Sleuth
Written by
Anthony Shaffer Directed by
Jim Petosa
This production is made possible in part by contributions from
Season Sponsor, Robert Dohmen Executive Producer, Helen Marshall and Production Sponsor, Reba Heyman
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Jim Petosa, Artistic Director
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From Jim and Amy
Dear Friends,
Welcome to Olney Theatre Center and today’s performance of Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer.
This cloak and dagger thriller kicks off our summer here at Olney Theatre Center. From our beginning, summer has been an exciting time on campus and this year is no different. From our 2nd Annual Community Day to Little Shop of Horrors and Summer Shakespeare, the campus will be alive with something for everyone.
Sleuth is exciting in its own right, as we have the pleasure of watching Bob Ari and Jeffries Thaiss lead an intrepid company into a game of wits. Sleuth engages our competitive spirit in a cerebral manner. As the audience, you are witness to a real life game of chess where, instead of capturing the opponents King, the price of losing is your life. In today’s world of reality TV and an overabundance of competition, it is rare to see such a subtle, yet sensational game being played. This production wouldn’t be possible without the essential support of the patrons of Olney Theatre Center, our 2012 Season Sponsor, Mr. Robert Dohmen, and the generous support of this show’s Executive Producer Helen Marshall and Production Sponsor Reba Heyman. Thank you, and enjoy the show.
Jim Petosa, Artistic Director
Amy Marshall, Managing Director
Amy Marshall and Jim Petosa are sponsored by the Dohmen Family Foundation.
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Jim Petosa
Amy Marshall
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Artistic Director
Managing Director
present
by Anthony
Shaffer
featuring
Bob Ari
Seth Fisher
Jeffries Thaiss
Scenic Designer
Nicole V. Moody
Production Stage Manager
Josiane M. Lemieux
Sound Designer
Eric Knauss
Lighting Designer
Daniel MacLean Wagner
Jeffrey Dorfman
Production Manager Technical Director
Renee E. Yancey
James Tiller
Costume Designer
Cristina Todesco
Ryan Hirsh
Company Manager
Mackenzie Douglas
Fight Choreographer
Casey Kaleba
Costume Shop Manager
Jeanne Bland
Director
Jim Petosa This production is made possible in part by contributions from
Season Sponsor, Robert Dohmen Executive Producer, Helen Marshall and Production Sponsor, Reba Heyman Sleuth is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. 301.924.3400
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Cast (in order of appearance)
Andrew Wyke Milo Tindle Inspector Doppler Detective Sergeant Tarrant Police Constable Higgs
Bob Ari* Jeffries Thaiss* Seth Fisher* Ryan Hirsh* James Tiller* *Member, Actors’ Equity Association
Scenes & Setting
Act one Andrew Wyke’s country home in Wiltshire. A summer evening. Act Two Two days later.
e There will be a 15 minute intermission a Audience Services
Theater Policies Latecomers are seated at the discretion of the house manager. Please do not bring food or drink into the theater (bottled water is allowed) and all buildings are smoke-free. The use of recording or photographic equipment during the show is prohibited. Olney Theatre Center is not responsible for any items left on our campus. All children, including babies, require a ticket. We will ask parents to take their children to the lobby if their behavior is disturbing patrons. Please turn off your cell phone in the theaters.
Audio-Described Performances Audio-described performances are offered on the third Wednesday evening during a show’s run, which include pre-show program notes, descriptions of the action, scenery and costumes during pauses in the dialogue. Metropolitan Washington Ear can provide an escort to audio-described performances for patrons who are visually impaired.
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From the Director
Anthony Shaffer’s playful text for Sleuth can be a game that one can choose to play on many levels of proficiency. Along with the actors and the design team and all the artisans involved in creating this production, I have also welcomed two other minds (albeit from the beyond!) to join us. Some of their words follow: “There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.” – Harold Pinter “You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.” – Stanley Kubrick Your move......ENJOY! — Jim Petosa, Director About The play
A cold manor house in the rolling English countryside, populated with games and the numerous detective writings of a famous author. A car makes its way up the driveway, driven by a mysterious figure, and then… What sounds like the beginning of an Agatha Christie novel is actually the setting for this play, Anthony Shaffer’s Sleuth. While this seems like an outdated method by the playwright to begin his drama, it really only serves as the tip of the submerged iceberg. The niceties of proper English society quickly begin to melt away under the driving force of his fascinating whodunit— competition. Like a master chess match or a championship round of tennis, the main characters of Sleuth play a game of wits across the entire show, each trying to edge out the other and see who will blink first. Numerous references and physical examples of sporting and gaming throughout serve to heighten this dangerous one-upmanship. This competitive streak also resonates with our contemporary American society, as we don our jerseys to root for our favorite hockey or basketball teams in their respective post-seasons. But what draws us to these competitive events? Hometown allegiances, a favorite all-star player, or maybe just witnessing a legendary game? Whatever the case may be, the fascination with gaming, and the outcome of winning, runs deep within our culture. So instead of awaiting the Summer Olympics with baited breath, let us cheer for our preferred champion within the world of this play. Will it be the mastermind detective-fiction author, or the scrappy and seemingly naïve underdog who will win the game? Mind you, the stakes are quite high. They are playing for the biggest prize of all: their own lives! — Michael R. Kelly, Dramaturg 301.924.3400
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Barrie S c h o o l H a n d s - o n learning by doing
UNDER THE LIGHTS
Bob Ari (Andrew Wyke) returns to Olney Theatre Center, where he played Sir Wilfrid Robarts in Witness for the Prosecution. Broadway: Frost/ Nixon, The Constant Wife, Bells Are Ringing, Laughter On The 23rd Floor. Off-Broadway: The Late Christopher Bean, Die Mommie Die!, Jolson & Company, Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Baby Anger, June Moon. Regional: George St. Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Walnut St. Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Long Wharf, A.C.T., Pioneer Theatre Co., Fulton Theatre, New Jersey and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Film: Two Lovers, Wanted, Kissing Jessica Stein, Music Of The Heart, Cradle Will Rock. Television: Onion News Network, The Good Wife, Law & Order, Law & Order: SUV, Ed, Cheers, Cagney And Lacey, Soap, L.A. Law, Diff’rent Strokes, The Jeffersons. Seth Fisher (Inspector Doppler) is making his Olney Theatre Center debut. REGIONAL: Denver Fireside Theatre Co: The Liar, To Kill a Mockingbird; OpenPage Theatre & Co: The 39 Steps; Folsom Rep: Ghost Light; SMD Theatre Co: Henry V; Incredible Stage Co: As You Like It; Moonlight Theatre Center: The Glass Menagerie. Ryan Hirsh (Detective Sergeant Tarrant) is proud to be making his Olney Theatre Center debut. REGIONAL: Iron Forge Stage Co: Next Fall, Three Sisters; Hanover Repertory Theatre: The Mousetrap, Medea; Riverside Shakespeare Project: Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Julius Caesar; Buffalo 2nd Stage:
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Jeffries Thaiss (Milo Tindle) is very pleased to return to Olney Theatre Center, where he has been seen in The 39 Steps, Witness for the Prosecution, Dinner with Friends, Trumpery, The Glass Menagerie, Is He Dead?, The Underpants, The Mousetrap, Democracy, 13 Rue de L’Amour, Enemy of the People, Hedda Gabler, The Heiress, Saint Joan, Carousel, Piaf, Anna Karenina, Monster, Candida, She Loves Me, and Holiday. New York: Potomac Theatre Project, Spatter Pattern. Other regional credits include shows at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Syracuse Stage, The Kennedy Center, Portland Stage Company, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cape Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Triad Stage, Virginia Musical Theatre, New London Barn Playhouse, and The Sewanee Writers Conference, among others. TEleVision: As the World Turns, One Life to Live. James Tiller (Police Constable Higgs) happily returns to Olney Theatre Center after performing in the National Players Tour 43’s productions Twelfth Night and The Miracle Worker. REGIONAL: Adirondack Shakespeare Theatre: Othello, The Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Verona; Smash & Grab Theatre Co: Holmes & Watson, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. EDUCATION: Fordham University.
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Behind the Scenes
Jim Petosa (Artistic Director and Director of Sleuth) has been Artistic Director for Olney Theatre Center since 1994. Since 2002, he has been Director of the School of Theatre at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. He has also served as a co-artistic director of the Potomac Theatre Project, now PTP/NYC, since 1987. His Olney Theatre Center directing credits include Opus, Dinner with Friends, Trumpery, The Glass Menagerie, Democracy, Brooklyn Boy, In the Mood, An Enemy of the People, The Elephant Man, The Miracle Worker, Copenhagen, The Laramie Project, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris [Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction], Collected Stories [Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Direction] and his Look! We Have Come Through! (co-authored with Carole Graham Lehan) [Charles MacArthur Award nomination for Outstanding New Play]. As a guest artist, he has directed at The Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Washington Jewish Theatre, and Rep Stage. Jim has directed for University of Maryland, College Park; The Catholic University of America; George Washington University; and Middlebury College. Jim is a member of Actors’ Equity Association, and he is a member and has served on the board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Clay Hopper (Associate Artistic Director) Olney Theatre Center directing credits: The 39 Steps, Farragut North,Triumph of Love. Clay has been directing for National Players and Summer Shakespeare Festival since 2003. Credits include Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Amadeus. He also directed Call of the Wild, a musical adaptation of Jack London’s novel by Jon Lipsky, first as a workshop at Boston University, then as a touring production for The National Players on Tour 59, culminating in the World Premier on Olney Theatre Center’s Main Stage in 2009. Other recent credits include On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning at Contemporary America Theatre Festival Actor’s Lab. In 2002 he founded and produced a new play series called New Works/After Hours at Lincoln Center Institute’s Clarke Studio Theatre. Off-offBroadway: A Home Without by Robert Westfield, Different Zen by Clay Hopper with Third Eye Rep, Earthworms by Albert Innaurato with The Working Group, Triage by Chris Shiea with Miranda Theatre, and The Interrogation by Murphy Guyer with The Miranda Theatre. He has taught acting at Boston University, Woolly Mammoth’s Theatre School, and College of Wooster, where he directed King Lear and was visiting assistant professor in 2006. As assistant director he has worked at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival. 301.924.3400
Education: BFA from North Carolina School of the Arts and MFA from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Clay is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
Cristina Todesco (Scenic Designer) is pleased to be back at Olney Theater Center where she designed The 39 Steps, Opus, Farragut North, Triumph of Love, A Passion for Justice: An Encounter with Clarence Darrow and the 2008 and 2009 National Players Tours. Recent designs include Red,The Divine Sister (Speakeasy Stage), Three Viewings (New Repertory Theater, dir: Jim Petosa), The Balcony (Boston Conservatory), Twelfth Night (Actor’s Shakespeare Project) all three Annie Baker plays in Boston’s Shirley Vermont Play Festival: Circle Mirror Transformation (Huntington Theater Company), Body Awareness (Speakeasy Stage), and The Aliens (Company One: Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design). Other credits include The Last Five Years (dir. Jim Petosa) and Afterlife: A Ghost Story (New Repertory Theater), 1001, the world premiere of Grimm (Company One); Love Song, Island of Slaves (The Orfeo Group: Elliot Norton Nomination for Outstanding Design). Cristina is also the 2008 Elliot Norton Award recipient for The Clean House at the New Repertory Theater. Education: She received her MFA in Scenic Design from Boston University’s School of Theater Arts where she currently teaches. Cristina is a member of United Scenic Artists. Nicole V. Moody (Costume Designer) Design Credits include: Trumpery (Olney Theatre Center), The Glass Menagerie (Olney Theatre Center). Off-Broadway: Love, Loss and What I Wore (Daryl Roth Productions), Therese Raquin (Potomac Theatre Project), The Red Headed Man (NYC Fringe Festival). Off-Off-Broadway: Housewives Cantata (York Theatre), Deepest Play Ever (Collaboration Town), Children at Play (Collaboration Town), The Realm (Down Payment Tour). Regional: Love Loss and What I WoreDaryl Roth Productions, Promise (WellFleet Harbor Actors Theatre), What is the Cause of Thunder (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Glass Menagerie (BCAP). Film: Hungry for Gold (IOC). Nicole has also designed at Boston Playwrights, BMO, Northshore Music Theatre, Boston University and several other theatres in the Boston area. Nicole is a member of USA 829. Daniel MacLean Wagner (Lighting Designer) is the Resident Lighting Designer at Olney Theatre Center, where he has designed more than 50 productions since 1986, including his most recent design for Opus. He has also designed lighting for more than 350 productions OLNEYTHEATRE.ORG
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at various theaters, including Arden Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Boston Lyric Opera, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Portland Stage, Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theatre of the First Amendment, Horizons Theatre, Potomac Theatre Project, Rep Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and the National Players. He is an eight-time recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design, for which he has been nominated twenty-eight times, most recently in 2010 for The Picture Of Dorian Gray at Round House Theatre. Dan was a 2003 Barrymore Award nominee for Pacific Overtures at Arden Theatre Company. Dan holds the positions of Resident Lighting Designer at Olney Theatre Center, and Artistic Associate at Signature Theatre, and is a member of The Artists’ Roundtable at Round House Theatre. He serves on the Boards of Directors for the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive and Olney Theatre Center. Dan is Professor and Director of The School Of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of Maryland. He is a member of United Scenic Artists.
Jeffrey Dorfman (Sound Designer) is a freelance Sound Designer based in Washington, D.C. With more than 10 years of experience in music performance, he has studied theatre at SUNY
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Josiane M. Lemieux (Production Stage Manager) Previous Olney Theatre Center credits include You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, The Sound of Music, Witness for the Prosecution, Opus and Dinner With Friends. She was the production stage manager for the national tour and Off-Broadway production of The Acting Company’s Jane Eyre, as well as stage manager for their Murder By Poe and Richard III. Regional: She has production stage managed for 10 years at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, most recently The Taming of the Shrew, The Grapes of Wrath, and Around the World in Eighty Days. Other credits include The Huntington Theatre Company: Circle Mirror Transformation and Stick Fly; Crossroads Theatre Company One Mo’ Time and Yo Soy Latina; In Actu Theatre: Murdering Marlowe; Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey: Whores; and Shakespeare Festival/LA: Twelfth Night. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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Olney Theatre Corporation Board of Directors President.............................................................. Jennifer L. Kneeland Vice President......................................................................Guy Tegler Treasurer.................................................................. Patricia Woodbury Secretary.....................................................................Anthony Morella Assistant Secretary.......................................................... Amy Marshall Chairman Emeritus............................................William H. Graham, Sr. President Emeritus.......................................................Gene Counihan
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Founded in 1949, National Players is America’s longest-running touring company. Founded on the principle of working with underserved communities, National Players travels across the country teaching theatre-related subjects and performing works of Shakespeare and other classics. Though they travel thousands of miles and serve tens of thousands each year, they always open and close their shows at their home base in Olney. Please come and join us for the opening of our 64th season!
Nancy Nelson Ortiz James Petosa Sandeep Saggar Nicole T. Totah Alan Wade Halo Wines Christopher Youstra
Fri & Sat, Aug 24-25 8:00 pm, Root Family Stage Free summer shakespeare under the stars! This rendering of star-crossed lovers is set to the pulsing rhythms of contemporary digital society, where everything is shared and nothing connects. Watch as National Players takes the play back to its source, while bringing it viciously into the here and now.
For more information, call the Box Office at 301.924.3400 or visit olneytheatre.org and click on Shows & Events: Special Events 301.924.3400
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STAFF
Artistic/Production Artistic Director
Jim Petosa
Associate Artistic Directors
John Going, Halo Wines, Clay Hopper
Resident Musical Director
Christopher Youstra
Resident Set Designer James Kronzer Resident Costume Designer
Howard Vincent Kurtz
Resident Lighting Designer
Daniel MacLean Wagner
Production Manager
Renee E. Yancey
Company Manager
Mackenzie Douglas
Technical
Technical Director
Eric Knauss
Administration Managing Director
Amy Marshall
Finance Director
Pauline Mendo
Finance Office
Chyeslan Buso Nene Keita
Facilities Manager
Mark Quackenbush
Assistant to Managing Director Maureen Estrin Business Assistant
Michael Silard
Business Manager
Kynda Reid
IT Manager
Dean Marshall
Communications
Sales Director
Weldon C. Brown
Marketing Manager
Heather Latiri
Public Relations
RMR & Associates, Inc. Laura Myers
Assistant Technical Director
Jameson Shroyer
Graphic Designer
Master Electrician
R. S. Buck
Scenic Charge
Betsy Muller
Social Media & Marketing Associate Sonie Mathew
Costume Shop Supervisor Assistant Costume Shop Supervisor Production Interns
Show Staff
Jeanne Bland Seth Gilbert Cara Barker Elizabeth Breen Nicholas Broten Christopher Mollen Michelle Muntifering Fred T. Paul Elisabeth A. Ribar Ben Walsh
Marketing Associate
Sam Rabinovitz
Patron Services Manager
Michael R. Burgtorf
Rentals Coordinator
Dan Van Why
Box Office Manager
Henriette Mendo
Assistant Box Office Manager
Marie Henry
Box Office Supervisor Stephanie Boyle House Managers Cindy Collier, Lina Al Dajani, Megan Eng, Seth Ghitelman, Brittany Graham, Joy Hugo, R. Wesley Meekins, Anna Perritt, Will Richardson, Khris-Ann Small
Assistant Director
Michael R. Burgtorf
Dramaturg
Michael R. Kelly
Assistant Stage Manager
Elisabeth A. Ribar
Light Board Operator
Nicholas Broten
Wardrobe
Cara Barker
Properties
Kristin Campbell Jeanne Bland
Development
Deck Crew
Ben Walsh
Development Assistant Maureen Estrin
Box Office Associates Adisa Aboagye-Marfo, Arash Bahari, Shanna Chuenyane, Dvora Gautieri, Ashley Grant, Rachel Spory Harper, Ilana Hirschhorn, Leah Keilsohn, Anna Perritt, Joshua Rose, Barbara Scanlan, Emily Townsend Director of Development David Frankenberger, Jr. Development Associate Catherine Ichniowski Development Administrator
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts is a professional theater employing members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association, founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.
Olney Theatre Center for the Arts is a member of Theatre Communications Group, the national service organization representing the not-for-profit American theater; the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington; the League of Washington Theatres; and the Baltimore Theatre Alliance.
National Players
Valerie Shipman
Director
Clay Hopper
General Manager
Kevin Hasser
Education Intern
Meghan Twible
With Love and Gratitude Olney Theatre Center bids
Jim Petosa
farewell & much success in all his future endeavors. For more that 20 years, Jim has been the driving force as Olney Theatre Center’s beloved Artistic Director. His vision and energy have made Olney Theatre Center the innovative and respected arts organization it is today. Jim, we will miss you dearly‌. Love ,
The Olney Theatre Center Family
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