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Marshall Shoctor, Q.C. Chair Arliss Miller Past Chair J. G. Greenough, F.C.A. Treasurer Solomon Rolingher, Q.C. Secretary David D. Bentley, F.C.A. Frederick K. Campbell Jacqueline Charlesworth Marc de La Bruyère Anne Foote (Honourary) Ada Hole C. Ralph Loder Ralph B. MacMillan Sandy Mactaggart (Honourary) Jack McBain Barbara Poole Tom Redl Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Ralph Young Ex Officio Dr. Robert Westbury

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PENNY PLAIN

Created and performed by Ronnie Burkett September 17 - October 9/11

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

By Arthur Miller September 24 - October 16/11

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW

Book, music and lyrics by Richard O’Brien October 29 - November 20/11

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Created by Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks Written and performed by Daniel MacIvor November 12 - December 4/11

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens December 2 - 23/11

SEUSSICAL

Music by Stephen Flaherty Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty January 14 - 29/12

BLIND DATE

Created and performed by Rebecca Northan January 28 - February 19/12

RED

By John Logan February 11 - March 4/12

GOD OF CARNAGE

A new play by Yasmina Reza Translated by Christopher Hampton March 10 - April 1/12

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

By William Shakespeare April 7 - 29/12

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Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse April 21 - May 20/12

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Dr. Joseph H. Shoctor, 1922 – 2001

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Joe’s vision brought professional theatre to Edmonton Joe’s dream built The Citadel Theatre Joe’s spirit continues to inspire the theatre we create today Joe’s legacy lives on through a generous gift to The Citadel from his estate

HENRY HOLE, 1884 - 1954 On the Citadel’s 30th Anniversary, a gift was made by the Company of Harry Hole, James F. Hole, Ralph K. Hole and Robert W. Hole on behalf of the Hole family — in honour of their late father, Henry Hole.

The Citadel Theatre is proud to honour Henry Hole’s integrity, compassion and leadership in the dedication of this complex to his memory.

To learn more about our Supporter Program and levels of support and benefits, please visit www.citadeltheatre.com or call Sydney Stuart at (780) 428-2142.

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MacLean Colin MacLean is the dean of Edmonton theatre reviewers.

In 2007, Colin was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre in Edmonton at the Sterling Awards.

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean Except Mimi. Shed a tear for poor Mimi. Here she is in a bistro staring sadly at her lonely glass of wine. She’s on a blind date but has been stood up. Mimi is a clown with red nose, lips and matching red dress. And with the guilelessness and innocence that only a clown can muster, she looks hopefully around for a companion for the evening.

Mimi’s search for love has been turned into Blind Date, a showbusiness phenomenon for the multi-talented Calgarian, Rebecca Northan. Back in 2007, Rebecca was approached to write and perform a piece for a show sponsored by Toronto’s Harbourfront Theatre.

The performance was to be housed in a spiegeltent – spiegeltent being a circus-style entertainment for adults and performed, well, in a tent.

On the phone from Denver where she is performing her creation, Northan chuckles, “They didn’t have any clowns and I thought, ‘You can’t have a circus without clowns.’ I had never done a clown show before but the idea just popped into my mind.” So, she and husband, Bruce Horak, created Mimi. (It’s not the first show the two had created – they are probably best known out here for the huge Fringe hit This is Cancer that played to full audiences for the last two years.)

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Mimi was an immediate success. The two decided they were on to something and took it to that long-time advocate of improv theatre, Calgary’s Loose Moose company, to develop a full-length version of the original. It was where, at a very young age, Rebecca had begun her career.

And what a career it’s been. “I’m an A.D.D. Performer,” she laughs. Over the years, she has been nominated

“They stand behind the curtain and listen to what’s going on on stage – and then they

improvise accordingly. ...” for a Gemini Award for Best Ensemble Comedy, appeared in Montreal’s “Just for Laughs” Comedy Festival, performed in several feature films (including one with Dustin Hoffman) and innumerable television series. “My resume makes me look like a schizophrenic person. It’s, like, there are four careers here. I’m directing. I’m writing. I’m doing Shakespeare and Ibsen. I’ve even been to Bosnia to entertain the troops.”

In Blind Date, Mimi ventures into the audience and selects the lucky man who is to be her companion for the evening. (Or perhaps for the rest of her life – who knows?) “In the 10 minute piece, I did all the talking but I thought, ‘I wonder what would happen if I let the guy talk? If we took the time to get to know him?’ I quickly realized that wearing the clown nose gave me permission to be playful and push the envelope. And it gives the date permission to be playful and kind of lets both of us off the hook. There is always the element that we are just playing up there so that anything that happens is just for fun.”

How’s that for high wire improv? But Northan seems to have developed a bullet-proof format.

First, she and her crew circulate. “From the moment the audience arrives, we try to create a French cafe cocktail hour. The backstage guys flirt with the ladies and we encourage everyone to let down their hair. We get a real sense of who is in the audience.”

Later, when the show begins, Northan chooses a fellow they have picked out. She maintains that, so far, she’s never had a dud. “It’s like an oddly paced interview show. I bring the guy on stage, sit him down, and like any blind date, you say, ‘Well, tell me about yourself. I really

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean want to get to know you.’ If the guy is willing to show himself and his personality, I have the privilege (along with 200 or so people in the audience) of falling in love with him.”

Blind Date is essentially a one-woman show but she travels with a couple of, what she calls, “sceneographers,” as well as a truckload of generic furniture and a sound man who is able to create musical and sound effect cues instantly. “They stand behind the curtain and listen to what’s going on on stage – and then they improvise accordingly. That may include becoming characters on stage or providing instant sets. So Mimi and friend can visit a cabaret, go to her apartment, sit in a park or, she remembers, “One night, my date said, ‘I bought two tickets to Maui as a surprise for Mimi.’ The rol t n o c o n crew was tearing around backstage trying e v a eh to find something that could create Maui on n e n happ stage. Somehow they came up with a beach over what ca blanket, a couple of trees and a picnic basket.” d that’s the

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One of her favourites was when things were spiralling out of control and she suggested a time out. “Like in soccer when they take a break and go to the of it. ...” bench and get some coaching?” asked her date. “Yes,” said Mimi, not sure of just what the soccer protocol was. “Will there be orange slices?” he asked. “Apparently in soccer games,” observes Northan, “players get orange slices for rehydration when they go to the bench.” While Mimi talked to her companion on stage, one of her sceneographers grabbed his wallet, ran down the street in New York to the local grocery store, bought a bag of oranges, ran back, cut them up and appeared on stage with a tray full of orange slices before the scene was over. “We have no control over what can happen and that’s the delight of it. Sometimes, something magical happens. I get goose bumps.” In fact, sometimes the crew reacts so quickly,

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“The thing that is weird about the clown nose, it brings all the best of me to the surface too. ...” that some audience members get the feeling the guy is a plant. “Not so,” protests Northan. “We just go by the primary improv directive, ‘No matter who you are standing with on stage, it is your job to make them look good.’ And so you get to see this nervous guy who is plucked out of the audience transition into a romantic hero. Because Blind Date comes from the audience the level of empathy and direct connection to the audience is visceral. People squirm in their seats and they clap – they cheer him on. They really care about him. I thought, ‘Oh my gawd, if I could only get the audience to care that much about Hamlet, I’d be hailed as the greatest director in the world.’’’

She also finds Mimi, the clown, something of a revelation for her personally. “The thing that is weird about the clown nose, it brings all the best of me to the surface too. In a way, I’m better as Mimi than I am as Rebecca. More generous. More open.”

So Northan had this hit on her hands but had no idea what clowns were and how they worked.

Her only experience was seeing horror clowns Mump & Smoot on stage in Calgary. “I was so

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean happy I had discovered the naked humanity of a clown but I had no idea of where it came from. So I went looking for a clown class.” She found the best. She took classes with Karen Hines (the apocalyptic clown, Pochsy/director: Mump and Smoot), Mike Kennard (Mump) and John Turner (Smoot).

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Blind Date was a big hit with Toronto audiences.

The success (and a couple of phone calls) attracted a New York producer. “It is so surreal the way this business works,” she told a Toronto interviewer. “I selfproduced this little show for $2000 two years ago and now it’s opening Off-Broadway.” “This is a “Blind Date” you’ll actually enjoy,” burbled New York Magazine. AM New York raved, “a terrifically funny evening.” The New York Post hailed Northan as “bright and attractive.” And how are the notoriously unimpressed Big Apple audiences reacting? “I feel that Canadians are quicker to make fun and laugh at themselves. It takes me about five minutes longer in New York.”

Mimi, the Parisienne lost soul, is prepared to take over the world. There will be a number of companies (and individuals) presenting the show on the road.

There’ll be no more lonely nights for Mimi.

Blind Date opens in the Rice Theatre of the Citadel on January 28th.

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Bios This is What Happens Next DANIEL MacIVOR

Writer & Performer

Daniel is originally from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and currently divides his time between Toronto and Avondale, Nova Scotia.

From 1987 to 2007 with Sherrie Johnson he ran da da kamera, a respected international touring company that brought his work to Australia, Israel, Europe, the UK, and extensively throughout Canada and the United States. Daniel has written and directed numerous award-winning theatre productions including See Bob Run; Wild Abandon; You Are Here; Marion Bridge; A Beautiful View and Communion. His work has been translated into French, Portuguese, Spanish, Czech, German and Japanese. With Daniel Brooks he created the solo shows House; Here Lies Henry; Monster and Cul-de-sac. Daniel received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2006 for his collection of plays I Still Love You and in 2008 he was awarded the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre.

He is also the recipient of an Obie Award and a GLAAD Award for his play In On It. Currently he is a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, where he will be directing his play Was Spring later this season.

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Bios This is What Happens Next DANIEL BROOKS

Director

Daniel has been the artistic director of Necessary Angel since 2003 and has directed Half Life; Bigger Than Jesus; Insomnia; The Eco Show; HardSell; This Is What Happens Next and Divisadero: a performance.

He has worked as a director, writer, actor, producer, and teacher.

Some of his creations include Red Tape and 86: An Autopsy (with Don McKellar and Tracy Wright); The Lorca Play; House; Here Lies Henry; Monster; Cul-de-sac; and most recently, This Is What Happens Next (all with Daniel MacIvor); The Noam Chomsky Lectures and Insomnia (with Guillermo Verdecchia); Bigger Than Jesus and HardSell (with Rick Miller); The Good Life and The Eco Show. His work as a director includes John Mighton’s Possible Worlds and Half Life; Goethe’s Faust; Beckett’s Endgame and The Drowsy Chaperone. He was the first recipient of the prestigious Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre for directing. His work has traveled across Canada and around the world. He is also an Associate Artist with Soulpepper Theatre Company.

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Bios This is What Happens Next KIMBERLY PURTELL

Lighting Design

Kimberly is a Toronto-based lighting designer for theatre, opera and dance. Kimberly’s designs have been critically acclaimed both on the national and international stage having been seen across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Prague, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia and Mongolia. She has received 12 Dora Award nominations winning twice and is a recipient of the Pauline McGibbon Award. Most recent design credits include The Normal Heart and Our Class for Studio 180; The Maids and Blasted for Buddies in Bad Times; His Greatness for ART; The Little Years for Stratford Festival; Forests for Tarragon Theatre; The Drowsy Chaperone for MTC & Theatre Calgary; 20/20 Vision for Kaeja d’Dance; The Middle Place for Canadian Stage/Project Humanity/Theatre Passe Muraille and The List for Nightwood Theatre. Upcoming designs include The Children’s Republic for Tarragon Theatre; The Penelopiad for Nightwood Theatre and Seussical for YPT & The Citadel.

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Bios This is What Happens Next RICHARD FEREN

Sound and Music Designer

Richard has been creating soundscores and music for Canadian theatre, dance and film since 1992. Companies include Buddies In Bad Times (Blasted; Silicone Diaries; Steel Kiss/Gulag; Live With It; Bathory); Canadian Stage (Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet; The Soldier Dreams); Crow’s Theatre (Eternal Hydra; Dali); da da kamera (This Is What Happens Next; Cul-de-Sac; In On It; You Are Here; Monster; Here Lies Henry); Dancemakers (The Satie Project); Necessary Angel (Half-Life; Insomnia; The Eco Show); Soulpepper (A Month in the Country; Antigone; Loot; A Raisin in the Sun; The Chairs; King Lear; Betrayal; Uncle Vanya; Endgame); Tarragon Theatre (Russell Hill; The Good Life; Faust); Theatrefront (The Mill); Theatre Passe Muraille (Possible Worlds; This Hotel); 2B Theatre (Revisited); and VideoCabaret. Richard has won seven Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award.

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Bios This is What Happens Next MARCIE JANUSKA

Stage Manager

Marcie is a Calgary-based Stage Manager who is delighted to be working with Necessary Angel and The Citadel Theatre for the first time. Selected credits include The Last Dog of War, Communion, East of Berlin, Rabbit Hole and Peter Pan for Alberta Theatre Projects; The Romeo Initiative, Heartbreaker, Abraham Lincoln Goes to the Theatre, The Clockmaker, The Gift of the Coat, Hippies and Bolsheviks and Picking Up Chekhov at the annual Enbridge playRites Festival at ATP; Blood Relations, Wait Until Dark and Black Coffee for Vertigo Theatre; The Country for Crow’s Theatre and shows at many other companies in Calgary, including Lunchbox Theatre and Theatre Calgary. Most recently Marcie stage managed a workshop of Loulou, a new musical, at The Banff Centre. She has also worked as the company manager for the Opera as Theatre program at The Banff Centre over the past four years. Marcie is a graduate of the Technical Production programs at both Red Deer College and the National Theatre School of Canada. Next up for Marcie are Ash Rizin’ at Alberta Theatre Projects and Rope at Vertigo Theatre.

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ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES

Jennifer Spencer Eileen Sproule James MacDonald Director, Citadel/Banff Centre FTS Teaching Assistants Professional Theatre Program Rebecca Bissonnette Brian Dooley Nicola Elbro Director, Play Development Sophie Gareau-Brennan Geoffrey Brumlik Cynthia Hicks Director, Artistic & Paula Humby Educational Outreach Spenser Payne Doug Mertz Director, FTS & Young Companies Megz Prus Michelle Tymchuk Don Horsburgh Jo Wetmore Resident Music Director Wayne Paquette ADMINISTRATION Academy Associate Marianne Bouthillier Hannah Whittaker Associate Executive Director Academy Coordinator Peni Christopher Diana Stevenson Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Manager, Foote Theatre School

CITA D E L V O L U NTEERS

Young Company Instructors Shannon Boyle Stephen Delano Don Horsburgh Heather Inglis Jackie Pooke Linda Rubin Kate Ryan Dawn Sadoway FTS Instructors Christine Bandelow April Banigan Shannon Boyle Ashley Butler Melissa Cabral Jessica Carmichael Ellen Chorley Julie Golosky Crystal Hanson Brad Heintzman Binaifer Kapadia Meghan Koshman Amy Kucharuk Annette Loiselle Barbara Mah Daniela Masellis Josh Mellott Doug Mertz Anna Paquin Roman Pfob Kate Ryan Matt Schuurman Liana Shannon Amy Shostak Linette Smith

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Accounts Payable/Receivable

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GUEST SERVICES

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Jason Magee

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Guest Services Supervisors Michelle Bonot Crystal Casanova Kayla Fuller Amanda Gregoire Caitlin Jackson Tara-Lee LaRose Jennifer Liu Alyssa McGowan Terry Schmolcke Mark Stubbings Derek Warwick Guest Services Representatives Mike Anhorn Carol Dreger Jessica Glover Marg Gronnestad Christina Harbak Mark Harding Theresa Hovdestad Jacob Liska Abbie Murison Carly Neis Jane Nychiro Natasha Prasad Joyanne Rudiak Valerie Smart Debbie Theuss Al Webb

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PRODUCTION

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Bill Heron

Technical Director

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Resident Stage Manager

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Assistant Technical Director

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Assistant Technical Director

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Administrative Assistant

Owen Hutchinson Head of Audio

Alison Hardy

Assistant Head of Audio

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Head of Scenic Carpentry

Chris Hayes

Assistant Head of Carpentry

Sheila Cleasby

Head of Electrics

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MARKETING & DEVELOPMENT

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Head of Props Assistant Head of Props

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Assistant Head Stage Carpenter Head of Wardrobe

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Neil Le Grandeur

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