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BOARD OF GOVERNORS 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 Anne Foote (Honourary) Ada Hole C. Ralph Loder Ralph B. MacMillan Dr. Sandy Mactaggart Jack McBain Barbara Poole Tom Redl Chris Sheard Kayla Shoctor Ralph Young Ex Officio Dr. Robert Westbury

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Ralph Young President Chris Sheard Past President Aroon Sequeira Treasurer Christine Bishop Guy Bridgeman Allison Edwards James Gillespie Ted Hole Al Maurer Lisa Miller Catrin Owen Tom Redl Rob Reynolds Gaurav Singhmar Larry Staples

HONORARY DIRECTORS Jack N. Agrios, Jan Bentley, Joanne Berger, Dan Block, Frank Calder, Gary G. Campbell, Betty Carlson, Donald A. Carlson, Marilyn Cohen, Reg Copithorne, Marc de La Bruyère, Len Dolgoy, Dennis Erker, Grant Fairley, John C. Forster, Frank Gibson, Jean Hamilton, Brian Hetherington, Gary Killips, Beverlee Loat, Maureen McCaw, Eva McGregor, Susan Minsos, Terry Nistor, Bob Normand, Ray B. Phipps, Barbara Poole, Ted Power, Jerry Preston, Henry (Hank) Reid, Charlotte Robb, Barbara Shumsky, Esther Starkman, Marianne Takach, Merle Taylor, Mr. Justice Dennis R. Thomas, Brian Tod, John Tweddle, Brian Vaasjo, Chief Justice A.H. Wachowich, Bob Walker, Bill Weir, Dr. Marvin Weisler, Bart West, Eve Willox, David Wilson, Doris Wilson, John Yerxa

BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR Written and composed by John Gray in Collaboration with Eric Peterson September 18 - October 10/10

INTIMATE APPAREL

By Lynn Nottage October 2 - 24/10

STUDIES IN MOTION

By Kevin Kerr October 30 - November 14/10

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Adapted by Tom Wood Based on the story by Charles Dickens November 27 - December 23/10

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY

By Tracy Letts January 29 - February 20/11

ANOTHER HOME INVASION

By Joan MacLeod February 12 - March 6/11

HUNCHBACK

Conceived by Jonathan Christenson & Bretta Gerecke Adapted from Victor Hugo’s Novel March 5 - 27/11

RICK: THE RICK HANSEN STORY

By Dennis Foon April 2 - 17/11

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

A new adaptation by Tom Wood Based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas April 2 - 24/11

TRUE LOVE LIES

By Brad Fraser April 23 - May 15/11

LITTLE WOMEN, THE MUSICAL Book by Allan Knee Lyrics by Mindi Dickstein Music by Jason Howland April 30 - May 22/11

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ELECTRONIC DEVICES No doubt we have all been distracted by a cell phone, pager or watch alarm ringing or lighting up when attending the theatre.

For every performance which is unmarred by one of these distractions, we will donate $5 to the Actors’ Fund of Canada.

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Eric Peterson Featuring RYAN SIGURDSON

Directed by............................................................. JAMES MacDONALD Set & Lighting Design by.................................... DAVID FRASER Costume Design by.............................................. MARISSA KOCHANSKI Sound Design by. ................................................... OWEN HUTCHINSON Assistant to the Set & Lighting Designer........ CORY SINCENNES Stage Manager...................................................... MICHELLE CHAN Apprentice Stage Manager................................. SANG SANG LEE The play is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes including one intermission.

Billy Bishop Goes to War was commissioned and premiered by the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

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Another exciting season is upon us and we are pleased to welcome back over 1000 Students Club Members!

Maclab Enterprises Students Club is a Citadel Theatre/Robbins Academy program that offers a unique glimpse into the world of professional theatre to junior and senior high school students from Edmonton and surrounding areas.

On the first three Tuesdays and Wednesdays during the run of the Landmark Classic Homes Mainstage productions, Students Club members gather prior to the performance to enjoy refreshments and a presentation by professional artists from the Edmonton theatre community. Following the performance, students are invited to stay for a discussion with members of the company, cast and crew.

Students can look forward to a number of engaging and informative talks in the coming months. Prior to performances of Billy Bishop Goes to War, members will be treated to a special presentation by Sound Designer and Composer Michael Becker (A Christmas Carol) in the Rice Theatre, demonstrating the sound design and composition process as well as methods for finding or creating sound effects and music for theatre.

Also, in a new initiative, Students Club Members were each offered the chance to help sponsor the World Premiere of Hunchback, this coming March. These young supporters will be given special behind the scenes access to workshops of the new Catalyst Theatre production, commissioned by Citadel Theatre, either September 30th, October 2nd or October 3rd.

If you would like to participate in this unique opportunity, or for more information, please contact sstuart@citadeltheatre.com.

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about the AUTHORS JOHN GRAY John Gray was born on September 26, 1946, in Ottawa; he grew up in Truro, Nova Scotia and moved to Vancouver in 1968. A graduate of UBC, he was a founder of Tamahnous Theatre.

His first major musical, the very successful 18 Wheels, was written in 1976.

Other plays by John Gray include Don Messer’s Jubilee (1984), Health, the Musical (1989), Better Watch Out, Better Not Die, Amelia! and Rock and Roll. The Vancouver International Children’s Festival commissioned him to write Bongo From The Congo and Balthazaar and the Mojo Star in 1982. The show you are about to see tonight is his tour de force and truly a Canadian treasure.

Billy Bishop Goes to War was written in 1978 by John Gray in collaboration with Eric Peterson.

The two performed the piece with Eric playing the role of Billy Bishop, accompanied by John Gray on piano. It premiered November 11, 1978 at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. They toured the show through 1980-1982 across Canada, as well as Washington, DC; Broadway and off-Broadway in New York; and London’s West End delighting audiences wherever they went. Billy Bishop Goes to War won the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award in 1981, the Chalmers Canadian Play Award in 1982 and the Governor General’s Award for Drama in 1983. John Gray was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2000. The two collaborated again in 1998, writing a version seen through the eyes of Billy looking back on his life and adding one song; they resumed their roles and toured with the show once again. For years, under the name John MacLachlan Gray, he wrote newspaper opinion pieces for the Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail. But in the last years he has been writing literary thrillers for an international audience. His novels include “A Gift for the Little Master” set in Vancouver, “The Fiend in Human” set in 1852 London, “White Stone Day” a sequel and “Not Quite Dead.” For his accomplishments, he was among the first to be inducted into the B.C. Hall of Fame. He has honorary doctorates from Mount Allison University and Dalhousie University. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.

ERIC PETERSON Eric Peterson, who collaborated with John Gray to write Billy Bishop Goes to War, is a veteran stage and screen actor. For his role as Billy Bishop in 1980, Peterson won the Clarence Derwent Award for most promising performer and was also nominated for Best Actor at the Edinburgh Festival Mainstage. He has appeared on most major stages across Canada, as well as Broadway, London’s West End, the Edinburgh Festival and the Melbourne Theatre Festival. Eric last appeared at the Citadel Theatre in Half Life. His film and television credits include Leon Rabinovitch in Street Legal, Judge Malone in This is Wonderland and Oscar Leroy on Corner Gas. Peterson has won numerous awards over his career, including 4 Geminis, Dora Awards, as well as ACTRA Awards. In 2009 he was honoured with the Earle Grey Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Gemini Awards which is presented annually to an actor or actress in recognition of their body of work in television.

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about the PLAY Billy Bishop Goes to War premiered in Vancouver in November, 1978, in a production which featured Peterson as Bishop (and 19 others), and Gray as the Narrator/Piano Player. Gray said the play was a product of the “three B’s of Canadian theatre: Broke (the lot of the Canadian theatre professional), Bored (of the stale fare which seemed to be commonplace in Canadian regional theatre in the 1970s), and Branded (as Canadian Nationalists, which prevented their employment at Canadian regional theatres).”

The original production toured across Canada and the United States, eventually transferring to Broadway’s Morosco Theatre in May, 1980. The production had limited success on the massive Broadway stage, eventually finding its niche off-Broadway, where it ran for three months. Peterson and Gray continued to tour the play internationally to great acclaim. In 2009, Peterson and Gray reprised their roles in a new production at Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre, 31 years after their first production.

The play is largely based on two biographies: Bishop’s autobiography Winged Warfare, written at the height of his success in World War 1, and Courage of the Early Morning, written by his son William Arthur Bishop, published in 1965.

It has become one of the best-loved, and most-produced plays in Canadian theatre history. In the past two years, several new productions of the play have premiered across the country, spurred by a renewed interest in Canada’s military history. It is a stirring, entertaining, moving depiction of a Canadian hero, and his role in the emergence of Canada as a proud, independent nation during the First World War.

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Tonight you’ll be seeing one of the most successful theatrical works ever penned in Canada. Billy Bishop Goes to War was written in 1978 by Vancouver actor Eric Peterson (Corner Gas) and pianist John Gray (Rock and Roll). The show has played Broadway, the West End in London and is constantly in production somewhere in the world.

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean The first time I met Peterson, it was 1980 and he was a bright young actor with an already developing national reputation. He was featured in a Citadel production of Billy Bishop. Spiffy in his bright blue Canadian airman’s uniform, we talked for the television cameras in Edmonton’s Aviation Hall of Fame. “We had no concept of taking the show to Broadway. We weren’t even in commercial theatre,” he told me later. “We just wanted to make a little money. Maybe buy a car.”

The Broadway production came about when a producer saw the show in Vancouver and decided it had potential for the big time. “We got great reviews and we lasted a week,” laughs Peterson today. The show opened during newspaper and postal strikes – so they couldn’t get the news out.

It turned out that, without the reviews, “Americans weren’t overly keen about going to an unknown Canadian show about an unknown Canadian pilot in a war they didn’t win.”

As you will see in this performance, Bishop was a ne’er-do-well and chronic loser who found the one thing he could do better than most everyone else in the world – fly a plane and shoot the enemy out of the air. He became Canada’s greatest flying ace with 72 victories to his credit.

That in a time when the average life expectancy of a new pilot was 11 days.

Peterson believes that his show, which he (and Gray) keep re-writing, is far more relevant today than it has been in the past. “The audience will be watching the play while we’re losing our young soldiers in Afghanistan. That gives audiences a different point of view from when we first presented it.”

BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR SEPT 18 – OCT 10/10

This production stars the Citadel’s go-to-guy for just about anything theatrical, John Ullyatt (Cabaret/West Side Story/Beauty and the Beast).

“John is just perfect for the role,” says Citadel artistic director Bob Baker.

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Mainstage Series “He’s just the right age, he has the storytelling ability and he can sing.”

So, while we are about to enjoy this James MacDonald production of a Canadian classic, let’s take a moment to check out the rest of the season.

In 1905, New York was a bubbling cauldron of recent immigrants and old money. Ragtime was everywhere. Knock-about vaudeville ran side by side with grand opera. Playwright Lynn Nottage has written an “achingly touching” play about those swirling times – a tale of a black 35 year old seamstress and the two men who come into her life – a shy Jewish taylor and a robust chain gang prisoner. Nottage’s play not only proved to be an audience pleaser on Broadway but collected an armload of awards. It was the most popular play produced last year in regional theatre. The Citadel is pleased to present the Toronto company Obsidian Theatre’s production of Intimate Apparel. Opening October 2nd, we get a chance to see what all the fuss was about.

Tracy Letts’ August: Osage County is another play that attracted a lot of hardware – winning most of the top critical kudos two years ago on Broadway – including the Pulitzer Prize. It’s a superbly well-written work about the reunion of a spectacularly dysfunctional family in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The usually staid New York Times practically went into critical meltdown when it reviewed the play in December of 2007, “August is flat-out the best new American play Broadway has seen in years. Fiercely funny and bitingly sad, this turbo-charged comedy doesn’t just start the season – it throws it into high gear.” Bob Baker will

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foreshadowing with Colin MacLean “...Fiercely “...Fiercely funny funny and and bitingly bitingly sad. sad. ...” ...” direct, commenting,” I haven’t wanted to get my hands on a piece of material like this so badly since Angels In America.”

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HUNCHBACK MAR 5 - 27/11

March 5 will see a fortuitous union of two of Edmonton’s powerhouse theatres – The Citadel and Catalyst. Careening off the giddy success of Frankenstein and Nevermore, Catalyst, who seems intent on exhuming the entire Gothic cannon, is presenting their production of Victor Hugo’s, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The show, called Hunchback, was commissioned by the Citadel when it was little more than an idea in the brain of Catalyst’s artistic director Jonathan Christenson and designer extraordinaire, Bretta Gerecke and much time has already been spent harnessing the creativity of Christenson and Gerecke to the proven play development system of the Citadel.

The Citadel’s unique Professional Program puts young, working actors together in Banff for a few weeks of intensive training in acting, singing, voice movement, dance, stage combat and test drills. The company then returns to the Citadel to present a production. The Citadel initiative has given us such beguiling evenings as Pride and Prejudice and As You Like It. This season the company will be featured in two plays, in repertoire – which means much the same personnel will be featured in both plays.

The first play presented will be the world premier of playwright Tom

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2010-2011 Wood’s spirited take on Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Yes, D’Artagnan and his three buddies, Athos, Porthos and Aramis once again defend the muddle-headed Louis XII against the treachery of Cardinal Richelieu. Says Bob Baker, “The exuberant participants in The Citadel/ Banff Professional Theatre Program will bring the necessary vitality to the swashbuckling production.” The Three Musketeers opens on April 2nd.

The company then switches gears, moves the action forward from 17th century France to America in the 1860’s with the beloved Little Women. Louisa May Alcott’s book was a great success when it was published in 1868 and the musical – a reverent and highly tuneful production which opened on Broadway in 2005 – carried on that tradition. Look for Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy on April 30th.

Baker will be directing both productions with a co-director and a Citadel team.

To start off the Rice Season, the ambitious Studies in Motion proved to be too big for the intimate confines of the Rice Theatre and so opens on October 30 on the Shoctor stage. Studies in Motion is unlike anything you have ever seen. The Vancouver troupe, the Electric Company Theatre, has mounted a complex, multi-media production on the life and times of Eadweard Muybridge, the man who really invented the motion picture. Muybridge’s life is the stuff of legend and is presented using all sorts of visual support. And according to the reviews that greeted its production last year in Vancouver, the dramatic thrust of the work is not undercut by the visual display – both work together to tell the epic story of one of history’s forgotten geniuses.

THE THREE MUSKETEERS APR 2 - 24/11

LITTLE WOMEN, THE MUSICAL APR 30 - MAY 22/11

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That is followed on February 12th by Another Home Invasion, Joan McLeod’s effective and affecting (and often funny) look at one of the great problems facing our society, the care of our elderly. The production stars one of Canada’s best known actresses, Nova Scotia’s Nicola Lipman.

RICK: THE RICK HANSEN STORY APR 2 - 17/11

Robbins Family Series

April 23rd notes the return of the notorious Brad Fraser. Fraser is the Edmonton playwright who wrote his name across the sky in letters of fire when he resided here in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. He is best known for his contemporary classic, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love. Fraser’s sharp-eyed, but frequently comical works, feature frank depictions of sexuality, drug use and violence. Often lost, however, in the controversy he inevitably generates, is that he is a very funny writer. In his latest play True Love Lies, Fraser returns to that comic motherload and this time he’s out to make us laugh. And by all reports he does just that. Baker describes it as, “a screamingly funny comedy of bad manners.”

There will be an additional production in the Robbins Family Series, Rick: The Rick Hansen Story, produced in partnership with Manitoba Theatre for Young People.

And yes, the Edmonton holiday tradition continues. The Citadel’s tear inducing production of A Christmas Carol, will be back.

AA CHRISTMAS CAROL NOV 27 - DEC 23/10

So, you can sit back tonight and take flight with Billy Bishop in the full knowledge that there is more high calibre theatre in the Citadel pipeline.

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BIOS RYAN SIGURDSON

Narrator/Pianist

Ryan is an Edmonton-based music director, actor and composer. He last appeared at the Citadel playing keyboard for Beauty and the Beast.

Recent music directing credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee for the Foote Theatre School Young Musical Company; Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s for Teatro La Quindicina (Sterling Award) and Assassins for Studio Theatre. A graduate of the Theatre Arts program at Grant MacEwan University, Ryan’s acting credits include Cabaret at the Citadel, Evita at the Mayfield Dinner Theatre, Saturday Night and Floyd Collins for Leave It To Jane Theatre and The Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito for Concrete Theatre. Ryan’s composing credits include Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s for Teatro La Quindicina (Sterling Award) and Water’s Daughter for Northern Light Theatre. Ryan is thrilled to be working with such wonderful people on one of Canada’s most classic musicals.

JOHN ULLYATT

Billy Bishop

Last season at the Citadel, John appeared in Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, A Christmas Carol and The Drowsy Chaperone, a coproduction with the National Arts Centre. He has also appeared in memorable Citadel productions such as The Wizard of Oz, Doubt, a parable, The Forbidden Phoenix, Cabaret, Oliver!, The Pillowman, I Am My Own Wife, The Mystery of Irma Vep, West Side Story, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Stones in His Pockets, The Shape of Things, Grease, Servant of Two Masters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Into the Woods and Mrs. Warren’s Profession.

He has worked across the city and country from Vancouver to Toronto. John is a founding member of Firefly Theatre – Edmonton’s unique circus theatre, with whom he created and performed in Duck Duck Bang. He is also a notable street artist whose works include The Human Fountain and the 21st Century Gargoyles.

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BIOS JAMES MacDONALD

Director

At the Citadel James has directed As You Like It, Julius Caesar, The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead, Fire (Dora Award), Shining City, Vimy (Sterling Award), Equus, I am My Own Wife and Stones in his Pockets. Elsewhere James’ directing credits include Julius Caesar for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival; The Old Ladies for the Shaw Festival; Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It for Canadian Stage; With a Twist for Lunchbox Theatre; The Myth of Summer for Alberta Theatre Projects and seven productions for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, where he was artistic director for five years.

James’ Citadel acting credits include Blackbird, Pride and Prejudice, Measure for Measure, Amadeus, Einstein’s Gift (Sterling Award), Wit, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Importance of Being Earnest, Noises Off, Othello and Of Mice and Men (Sterling Award).

Elsewhere, his credits include the title roles in Macbeth and Henry V for the Freewill Shakespeare Festival; The Leisure Society for Theatre Network and Omnium Gatherum at Canadian Stage. Born in Montreal and raised in Edmonton, James is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program. He is also an Artistic Associate at the Citadel and Director of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program.

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BIOS DAVID FRASER

Set & Lighting Designer

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Previously at The Citadel Theatre, David has designed the set and lighting for The Glass Menagerie, Blackbird and the lighting for Doubt, a parable. As an Edmonton-based artist, he works extensively across the country in theatre, dance and opera. His theatrical designs have been seen from The National Arts Centre in Ottawa, to The Belfry Theatre In Victoria, and his designs in Dance have been seen both nationally and internationally with Edmonton-based Choreographer Tania Alvarado.

Most recently David designed the set and lighting for The Freewill Players’ Much Ado About Nothing and MacBeth, and the lighting for Otello with the Edmonton Opera. He has been nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award, A Betty Mitchell Award, and eight Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Awards, and he has been the recipient once for his lighting design. David is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

MARISSA KOCHANSKI

Costume Designer

Marissa has been cutting, glueing, drawing and painting as an amateur since kindergarten, and as a professional for the past thirteen years.

For the Citadel she was assistant to the designer for Beauty and the Beast and The Wizard of Oz; designed set and costumes for The Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate, Prairie Boy’s Winter, A Giraffe in Paris, New Canadian Kid, Love You Forever, The Paperbag Princess’s Favourite Stories and The Sword and The Stone. She is currently designing features for the children’s areas of Strathcona County’s new public library.

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BIOS OWEN HUTCHINSON

Sound Designer

Last season, Owen was sound designer for The Drowsy Chaperone.

Other Citadel credits include sound designer for The Wizard of Oz and The Forbidden Phoenix, sound consultant on Three Mo’ Tenors and assistant sound designer for Fire. Selected sound operation credits include Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story (coproduction with Theatre Calgary), Vimy, Noises Off, Peter Pan, 3 Mo’ Divas, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Sound of Music, A Christmas Carol and The Shape of Things all for the Citadel Theatre. Other highlights include Chicago for Troika Entertainment and Cinderella for St. Albert Children’s Theatre. Owen was born and raised here in Edmonton, and studied Theatre Production at Grant MacEwan.

CORY SINCENNES

Assistant to the Set & Lighting Designer

This is Cory’s first appearance at the Citadel. Originally from Ontario, Cory recently graduated with an MFA in Theatre Design from the University of Alberta. Cory previously attended Carleton University, where he obtained a degree in Architecture. He has also studied design at Ryerson Theatre School. Cory has designed sets, costumes and lighting for many productions throughout Ontario, Alberta and recently the Vancouver region. He has also toured through Europe with a co-designed production of Bashir Lazhar. Recent theatre design credits include The Woman in Black (Lighting-Sterling Nomination) and Mump and Smoot: Cracked for Theatre Network; Grumplestock’s for Surreal Soreal Theatre; Ribbon for Ground Zero and The Good Woman of Setzuan for Studio Theatre (Thesis Production Design).

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BIOS MICHELLE CHAN

BILLY BISHOP goes to war Stage Manager

Last season at the Citadel, Michelle was stage manager for Beauty and the Beast, Sweeney Todd, A Christmas Carol and Blackbird. Other Citadel stage manager credits are The Wizard of Oz, The Forbidden Phoenix, Vimy, Wingfield’s Inferno, The Pillowman, Bird Brain, Fully Committed, Vanya, Shakespeare’s Will, Wingfield on Ice, Stones In His Pockets, Homeward Bound and The Sword in the Stone. Assistant stage manager credits at the Citadel include Beauty and the Beast, Oliver!, Peter Pan, Blithe Spirit, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Sound of Music, Grease, Servant of Two Masters, Hamlet, Cabaret, and Art. Other favourite stage manager credits include God’s Eye with Paper Tiger Productions; A Body of Water, Madagascar & Afterplay for Blarney Productions; Ilsa Queen of the Nazi Love Camp for Workshop West; Evelyn Strange, Cocktails at Pam’s and Fever Land for Teatro la Quindicina and The 7th Circle and A Hero for All for Fringe Theatre Adventures.

SANG SANG LEE

Apprentice Stage Manager

Last season Sang Sang was an apprentice stage manager for As You Like It. Elsewhere she has worked on The Super Groovy 70s, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for Mayfield Theatre; Richard O’Brien’s Rocky Horror Show for Odd Lot Theatre; Seussical for St. Albert Children’s Theatre; Monteverdi’s Orfeo for the U of A Centennial and Little Women and Crazy For You for Grant MacEwan.

She is a graduate of Grant MacEwan’s Theatre Production program.

Enjoy the show!

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BILLY BISHOP W

illiam Avery “Billy” Bishop was born on February 8, 1894 in Owen Sound, Ontario.

His father, also named William Bishop, was a well-connected member of Ontario society, appointed county registrar in return for his support of Wilfred Laurier’s successful campaign for Prime Minister in 1896.

Bishop attended the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, where, by his own admission, he was “the worst student they ever had.” After being discovered cheating on his final exams, he was saved from expulsion and disgrace by the outbreak of World War I. Commissioned as a cavalry lieutenant in the Missisauga Horse, he avoided the worst of the fighting in the first year of the war through a variety of accidents and ailments. When he was finally posted overseas, he discovered during training in England that a life of trench warfare – mud, cold, and slaughter – was not for him.

He enrolled in the fledgling Royal Flying Corps, and was posted to France as an observer in reconnaissance aircraft. Eventually, through the assistance of his father’s connections, he became a fighter pilot in the spring of 1917, just in time for the Vimy offensive in April of that year.

Bishop went on to record 72 victories over German aircraft, and became the top British Empire “ace” of the First World War. His most notable achievement was a pre-dawn solo attack on a German aerodrome at Douai, for which he was awarded a Victoria Cross for bravery. This feat later proved controversial, as, due to the lack of witnesses, there were some who doubted the veracity of Bishop’s claims. A government inquiry in 1985 vindicated Bishop, who regardless had proved his valour in countless aerial engagements.

Bishop was pulled from battle in 1918, as his fame became such that the war office feared that his death would weaken morale. He went on to play a key part in the founding of the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1938 he returned to the Air Force as an Air Marshal, and served as a recruiter during the Second World War. The combined stress of the two world wars took a tremendous toll on Bishop’s health, and he died at the age of 62 in 1956.

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DIRECTOR’S notes

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My first encounter with Billy Bishop Goes to War was a rainy night at the Edinburgh

Festival in the summer of 1980. My parents knew John and Eric, and we followed up the performance with a soggy drink with the cast at a nearby pub.

I was 13, and I was transformed – by the theatricality, the performances, and the story.

Following visits to the battlefields of Flanders on the same trip, it triggered a lifelong curiosity about the First World War, and particularly about Canada’s involvement. How, I wondered, could this fledgling nation make such a tremendous impact in the quagmire of global conflict?

Billy Bishop has a well-deserved place of honour in Canadian theatre – an adventurous, true story about a Canadian icon and hero, told with zest, humour, and pathos. Written by unabashed Canadian nationalists, it succeeds in being neither pro- nor anti-war – it is an accurate and lively depiction of the ups and downs experienced by these incredibly young soldiers as they went off to fight.

As I found working on Vimy (Citadel Premiere, 2008), Billy Bishop is a multilayered play which taps not only our sense of history, but also our humanity.

And like Vimy, it deals with an episode of history which is too important to be forgotten, and reminds us that war is ultimately never about politics – it is about the men and women fighting and dying.

James MacDonald

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about our

Production Department

– Scenic Paint

The Scenic Art Department works very closely with the set designer to help realize the

look of the play that the designer and the director have envisioned. The “Billy Bishop Goes to War” design by David Fraser gave us an opportunity to get down and dirty, and help to create a world of not only memory and imagination, but a very real world of dust, dirt and the appearance of decay. It’s the kind of set design that painters love. Age and breakdown are a lot of fun in the world of stage painting. We started by examining the set model and photo references with David, and through discussion and samples, we decided how to approach the dark look of this bombed out café. The set carpenters laid down a false floor that we could spatter with painted “dirt” and attach the recruitment posters to. The posters are glued down with a clear acrylic varnish using a collage technique – sometimes it really does seem that almost everything we know we learned in kindergarten! The window frame is a large plywood and steel structure, covered with crumpled tissue paper to simulate old paint and the scenic artists favourite texturing material, pigpoo (a mixture of glue, paint, clay and sawdust). Plexiglass and tinted acrylic varnish together become old, broken glass. Lastly, we turned a beautifully constructed plywood bar into polished mahogany, then gave it a painted patina of age and wear. Working along with set carpenters, props, and lighting, the visual world is completed: an old world European café that’s been through a war.

Chantal Fortin (scenic artist) is a Grant MacEwan theatre graduate who first worked at the Citadel on Peter Pan. Buck Stevens (scenic artist) has painted multiple productions, as well as assisting in other production departments.

Michelle Dias has been Head of Scenic Art for the Citadel since 1995: “Billy Bishop Goes to War has special significance for me.

Earlier this year my great uncle, Robert Lytle passed away after battling for several years with cancer after his doctors had originally given him just a few months to survive. Uncle Bob had fought during World War II in the Pacific and was taken prisoner. He said that the same determination to survive then is what kept him alive for so long after his doctors had given him little hope. I’m proud to be reminded of the sacrifices my Uncle Bob (and so many others like him) have made, and to be reminded of his courage in this play that I’ve heard so much about and have always wanted to be involved with.”

Billy Bishop Goes to War set model

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staff ARTISTIC ASSOCIATES

James MacDonald Director, Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program Brian Dooley Director, New Play Development Geoffrey Brumlik Director, Audience Outreach Doug Mertz Director, FTS & Young Companies Don Horsburgh Resident Musical Director Wayne Paquette Academy Associate Peni Christopher Asst. to the Artistic Director/ Company Manager Hannah Whittaker Academy Coordinator Diana Boratynec Manager, Foote Theatre School Young Company Instructors Ryland Alexander Shannon Boyle Jackie Herbst Thrasso Petras Linda Rubin Ryan Sigurdson FTS Instructors Tara Brodin Ashley Butler Melissa Cabral Julie Golosky Jennifer Goodman Crystal Hanson Brad Heintzman Binaifer Kapadia Meghan Koshman Barbara Mah Daniela Masellis Doug Mertz Anna Paquin Kate Ryan Liana Shannon Jennifer Spencer

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GUEST SERVICES

Jenna Pryor Venue Rentals Manager James Scott Patron & Venue Services Manager Kimberlee Stadelmann Box Office Manager Kristen Hiemstra Administrative Assistant Trina Hritzuk Volunteer Coordinator Shar Powell School Booking Coordinator Guest Services Supervisors Michelle Bonot Kayla Fuller Caitlin Jackson Neil Le Grandeur Natalie Gustafson Kristian Tustian Guest Services Representatives Mike Anhorn Matthew Baziuk Candice Charney Bevin Dooley Isabelle Gallant Marg Gronnestad Jacob Liska Abbie Murison Charlotte Norris Valerie Smart Miranda Tonken Gina Varty Jessica Venne

PRODUCTION

Cheryl L. Hoover Director

Bill Heron Technical Director Michelle Chan Resident Stage Manager Patrick Fraser Assistant Technical Director Kyla Maki Administrative Assistant Brian Maxwell Head of Audio Owen Hutchinson Assistant Head of Audio Les Myhr Head of Scenic Carpentry Peter Locock Assistant Head of Scenic Carpentry Sheila Cleasby Head of Electrics Scott George Lafluer Assistant Head of Electrics Michelle Dias Head Scenic Artist Chantel Fortin Scenic Painter Richard Stevens Scenic Paint Jim Meers Head of Props Charlotte Hunt Assistant Head of Props Vincent Meseck Props Angie Sotiropoulos Props Marc Anderson Head Stage Carpenter Andrew Hill Assistant Head Carpenter Patsy Thomas Head of Wardrobe Kayla Fulton Assistant Head of Wardrobe Ava Diehl First Hand Lorraine Price Head of Wardrobe Running Patricia MacKenzie Dresser Katie Patton Wigs & Makeup

The Citadel is grateful for the kind generosity of its volunteers listed below. If you want to volunteer with the Citadel, please call Trina Hritzuk at 428-2137 or e-mail foh@citadeltheatre.com.

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