Studio Theatre - Saint Joan

G EORGE BERNARD SHAW

M A R C H 2 8 T O A P R I L 6 | 7:30 PM Timms Centre for the Arts, University of Alberta Tickets $11 – $22 available at the Timms Centre Box Office and TIX on the Square www.studiotheatre.ca

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Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw Cast – (in alphabetical order) Joan Archbishop/Executioner Tremouille/Page/Assessor Bluebeard/d’Estivet Dunois/Courcelles Dauphin/Page/Assessor La Hire/Assessor Warwick Baudricourt/Ladvenu Polly/Cauchon Strogumber/Page Steward/Inquisitor Creative Team Director

Patricia Cerra Brett Dahl Daniel F. K. Fernandes Ben Gorodetsky Samantha Jeffery Marina Mair-Sanchez Lianna Makuch Angelique Panther Mat Simpson Edmund Stapleton Cayley Thomas Matthew Yipchuck Micheline Chevrier 2013 Mary Mooney Distinguished Visiting Artist

Assistant Directors

Michelle Rios Megan Watson

Set, Costume, Lighting and Projection Designer Assistant Set Designer Assistant Costume Designer Assistant Projection Designer

Nathan Brown Meghan Koshka Josee Chartrand Cheyenne Sykes

Movement Coach Vocal Coach

Lin Snelling David Ley

Stage Management Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager

Gil Miciak Jessica Parr JoAnna Black

There will be one 15 minute intermission Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York City

Contents

4 Director’s Notes • 5 Mary Mooney Distinguished Visiting Artist • 8 Production Team • 12 Top Tweets / Photo • 16 Conversation with Micheline Chevrier • 20 Staff / Front of House • 22 Donors

Director’s Notes I have always been fascinated by people who have the courage of their convictions, who, despite all odds, act on those beliefs, and who, in point of fact, dare to be who they were born to be.

Joan of Arc definitely falls into this category. She was an extraordinary human who have captured my imagination, and I’m not alone. In researching Joan, I was amazed to discover the number of recent publications about her, not to mention the great number of films and documentaries created just in the past 20 years.

Since her death, many scholars and artists have studied, romanticized and mythologized Joan, and this preoccupation shows no sign of slowing down.

Why are we so taken by her? Is it her youth, her gender, her accomplishments? Is it her lack of fear, her great faith, or her clarity of purpose? Or is it our great desire and need for people like her?

Across the globe, in conversation or in the news, we are reminded of Joan’s existence in others. Last year, Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old Pakistani girl, was shot for defending young women’s right to be educated. Alongside her are activists from countries such as Egypt, Palestine and Afghanistan who face violence and death every time they speak out. Many others have come before her, such as Aung San Suu Kyi, Rosa Parks, and Corazon Aquino. Gay rights activists like Harvey Milk and David Kato have died for living an open life. There are countless others we never hear about who fight daily for what they believe.

Joan is not only still in our imaginations: she lives among us. As Shaw himself states in the play’s epilogue, “We could not kill the Maid. She is up and alive everywhere.”

-Micheline Chevrier

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Mary Mooney Distinguished Visiting Artist Micheline Chevrier is our 2013 Mary Mooney Distinguished Visiting Artist.

The Shaw Cable Distinguished Visiting Artists’ Endowment Fund annually supports one or more Mary Mooney Distinguished Artists within the University of Alberta Department of Drama, recognizing the late Dr. Mary Mooney, who played an integral role in promoting theatre in Edmonton.

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Production Team Production Manager: Technical Director: Assistant Production Manager Production Administrative Assistant: Wardrobe Manager: Cutter: Wardrobe Assistant: Stitchers:

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Victoria Krawchuk Jonah O’Brien Darrell Cooksey Kim Creller Ivan Siemens Jane Kline Devin Lavigne Laura Campbell Mel Geary Jonathan Reid Joel Adria Laura Campbell Devin Lavigne Finn McConnell Audra Stevenson Matthew Skopyk Finn McConnell

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Jonathan Reid Kim Creller

Advisors:

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Design Advisor Stage Management Advisor

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@andrealauder: “Amazing. What a moving performance - a must see for sure.” @Monica_Gault: “Powerful and graphic. Amazing to watch the cast move fluidly through a minimal set from scene to scene.”

Patricia Cerra, Daniel F.K. Fernandes and Cayley Thomas.

Photo by Ed Ellis

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2 0 % s av i n g s o f f A Conversation withwww.studiotheatre.ca Greg MacArthur, regular ticket price Lee Playwright in Residence at the Timms Centre for the Arts

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A Conversation with Director Micheline Chevrier

By Lucy Collingwood Micheline Chevrier, director, dramaturg, and artistic director, has worked across Canada for thirty-odd years. Here for her second time as a director at the Timms Centre, Chevrier describes her relationship with the actors as reciprocal and open.

“I know some directors feel that they’re always teaching when they’re directing. I guess they are, but I think the actors are always teaching me, so I feel like I’m always learning.”

The award-winning director arrived at the University of Alberta earlier this semester to direct George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, a play that has held her interest for a number of years. The play is the final production for the 2013 graduating class of Bachelor of Fine Arts actors.

Like many of the characters that attract her, Saint Joan is a strong woman, an “oddball” in a man’s world.

“This [play] in particular touched my heart. I liked the fact that it was about somebody who dared to change the way that people thought without any fear of consequence.”

Chevrier says she is drawn to issue-based plays with modern relevance, stories about and by women that have a rich use of language and stylistic potential.

“I love plays that also afford me a great amount of playfulness with style. I love beautiful language, I love intelligent language. By intelligent language I mean essential language, language that is very much directed at the theatre for the stage, so that doesn’t necessarily mean Shakespeare. You can be looking at Caryl Churchill, for example, you can be looking at Shaw, even at David Mamet...these people write very theatrical, heightened, smart, rhythmic, imagistic language, and so that affords a very rich process in the rehearsal hall for the actors and for me.

It also inspires me to create images for the stage and to create a physical world around that for the actors to play in and for the audience to visually respond to. So those are the elements of style and content that I would say attract me.”

In the rehearsal hall, Chevrier’s practice relies on collaboration and openness between the people in performance and production. She sees the director as an important figure in the process, but not as the most important, in a hierarchical sense.

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“I think of myself as a collaborator. I believe that directing is leading, I think the title implies it, and people are looking to you to give guidelines to the overall production so that everybody is in the same production, so that the ship has a direction. At the same time, I’m just fulfilling one of the jobs in order for the production to occur, so I think of myself far more as a collaborator.”

Chevrier is based out of Montreal, but directing has taken her to many different cities across the country, allowing her to experience and work in the many regions and cultures within Canada. For example, she has worked at the Shaw Festival, the National Arts Centre, the Great Canadian Theatre Company (where she served as Artistic Director for five years), the Centaur Theatre and the Citadel Theatre. Though she agrees that her Canadian identity impacts her point of view, she doesn’t consciously try to display Canadian identity in her productions.

“There was a real push for a while about putting our stories on the stage, and I think that was often misinterpreted as putting history on the stage…I think that was necessary for a while to understand our background, our past more than our present, to contextualize where we are instead of bringing plays from America or from the UK or wherever else and try to understand the human complexity through that. I think we’ve moved away from that and I think that now we speak of our Canadian realities and experience without necessarily having to situate it here.”

After her time at the University of Alberta comes to a close, Chevrier plans to return to Montreal to work on an English-language production of Carole Frechette’s Thinking of Yu. It’s a story about a Canadian woman who becomes fascinated with the actions of a Chinese dissident arrested during the Tiananmen Square riots. The play has been performed in French in Canada, France and Belgium, and this will be its second English-language production.

As for Saint Joan, Chevrier is excited to delve into the text with the fourthyear BFA actors.

“It is fabulous writing, so you get into rehearsal and you think, wow, how beautifully constructed, the thoughts are clear and complex. It’s the play that keeps on giving.”

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Gerry van Hezewyk: Production Manager / Administrative Professional Officer Larry Clark: Technical Director, Timms Centre for the Arts Darrell Cooksey: Head Carpenter Jonathan Durynek: Production Administrative Assistant Mel Geary: Lighting Supervisor Joanna Johnston: Costume Manager Jane Kline: Property Master Don MacKenzie: Technical Director, Fine Arts Building Ann Salmonson: Cutter Matthew Skopyk: Second Playing Space Technician / Sound Supervisor Karen Swiderski: Costumer, Fine Arts Building

Front of House

Staff: Bonita Akai, Danielle Dugan, Al Gadowsky, Becky Gormley, Caitlin Gormley, Tasreen Hudson, Marie-AndrĂŠe Lachapelle, Laura Norton, Emily Paulsen, Andrew Shum, Faye Stollery, Jane Toogood, Cheryl Vandergraaf, Catherine Vielguth Volunteers: Cristian Badiu, Debbie Beaver, Susan Box, Franco Correa, Alana De Melo, Jonathan Durynek, Mary and Gene Ewanyshyn, Terri Gingras, Ron Gleason, Darcy Hoover-Correa, Marie-AndrĂŠe Lachapelle, Don Lavigne, Sareeta Lopez, Tom and Gillian McGovern, Marlene Marlj, Conner Meeker, Jennifer Morely, Alice Petruk, David Prestley, Catherine Vielguth, Jane Voloboeva, Diane Wright, Anisa Youssefi, Danoush Youssefi

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