YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA PRESENTS
NOTES Tereus, a son of War, lusts after his wife’s sister, Philomela. He seizes her and rapes her in the woods. She begs for death. He cuts her tongue off instead. Tereus tells his wife, Procne, that her sister is dead. A year passes, during which Tereus frequently visits Philomela. She weaves a portrait of Tereus’s crime into a tapestry and sends it to Procne, who finds her. Together they murder Itys (Procne and Tereus’s son), roast him, and feed him to an unsuspecting Tereus. He goes mad when he learns he’s gorged on Itys. Tereus tries to kill the sisters, but they escape by turning into birds. In the end, he, too, becomes a bird. —DOMINGUEZ AND TAMBURRI, AFTER OVID’S METAMORPHOSES
“[A] beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that’s all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.”
The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of
TITUS ANDRONICUS
—DOSTOEVSKY, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be portrayed in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we’ll have a lot more of them. And they’ll be fought by babies[.]” —VONNEGUT, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE directed by JACK TAMBURRI
“Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to the sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned.” —SCARRY, THE BODY IN PAIN
THURSDAY, APRIL 5 AT 4PM FRIDAY, APRIL 6 AT 4PM AND 8PM SATURDAY, APRIL 7 AT 4PM
2011–12 SEASON
The Studio Series productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at Yale School of Drama to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes that process.
ISEMAN THEATER 1156 CHAPEL STREET
APRIL 5–7, 2012 YA L E S C H O O L O F DR A MA J A M ES B U N DY, DEA N V I C TO R I A N O L A N , D EP UTY D EA N P R ESE N TS
The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of
TITUS ANDRONICUS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE directed by JACK TAMBURRI by
ARTISTIC STAFF
CAST in alphabetical order
Scenic Designer MEREDITH RIES Costume Designer JAYOUNG YOON Lighting Designer NINA HYUN SEUNG LEE Sound Designer JOEL ABBOTT Fight Director MICHAEL ROSSMY Dramaturg DELILAH DYLAN DOMINGUEZ Stage Manager SONJA THORSON
Marcus JOSHUA BERMUDEZ Aaron WILL COBBS Lucius WILLIAM DeMERITT Titus LUCAS DIXON Bassianus, Young Lucius ROBERT GRANT Saturninus PAUL LIEBER Chiron, Quintus, Messenger FISHER NEAL
PRODUCTION STAFF
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Associate Production Supervisor KAREN WALCOTT
Associate Managing Director JAEEUN JOO
Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer STEVEN BRUSH Stage Management Advisor GINA NOELE ODIERNO
Assistant Technical Director SANGHUN JOUNG Master Electrician BRIAN SMALLWOOD Costume Project Coordinator LINDA KELLEY-DODD
Tamora, Nurse HANNAH LEIGH SORENSON
Crew ELIZABETH ATKINSON SETH BODIE NORA HYLAND CHRISTOPHER RUSSO
THE MOST LAMENTABLE ROMAN TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS IS PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION.
House Manager JENNIFER LAGUNDINO
Technical Director KENYTH X. THOMASON
Demetrius, Mutius, Clown MICHAEL PLACE
Lavinia, Alarbus ALEX TROW
Management Assistants ANNE FLAMMANG MELISSA ZIMMERMAN
SPECIAL THANKS: Mamoudou Athie, Chris Bannow, Margot Bordelon, Rob Chikar, Tanya Dean, Ethan Heard, Francis Jue, Matt McCollum, Katie McGerr, Carolynn Richer, Michael Rogers, Max Roll, Steven Skybell, Carmen Zilles
PHOTO BY MEREDITH RIES.
APRIL 5–7, 2012 YA L E S C H O O L O F DR A MA J A M ES B U N DY, DEA N V I C TO R I A N O L A N , D EP UTY D EA N P R ESE N TS
The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of
TITUS ANDRONICUS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE directed by JACK TAMBURRI by
ARTISTIC STAFF
CAST in alphabetical order
Scenic Designer MEREDITH RIES Costume Designer JAYOUNG YOON Lighting Designer NINA HYUN SEUNG LEE Sound Designer JOEL ABBOTT Fight Director MICHAEL ROSSMY Dramaturg DELILAH DYLAN DOMINGUEZ Stage Manager SONJA THORSON
Marcus JOSHUA BERMUDEZ Aaron WILL COBBS Lucius WILLIAM DeMERITT Titus LUCAS DIXON Bassianus, Young Lucius ROBERT GRANT Saturninus PAUL LIEBER Chiron, Quintus, Messenger FISHER NEAL
PRODUCTION STAFF
ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Associate Production Supervisor KAREN WALCOTT
Associate Managing Director JAEEUN JOO
Assistant Sound Designer and Engineer STEVEN BRUSH Stage Management Advisor GINA NOELE ODIERNO
Assistant Technical Director SANGHUN JOUNG Master Electrician BRIAN SMALLWOOD Costume Project Coordinator LINDA KELLEY-DODD
Tamora, Nurse HANNAH LEIGH SORENSON
Crew ELIZABETH ATKINSON SETH BODIE NORA HYLAND CHRISTOPHER RUSSO
THE MOST LAMENTABLE ROMAN TRAGEDY OF TITUS ANDRONICUS IS PERFORMED WITHOUT AN INTERMISSION.
House Manager JENNIFER LAGUNDINO
Technical Director KENYTH X. THOMASON
Demetrius, Mutius, Clown MICHAEL PLACE
Lavinia, Alarbus ALEX TROW
Management Assistants ANNE FLAMMANG MELISSA ZIMMERMAN
SPECIAL THANKS: Mamoudou Athie, Chris Bannow, Margot Bordelon, Rob Chikar, Tanya Dean, Ethan Heard, Francis Jue, Matt McCollum, Katie McGerr, Carolynn Richer, Michael Rogers, Max Roll, Steven Skybell, Carmen Zilles
PHOTO BY MEREDITH RIES.
YALE SCHOOL OF DRAMA PRESENTS
NOTES Tereus, a son of War, lusts after his wife’s sister, Philomela. He seizes her and rapes her in the woods. She begs for death. He cuts her tongue off instead. Tereus tells his wife, Procne, that her sister is dead. A year passes, during which Tereus frequently visits Philomela. She weaves a portrait of Tereus’s crime into a tapestry and sends it to Procne, who finds her. Together they murder Itys (Procne and Tereus’s son), roast him, and feed him to an unsuspecting Tereus. He goes mad when he learns he’s gorged on Itys. Tereus tries to kill the sisters, but they escape by turning into birds. In the end, he, too, becomes a bird. —DOMINGUEZ AND TAMBURRI, AFTER OVID’S METAMORPHOSES
“[A] beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that’s all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it.”
The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedy of
TITUS ANDRONICUS
—DOSTOEVSKY, THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
“You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be portrayed in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we’ll have a lot more of them. And they’ll be fought by babies[.]” —VONNEGUT, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE
by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE directed by JACK TAMBURRI
“Physical pain does not simply resist language but actively destroys it, bringing about an immediate reversion to a state anterior to language, to the sounds and cries a human being makes before language is learned.” —SCARRY, THE BODY IN PAIN
THURSDAY, APRIL 5 AT 4PM FRIDAY, APRIL 6 AT 4PM AND 8PM SATURDAY, APRIL 7 AT 4PM
2011–12 SEASON
The Studio Series productions are designed to be learning experiences that complement classroom work, providing a medium for students at Yale School of Drama to combine their individual talents and energies toward the staging of collaboratively created works. Your attendance meaningfully completes that process.
ISEMAN THEATER 1156 CHAPEL STREET