DIRECTOR'S NOTE There is nothing like a putting on a play, and putting on high school play - that's a whole other experience! A brilliant one. I tell people that what I do for a living is make memories. Sure, there is the actual show, but then there are all the hours and hours spent after school tripping over lines, moving blocks around where 'the couch will be' or the 'whiskey set will be'. There are the weekends of costume shopping, purchasing yards of fabric in dusty Spadina shops, digging in my basement storage for the red velvet curtains I never did toss out, because I knew, being the director of high school plays, that one day it would be perfect for a King's robe. There is the scouring for props and set pieces, pulling out a chair from a garbage day toss out and asking friends if I could possibly borrow that couch hidden away in the garage for the last several years. And then waking up at 3AM with an a-ha moment that my grandmother's childhood night-table is the perfect piece (knowing that she, who directed her village community youth theatre troupe, would be pleased her night table dawned a new life). But that is not all...miracles also happen during high school plays, like York mom Tania Ivaniouchkina, who offhandedly at parent-teacher interview said she would be able to sew the Inspector Cape which turned into sewing the Shakespearean robes, stitching shawls, cumber-buns and...and...and. The show is indebted to many, many people, who have donated their time and talent (dummy building, menu designing) and family heirlooms (rotary phone) and technical expertise, above and beyond any possible job description could imagine. And so, we ask you to sit back and experience this beautifully chaotic show, from British Mystery to Avant-Garde. Remember, all these actors entering, exiting, yelling, crying - they have created characters amidst IAs, tests, basketball and volleyball games. There may be glitches, but this show goes on! - Ms. Mary B. Wood
CAST LIST THE HOUSE MANAGER Taufika Ekram THE ENGLISH MYSTERY EMMALINE GRAY CLIFFORD GRAY BEETON COLONEL HARDW ICKE MRS. MARJORIE HARDW ICKE REVEREND SMYTHE LADY VANESSA DENSLOW INSPECTOR SW IFT
Anitra Bowman Jasper Dobbin Alec Trepanier Char Gagnon Ayesha Noorani Layth Al-Hellawi Subin Moon Gigi Noble
THE COMEDY IRV W EINSTEIN Jordan Herzstein SAMMY Abby Nash AUDREY McPHERSON Alex Pillsbury THE AVANT-GARDE PLAY MAN Pooja Devnani WOMAN Ellie Hutchison
SHAKESPEARE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER/ RICHARD III LADY ANNE PRINCE EDWARD DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM DUKE OF NORFOLK
Lawrence D'Andrea Abby Nash Mia Feldman Emily Bruno Taufika Ekram
THE RUSSIAN PLAY NIKOLAI VOLNIKOV IRINA VOLNIKOV KONSTANTIN PAVEL OLGA
Julius Wรถssner Shannon Scherer Gabriel Blanc Petra Sharp Ellie Martin
THE SOUTHERN PLAY AARON PUCKETT REGINALD CAROLINE LUKE GRANDMAMMY
Julia Nightingale Gabriel Blanc Lexi Archdekin Mia Feldman Emily Bruno
PRODUCTION TEAM DIRECTOR Mary B. Wood PRODUCER Emily Cunningham SET DESIGN Effie Balomenos Mary B. Wood MASTER CARPENTER Bengt Johansson COSTUMING & PROPS DESIGN Emily Cunningham Mary B. Wood with Tania Ivaniouchkina SEAMSTRESS Tania Ivaniouchkina COSTUMING & PROPS CREW
Geneva Lafoy Madeleine Helwig Paige Irwin Ella Mathison Zuleika Rebanks
MAKEUP & HAIR Glen Blair Chiara Di Lorenzo-Graham Adriana Lobo Gigi Noble Ilke Yaman SOUND & LIGHTING DESIGN Mary B. Wood TECHNICAL DIRECTORS Sarah Charley Ian Johns SOUND CREW
Anna Aber Madhav Anugopal Calaya Corneli Evan Gilbert Maddy Mackintosh Harrison Stone
LIGHTING CREW
Holden Folk Jason Kahn Hannah Lisecky Luke Sacco Duncan Watson
FRONT OF HOUSE Sarah Charley Vicky Diano Elissa Kline-Beber Geneva Lafoy Kathleen Peak PHOTOGRAPHER Karooni Ahmed BOX OFFICE Gillian Farris Natalie Taylor PROGRAMME Emily Cunningham POSTER, ZAP REMOTE AND Jan Skorzewski BUTTON DESIGN SHAKESPEARE COACH Shannon Currie
SPECIAL THANKS The entire Facilities team including Bengt Johansson and Ian Johns, Sarah Charley, Claudia Dafonte, Vicky Diano, Deloan D'sa, Kara Lysne-Paris, David Hamilton, Dawn McMaster, Andreas Motsch, David Paris and Jason Shulha. The families of our cast who ran lines, rearranged schedules and found costumes and props. The families of our production team who allowed numerous hours to be spent on set in order to bring this show to life. Thank you Nick and Milo!