THE WOMAN IN BLACK
By STEPHAN MALLATRATT
CAST
CHARLIE GALLANT
JAMES MacDONALD
CREATIVE TEAM
KIM COLLIER
KEN MacKENZIE*
JOHN WEBBER
SABRINA STACE
THOMAS RYDER PAYNE
ALISON MATTHEWS
JAN HODGSON
PETER JOTKUS
JONATHON YOUNG
Actor
Actor
Director
Set Designer
Lighting Designer
Costume Designer
Sound Designer
Dialect Consultant
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Voice of the Priest
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.
THE WOMAN IN BLACK is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
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Based on the novel by SUSAN HILL Programme Producer: Western Canada Theatre
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*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659.
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STUDY GUIDE
Explore a Study Guide for The Woman in Black with further information and context about the show, useful both to students and general audience.
WELCOME!
Welcome to the 2024-25 season at Western Canada Theatre! We are so pleased that you’ve decided to Be Our Guest for another terrific year of comedy, music, thought-provoking drama...and a play that will send a chill down your spine...
The stage adaptation of The Woman in Black transports the evocative, spooky settings of the popular English novel on which it is based to a literal theatre, creating a play-within-aplay, and adding a delightful theatricality to the proceedings.
We love ghost stories because they embody life’s greatest unanswerable mystery: what happens to us after we die?
The supernatural in TV and film often hits us over the head with CGI ghosts, replacing the power of the imagination. In the theatre we can share these tales as humankind has for millennia: imagine we’re sitting around a fire, and someone starts to tell a story of something that happened to a friend…
Famous theatre ghosts who continue to haunt our stages on a regular basis include the ghost of Hamlet’s father and the ghost of Jacob Marley. Many theatres have their own resident ghosts, including this one. If you have a moment, turn to the upper right side of the theatre and say hello to Albert...
We are particularly pleased with this production to bring internationally renowned director Kim Collier back to WCT, and back to Kamloops. And we have a new face at WCT, with the introduction of our new Executive Director, Matt Eger:
“As we approach Western Canada Theatre’s 50th anniversary season, I am honoured to take on the role of Executive Director and to further champion Kamloops as a premier destination for theatre artists and audiences alike. I am incredibly grateful to the WCT Board of Directors and the entire WCT team for entrusting me with this significant responsibility. I am wholeheartedly committed to advocating for the importance of arts and culture in the lives of Kamloopsians and residents across the BC interior, promoting equity and inclusion, and ensuring the long-term relevance and sustainability of WCT.”
Matt
Eger
, WCT Executive Director
Finally, I am very much looking forward to returning to my past love of performing by appearing onstage in front of you, and to share a different experience with you than the one that we’ve taken together for the past seven seasons.
James Mac Donald , Artistic Director
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
Welcome to The Woman in Black adapted by Stephen Mallatratt from the 1983 book by English author Susan Hill. When the rights for The Woman in Black became available, Western Canada Theatre snapped up this beloved theatre show that ran for 36 years in London’s West End. The production opened in 1989 and was performed there until March 2023 for 13,232 performances, becoming the second longest-running non-musical play in West End history, after The Mousetrap. With a legacy like this I was very curious to dig in and unearth what makes this play tick.
I became interested in the underlying social conditions in this ghost story that formed our antagonist villain. People for the most part are not formed in a moral framework of good or bad but life shapes them so. When I have had the opportunity to direct works that harness the revenge theme (Sweeney Todd, Titus Andronicus) I have always gone digging for the roots of this vengeance and to tried to deeply understand our villain… what were the familial, social or political structures that failed them as a person and led them to live within this painful legacy of grief and anger. Good writing will have clues, and this is true with Susan Hill’s short novel, The Woman in Black. Susan Hill was interested in taking the ghost story genre - which is usually in short story format - and challenging it by shifting it into a longer novel format. In this process she was interested in giving her hauntings a psychological motivation. With this underpinning she unlocked a key towards a great ghost story that sustains across her 200 pages. In it her ghost has not found the love or sympathy she needed from her family, her community, the law, or the church after a significant change in her life.
I don’t want to say more about what injustice she suffered…but she definitely has roots that would cause anguish.
But whatever trail life has put before the woman in black… the story warns us that if you turn your grief and anger into vengeance ultimately you are turning that vengeance on yourself by arresting your emotional recovery. You will suffer and suffer and then your misery will create more misery; the vengeance becomes like a disease spreading outward into the community. So Beware! Because the woman in black has not stopped trying to avenge herself yet…
Kim Collier, Director
COMPANY BIOGRAPHIES
THE CAST
CHARLIE GALLANT - Actor
At WCT: Debut
Elsewhere: Charlie is delighted that you have chosen to come here tonight, to sit in the dark, to be told a ghost story. With 8 seasons at Bard On The Beach, 4 at Shawfest, 2 at Stratford, and performances across Canada, some other spooky theatre highlights include Frankenstein: Revived (Stratford); The Scarlett Letter (Theatre Calgary); Titus (Bard).
Voice-Over: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off ; PAW Patrol: The Movie; Pinkalicious Film/TV: Good Witch; Murdoch Mysteries ; The Strain; Fringe; and Percey Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Training: Studio 58 @charlie_byrd
JAMES MacDONALD - Actor
At WCT: (as Director): Jesus Christ Superstar ; Shrek The Musical; Grease; Sleight of Mind; The Wizard of Oz ; The Sound of Music; Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story ; Million Dollar Quartet ; GLORY; The Drowning Girls; A Christmas Carol; Vimy
Elsewhere: (Director, selected): Saving Graceland (Blyth Festival); Julius Caesar (Stratford Festival); The Old Ladies (Shaw Festival); Fire, As You Like It (Canadian Stage); A Few Good Men (RMTC). (Actor, selected): A Soldier’s Tale (WCT/KSO); Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Citadel, 6 seasons); Henry in Henry V (Freewill Shakespeare Festival); Slim in Of Mice and Men (Citadel, RMTC, Neptune); Salieri in Amadeus (Studio Theatre).
James spent 10 years as Associate Artistic Director of The Citadel Theatre, where he directed 18 productions and acted in 14 more. He was also the Program Director of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program for 6 years, and the founding Artistic Director of Edmonton’s Freewill Shakespeare Festival. He is a graduate of the University of Alberta BFA Acting Program.
Robert Davidson // Francisco de Goya // Jérôme Havre
David Hockney // Ed Pien // Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo
Marina Roy // Royal Art Lodge // Cauleen Smith
Amanda Strong // Camille Turner // Joyce Wieland
October 5 to December 28, 2024
Stories that animate us is organized and circulated by the Vancouver Art Gallery under the Across the Province program and is curated by Diana Freundl, Senior Curator, and Zoë Chan, former Assistant Curator.
Works by Ed Archie NoiseCat and Ed Pien drawn from the Kamloops Art Gallery collection are included as part of the Kamloops iteration of this exhibition.
Osvaldo Ramirez Castillo, Santo Marero, 2020, mixed media (pencil crayon, Conté, acrylic ink, watercolour, oil paint, collage) on Mylar, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery Acquisition Fund, 56 x 45.7 cm
THE CREATIVE TEAM
– Director
(Director) Unity 1918, No Exit ; (Actor) Heat Wave, Village of Idiots, Trouser Parts, Holiday Fever ; (Director/Actor) Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla.
: Kim is so happy to be back in her hometown working with this wonderful group of artists on The Woman in Black. Kim is known for cofounding Electric Company Theatre and has been the co-creator / director of a large body of work that toured nationally and internationally (and a few to Kamloops! ) with the company including: The Full Light of Day, Tear The Curtain, Studies in Motion, The Score.
Recently she co-created and directed Magic Hour responding to the COVID pandemic; an immersive single audience experience and King Lear for Soul Pepper Theatre Company in Toronto. Other direction credits include: Angels in America (Arts Club Theatre), Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus (Bard on the Beach), Red (Canadian Stage, Playhouse, Citadel Theatre) carried away on the crest of a wave (National Arts Centre) Kim is the recipient of the prestigious Elinore & Lou Siminovitch Prize, 4 Jessie Richardson Awards, Sterling Award and Ottawa Critics Award all for Direction. Kim was honored to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Thompson Rivers University and the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award.
KEN MacKENZIE – Set Designer
At WCT: Debut
Elsewhere: Ken has been a freelance designer and educator for the past 17 years. Ken’s set, lighting, costume, and video designs have appeared on stages across Canada, the United States and Europe. Ken has been a resident artist at Soulpepper Theatre company as well as the Young Centre for the Performing Arts. Ken has won multiple Dora Mavor Moore Awards and has been nominated for awards across Canada. Since 2017 Ken has been the president of the Associated Designers of Canada and has been one of the founding members of IATSE local ADC659. Since the fall of 2021, Ken has begun a faculty position at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon teaching in the School for the Arts.
JOHN WEBBER – Lighting Designer
At WCT: The Wizard of Oz, Chelsea Hotel, The Sound of Music, No Exit Elsewhere: John is honoured to be a working with such a wonderful group of artists and also to be back with Western Canada Theatre. A long time designer of both Sets and Lighting he has had the privilege of working with some of Canada’s most talented and adventurous artists. Past favorite credits include: Forgiveness, Kinky Boots, Angels in America Part 1 and 2, for the Arts Club Theatre Company. Rigoletto and Marriage of Figaro for Vancouver Opera.
SABRINA STACE – Costume Designer
At WCT: Associate Costume Designer for Jesus Christ Superstar (2024); Costume Designer for Hurry Hard (2023); Costume Coordination for Shrek The Musical (2023); Head of Wardrobe since 2021.
Elsewhere: Sabrina Stace (she/her) is a queer emerging costume designer from Moncton, New Brunswick and is the current Head of Wardrobe at WCT. East Coast design credits include: Crypthand (Gale Force Theatre, Fall 2022); Where You Are (Theatre Baddeck, Summer 2021); and Tintamarre: MURMUReS (Mount Allison University, Spring 2021). Pre-COVID, she was based in Toronto, touring across Canada and parts of the US as Jörgen Dance’s Wardrobe Supervisor for their 2019/2020 Season. She holds a BA from Mount Allison University (Class of ‘18), certificate from Fanshawe College’s Costume Production Program (Class of ‘19), and was a Wardrobe Practicum at the Banff Centre of the Arts (Summer 2019).
Instagram: @stace_sabrina | Website: sabrinastace.wixsite.com/wardrobe
Headshot: James Arthur MacLean
THOMAS RYDER PAYNE – Sound Designer
At WCT: Debut
Elsewhere: Designs for Stratford, Shaw, Mirvish, Soulpepper, CanStage, Tarragon, Factory, TPM, YPT, Crows, Modern Times, Aluna, BIBT, Theatre Gargantua, Nightwood, Toronto Dance Theatre, NAC, Centaur, Theatre Calgary, GCTC, RMTC and many others.
JAN HODGSON – Stage Manager
At WCT: Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla, GLORY
Elsewhere: Caravan Farm Theatre (Every Brilliant Thing, Black Horse, Coyotes, Law of the Land, The Night’s Mare), Kidd Pivot (Betroffenheit), Electric Company Theatre (Undeveloped Sound, Tear the Curtain, Studies In Motion, No Exit, Brilliant, Palace Grand), Theatre Replacement (East Van Pantos), Vancouver Playhouse (The Overcoat, Death of a Salesman, The Drowsy Chaperone, Les Cages Aux Folles, Guys and Dolls), Rumble Theatre (Titus Boufonius), Arts Club Theatre (Angels In America, Humans, Helen Lawrence, Mustard), Catalyst Theatre (Hunchback), Citadel Theatre (Great Gatsby), Kokoro Dance (Sade, Rage, Bats)
PETER JOTKUS – Assistant Stage Manager
At WCT: Stage Manager Kim’s Convenience
Elsewhere: The Belfry; Pacific Opera; Arts Club (current) Vancouver Playhouse (twelve consecutive seasons); Bard on the Beach; Electric Company; Aeriosa Dance; WCT; Banff Centre; ATP; The Citadel; Theatre Calgary; MTC; Stratford Festival; Shaw Festival; Grand Theatre; Canadian Stage; Opera Atelier; COC; National Arts Centre; Centaur; Charlottetown Festival.
Touring: De Singel, Antwerp; BAM, New York; Edinburgh International Festival; Kammerspiel, Munich; American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco; Bushnell Center for the Arts, Hartford; Bergen Festival, Norway; Wellington Festival; Adelaide Festival; Barbican Theatre, London; World Stage Festival; Luminato, Toronto. Other: Graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
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