pro j ections R oge r Han n a & Price Joh n ston
Props Jo sh ua Yo co m
W ig s Gerard Kel l y
Casting Judy Bowman
P r o d u ct i o n Manage r S h err i K ot i m sk y
P r oduc tion Sta g e M ana g e r L i s a M c Gi nn
Asstistant Stage Manager Laura Kim
I l l us t r at i o n S t efan o Imb ert
Gra phic s H ey J u de Graphi c s Inc .
Adver tising & Marketing Th e Pekoe G roup
Press Rep Dav i d G er st en & A sso ci at es
Translated & Directed By
Gus Kaikkonen
DONOGOO is supported in part an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
characters in order of Apearance Lamendin........................................... James Riordan Benin.............................................. Mitch Greenberg Bartender.............................................. Scott Thomas Miguel Rufisque.............................. George Morfogen Rufisque’s Man Servant....................Vladimir Versailles Tour Guide.............................................. Dave Quay Passersby....................Paul Pontrelli, Megan Robinson, Jay Patterson, Kraig Swartz, Brian Thomas Vaughan Le Trouhadec................................. George Morfogen Sophie, Trouhadec’s Housekeeper ���� Megan Robinson Bank Director........................................ Douglas Rees Café Waiter............................................ Kraig Swartz Café Owner........................................... Jay Patterson Margajat................................................. Ross Bickell Projectionist.......................................... Scott Thomas Young Man............................. Brian Thomas Vaughan Young Man’s Friend............................... Douglas Rees Marseilles Prostitute.................................. Dave Quay Woman in Colonial Saigon............... Megan Robinson Mathieu, the Boss................................... Jay Patterson Man in Colonial Saigon.................... Mitch Greenberg Gardener.............................................. Paul Pontrelli Cowboy................................................ Scott Thomas American................................................ Kraig Swartz Bois du Boulogne Waiter......................... Paul Pontrelli Tough Guy Adventurer........................... Douglas Rees Second Adventurer.................................. Kraig Swartz Native Boy......................................Vladimir Versailles Joris........................................................ Dave Quay Joseph.................................................. Scott Thomas Indian Guide......................................... Paul Pontrelli Woman in Audience......................... Megan Robinson Journalist.............................................. Douglas Rees Photographer................................... Megan Robinson Newcomer............................................ Douglas Rees Gold Prospector............................... Mitch Greenberg Seasick Pioneer....................................... Kraig Swartz Clipoteaux......................................Vladimir Versailles Steward................................................. Paul Pontrelli Travel Agent..................................... Megan Robinson German Client...................................... Douglas Rees First Stockholder............................... Megan Robinson Second Stockholder.......................... Mitch Greenberg Third Stockholder.................................... Kraig Swartz Elevator Operator...........................Vladimir Versailles Newsboy............................................... Paul Pontrelli Marie.............................................. Megan Robinson Other Woman......................................... Kraig Swartz Leila................................................ Megan Robinson
James Riordan
Mitch Greenberg
Scott Thomas
George Morfogen
Vladimir Versailles
Dave Quay
Paul Pontrelli
Megan Robinson
Jay Patterson
Kraig Swartz
Brian Thomas Vaughan
Douglas Rees
Ross Bickell
setting
Donogoo
A Comedy in 23 Tableaux PART ONE 1. The Moselle Bridge over the Canal St. Martin, Paris, 1920 2. The office of Miguel Rufisque, 117 Rue des Londres, immediately following 3. In front of the Mosque of Paris, that evening 4. Le Trouhadec’s study, immediately following 5. The First Bank, Office of the Director, one week later 6. The Café Briard, the next day 7. Margajat’s Bank, Office of the Director, immediately following 8. A phone booth and Le Trouhadec’s study, immediately following 9. A rented Conference room, the following Saturday 10. A street in Marseilles, a few weeks later 11. A terrace in Saigon, a week later 12. An Automat in San Francisco, a week later 13. An open air restaurant in the Bois du Boulogne, several weeks later
There will be a 15 minute intermission
PART TWO 14. An overgrown ravine in Brazil, the same day 15. A stage of a café in Pigalle, Paris, a few days later 16. A riverbank in Brazil, the same day 17. The Gare d’Orsay, Paris, the platform of the Bordeaux Express, 2 weeks later 18. Brazil, the Adventurer’s Camp, 2 weeks later 19. The deck of an ocean liner, approaching Rio, the same day 20. The Meyer-Kohn Travel Agency, Rio de Janeiro, the same day 21. The head offices of the Donogoo Corporation in Paris, the next day 22. Donogoo-Tonka’s Main Square, a few weeks later 23. A room in the Governor General’s palace, Donogoo, a few months later
about the playwright j u l e s
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Jules Romains ranks among the most prolific French writers of the twentieth century and among the most important of the interwar period. His most famous work, the 27 volume novel Men of Good Will, is comparable to the works of Zola and Proust in scale and ambition. In Romains’ words, Men of Good Will “presented a sort of epic from the beginning of the 20th century all over the world, especially in France…it existed in my mind from my earliest youth, when I first began to write.” Romains was born Louis-Henri-Jean Farigoule on August 26, 1885 in the village of Saint-Julien Chapteuil. He spent most of his childhood in Paris, where his father was a teacher. Romains was an excellent student, earning a baccalauréat classique in 1900 and an additional baccalauréat in philosophy in 1902. In 1902, he also published his first poem, “Le Chef-d’ouvre” (“The Masterpiece”) in La Revue Jeune. He published under the pen name he would use the rest of his life—Jules Romains—so chosen because it was easy to pronounce, memorable, and expressed his “sympathie pour Rome” (love of Rome). Romains continued to write and publish poetry, but he also furthered his education, entering the elite Ecole Normale Supéricure in 1906 for an additional degree. After graduation, he taught philosophy full-time while continuing to write poems and prose. He published his first volume of poems, La Vie Unanime, in 1908. They outlined his new philosophy of Unanimism, which Romains said he discovered while wandering the streets of Paris. In Unanimism, Romains “had an intuition of the interconnectedness of all people, that groups possess a sort of collective soul, generated by disparate individuals who make up the group,” according to biographer Susan McCready. Unanimism influenced a generation of avant-garde thinkers and artists, particularly the utopian Group de l’Abbaye, whose members included Romains, socialist writer Alexandre Mercereau, and poet and playwright Charles Vildrac. Unanimism also inspired the paintings of the early Cubists, who challenged conventional divisions of space and time. “For
Above: Jules Romains in 1945, photo Eric Schaal/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Romains the city was an Unanimist entity, a psychological as well as a physical fact, where responses to the past and present interpenetrate,” explains the MOMA’s guide to Cubism. The precepts of Unanimism also inspired Romains’ own work as a playwright. He was particularly fascinated by conflicts between the collective and the individual. In his first play, the verse drama L’Armée dans la ville, a town temporarily resists invasion through collective effort. Produced at the Théatre de l’Odéon in 1911, L’Armée received critical praise but was a box office failure. It would be ten years before Romains would attempt playwriting again. In 1920, the influential director Jacques Copeau produced Romains’ Cromedyre-le-viel to acclaim, and Romains began playwriting in earnest. His first box office hit came in March 1923 with Monsieur Le Trouhadec saisi par la débauche, about a naïve yet cunning professor who falls in love with an actress in Monte Carlo. It was directed by visionary actor/ director/designer Louis Jouvet. The year 1923 held more triumph in store. Romains surpassed the success of Trouhadec with another comedy produced later year, Knock, ou Le Triomphe de la médicine (Dr. Knock, or the Triumph of Medicine). Jouvet, who directed and starred in Knock, did not expect this dark comedy of a maniacal doctor to be a hit, but he was wrong. The play was a
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sensation. Dr. Knock was revived six times between 1924 and 1933, and seven more times between 1935 and 1949. Jouvet called it his “magic play” and even appeared in three film versions. In 2010 Mint produced DR. KNOCK, also translated and directed by Gus Kaikkonen. Again the play worked its magic. By 1930, Romains had four plays running in Paris simultaneously: a revival of Dr. Knock, Jean Musse, Donogoo, and Boën. Critic Oliver Larkin, writing in Theatre Arts Monthly, called Romains “the most vigilant comic since Molière….Each of his plays revolves about some monstrous delusion of the present day: in Knock it is the delusion of pseudo-science, in Donogoo Big Business, in Jean Musse the friction of personal liberty, and in Boën our confidence in the creative power of wealth.” By the end of the 1930’s, Romains ranked among the most produced playwrights in the world, alongside George Bernard Shaw and Luigi Pirandello. His plays displayed a constant struggle between the group and a dynamic, if ambiguously honest, individual, as well as an ambivalence towards science and technology in modern life. Romains proclaimed it was the duty of the twentieth century writer “to discover beneath the appearances of the modern world
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a spiritual reality more profound than he ever before has tried to find.” During World War II, Romains and his wife fled France during the Nazi Occupation. The Gestapo ransacked their apartment, destroying many of Romains’ personal papers. During this time, Romains lived in the United States and Mexico, teaching at various universities and founding Mexico’s Petit Théâtre Français. From 1936 to 1939, Romains served as President of PEN, the international writers’ association. On behalf of PEN, Romains denounced Hitler and Mussolini, but some PEN members, notably H.G. Wells, were dissatisfied with Romains’ leadership. Wells falsely claimed Romains was arrogant and a Nazi sympathizer. Romains nevertheless resigned his post and continued his pacifist work outside of PEN. In 1946, Romains was elected to the Académie Française, the pre-eminent body governing the French language. He moved back to France, living out the remainder of his life as a respected man of letters. Though Romains achieved great acclaim across various genres, toward the end of his life he remarked, “It is a source of great regret to me that no one has ever valued my poetry higher.” He died in Paris at the age of 86. — Heather J. Violanti
Patrick Husted, Thomas M. Hammond and Patti Perkins in the Mint’s 2010 production of DR. KNOCK OR THE TRIUMPH OF MEDICINE by Jules Romains. Photo by Richard Termine
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Ross Bickell (Margajat) Mint: The George Morfogen (Miguel Rufisque; Madras House Broadway: Noises Off, Le Trouhadec) Mint Theater: A picture of The Iceman Cometh, A Few Good Autumn, The Madras House, The Men. Off-Broadway: Deathbed (McGinn- Voysey Inheritance, Uncle Bob – Cazale), Waste (TFANA), Durango (Premiere), The lonely way, Farewell (Public), Remembrance (John Houseman), To The Theatre. Broadway: A Man for Privates on Parade and The Crucible All Seasons, Fortune’s Fool, An (Roundabout) Somewhere in the Pacific Inspector calls, Arms and the Man, (Playwrights), Down by the Ocean (York). Kingdoms, John Gabriel Borkman. Regional includes over 200 productions at such Off Broadway: Richard II (Bayfield Award), theaters as Merrimack, Long Wharf, Hartford Three Sisters, The Forest, Uncle Stage, Pittsburgh Public and City Theatre, Vanya, Ivanov (CSC); All`s Well That Cape Playhouse, Old Log, Arena Stage, Alley, Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra Huntington, Philadelphia Theatre Company, (TFANA), Mrs. Warren’s Profession, country Girl, Cyrano Kennedy Center, Guthrie, Alliance, Pioneer, The Humana Festival and the O’Neill Theater Center. (Roundabout); Principia Scriptoriae, Film and TV include: The Fighter, Major Payne, Golden Age (MTC); Heartbreak Airport ‘77, all the Law & Orders, Wonder House, Vieux Carre (Pearl); Hamlet, Woman, Fantasy Island, WKRP, Strangers with Othello, Cymbeline, Henry V, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Candy, Dave Chappell Show and 30 Rock. (Public); The Oxford Roof Climbers Mitch Greenberg (Benin; Man Rebellion (Urban Stages); Freud’s Last in Colonial Saigon; Gold Prospector; Session (New World Stages); Every Day 2nd Stockholder) just appeared in Yentl A visitor (Theater Row). Regional: Golden (Cleveland Playhouse) following Freud’s Age (Premiere) Philadelphia and Kennedy Last Session in Detroit. Brooklyn-born, Center; Baltimore, Arizona, Seattle, Long Wharf, Mitch studied with Sanford Meisner, Uta Dallas, Pittsburgh, Manitoba, Peterborough NH, Hagen & William Esper. His Broadway debut: Williamstown. Films include: Twenty Bucks; Groucho in Hollywood / Ukraine. Whats Up Doc?; Those Lips, Those Eyes; They Other Broadway includes Laughter On All Laughed. TV includes: OZ (HBO), Damages. The 23rd Floor, Ain’t Broadway Fox Fellow 2000, Brown University, Yale School Grand, Threepenny Opera, Into of Drama. The Light, Marilyn…,Yiddle With A Fiddle (Carbonell Award), Whodunnit & Jay Patterson (3rd Passersby; Café Can-Can. Recent NY area premieres: The Owner; Mattieu the Boss) Previous Mint: Beautiful Dark & Division Avenue. Love Goes To Press, John Ferguson. Off-Broadway saw him in Right Kind Of Broadway: K2 (Outer Critic’s Circle nomination), People (w. Charles Grodin), Crazy Mary Inherit The Wind. Off Broadway: NYTW, (Sigourney Weaver), We Three (Alfred CSC, McGinn-Cazale, 59E59, Roundabout, Molina), Old Wicked Songs, Isn’t It Regional: Arena Stage, Guthrie, ASOLO Rep, Romantic, Baker’s Wife, etc. Other Alliance Theater, Baltimore Center Stage, favorite experiences from Everywhere, U.S.A.: McCarter Theater, ACT-Seattle, Pittsburgh Anne Frank (Otto), Brighton Beach / Public, Cincinnati Playhouse, Yale Rep. Mark Broadway Bound (Jack), The Chosen Taper Forum, New York Stage And Film Co.. TV: (Reb Saunders), “Art,” My Fair Lady, Bluebloods, Law And Order (many episodes). Talley’s Folly, Two For The Seesaw, Forty feature films; including Places In The The Cocoanuts (Hayes Award nominee) Heart, Nobody’s Fool, Love Ludlow, Slums Of & Run For Your Wife! Mr. Greenberg is Beverly Hills. Jay will appear in the soon to be a songwriter, cruciverbalist, and “certifiable released western comedy A Million Ways To Die In The West, opposite Seth MacFarlane. genius” (Will Shortz, NY Times).
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Paul Pontrelli (1st Passersby; Gardener; Bois du Boulogne waiter; Indian Guide; Steward; Newsboy) Mint Theater debut! Theatre credits include House of Dance (PS122/ NYCP/Half Straddle), This Clement World (St. Ann’s Warehouse), Look Upon Our Lowliness (Movement Theatre Co.), Othello (Kinetic Theatre), Macbeth (Pulse Ensemble), and OffBroadway in Stephen Schwartz’ Captain Louie (The Little Shubert). Workshops: Judy (Roundabout Underground/Clubbed Thumb), Lost Tribe (Target Margin) Distant Thunder (AMAS), and Bunty Berman Presents (The New Group). Film: Grace of God. TV: The Haunting of Michael Rapaport. In August, Paul will tour with House of Dance at The Zürcher Theater Spektakel in Switzerland. BFA: NYU Tisch. Love and thanks to friends and family!
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MARY BROOME. He recently returned from a year abroad with the International European Tour of WEST SIDE STORY, performing in, among other cities, London, Dresden, Munich, Zurich, Tel Aviv and Naples. He has appeared at numerous theaters across the country, a few being Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre of Pittsburgh, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Wilma Theater (Philadelphia), and The Arden Theatre (Philadelphia). At the Arden, Doug created the role of the cellist “Carl” in the world premiere of Michael Hollinger’s acclaimed play OPUS; he then reprised the role in a critically lauded production of the play at Primary Stages in New York City. Television appearances include 30 Rock. James Riordan (Lamendin) Broadway: Jerusalem, The Elephant Man, Noises Off and Dance of Death. OffBroadway: Brian Friel’s Lovers at The Actors Company Theater, The Countess at The Lambs Theater, Our Leading Lady, Manhattan Theater Club and the American premiere of Howard Brenton’s Christie in Love Film: The Hoax directed by Lasse Hallstrom and Choose. Television: Boardwalk Empire, The Blacklist, Law & Order SVU, recurring on Damages, White Collar, Law & Order, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Gossip Girl, ABC Untitled Roland Emmerich pilot, All My Children and As The World Turns. Regionaly credits: most recent, Present Laughter at Two River Theater. Other regional credits include several productions at The Cleveland Playhouse and the Great Lakes Theater Festival as well as The Actors Theater of Louisville, The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, The Arena Stage, The Wilma Theater, The Philadelphia Theater Company and others. MFA Temple University.
DavE Quay (Tour Guide; Marseilles Prostitute; Joris) is happy to be making his Mint Theater debut! Off-Broadway: The Heir Apparent (CSC). NY: The Rufus Equation (ABS Productions); Until Next Time (NY Clown Theatre Festival, also directed). Regional: Julius Caesar, Richard III, As You Like It, All’s Well..., Romeo & Juliet, Pericles, Twelfth Night (Georgia Shakespeare); Eurydice, Tennis in Nablus (Alliance Theatre); Philadelphia Story, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Three Sisters, Everything is Ours (CTC); Dracula (Aurora Theater); Woyzeck (Studio Zero). TV/Film: Drop Dead Diva (Lifetime), Past Life (NBC), The Adventure (Fake Wood Wallpaper). His work as a filmmaker includes narrative, documentary, web, and commercial projects, and has appeared at festivals around the country. Also, Dave has performed with Big Apple Circus Megan Robinson (2nd Passersby; Clown Care. MFA, NYU Graduate Acting. www. Sophie, Trahoudec’s Housekeeper; Woman davequayonline.com in Colonial Saigon; Woman in Audience; Douglas Rees (Bank Director; Young Photographer; Travel Agent; 1st Stockholder; Man’s Friend; Tough Guy Adventurer; Marie; Leila) is delighted to be making her Off Journalist; Newcomer; German Client) Doug Broadway and Mint debut. Regional: A Dram is thrilled to be returning for his fourth Mint of Drummhicit (La Jolla Playhouse). Megan show, having appeared previously in WHAT THE received a BS in Anthropology & Critical Theory PUBLIC WANTS, A LITTLE JOURNEY and CONTINUED
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of the Arts from Carnegie Mellon, and an MFA from UC San Diego. Her short film Imagining Love won Best Cinematography at the ArtPower festival in San Diego. So much love to mum, Eric, P&D, y mi amor. www.meganerobinson. com Kraig Swartz (4th Passersby; Café Waiter; American; 2nd Adventurer; Seasick Pioneer; 3rd Stockholder; Other Woman) Kraig is happy to be back at the Mint, where he appeared in a Picture of Autumn, The Voysey Inheritance, The Madras House and the Drama Desk nominated So Help Me God at the Lucille Lortel. Other NYC credits: Tartuffe at the Pearl and Jungle Book at BAM. Chicago: Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens. Regional: Philadelphia Theatre Company: TAKE ME OUT, FULLY COMMITTED (Barrymore Awards) and VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE; Wilma Theatre: CLOUD 9 (Barrymore nomination), Milwaukee Rep: ANGELS IN AMERICA, Guthrie Theatre: MACBETH, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Rep./St. Louis: MAJOR BARBARA; Asolo Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Theatre Festival, Pioneer Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Meadowbrook Theatre, Kennedy Center, Peterborough Players, Gulfshore Playhouse: I AM MY OWN WIFE. Television: SNL. Film: World And Time Enough. Scott Thomas (Bartender; Projectionist; Cowboy; Joseph) Mint debut. Recent New York credits include Batman…Entirely From Memory (Ten Bones / The Magnet Theatre) and Three Sisters (Juilliard). NYC: L(y)re (Ars Nova), The Why Overhead (Zootopia, The Access Theatre), Sometimes In Prague (SOHO Ice Factory Festival / Joe’s Pub), In Fields Where They Lay (Dreamscape Theatre, The Gym at Judson), The Gay No More Telethon (New York Fringe Festival) and workshops / readings with Keen Company, WET, The Lark, Playwright’s Horizons and more. Select Regional: Denver Theater Center, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shelter Island Theater Festival, A Civil War Christmas (Long Wharf.) Mr. Thomas contributed music / vocal arrangements to workshops of Sometimes In Prague
and Volleygirls and won an Indie Series Award for his work on Professional Friend (Best Soundtrack.) He is a proud member of Group 37. Training: Writer’s Theatre, BADA, Juilliard. Brian Thomas Vaughan (5th Passersby; Young Man) Off-Broadway debut. New York Theatre: Pericles (NY Shakespeare Exchange). Regional: The Corn is Green (Huntington Theatre Company), Taming of the Shrew and Of Mice and Men (Olney Theatre Center), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CT Free Shakespeare), Macbeth (Elm Shakespeare). Training: Boston University School of Theatre. Vladimir Versailles (Rufisque’s Man Servant; Native Boy; Elevator Operator; Clipoteaux) Mint Debut! Graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.A. in Acting & Minor in Musical Theatre. While attending MMC he received a full scholarship to study abroad at the British Academy of Dramatic Arts. Recent Theater Off-Broadway: Through the Yellow Hour (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Burning (The New Group), and The Wood (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre) and Recent TV credits: Orange is the New Black (Netflix) Person of Interest & The Good Wife (CBS). Recent Films completed and soon to be released: Evolution of a Criminal, R&J: in Harlem, Happy Baby, 1982, How to Score Your Life, The Challenger, and Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh & Jude Law). Vlad is the recipient of the NBC/Universal and American Black Film Festival 2013 Rising Star Award. Thank You God for Your Grace!
GUS KAIKKONEN (Translator & Director) Mr. Kaikkonen is happy to be back at the Mint where he previously directed his own translation of Jules Romains’ DR. KNOCK, as well as last season’s A PICTURE OF AUTUMN by N. C. Hunter, three plays by Granville-Barker: THE MADRAS HOUSE, THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE, and FAREWELL TO THE THEATRE, Hankin’s THE CHARITY THAT BEGAN AT HOME and George Kelly’s THE FLATTERING WORD. He has also acted at the Mint in MARY BROOME and THE HOUSE OF
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MIRTH. Other Off Broadway directing credits include THE PHILANDERER, TARTUFFE, ARMS AND THE MAN, THE GENTLEMAN DANCING MASTER, I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE, and HEARTBREAK HOUSE at the Pearl, PEOPLE LIKE US at NYMF, JANIE CONDON: RAW AND UNCHAINED at St. Luke’s, ANTIGONE (Wall Street Journal Best of 2006) and ART for the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and Susan Sandler’s UNDER THE BED at HB. Last season he directed Gordon Clapp in Andy Dolan’s THIS VERSE BUSINESS, which was chosen Best Production in the United Solo Festival. In the regions, he has directed at Merrimack Rep, Goodspeed, Ford’s Theatre (TRYING with James Whitmore), Geva, the Asolo, the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Coconut Grove Playhouse (ABOUT TIME with Theodore Bikel). For nineteen years he has been the Artistic Director of New Hampshire’s Peterborough Players. Awards include two NYSCA grants, the Lecomte du Nouys Playwriting Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, seven New Hampshire Theatre Awards for Direction, and the James Thurber Fellowship. www.guskaikkonen.com ROger Hanna (Sets and Projections) has designed sets for seven Mint productions since 2005: Donogoo, Mary Broome, A Little Journey, What the Public Wants, The Glass Cage, Walking Down Broadway. Recent set designs include a new musical conceived and directed by Tommy Tune, FIFTY*FOUR*FOREVER, and the NYC premiere of the opera Il Postino for Mannes Opera. Other projects of note include collaborations with Laura Alley, Jack Allison, Jonathan Bank, Tracy Bersley, Joseph Colaneri, Nilo Cruz, Jackson Gay, Robin Guarino, Lou Jacob, Ron Jenkins, Susan Marshall, Eleanor Reissa, Jody Sperling, and Steven Williford, at venues including Sarasota Opera, Jacob’s Pillow, Dance Theater Workshop, and about two dozen off-Broadway theaters. Awards include the 2009 Lortel Award for Best Scenic design, as well as Drama Desk and Hewes Award nominations (2 each). Roger heads up the set design program at
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Colorado State University. To see examples of his work, visit www.rogerhanna.com.
SAM FLEMING (Costumes) Her costume designs have been seen at theatres across the country including the Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera (world premiere of Dead Man Walking, with the international premier at State Opera South Australia), Alley Theatre in Houston, Arizona Theatre Co., Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre Company, Playmaker’s Repertory Company, Hartford Stage Company, Denver Center Theatre Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Center Stage, Peterborough Players, Houston Opera Studio, Skylight Opera Theatre, Texas Opera Theatre, ACT Seattle, Georgia Shakespeare Festival and Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Craig Lucas’s awardwinning Reckless). She designed over 50 productions for Milwaukee Repertory Theater during her 14 years with the company. Ms. Fleming received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her designs for the Dr. Seuss-inspired A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Westwood Playhouse. Off-Broadway, she designed the new musical Prince and the Pauper, and has worked with the Pearl Theatre, Manhattan Class Company, The Women’s Project, and the Mint. She is the associate costume designer for The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway. Price Johnston (Lights and Projections) Price Johnston is excited to be joining the cast and crew of Donogoo for his first show at the Mint Theater Company. His credits include the World Premiere of Jomandi Productions: Lavender Lizards Lilac Landmines: Layla’s Dream by Obie Award Winning playwright Ntozake Shange (14th Street Playhouse – Atlanta, GA), Two Rooms (Trilogy Theatre New York), Arena Theatre Productions Guys & Dolls (UK Tour), Shapiro and Smith’s Never Enough (Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts – Washington DC), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Moscow Cosmos Theatre/ St. Petersburg Music Hall – Russia), Janis Brenner’s Dance Company’s Lost/Found/ CONTINUED
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Lost (Isadora Duncan International Dance Festival – Kransnoyarsk, Russia), Chicago Jeff Award Winning Production of 1776 (Chopin Theatre – Chicago), Passiones (Athenaeum Theatre – Chicago), Lighting/Video Supervisor for David Dorfman Dance Company’s: Underground, The Pee-Wee Herman Show (Club Nokia Theatre - Los Angeles), Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo (Edge Theatre Company - Denver), and The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway (Stephen Sondheim Theatre - New York). Jane Shaw (Original Music & Sound) Previously with Gus Kaikkonen: A Picture of Autumn, Dr. Knock (Mint) and Gentleman Dancing Master (Pearl). Ms Shaw has designed nineteen productions at the Mint including London Wall, A Picture of Autumn, Katie Roche, Love Goes To Press, A Little Journey, Wife to James Whelan, Return of the Prodigal, Fifth Column, and The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (Lortel Nomination). New York: The Killer (Theater for a New Audience) Grounded (Page 73, transferred to Cleveland Play House), Jackie (Women’s Project, Lortel nomination), The Rivals (Pearl), En el tiempo de las Mariposas (Repertorio Español/Premios ACE Award), The World is Round (Ripe Time, BAM Fisher). Regional work includes productions at Asolo Rep, Denver Center Theatre Company (Henry Award for The Catch), City Theater (Pittsburgh), Williamstown Theater Festival, Two River Theater, Capital Rep (Albany), Yale Repertory, and Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey. Upcoming shows include All in the Timing (Dorset Theater Festival), Hamlet (Hartford Stage). Recipient: NEA-TCG Career Development Grant, Meet the Composer. Graduate of Harvard and the Yale School of Drama. JOSHUA YOCOM (Props) collaborates with the Mint yet again on Donogoo. He also propped their productions of London Wall Philip Goes Forth, A Picture of Autumn, Katie Roche, Rutherford and Son, A Little Journey, Love
Goes to Press, Mary Broome, and Temporal Powers. Joshua has worked as a properties master and freelance artisan with a number of New York companies, including Keen Company, Epic Theatre Ensemble, Red Bull Theatre, Pearl Theatre Company, Second Stage, Frankel Green, Primary Stages, Theatre for a New Audience, Gotham Chamber Opera, NYC Ballet, Lincoln Center, Dreamlight Theatre Co, Mannes Opera, Queens Theatre, Summerworks, Across the Aisle Productions, Snug Harbor, the Atlantic Theater Co., The New School of Drama, and the York Theatre Company. Joshua also props and styles bedding and rooms for print through collaboration with the Mayo photography studios. Lisa McGinn (Production Stage Manager) Lisa is happy to be back at the Mint Theater after stage managing Theresa Deevy’s Temporal Powers. Previous credits include: Chimera and The Wholehearted (Stein Holum Projects), Eager to Lose and Game Play (Ars Nova), How to Build a Forest (Pearl Damour + Shawn Hall); The Object Lesson with Geoff Sobelle; Forbidden Creative Virgin Whore and From the Spot Where We/You/I Stand (Stood) (Miller Rothlein Dance) You, My Mother (Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf); Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb); PRELUDE Festival 2011 and 2012; The Seagull and Ivanov (Chekhov at Lake Lucille); The Peripherals and Hot Lunch Apostles (Talking Band), Richard II…on Trapeze! (Matchbook Productions/Sonnet Rep). Other credits include Banana Bag and Bodice, Puppet Kitchen, Trinity Repertory Company, Two River Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Passage Theatre. Laura Kim (Asst. Stage Manager) The Ragged Claws (Cherry Lane Theatre), Game Play (Ars Nova), Eager To Lose (Ars Nova), The Netflix Plays (Ars Nova), Core Values (Ars Nova), Natasha, Pierre, And The Great Comet Of 1812 (Ars Nova), Bouncing Back: The Resilient Plays (The 52nd Street Project), uncle tom: deconstructed (The Conciliation Project,
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performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Film credits: Goodish. Allison Deutsch (Assistant Director) Although primarily a stage manager, Allison is always happy to assist Mr. Kaikkonen however she can. Previous Mint Theater PSM credits include London Wall, Katie Roche, The Fifth Column, The Madras House, Far & Wide, The Voysey Inheritance; Other Off-Broadway credits include: New World Stages – White’s Lies with Betty Buckley and Peter Scolari; Rattlestick - Down South; Om Productions - WASPs In Bed. Regional credits include: Ford’s Theatre – Trying starring James Whitmore; Geva Theatre Center - Gem of the Ocean; Peterborough Players - twelve seasons including, Laughing Stock, Absurd Person Singular, This Verse Business, The 39 Steps, The Admirable Crichton, Measure for Measure, Dr. Knock, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Tartuffe, Little Shop of Horrors. JUDY BOWMAN (Casting) For the Mint: London Wall, A Picture of Autumn & Philip Goes Forth. Recent productions include: And Miles to Go (PCP/Hal Brooks), Master & Margarita (Bard Summerscape/Janos Szasz), Luft Gangster (Abingdon/Austin Pendleton), & Lee Blessing’s User’s Guide to Hell: Featuring Bernard MadofF (Project Y/Michole Biancosino). Regional Theater: Woolly Mammoth, Actors Theater of Louisville/ Humana Festivals, Dorset Theater Festival, SF Playhouse, Kitchen Theatre & American Repertory Theatre (2003-08). Film: Dynamite: A Cautionary Tale, Copenhagen, Drawing Home, The Word, Tiger Lilly Road, and many short films/webseries. Adjunct Asst. Professor at Columbia University’s MFA film program. THE PEKOE GROUP (Marketing) is a fullservice advertising and marketing company for theatrical events and attractions, specializing in niche marketing and tailor-made strategic campaigns based on each event’s target demographic. Clients include Mint Theater Company, Second Stage Theatre, TACT, Peter And The Starcatcher, Natasha
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Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Murder for Two, Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and more. www. thepekoegroup.com DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Publicist) has served as press representatives and marketing consultants on Broadway and off for over twenty-five years. In addition to the Mint, current clients include several not-for profit theater companies including INTAR, Keen Company, the National Asian-American Theater Company, New Federal Theater, Red Bull Theater, and Summer Shorts, as well as the long running hits, Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding and Black Angels Over Tuskegee. David serves on the Board of Governors of ATPAM, the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers and is a member of the Off-Broadway League and a founder of the Off-Broadway Alliance. SHERRI KOTIMSKY (Finance & Production) has been working happily at the Mint since 2005. Previously produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape, Shyster, Omnium Gatherum, Fear: The Issues Project and several seasons of workshops and readings. As Naked Angels Managing Director, Hesh and Snakebit. Produced: Only the End of the World, and Blood Orange. For two years Theatre Manager for the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University. JONATHAN BANK (Producing Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint since 1996. Most recently at the Mint, he directed Katie Roche, Temporal Powers and Wife to James Whelan by Teresa Deevy. Other Mint credits include: Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse; Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me God! at the Lucille Lortel, which received four Drama Desk nominations, including Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director. He is the editor of five volumes in the “Reclaimed” series (Teresa Deevy, Volumes One and Two, Harley Granville Barker, and St. John Hankin) as well as Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company.
board of trustees Jonathan Bank John P. Harrington Kathryn Swintek
Bob Donnalley Jann E. Leeming John Yarmick
Ciro A. Gamboni Eleanor Reissa
Mission and Programming Mint Theater Company produces worthwhile plays from the past that have been lost or forgotten. These neglected plays offer special and specific rewards; it is our mission to bring new vitality to these plays and to foster new life for them. Under the leadership of Jonathan Bank as Producing Artistic Director, Mint has secured a place in the crowded theatrical landscape of New York City. We have received Special Obie and Drama Desk Awards recognizing the importance of our mission and our success in fulfilling it. The Wall Street Journal describes Mint as “one of the most consistently interesting companies in town.” Our process of excavation, reclamation and preservation makes an important contribution to the art form and its enthusiasts. Scholars have the chance to come into contact with historically significant work that they’ve studied on the page but never experienced on the stage. Local theatergoers have the opportunity to see plays that would otherwise be unavailable to them, while theatergoers elsewhere may also have that opportunity in productions inspired by our success. Important plays with valuable lessons to teach— plays that have been discarded or ignored—are now read, studied, performed, discussed, written about and enjoyed as a result of our work sharing with our audience the context in which a play was originally created and how it was first received is an essential part of what we do. Our “EnrichMINT Events” enhance the experience of our audience and help to foster an ongoing dialogue around a play. These post-performance discussions feature world class scholars discussing complex topics in an accessible way and are always free and open to the general public. We not only produce lost plays, but we are also their advocates. We publish our work and distribute our books, free of charge to libraries, theaters and universities. Our catalog of books now includes an anthology of seven plays entitled Worthy but Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater plus five volumes in our “Reclaimed” series, each featuring the work of a single author: Teresa Deevy, Harley Granville Barker, St. John Hankin and Arthur Schnitzler.
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Asst. Production Manager....... Wayne Yeager
Producing Artistic Director...... Jonathan Bank
Asst. Costume Design/ Wardrobe Supervisor................Ryan Hanson
Finance & Production ������������ Sherri Kotimsky
Asst. Lighting Designer/ Assoc. Projections Designer & Board Operator................... John Erickson
Marketing & Audience Relations............ Christina Roussos Assistant to the Artistic Director..................... Jesse Marchese
Wardrobe Crew.................... Monica Fritcher
Box Office Manager........... Andrew Hendrick
Rehearsal Assistant................... Gilda Nunez
Development Consultant �������Ellen Mittenthal
Deck Crew................................Sophia Itkin, Adam Sowers Interns................................Lauren Henning, Sebastian De La Cruz, Mariales Rosario
Casting ���������������������������������Judy Bowman Dialect Consultant ����������������������Amy Stoller Auditor.......................Kristin Krauskopf, CPA
House Manager.........................Jose Ramos Videographer................Joshua Paul Johnson Program Design/ Graphics.......................... Christina Roussos Advertising, Marketing & Web Site Design............. The Pekoe Group Amanda Pekoe, Jessica Ferreira, Christopher Lueck, Jason Murray, Lisa Richardson, Erin Wilson, Marivic Tagala, Negeen Ghaisar, Mara Szabo, Alex Barnard, Ryan Meitzler, Leigh Whiting, Alex Cavander Press Rep................. David Gersten & Assoc. David J. Gersten Daniel DeMello, Jason Marshall Lighting installed by the Lighting Syndicate. Set constructed by Carlo Adinolfi and Tom Carroll Studios Subsidized studio space provided by the A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grant, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Actor’s Equity Association was founded in 1913. It is the labor union representing over 40,000 American actors and stage managers working in the professional theatre. For 89 years, Equity has negotiated minimum wages and working conditions, administered contracts, and enforced provisions of its various agreements with theatrical employers across the country.
The producers would like to thank: The TDF Costume Collection, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Pearl Theater.
Opening Night June 23, 2014
Lighting equipment provided in part by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs.
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The following generous Individuals, Foundations, & Corporations support the Mint Theater, and we honor their contributions: Crème de Mint: $10,000 and above Lea & Malvin Bank Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation The Bodman Foundation Cory & Bob Donnalley Charitable Fdn. Randolph & Estelle M. Dorn Foundation The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation Inc. The Fan Fox & Leslie R Samuels Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Ciro A. Gamboni Little Family Foundation / Jann Leeming The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New York Theater Program New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York Foundation for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts The National Endowments for the Arts The Shubert Foundation, Inc. The Ted Snowdon Foundation The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Michael Tuch Foundation SilverMint: $5,000 to $9,999 Axe-Houghton Foundation Virginia Brody The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Lori & Edward Forstein Lila Teich Gold The Heidtke Foundation Blanche & Irving Laurie Foundation Lucille Lortel Foundation The South Wind Foundation
The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation The Geraldine Stutz Trust Inc. Litsa Tsitsera Helen S. Tucker, Gramercy Park Foundation John Yarmick ChocolateMint: $2,500 - $4,999 Robert Brenner William Downey Janet & John Harrington Dorothy Loudon Foundation Executive Director, Lionel Larner Wallace Schroeder Sukenik Family Foundation Katherine & Dennis Swanson Kathryn Swintek & Andre Dorra The Tobin Theatre Arts Fund Anonymous
SpearMint: $1000 - $2,499 Kim & David Adler Mary Andryc Louise Arias Jonathan Bank & Katie Firth Bank of America The Robert Berne Foundation Allison M. Blinken Rose-Marie Boller & Webb Turner Russell Charlton & Julie Norwell Lynne Charnay Jon Clark & Ryan Franco Grover Connell Susan & George Crow Lewis B. & Dorothy Cullman Foundation Inc Jennifer & Greg Ezring Joan & Edward Franklin Ruth Friendly Agnes & Emilio Gautier Bernadette Goggin The Gordon Foundation Antonia & George Grumbach Carol & Patrick Hemingway Hickrill Foundation Harriet & Elihu Inselbuch Karen & Paul Isaac Roberta Jones Christopher Joy & Cathy Velenchik Joan Kedziora, MD. Drs. Robert M. Koros & Carole M. Shaffer-Koros Sarah-Ann Kramarsky Jonathan Landers & Sandra Reimers Tina & Michael Lobel Charlene & Gary MacDougal George Morfogen Dorinda J. Oliver The William Penn Foundation Jeanine Parisier Plottel James Periconi & Alice McCarthy Lorna Power Eleanor Reissa Inge Reist & Rob Freeman George Robb Karen Kelly Sandke Judy Goetz Sanger & Sirgay Sanger Susan & Zachary Shimer Karen & John Q Smith Stephen Sondheim David Stenn
Suzanne & Jon Stout – Moving Man, Inc Barbara & Milton Strom M. Elizabeth Swerz Teen Ink Bertram Teich Michael Thomas Hilda & Arthur Wenig Anonymous DoubleMint ($150 - $999) Alan V. Abrams Actors Equity Foundation Mary & Thomas Adams Gretchen Adkins Wilma & Arthur Aeder Judith Aisen & Kenneth Vittor Shihong & Peter Aldin Louis Alexander Dean Alfange Linda Alster Linda & Lloyd Alterman Laura Altschuler Carol Anderson Marc Anello Carmen Anthony Rachelle & Howard Balaban Sheila & Donald Bandman Judith Barlow Ani & William Barnes Richard Barnes & Marta Gross Maryanne Barry Peter Belmont & Mary Zulack Jeanne Bergman & Anna Kramarsky William Berley Barbara Berliner & Sol Rymer Al Berr Nidia Besso Clinton Best Joan Bilsky Joann & Gene Bissell Steven Blier & James S. Russell Zelda & Julian Block Ronald Blumer & Muffie Meyer Dorothy & Stuart Blumner Jeffrey S. Borer Carol & Kenneth Boudreaux Alice Boyle Rosemary & Charles Brennan Deborah & James Breznay Stephen Brown Lois Burke Ann Butera
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Sherry & Bob Steinberg Gary Stern Faith Stewart-Gordon Doina & Mihail Stoiana Amy Stoller Ilene Stone Edna & Robert Straus Elaine & Ulrich Strauss Stella Strazdas Pamela Stubing Carol & Will Sullivan Larry E. Sullivan Bryna Sweedler Myra & Leonard Tanzer Douglas G. Tarr Madeline Taylor Lynda & Stephen Tepperman Tiger Management Sharon & Melvin Tillman Annie Thomas & David H. Kirkwood Joan Vail Thorne Madelene Towne Linda & Ken Treitel Susan & Charles Tribbitt US Fire Insurance Co. Mary & Karl Von Der Heyden Martha van Hise Helen & William van Syckle Joan & Bob Volin Jacob Waldman Louise & Milton Wallach John Michael Walsh Robert G. Walsh Tamara & Gerald Weintraub Elizabeth Wells Patricia & Richard White Wien Family Fund Lillian & Robert Williams Marsha & Vincent Williams Elizabeth Williamson Barbara & Donald Zucker Sue & Burton Zwick Anonymous
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