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yasmina reza

Gail Asperand the late

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We each must have a forgotten moment in our long-ago childhoods

when savagery gave way to

civility. Suddenly, we learned

that a quiet “please” could

accomplish more than a

screamed “I want.” It is a mo-

ment as important as our first

step or our first tooth but,

unlike walking or chewing, it is a skill that can slip

away from us only too easily when we are angry

or afraid.

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies explored the

brutality lurking behind the mask of civilization,

but allowed adult readers a consoling distance.

Golding’s regressive castaways were children,

after all; no grown-up could so quickly unlearn

the deeply ingrained codes of conduct that allow

society to function. Well, playwrights Yasmina

Reza and Tracy Letts are about to snatch that

consolation away from us, with their dark, hilari-

ous visions of adult barbarity.

Reza’s God of Carnage opens with four sophisti-

cated parents intent on using cooperation and

reason to solve a problem created by their violent

little children. But will they? When the adults

congratulate themselves on their mastery of “the

art of co-existence,” the play seems to erect a

smug signpost to the dangers ahead. The play

was originally titled Lay Waste to England for Me,

and for good reason: the play unravels each char-

acter’s good intentions, and leaves nothing except

the truth, which no one really

wants to hear (except the

audience, of course, for truth

is our raison d’être).

The characters in Letts’

August: Osage County have

no pretensions about the art

of co-existence, even at the

beginning of the play, as the

family patriarch makes one

final attempt to keep the domestic carnage at

bay by hiring a Cheyenne housekeeper. When the

father disappears a week later, the family comes

together in an unholy quest to discover the truth

about his disappearance, a search that reveals

more about each family member than anyone is

comfortable knowing. Letts could have called the

play Lay Waste to Oklahoma for Me.

When a friend saw August in New York, a man

in the audience stood up and yelled, “Why are

you all laughing? This isn’t funny!” And yet, other

people’s problems can be funny, especially in the

hands of great social satirists like Reza and Letts.

The two playwrights make their characters hit a

rock-bottom that is actually a comic springboard

for self-knowledge, ours and theirs.

Yours always,

Message froM the artistic Director

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byDiBrandt

God of Carnage was originally set in the suburbs of Paris. The setting was changed to Brooklyn for the Broadway premiere in New York, where people tended to say after seeing the play, “Oh, it’s so Brooklyn! Only in Brooklyn do people talk like that!” But in fact, despite its very specific loca-tions and references to local neighbourhoods, the play translates well to any modern urban setting. It played to rave audiences in London in 2008, and has been equally well received wherever it has played internationally.

Playwright Yasmina Reza’s genius is to take an ordinary domestic situation, the kind that might happen to any modern people, with a fairly simple conventional analysis offered to explain it. And then, as soon as we’ve understood and agreed to the situation and conventional analysis, to skewer us all—characters, audience, situation—by turn-ing the whole thing upside down and inside out. Soon we’re squirming, laughing, crying, point-ing fingers, blushing, and ruefully reaching out to each other, hugging, trying to keep friendly connections going despite all the awkward and damaging, but also occasionally poignant and tender, revelations that have been made upon closer examination, all of which we can widely identify with in ourselves.

Reza’s 1995 hit comedy, Art, which played to rave audiences all over North America, involved the buying and assessing of avant-garde contempo-rary art, and the fragility and strength of friend-ships in a world where aesthetic agreement—and therefore shared understanding between even close friends—is hard to come by, in a commer-cially determined market, buttressed by over-intellectualized discourse.

In God of Carnage, the situation is even more volatile and touchy. After a few minutes of polite talk, the meeting between the two couples unrav-els quickly into accusations and arguments and name-calling, each of the four adults taking sides with and against each other at different times in the chaotic and slightly hysterical 90 minutes of their visit. Before the afternoon is over, all four characters in God of Carnage have dropped their polite personas and revealed nastier, or in some cases simply more human, honest sides.

The “big” questions being explored here are the nature of morality, and behind that, more gener-ally, the nature of being human. Is morality a polite veneer we place over our essentially selfish and potentially angry, lying, cheating, devious, and sometimes violent selves, or is it an agreed-upon social code we can honestly aspire to live by? And if so, what happens to the nastier sides of ourselves, what should be done with them?

These questions find some of their most challeng-ing applications in the daily situations of families, and the urgent demands of parenting. We begin passionately defending our own children in a sort of blood and guts “tribal” way against the world, and then how should we navigate the tricky waters of adolescence where children begin to take on the world themselves? Should we keep defending and protecting them? Should we step aside and let them figure things out themselves, however messy that might be? What code of conduct is there to appeal to in the absence of community consensus and elder advice?

What does it all add up to? Which is our real self: the better, more polite one we try to be, as best we can and as circumstances permit, or the baser one we typically descend to under duress? How best to raise our children and shepherd them through the liminal zone of adolescence: by perpetuating the myths of innocence we feed them in their childhood, or by encouraging their disillusionment and toughening them up for a competitive life in the dog-eat-dog adult world to come? Or is it the other way around: is it child-hood that’s “savage” and adulthood that’s been hopelessly over-domesticated, so much so that we can’t help being occasionally thrilled by the spontaneous small animal brutalities of children?

Passionate engagement with these emotionally volatile questions in a social setting between two sets of parents who care deeply about their own children makes for fabulous drama indeed! We are left shaking with laughter and rueful identification with their bruises, follies, gestures of compromise and solidarity, and tendernesses, in this exciting 90-minute theatrical ride.

DiBrandtistheaward-winningauthorofnumerousbooksofpoetry,fictionandliterarycriticism,andlivesinBrandon,Manitoba.

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The characters in Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage are as full of opinions as any charac-ters I’ve ever met in any play. They hold forth at the drop of the proverbial hat on many subjects: child rearing, marriage, cooking, the purpose of life, western society and the ills of Africa. They struggle—valiantly, sadly, hilariously—as they attempt to come to terms with their dilemma, which is essentially (as they see it): who did what to whom, and who is responsible; or more simply, who is to blame? We begin to see them launch into yet another attempt to resolve their differences, to essentially sort out their lives, and we begin to wonder, why are they failing so dismally? Despite all the convictions, all the strongly defended positions, they cannot seem to resolve anything. In fact, this could be described as that rare beast, a comedy without a climax, without any winners or losers. This is because what the play reveals about the characters (who rather proudly present themselves as representative of western values) is that they are incapable of resolving anything, for themselves or for their children. As funny as their conduct may appear to us, what is tragic for them is not what is present in the play, but what is missing; missing from all their characters, all their actions, and all their relationships: see the definition above.

I think Ms. Reza would like us to make sure this attribute does not continue to “go missing” in our lives, our society and our western values, lest we end up as lost as abandoned hamsters.

“so, clafouti, is it a cake or a tart?serious question.”

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InGodofCarnage,Veronica(ShaunaBlack)servesclafouti

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– michaeL in God of CarnaGe

“it’s not a tart. it’s a cake.”– Vickie papavs, acTor, God oF carnaGe

“it looks like a tart.” [eats] “it tastes like a little slice of heaven. it’s a tarty cake.”

– John cassini, acTor, God oF carnaGe

“i think it’s a flan-y tart.”– peter Jotkus, assisTanT sTaGe manaGer, God oF carnaGe

“it looks like a tart to me.”– miles potter, direcTor, God oF carnaGe

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“it’s neat. it’s different. Spongy. What defines a tart or a cake? it’s a degree closer to cake than tart.”

– stephanie Lambert, speciaL & donor eVenTs coordinaTor

“it’s good. it’s dense. it’s not a tart. i’d give some leeway to cake.”– rob ring, direcTor, WinnipeG FrinGe TheaTre FesTiVaL & masTer pLayWriGhT FesTiVaL

“it doesn’t have any sort of rising agent in it, therefore it’s not a cake. it is, however, very delicious. also not a tart.”

– Kristine Betker, direcTor oF Fund deVeLopmenT

“neither a cake nor a tart. i would call it a flan. delicious!”– sue caughlin, marKeTinG & communicaTions manaGer

“i’m not comfortable calling it either a cake or a tart. i don’t think i know enough about baking terminology to know exactly what it is. it’s almost a custard with a crust.”

– Teri stevens, puBLicisT & onLine media coordinaTor

“it’s kind of quiche-ish. My mom’s is a bit more bready. if you use cherries you can then count the pits and say the children’s rhyme ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor’ to figure out who you will marry, or become.”

– camilla holland, GeneraL manaGer

“it’s more tart than cake. i don’t think it’s a cake, but it’s good.”

– alan Waite, assisTanT GeneraL manaGer

“it just tastes like some sort of weird jelly. it’s a cake.”– natascha hainsworth, ouTreach coordinaTor

“it’s very nice. very good. i would call it a tart.”– yvonne o’connor, accounTinG

“it’s a horizontal trifle, that’s what it is.”– Laurie Lam, producer

“it’s not going to make me vomit, is it?” [eats] “it’s definitely not pie. it’s a flan.”

– michael Joyal, deVeLopmenT assisTanT

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god of cArnAge wAs Produced on BroAdwAy By roBert fox, dAvid Pugh & dAfydd rogers, stuArt thomPson,

scott rudin, Jon B. PlAtt, the weinstein comPAny, And the shuBert orgAnizAtion.

god of cArnAge is Presented By sPeciAl ArrAngement with drAmAtists PlAy service, inc., new york.

Director miles potter

Set&CostumeDesigner Gillian Gallow

LightingDesigner Gerald King

FightDirector Carson nattrass

StageManager evan r. Klassen

AssistantStageManager peter Jotkus

ApprenticeStageManager Sandra morton

the Cast (in alPhabetiCal order)

MichaelNovak oliver becker

VeronicaNovak Shauna black

AlanRaleigh John Cassini

AnnetteRaleigh Vickie papavs

setting

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GodofCarnagerunsapproximately1hourand15minutes,nointermission.

by yasmina rezaTranslaTed by chrisTopher hampTon

a Co-ProduCtion with

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Oliver Becker

MichaelNovak

MTC The Seafarer, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Weir (with CS).

OTHER THEATRE Selected: Hosanna, Richard iii, Zastrozzi (Stratford); The Pillowman, Frozen (Citadel); Beyond Mozambique, Better Living, Escape from Happiness (Factory Theatre); Wild Mouth, Side Man (Tarragon); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (CS); The Cripple of Inishmaan (Centaur); The Miser, Macbeth, The Millionairess (VP).

TV King, Lost Girl, Rent-a-Goalie (three seasons) (Showcase); The Line (TMN).

Shauna Black

VeronicaNovak

MTC First appearance.

OTHER THEATRE Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Sylvia, Test Drive, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Six Degrees of Separation (TA); Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Heatwave, Cricket and Claudette (Blyth); The Melville Boys, The Miser (Sudbury Theatre Centre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Festival of Classics); Missing (Factory Theatre); Amadeus (CS/Citadel); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Persephone); five seasons with the Shaw Festival.

FILM/TV TV: Warehouse 13, Murdoch Mysteries, The Bridge, Kevin Hill, Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye, An American in Canada, Puppets Who Kill, Blackfly, La Femme Nikita, A Nero Wolfe Mystery. Film: Cursing Hanley, Zombie Dearest, Troubled Waters, Cold Creek Manor.

TRAINING Stratford Festival’s Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; College of Sports Media.

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John Cassini

AlanRaleigh


OTHER THEATRE A founding member of 3rd Street Theatre in Los Angeles, where he appeared in Edmond, Geography of a Horse Dreamer and One for the Road. Other theatre in LA: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (Greenway Court Theatre); Cash Deal (Actors Studio). In Vancouver: Rabbit Hole (Arts Club); Stiff Cuffs (Beaumont Theatre); Beirut, For What We Reap, Italian American Reconciliation (Station Street Arts Centre).

FILM/TV An accomplished TV and film actor in both Canada and the US, John has received several Gemini nominations, Leo Awards, developed TV shows for vari-ous networks and produced five feature films. TV credits include: series regular on Robson Arms, Da Vinci’s Inquest and Intelligence. Feature credits include: Alive, Se7en, The Game, Break a Leg (writer/producer and winner of nine film festival awards).

TRAINING Lifetime member of the Actors Studio.

ET CETERA He dedicates his performance to his two boys, Martin and Luca.

Vickie Papavs

AnnetteRaleigh

MTC One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC), Medea (with Mirvish), Much Ado About Nothing.

OTHER THEATRE Vickie has appeared in many productions across the country, in both large and small theatres. Selected favourites include: Mourning Dove (Ark Productions); Last Romantics, It’s All True (Necessary Angel); The Winter’s Tale (Centaur); Ah! Wilderness, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Stratford); Twelfth Night, The School For Scandal (Banff Centre); Miss Julie (Orange Dog).

FILM/TV Vickie has appeared in numerous film and television productions. Most recent: The LA Complex, King, Flashpoint, Murdoch Mysteries, If I Were You, The Four Sisters, The Gathering. She also lends her voice to television cartoons as well as TV and radio commercials.

TRAINING Graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program.

ET CETERA Home is Toronto, where she resides with husband Murray and son Owen.

Yasmina Reza

Playwright

Yasmina Reza is a French playwright and novelist based in Paris, whose works have all been multi-award-winning, critical and popular international successes, and translated into 35 languages. In addi-tion to God of Carnage, she has written seven plays: Conversations après un enterrement (Conversations After a Burial), La Traversée de l’hiver (The Passage of Winter), Art, L’Homme du hasard (The Unexpected Man), Trois versions de la vie (Life x 3), Une pièce espagnole (A Spanish Play) and Comment vous racontez la partie (How You Talk the Game). She is the author of six novels: Hammerklavier, Une désolation (Desolation), Adam Haberberg, Dans la luge d’Arthur Schopenhauer (On Arthur Schopenhauer’s Sledge), Nulle part and L’Aube le soir ou la nuit (Dawn Dusk or Night). Films include: Le pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz (Lula Kreutz’s Picnic), directed by Didier Martiny, and Chicas (based on Une pièce espagnole), written and directed by the author.

Christopher Hampton

Translator

Christopher Hampton’s theatrical work has garnered three Tony Awards, two Olivier Awards, four Evening Standard Awards and the New York Theatre Critics Circle Award. Prizes for his film and television work include an Academy Award, two baftas, a Writer’s Guild of America Award, the Prix Italian and a Special Jury Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His plays for the Royal Court include Treats, Savages, The Philanthropist, Uncle Vanya, Total Eclipse, Marya and When Did You Last See My Mother? Other plays include Embers, Three Sisters, Art, Sunset Boulevard, The Talking Cure, Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, White Chameleon, Tales from Hollywood, Don Juan Comes Back from the War, Tales from the Vienna Woods, An Enemy of the People, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, Life x 3, Tartuffe, Les liaisons dangereuses, The

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Unexpected Man and Conversations After a Burial. Hampton’s plays have been performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Almeida, the Royal National Theatre, and both London’s West End and Broadway. His television credits include The Ginger Tree, Hotel du Lac, The History Man and Able’s Will. He has written the screenplays for Atonement, Imagining Argentina, The Quiet American, The Secret Agent, Mary Reilly, Carrington, Total Eclipse, Dangerous Liaisons, Wolf at the Door, The Good Father, The Honorary Consul, Tales from the Vienna Woods and A Doll’s House.

Miles Potter

Director

MTC Seventeen previous productions, including Medea (1992, 2008), Macbeth (1990), Born Yesterday and Much Ado About Nothing (2005).

OTHER THEATRE Miles has directed for most major theatres across Canada, including three commercial plays for Mirvish Productions at the Royal Alex, the Winter Garden and the Ed Mirvish Theatre. He has

received a Dora Award (The Drawer Boy, Toronto), a Jessie (The Taming of the Shrew, Vancouver) and a Masque Award (Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Montreal).

TEACHING Miles has taught and directed at the National Theatre School, George Brown College, Dalhousie University, the University of Ottawa, the Globe Conservatory and the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

Gillian Gallow

Set&CostumeDesigner

MTC One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC).

OTHER THEATRE Set & Costume Designer: Night (NAC/Human Cargo); Appetite (Exchange Rate Collective/Theatre Passe Muraille); The Syringa Tree (Grand); The Bear (Preface Theatre/Art Gallery of Ontario). Set Designer: The Mill (Theatrefront); Ruined (Obsidian). Costume Designer: Awake and Sing! (Soulpepper); The Pillowman (CS); Ubuntu (Tarragon/Neptune); Pride and Prejudice, The Graduate (Grand).

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Upcoming: King Lear (NAC); The Devil We Know (Blyth); Hirsch (Stratford).

TRAINING York University, BFA.

ET CETERA Gillian is the recipient of three Dora Mavor Moore awards.

Gerald King

LightingDesigner

MTC Jake’s Gift, The Rainmaker.

OTHER THEATRE La Cage aux Folles, Death of a Salesman, The Fantasticks, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone (VP); Romeo et Julietta, Madama Butterfly, Salome, Così fan tutte (Vancouver Opera); Carmen, Vanessa, The Rake’s Progress (Pacific Opera Victoria); The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Much Ado About Nothing, Ubuntu (TC); Axis Theatre, Arts Club, Opera Omaha, Opera Lyra, Manitoba Opera, Edmonton Opera, the Citadel, National Ballet, Ballet BC, Western Canada Theatre, the National Arts Centre, Bard on the Beach.

TRAINING Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, member of Associated Designers of Canada.

ET CETERA Gerald has received eight Jessie Richardson Awards for Lighting Design.

Carson Nattrass

FightDirector

MTC Fight Director: Jitters, Much Ado About Nothing. Actor: The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Pride and Prejudice, Glengarry Glen Ross, Guys and Dolls (with TC/Citadel), A Christmas Carol, My Fair Lady, Much Ado About Nothing.

OTHER THEATRE Actor (selected): Nevermore (Catalyst/Persephone); The 39 Steps (Persephone); Death of a Salesman (WJT); Urinetown, Assassins (Dry Cold); The Forbidden Phoenix (MTYP); Molly’s Veil, Boeing-Boeing, No Way to Treat a Lady (Festival Antigonish); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Belfry/PTE); Liar, Walking on Water, Godspell (PTE); The Full Monty, Urinetown (Ground Zero Theatre/Hit & Myth Productions); With a Twist (Lunchbox Theatre); Just So (Globe Theatre); Strike! – The Musical (Danny Schur); Cats, Hairspray, Miss Saigon (Rainbow);

The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest (River City Shakespeare Festival).

TV Actor: Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story, A Bear Named Winnie, The Shields Stories, Category 7: The End of the World, Falcon Beach.

TRAINING BFA in Acting from the University of Alberta.

ET CETERA Carson will be directing Footloose: The Musical for Rainbow Stage this summer. Betty Award: Outstanding Performance in Urinetown; Equity/Stage West Emerging Theatre Artist of the Year Award (2006); six-time recipient of MTC’s Jean Murray – Moray Sinclair Scholarship.

Evan R. Klassen

StageManager

MTC Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, White Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone (with TC), Jitters, Fiddler on the Roof, The Real Thing, The Innocent Eye Test (with Mirvish), Humble Boy, Evita (with TC).

OTHER THEATRE Recent credits (selected): The House at Pooh Corner (MTYP); Hairspray, Cats, Rent (Rainbow); Sweeney Todd (Dry Cold); Much Ado About Nothing, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (TC); The Last Five Years (Act Natural Productions); Bordertown Café (PTE); Rigoletto (Edmonton Opera); Country Legends (Drayton); Candide, Il Trovatore, Transit of Venus, La Bohème, The Elixir of Love, Don Giovanni, Lucia di Lammermoor, Così fan tutte (Manitoba Opera); three seasons with the Shaw Festival.

ET CETERA Evan is celebrating his 10th season of stage management at MTC and is excited to be headed to Vancouver with the God of Carnage company.

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artists

Peter Jotkus

AssistantStageManager

MTC The Overcoat (Canadian tour), The School for Wives.

OTHER THEATRE Death of a Salesman, The Drowsy Chaperone, Fiddler on the Roof, Wit, Toronto, Mississippi, The Coronation Voyage, Hello, Dolly!, Noises Off (VP); Next to Normal, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Dinner with Friends (Arts Club); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard on the Beach); Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, An Ideal Husband (Shaw); Orfeo, Don Giovanni (Opera Atelier).

TRAINING York University; the Banff Centre; graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

ET CETERA Program Coordinator (Banff/Citadel Professional Theatre Training Program, Bob Baker Program Director); Venue Supervisor (Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, Coca-Cola Global Hospitality Program); Assistant to the Director General, Robin Phillips (Citadel Theatre); Assistant Director (Stratford Festival Young Company, Robin Phillips).

Sandra Morton

ApprenticeStageManager

MTC Calendar Girls (with Mirvish).

OTHER THEATRE Tosca (Manitoba Opera); The Ghost Sonata (U of W, StrindbergFest 2011); Bush Ladies (Theatre by the River, Winnipeg Fringe Festival); No Offense …, Ripple Effect, Cabaret of Monologues, FemFest (Sarasvàti Productions); The Law and the Order: Cdn Files, Jump for Glee (Celebrations Dinner Theatre).

TRAINING Sandra graduated from the U of W with a B.A. in Theatre Production/Stage Management. She has worked since 2005 as Stage Manager with her multi-talented mentor, Paula Olko, on John Taylor Collegiate’s spring musicals.

ET CETERA She is also an apprentice for iatse and has worked as backstage crew for Cats and Hairspray (Rainbow), with thanks to the late Ken Peter.

Buster Keaton’sThe General

SATURDAY, APRIL 28 I 8:00PM

Tickets available at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and all Ticketmaster outletsWSO Box Office 949-3999 www.wso.ca I 1-855-985-ARTS

We present Keaton’s 1926 silent masterpiece The General in a digitally restored print with Carl Davis’s celebrated musical score performed live with the WSO. Silent movies were meant to be seen in theatres, where the audience morphs into a comedy meter responding en masse to each gag.Experience all the thrills and spills in this comic gem!

Richard Lee, conductorFilm with music

parking

16 mar/apr 2012

In our recent surveys, the number one comment and concern has been about parking. Here are some handy tips and information to improve your parking experience.

1 Feel like those machines are taking longer to process your payment? They are!

WetalkedtoImparkandtheyexplainedthatcoldweathermakesthemachinesslowerthanusual,andcombinedwithnewcreditcardsecuritymeasures,eachcreditcardtransactionnowtakesapproximatelytwominutes(upfrom30secondspertransaction).Coinsarethebestwaytospeedupthisprocess;mostofthemachinesinourimmediatevicinitywillcostyou$4to$10intheevening.Daytimeratesvary.

2 check out the MTc website for a detailed parking map.

Wehaveamaponlineatwww.mtc.mb.ca/parkingandwillbeupdatingitregularlywithinformationaboutnearbylots.Dependingontheweather,thereareawholehostofparkingoptionsontheothersideofMainStreetthatyoumaynotknowabout.TheCivicParkadenexttothePublicSafetyBuildinglinksundergroundwiththeConcertHallnextdoor,andthenit’sjustaquickstepacrossthestreettoMTC.

3 Think southward, and discover underused lots in our neighbourhood.

Mostofourpatrons,andthoseoftheConcertHall,focusontheparkinglotsthatarenorthofthetheatre.(Theparkinglotimmediatelyattachedtoourtheatrewillalwaysfillupfirst).However,thereareanumberofoptionsheadingsouthtowardsthePortage/Maincorner.AtthecornerofRorieandBannatyneisaparkinglotthatisrarelyfull.Weopenthelobbydooratthesouthendofthebuildingsoifyou’vegotyourticketsinhand,youcansavewalkingpastthelobby.

4 There are big plans ahead to improve the situation.

MTChasbeeninvolvedintheplanningprocessforanewparkade,tobebuiltonJamesStreetadjacenttotheTomHendryWarehouse.Thisisn’tashort-termsolution,butitwillbeagame-changerintermsofnearbyparkingoptions.

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Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes at MTC?We invite you to see how a production goes from concept to the stage by taking a backstage tour. Tours typically begin in the lobby, where we share information about the building’s architecture, the history of the organization and the story of MTC’s founders, John Hirsch and Tom Hendry. We often visit the carpentry and scenic art shops, the props and wardrobe departments, storage facilities, backstage dressing rooms and perform-ers’ green room, as well as the theatre itself. MTC staff members often chat with tour groups about the projects they’re currently working on, giving visitors a glimpse at sets, props and costumes for upcoming shows.

In addition to details about the physical space, groups are treated to theatre lore. Why do you say break a leg instead of wishing good luck? What happens when you say Macbeth inside a theatre? Why is it considered taboo to whistle? You’ll learn about these superstitions and

become acquainted with theatre lingo like flat, deck, fly, trap and ghost light. And on the topic of ghosts, you’ll hear about our ghoulish resident George. Don’t worry, he’s more Casper than Headless Horseman.

Facility tours are an excellent way to discover more about theatre in general and MTC in par-ticular. Whether you’re a teacher hoping to excite your students about the arts or a community organization looking for a new outing, an MTC tour is a wonderful group activity.

While we always try to accommodate specific schedule and information requests, tour partici-pants should be aware that some departments may be temporarily inaccessible due to workload and safety reasons. Our backstage area has several flights of stairs so tour groups should be prepared for a complimentary workout! MTC’s knowledgeable staff and volunteers lead tours free of charge. Ideally, we tour groups of 10 to 20 people, but can accommodate larger parties by breaking into smaller groups. The excursion takes 45 to 60 minutes, and needs to be pre-booked with MTC’s Outreach Coordinator at 204-934-0304 or [email protected].

A tour group enjoys a chance to walk the boards of the John Hirsch Mainstage during an MTC facility tour.

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setting the stage august: osage county

Frank adamson as

Beverly WesTon

Violet’s husband and patriarch of the Weston

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bev’s wife and matriarch of the Weston family.

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david Warburton as

Charlie aiken

husband of mattie Fae and father of little

Charles.

steven ratzlaff as

Bill fordhaM

husband of barbara and

father of Jean.

sharon Bajer as

BarBara fordhaMeldest daughter

of bev and Violet. Wife of

bill and mother of Jean.

miriam smith as

ivy WesTon

middle daughter of the Weston

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arne macpherson as

sTeve heideBreChTKaren’s fiancé.

Julia arkos as

karen WesTon

youngest of the three Weston

sisters. engaged to Steve.

robert Glen Thompson as

liTTle Charles

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Fae and Charlie.

samantha hill as

Jean fordhaMDaughter of bill

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Johnna MonevaTabev and Violet’s live-in house-

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cory Wojcik as

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How do you fit a three-storey house into 13 feet of space?That’s the task designer Brian Perchaluk faced when director Ann Hodges approached him one opening night last year, asking him to design the set (and costumes) for August: Osage County. The original 2007 production featured an on-stage, multi-storey house that proved so iconic, subsequent Broadway, touring and international productions have nearly always resurrected it.

But the Tom Hendry stage at the Warehouse—the venue for August: Osage County—only has 12 feet 5 inches between floor and I-beam.

“At first, we tried to be more naturalistic,” Perchaluk says, “to have more walls, more stairs. We had staircases with eight steps at one point, separat-ing the floors. But a person standing on the top floor of that configuration would have their head in the lighting grid. It felt forced. We just didn’t have the space.”

The solution: a more abstract, poetic concept.

“Ann and I talked about the ‘Big House’ set de-sign, trying to figure out what statement it made on the family and the generations—what the family used to be. What could we find that could be as important to our production?”

Perchaluk kept coming back to the windows. Shuttered in the first two acts, the house’s windows are barriers that keep outsiders from peering in—and the Weston family from looking

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Curtain Calls

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out. If windows are the eyes of a house, these eyes are tightly shut, like the absent eyes in T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men.”

The eyes are not here There are no eyes here In this valley of dying stars In this hollow valley

Other poetic sources, referenced by the script, also emerged to help guide Perchaluk’s design, such as John Berryman’s “The Curse.”

Only the idiot and the dead Stand by, while who were young before Wage insolent and guilty war By night within that ancient house, Immense, black, damned, anonymous.

Perchaluk has tried to weave these colours into his minimalistic set. The windows hang in dark voids. Rooms appear to be near each other, but have a distinct disconnect—a quality Perchaluk lifted from the central family. Tufts of dead, dry grass suggest a desolate, Oklahoma plains beyond the walls. The goal is to suggest a house formerly of substance, diminished by abandon-ment and neglect.

While layering in these stylistic elements, Per-chaluk is blunt about his main goal as designer for August: Osage County—functionality. After all, a play with 13 actors using five main acting areas (often simultaneously) requires a very particular arrangement to make logical sense to an audi-ence. And prevent bodies from bouncing off each other.

“Most of the energy has been focused into the geography—fitting this play into this space … it hasn’t been frustrating, more a process of refine-ment,” says Perchaluk.

“It’s such a rich, well-crafted piece, the set just has to function so the story will happen as best it can. I really think the set should be an after-thought—that’s usually how I approach my work. You need to give the actors space to do the play. That’s where the bang for your buck is; it’s not about the set. The poetry is secondary, but it’s simmering there underneath.”

Perchaluk’s attitude is backed up by a long resume; this is his 50-ish design for MTC (he says 50-ish after losing count over the years). The Roblin, Manitoba native actually credits MTC with sparking his interest in theatre. As a child, he was deeply impressed by the touring productions the theatre sent to his school, eventually heading to the University of Winnipeg and National Theatre School to launch his career in theatre design. He’s pleased for chances to give back to MTC, particu-larly on a play as provocative and well-crafted as August: Osage County.

“With some plays, it’s an uphill battle and you work and work, but you know the play is going to be a dud. When you’re starting off with a great piece like this—it’s 80 per cent there, in the script. You just need to make sure you support it and don’t screw it up.”

Even with a tight playing space, that doesn’t seem likely. Director Ann Hodges sums up the advan-tages of Perchaluk’s design.

“We don’t have the iconic image, but we will place this family drama—this vicious play—20 feet away from the audience. We will, instead of the icon, have intimacy.”

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August: osAge county Premiered June 2007At stePPenwolf theAtre comPAny in chicAgo, il,

mArthA lAvey, Artistic director; dAvid hAwkAnson, executive director

stePPenwolf’s Production of August: osAge county oPened on BroAdwAy At the imPeriAl theAtre on decemBer 4, 2007. it wAs Produced By Jeffrey richArds,

JeAn doumAniAn, steve trAxler, Jerry frAnkel, ostAr Productions, Jennifer mAnocheriAn, the weinstein comPAny, deBrA BlAck/dAryl roth, ronAld & mArc frAnkel/BArBArA freitAg,

And rick steiner/stAton Bell grouP.

“lAy down sAlly” (eric clAPton, mArcy levy And george e. terry)

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All rights on BehAlf of throAt music ltd Administered By wB music corP. All rights reserved. used By Permission.

August: osAge county is Presented By sPeciAl ArrAngement with drAmAtists PlAy service, inc., new york.

thAnk you: michAel BArnes (wAyne stAte university), rod Beilfuss, Jim Johnson (accenthelp.com)

by Tracy LeTTs

generouslysPonsored By

Director ann hodges

Set&CostumeDesigner brian perchaluk

LightingDesigner larry isacoff

SoundDesigner michael Wright

FightDirector Jacqueline loewen

Dialect&TextCoach Shannon Vickers

AssistantDirector Daria puttaert

ApprenticeDirector leigh anne parry

StageManager Chris pearce

ApprenticeStageManager Jessica Freundl

the Cast (in alPhabetiCal order)

BeverlyWeston Frank adamson

KarenWeston Julia arkos

BarbaraFordham Sharon bajer

JohnnaMonevata melanie Dean

VioletWeston martha henry

JeanFordham Samantha hill

SteveHeidebrecht arne macpherson

BillFordham Steven ratzlaff

MattieFaeAiken brigitte robinson

IvyWeston miriam Smith

LittleCharlesAiken robert Glen thompson

CharlieAiken David Warburton

SheriffDeonGilbeau Cory Wojcik

setting

place:AlargecountryhomeoutsideofPawhuska,Oklahoma,sixtymilesnorthwestofTulsa.

time:August2007.

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artists

27mar/apr 2012

Frank Adamson

BeverlyWeston

MTC Mr. Adamson has appeared in 24 shows at MTC, most recently: Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC), Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), Our Town, The School for Wives (with VP), To Kill a Mockingbird (with Citadel), King Lear, The Crucible.

OTHER THEATRE Selected: Arsenic and Old Lace, Walsh (TC); The Trials of Ezra Pound (Stratford); A Delicate Balance, The Wild Guys, The Stone Angel (Persephone); Bat Masterson’s Last Regular Job (Toronto Free); The Norbals, Inquest (PTE); The Seagull (Globe); South Pacific, Brigadoon, Fiddler on the Roof, Annie Get Your Gun (Rainbow).

FILM/TV The Lazarus Project, The Big White, Population 436, Something Beneath, Six Figures, Reckless Disregard, My Mother’s Ghost, The Arrow, The Terry Fox Story, Corner Gas, Street Legal and five years on Seeing Things.

Julia Arkos

KarenWeston

MTC An Inspector Calls.

OTHER THEATRE Julia has worked with: Soulpepper Theatre Company (Toronto); Kaleidoscope Theatre, Playwrights Theatre Centre, Arts Club, Mothership Collective (Vancouver); MTYP, PTE, WJT, Theatre Projects Manitoba, Manitoba Association of Playwrights (Winnipeg).

TV Credits include: Lucky Christmas, Less Than Kind, Eureka, Dead Like Me, Deadzone, Tru Calling, The X-Files.

ET CETERA Thank you, Matt, for your support, patience and encouragement!

Sharon Bajer

BarbaraFordham

MTC Steel Magnolias, Top Girls, Humble Boy, Of Mice and Men, Six Degrees of Separation, Angels in America, Our Country’s Good, Romeo and Juliet (Theatre for Young Audiences production), Les Belles Soeurs.

OTHER THEATRE Selected: The Secret Mask, Marion Bridge, Zadie’s Shoes, Liar, The Edible Woman, Marvin’s Room, Walking on Water, The Stone Angel (PTE); Urinetown, Company (Dry Cold); The Weir (Western Canada Theatre/Belfry); Molly’s Veil, Boeing-Boeing (Festival Antigonish); Dying to Be Thin, The Odyssey, The Secret Garden (MTYP); Going Home (WJT); Generous (Theatre by the River).

FILM/TV “Betty”—The Atwood Stories (W Network), Children of My Heart (Alliance/Atlantis), Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story (APTN/CBC), Falcon Beach (Global), Shall We Dance? (Miramax), Trucks (USA Network), The Stone Angel (Alliance), Heater (Marble Island Films).

TRAINING Graduate of Studio 58. Two seasons at the Stratford Festival in the Michael Langham Workshop for Classical Direction.

ET CETERA Sharon has written six plays: Burnin’ Love, Molly’s Veil (PTE); Hersteria (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); To the Country (Winnipegger Ensemble); Scrabble from the Apple (WJT); Jesus Does Laundry Too (TPM). Love to Carson.

Melanie Dean

JohnnaMonevata


OTHER THEATRE The Life of Ruth (MTC play reading); Stretching Hide (University of Brandon); Twelfth Night, The House of Bernarda Alba (U of W/Gas Station Arts Centre); BBQ (PTE); Picnic (U of W); The Crisis in Oka, Manitoba (Red Roots Theatre).

FILM My Winnipeg (Buffalo Gal Pictures).

TRAINING University of Winnipeg Theatre Department, B.A. (Hons.).

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artists

28 mar/apr 2012

Martha Henry

VioletWeston

MTC A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Hostage, The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage, The Lady’s Not for Burning—all for John Hirsch. For Eddie Gilbert: The Three Sisters, Heartbreak House, Hedda Gabler. Under Steven Schipper: Director of The Crucible and King Lear.

OTHER THEATRE Member of Stratford Shakespeare Festival Company 1962-1970, 1973-1980, 1994-2011. Director of Stratford’s Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre. Upcoming: Director of Hedda Gabler, Shaw Festival, 2012.

ET CETERA Lifetime member of Actors’ Equity Association; Governor General’s Performing Arts Award; Order of Ontario; Companion of the Order of Canada.

Samantha Hill

JeanFordham


OTHER THEATRE Spring Awakening (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); The Light in the Piazza (Patrick Street Productions); Cats, Beauty and the Beast, Peter Pan (Rainbow); The Light in the Piazza, Nine (Dry Cold); Head (SIR); Savage in Limbo, Nicholas Nickleby (Studio Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (University of Alberta).

FILM/TV Closures (City Bird); Bad Meat, Fear Itself (NBC); “Betty”—The Atwood Stories (W Network); The Nature of Nicholas (Nicholas Productions).

TRAINING Graduate of the University of Alberta BFA Acting Program (with distinction) and the U of W BA Theatre Program.

ET CETERA Received an Ovation nomination for her work in The Light in the Piazza with Patrick Street Productions, Vancouver. Love and endless thanks to B.A., my hero. www.samanthahill.ca

Arne MacPherson

SteveHeidebrecht

MTC Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), King Lear, The Crucible, Our Country’s Good, Transit of Venus (regional tour), Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays and Romeo and Juliet (Theatre for Young Audiences productions), An Inspector Calls. Director: The Threepenny Opera (with SIR).

OTHER THEATRE Way to Heaven, Talk, The Father (WJT); Lenin’s Embalmers (WJT/Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company); Iago in Othello, title role in Hamlet, title role in Richard iii, The Merchant of Venice, The Odyssey (SIR); Encore (TPM). Selected directing: Stretching Hide, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Noble Savage, Savage Noble (TPM); Head, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth (SIR); eight productions of Robert Munsch stories for PTE.

FILM/TV Arne has appeared in more than 25 locally shot film and television projects.

TRAINING Graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting) program at the University of Alberta.

ET CETERA Arne’s most cherished theatre experiences were Candy From a Baby and Molotov Circus, both of which were collaborations with his children Gislina and Solmund, and his partner Debbie Patterson.

Steven Ratzlaff

BillFordham

MTC It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Glengarry Glen Ross, Our Town, The Philadelphia Story (with TC).

OTHER THEATRE Lenin’s Embalmers (WJT/Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company); Essay/The Russian Play, Broken Glass, Einstein’s Gift, Funny Girl, Anne Frank and Me (WJT); Sweeney Todd, The Light in the Piazza, Urinetown (Dry Cold); Last Man in Puntarenas (TPM); Girl in a Goldfish Bowl (PTE/Belfry); Molly’s Veil (PTE).

TRAINING University of Winnipeg.

ET CETERA Steven’s play Dionysus in Stony Mountain will be opening soon at Theatre Projects Manitoba.

artists

Brigitte Robinson

MattieFaeAiken

MTC Marie in Calendar Girls (with Mirvish).

OTHER THEATRE Brigitte has performed in more than 25 productions with the Shaw Festival, including favourites Return of the Prodigal, You Can’t Take It With You, Cavalcade, Marathon 33 and The Importance of Being Earnest. Other selected credits: The Sound of Music (Mirvish); Present Laughter, Blithe Spirit (Citadel); Fallen Angels (Segal); Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, Goodnight Disgrace, Talking with …, Sinners (NAC).

FILM/TV Selected: Murdoch Mysteries, St. Urbain’s Horsemen, Code Breakers, Murder in the Hamptons, Punch and Judy, Switchback (host, CBC Live), Renovation Zone (host, CTV Montreal), Rich Bride, Poor Bride (host, Lifetime).

TRAINING Graduate, University of Ottawa; Cours de Civilization, La Sorbonne, Paris, France.

ET CETERA Brigitte lives in Niagara-on-the-Lake. She is delighted to be performing again at MTC!

Miriam Smith

IvyWeston

MTC Steel Magnolias, Strong Poison, Our Town, The Real Thing, A Christmas Carol, Much Ado About Nothing.

OTHER THEATRE Bingo!, Burnin’ Love, Moonlight and Magnolias, How It Works, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Molly’s Veil (PTE); The Father, Broken Glass, Einstein’s Gift (WJT); Urinetown, Assassins (Dry Cold); The Elmwood Visitation (TPM).

FILM/TV The L Word, Amreeka, Holiday Switch, Falcon Beach.

TEACHING Instructor for PTE School at PTE.

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Robert Glen Thompson

LittleCharlesAiken

MTC Glengarry Glen Ross.

OTHER THEATRE The Sound of Music (Rainbow); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo and Juliet (SIR); Pariah, After Magritte, The Dumb Waiter, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (MTC Master Playwright Festivals); A Prairie Boy’s Winter, A Whole Buncha Munsch, Love You Forever & More (PTE); November, The Diary of Anne Frank (WJT).

FILM/TV Amreeka, ATM, Wrong Turn 4, For the Moment, The Arrow, The Saddest Music in the World, A Bear Named Winnie.

ET CETERA Up next: Exeter in Henry v with SIR.

David Warburton

CharlieAiken

MTC Strong Poison, Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, The Dresser, My Fair Lady, Feelgood (with GCTC), Richard iii, The School for Wives (with VP), King Lear, The Crucible, Travels with My Aunt, Season’s Greetings, Henceforward (with TC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lips Together Teeth Apart (with Belfry).

OTHER THEATRE Favourites include: Falstaff in Henry iv Parts 1 and 2 (SIR); Max in Where the Wild Things Are (MTYP); Frosch in Die Fledermaus (Manitoba Opera); Fagin in Oliver Twist (ATP); Michael in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (PTE); The Stone Angel (NAC); The White Knight in Alice Through the Looking Glass (Stratford).

FILM/TV Children’s Ward, In Suspicious Circumstances, Home Movies, Crimestrike, For the Moment.

TRAINING The Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama.

Cory Wojcik

SheriffDeonGilbeau


OTHER THEATRE Strike! – The Musical (Danny Schur); Good News, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan (Rainbow); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Head (SIR); Urinetown (Dry Cold); November (WJT).

FILM/TV Mad Ship, Keep Your Head Up, Kid: The Don Cherry Story, Wild Cherry, Less Than Kind.

TRAINING University of Winnipeg Department of Theatre & Film, University of Manitoba Faculty of Education.

ET CETERA Cory is the head of the drama department at the new Nelson McIntyre Collegiate Arts Education Studio. Lots of love to his family!

Tracy Letts

Playwright

Tracy Letts is the author of the plays Killer Joe and Man from Nebraska (named one of Time Magazine’s Top Ten Plays of 2003). He is an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. His appear-ances there include Homebody/Kabul, The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross, Three Days of Rain and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Film appearances include Guinevere, U.S. Marshals and Chicago Cab. TV appearances in-clude The District, Profiler, The Drew Carey Show, Home Improvement and Seinfeld. Tracy made his directing debut at the Lookingglass Theatre with Glen Berger’s play Great Men of Science Nos. 21 & 22.

Ann Hodges

Director

MTC Top Girls, Jitters, Our Country’s Good.

OTHER THEATRE The December Man, Moonlight and Magnolias, Marion Bridge, The Rez Sisters, Speak, Painting Churches (PTE); Urinetown—SATAward for Outstanding Production, Quarry, Beauty and the Beast, Strike! (Persephone); Encore (TPM); Anne (Neptune);

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Urinetown (Dry Cold); Idomeneo (Pacific Opera); Madama Butterfly, Die Fledermaus, L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) (Manitoba Opera); Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (SIR). Upcoming: La fille du régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment) (Manitoba Opera); Ariodante (Calgary Opera); The Lonely Diner (Blyth).

TRAINING Graduate, National Theatre School and University of Winnipeg. One of 10 international direc-tors invited to participate in a workshop with Peter Brook at the National Theatre in London.

ET CETERA Ann has written numerous translations and libretti for opera companies, including the ac-claimed Naomi’s Road for Vancouver Opera, to be presented again in the 2012/13 season.

Brian Perchaluk

Set&CostumeDesigner

MTC More than 40 productions, including recent and favourites: The Fighting Days, The Shunning, After Miss Julie, Steel Magnolias (2010), Educating Rita, The Boys in the Photograph (with Mirvish), Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), Our Town, Trying, My Fair Lady, The Lonesome West, To Kill a Mockingbird (with Citadel), Patience, Quills, Travels with My Aunt, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Oleanna, M. Butterfly (with NAC), Morning’s at Seven, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Filthy Rich.

OTHER THEATRE Brian’s work has been featured at theatres across the country, including two seasons each at the Shaw and Stratford festivals. Selected recent credits include: Vimy (NAC/GCTC); To Kill a Mockingbird (TC); The Secret Mask, Burnin’ Love, The Savannah Disputation (PTE); Sweeney Todd, The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold); King Lear, Fidelio (Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada); The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (TPM); Spring Awakening (Winnipeg Studio Theatre); Les Disparus (Theatre Vice Versa Theatre).

TRAINING Brian is a graduate of the National Theatre School and the University of Winnipeg.

ET CETERA Brian has received a Gemini Award for outstanding production design and Jessie Richardson and Prix Rideau awards for outstanding set design. He is a member of the Associated Designers of Canada.

Larry Isacoff

LightingDesigner

MTC The Fighting Days, The Shunning, The Seafarer, Looking Back – West, Bleeding Hearts, Rope’s End, The Retreat from Moscow, Fully Committed, Mating Dance of the Werewolf, The Miracle Worker, Cloud Nine, Bedroom Farce, How I Got That Story, The Affections of May, Mrs. Klein, The Gin Game, Paper Wheat.

OTHER THEATRE Globe Theatre, 25th Street Theatre, Winnipeg’s Contemporary Dancers, PTE, MTYP.

ET CETERA Larry divides his time between engaging theatre projects and teaching yoga.

Michael Wright

SoundDesigner

MTC The Fighting Days, Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer, Looking Back – West, Top Girls, Rope’s End, Fully Committed, The Last Five Years, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Cherry Docs.

OTHER THEATRE North Main Gothic, The Monster Trilogy, The Elmwood Visitation, Age of Arousal (TPM); Everything is Coming Up Roses (Gearshifting Performance Works); Mmm Munsch, Something Drastic, Puppet Munsch (PTE); Macbeth (SIR); The Designated Mourner (Persona Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival); Hedwig and the Angry Inch Atrocity Tour 2004 (Rose Tinted Productions, UK).

FILM The Last Harvest, Métis, Métis Not, Dead Mothers Kitchen Floors.

ET CETERA Michael is active in the music world with over two dozen album credits. He lives in Winnipeg with his partner Arlea and is a member of iatse 63.

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Jacqueline Loewen

FightDirector

MTC Fight Director: Romeo and Juliet, The Seafarer. Actor: Top Girls.

OTHER THEATRE Selected fight directing: Tosca, Carmen (Manitoba Opera); Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew (SIR); All Restaurant Fires Are Arson (PTE).

TEACHING Jacqueline has taught stage combat at MTYP and PTE, and assistant taught at the U of W.

ET CETERA Jacqueline is very pleased to be working with both MTC and such fine performers.

Shannon Vickers

Dialect&TextCoach

MTC Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Steel Magnolias, Top Girls.

OTHER THEATRE Voice/Text/Dialect Coaching: Village Wooing (zone41 theatre); Bingo! (PTE); The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz (TPM); Banff-Citadel Professional Theatre Program (2011); The Merry Wives of Windsor (SIR); Fen (Sarasvàti Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (CS).

TRAINING Shannon earned an MFA in Theatre Voice Pedagogy at the University of Alberta. She is working towards certification in Knight-Thompson Speech and Accent Work.

ET CETERA Shannon teaches Voice, Speech and Text for the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Theatre and Film, where she also coaches student productions. She is the Director of Membership for vasta (Voice and Speech Trainers Association).

Daria Puttaert

AssistantDirector

MTC Actor: The Fighting Days, The Shunning, Top Girls, Pride and Prejudice, Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), The Tempest, A Christmas Carol.

OTHER THEATRE Actor: The Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, Stretching Hide (TPM); Strawberries in January, Unity (1918) (PTE); Honour (PTE/Belfry); Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure (Tom-Tom Theatre); To the Country (Winnipegger Ensemble); Stripped-Down Hamlet (SIR).

FILM Zooey and Adam (Bed Bug Films).

TRAINING Graduate of the National Theatre School and the University of Winnipeg.

ET CETERA Love to Jamie.

Leigh Anne Parry

ApprenticeDirector

MTC Assistant Stage Manager: Summer of My Amazing Luck.

OTHER THEATRE Apprentice Director: Bedbug (Adhere And Deny). Stage Manager: Oedipus Rex (Theatre by the River).

TRAINING Currently working on a BA Honours in Directing at the University of Winnipeg.

ET CETERA A big thank you to Ann Hodges and Arts and Cultural Industries of Manitoba for this direct-ing mentorship.

Chris Pearce

StageManager

MTC Selected: Seventeen productions at the Mainstage including, most recently, Romeo and Juliet; seven productions at the Warehouse.

OTHER THEATRE Three Sisters (zone41 theatre); Car-men (Manitoba Opera); The December Man, Where

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the Blood Mixes (PTE); The Light in the Piazza (Dry Cold); Kindness (MTYP).

ET CETERA Three seasons at the Edinburgh Fringe. Seasons at the Stratford, Shaw and Charlottetown festivals. In his free time, Chris volunteers at Save Our Seine and trees Winnipeg.

Jessica Freundl

ApprenticeStageManager

MTC Grumpy Old Men: The Musical, The 39 Steps, White Christmas, Looking Back – West.

OTHER THEATRE Hairspray (Rainbow); Henry iv Parts 1 and 2 (SIR); King’s Park (Moving Target Theatre Com-pany); The Father (WJT); Lenin’s Embalmers (WJT/Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company); Kayak (Sarasvàti Productions’ FemFest); Juliet and Romeo, Doctor Faustus: A Fantasy, Pericles: Prince of Tyre, The Distance from Here (U of W); Saint Joan, The Bush Ladies (Theatre by the River); Patience, The Pirates of Penzance (Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Winnipeg).

TRAINING Jessica is a graduate of the U of W Depart-ment of Theatre and Film, majoring in Stage Manage-ment and Production.

ProductionSponsor

The Asper Foundation is a private philanthropic organization that undertakes and develops initia-tives in the areas of culture, education, community development and human rights in Winnipeg and Israel. It is the founding member of a consortium that spearheaded the establishment of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights as a Canadian National Museum in 2008.

tewardshipStewardship is an important cause for Lawton Partnersand we proudly support charities and programs thathelp improve the quality of life in Manitoba.

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the royal manitoba theatre Centrehas a legacy of balanced budgets and fiscal responsibility, thanks in large part to the ongoing generosity of individual donors and the significant support of the corporate community. Needless to say, these partnerships are important to the work we do onstage and behind the scenes.

All great cities—thriving cities—have a vital arts community with significant artistic capital: a solid and growing core of entrepreneurs, artists and arts organizations in the business of producing new ideas and, of course, wonderful live theatre! A strong arts community reflects the health of a city’s economy and provides an indication of its quality of life. Both indicators are key in attracting and keeping professionals and businesses in Winnipeg, where the arts and creative industries contribute $1 billion in economic activity and employ more than 25,000 workers. Each year, MTC employs an average of 450 individuals who bring high-quality theatre to Manitoba audiences at affordable prices.

Winnipeg’s corporate community contributes to MTC through donations and sponsorships. Cor-porate sponsorships support a highly valued arts organization while allowing businesses to reach more than 300,000 patrons each year. In addition to this tremendous visibility, MTC’s comprehen-sive recognition package provides sponsors with opportunities for corporate hospitality—a fantas-tic way to entertain clients and customers.

One proud sponsor and long-time supporter is law firm Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP.

“TDS sponsors MTC as a way for us to support the arts in Winnipeg,” said general manager David Bailey. “TDS is celebrating its 125th anniver-sary in 2012 and its lawyers have always believed in giving back to the community.

“The sponsorship also allows us to entertain ma-jor clients of the firm and to solidify our relation-ship with that client. MTC has always provided quality plays and our clients thoroughly enjoy their evening at MTC with our firm,” added Bailey. “MTC’s facility for entertaining clients, the Cargill Boardroom, is a very nice facility and the right size for entertaining a large number of clients.”

In addition to sponsorship opportunities, corporate donations allow a company to take ad-vantage of a variety of donor benefits, such as the popular corporate subscription. With a corporate donation of $600, employees receive the best deal in town—an incredibly low price for a season of amazing theatre. A $600 gift also entitles four employees to attend a working rehearsal, a private backstage tour for 10 guests and acknowl-edgement in three issues of Ovation.

PleasecontactKristineBetker,DirectorofFundDevelopment,at204-934-0305tomakeyourcorporategiftortodiscusssponsorshipopportunitiesatMTC.

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Everyone loves a mysteryPwC applauds the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and the Manitoba Bar Association for bringing us The Mousetrap, and reminds the audience not to reveal the identity of the killer. A good mystery never goes out of style.

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