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The central purpose of theatre and, indeed, many of our sister art forms, is the illumination of the human condition. Without such reflections of our essential nature, we can be so busy struggling through our own lives that we fail to see the primal journey we share with other human beings past and present. Hamlet even advises a theatre troupe to hold “the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.” Lewis Carroll took Hamlet’s lesson one step further, and made his Through the Looking-Glass a funhouse Steven Schipper

mirror of distorted nursery rhymes and irrepressible chess pieces. Lewis Carroll wrote this fanciful sequel

to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the nonsensical yet profound language of childhood. Yet he used the game of chess and the inverted image of life on the other side of a mirror as a lighthearted metaphorical guide to help Alice navigate her way to adulthood with confidence and independence. At the Hendry Warehouse, Simon Wiesenthal is negotiating another archetypal rite of passage: retirement from the public sphere. As Wiesenthal meets with a group of students in his office, he packs up his personal possessions and works the phone in an attempt to bring one last Nazi to justice. Like many of us, he is not ready to give up his life’s work. He feels there is so much more to be done, and he is afraid that no one will take up his cause, an admission crafted to inspire us all with its own wise magic. Perhaps theatre is both mirror and trumpet call, for we are not meant to be mere passive observers of life or art. These plays summon us to action. Can we confront our own Red Queens? Can we remember those who died unjustly, and use that memory to prevent new injustices? What we see and feel here – our laughter, our outrage – these are meant to help us find our own purpose in the looking-glass we call the world. Yours always,

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Theatre Abbreviation Legend Arts Club Arts Club Theatre Company • Vancouver, BC ATF Atlantic Theatre Festival • Wolfville, NS ATP Alberta Theatre Projects • Calgary, AB BAM Brooklyn Academy of Music • NYC Bard on the Beach Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival • Vancouver, BC Belfry The Belfry Theatre • Victoria, BC Blyth Blyth Theatre Festival • Blyth, ON Broadway Theatre district • New York, NY CBC Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Centaur Centaur Theatre Company • Montreal, QC Citadel The Citadel Theatre • Edmonton, AB COC Canadian Opera Company • Toronto, ON CS Canadian Stage • Toronto, ON Dora Dora Mavor Moore Award • Toronto, ON Drayton Drayton Entertainment • Ontario Dry Cold Dry Cold Productions • Winnipeg, MB Factory Factory Theatre • Toronto, ON GCTC The Great Canadian Theatre Company • Ottawa, ON Grand The Grand Theatre • London, ON Mirvish Mirvish Productions • Toronto, ON Moving Target Moving Target Theatre Company • Winnipeg, MB MTYP Manitoba Theatre for Young People • Winnipeg, MB NAC National Arts Centre • Ottawa, ON Necessary Angel Necessary Angel Theatre Company • Toronto, ON Neptune Neptune Theatre • Halifax, NS NFB National Film Board of Canada NTS National Theatre School of Canada • Montreal, QC Persephone Persephone Theatre • Saskatoon, SK PTAM Popular Theatre Alliance of Manitoba • Winnipeg, MB PTE Prairie Theatre Exchange • Winnipeg, MB

Rainbow Rainbow Stage • Winnipeg, MB RNT Royal National Theatre • London, England Royal Alex The Royal Alexandra Theatre • Toronto, ON RSC Royal Shakespeare Company • Stratford-upon-Avon, England RWB Royal Winnipeg Ballet • Winnipeg, MB Sarasvàti Sarasvàti Productions • Winnipeg, MB Segal The Segal Centre for Performing Arts • Montreal, QC Shaw Shaw Festival • Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON SIR Shakespeare in the Ruins • Winnipeg, MB Soulpepper Soulpepper Theatre Company • Toronto, ON Stratford Stratford Festival • Stratford, ON SummerWorks SummerWorks Theatre Festival • Toronto, ON TA Theatre Aquarius • Hamilton, ON Tarragon Tarragon Theatre • Toronto, ON TBTR Theatre by the River • Winnipeg, MB TC Theatre Calgary • Calgary, AB TiFT Talk is Free Theatre • Barrie, ON TNB Theatre New Brunswick • Fredericton, NB Toronto Free Toronto Free Theatre • Toronto, ON TPM Theatre Projects Manitoba • Winnipeg, MB TSO Toronto Symphony Orchestra U of M University of Manitoba U of T University of Toronto U of W University of Winnipeg VP Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company • Vancouver, BC West End Theatre district • London, England WJT Winnipeg Jewish Theatre WSO Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra YPT Young People’s Theatre • Toronto, ON zone41 zone41 theatre • Winnipeg, MB

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preface BY JAMES REANEY After writing Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for the six-year-old girl next door, Alice Liddell, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll, waited five or six years before writing a sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There. Now, the fact that Alice Liddell was fast approaching 11 years of age may have influenced the shape of the new story. It starts out with Alice in a chess game playing the part of a very young pawn who in five or more moves arrives at the other end of the board as a Queen, more grown-up than at the beginning of the story, and certainly a long way from the girl who once was Alice in Wonderland. Well, if you listen carefully, you will note that in the beginning of Through the Looking-Glass, Alice is very much bossed around by the adult figures, in particular the Red Queen, who is said to be based on Miss Prickle, Alice’s governess in real life. However, increasingly as the story flows along, Alice is less subservient until, at the very end, it is she who is ordering both the Red and the White Queens around. Are we not watching the growing up of a child into an independent young lady who has learned a great deal from surviving so many encounters with strange people and situations, all of which she has addressed with a politeness and civility most of us would find very hard to manage? A great many people go through life without questioning the sanity of the way our genetics and our society and our minds arrange things – left is left and right is right; first you prick your finger with a pin, and next you scream. But suppose you lived in a looking-glass world like White Queen’s where everything was the other way around – left was right and right was left. So, perhaps, in the reflective world, you would 6

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ecaferp YENAER SEMAJ YB scream first and then prick your finger; perhaps you would be first imprisoned, and then sentenced for a crime that you will not commit until tomorrow. Why? Because in Looking-Glass Land, time flows backward. Could this ever be so? Yes, it is so every time a great artist such as Lewis Carroll gets tired of our always-predictable world and decides to liven things up a bit by suggesting other possibilities. Why should we always be content with the same boring routines day after day? And perhaps too, they will be more bearable for the refreshment we have been given in the new things we find out about when we too pass through the looking-glass. Long before it was thought of, Lewis Carroll was a practitioner of Surrealism – the Salvador Dalí world of melting, bent watches and fur-lined teacups. Also, Carroll is the first in a long line of Oxford University eccentrics who have strongly urged us to abandon this boring, humdrum world for something more interesting, such as Tolkien’s Hobbit Shire or C.S. Lewis’ Narnia. One of my favourite lines in the story is Alice’s remark just after she gets through the looking-glass into the room behind it: “They certainly don’t keep this room as tidy as the other.” In view of the fully active railway train, the deer in the Forest of Namelessness, and the Egg balanced precariously on a wall as well as the 4,000 or so soldiers kept by the White King – all things a cleaning lady might object to – this has to be the understatement of the 19th century. Still, may we all, in our soul, have such an untidy room! Abridged and edited by the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre from James Reaney’s original preface as printed in Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking-Glass: Adapted for the Stage by James Reaney (published by Porcupine’s Quill).

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Set some six months after returning from her adventures in Wonderland, Alice has been dismissed to the drawing room for misbehaving, with only her pet kitten for company. To pass the time, Alice employs her imagination and begins telling the kitten about “Looking-Glass House,” a fantasy world on the other side of the mirror above the fireplace where everything is backwards. While engrossed in her tale, Alice suddenly finds herself on the mantelpiece and steps through the mirror into the Looking-Glass world. 8

On the other side, Alice meets the Red Queen in a landscape that resembles a giant chess board. She asks if she can play, and the Red Queen permits her to become one of the white pieces, explaining to her that she must reach the other side of the board if she wants to become a queen herself. This begins an interesting series of adventures as Alice moves across the board to earn a crown – meeting a host of comical characters along the way who may help or hinder her quest to win the game.

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James Reaney’s stage version is derived from Lewis Carroll’s Through the LookingGlass, which served as a sequel to his famous children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, both published in the late 1800s. The book has been adapted several times, in combination with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and as its own stand-alone film or television special. When it was published, Through the Looking-Glass was received far more enthusiastically than Carroll’s first novel and has remained a classic staple of november/december 2015

Victorian children’s literature. A live-action version of the story has recently been produced by Walt Disney Pictures and filmmaker Tim Burton as a follow-up to his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, and will be released in May of 2016.

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Steven Schipper, Artistic Director • Camilla Holland, General Manager PRESENTS

Alice Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Adapted for the stage by James Reaney November 26 – December 19, 2015 preview November 25

Original Director...............................................................................Jillian Keiley Revival Director...................................................................Christine Brubaker Set & Costume Designer......................................................... Bretta Gerecke Choreographer............................................................................. Dayna Tekatch Composer/Musical Director................................................ Jonathan Monro Lighting Designer......................................................................Kimberly Purtell Sound Designer...............................................................................John Gzowski Associate Set & Costume Designer..............................Jennifer Goodman Assistant Lighting Designer.......................................................André du Toit Puppeteer Coach..................................................................................Jan Skene Stage Manager.................................................................................... Brian Scott Assistant Stage Manager......................................................Sandra McEwing Apprentice Stage Manager.........................................................Brett Mikulik Apprentice Stage Manager......................................................Crystal Staryk THE CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

Red Queen/Chorus...............................................................Mariam Bernstein Tweedledum/Chorus................................................................ Tristan Carlucci Gnat/Daisy/Pudding/Chorus...............................................Dorothy Carroll White Queen/Larkspur/Goat/Chorus.............................. Terri Cherniack Alice.......................................................................................... Gwendolyn Collins Haigha/Chorus............................................................................. Kevin P. Gabel Red Knight/Hatta/Chorus........................................................... Toby Hughes White King/Chorus.......................................................................Kevin Klassen Unicorn/Beetle/Chorus....................................................Jacqueline Loewen Humpty Dumpty/Red King/Carpenter/ Lewis Carroll/Chorus..........................................................Arne MacPherson Lion/Chorus.................................................................................Darren Martens Fawn/Rose/Horse/Messenger/Chorus.................................Paula Potosky Tweedledee/Chorus.................................................................. Aaron Pridham Sheep/Tiger Lily/Chorus.......................................................... Stefanie Wiens White Knight/White Paper Gentleman/Walrus/Chorus.......Rylan Wilkie This production was originally produced at the Stratford Festival in association with Canada’s National Arts Centre in 2014. Alice Through the Looking-Glass is presented by special arrangement with the estate of James Crerar Reaney.

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Alice Through the Looking-Glass ET CETERA Tristan also works with Skene

Mariam Bernstein

Stunts Inc. Love to Mom, Dad, Anthony and Petty.

Red Queen/Chorus

Dorothy Carroll Gnat/Daisy/Pudding/ Chorus ROYAL MTC Actor: The Heidi Chronicles (with

Mirvish), Mrs. Klein, The Good Sisters (Les Belles-Soeurs). Director: Romeo and Juliet (Theatre for Young Audiences production). OTHER THEATRE Actor: Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (WJT); Sweeney Todd, The Addams Family, Into the Woods, Nine (Dry Cold); Crackpot (PTE/Belfry); Selkirk Avenue (PTE/Magnus); Spring Awakening (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Neptune); The Other Side of the Pole (Globe). Director: Dieu de Carnage (Cercle Molière); Ivanov, Death of a Salesman, Speed-the-Plow (WJT); Company, The Secret Garden (Dry Cold). FILM/TV The Pinkertons, Cashing In, Falcon Beach, Lucky Christmas. TRAINING Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and the U of W. ET CETERA Many thanks to Jillian, Christine and Steven for this amazing opportunity! I tip my hat to Royal MTC’s wonderful 1971 Alice Through the Looking-Glass – the first professional theatre production I saw! For Miranda and Cinna.

ROYAL MTC First appearance. OTHER THEATRE Hamlet (Bravura/Snakeskin

Jacket); The Producers, Big: The Musical, The Music Man (Rainbow); Avenue Q, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Bloodless: The Trial of Burke and Hare (White Rabbit); Stripped-Down Midsummer Night’s Dream (SIR); Three Sisters: A Black Opera (ChekhovFest); Little Women, Company (Dry Cold); Sunday in the Park with George (SondheimFest); Munscha Meeya (PTE); Autobahn (TBTR); Scar Tissue (Red Hen); Kayak (Sarasvàti). FILM/TV The Pinkertons, Menorca, Winnipeg Burlesque, Gorilla Trap. Animated: Supa Strikas, Santa’s Apprentice 2, Tayo season 2. TRAINING University of Winnipeg (BA Honours – Theatre). ET CETERA This is for my own “Carroll” clan of dreamers. XO

Terri Cherniack

Tristan Carlucci

White Queen/ Larkspur/Goat/Chorus

Tweedledum/Chorus

ROYAL MTC Late Company, The Seagull,

ROYAL MTC First appearance. OTHER THEATRE Danny, King of the

Basement, Peter Pan, Night Light (MTYP); The December Man (PTE); Hamlet (Snakeskin Jacket/Bravura); A Doll’s House, The Diary of Anne Frank, Faust(us): A Fantasy (U of W). FILM/TV The Pinkertons, Deserted Cities, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Wrong Turn 4. TRAINING Bachelor of Arts Honours from the University of Winnipeg.

Other People’s Money, Gone With the Wind, Romeo and Juliet, Calendar Girls (with Mirvish), Strong Poison, The Price, Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest, Our Town, The Dresser, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Philadelphia Story (with TC), King Lear, The Crucible, Season’s Greetings, Homeward Bound (with VP), Dancing at Lughnasa (with NAC), The Miracle Worker, The Heidi Chronicles (with Mirvish), The Attic,

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Alice Through the Looking-Glass The Pearls & Three Fine Girls, None is Too Many (with WJT), Waiting for the Parade. OTHER THEATRE In Winnipeg: Blithe Spirit (Echo Theatre); The Swearing Jar, The Savannah Disputation, Glorious, Having Hope at Home, Copenhagen, Love and Anger, All Fall Down, The Fighting Days (PTE); StrippedDown Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors (SIR); Social Security, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Crossing Delancey (WJT); The Colour of Vowels, Cruel and Unusual Punishment (TPM). Terri has worked at theatres across the country from Vancouver to Halifax. FILM/TV Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story, Category 7: The End of the World, Haunting Sarah, Everybody’s Doing It, Hell on Heels. TRAINING Graduate of U of W, U of M and the National Theatre School of Canada.

Gwendolyn Collins

Kevin P. Gabel Haigha/Chorus

ROYAL MTC First appearance. OTHER THEATRE Proud (TPM); Miss N Me,

Eden (Sarasvàti); Fallen Angels (CowardFest); Georama, Undress Me (Winnipeg Fringe). FILM/TV The Pinkertons, Passionflower. TRAINING BA Honours in Theatre & Film at the University of Winnipeg. ET CETERA Kevin is a filmmaker whose most recent film, Seven Drinks, has played in several film festivals internationally and won multiple awards. His one-man play Undress Me was shortlisted for the Harry Rintoul Award for Playwriting.

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Toby Hughes Red Knight/Hatta/ Chorus

ROYAL MTC The Penelopiad. OTHER THEATRE I Dream of Diesel (One Trunk

Theatre/TPM); The Cherry Orchard (TBTR); Way to Heaven, One of Ours (WJT); Hamlet as Told on the Streets, Mission Potluck (One Trunk Theatre); Munscha Meeya (PTE). TV The Pinkertons. TRAINING/TEACHING Honours graduate from the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Theatre and Film. Gwendolyn has taught drama at MTYP. ET CETERA Gwendolyn is thrilled and honoured for the opportunity to play a character she so often pretended to be as a little girl. Thanks to Ginny, Genna, Mom and Dad for their constant encouragement, love and support.

ROYAL MTC Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC). OTHER THEATRE The Hound of the

Baskervilles, The Valley, The Dishwashers (PTE); Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, Henry V, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (SIR); Edward II, The Cherry Orchard (TBTR); Liars, The Hobbit, The House at Pooh Corner (MTYP); The Walworth Farce (Incompletely Strangled). FILM/TV The Pinkertons, Todd and the Book of Pure Evil, Verdict. TRAINING The University of Winnipeg. ET CETERA Toby is a member of the Shakespeare in the Ruins artistic ensemble and the musical improv company Outside Joke, and has performed across Canada inventing stories and songs. www.outsidejokeimprov.com

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Jacqueline Loewen

White King/Chorus

Unicorn/Beetle/ Chorus

ROYAL MTC Romeo and Juliet, The Melville

Boys (tour), The Shunning, White Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Bleeding Hearts, Our Town, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, The Dresser, Feelgood (with GCTC), King Lear, Romeo and Juliet (Theatre for Young Audiences production). OTHER THEATRE Antony and Cleopatra (SIR); Arcadia (Citadel); Edward II (TBTR); John and Beatrice (TPM); Follies (Dry Cold); Till It Hurts (PTE); Death of a Salesman (WJT); Annie (Rainbow); Grand-Guignol on the Prairie, The Skriker, Jumpers, The Twits (Echo Theatre), Peter Pan (MTYP). FILM/TV The Pinkertons, New in Town, Niagara Motel, Elijah. ET CETERA All my love to Charlene: wish you were here.

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ROYAL MTC Actor: Top Girls. Fight Director:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Late Company, Private Lives, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, A Christmas Story, Gone With the Wind, August: Osage County, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer. Assistant Director: Other People’s Money. OTHER THEATRE Selected fight directing: The Flood Thereafter (CS); Tosca, Carmen (Manitoba Opera); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); All Restaurant Fires Are Arson (PTE). Assistant Fight Choreographer: Shakespeare’s Rebel (Bard on the Beach). TEACHING Jacqueline has taught stage combat at MTYP and PTE, and assistant taught at the U of W.

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from the U of M, Opera NUOVA Training Intensive, Rainbow Stage Training Intensive. ET CETERA Darren is thrilled for his debut performance at Royal MTC! Many thanks to his family and friends for their never-ending support!

Arne MacPherson Humpty Dumpty/ Red King/Carpenter/ Lewis Carroll/Chorus

Paula Potosky Fawn/Rose/Horse/ Messenger/Chorus

ROYAL MTC Selected: A Few Good Men (with

Citadel), August: Osage County, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), The Crucible, King Lear. OTHER THEATRE Hamlet, Richard III, Othello and others (SIR); I Dream of Diesel (One Trunk Theatre/TPM); Encore (TPM); Ivanov, Way to Heaven, Lenin’s Embalmers (WJT). Other credits include directing Sargent and Victor and Me (TPM) and many productions for SIR. FILM/TV Arne has appeared in over 25 shot-in-Winnipeg film and television productions. TRAINING Graduate of the BFA (Acting) program at the University of Alberta. ET CETERA Arne lives in Wolseley with his partner Deb Patterson, and Gislina and Solmund and Riot.

ROYAL MTC The Penelopiad, White Christmas. OTHER THEATRE Sister Act, Les Misérables,

The Little Mermaid, The Producers, Mary Poppins, Annie (Rainbow); Avenue Q (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); La Chanson de l’Éléphant (Cercle Molière); Follies (Dry Cold). TRAINING University of Manitoba. ET CETERA “How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Aaron Pridham Tweedledee/Chorus

Darren Martens Lion/Chorus

ROYAL MTC First appearance. Upcoming: The ROYAL MTC First appearance. OTHER THEATRE Les Misérables, The

Producers (Rainbow); The Addams Family (Dry Cold); Munsch Upon a Time (PTE); Avenue Q (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Fiddler on the Roof (Opera NUOVA); Into the Woods (District Theatre Collective); HMS Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Gondoliers, Patience (Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Winnipeg).

Hound of the Baskervilles (tour). OTHER THEATRE The Hound of the Baskervilles, Portage and Munsch: 50 Below (PTE); Avenue Q (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); You Were There (Pocket Frock Productions); Avenue Q, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs (District Theatre Collective). TRAINING University of Winnipeg Acting Honours.

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ROYAL MTC Actor: Miracle on South Division

Street (Mainstage and tour), Strong Poison, Pride and Prejudice, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III. Assistant Director: Steel Magnolias. Apprentice Director: Calendar Girls (with Mirvish). OTHER THEATRE Selected: Blithe Spirit (Echo Theatre/CowardFest); The Touring Test, Wild Magic (Winnipeg Fringe); Kindness (MTYP); A Moon for the Misbegotten (O’NeillFest); Beauty and the Beast, Fiddler on the Roof (Rainbow); Sorority Girls Slumber Party Massacre: The Musical, Bad Girls Jailhouse (Canadian Fringe tours). TRAINING U of M, U of W. ET CETERA Stefanie and her partner Angus Kohm are just completing principal photography on a feature film starring Doreen Brownstone (#DoreenBMovie). Their documentary about Ms. Brownstone can currently be viewed on MTS Stories from Home.

Rylan Wilkie

Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Dodgson, was an English logician, mathematician, photographer and novelist best remembered for his work Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871). Born in 1832, Carroll entertained himself and his family at a young age by creating games and writing stories. In school, Carroll excelled at mathematics and was awarded a scholarship to study at Christ College, where he later served as a teacher and lecturer. Carroll was an avid photographer, often choosing children as the subject of his portraits. One of his favourite models was a young girl named Alice Liddell, who later became the basis for Carroll’s fictional character Alice. At the time of his death in 1898, Alice had become the most popular children’s book in England and later would become one of the most popular in the world.

James Reaney Playwright

ROYAL MTC Three Tall Women. OTHER THEATRE The Alchemist, The

Adventures of Pericles, The Physicists, Christina, The Girl King (Stratford); The Story (Theatre Columbus); Blue Planet (YPT); Beyond the Farm Show (Blyth); Enron (TC); The December Man, The Blue Light, East of Berlin (ATP); The Dishwashers, The Edible Woman (PTE). FILM/TV Stratford’s King John, Homefront, Mayday, Blue Smoke, The Secret of the Nutcracker. TRAINING University of Manitoba and the National Theatre School.

James Reaney, Canadian poet and playwright, was born on a farm near Stratford, Ontario, on September 1, 1926. He grew up to become one of Canada’s best-known poets and dramatists, enjoying literary success over a period of seven decades. He also taught at the University of Manitoba for nine years and in the English Department at Western University for 30 years. His contributions

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LEWIS CARROLL PHOTO BY OSCAR GUSTAVE REJLANDER, 1863. JAMES REANEY PHOTO BY LES KOHALMI, 1979.

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Alice Through the Looking-Glass spanned literary genres, ranging from short stories, poetry, libretti and drama, to plays and novels for children, along with insightful critical essays on literary practice. Highly regarded at home and abroad throughout his career, James Reaney’s work was recognized with three Governor General’s awards, the Chalmers Award for drama, four honorary doctorates and the Order of Canada. He died on June 11, 2008, in London, Ontario.

Jillian Keiley Original Director

ROYAL MTC Theatre Newfoundland

Labrador’s Tempting Providence (tour). OTHER THEATRE Artistic Director, National Arts Centre. Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Metamorphoses, Andy Jones’s adaptation of Tartuffe (NAC); The Diary of Anne Frank, Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford); The

Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Oil and Water, Fear of Flight, Afterimage, Under Wraps, Belly Up, Emile’s Dream, Jesus Christ Superstar, Salvage (Artistic Fraud); Jack Five Oh (Sheila’s Brush); Tempting Providence, Stars in the Sky Morning, Possible Worlds (Theatre Newfoundland Labrador); The Syringa Tree, Honk (Globe); The Wind in the Willows (Montgomery Theatre); Sailor Boy (The Old Trout Puppet Workshop and Ghost River); Tilt (Teatro Della Limonaia, Italy); Poxed (Tasmanian Theatre Company, Australia). Opera: Anne and Seamus (Shallaway); Orpheus (Cork Opera Works, Ireland). TRAINING York University. ET CETERA Awards: Canada Council John Hirsch Prize, Siminovitch Prize for Directing, Honorary Doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Upcoming: Twelfth Night as imagined by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop (NAC); As You Like It (Stratford).

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Alice Through the Looking-Glass Best Emerging Artist, The Global Women of Vision Award, Edmonton’s Top 40 Under 40, and has been shortlisted three times for the Siminovitch Prize.

Christine Brubaker Revival Director

Dayna Tekatch Choreographer

ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE Directing credits: Madhouse

Variations, Doc Wuthergloom (Eldritch Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Nightwood); Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille); Revival Director of Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Charlottetown, Citadel). Associate Director: As You Like It (Stratford). Selected acting credits: Enron, The Sound of Music, Tartuffe, Vaudevilles of Chekhov (NAC); The Comedy of Errors (CS); The Danish Play (Nightwood); Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud). TRAINING/TEACHING Christine is a graduate of the National Theatre School. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and is a regular acting instructor at Sheridan College. ET CETERA Christine is a two-time Dora Award winner for performance and recipient of the 2014 Gina Wilkinson Prize.

Bretta Gerecke Set & Costume Designer

ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE Funny Girl, The

Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Segal); Evangeline (Charlottetown/Citadel); Alice Through the Looking-Glass (Stratford/NAC, Charlottetown); The Wizard of Oz (Globe). Directorial credits include: Avenue Q (Citadel – Sterling Award for Outstanding Production); The 39 Steps (Neptune/Stage West/ Thousand Islands Playhouse); Same Time Next Year, Midlife: The Musical (Orillia Opera House). Dayna spent nine seasons at the Stratford Festival as an actor and choreographer and five seasons at the NAC as an actor, choreographer and director. ET CETERA Dayna lives in Toronto with her inspirations, son Liam and husband Sean C. Robertson.

Jonathan Monro Composer/ Musical Director

ROYAL MTC The Drowning Girls. OTHER THEATRE Bretta has worked exten-

sively with Catalyst Theatre, the Stratford Festival, the Citadel Theatre, Canadian Stage, Cirque du Soleil, Edmonton Opera, Calgary Opera, Victoria Opera, Theatre Calgary and the Globe Theatre. TRAINING Bretta graduated from the U of M with a Bachelor of Interior Design and from the University of Alberta with a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Design. ET CETERA Bretta is a marathon runner, and the recipient of over 25 Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Set, Lighting and Costume Design, the Enbridge Award for

ROYAL MTC Composer for Humble Boy. OTHER THEATRE Composer credits include:

The Diary of Anne Frank, Much Ado About Nothing, The Best Brothers, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Stratford); AfterImage, Fear of Flight (Artistic Fraud); Metamorphoses (NAC); The Syringa Tree (Globe); Dial M for Murder (Aquarius); Frozen (Neptune). Musical Director credits include: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Segal); The Light in the Piazza (Canadian premiere, Acting Upstage); Floyd Collins (TIFT/Patrick Street Productions).

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Alice Through the Looking-Glass TRAINING Arizona State (Piano), Sheridan

(Musical Theatre), Stratford (Young Company). Composition mentors include Bert Carriere, Alan Menken, Adam Guettel and Richard Maltby. ET CETERA Upcoming: Jonathan will travel to Venice, Italy for a two-month writer’s residence. He will also MD The Light in the Piazza (Theatre Calgary) and direct Sweeney Todd (Opera on the Avalon). www.jonathanmonro.com

Kimberly Purtell Lighting Designer

ROYAL MTC Jane Eyre, The Drowsy

Chaperone (with TC), Cul-de-sac. OTHER THEATRE Recent credits include: The Trouble with Mr. Adams (Tarragon); The Last Wife, The Taming of the Shrew, Possible Worlds (Stratford); You Never Can Tell (Shaw); Eurydice, Happy Place (Soulpepper); Watershed (Crow’s Theatre/Porte Parole). Upcoming: The Barber of Seville (Pacific Opera Victoria); The Breath of Kings, Parts 1 and 2, Bunny (Stratford); Our Town, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Shaw). ET CETERA Kimberly is a Toronto-based lighting designer for theatre, dance and opera. Her designs have been critically acclaimed both on the national and international stage. They have been seen across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Prague, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Russia. Kimberly was the 2005 recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award.

John Gzowski Sound Designer

ROYAL MTC Mrs. Warren’s Profession, in

the next room or the vibrator play (with Tarragon), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play,

East of Berlin, The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead, What Lies Before Us, I, Claudia. OTHER THEATRE The Divine, You Never Can Tell, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sea (Shaw); The Crucible, Glengarry Glen Ross, Idiot’s Delight, Home, Exit the King, The Price (Soulpepper); Cloud 9 (Mirvish); Helen Laurence, Cruel and Tender, The Flood, The Clean House (CS); A God in Need of Help, Decalogue, Other People’s Children/Little One, I, Claudia, Motel Hélène, Emphysema (A Love Story) (Tarragon); Goodness (Tarragon/ Volcano Theatre); 2 Words for Snow, Mortality (Volcano Theatre); A Doll’s House, Coyote Ugly (DVxT Theatre); Smudge (Nightwood); Quartet (Froth Theatre); The Widow Judith (Guardian Spring Productions). ET CETERA John has won six Dora Awards and been nominated for another eight. He plays jazz and folk around the world, knows the art of Foley, builds custom-designed instruments, writes for dance and television, as well as for musical acts as diverse as the Madawaska String Quartet and Autorickshaw, and constructs and installs sound sculptures.

Jennifer Goodman Associate Set & Costume Designer

ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE The Mountaintop (Theatre Kingston); Generous (GCTC); The Tempest, The Turn of the Screw, The Miracle Man (Two Planks and a Passion); You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Globe); Billy Bishop Goes to War, Joyful Noise (Theatre Northwest); Vigilante (Catalyst); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Red One); The Age of Arousal (Maggie Tree/Blarney); Dark Owl (Tableau d’Hôte); The Rose Tattoo (George Brown); five seasons as assistant/associate designer at the Stratford Festival. Upcoming: Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille). TRAINING BFA, Concordia University; MFA, University of Alberta; Banff Centre for the Arts.

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Alice Through the Looking-Glass ET CETERA Montreal English Critics Circle

Award for Best Set Design, 7 Stories (Tableau d’Hôte). Member of the Associated Designers of Canada. www.jennifergoodman.ca

TRAINING Graduate of University College

Drama Program. ET CETERA Andre has received two Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

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Jan Skene

Assistant Lighting Designer

Puppeteer Coach

ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE Take Me Back to Jefferson

(Theatre Smith-Gilmour); The Double, Paolozzapedia (Bad New Days); Bakelite Masterpiece (Tarragon); Art (Theatre North West); The Rez Sisters (Factory); Watching Glory Die (Canadian Rep Theatre); Ralph and Lina (Edge of the Woods); Mouthpiece (Quote Unquote); SPENT (Theatre SmithGilmour, Why Not Theatre, Bad New Days).

ROYAL MTC (Selected) Actor: Harvey, It’s a

Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Good Sisters (Les BellesSoeurs), A Christmas Carol. OTHER THEATRE Includes: Avenue Q (Winnipeg Studio Theatre – Puppet Director); A Year with Frog and Toad (MTYP/Citadel); Honk!, See Saw (MTYP/YPT); The Brink, Having Hope at Home, Cruel Tears (PTE); Stretching Hide, Albertine in Five Times (TPM); Follies, Company, Nine, A Little Night Music (Dry Cold); Footloose, The King and I, Big: The Musical (Rainbow).

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ET CETERA Jan is co-founder and manager of

Skene Stunts Inc. with her husband Rick and two sons, Daniel and Sean.

ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE Little Thing, Big Thing,

Brian Scott Stage Manager ROYAL MTC Medea (with Mirvish). OTHER THEATRE Twenty-one seasons at the

Stratford Festival, including Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Jesus Christ Superstar (Stratford/La Jolla Playhouse, NYC), The Who’s Tommy and the Miller – Plummer Lear. ET CETERA Brian is happy to be back in

Winnipeg and working at Royal MTC.

Sandra McEwing

Playing with Fire (PTE); Sister Act, West Side Story, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (Rainbow); The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe (Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Winnipeg); Rosalind, The Sea, Juno and the Paycock, The Philadelphia Story (Shaw); Closer Than Ever (Dry Cold); Angels in America: Perestroika (WJT); Ste. Carmen of the Main, Cyrano, The Blue Room (U of W); Into the Woods (District Theatre Collective); Fresher, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, Little Shop of Horrors (Winnipeg Studio Theatre). TRAINING University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre and Film, Shaw Festival Apprenticeship Program.

Assistant Stage Manager

ROYAL MTC The Heart of Robin Hood (with

Mirvish), Good People, Jane Eyre, Daddy Long Legs, Romeo and Juliet, Calendar Girls (with Mirvish), The 39 Steps. Stage Manager: Red (with Belfry). OTHER THEATRE Assistant Stage Manager:

West Side Story (Rainbow). Stage Manager: Dionysus in Stony Mountain (TPM); The Hobbit (MTYP); Big Mama! The Willie Mae Thornton Story (Belfry/NAC); Helen’s Necklace (Belfry). FILM Script Supervisor: Steel, Path of Souls.

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Blues of Bessie Smith. OTHER THEATRE Bad Jews (WJT).

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seeks to immerse audience members in a theatre-going experience that is not only innovative, entertaining and unsurpassed in the world, but also deeply relevant to, and reflective of, their lives and communities. In addition to Shakespeare and other great dramatists of the past, its repertoire encompasses modern classics and the best and most enduring works of musical theatre. The Festival also commissions, develops and premieres new Canadian plays. In 2015, under the leadership of Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino and Executive Director Anita Gaffney, the Stratford Festival embarked upon a 10-year initiative to capture the entire Shakespeare canon in spectacular HD, bringing the work of this renowned company to audiences around the globe.

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If you’re going to read Alice (and you should), make it an edition that explains all the inside jokes, the real people the characters were based on, and the actual places that inspired the fantastical versions. Look for the most recent edition, as it compiles the full texts of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, Tenniel’s original illustrations, and more. Or the Very First Adventure

The British Library holds the original handwritten book Lewis Carroll created and gave to Alice Liddell, the inspiration for the character, as a Christmas present. It is the first version of the work later published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. View the book on the British Library’s website at www.bl.uk/alice. More on the author

Many biographers have tried to tease apart the enigma that was Charles Dodgson a.k.a. Lewis Carroll, a peculiar man for his time. Most are contradictory in their interpretations of his journal entries, letters and other historical documents. Some notable works include:

The Mystery of Lewis Carroll: Discovering the Whimsical, Thoughtful and Sometimes Lonely Man Who Created Alice in Wonderland by Jenny Woolf Lewis Carroll: A Biography by Morton N. Cohen More on Wonderland

The Alice Behind Wonderland by Simon Winchester Delves into what we know of Alice Liddell, the girl who inspired the character, especially as depicted in Lewis Carroll’s own photographs. Looking-Glass Letters by Lewis Carroll, selected and introduced by Thomas Hinde Excerpts from Carroll’s letters and diaries, as well as his photographs and portraits, contextualize the period of his life from which Alice in Wonderland emerged. Alice’s Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture by Will Brooker Alice and her story have appeared in a variety of forms in a surprising number of places, including theatre, film, tourist destinations, novels, graphic novels, computer games and toys.

In the Shadow of the Dreamchild: A New Understanding of Lewis Carroll by Karoline Leach There are 1.4 million books, magazines, movies, audiobooks, eBooks and more at the Winnipeg Public Library, and all you need to borrow them is your library card. There are 20 locations throughout the city, and there’s an online catalogue for requesting items for pick-up at your library of convenience. An online e-Library has thousands of eBooks, eAudiobooks and more! All free to use with your library card. Visit us online at winnipeg.ca/library.

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Wiesenthal

A NOTE FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT BY TOM DUGAN

Why would an Irish Catholic kid from New Jersey write a play about Simon Wiesenthal? When I was a kid, I wished my dad was a superhero racing out of the secret tunnel beneath our house every day to save the world. But alas, Frank Dugan was an ordinary man, a construction supervisor who drove into the Lincoln Tunnel every day to earn a living. My mother countered: “Your father may be an ordinary man, but he did extraordinary things!” I learned that

Simon Wiesenthal is born in Buczacz, in what is now part of Ukraine.

1908

The Nazi regime begins with Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany and concentration camps are opened.

my dad was awarded the Bronze Battle Star and Purple Heart for his service in the Second World War. As an Irish Catholic who grew up in the depths of the Depression, my dad didn’t talk about himself much. In time, however, I was able to pester him enough to share his war experiences. Of all the stories, the one that impressed me the most was when his unit liberated the Langenstein concentration camp in Germany. Feeling the 35-year-old shrapnel under his skin, I said, “Boy, Dad, you must really hate Germans.” His answer surprised

The night of November 9 is Kristallnacht, a massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich.

1933

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Wiesenthal and his wife are detained in Janowska and moved to a labour camp serving Ostbahn, which repaired railroads.

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me. “Nope, there are all types of people, good and bad. I don’t judge them by what group they belong to. I judge them by how they behave.” It was that rejection of collective guilt that first drew me to Wiesenthal’s story. Simon Wiesenthal brought 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice. He also defended a few German and Austrian officers who refused to participate in “the final solution.” He fought for the rights of Jewish, Soviet, Polish, Gypsy, Jehovah’s Witness and homosexual Holocaust victims. However, for me, his greatest legacy is his teaching: he shared his message of tolerance with countless young visitors at his Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna. Simon Wiesenthal was truly an ordinary man who did extraordinary things.

The Nazis begin genocide of the Jews; Wiesenthal makes a deal with the Polish underground to move his wife to Warsaw.

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The US Army liberates Mauthausen. Wiesenthal begins gathering evidence on Nazi atrocities for the US Army.

Wiesenthal opens the Jewish Historical Document;ation Center in Linz, Austria to continue assembling evidence.

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Background: Tom Dugan in Wiesenthal PHOTO BY CAROL ROSEGG SIMON WIESENTHAL TIMELINE TEXT AND PHOTOS COURTESY OF WIESENTHALTHEPLAY.COM

The Linz office closes and Wiesenthal begins pursuing Adolf Eichmann, chief of the Gestapo’s Jewish Department who had supervised the implementation of Jewish genocide.

1954

Wiesenthal ABOUT SIMON WIESENTHAL

Simon Wiesenthal was an AustrianJewish Holocaust survivor and human rights activist who, for over half a century, tracked down and brought to justice more than 1,100 Nazi war criminals hiding around the world. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, located in Los Angeles, is named in his honour.

Tom Dugan in Wiesenthal PHOTO BY CAROL ROSEGG

Eichmann is found guilty and executed. Wiesenthal reopens the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna.

Wiesenthal locates Karl Silberbauer, the officer who arrested Anne Frank, in Austria.

1961

1963

Sixteen SS officers go on trial in Stuttgart, West Germany for participation in the extermination of Jews in Lvov.

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Wiesenthal locates Franz Stangl, the commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps in Poland, in Brazil. Wiesenthal also locates Hermine Ryan, who had supervised killings of children at Majdanek, in Queens during a book tour.

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Wiesenthal A NOTE FROM ROBERT J. KATZ

Rarely does society get to hear accounts of history that are as personal and compelling as Simon Wiesenthal’s. The theatrical presentation Wiesenthal offers a compelling new avenue to share his challenging narrative as a concentration camp survivor and Nazi hunter. Telling stories like these gives voice to those who were silenced 70-plus years ago, and encourages new generations to develop their own voices of conscience against hatred and intolerance. It has been my privilege to be one of the shepherds of these stories as Chair of the Board of Councilors of USC Shoah Foundation, which collected and is committed to preserving in perpetuity more than 51,000 video testimonies of Holocaust

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is founded.

survivors and other witnesses for use in education, both formal and informal. Simon Wiesenthal gave us his own monumental 10.5-hour testimony, chronicling his life before, during and after the Holocaust. When asked in his testimony to explain his lifelong fight for justice, he said, “If we fight together against a repeat, then we fight for the world against a shared danger.” (Please visit sfi.usc.edu/Wiesenthal to view Mr. Wiesenthal’s testimony.) That fight continues in bringing performances like Wiesenthal to the public, and in delivering testimonies like Wiesenthal’s to researchers, teachers, students and the world at large. We all need to listen and learn from these stories, as links to the past, as lessons on our shared humanity, and as sources of inspiration for positive action in our own lives and communities. Robert J. Katz is the Chair, Board of Councilors, USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education.

Wiesenthal receives the US Congressional Gold Medal from President Carter, the first of multiple decorations from other countries, including an Honorary Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain.

Wiesenthal is named as a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Former SS officer Julius Viel is the last Nazi Wiesenthal helps bring to justice for his murder of seven Jewish prisoners at the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Wiesenthal retires shortly afterward, stating, “I have survived them all. If there were any left, they’d be too old and weak to stand trial today. My work is done.”

2001

Simon Wiesenthal passes away on September 20, peacefully asleep at home.

2005

Steven Schipper, Artistic Director • Camilla Holland, General Manager IN ASSOCIATION WITH

DARYL ROTH • KARYL LYNN BURNS CATHERINE ADLER • SUZY & BURTON FARBMAN ANNE & MICHAEL TOWBES PRESENTS

WIESENTHAL Written by and starring Tom Dugan Directed by Jenny Sullivan November 19 – December 5, 2015 preview November 18

Set Designer................................................................................... Beowulf Boritt Costume Designer............................................................................ Alex Jaeger Lighting Designer.............................................................................Joel E. Silver Sound Designer.................................................................................Shane Rettig Production Stage Manager................................................ Katherine Barrett Production Manager........................................................... Mind the Gap, Inc. Tour General Management............................DR Theatrical Management Tour Brand Management.........................................................DR Advertising Associate Producers...............................................David Bryant, Jeff Rosen THE CAST

Simon Wiesenthal...............................................................................Tom Dugan SETTING

Time: April 2003. Place: The Jewish Documentation Center, Vienna, Austria. Wiesenthal is performed without an intermission. Special thanks: The Simon Wiesenthal Center; The Museum of Tolerance; Hayden Production Services; Masque Audio; Rebecca Klingler; Michael Ryan; Von Rae Wood; Brigie O’Brien; Tom Tammi; Bill Hoag; Michele Tauber; Robert Pucci; Richard Allen; Ray Solley; David Hunt Stafford; Shantel Dow; The Opell family; Marge, Normand and Suzi Kurtz; James O’Neil, Christina Burck, David King and the staff of Rubicon Theatre Company; Michael Barnard and Vincent VanVleet of The Phoenix Theatre; Jeff Kober; Pamela Golinski; Christian Sebaldt; Heidi Mastrogiovanni. SPONSORED BY

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Wiesenthal Tom Dugan Simon Wiesenthal/ Playwright

ROYAL MTC First appearance. OTHER THEATRE The list of Mr. Dugan’s

critically acclaimed solo plays includes Oscar to Oscar, Lee at Appomattox, Frederick Douglass – In the Shadow of Slavery, The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln and Jackie (the Jacqueline Kennedy story premiering in 2017). FILM/TV Credits include: Bones, Friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Practice, Just Shoot Me, Kindergarten Cop, Dave and his two personal favourites Hellraiser IV and Leprechaun III. ET CETERA Having been nominated for the New York Drama Desk Award, NY Outer Critics Circle Award, United Solo Special Award, Los Angeles Ovation Award and winning the LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Wiesenthal, Tom is honoured to be invited to the historic Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. Wiesenthal will be featured this fall on Theatre Close Up on PBS hosted by Blythe Danner. For more information visit www.tomduganplays.com or Facebook – Tom Dugan Plays.

Jenny Sullivan Director

ROYAL MTC The Dresser (starring Len Cariou,

Granville Van Dusen and Terri Cherniack). OTHER THEATRE Wiesenthal (Acorn Theatre, NYC); Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical (Center Rep); Nora and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Geffen Playhouse); The Year of Magical Thinking, Steel Magnolias (Laguna Playhouse); A Moon for the Misbegotten, Our Town, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, You Can’t Take It With You, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Hamlet,

Defying Gravity, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Rainmaker (Rubicon Theatre); Good People, The Lion in Winter, Tea at Five, The Clean House (SB Ensemble Theatre). Ovation nominations: Wiesenthal (Theatre 40); The Mystery of Irma Vep (Rubicon); world premiere of Jane Anderson’s The Baby Dance (Pasadena Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre – CT Critics’ Directing Award, Lucille Lortel Theatre in NYC). FILM Access All Areas, The Next Best Thing (in which she had the good fortune to direct her father, Barry). ET CETERA Jenny’s most proud of the world premiere of her play J for J, starring the late great John Ritter.

Beowulf Boritt Set Designer ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE Broadway: Act One (Tony

Award), The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination), Therese Raquin, Hand to God, On the Town, Sondheim on Sondheim, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock of Ages, Chaplin, Bronx Bombers, Grace, The Two and Only. Off-Broadway: 99 shows, including Wiesenthal, The Toxic Avenger, The Last Five Years, Miss Julie, Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public, 2nd Stage, Vineyard, MCC, Primary Stages and the New Group. Other designs: The Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Ballet) and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. ET CETERA Beowulf received a 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.

Alex Jaeger Costume Designer ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE Two Sisters and a Piano (The Public Theater); A Parallelogram, Other Desert Cities (Mark Taper Forum); The Nether, The Paris Letter, Eclipsed (Kirk

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Wiesenthal Douglas Theatre); Mr. Burns, a post-electric play (Guthrie Theater); Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Third (Geffen Playhouse); Major Barbara, Arcadia, Maple and Vine, Rock ‘n’ Roll (ACT San Francisco); Buried Child, Bruja, Annapurna, Oedipus El Rey, Goldfish, Mauritius (Magic Theatre); A Wrinkle in Time, August: Osage County, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Romeo and Juliet and many others (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

Joel E. Silver

for The Unknown, 2005 NYMF. Drama Desk and Lortel nominations. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arena Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Center Stage, Children’s Theatre Company, Dallas Theater Center, La Jolla, South Coast Rep, Williamstown, Yale Rep, Prague Quadrennial.

Katherine Barrett Production Stage Manager ROYAL MTC First engagement.

Lighting Designer

OTHER THEATRE Katherine Barrett has toured

ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE Previous design credits

include: Blue Man Group Berlin; Wiesenthal, F#%king Up Everything, Tokio Confidential (Off-Broadway); Sweet Charity, Cecilia Bracamonte, Candela: Fuerza Y Pasión (Lima, Peru); Hair (Second National Tour); Educating Rita (Huntington Theatre Company); R.Evolución Latina Choreographers Festival; Rigoletto, La Bohème, Tosca, Aida (Opera Memphis); The World Goes Round (Prince Music Theatre); Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here (Apollo Theatre); Caucasian Chalk Circle (New School). Many productions regionally, including Theatre by the Sea, John W. Engeman Theatre, Northern Stage and NYU Steinhardt. ET CETERA Joel also designs extensively in the corporate world, including projects for NYC Fashion Week, HP, SAP, Xplore Productions, and Pfizer. www.JESLD.com

Shane Rettig Sound Designer

Mind the Gap, Inc. Production Management Mind the Gap, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based production company specializing in custom fabrication, production management and production logistics. Notable projects include: On the Town (Broadway), An American in Paris (Broadway), Hand to God (MCC), And I and Silence, A Particle of Dread, The Painted Rocks (Signature Theater), Sex with Strangers, Substance of Fire (2nd Stage) and Daddy Long Legs (Tinc Theatrical).

DR Theatrical Management

ROYAL MTC First engagement. OTHER THEATRE New York: The Public, The

internationally with all of Tom Dugan’s plays: Lee at Appomattox, Frederick Douglass – In the Shadow of Slavery, The Ghosts of Mary Lincoln and Wiesenthal. Off-Broadway: Wiesenthal. Regional: Measure for Measure, The Rainmaker, Man of La Mancha, A Touch of the Poet, Arms and the Man (A Noise Within); The Fantasticks, Barrymore, A Man of No Importance (Good People Theater Co.); The Crucible, The Bluest Eye (Phantom Projects).

Tour General Management

New Group, Roundabout, Vampire Cowboys, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ma-Yi, Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, The Flea, New Victory, La MaMa, Soho Rep, Rattlestick and HERE. Music/Co-Lyrics for War is F**cking Awesome with Qui Nguyen, 2013 Sundance Lab. Music

Current/upcoming productions: The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey; American Dance Machine; Clever Little Lies; Laugh It Up, Stare It Down; Romance Language; Stars of David (concert). Past productions:

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Wiesenthal Vineyard Theatre’s Gloria and Brooklynite; The New Group’s The Spoils and Rasheeda Speaking; Buyer & Cellar (NY & national tour); Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe; Tail! Spin!; Love, Loss, and What I Wore (NY & national tour); My Name is Asher Lev; and Traces, among others. DRTMNYC.com

Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore; The Normal Heart (2011 Tony); A Raisin in the Sun (2014 Tony); Stars of David; Sylvia; The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife; War Horse (2011 Tony); The Year of Magical Thinking; and You Can’t Take It With You. Love to Steven, my wonderful family, Lucy & Leo ever in my heart. www.DarylRothProductions.com

Daryl Roth

Karyl Lynn Burns

Producer

Daryl Roth holds the singular distinction of producing seven Pulitzer Prize-winning plays: Anna in the Tropics; August: Osage County (2008 Tony); Clybourne Park (2012 Tony); How I Learned to Drive; Proof (2001 Tony); Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women; and Wit. The proud recipient of eight Tony Awards including Kinky Boots (2013), her over 90 award-winning productions include: Absolute Brightness; Buyer & Cellar; Caroline, or Change; Curtains; A Delicate Balance; The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (2002 Tony); It Shoulda Been You;

Karyl Lynn Burns founded Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, California with husband James O’Neil in 1998 and serves as the company’s Producing Artistic Director. She accepted the Drama Desk Award for the Off-Broadway run of Rubicon’s production of The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman (directed by David Zippel). Under her direction, Rubicon has received the LA Drama Critics Circle Margaret Harford Special Award for Sustained Excellence, and multiple Ovation, NAACP and Indy Awards. Recent productions

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Wiesenthal include Daddy Long Legs by John Caird and Paul Gordon (Off-Broadway); Hello! My Baby (Rubicon and the Lobero); Lonesome Traveler (Rubicon, Laguna Playhouse, Off-Broadway – Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations); It’s Only Life by John Bucchino (directed by Daisy Prince); Conviction by Carey Crim, directed by Scott Schwartz (Bay Street). Prior to founding Rubicon, Karyl Lynn was CEO of State of the Arts, an arts management and marketing firm. Clients included Ventura Chamber Music Festival, New West Symphony, Ensemble Theatre Company, PCPA Theaterfest, Theatre League, Dale Wasserman and Normand Kurtz.

Catherine Adler Co-Producer

Suzy & Burton Farbman Co-Producers Suzy and Burton Farbman live in Florida and Michigan. Suzy is the author of GODSIGNS and Back from Betrayal, memoirs about surviving personal crises, and has been a journalist, focusing on design and fashion. She writes a blog about synchronicity and turning points at www.suzyfarbman.com. Burt had a successful career in real estate in Detroit, founding and chairing Farbman Group. He ran or served on dozens of philanthropic boards. The Farbmans have two sons, David and Andrew, and six (divine) grandchildren.

Jeffrey Rosen

Current: A Delicate Balance, The Elephant Man, Side Show, This is Our Youth, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle awards). Upcoming: Fish in the Dark, An American in Paris. Past productions: The Velocity of Autumn, After Midnight (Drama Desk Award), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle awards).

David Bryant Co-Producer David Bryant is a General Partner on new Broadway-bound musical Little Miss Scrooge, created by composer Paul Gordon, Sam Caird and John Caird. David was co-producer of Broadway’s A Time to Kill and A Tale of Two Cities. As an actor on Broadway: original Marius, Les Misérables; Show Boat; Sunday in the Park with George; and Amadeus; in addition TV guest star, film, voice-over and commercial work.

Co-Producer Jeffrey Rosen, former Rose Art President of International and Chief Operating Officer, guided his company to yearly sales topping $300 million in over 70 countries with hundreds of license agreements and thousands of innovative products. Mr. Rosen has been associate producer of the Broadway play A Tale of Two Cities, executive producer along with Lionsgate for the motion picture Girl in Progress starring Eva Mendes and executive producer of Teresa the Liberator.

Anne & Michael Towbes Co-Producers Anne and Michael Towbes are business and philanthropic leaders on California’s Central Coast. Anne received her MA from the University of Michigan and taught English and drama. She is part-owner of two magazines. Michael is Chairman of The Towbes Group, Chairman of Montecito Bank & Trust and CFO of The Towbes Foundation. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton and attended graduate school at MIT. Their first theatrical venture was How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. They are

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Wiesenthal devoted to their children and grandchildren and believe Wiesenthal’s story must be told for them.

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A L A N AYC K B O U R N

Ayckbo urnfest My work is about men’s inhumanity to women, women’s inhumanity to men and

the physical world’s inhumanity to us all.

A legend of West End theatre, British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn has written and produced more than 70 full-length plays that have appeared on London’s most prolific stages. The 16th annual Master Playwright Festival highlights his extensive body of work that spans several decades and has earned more than 35 awards – including two Oliviers, two Molières and a Tony. Known for his farces and comedies, Ayckbourn’s work is riddled with entertaining commentary on marriage, social status and the woes of the British lower-middle class. Now aged 76, Ayckbourn is a playwriting powerhouse and shows no signs of slowing down as he continues to produce new work for the stage on practically a yearly basis. As its contribution to AyckbournFest, Royal MTC will present Things We Do for Love at the Tom Hendry Warehouse, Ayckbourn’s uproariously funny comedy about a woman who rents a room to a friend and her fiancé – unwittingly unleashing a firestorm of unexpected and violent passion.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the mat ter. And vice versa.

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A L A N AYC K B O U R N O N T H E R OYA L M TC STAG E

Clockwise from top left: David Warburton in Henceforward… (John Hirsch Mainstage, 1994). Nancy Drake, Arne MacPherson and Danielle Wilson in Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays (Tom Hendry Warehouse, 1995). Shauna Baird, Andrew Gillies and Brenda Robins in Henceforward…. The cast of Season’s Greetings (John Hirsch Mainstage, 1995).

Select Alan Ayckbourn works Relatively Speaking (1965) A Chorus of Disapproval (1984) How the Other Half Loves (1969) Woman in Mind (1985) Absurd Person Singular (1972) Henceforward… (1987) The Norman Conquests (1973) Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays (1988) Confusions (1974) Comic Potential (1998) Bedroom Farce (1975) Private Fears in Public Places (2004) Just Between Ourselves (1976) Arrivals and Departures (2013) Season’s Greetings (1980)

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Supporters Many thanks to our donors who made a gift between September 1, 2014 and November 1, 2015. DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE HERO • $6,000+ Gail Asper, OC, OM, LLD* & Michael Paterson

BENEFACTOR • $2,000–5,999 Leah Bjarnarson & Robert Malech Marjorie Blankstein, CM, OM, LLD & the late Morley Blankstein Sheldon & Penny Bowles J.W. Burns, OC Heather Clarke* Kerry Dangerfield*‡ Donald Fraser & Judy Little John F. (Jack) Fraser* James R. Gibbs Sylvia Guertin-Riley Rita Gunn* & Greg Mason Camilla Holland† & Colin Viebrock‡ Robert B. & the late S. June Jackson Ms. Maureen E. Jay Andrew & Wendy Jensen Derek & Mary Johannson Dr. Leonard Kahane John Kearsey*‡ Terry Klassen Dr. Douglas MacEwan In memory of Liam Murphy – Leigh Murphy‡ The Michael Nozick Family Foundation Cam & Carole Osler Donna & Bill Parrish Hartley & Heather Richardson Sanford & Deborah Riley Jim & Jan Tennant Joan Wright Sonya & Scott Wright The Winnipeg Foundation – Triple A Fund

LEADER • $1,500–1,999 Gus* & Diane Campbell Dr. Bonnie Cham & Dr. Lorne Bellan David Christianson & Vera Steinberger Dave* & Barb Christie Neil & Carol Duboff Tony* & Jennifer Fletcher‡ Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson Elba Haid & Lara Secord-Haid Gary Hannaford* & Cathy Rushton Kevin Hines & Shelly Smith-Hines†‡

Investors Group Matching Gift Program David & Diane Johnston Kevin & Els Kavanagh Laurie Lam† & Larry Desrochers Bill & Shirley Loewen Elizabeth Marr & Nick Slonosky Jim* & Penny McLandress‡ Drs. Ken & Sharon Mould Mr. & Mrs. Lawrie & Fran Pollard Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope Derek Riley Steven Schipper, CM† & Terri Cherniack‡ Maitland & Pat Sundmark Helga Van Iderstine* Richard L. Yaffe* & John A. Statham Darcy & Brenda Zaporzan

MEMBER • $1,000–1,499 Dr. Jerry Baluta & Olga Kandia Jim Blanchard Helga & Gerhard Bock Doneta* & Harry Brotchie‡ David* & Lianne Carefoot Brenlee Carrington Trepel & Brent Trepel Drs. Ernest & Anastasia Cholakis Gerry* & Chris Couture Robert* & Florence Eastwood Lawrence & Brenda Ellerby Paulo Fernandes*‡ Katherine* & Blair Fox‡ Sandy Gousseau*‡ Shayla Harapiak-Green & Patrick Green* Mintie & Al Grienke John* & Nicola Guttormson‡ Linda Hamilton & Grange Morrow‡ In memory of our Kristin Dawn Hanson – Brian & Dawn Hanson Dr. Ted & Gail Hechter Shawn Hughes* & Bruno Koehn‡ Katie Inverarity†‡ Jason Kasper* April & Diamond Kassum Laurence Katz & Zoe Kogan Gordon Keatch*‡ In memory of Pak-Wai Chan – Calvin Kim Brenda* & Trevor Kriss‡ Jeff & Jillian Lamothe Rick Lee & Laurie Shapiro Peter & Karen Leipsic Reginald & Judy Low Mark & Gloria Mancini‡ Bob McNamara & Dorothy Hooper Jeffrey* & Mary Morton James Nielsen‡ Dr. & Mrs. Kieran O’Keeffe

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

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M. Plett-Lyle K. Heather Power & Harold Klause‡ Lawrence Prout* & Lisa Gardewine‡ Margaret Redmond* & Greg Gillis‡ Cindy & Murray Reimer Mrs. Shirley Richardson Andrea* & Michael Robertson‡ Ken & Susan Skinner* Bill & Laurie Speers* Shelley† & Mark Stroski‡ Glen Douglas Summerton Melinda Tallin† & Glen Mitchell‡ Marcel Van Woensel Anonymous

FRIENDS OF ROYAL MTC ENTHUSIAST • $500–999 Robert & Ina Abra Family Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Robert & Joy Antenbring Archie & Jo-Anne Arnott Mrs. Phyllis Barich & Mr. Helmut Epp Bruce & Shelley Bertrand-Meadows Ron Blicq Todd Bourcier Cathie & Brian Bowerman James A. Bracken France Adams & Stephen Brodovsky Saul Cherniack & Myra Wolch Haderra & Mark Chisick J. Davidson‡ Al Dyregrov Don & Elfie Elias Shannon Ernst Gordon Hannon Gregg & Mary Hanson Hon. Justice William Johnston Fern Karlicki‡ Brenda Keyser & Peter Murdock Ian Kirk†‡ James & Teresa Kraemer Katarina Kupca Pat & Jim Ludwig Peter & Maureen Macdonald Mr. G. Markham N. Marr Mr. Gerry Matte & Mrs. Lydia Surasky-Matte Grant Mitchell & Catherine Lambeth Vivienne Nickerson Richard & Bonnie Olfert Kerrie Orlick Linda & Wayne Paquin Donna Plant Iris Reimer Ricou-Manfreda Charles & Naida Rubin Melanie Sexton† & Ian Walsh‡

†Current Royal MTC staff

‡Monthly donors

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Supporters Margaret & Paul Shuckett Debbie Spracklin James Joseph Tepper Linda Thomas Marilyn Thompson Margaret Wikjord Dorothy Y. Young 2 Anonymous

SUPPORTER • $150–499 Pat & Bob Adamson Dr. Liz Adkins Anthony & Marilyn Alexander Dawn Andersen Judy & Jay Anderson Bernice Antoniuk Richard Ball June & Ted Bartman Larry Beeston & Anna Sikora Joan Bender Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Bergbusch Mark Bernstein Bruce & Joyce Berry Tyler & Sable Birch‡ Joan Blight Pamela & David Bolton Denise Bonner Dr. Elizabeth Boustcha Susan Brownstone Brock & Thomas Brock Billy Brodovsky & Libby Yager‡ Sheila & David Brodovsky Miriam Bronstein Donna Byrne Don & Carolyne Campbell Rosemary Chapman Lawrie & Bea Cherniack Glen & Lorna Clark Agnes & John Collins The Colquhoun Family Pamela & Andrew Cooke Joyce Cooper Martin & Gail Corne Ted & Margaret Cuddy Ellen Curtis‡ J. Dale Ms. Linda Daniels Mrs. Maureen Danzinger J. Dawson Andrea Hector & Kirk Dellebuur John & Heather Diamond Dr. Sheila Domke & Stephen Ross Adam Dooley & Lynn Billard Sally R. Dowler John & Ada Ducas Sharron & Joel Dudeck Helene Dyck Roberta Dyck Mr. & Mrs. William Easton Selma Enns Michael & Lynn Evans

Robert Filuk Douglas Finkbeiner Mr. & Mrs. D.C. Finnbogason Gayle Fischer Marcia Fleisher Chris Freeman Arnold Frieman Menno H. & Jolanda Friesen Colleen & Dan Furlan‡ Mr. & Mrs. R. Gallant Lynne & Lindsay Gauld‡ E. George Dr. & Mrs. Ron & Denise George Rick & Patti Gilhuly Ms. Heather Gillander Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Gomori Jeremy & Maureen Gordon‡ Barbara Goszer Kari Hagness†‡ Gregory & Heather Hammond Sylvia & Doug Hannah Bruce & Judy Harris Sandra & Hans Hasenack David & Mary Hickling Mr. Dennis Hodgkinson Jennie Hogan Gary Hook & Charmine Lyons Ann-Marie & Brian Howe Frank & Donna Hruska Dan Ilchyna Rudy & Gail Isaak Marlis & David Jacobson Ian R. Thomson & Leah R. Janzen Lynne Jentsch Claire & Gerald Jewers In memory of Sybil Shack for the benefit of Royal MTC – Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Guenter & Crystal Jochum Robert & Karen Johnston Lisa Johnston‡ Katherine Jordan & James Tam Claudette Journe Brian & Renee Kaplan Dr. Arvind & Nancy Kati Dr. & Mrs. Philip Katz Donald & Sheila Keatch Robert Kennedy & Claudette LeClerc M.J. King Peter Kingsley Myron & Marion Klysh Paul Kochan Madeline Kohut Gloria Koop E. Koop David & Denise Koss Lorraine Kraichy‡ Carol Campbell & Andy Krentz Evan & Susan Kuz Deanne Lander Dr. Patricia Landolfo

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

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Dr. G.H. Lawler Kathy & Saul Leibl Richard Leipsic Tim & Kate Letkemann‡ Carol & Clifford Levi Mr. & Mrs. Eric Lister Dr. Sora Ludwig & Dr. Brent Schacter Sofia Lukie‡ Tom Lussier Dr. & Mrs. Ted Lyons Burton & Mary Lysecki Mr. & Mrs. E.R. MacDonald John MacDonald‡ Sharon M. Macdonald Dennis MacKay, QC & Annette Stapenhorst Mr. Jim MacNair Wally Mah Phil & Miriam Maltz Family Fund Elaine & Neil Margolis Agatha Massey Nicola Matthews Marjorie & Robert McCamis Julia & Don McInnes Mr. & Mrs. Campbell McIntyre Greg & Gloria McLaren The Winnipeg Foundation – John & Carolynne McLure Fund Michael & Debra McMullen Barb Melnychuk Dr. Jonathan Gabor & Tia Metaxas Albert Metcalfe‡ Mel & Pippie Michener Jim & Karren Middagh Dr. Catherine Moltzan & Paul Brault Marc Monnin & Donna Miller Ray Montague Sagan Morrow‡ Bill Muir Ken & Suzanne Munroe Marika Nerbas Edwin & Pat Nicholls‡ Robert Nickel Chris Nielsen Deborah & George Nytepchuk Joanne Olchowecki Cam Mackie & Doris Mae Oulton Conrad Padilla Heather & Harry Panaschuk Terry Panych Dr. Philip Pass Louise Pelletier Donna & John Platt Maureen Prendiville & Paul Jensen Bob & Linda Preston Ms. Judith Putter Vivian E. Rachlis Rudy & Audrey Ramchandar Angeline Ramkissoon Vance Rehill

†Current Royal MTC staff

‡Monthly donors

Supporters Mr. & Mrs. William Reynolds Joyce Rich Dr. & Mrs. J. Richtik Tony Robbins Renee Roseman Sheryl Rosenberg Craig Russell & Janet Shaw-Russell Elizabeth Russin Michael T. Ruta Shona Scappaticci‡ Barbara Scheuneman Hans & Gabriele Schneider Werner & Mary Schulz Ms. Faye Scott Dr. Meir Serfaty & Bonnie Talbot Dr. & Mrs. A.M. Shojania Shayna & Merrill Shulman Cheryl Samson-Siemens & Gordon Siemens Meera Sinha Jennifer Skelly† & Family‡ Chad Smith‡ Mrs. Lorraine Smith Jacqueline St. Hill Heidi Struck† Richard Swain Mr. & Mrs. Paul Swart Shayne & Kathryn Taback Karen Tereck – Welcome to Winnipeg Inc. Elizabeth B. Armytage Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Phyllis A.C. Thomson Mary E. Tibbs‡ Malcolm & Shirley Tinsley W. Tretiak & B. Baydock Dr. Stephen Tritt & Dr. Sharon Goszer-Tritt Terry Tully Susan Turley‡ Eric Turner Grant Tweed Robert Tyler Fran & Bob Vannevel‡ Irv & Toby Vinsky Dr. & Mrs. M.B. Vodrey V. Stirling Walkes Peter & Joan Washchyshyn Deanna M Waters Al & Pat Wherrett‡ Florence & Donald Whitmore Murray & Nancy Wiegand Trevor Wiens‡ Arthur Williams Murray Wilson & Ivy Namaka Dennis & Gustine Wilton Paul & Jackie Winestock Mr. C. Winstone Dr. David Wiseman & Merilyn Kraut Rick Wishart Grant & Sheila Woods

Valerie Wowryk Harry & Evelyn Wray Margaret & Paul Wright 13 Anonymous

CORPORATE DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE HERO • $10,000+ Johnston Group Inc. Qualico

GUARANTOR • $5,000–9,999 Gendis Inc. & Associated Corporations

BENEFACTOR • $3,000–4,999 Cambrian Credit Union Maple Leaf Construction Ltd., Blake Fitzpatrick Melet Plastics Inc., Edward Shinewald Terracon Development Ltd.

PATRON • $1,200–2,999

SPONSOR The Gail Asper Family Foundation & The Asper Foundation BMO Financial Group Martha Burns Cardinal Capital Management Inc. Carlyle Printers Service & Supplies Ltd./Canon CIBC CN Continental Travel Group De Luca Fine Wines Dycom Direct Mail Services EPIC Information Solutions Inc Esdale Printing Co. Ltd. The Fort Garry Hotel, Spa & Conference Centre Friesens Corporation Deborah Gray

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CORPORATE FRIENDS OF ROYAL MTC CONTRIBUTOR • $900–1,199

Assiniboine Credit Union Blüfish Japanese Restaurant Deloitte Foundation Canada George Wakefield Foods Inc., Judy Wakefield* Maxim Truck & Trailer Number TEN Architectural Group, Robert Eastwood* Ruth & Ted Northam PRA Inc. Ranger Insurance Brokers Ltd. RBC Foundation Royal Canadian Properties Limited Safeway Sofa Logic, Suzi Bonk* Winmar Property Restoration

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

The Great-West Life Assurance Company Greystone Managed Investments Inc. Investors Group Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Lawton Partners MacDon Industries Ltd. Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries MTS Allstream National Leasing Planned Perfectly PwC RBC Royal Bank Relish Sleeman Breweries Ltd. Stantec Consulting Ltd. Subway Franchise World Headquarters Wawanesa Insurance Winnipeg Free Press

Manitoba’s Credit Unions The Manitoba Teachers’ Society Mitchell Fabrics Ltd.

SUPPORTER • $600–899 Fillmore Riley LLP Intergroup Consultants Ltd. NAV CANADA Party Stuff/U-Rent-It Pollard Banknote Ltd. Fay & Max Reich

ASSOCIATE • $300–599 Cowin Steel Co. Ltd. Investors Group Mid West Packaging Limited Mid-West Quilting Premier Printing Ltd. Winfield Developments Canada

DONOR • $150–299 B.A. Robinson Co. Ltd., Ross Robinson Leon A. Brown Ltd. MCW/AGE Consulting Professional Engineers Noble Locksmith Ltd. Patill/St. James Insurance Reitmans (Canada) Limited

†Current Royal MTC staff

‡Monthly donors

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Supporters TRIBUTE GIFTS

ENDOWMENT FUND In Honour of Artistic Director Steven Schipper

Gifts received between September 26 and November 1, 2015 In memory of Prof. Don Bailey – Marina Plett-Lyle In honour of Steven & Terri’s daughter Susie marrying Michael – Gail & Rueben Thau

FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE John Hirsch and Tom Hendry shared a dream of creating great professional theatre with mass appeal. With the visionary support of Founders’ Circle members – those who have made a planned gift to Royal MTC – their dream will live on for generations to come. Thank you to our Founders’ Circle members.§ Gail Asper, OC, OM, LLD* Marjorie & Morley Blankstein* Duane & Pauline Braun Terri Cherniack & Steven Schipper, CM† Kerry Dangerfield* Edward Fisher & Lyse Rémillard James Gibbs Gary Hannaford & Cathy Rushton Maureen E. Jay Andrew & Wendy Jensen Dr. Leonard & Hope Kahane Gordon C. Keatch* Laurie Lam† & Larry Desrochers Leona J. MacDonald Barb Melnychuk Jeffrey Morton* Heather Power & Harold Klause

Many thanks to the generosity of our Endowment Fund donors who gave a gift or fulfilled a pledge payment between September 1, 2014 and November 1, 2015. Amounts are cumulative. $5,000,000+ Government of Canada/ Gouvernement du Canada Canadian Heritage/ Patrimoine canadien

$250,000–499,999 Gail Asper, OC, OM, LLD* & Michael Paterson

$100,000–249,999 Dick Bonnycastle The Winnipeg Foundation

$50,000–99,999 Sandy & Deborah Riley

$25,000–49,999 James R. Gibbs J.K. May Investments Ltd. Johnston Group Inc. The Michael Nozick Family Foundation Anonymous

$10,000–24,999 The Bowles Family Gus* & Diane Campbell Bryan Klein & Susan Halprin The Honourable Guy J. Kroft & Hester Kroft The Estate of Gordon P. Linney Virginia & the late Robert Martin Norma Anne Padilla Lawrie & Fran Pollard Dr. Bill Pope & Dr. Elizabeth Tippett-Pope Steven Schipper, CM† & Terri Cherniack George Sigurdson Terracon Development Ltd. Darcy & Brenda Zaporzan

*Current Royal MTC Board of Trustees/Advisory Board members

$5,000–9,999 Mr. & Mrs. Kristjan & Shirley Benidickson Doneta* & Harry Brotchie Margaret Caie Merv & Jan Cavers Donald Fraser & Judy Little Susan & Keith Knox Rick Lee & Laurie Shapiro John Maguire & Susan Collison Jim* & Penny McLandress L. Blair Philpott & Tom Kynman Heather Pullan & Tom Frohlinger Wearing Williams Limited – Don & Sheila Katz Joan Wright

$2,500–4,999 Lee & Wayne Anderson Esther & Hy Dashevsky* Helene Dyck Gregg & Mary Hanson Dr. Ted & Gail Hechter Margaret & Fred Mooibroek In memory of Liam Murphy – Leigh Murphy Cheryl Ogaranko Dorothy Y. Young Anonymous

$1,000–2,499 Robert & Ina Abra Family Fund – The Winnipeg Foundation Jack Armstrong & Doris Quinn Philip Ashdown George Baldwin Doris & Burton Bass Arthur & Ken Blankstein-Ure The Bohm Family Don & Cheryl Breakey Sheila & David Brodovsky David* & Lianne Carefoot Ron & Carol Chapman Dave* & Barb Christie Pamela & Andrew Cooke Joy Cooper & Martin Reed Kerry Dangerfield* Bob & Alison Darling Roberta Dyck Ernest & Ruth Epp Michael & Lynn Evans Jean* & Dennis Giguere Brent & Debbie Gilbert David & Ewhenia Gnutel John & Margaret Graham Rita Gunn* & Greg Mason Marilyn & Helios Hernandez John Kearsey* Carol Campbell & Andy Krentz

†Current Royal MTC staff §If you have remembered Royal MTC in your will, please let us know

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Supporters Dr. G.H. Lawler Barbara Main Mark & Gloria Mancini Terri & Jim McKerchar Irene & the late Claire Miller Vera Moroz Lillian Neaman* Jean & Lisa Neron Marina Plett-Lyle Amy Richmond Ruth Simkin Bill & Laurie Speers* Frits & Joan Stevens Melinda Tallin† & Glen Mitchell Suzanne Ullyot Faye Warren Richard L. Yaffe* & John A. Statham 2 Anonymous

$500–999 Joan & Ed Alexander Peggy Bainard Acheson Bruce & Joyce Berry Donald & Edith Besant Suzi Bonk* Ron & Joan Boyd Katherine Cobor & Gordon Steindel John K. & Agnes Collins Robert* & Florence Eastwood Nelma Fetterman Marcia Fleisher Chris Freeman Teresa A. Hay Evelyn & Larry Hecht In memory of David Landy – Edith Landy Don Lawrence Dr. Stan & Susan Lipnowski

Patrick* & Clarice Matthews Gerry & Corinne McCallum Paul & Elaine Neelon E.M.L. Poulter Bill & Norma Rennie Amy Richmond Patricia & James Richtik Marc & Sherri Rittinger Michael T. Ruta Jim & Susan Shaw Howie & Sue Simpson Elaine Toms Unitarian Church Theatre Group Gabor Vamos & Brenda Silver 4 Anonymous

UP TO $499 Jacqueline Anderson Leslie Anderson & Ken MacLeod Donald Aronovitch Margaret & Charles Avent Ms. Jean Bissett Brenlee Carrington Trepel & Brent Trepel Jeanetta Casselman Arthur & Donna Chow Ms. Simone I. Cohen Christine H. Coltart Maxine Cristall Paulo Fernandes* Dr. & Mrs. D.D. & B.M. Fillis Lee Finch Sandy Gousseau* L.D. Graham Karen Herd Mrs. Audrey Hilderman Camilla Holland† & Colin Viebrock Shawn Hughes* & Bruno Koehn

Elizabeth E. Jackson Jordan Janisse & Teresa Cooper L. Kampeas Sheila & Ken Katz Mr. & Mrs. Fred Kisil Brenda* & Trevor Kriss Barbara Latocki Ms. Nancy Latocki Vi Leaney Frances Lemieux Elliot Leven Sylvia L. Main Nick Martin & Dr. Evelyn Ferguson Peggy Barker Anthony & Joyce McWha Marcel & Louise Mollot Pat & Sherry O’Connor Theresa Oye Robb† & Heather Paterson Myrna Protosavage Henry & Sheila Riendeau Andrea* & Michael Robertson Evan & Audra Roitenberg Jack & Regina Schipper Ivor & Lorna Schledewitz Joan Sheps Vern & Ann Simonsen Geri & Peter Spencer Brenda Taylor Marilyn Thompson Mary & Gordon Toombs W. Tretiak & B. Baydock Tim Valgardson* Judy* & Michael Wakefield Veralyn R. Warkentin Donna Webb 3 Anonymous

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THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFT

BENEFACTORS

Deborah Gray Martha Burns

S T R O N G E R C O M M U N I T I E S T O G E T H E R TM

REGIONAL TOUR

Ovation

november/december 2015

Supporting Partners BLACK & WHITE BALL PREMIER SPONSOR

PLATINUM SPONSOR

SILVER SPONSOR

BRONZE SPONSOR Insurance Brokers and Consultants

LAWYERS PLAY

DESIGN SPONSOR

CAPITAL ASSISTANCE

2015 WINNIPEG FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL

S T R O N G E R C O M M U N I T I E S T O G E T H E R TM

COWARDFEST 2015

MEDIA SPONSORS

november/december 2015

Ovation

Behind the Scenes Board of Trustees

John Hirsch Mainstage Front-of-House

Deborah Gay-de Vries, Front-of-House Manager Assisted by: Sheena Baird Jamie Chapman, Kim Cossette, Hunter Davis, Rylen de Vries, Nick Fletcher, Deanna Goring, Jonny Hall, Elfie Harvey, Marissa Kellett, Peter Kellett, Talia Kowalchuk, Tia Levine, Graeme Olson, Amariah Peterson, Angela Rajfur, Jennifer Schmidt, Rita Vande Vyvere, Kira Watson

Honorary Members

Her Honour, Lt. Governor Janice C. Filmon The Honourable Greg Selinger, Premier of Manitoba His Worship, Mayor Brian Bowman Executive Officers

Jim McLandress, Chair Anthony C. Fletcher, Chair-Elect David Carefoot, Treasurer Suzi Bonk, Chair, Community Relations David Christie, Chair, Resource Development Patrick Green, Chair, Organizational Performance John Guttormson, Chair, Governance & Strategic Planning Trustees

Heather Clarke Robert Eastwood Paulo Fernandes Katherine Fox Sandy Gousseau Rita Gunn Advisory Council

Kerry Dangerfield, Chair Gail Asper Doneta Brotchie Angus Campbell Gerry Couture Hy Dashevsky Glen Dyrda, FCA John F. Fraser Jean Giguere Charron Hamilton

Maintenance

Andrew Drinnan, Building Superintendent Chris Fletcher, Assistant Building Superintendent Marketing & Communications

Shawn Hughes Jason Kasper John Kearsey Brenda Kriss Andrea Robertson Derek Rolstone

Laurie A. Speers Tim J. Valgardson Helga D. Van Iderstine Judy Wakefield Richard L. Yaffe

Gary Hannaford, FCA Yude Henteleff Ken Houssin Gordon Keatch Colin R. MacArthur, QC Patrick J. Matthews Jeffrey Morton, FCA Hon. Jack Murta Lillian Neaman Shelley Nimchonok

James Pappas John Petersmeyer Lawrence Prout Jeff Quinton Patricia Rabson Margaret Redmond Susan Skinner Al Snyder Maureen Watchorn

Hayley Brigg, Publicity & Communications Coordinator Sue Caughlin, Marketing & Communications Manager Katie Inverarity, Director of Marketing & Communications Mark Saunders, Marketing & Communications Coordinator Thomas Urish, Sales Manager Paint

Jane Buttner, Apprentice Scenic Artist Susan Groff, Head Scenic Artist Production

Staff Accounting/Finance

Brian Adolph, IT Manager Devan Graham, Director of Human Resources Angela Hendry, Education & Community Engagement Manager Camilla Holland, General Manager Mary Horodyski, Archivist Daphne MacMillan, Administrative Assistant Jennifer Skelly, IT Administrator Artistic

Jeff Kennedy, Literary Coordinator Laurie Lam, Producer Robb Paterson, Associate Artistic Director Steven Schipper, CM, Artistic Director Casey Shapira, Assistant to the Producer Melinda Tallin, Artistic Coordinator Box Office

Sheena Baird, Ticketing Services Manager Laurie Fletcher, Box Office Manager Melanie Sexton, Director of Box Office Services Box Office Representatives: Katie Adamson, Laura Bergen, Gwendolyn Collins, Kali Claire Grenier-Prieur, Robyn Pooley, Jessica Ross, Katie Schmidt Carpentry (John Hirsch Mainstage)

Louis Gagné, Layout Carpenter Brent Letain, Master Carpenter Chris Seida, Scenic Carpenter

Properties

Larry Demedash, Senior Properties Builder Chris Hadley, Properties Buyer Kari Hagness, Head of Properties Kaylee Towes, Properties Apprentice Lawrence Van Went, Properties Builder Stage Crew

Sharon Burden, Payroll Administrator Yvonne O’Connor, Accounts Payable Administrator Shelley Stroski, Controller Administration

Jessica Alexander, Assistant Production Manager Laura Enns, Touring & Production Coordinator Ian Kirk, Assistant Technical Director Paige Lewis, Assistant Producer, Billy Elliot The Musical Rick MacPherson, Technical Director, Tom Hendry Warehouse Russell Martin, Director of Production Ben Ross, Technical Director, John Hirsch Mainstage

Joan Lees-Miller, Head of Wardrobe Claude Robert, Head Electrician Chris Thomson, Head Carpenter John Tomiuk, House Stage Hand Michael Wright, Head of Sound Tom Hendry Warehouse

Chris Brett, Head of Sound Randy Zyla Harder, Head Electrician Rick MacPherson, Technical Director Alison Nutt, Head Carpenter Tom Hendry Warehouse Front-of-House

Kim Cossette, Front-of-House Manager Jamie Chapman, Rylen de Vries, Rachael Neal, April Smith Wardrobe

Thora Lamont, Acting Head of Wardrobe Sharmon Luchuck, Buyer Lorraine O’Leary, Head of Wardrobe Lois Powne, First Hand Jackie Van Winkle, Head Buyer & Accessories Coordinator Wigs

Beverly Covert, Wigs & Makeup Supervisor Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival & Master Playwright Festival

Jennifer Cheslock, Festival Manager Chuck McEwen, Executive Producer Honorary Staff

Zaz Bajon, General Manager Emeritus

Development

Michael Joyal, Development Data Manager Stephanie Lambert, Special & Donor Events Coordinator Shelly Smith-Hines, Director of Development Heidi Struck, Individual Giving Manager

Ovation

november/december 2015

Behind the Scenes Additional Production Staff

Wiesenthal

Alice Through the Looking-Glass

TOUR GENERAL MANAGEMENT

Melanie Farrar, Cutter Kim Hamin, Assistant Scenic Artist Amanda Isaak, First Hand Sofia Lukie, Painter Barb Mackenzie, Sewer Teddi Peddle, Wig Builder & Stylist Joy Willis, Sewer

DR Theatrical Management Adam Hess, Grant A. Rice, Kyle Provost, Mickey McGuire, Kyle Bonder, Emily Currie, Liz Krane TOUR BRAND MANAGEMENT

DR Advertising Scott Lupi, Meghan Bartley, Kristin Sprague, Kevin P. Johnson, Brenna Kilpatrick

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Kali Claire Grenier-Prieur, Backstage Crew Kim Hamin, Assistant Scenic Artist Sofia Lukie, Painter Leslie Sidley, Backstage Crew Jef Ward, Stage Hand Burkhard Weiss, Assistant Carpenter Additional crew provided by IATSE Local 63

Alice Through the Looking-Glass Staff for the STRATFORD FESTIVAL

Artistic Director: Antoni Cimolino Executive Director: Anita Gaffney Producer: David Auster Director of Production: John Tiggeloven, Douglas Lemcke, Simon Marsden Director of New Plays: Bob White Director of Music: Franklin Brasz Director of Advancement: Rachel Smith-Spencer Director of Communications: David Prosser Publicity Director: Ann Swerdfager Director of Education: Andrea Gammon Director of Finance: Darryl Huras Director of Human Resources: Shelley Stevenson Creative Planning Director: Jason Miller Casting Director: Beth Russell Associate Producer: Bonnie Green Company Manager: Rosie Driscoll Assistant to the Producer: Susan Lemenchick Production Administrator: Cheryl Bender Music Administrator: Marilyn Dallman

Production Stage Manager: Katherine Barrett Dialect Coach: Joel Goldes Executive Assistant to Adam Hess: Emily Currie Executive Assistants to Daryl Roth: Megan Smith, Perry Jones Business Office: Aaron Thompson, Sheira Schiff DRTM Interns: Adam Boncz, Lawrence Haynes, Yue Liu Production Photography: Carol Rosegg B Roll: Mark Ezovski Artwork Design: DR Advertising Legal Counsel: Lazarus & Harris LLP/Diane Viale, Emily Lawson US Accounting: Marks Paneth LLP/Chis Cacace, Marina Flom Canadian Accounting: Fruitman Kates LLP/David Weisdork, CPA, CA Banking: City National Bank/Michael Tynan Insurance: Owens Group, Ltd./Dorene Stockman Payroll: Checks and Balances Payroll, Inc./Sarah Galbraith, Anthony Walker LICENSING & BOOKING

DR Theatrical Licensing Joseph Rosswog 212 257 4359

This touring production has engaged artists who are members of the following organizations:

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The scenery, props, special effects, costumes and wigs for this production were fabricated by the artisans of the Stratford Festival, including: Technical Director: Elissa Horscroft Associate Designer: Jennifer Goodman Technical Director, Scenic Construction: Andrew Mestern Wardrobe Manager: Anne Moore Design Coordinator: Alix Dolgoy Scene Shop Manager: Robbin Cheesman Head of Properties: Dona Hrabluk Lead Builder: Ken Dubblestyne Head Scenic Artist: Christopher Klein Assistant Head Scenic Artist: Daniel McManus Head Carpenter: Neil R. Cheney, Ryan Flanagan Head of Automation: Ian Phillips Head of Wardrobe: Bradley Dalcourt Assistant Head of Wardrobe: Elizabeth Copeman Head of Wigs and Makeup: Gerald Altenburg Stratford Festival scenic carpenters and wigs and make-up attendants are members of Local 357 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), and scenic artists are members of IATSE Local 828.

november/december 2015

Ovation

Next at the John Hirsch Mainstage

Seductive and smashing, with intoxicating, fleet-footed flashes of art and big, knock-’em-dead sequences. Elton John’s songs are infused with the energy of joy. january 12 to february 6

– new york times

Billy Elliot The Musical celebrated its 10th anniversary this past summer. Since opening in London, this thrilling musical has stolen the hearts of millions of theatregoers across the world. The role of Billy Elliot has become a career-maker for triple threats across five continents. The show itself is a triple threat of sorts with a soaring score by Elton John, electric dance numbers and a powerful story set against the miners’ strike that marked a turbulent period in 1980s England. But as is often the case, the human spirit shines brightest during dark times and this is certainly true with Billy Elliot. In an interview, Elton John explained his connection to the story: “The story of young Billy, a gifted working class boy with artistic ambitions seemingly beyond his reach, had so many parallels to my own childhood. Like Billy, the opportunity to express myself artistically was a passport to a better, more fulfilling life.” He added, “The show demonstrates everything I love about the power of art. It can inspire you. It can transform lives. Art can make you look at life in a way you never have before. And it can take you places well beyond your wildest dreams.”

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