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FOR THE PLEASURE OF SEEING HER AGAIN

By Michel Tremblay • Translated by Linda Gaboriau • Directed by Margo KaneORIGINALLY DIRECTED BY GLYNIS LEYSHON • A FULL CIRCLE: FIRST NATIONS PERFORMANCE PRODUCTION

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The play is approximately 90 minutes, with no intermission.

Gateway Theatre is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres, the Alliance for Arts and Culture, and the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre

Alliance. Gateway Theatre engages under the terms of the Canadian Theatre Agreement professional actors who are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.

Stage crew are members of Local 118 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.).

Photography, videotaping or other audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

Editor: Andrea Yu Cover: Rare Design On cover: (L-R) Margo Kane, Kevin Loring. Photo: David Cooper

Program Design & Production: Gary Slavin

A Chinese synopsis of the play is available at the Coat Check.

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Margo KaneGlynis Leyshon

Pam JohnsonGerald King

Graham OckleyBruce Ruddell

Ingrid TurkRuth Bruhn

Josef Chung

DirectorOriginal DirectorSet & Costume DesignerOriginal Lighting DesignerLighting AssociateComposer and Sound DesignerStage ManagerApprentice Stage ManagerProduction Manager

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FOR THE PLEASURE OF SEEING HER AGAINBy Michel Tremblay

Translated by Linda GaboriauDirected by Margo Kane

Originally directed by Glynis Leyshon A Full Circle: First Nations Performance Production

OCTOBER 8-24, 2015 • MainStage

Lobby Art by Philippe Gadenne

Welcome back, everyone! And a special welcome to those of you who are visiting the Gateway Theatre for the first time.

During this glorious summer, all of us at the Gateway have been

working hard to prepare for your return.I’m delighted that we’re opening our

thirty-first season with the modern Canadian classic For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again. Written by Quebec’s greatest playwright Michel Tremblay, this play is a funny and moving tribute to his late mother. Translator Linda Gaboriau does a masterful job of capturing the rhythm and tone and joie de vivre of this piece.

Tremblay has long been revered for his plays that chronicle life in East Montreal. His body of work has been produced around the world. And yet, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again – arguably his most personal play – is also his most frequently produced work.

This is a testament to the universal chord that Tremblay strikes – which of us has not been indelibly shaped by our mother?

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again is one of those plays I would describe as deceptively simple. On its surface it appears to be a nostalgic comedy with a larger-than-life

central character. The risk with this play is that in less capable hands, it could descend into a maudlin evening filled with broad caricature.

Fortunately, the production we are seeing tonight is interpreted by two of Canada’s finest actors – Margo Kane and Kevin Loring. Margo and Kevin mine the hidden depths of their characters and discover all that is below the surface – the sense of loss, the hardships and sacrifices made, and the bond between mother and son – and avoid the trap of sentimentality. What I love most

about this play is its magnificent ending (which I will not spoil here). Throughout the play the Narrator regales us with stories of his mother and tells us how

she bestowed on him the gift of storytelling. And yet, it is the gift he gives her – in all its theatrical glory – that moves me so profoundly.

I would like to thank Full Circle: First Nations Performance for bringing this beautifully tender memoir to the Gateway. It’s our pleasure to share this jewel of a play with all of you.

–Jovanni Sy

FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

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Actor: Margo Kane Photo: David Cooper

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Margo Kane established Full Circle: First Nations Performance in 1992. It is the primary professional arts organization in British Columbia devoted to the support and development of Aboriginal performing arts practice and has initiated, developed, and produced performance works which have been seen in Vancouver, across Canada and internationally. These include: The River - Home, Confessions of an Indian Cowboy, and The Rez Show. Currently two pieces are in development: Xway Xway and Keeping the Fire Burning.

Full Circle is the producer of the annual Talking Stick

Festival (est 2002), Western Canada’s premier Aboriginal performing arts festival and Indian Acts, an ongoing series showcasing dance, theatre, staged readings, improv and sketch comedy.

Qwum Qwum Snow-i-ith (Strong Teachings), Full Circle’s comprehensive community arts outreach program engages thousands of individuals in artistic activities by offering workshops throughout the province as well as providing complimentary tickets and transportation to Full Circle events.

The Full Circle Aboriginal Ensemble Program provides apprenticeships and advanced mentorship opportunities to artists selected from across

the country. Graduates of this program have gone on to be nationally recognized, forming companies of their own, including, among others, Kevin Loring (2009 Governor General’s Award winner for English Language Drama); Yvonne Chartrand (Compaigni V’ni Dansi); Lisa C. Ravensbergen (Cheyikwe Performance), Michelle Olson (Raven Spirit Dance), Corey Payette (Raven Theatre / Urban Ink) and Reneltta Arluk (Akpik Theatre).

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TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE THEATRE -Jovanni Sy

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I have loved theatre all my life. And almost every good thing I have in my life I owe to my chosen vocation. Theatre has been good to me and I am privileged to enjoy an artistic leadership role in a community with so many fellow theatre-lovers who have given so much to make the Gateway such a beloved cultural institution.

So, as an entrenched theatre ‘insider’, it feels strange to confess that when I go to most plays in the Lower Mainland, I feel like a gatecrasher at a party to which I was not invited.

Those who have been fortunate to travel the world will have probably at one time experienced a strange sense of displacement or estrangement. It might occur in a market in Bombay, a bazaar in Marrakesh, or on the streets of Kowloon. It’s that sudden recognition that absolutely nobody around me looks like me. It’s not a scary moment. But it often

underscores the feeling I do not belong here.

This is how I as a person of colour have felt about Canadian theatre for most of my life. Like the traveler in Marrakesh, I see few people around me in the audience who look like me. Then I look on stage and I see no one who looks like me. I wonder if I’ve taken a wrong turn and ended up somewhere I don’t belong.

I don’t presume to speak for anyone else but I can’t help but wonder if other

non-white theatre lovers feel the same way. Common sense tells me that we in Vancouver

theatre cannot reasonably expect the patronage of people whose existence we marginalize or deny outright.

Throughout my career, I have been a proponent of making Canadian theatre more inclusive. By ‘inclusive’, I mean that our stages and audiences should look like the communities we live in. By any objective measure,

theatre in the Lower Mainland is anything but inclusive.

Half of our population are women. Yet over three-quarters of the playwrights produced and directors hired are men.

Nearly half of our population belong to visible minorities (a term that will have to change to visible majority shortly). Yet over ninety percent of the performers we see on Vancouver’s professional stages are white.

I believe that this disparity is the single greatest threat to the future of theatre in Vancouver. If we do not address it immediately, professional theatre here will see its audience numbers continue to decline. If we only cater to a sector of our society, we will quickly lose relevance to the whole. I desperately don’t want to see that happen.

Thus, as the leader of a professional theatre, I feel compelled to move the Gateway Theatre towards truly reflecting today’s Richmond. I want to invite

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more people to the party. At the same time, I want to reassure our current guests that they are and will always be welcome here.

During my time here, I’ve programmed beloved classics like Crazy For You, The Wizard of Oz, and Rodgers and Hammerstein: Out of a Dream. These are plays that are near and dear to me and there will continue to be a time and place for plays like this in the future. Along with them, however, we will feature plays that make our tent a little bigger.

The piece you’re watching tonight is a good example of this. It’s a beloved modern Canadian classic translated from a different language and reimagined from an Aboriginal perspective that obliquely references the author’s point-of-view as a gay man growing up in parochial Quebec. But what matters more than all of this (and what I hope you will

experience tonight) is that this is a play that welcomes everyone into its world.

So we’ve taken some baby steps at the Gateway towards an inclusive future. Could we have done more in the past three years? Absolutely, yet I feel we’re moving in the right

direction. Our tagline for the past two seasons has been You Belong Here and it’s something we seriously strive towards. I know that finding a sense of belonging in a rapidly changing

environment is a hard thing. It involves push and pull and, occasionally, struggle. I also know that theatre is a wonderful means of negotiating this struggle. When everyone’s voice is heard, there comes understanding.

Obviously this is a topic that is very personal to me and I’ll continue to share some thoughts over the season. And, of course, I would very much like to hear your thoughts as well.

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Professional theatre enriches and enhances our community by initiating dialogue and encouraging tolerance between people of diverse backgrounds. Help us fulfill our commitment to the community by becoming a Donor to Gateway Theatre, a not-for-profit registered charity. In addition to a tax receipt, Gateway Theatre offers various exclusive privileges to en-hance your theatre experience. Please visit our website or contact the Box Office for more information.We make every effort at ensuring accuracy in terms of individual donor acknowledgement. If you notice any discrepancies, please contact us at gtinfo@gatewaytheatre.com.

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Margo Kane NANA

Cree-Saulteaux performing artist, Margo Kane is the Founder and Artistic Managing Director of Full Circle: First Nations

Performance. Moonlodge, her acclaimed one-woman show, toured for over 10 years nationally and internationally. Recent roles include: Bah Humbug! (Vancouver Moving Theatre & SFU), The Unplugging (Arts Club Theatre Company), and the television show Artic Air. She received the Inaugural Lorena Gale Woman of Distinction Award from Union of BC Performers, a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress (Where the Blood Mixes, Kevin Loring’s Governor General’s Award-winning play),the BC Touring Award of Excellence, the BC Community Achievement Award and she holds a Honourary Doctorate of Letters from University of the Fraser Valley.

Kevin Loring NARRATOR

Kevin is Nlakap’amux (Thompson Indians) from Lytton BC. An actor, playwright and freelance writer based out of Vancouver and a

graduate of Studio 58, and Full Circle First Nations Performance: Ensemble Training Program. He has performed in numerous plays across Canada, including the world premieres of Marie Clements’ Burning Vision, Copper Thunderbird and The Edward Curtis Project. He played Edmund in the National Arts Centre production of King Lear featuring an all Aboriginal cast. Kevin is a recipient of the 2005 Vancouver Arts Award for Emerging Theatre Artist, 2007 Herman Voaden prize, Sydney J. Risk Prize, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script and the 2009 Governor General’s Award.

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Pam Johnson SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER

Pam is thrilled to be designing for the Gateway Theatre with Full Circle. For the Gateway she has designed: Glass

Menagerie, Death of a Salesman and Cyrano. Pam has been a professional set designer for 35 years. Her designs have travelled throughout Canada, the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Japan. Pam has received several Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, and in 2012 was honoured with a Career Achievement Award. Pam continues to guide and inspire young talent, as she is a design instructor at Studio 58.

Gerald King ORIGINAL LIGHTING DESIGNER

Gerald has designed lighting for many companies across the country. Some of those include: Ballet BC, Bard

on the Beach, Vancouver Opera, Arts Club Theatre, Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre and Kokoro Dance. Outside of Vancouver his work has been seen with The National Ballet of Canada, National Arts Centre, Pacific Opera Victoria, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Edmonton Opera, Theatre Calgary, Alberta Theatre Projects, Western Canada Theatre and numerous others.

Bruce Ruddell COMPOSER / SOUND DESIGNER

Canadian League Of Composers; Playwrights Guild of Canada.

Canadian Aboriginal Music Award-2008-

Special Jury award for a long body of work with First Nations music projects in Canada and the U.S.A. bruceruddell.com

Ingrid Turk STAGE MANAGER

Ingrid has stage-managed for more than 25 years. Favorite productions include The Orphan Muses with Touchstone Theatre and

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Arts Club Theatre Company.

She recently stage-managed Urinetown for The Firehall Arts Centre and My Fair Lady for Royal City Musical Theatre. Ingrid is a graduate of Studio 58 and is a House Manager at Bard on the Beach.

She is also an audio-describer for Vocal Eye, the organization that provides description of live performances for patrons with limited vision.

Ruth Bruhn APPRENTICE STAGE MANAGER

Ruth is a recent graduate from the production program at Studio 58.

Previous stage management credits include: Grease, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Studio 58); Annie, Great Expectations, The Forbidden Phoenix, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof (Gateway Theatre); Evil Dead: The Musical (Down Stage Right Productions); Titanic: A New Musical (Theatre Under the Stars); and Smile: The Musical, Dracula: The Musical (Awkward Stage Productions).

Other credits include: Wardrobe Intern (Bard on the Beach 2014); and for Studio 58: Assistant to the Set Designer (Kosmic Mambo), Assistant to the Lighting Designer (Innocence Lost); Assistant to the Costume Designer (4Play).

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COMING SOON

If you’re in the mood for more theatre featuring a funny and

feisty leading lady, make sure to come see our upcoming Studio Stage show …didn’t see that coming. We’ll be turning the Studio into a cabaret-style venue, where you can sip on a glass of wine while Beverley

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“It’s a terrific show by an amazingly generous performer. Icing on this cake is her gorgeous voice.” –

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Just as Full Circle: First Nations Performance has re-imagined

Michel Tremblay’s For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, we reinterpret a classic with The Wizard of Oz! All of the characters you know and love, such as Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, Tinman and the Cowardly Lion, are cast with the brightest local stars! Our creative team, many of whom were here for last year’s award-winning holiday hit Crazy for You, have got some

innovative tricks up their sleeves to make this clas-sic tale fresh and new. Join us this holiday season as we journey down the yellow brick road through the

magical land of Oz.“Dorothy’s adventures have reso-

nated with generations of audienc-es. She and her companions seek what we all seek: wisdom, heart, courage, and a place called home.” Jovanni Sy, Artistic Director

“A classic musical celebration of col-or and spectacle.” –Broadway World

...DIDN’T SEE THAT COMINGOriginal songs & stories with Beverley ElliottA HappyGoodThings production

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THE WIZARD OF OZBy L. Frank BaumWith Music & Lyrics by Harold Arlen & E.Y. HarburgBackground Music by Herbert StothartDance & Vocal Arrangements by Peter Howard • Orchestration by Larry Wilcox • Adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company

Based upon the Classsic Motion Picture owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed in all media by Warner Bros.

DEC 10, 2015 - JAN 3, 2016 • MainStage

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GATEWAY THEATRE ADMINISTRATION

Executive Director Camilla Tibbs

Artistic Director Jovanni Sy

Artistic Associate Dawn Ewen

Administrative Assistant Robin White

Production Manager Beverley Siver

Producer, Pacific Festival Esther Ho

Marketing and Sales Manager Brendan Prost

Marketing Associate Grace Chin

Interim Marketing Associate Richard Forzley

Communications Coordinator Andrea Yu

Development ManagerMarla Penner

Interim Development CoordinatorHannah Stehr-So

Finance Officer Jessie Li

Finance Assistant Agnes Chan

Operations & Client Services Manager Melanie Yeats

Volunteer & Audience Services Supervisor Justine Fafard

Audience Services Ella Fund-ReznicekJonathan GreenwayTerri JelicTracey MackChristine StoddardAndrew Wade

Rental & Events Coordinator Lester Chua

Building Services Supervisor Paul Bartlett

Building Services Assistants Mesfin AyalewKha Ngoc (Jade) Phung

Box Office & IT Supervisor Brendan Prost

Box Office Alex ForsythCrystal LanSheila Wong

Education Manager Ruth McIntosh

Education Coordinator Natasha Zacher

Gateway Academy Instructors Erika Babins Eileen BarrettRussell Cripps Christina Cuglietta-BraunDawn Ewen Chris GatchalianManami HaraChris KingLisa PeersRaugi Yu

Technical Director Josef Chung

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