Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen Adapted by Janet Munsil
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In our preparation for this production, we have encountered colourful and countless versions of Jane Austen’s beautiful story. It has been adapted for the stage numerous times; there are multiple film versions and even a few board games based on Pride and Prejudice. The appeal is obvious, immediate and everlasting: we all need to love and be loved. Though written about a specific time and place in history, it continues to feel current and powerful. As we’ve been rehearsing the play I’ve asked our actors to bring their life experience—their personal feelings of love, their fears of rejection and their passions for life—into the rehearsal room. It has resulted in sighs of recognition, gasps of surprise, and boundless wide grins. As I look about the room, I see people’s spirits lift because they are taking part in the telling of this gorgeous tale. This is one case where you’ll be touched not only by these artists’ talent, but also by their humanity and passion for life.
Last year we premiered our new production of our annual tradition of A Christmas Carol. Families celebrated and cheered with us in record numbers. I hope you will share your Christmas with us yet again.
This is a world premiere adaptation. Thanks to the support of Fuse: The Enbridge New Play Development Program, we were able to develop this work with playwright Janet Munsil over the past year. In collaboration with the National Arts Centre, we are privileged to add our voices in the celebration of all that we love about this very romantic—and dare I say necessary—story. We are grateful to be allowed to share our hearts with yours.
Dennis Garnhum Artistic Director
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We recently learned that our premiere production of Lost – A Memoir has been nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award. You’ll remember we premiered this play on our stage two seasons ago. It tells the true story of a Calgary woman’s search for her brother who is lost at sea. Developed as part of our Fuse program, our production has travelled to the Neptune Theatre in Halifax and Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg. As well, the American premiere was presented at Indiana Repertory Theatre in 2011. It is an incredible honour for Cathy Ostlere and myself to receive this nomination, and we’d love to acknowledge Theatre Calgary’s incredible support and belief in mounting this new work. I am truly touched that a story about an Albertan, created by Albertans has been noticed and recognized in this way.
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane
Austen
Adapted by Janet
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Th e Ca s t ALLAN MORGAN Mr. Bennet, a gentleman ELIZABETH STEPKOWSKI TARHAN Mrs. Bennet, his wife GEMMA JAMES-SMITH Jane Bennet, the eldest daughter SHANNON TAYLOR Elizabeth Bennet, the second daughter PHILIPPA LESLIE Mary Bennet, the middle daughter LÉDA DAVIES Kitty Bennet, the fourth daughter LAURA HUCKLE Lydia Bennet, the youngest daughter
MICHAEL SPENCER-DAVIS ALIX SIDERIS
Mr. Gardiner, Uncle and a businessman Mrs. Gardiner, his wife
TYRELL CREWS Mr. Darcy, a wealthy gentleman JULIA GUY Georgiana Darcy, his sister BRENDAN MCMURTRY-HOWLETT Mr. Bingley, a wealthy gentleman ANNA CUMMER Caroline Bingley, his sister TERRY TWEED Mrs. Reynolds, the housekeeper of Pemberley KARL H. SINE George Wickham, an officer
ELLEN CLOSE Charlotte Lucas, a knight’s daughter PIERRE BRAULT Mr. Collins, a clergyman TERRY TWEED Lady Catherine de Bourgh, a woman of nobility LÉDA DAVIES Lady Anne de Bourgh, her daughter
SETTING The English Countryside. In Jane Austen’s time, 200 years ago…
DENNIS GARNHUM Director PATRICK CLARK Set & Costume Design JOCK MUNRO Lighting Design SHARI WATTLING Production Dramaturg AARON COATES Assistant Director ANITA MIOTTI Choreographer JANE MACFARLANE Voice Coach
Theatre Calgary gratefully acknowledges the support provided from the Alberta Lottery Fund, by the Government of Alberta through The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the City of Calgary through Calgary Arts Development, the Community Spirit Donation Grant Program, the Government of Canada through the Canada Council and Canadian Heritage and all corporate and private contributors.
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AILSA BIRNIE Stage Manager ERIN FINN Assistant Stage Manager KELLEY CHEETHAM Rehearsal Apprentice Stage Manager CATHARINE BEVANS Head of Lighting CHRIS JACKO Head of Sound RON SIEGMUND Wig & Hairstylist, Wardrobe Master BEN WILSON Head Stage Carpenter ADAM SCHRADER Assistant Head Stage Carpenter ANDREW RAFUSE Stage Hand JOCELYN NODGE Dresser NIKKI GIGUERE Dresser SAM HINDLE Assistant Head of Sound PRIDE AND PREJUDICE has one 20-minute intermission.
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P I E R R E B R A U LT
LÉDA DAVIES
Mr. Collins
Kitty Bennet, Lady Anne de Bourgh
Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere (selected): Blood on the Moon (Betty Mitchell nomination), Vertigo; The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, NAC/Western Canada Theatre; Macbeth, Vanya, NAC /Citadel; The Odyssey, Angel Square, Twelfth Knight, The Secret Garden, NAC; Travels With My Aunt, NAC/Grand (London); The Man from the Capital, Stones in His Pockets, No Great Mischief, An Acre of Time, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Great Canadian Theatre Company; A Night in November, Seven Thirty Productions; Doctor Faustus, Third Wall Theatre; The Barber of Seville, Opera Lyra. Pierre is perhaps best known for writing and performing his many plays, including The Shadow Cutter, 5 O’Clock Bells (National tour), Portrait of an Unidentified Man (Canada & New Zealand tours), Blood on the Moon (Capital Critics Circle & Montreal English Critics’ Circle Awards: Best Actor; Canada & Ireland tour). He has appeared in numerous films and also works extensively as a stand-up comedian.
TYRELL CREWS Mr. Darcy for theatre calgary: Enron, A Christmas Carol (2011), Much Ado About Nothing, Our Town, A Man of the North (FUSE ’09), Jake and the Kid (FUSE ’08), Timothy Findley’s The Wars (FUSE ’07). elsewhere: Henry the IV part I, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare in the Park; Henry the VI part III, Shakespeare Company; My First Time, Reasons to Be Pretty, Ground Zero Theatre; Blood: A Scientific Romance, Sage Theatre; Mousetrap, Murder on the Nile, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime, Vertigo Theatre; Vincent In Brixton, Unity 1918, Shakespeare’s Dog, The Clockmaker, The Good Egg, playRites’ 08, ATP; Do Not Disturb, Lunchbox Theatre; The Dishwashers, Downstage. awards: Betty Mitchell Award – Actor in a Supporting Role Our Town. Tyrell is a graduate of Mount Royal University’s Performance Conservatory.
for theatre calgary: A Christmas Carol (2001). elsewhere (selected): Project Whooping Crane, Green Fools Theatre (Japan Tour); The Toothfairy, Old Trout Puppet Workshop (Western Canada Tour); One Flea Spare, Sage Theatre. awards: Nominated for a Betty Mitchell Award for Best Actress in a Dramatic Role for One Flea Spare. Léda has worked on various devised creations with site-specific theatre company Swallow-a-Bicycle. She is thrilled to be making her second appearance at Theatre Calgary since A Christmas Carol when she was only 16 years old. Since then she has performed on all kinds of stages, hallways, streets and even the side of a building. Léda is also an accomplished dancer, and aerial circus artist. Her multidisciplinary solo-show The Disembodied Lady will premiere in Calgary in April 2013.
J ulia G uy Georgiana Darcy
E L L E N C LO S E Charlotte Lucas Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Good Fences, ATP playRites ’12 in association with Downstage; Unity (1918), ATP; Blood: A Scientific Romance, Sage Theatre; The Way Of All Fish, Lunchbox Theatre; Arm's Length Embrace, Bus(t), Bone Cage, In The Wake, Downstage. Ellen is a graduate of the National Theatre School's Acting Program and a member of the Downstage Creation Ensemble, with whom she shares three Betty Mitchell Award nominations and one win in the Outstanding New Play category. She is the Associate Artistic Producer of Downstage, a Calgary-based company that produces Canadian plays that create conversations around social issues.
ANNA CUMMER Caroline Bingley Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Hedda Gabler, Osmious Theatre; The Miracle Worker, Vancouver Playhouse; Intimate Apparel, The Diary of Anne Frank, Arts Club Theatre; Snowman, Recovery, Rumble Productions; How It Works, Touchstone; Troilus & Cressida, The Winter’s Tale, Bard on the Beach; Peter Pan, Carousel Theatre; Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Presentation House. awards: Anna has received four Jessie Richardson nominations and taken one statue home. film/television: Anna also voices Strawberry Shortcake in the new animated series Strawberry Shortcake’s Berry Bitty Adventures (Hasbro) as well as Pepper Potts in Ironman: Armoured Adventures (Marvel). Anna is a newly minted Calgarian having recently moved from Vancouver.
for theatre calgary: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (Shakespeare in the Park). elsewhere: Twelve Angry Men, Spring Awakening, Desire Caught by the Tail, Fuddy Meers, Cymbeline, Whisper, University of Alberta; Twelfth Night, Freewill Shakespeare Festival. Julia is an improviser with Rapid Fire Theatre in Edmonton where she performs weekly in Theatresports and CHIMPROV. Julia is a recent graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta.
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Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere (selected): Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The New World Theatre Project; Winter, Neddy Norris Night, Gros Morne Theatre Festival; This Marvellous Terrible Place, No Man’s Land, The Rising Tide Theatre Festival. film/television: Laura has been featured in many television productions and numerous commercials. She is originally from England but graduated from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Newfoundland with a BFA in Acting. Since graduating she has formed a theatre company in St. John’s called Engine Productions. Laura is thrilled to be making her first appearance with Theatre Calgary and would like to thank her parents, sister and Evan for their continuous support and love.
for theatre calgary: A Christmas Carol (2004). elsewhere (selected): The Game of Love and Chance, Canadian Stage/Centaur; The Glass Menagerie, Soulpepper; Instructions to Any Future Socialist Government Wishing to Abolish Christmas, Crow’s Theatre/Centaur; Blithe Spirit, Harvey, Segal Centre; Haunted Hillbilly, SideMart; Age of Arousal, Nightwood; The Importance of Being Earnest, Montgomery Theatre; Vincent in Brixton, Age of Arousal, ATP. Gemma is an Artistic Associate with Montreal's SideMart Theatrical Grocery with whom she co-wrote Whiteman's Whiskey Comedy Revue and Trying for the Kingdom. She is a studio assistant for Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes and is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere (selected): As Actor – Macbeth, Montreal Shakespeare Theatre Company; Unity (1918), National Theatre School Central Project; Oh Dad, Poor Dad, University College Drama Program’s Director’s Show. As Dancer – Six Dances, The Nutcracker, National Ballet of Canada, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. Philippa is a graduate of Canada’s National Ballet School. She is honoured to be making her first appearance with Theatre Calgary. Philippa is looking forward to working with Centaur Theatre in their upcoming production of Innocence Lost in February.
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BRENDAN MCMURTRYHOWLETT Mr. Bingley Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: As Actor – Beyond the Cuckoo’s Nest, Young People’s Theatre; Other People, Mutual Friends Co-op; “…and stockings for the ladies,” GKW Project; The Overwhelming, Canadian Stage/Studio 180; The Apology, NextStage (Dora Nomination); The Winter’s Tale, Canadian Stage: Dream in High Park; Hwy63: The Fort Mac Show, Architect Theatre/Great Canadian Theatre Company. As Director – Two Gents, Shakespeare in the Ruff; Blood Moon, Edinburgh Festival; Honey in the Lion’s Head, Retaliation Theatre. film/television: Degrassi: The Next Generation (CTV) and Nikita (WB). Born and raised in Toronto, Brendan has been a director and performer across Canada and internationally. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada, a member of Actor’s Repertory Company and founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare in the Ruff. Upcoming for Brendan is Bea for Actor’s Repertory Company.
MICHAEL SPENCERDAVIS ALIX SIDERIS Mrs. Gardiner Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere (selected): The Changeling, recovery, The Odyssey, A Winter’s Tale, The Ark (2008 - 09), NAC; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Merchant of Venice, St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival; Mambo Italiano, It’s All True, Great Canadian Theatre Company; The Empire Builders, Betrayal, Third Wall Theatre; Medea, Magnetic North Theatre Festival/Fringe; The Fan, A Curious Mishap, Bungsu and the Big Snake, Scapin, The Wedding, The Illusion, The Raven, Odyssey Theatre. film/television: Bullet in the Face, Marry Me. Upcoming for Alix is Metamorphoses at the NAC and Like Wolves for the Great Canadian Theatre Company. She is also directing [boxhead] for Evolution Theatre. Alix is Co-Artistic Director of Guerilla Heart Juice. She dedicates this story of magnificent love to her two special heartbeats: Andy and Hannah.
ALLAN MORGAN Mr. Bennet for theatre calgary: Much Ado About Nothing, The Overcoat. elsewhere: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Aberhart Summer, Two Words for Snow, ATP; Angels in America, Parts I and II, Hoarse Raven Theatre; I Am My Own Wife, Belfry Theatre; The Overcoat, Unless, Canstage; No Great Mischief, Romeo and Juliet, The History of Things to Come, The Crucible, Vancouver Playhouse; An Ideal Husband, Coronation Voyage, NAC; The Weir, The Drawer Boy, Belfry Theatre; Dirty Blonde, Escape from Happiness, The Comedy of Errors, Sexy Laundry, Arts Club Theatre; Cymbeline, As You Like It, Richard II, Bard on the Beach; Toronto, Mississippi, Sled, Lisa, Lisa, Hosanna, Touchstone Theatre; How I Learned to Drive, Overdrive Productions. film/television: Just Cause, The Collector, Jinnah On Crime, Andromeda and Cold Squad. awards: Allan is the recipient of four Jessie Richardson Awards for acting. He is a graduate of Studio 58 Theatre Arts program in Vancouver.
KARL H. SINE George Wickham for theatre calgary: Enron, A Christmas Carol (2011), Much Ado About Nothing. elsewhere: As Actor Queen Millli of Galt, Oliver!, Mary’s Wedding, Fiddler on the Roof, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Village of Idiots, The Foreigner, The Diviners, Rosebud Theatre; Ways and Means, Lunchbox Theatre; Peter Pan, ATP; Saltwater Moon, Costal Prairie Productions. As Director - We Won’t Pay We Won’t Pay, Jake and the Kid, Rosebud Theatre; Soldiers Heart, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, Loudly Whispered Theatre; Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog, Choregos Productions. As Fight Director – Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet, Taming of the Shrew, The Shakespeare Company; Man of LaMancha, Fiddler on the Roof, Rosebud Theatre. awards: 2012 Recipient of the Jean-Pierre Fournier Fellowship Award, 2011 Betty Mitchell nominee for Fight Direction - Macbeth. Karl wishes to thank his beautiful wife and daughter for their love and support.
Mr. Gardiner Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Having Hope at Home, The Lonely Diner: Al Capone in Euphemia Township, Blyth Festival; The Tempest, Hartford Stage; The Pitmen Painters, Theatre Aquarius; Robin Hood, Sexy Laundry, Globe Theatre; Richard III, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bartholomew Fair, Shakespeare’s Universe, Stratford Shakespeare Festival; Romeo and Juliet, Nativity, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, NAC; The Real Thing, Humble Boy, MTC; Lawrence and Holloman, Apple Prairie Theatre Exchange; As You Like It, Einstein’s Gift, Blithe Spirit, Citadel; The Elephant Man, Amadeus, Heaven, Canadian Stage. film/ television: Flash of Genius, Murdoch Mysteries, The Eleventh Hour and Street Time. Michael was also a regular on the CBC radio drama Afghanada. Michael will next be appearing in Innocence Lost: The Steven Truscott Story at the Centaur Theatre in Montreal and the NAC.
ELIZABETH STEPKOWSKI TA R H A N Mrs. Bennet for theatre calgary: Mom’s the Word for Crying Out Loud, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Citadel co-pro), A Christmas Carol (2003), A Streetcar Named Desire, Song and Dance, Anne of Green Gables, Evita (1993), Hamlet. elsewhere: Sweeney Todd, Vertigo Theatre; August: Osage County, Oliver! The Sound of Music, Cabaret, The Beggar’s Opera, Man of La Mancha, Citadel Theatre; Glorious!, Stage West; Gypsy, Mayfield Dinner Theatre; Honk!, Globe Theatre; The Hobbit, ATP; Fascinating Ladies, Lunchbox Theatre; Stone and Ashes, Theatre in Exile; Doing Leonard Cohen, Mati Hari, OYR. awards: Elizabeth is the recipient of two Betty Mitchell Awards as well as an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award. She is forever grateful to her son and husband for their love and support.
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Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere (selected): A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Little Women: the Musical, Citadel Theatre; The Jones Boy, Surface/ Underground Theatre; Johnny Belinda, Pygmalion, Montgomery Theatre, PEI; Madonna Painter, Factory Theatre; Emily, Talk Is Free Theatre; The Sound Of Music, Stratford Shakespeare Festival. awards: She was recently nominated for a Dora Award for her performance in The Jones Boy. Shannon is a recent participant of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program and Nightwood Theatre’s Emerging Actors Program. Shannon is a Toronto based actor and is thrilled to be making her first appearance with both Theatre Calgary and the NAC. Thank you to her family for their good British blood and humour and Peter for his endless support.
DENNIS GARNHUM Director for theatre calgary: To Kill a Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, Lost – A Memoir, Beyond Eden, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Timothy Findley’s The Wars (Playhouse co-pro), Of Mice and Men, Enchanted April, Trying, A Christmas Carol (2006 - 2011). elsewhere: Carmen, Pacific Opera; Barber of Seville, Vancouver Opera; La Traviata, Pacific Opera (Victoria); This Could Be Love, New York City Musical Festival; The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Shadows, The Trials of Ezra Pound, Stratford Festival; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Still Life, Sorry, Wrong Number, S.S. Tenacity, Shaw Festival; Two Orphans, Brandeis Theatre Company (Boston); Rat in the Skull, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Down the Main Drag, ATP playRites ‘04; Vinci, NAC/MTC/CanStage; Skylight, Slavs, Tarragon Theatre; Closer, Three Tall Women, MTC; The Laramie Project, National Theatre School. awards: Sterling Award – Outstanding Director – Of Mice and Men. Dennis was appointed Artistic Director at Theatre Calgary in September, 2005.
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TERRY TWEED
Lighting Design
Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Mrs. Reynolds for theatre calgary: The Condemned of Altona. elsewhere: As Actor - Forests, Another Home Invasion, Tarragon Theatre; Over the River and Through the Woods, Theatre Aquarius; Homechild, Belfry Theatre; The Medici Slot Machine, Pea Green Theatre; Happy Days, Les Histrions; The Faraway Nearby, Great Canadian Theatre Company. As Director – Blood Brothers, Theatre Sheridan; Arcadia, Daylesford Theatre (Bermuda); Wrong for Each Other, Bluewater Playhouse; The Women, Theatre Erindale; Albertine en cinq temps, Théâtre du Trillium. Terry is also a dedicated teacher, having worked at Sheridan College, Humber College, University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa in both English and French.
for theatre calgary: Set & Costume Design – A Christmas Carol (2011), Costume Design – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing (1993). elsewhere: New Brunswick based set and costume designer Patrick Clark has worked in theatres and taught in schools across Canada for the past twenty five years. His designs have been seen onstage at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Shaw Festival, Guthrie Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick, Neptune Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre Company and Theatre Aquarius. Patrick has won three Nova Scotia Merritt Awards for Costume Design. He is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada and The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
JANET MUNSIL Playwright Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Emphysema (a love story), That Elusive Spark, The Ugly Duchess, Be Still, Circus Fire, Influence. Janet is a Victoria-based playwright and the Artistic Director of Intrepid Theatre, producers of the Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival, Uno Fest, and an international contemporary theatre presenting series. This fall she will attend the Stratford Playwright’s Retreat to complete a new play for young audiences, I Have Seen Beautiful Jim Key, about a famous educated horse.
for theatre calgary: La Bête, Into the Woods. elsewhere: Worked in Canada, U.S. and Europe in the fields of theatre, opera and dance for over 34 years. His designs have been seen in most major theatres across Canada, with over 60 productions for NAC including Oliver, Nativity, A Christmas Carol and Happy Days. Thirteen seasons with the Stratford Festival, highlights include The Cherry Orchard, Richard the Third, Oliver!, Three Penny Opera. Select credits include From the House of the Dead, Red Emma, Dido and Aeneas, The Coffee Cantatas, Canadian Opera Company; My Fair Lady, Candida, Mack and Mabel, Shaw Festival. For Dance – eleven premieres for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, Ballet de Nancy, L’Opera National de Paris, Netherlands Dance Theatre, Fortier Danse Creation and Ballet BC. His long association with choreographer Edouard Lock includes LaLaLa Human Steps productions of Salt, Amelia and Amjad. Jock lives with his wife Paula on the shores of Meech Lake Quebec.
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for theatre calgary: Assistant Director – Enron, Dramaturg – A Christmas Carol (2011), Much Ado About Nothing, Jake and the Kid, Beyond Eden, Lost – A Memoir. Actor – A Christmas Carol (2004 – 2005). elsewhere: Prior to joining Theatre Calgary, Shari was Resident Dramaturg at Alberta Playwrights’ Network. While at APN, Shari edited and coordinated the book Theatre 100, celebrating theatre practitioners in Alberta over the past 100 years. She has also written editorial materials for a variety of publications by Broadview Press, including The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Shari is also a professional actor, having appeared in productions with Vertigo Theatre, ATP, Lunchbox Theatre, Stage West, Quest Theatre, Shadow Productions and Dirty Laundry, Calgary’s live, improvised soap-opera. Shari is a member of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and has been with Theatre Calgary since 2007, as Literary Manager and currently Artistic Associate – New Play Development.
A N I TA M I O T T I Choreographer for theatre calgary: Enron, Much Ado About Nothing, Our Town, A Christmas Carol (2001 – 05, 2011). elsewhere: Performer/Choreographer - Hunger Striking, Urban Curvz; Why Freud Fainted, The Blue Light, Gifts of the Magi, ATP; Closure, Bobby Supreme, Dough, Ground Zero Theatre; In Klezskavania, Radioheaded, These Girls, Frank Zappa’s We’re Only in It For The Money, OYR; Mae’s Maze, Dancer Studio West; Unidentified Human Remains, Firebelly Theatre; Shakespeare’s Will, The Citadel; Trading Hearts, Northern Light Theatre; Dolphin Talk, Quest Theatre; One, Ghost River Theatre. Anita is a choreographer and dancer/actor born and raised in Calgary. She is the founder and artistic director of the Theatre of the Living Statue. This year, Anita received the Betty Mitchell award for outstanding choreography for Urban Curvz production of Hunger Striking by Kit Brennan.
for theatre calgary: Stage Manager – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (MTC co-pro), Betrayal, Jake and the Kid. Assistant Stage Manager – Shirley Valentine, Tosca Cafe (Vancouver Playhouse co-pro), The Drowsy Chaperone (MTC co-pro), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, An Ideal Husband, Beauty and the Beast (Citadel co-pro), Timothy Findley’s The Wars (Vancouver Playhouse copro), The Cripple of Inishmaan, Glorious! (Canadian Stage co-pro), Guys & Dolls (Citadel/MTC co-pro), Wingfield’s Inferno, Sherlock Holmes. selected credits: Stage Manager – When Girls Collide, Vertigo Theatre; Passion Play (2008 – 2012), Canadian Badlands Passion Play Society; With Bells On, Under the Bright Sun, This Is A Play, Petro Canada Stage One 2006, Lunchbox Theatre; Gilgamesh La-Z-Boy, Doing Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath Must Not Die, OYR. Ailsa would like to send her love to her new husband Chris and her family (new and old).
ERIN FINN Assistant Stage Manager
A A R O N C O AT E S Assistant Director for theatre calgary: Betrayal. elsewhere (selected): Director – Dying City, Pangloss Productions; The Old Neighborhood, Rogues Theatre; The Way of All Fish, Lunchbox Theatre; Iraq & Back, Ghost River Theatre; The End of the Rope, Vertigo Theatre; Refuge, The Zoo Story, Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, Dark Forest Theatre Company. Writer – Matadora (co-writer), La Mexicaine de Perforation, Trepan Theatre; Tin Soldier, Aitherios Theatre (UK); The Frozen Limit, THEATREboom; The End of the Rope, Vertigo Theatre. Aaron studied acting at Mount Royal College and at École Philippe Gaulier in Paris. He is the Co-Artistic Director of Trepan Theatre and the director of Dirty Laundry, Calgary’s live, improvised soap opera.
J A N E M A C FA R L A N E Vocal Coach for theatre calgary: Over 30 productions in the past 12 years, including: Enron, To Kill a Mockingbird, Much Ado About Nothing, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, 7 Stories, Ideal Husband, Miracle Worker and 10 years of A Christmas Carol. elsewhere: Toad of Toad Hall, That Elusive Spark, Treasure Island, Vincent in Brixton, Syringa Tree, ATP; Filth, Train Spotting, Sage Theatre; Submarine, Lunchbox Theatre. Jane teaches Voice and Acting in the Performance Program at Mount Royal University. She is the Resident Voice Coach for Theatre Calgary.
Theatre Calgary debut. elsewhere: Oliver!, The Ark '08, And All For Love, Macbeth, NAC English Theatre; Offensive Fouls, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, MTYP; Henry V, Shakespeare's Danish Play, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Taming of the Shrew, a Company of Fools; A Number, Leo, Swollen Tongues, Great Canadian Theatre Company; The Marriage of Figaro, Cinderella, Hansel & Gretel, Opera Lyra Ottawa; Peg and the Yeti, Saving Lonesome George, Carousel Players; Sunday in the Park with George, Shaw Festival.
S pecial T hanks & acknowledgements Calgary Opera; Citadel Theatre Wardrobe - Patsy Thomas; The Ensuite Bath and Kitchen Showroom; Scott Killian; Dave Reid; Stratford Festival Wardrobe Warehouse.
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THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT JANE By Robert Morrison Why Jane Austen? Why is there a seemingly endless series of conferences, articles, books, movies, editions and “costumed weekends” devoted to her? There are only six novels: Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), Northanger Abbey (1818) and Persuasion (1818). Why does our culture turn to them more frequently than to the work of any other English author, with the possible exception of Shakespeare? What does Austen’s work contain that we need, or like, or miss so much? There is, of course, no one answer. Indeed, a large part of her enduring appeal is that she does so many things well. She is a great comic novelist with an almost unrivalled sense of irony, and all six of her novels are “comedies of manners” in which courtship is the foremost interest and marriage the highest ambition. Yet at the same time, Austen’s writings are full of dark shadows and deep anxieties. Several factors constantly threaten to deform polite and profoundly hierarchical society. the lives of her female characters: the Today—needless to say—we live very shortage of money, the shortage of men, differently. Yet Austen remains vital. Thanks d the shortage of genuine opportunity. ition of Pride an ed st fir especially to movie versions of her books, for the m Title page fro Austen’s novels deal with subjugation, 3. 181 example, to “fall in love” for us still means in , ice jud Pre hypocrisy, injustice, and the sometimes many ways to fall in love like Elizabeth and debilitating fear of poverty and Darcy from Pride and Prejudice. spinsterhood that hangs over the lives of many of her women. She was, as Virginia Woolf observes, “mistress of much deeper Above all, Austen writes romances about female power. In her emotions than appears upon the surface.” novels, men own the property and control the money. But they are often no match for the wit, insight, honesty, or courage Further, Austen is celebrated for the “realism” with which she of the women they love. Austen portrays—or imagines?—a captures the day-to-day lives of the English gentry in the second fundamental equality between the sexes, and a passionate decade of the 19th-century, as they eat, drink, dance, visit, commitment between lovers that not only sees far beyond walk, read, hunt, shop, and debate amidst an often dizzying wealth, rank, gender, class, and social protocol, but that we array of gender restrictions, parental expectations, and social may well worry does not exist in “real life.” Austen resonates conventions, all of which Austen reveals with an often disarming so powerfully today because her range as a writer extends clarity. Her novels, however, are also fairy tales in which her lead effortlessly from humour to fear, because she skillfully characters live in beautiful homes, sit on beautiful furniture, and blends realism with wish-fulfillment, because her novels so wear beautiful clothes, and in which the immense social and penetratingly reveal the past and the present, and perhaps psychological strains on many of her women are wished away in most of all because she shows us various versions of happiness a happy ending that sees love conquer all, as Austen’s (invariably and respect that we deeply admire, even as we recognize how pretty and intelligent) heroine marries Austen’s (invariably far our own society still is from achieving these goals. handsome and wealthy) hero. Austen also appeals to us because her world is at once far removed from our own and distinctly reminiscent of it. Most decisively, her characters speak in a way that repeatedly separates them from us, and that dramatically illuminates their 16
Dr. Robert Morrison, Ph.D, is a professor of English literature at Queen’s University. He is the editor of a new annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Persuasion as well as Pride and Prejudice: A Sourcebook. Article is reprinted with permission from the Queen’s Alumni Review.
COURTSHIP IN THE REGENCY ERA In Jane Austen’s time (1775-1817), etiquette was everything. If you were a member of respected society, there were rules for almost every form of address and social communication—most especially involving courtship and marriage. Here are some guidelines for single young men and women: n
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Illustration by C. E. Brock from the 1895 edition of Pride and Prejudice.
A lady who elopes will be considered a “fallen woman” and bring scandal to her family as a sign of bad blood.
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FUSE: THE ENBRIDGE NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM Theatre Calgary would like to recognize the following artists for their participation in the development of Pride and Prejudice: Kira Bradley, Ellen Close, Tyrell Crews, Léda Davies, Nicola Elson, Natascha Girgis, Vanessa Holmes, Haysam Kadri, Kathryn Kerbes, Robert Graham Klein, Ava Jane Markus, Curt McKinstry, Valerie Pearson, Chantal Perron, Stafford Perry and Karl H. Sine.
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ONE MASTERPIECE Sheila Kirkland Joyce Kneeland Anne & Allan Kostyniuk Helle Kraav Gerri Krienke Herb & Kathy Kroeker George & Susannah Kurian Valerie MacLeod & Frank Kurucz Marion Laing Stewart Laing Lorne & Pat Larson Roger & Diane Leach Helen Leblanc Mark & Brenda Lenko Richard Leslie P.Eng. Linda Lesoway Tammy L.D. Liddle Marion Little Cathy & Greg Loughlin Diane & Larry Lozinski Lukacik Family Debbie MacDonald & John Sojak Trisha MacKay Daryl Macleod Jean Macnab Sylvia Madder Art Marche Evelyn Martens Blair Mason Dale & Norma Mastre Richard Matthews Patrick McAdoo Marilyn Mcelheran Ronald & Sylvia McIntosh Douglas & Glenda McLean Doug & Cheryl Ann Merchant Annette Messer Lorretta Miller David Mitchell Jennie Molloy Doug & Gail Monk Charles Moore Peter & Jackie Morgan Mona Muir Stephen & Laine Mulholland Wendy Mullane Nerds on Site Calgary NGL Supplies Nine One One Communications Carla G. Nixon Catherine Norman Dr. Barbara Nowinska Colleen O'Brien Karen Ormon John & Dianne O'Rourke Bev Palko Karen & John Palmer Brad & Donalda Paton Al Patterson Diana Patterson Robert Penner Mike & Lorie Pesowski Louella & Wayne Pethrick P & D Accounting Services Ltd. Stacey Petropoulos & Chad Haase Ross & Mary Phillips William Phillips Ronald & Marjorie Potts Verna & Bryan Pryce Nancy E. Raines Wayne & Susan Ramsden Del Rath Paul Raynor Rob Remmer Jayne Reynett & William Goudkuil Donna Riback Patricia Riggins Dixie Robbins Steven T. Robertson
Howard & Karen Roppel Dr. P.A. Roxburgh Craig Rubie Christine Sargeant Jo-Ann Schwartzenberger Jana Seibel David Severson Cheryl Sheppard Don Sibbald Ian & Susan Simister Catherine & Peter Sliwa Kelly Smith & Dan Fichter Penny Smith Peter & Gail Snell John & Marian Spring Alyce & Red Storey Harold Stringer Lesley Stuart Margaret Sundstrom Dave & Darlene Swanson Valerie & H. Allen Swanson Carolyn & David Tavender Jim & Roberta Taylor J.R. Thompson Owen & Dianne Thomson Lynn Topp Pamela & Allan Twa Pieter Van Vliet Evelyn Vandenhengel Irene Virtue Andrew & Bina Wade David Walker & Brenda McClellan Patricia Walker Alan & Bernie Warden Nomi Whalen Bob & Wendy Whyte Ken & Bev Wiens
Art Williamson & Lynda McPhee Ruth Ann Wilton George Woodings Terry & Lora Wyman Norm & Jackie Zacharuk Donna & George Zahary Herrat Zahner Del & Marjorie Zingle
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Senators William R. Blain, Q.C. Don Boyes Derek Bridges Martha Cohen Joyce Doolittle Kay Grieve David Haigh Harry Hartley Margaret Hess, Q.C. Les Kimber Jan McCaghren Victor Mitchell Barbara Morin Gerry Nichol Fred Scott Lynne J. Thornton Derek Warren Nomi Whalen
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Friulian Merlot balanced by Cabernet Sauvignon, a full-bodied red with fruity and spicy overtones accented by a soft touch. DON’T FORGET TO PREORDER YOUR GLASS FOR THE INTERMISSION.
For more information on donating to Theatre Calgary, contact Shirley Yurchi-Weber at 403-294-7440 ext 1002 or donations@theatrecalgary.com
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FUNDRAISING EVENT
February 24, 2013 Hyatt Regency Hotel Imperial Ballroom Theatre Calgary is hosting its 19th Annual Night with the Stars Gala. Last year’s event SOLD OUT and raised $130,000 for Theatre Calgary and the very popular Student Education Series.
It is my honor on behalf of the Board of Directors of
valued Theatre Calgary audience, to attend this exciting event. In so doing,
Theatre Calgary to invite you, our
you will support the emerging artists of Alberta and make the dream of having
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live theatre accessible to
all Calgarians, a reality!
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– Margo Randles, Chair of the Night with the Stars Committee
This year’s event promises an evening of glamour and style as you walk the red carpet, drink champagne, and dine on exquisite Hollywood-style cuisine. Calgary Artists will be honoured and guests will be entertained with Live & Silent auctions and a live broadcast of the 2013 Academy Awards. Proceeds from the 2013 Night with the Stars will support young emerging artists from Colleges and Universities across Alberta performing Shakespeare in the Park 2013. Ticket options include: Monologue - $200 per event ticket ($80 tax receipt) Principal - $600 for 2 event tickets ($360 tax receipt) Chorus Line - $2,000 for a Table of 10 ($800 tax receipt) and recognition in programme VIP - $3,000 for a Table of 10; Limousine service; bottle of champagne; Pre-Gala VIP Reception ($800 tax receipt)
Visit theatrecalgary.com for tickets, or call us at 403-294-7447.
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