WCT Digital Program | Sleight of Mind (22/23 Season)

SLEIGHT OF MIND

By DANIELA VLASKALIC

Inspired by true events

In Association with Hit & Myth Productions

CAST

VALERIA ASCOLESE

DANIELLE KLAUDT

TEO SAEFKOW

JAMIE WILLIAMS

CREATIVE TEAM

JAMES MacDONALD

HANS SAEFKOW*

BEYATA HACKBORN*

LOUISE GUINAND*

LUKAS VANDERLIP

KARYN MOTT

TRACEY POWER

BILLY KIDD

SUSAN D. CURRIE

ALANA FREISTADT

ASHLEY HIIBNER

Lola Montez

Mitzi Mengal

Rudi Schneider

Dr. Harry Price

Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer

Sound Designer & Composer Intimacy Director Movement Consultant Magic Consultant Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

Approximately 2 hours, including one 20 minute intermission

WCT is proud to tell our stories in the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory within the traditional lands of the Secwépemc Nation.

Sleight of Mind is produced by permission of the Playwright and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers) www.MQlit.ca

Sleight of Mind premiered at Western Canada Theatre (Kamloops, BC) in association with Hit & Myth Productions (Calgary, AB) in October, 2022

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WELCOME!

Welcome to the first show of the 2022/23 WCT Season, Sleight of Mind. We’re thrilled to have you join us!

Sleight of Mind is set in 1920s Europe, where there was an explosion in interest in paranormal activity after the shocking death toll of the First World War. Fake spiritualists were rampant, as grieving parents and families desperately sought to maintain contact with their lost children and spouses, perhaps just to find some peace in their untimely deaths.

Through it all, one medium remained both true to his own principles and committed to the truthful examination of the realm of spirituality. This was Rudi Schneider, a simple country boy from Austria who gained fame as the most gifted paranormal medium in history – but also one of the most conflicted and controversial. The play you will enjoy today, although fictionalized, remains true to the core of Rudi’s story, and provokes the question: is there life beyond this world, and even if it is possible to connect to that world…should we?

Sleight of Mind is a new play, and we’re proud to be able to continue to create and showcase great new theatre that premieres here before it plays anywhere else in the country. Over the past ten years, plays that have started in Kamloops have gone on to be seen by hundreds of thousands of people across Canada, winning numerous awards. We can all take pride in sending the name of our city and WCT alongside each one of these productions.

We can’t wait to share the rest of this remarkable season with you. We’re so thankful to our community for supporting us through the past couple of years, and we look forward to celebrating in style with exuberant revitalizations of classic stories, topical new plays, and familiar favourites. WCT is your theatre, and we hope you’ll enjoy the chance to be back together again with family and friends, and to fully embrace all that our great city has to offer. Welcome!

James MacDonald, Artistic Director

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ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

DANIELA VLASKALIC

At WCT: co-writer of The Drowning Girls

Daniela is a multiple award-winning Canadian actor and playwright. As an actor she has appeared across the county with many of Canada’s major theatre companies including: Stratford Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Calgary, ATP, Citadel Theatre, Globe Theatre, Vancouver Playhouse, Canadian Stage Company, Tarragon Theatre, Magnus Theatre, Belfry Theatre, and many more. Film & Television credits include: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Private Eyes (Global), and The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair (Muse Productions). Daniela has also co-written several plays including: The Last Train, Comrades, Mules, and the multiple award-winning play; The Drowning Girls The Drowning Girls has received multiple productions nationally and internationally and is published by Canada Playwrights Press. Daniela will be appearing in Dora Maar: the wicked one (co-written with Beth Graham) later this fall at Workshop West Playwrights Theatre in Edmonton. Daniela lives in Toronto.

“SLEIGHT OF MIND” PRODUCING PARTNER, HIT & MYTH

Hit & Myth Productions is a professional independent theatre company, established in 2006, and based in Calgary, Alberta. Hit & Myth has produced over 30 professional shows, engaging numerous local actors, directors, and designers.

Hit & Myth has produced musicals, comedies, and cutting-edge dramas, a genre that we lovingly call “commercial alternativism.” From musicals like Urinetown and Evil Dead; to hard hitting dramas like Martin Mcdonagh’s The Pillowman and David Mamet’s Race; to dark comedies like Neil Labute’s Reasons to be Pretty; to vibrant adaptations of both Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus and All’s Well That Ends Well) as well as Shakespeare inspired works (William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead and Equivocation); to supporting new work like Men Express Their Feelings, Dora Maar: the wicked one, and Sleight of Mind. Hit & Myth seeks to entertain, while always packing a serious theatrical punch.

HIT + MYTH

Hit & Myth collaborates with small to mid-sized sized theatre companies and independent artists to co-produce theatre that is provocative, modern, sensational, and above all else, entertaining. Our productions strive to reflect the dynamic and diverse theatrical community not only of Calgary in particular, but Western Canada in general. In these exceptional times, we are working on bringing theatre back, in a way that celebrates, supports, and engages our diverse community and audiences, and in a way where we all work safely, have fun, and enjoy the art form we love and are committed to.

Hit & Myth is excited to be collaborating with Western Canada Theatre to bring Sleight of Mind to audiences in Kamloops.

COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES

VALERIA ASCOLESE - Lola Montez

At WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Valeria is a Peruvian-Italian artist and educator. Some of her previous credits include: Ladies & Gentlemen, Boys & Girls (Carousel Theatre for Young People); Theory (Rumble Theatre); and the upcoming premiere of Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project (Electric Company Theatre). As a teaching artist, she works for Bard on the Beach, Carousel Theatre for Young People, and numerous public and private schools creating accessible drama curriculum for kids of all ages. Valeria is a graduate of Capilano University. She’s thrilled to be making her Western Canada Theatre debut.

DANIELLE KLAUDT - Mitzi Mengal

At WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Danielle is an actor based on Coast Salish land in the city of Vancouver. Select theatre credits include: Act of Faith (Realwheels); Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet (United Players); and The Wolves (Rumble/ Pacific Theatre). Select film credits include: Riverdale, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Seagrass. Danielle is a graduate of the University of the Fraser Valley and is so pleased to be making her WCT debut in a new piece of Canadian theatre! Keep up with her online @danielleklaudt.

TEO SAEFKOW - Rudi Schneider

At WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Teo is an actor/musician hailing from the Coast Salish territory known as Vancouver. Select credits include: What If, The Code (Green Thumb Theatre); Cinderella (Project X); Slime (The Only Animal); The Aliens (Sticks and Stones). Teo also performs and releases music under the name Scalawag, which you can find at thescalawagmusic.com Teo is a graduate of Studio 58, and is so happy to be part of this thrilling new piece of Canadian theatre at WCT.

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JAMIE WILLIAMS - Dr. Harry Price

At WCT: Debut

Elsewhere: Jamie has performed in over 80 productions nationwide on stages that include Stratford Festival, National Arts Centre, Canadian Stage, and The Citadel. This summer he appeared in The View From Here, which he also wrote, alongside his wife Melanie Janzen at The Port Stanley Festival Theatre. He has also penned the farce It’s Your Funeral, produced both at Upper Canada Playhouse (2018) and PSFT (2019), and his comedy, Pinkerton Comes to Prospect, shortlisted for the Playwrights Guild Comedy Award 2020, has an upcoming production in the summer of 2024. Most recently Jamie directed the touring production of Norm Foster’s The Foursome for The Foster Festival. Sleight of Mind marks Jamie’s first appearance at Western Canada Theatre where he is thrilled to be working once again with James MacDonald.

CMK

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Saturday, October 8, 2022

German Romantics

Duo Beaux Arts

Catherine Lan, piano Tao Lin, piano

Saturday, November 19, 2022

Winds of Change Wind Jammers Quintet

Janet Watson, flute Karen Gibbons, oboe Lucy Benwell, clarinet

Edmund House, French horn Cuyler Page, bassoon

7:30 p.m. Kamloops United Church

Tickets available at the door

This concert will also be

THE CREATIVE TEAM

JAMES MacDONALD - Director

At WCT: The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, A Christmas Carol, Vimy, The Drowning Girls, Million Dollar Quartet, GLORY, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story Elsewhere: Julius Caesar (Stratford Festival); The Old Ladies, Black ‘ell (Shaw Festival); Fire, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing (Canadian Stage); A Few Good Men, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily (RMTC). James spent 10 years as Associate Artistic Director of The Citadel Theatre, where he directed 18 productions, including Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Venus in Fur, Billy Bishop Goes to War, and God of Carnage, and acted in 14 more, including six seasons as Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. He was also the Program Director of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program, and the founding Artistic Director of Edmonton’s Freewill Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta BFA Acting Program.

HANS SAEFKOW - Set Designer

At WCT: Design for The Sound of Music; Scenic Painter for The Wizard of Oz, Dracula: The Bloody Truth, and Serving Elizabeth Elsewhere: Hans is excited to be joining another production at WCT, after the last two years where we’ve all been struggling in the theatre community. Just as the pandemic began, Hans was working on Stones in His Pockets at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon, the production of which was suspended a week before opening. Recent design credits include: Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune and Barefoot in the Park (Blue Bridge Theatre); Isitwendam (An Understanding) (Bound to Create’s collaboration with Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto); Romeo and Juliet, Chicago, and What You Will (Smithers Secondary Arts Academy). Highlights include: The Drum is Calling You Home (Sunset Theatre); Its a Wonderful Life and The Drowning Girls (Theatre North West).

BAYATA HACKBORN - Costume Designer

At WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Having graduated directly before the pandemic with a degree in Theatre Design, Beyata has spent the last few years grappling with a struggling industry and she’s thrilled to step foot onto semistable ground. She’s spent the last two seasons working as an Assistant Designer at the Shaw Festival, taking contracts in the interim, and has worked extensively as an assistant in other places such as the Banff Centre and the Citadel Theatre. She’ll be returning to Shaw in the new year to Associate on their production of Playboy of the Western World and to design set/costumes for their Lunchtime slot, Village Wooing. Beyata will also be working on designs for a newly adapted work based on Joyce Carol Oates’ Freaky Green Eyes and as the Associate Set Designer for Jersey Boys (Citadel Theatre).

LOUISE GUINAND - Lighting Designer

At WCT: Lighting Designer for Meet My Sister, A Comedy of Errors, Mary Poppins, and A Lion in Winter

Elsewhere: Louise has designed lighting for over 500 shows across Canada and in the U.S. Selected credits include: All’s Well That Ends Well, 1939, Three Tall Women, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet (Stratford Festival); Rope, Stage Kiss (Shaw Festival); I Call Myself Princess, Around the World in 80 Days, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Drowning Girls (Globe); Pinocchio (YPT). Louise has received numerous lighting design award nominations coast to coast. She is a graduate of Queen’s University and National Theatre School. Louise is a member of ADC659.

LUKAS VANDERLIP - Sound Designer & Composer

At WCT: Music Composition and Sound Design: The Drowning Girls, VIMY, Armstrong’s War. Acting: Skut Farkas in A Christmas Story. Elsewhere: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Red Riding Hood (Project X Theatre); Fight Girl Battle World, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (TRU Actor’s Workshop Theatre); The Robber Bridegroom and Frankenstein (Chimera Theatre). Lukas Vanderlip is a Kamloops based composer, sound designer, and songwriter. Lukas has been involved in the theatre community since a young age, taking classes with WCT’s Stage One Theatre School, and is grateful he gets to continue to work in the theatre community professionally. He has also recorded and independently released several albums of music under the name “beholding”. He wants to thank his family, his friends, and his cats for their support and encouragement, and of course the talented Sleight of Mind team for their inspiration. beholding.bandcamp.com

SUSAN D. CURRIE - Stage Manager

At WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Welcome to the show! Susan is a BC based Stage Manager who works in other provinces. Select credits include: Snowflake, Lungs, Body Awareness, Mary’s Wedding, The Light in the Piazza, Lion in Winter, Ebenezer, Dancing at Lughnasa, How I Learned to Drive, Anne of Green Gables, Footloose, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Angels in America: Perestroika, Hamlet, King Lear, Coriolanus, The 39 Steps, Refuge, SH*T, The Nether, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, Happy Place, Hippolyta’s Wedding, From Broadway with Love, Beggar’s Opera, Million Dollar Quartet, The Foreigner…to name a few.

ALANA FREISTADT - Assistant Stage Manager

At WCT: Debut Elsewhere: Alana (she/her) is excited to be back in BC and making her debut with Western Canada Theatre. In addition to her work in Saskatchewan at Globe Theatre (Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, G-Ram, The Secret Mask) and Persephone Theatre (Jabber, For Art’s Sake, Art, Mary’s Wedding, It’s a Wonderful Life), she has worked across the country from BC with Chemainus Theatre Festival (A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur) to Talk is Free Theatre in Ontario (Every Brilliant Thing) to the Stephenville Theatre Festival in Newfoundland and Labrador (Monty Python’s Spamalot, Mama’s Country Record Collection). For Grandma Bernice and Grandpa Arnie.

ASHLEY HIIBNER - Apprentice Stage Manager

At WCT: Lighting Technician for Echoes of the Homesick Heart, Sound and Lighting Technician for Hey Viola! Viola Desmond–The Soundtrack of a Life, Child Supervisor for The Sound Of Music, and a Stage One Summer Camp Instructor. Elsewhere: Ashley has worked with Chimera Theatre as a member of The Freudian Slips Improv team and as an actor and puppeteer for The Robber Bridegroom. She is also an actor and puppeteer for Tonight’s the Night, with Zorblax Destroyer of Worlds

A TRICK OF THE MIND: THE STORY BEHIND RUDI SCHNEIDER

Braunau, Austria, 1908. A boy by the name of Rudi Schneider is born. A particularly gifted boy. One with powers that allowed him to interact between the land of the living and the land of the dead.

Over Rudi’s lifetime, his gifts grew revolving around paranormal psychic ability. In 1919, at 11 years old, Rudi’s ability to communicate with the dead was tested by his father. Rudi’s brother, Willi, also participated in these tests, but his mediumship was much less documented than his brother’s.

Both Rudi and Willi were encouraged by their father to participate in séances, which in turn grew their abilities to speak with spirits. Both boys typically conversed with a spirit who called herself ‘Lola Montez’. Later, it was discovered that ‘Lola’ was Eliza Eosanna Gilbert, the mistress of the King of Bavaria from the 1820s to 1840s. This is the spirit that Rudi continued to summon until the 1930s.

As the years went on, doctors and scientists encouraged Rudi to conjure Lola. This allowed them to study Rudi’s relationship with Lola and in doing so, exploit Rudi for their own personal gain. The most notable of these researchers was Dr. Harry Price, a scientist who founded the National Laboratory of Psychical Research in London, England. Dr. Price was very intent on studying Rudi, to prove that spirits and paranormal activity did exist, unlike many other researchers who wanted to disprove Rudi’s abilities. As Dr. Price’s study with Rudi proceeded, it was only until one fateful sitting where things went wrong.

In April 1932, there was one sitting that had all scientists and researchers questioning Rudi’s abilities. Whether it was a trick of the camera, Lola manipulating Rudi’s hand, or Rudi doing it himself, Rudi was caught in mid-trance moving a handkerchief and dropping it onto the floor. Some conclude that the photograph catching Rudi’s hand was fabricated, but many believe that the photo was left untouched. Regardless, this incident led to the downfall of Rudi’s career as a medium.

Many scientists and researchers that witnessed Rudi’s abilities concluded that he was a fraud, stating that there was “no good evidence that Rudi Schneider possesses supernormal powers.” Perhaps Rudi’s sitting in 1932 disillusioned others and himself from believing in the paranormal, or perhaps no paranormal activity ever occurred at all. Regardless, all were suspended of belief by the mid-1930s and Rudi halted investigations into the paranormal until he passed away in 1957.

But the question remains: Was Rudi Schneider communicating between the living and the dead or was it all just a sleight of the mind?

Rudi Schneider (left) and Dr. Harry Price (right) are testing Dr. Price’s paranormal trackers. Rudi is wearing cotton gloves and metal holds for his feet to track if he is moving or not.

READ AT YOUR OWN RISK: This story contains spoilers about some of the events in the play

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OLGA KILINNIK Accounting Officer

CHELSEA ISENOR Marketing & Communications Director

KIRK SMITH Manager, Marketing, Digital & Special Projects

ELIZABETH NYGREN Social Media & Marketing Coordinator

SUZAN GOGUEN Growth & Engagement Director

STEPHANIE MCLEAN Development Manager

JENNY EDWARDS Development & Administrative Assistant

LAURA MICHEL Indigenous Community Engagement Coord.

SKYLAR NAKAZAWA Facilities & Rentals Coordinator

PRODUCTION

CHRISTINE LEROUX Associate Producer

BILL CHABASSOL Director of Production

LIAM BEFURT Vanue Technical Director, Sagebrush Theatre

BRITTNEY MARTENS Head of Properties

JAMES BEFURT Head Scenic Carpenter

KRISTIN KLAMMER Head of Scenic Art

SABRINA STACE Head of Wardrobe

EMILY THIBERT Wardrobe Assistant

DANI FOISY Production Assistant & Floating Technician

BEVERLEY DESANTIS President

CHRYSTIE STEWART Vice President

SHARON FRISSELL Secretary

TIM RODGERS Treasurer, Past Pres. LORI BREGOLISS GRANT CHU

DR. PAUL DAGG

TARA HOLMES

NENA JOCIC-ANDREJEVIC JESSE MCCORMICK

ATISH PATEL

PETER TER WEEME

CARMELINA WOODS

ASHLEY HIIBNER Production Assistant & Floating Technician

DANIEL JEWISON Theatre Technician, Sagebrush

ADRIAN HARLAND Theatre Technician, Sagebrush

VENUE SERVICES

MICHELLE CHABASSOL Manager of Ticketing & Patron Services

JANE HARESTAD Box Office & Patron Services Supervisor

MORGAN BENEDICT Manager of House & Volunteers

JESSICA BUCHANAN Front of House Assistant & Concession Coordinator

Box Office Representatives:

VIRAAJ BHINDA, STEPHEN FINLAY, LINDA KASSIS, GRACE LABOSSIERE, GRAYSON NORSWORTHY, ELIZABETH NYGREN, ANN WELLER

House Staff:

DIANE AKERS, LEO BARRAGAN, AMANDA BREUER, GREG BROWN, DENISE CLEVELAND, SOPHIA DIMOPOULOS, NICOLLE DUPONT, STEPHEN FINLAY, ASHLEY HIIBNER, LINDA KASSIS, BRENDAN LAW, ELIZABETH NYGREN

David Ross †

Tom Kerr ‡

Judge T.W. Shupe § D. Michael Dobbin * Francis Barnett * Peggy Gilmour * Mike Latta * Anne Manson* Maureen Marshall* Lanni Shupe*

Honorary Life Artistic Producer

Founding Artistic Director

Honorary Life Chairman

Honorary Life Member

A SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS!

& Rae

Enjoy the Show!