LANTERN THEATER COMPANY AT ST. STEPHEN’S THEATER10th & Ludlow Streets, Philadelphia, PA 215.829.0395 www.lanterntheater.org

February 4 - 28, 2010

Serving the neighborhood.

By David HareDirected by Kathryn MacMillan

Originally presented by Robert Fox at the Haymarket Theatre, London on October 4, 2002

The Breath of Life is presented by special arrangement with Creative Artists Agency, New York.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and State Managers in the United States

LANTERN THEATER COMPANY

Dirk Durossette Mark Mariani ScenicDeSigner coStumeDeSigner

Thom Weaver Christopher Colucci LightingDeSigner SounDDeSigner&compoSer

Hazel Bowers Rebecca Smith* DiaLectcoach Stagemanager

M. Craig Getting Rowen Haigh Tim Martin aSSiStantDirector aSSiStantDirector proDuctionmanager

Charles McMahon Anne Shuff artiSticDirector managingDirector

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Lantern Theater Company proudly participates in The Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, a program of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.

presents

Ceal Phelan* MadeleineCheryl Williams* Frances

Setting: Present day, Isle of Wight

There will be one 10-minute intermission. There will be onstage smoking during the performance.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and State Managers in the United States

THE COMPANY

DIRECTORS: IN CONVERSATION Friday, February 12 at 7pm (in the Lantern Lab)

Get a first hand look into The Breath of Life’s design and rehearsal process in this moderated Q&A with director Kathryn MacMillan. FREE

ARTISTS: IN CONVERSATION Sunday, February 14 after the 2pm performance (on the Mainstage)

Meet the actors and hear behind-the-scenes stories. FREE

PRE-CURTAIN COCKTAILS Friday, February 19 at 6pm (at Marathon Grill)

Mingle with Lantern staff, artists, and fellow theatergoers over happy hour specials and light fare at our local Marathon Grill (10th & Walnut Streets). FREE TO ATTEND

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: IN CONVERSATION Friday, February 26 at 7pm (in the Lantern Lab)

Join Artistic Director Charles McMahon and Associate Artistic Director Kathryn MacMillan for a conversation about what – and who – makes the Lantern distinctive. FREE

LANTERN THEATER COMPANY: IN CONVERSATION

Box Office Hours: During performance weeks, the Box Office is open Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 12pm-6pm, and Sunday 12pm-2pm. The Box Office is also open one hour prior to curtain on any performance day.

Late Seating: Due to the intimacy of the Lantern’s theater, it is often not possible to seat patrons in the orchestra once a performance has begun. If you arrive late or need to leave the theater during the show, the Lantern staff will seat you in the first available seat in the balcony. You may relocate to any available orchestra seat at intermission.

Cell Phones: Please kindly turn off and put away all cell phones, pagers, and watch alarms prior to entering the theater so as not to disturb the performance. No text messaging allowed during the performance.

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION

From the PlaywrightOne of my immediate impulses was to express how vital the lives of older people have become. Thanks to modern medicine and all that milk we drank after the Second World War, there’s almost a new category of life in the West. You can no longer call it middle age, and you certainly can’t call it old age. It’s something in between – a period when men and women can look back and see the transit of what used to be a whole lifetime... and yet that backward view is from the advantage of an actuarial hope of another twenty years to come. I wanted to describe two women at exactly that moment: a long past behind them, but the expectation of a considerable future in front of them.

—David HareOriginally produced for the Royal National Theatre

From the DirectorFrances married Martin when she was little more than a teenager; to a large extent she built her entire adult life on the foundation of their marriage. Madeleine never wed...she built her entire adult life atop the potent, impassioned idealism she found in the Civil Rights Movement. Some forty years later, they meet. And those foundations have been damaged. Frances has been betrayed in her marriage; most of Madeleine’s friends are marked more by consumerism than activism. One of the things I have come to love most about this play, along with its hope and humor, is the deft way in which Hare here explores the political – as his work always does – through the personal. Two women, whose personal lives are entwined with the huge cultural shifts of the last five decades, shown by Hare in a singular “moment.”

And when all Hare reveals is a moment – a single night into the next day – we’ll do best not to rely on a tidy ending. We in the audience follow these women for a short yet significant stretch of a greater journey toward the next phase of life. We, like Frances, may want to “find out everything, just as it was,” but are instead tasked to find what wisdom we can from just this glimpse into their past, their pain... and their humor.

Enjoy the show.

—Kathryn MacMillan

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

CEAL PHELAN (Madeleine) has been an actress in the People’s Light & Theatre Company ensemble for over 20 years. She has worked at a number of Philadelphia theatres as well as regional theatres around the country. She also directs and teaches at area universities and at People’s Light. She and her husband Peter DeLaurier are co-founders of Delaware Theatre Company.

CHERYL WILLIAMS (Frances) is thrilled to be making her Lantern debut. Recent credits: The Glass Menagerie (Act Out Theatre, NJ), Respect: A Musical Journey of Women (Act II Playhouse/Society Hill Playhouse), Hedda Gabler (Mauckingbird Theatre Co.), and Expecting Isabel (Temple Theatres). Cheryl’s also worked with Chicago Dramatists, Chicago’s Court and Goodman Theatres, Chicago Shakespeare, Detroit area’s Purple Rose, The

Attic, Jewish Ensemble, and Meadow Brook Theatres, The Human Race, Madison Rep and the Three Rivers, Antioch, New Jersey, Orlando and Illinois Shakespeare Festivals, to name a few. Loves teaching acting at Temple U. Thanks to KC, Ceal, Charles, and always, Eric.

DIRK DUROSSETTE (Scenic Designer) Dirk has been designing sets in the Philadelphia area for the past ten years. He has worked for Temple Theaters, Temple Opera Theater, Villanova University, University of the Arts, Rock School, West Chester University, Drexel University, Amaryllis Theatre Company, Act II Playhouse, 1812 Productions, InterAct Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre, Gas and Electric Arts, Luna Theater, New City Stage Company, Freedom Theatre, Mum Puppettheatre, Theatre Horizon, Enchantment Theatre Company, and Philadelphia Young Playwrights.

MARK MARIANI (Costume Designer) Most recent: Freud’s Last Session, See Rock City and Other Destinations (world premiere, Barrington Stage Company). Two-time Barrymore nominee: Dream Girls, Pal Joey (Prince). Other: The Hothouse (Lantern); Ain’t Misbehavin’, Cole Porter’s The Pirate, It’s Better With A Band, Myths and Hymns, Ambassador Satch (Prince); additional costumes for Me and Mrs. Jones and Lysistrata (Prince); I’ll Be Seeing You (Kimmel Center); After Play, Visiting Mr. Green, Collected Stories (Walnut); Havana After Dark (world premiere, Tropicana Hotel); Ambassador Satch (Arabic premiere, U.A.E). Educational: Merrily We Roll Along, Wild Party, Enter Laughing, Beaux Stratagem, Grand Hotel, Bat Boy (University of the Arts); Angels in America, Tartuffe, Dracula (Rutgers).

THOM WEAVER (Lighting Designer) Philadelphia: Arden-Blue Door, Asher Lev. Wilma-Scorched (Barrymore nom), Coming Home, Becky Shaw. PLTC-Snow White in Follywood. DTC-It’s a Wonderful Life, All the Great Books, Diary of Anne Frank. Theatre Exile-American Buffalo (Barrymore nom). Two River Theatre-26 Miles (also Roundhouse), ReENTRY (also Urban Stages), A Year with Frog and Toad, Macbeth (also Folger), Bad Dates. PA Shakespeare Festival-Complete Works, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other: Cal Shakes, Vital Theatre Company,

WHO’S WHO

Children’s Theatre Company, CENTERSTAGE, Folger Theater, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Signature Theatre Company, Berkshire Opera, Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep. Education: Carnegie Mellon and Yale.

CHRISTOPHER COLUCCI (Sound Designer & Composer) makes sound and music as a theater artist, composer, guitarist and producer. Last season he designed The Hothouse and Sizwe Bansi Is Dead at the Lantern, as well as shows at Arden Theatre, the Walnut, People’s Light, Theatre Exile, The National Constitution Center, InterAct, Villanova University, Flashpoint, and Delaware Theater Company, among others. Christopher received the 2008 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Sound Design and was nominated in 2009 for his work on The Hothouse. Recent productions include Becky Shaw at the Wilma and The Eclectic Society at the Walnut.

HAzEL BOWERS (Dialect Coach) is delighted to be back on board as dialect coach for this exciting production. She has worked at most of the area’s theaters over the course of her long career, both as an actress and dialect coach. She has received five Barrymore nominations, winning one for the role of Meg in The Birthday Party at the Lantern!

SIR DAVID HARE (Playwright) is considered one of the leading play-wrights of the post-war generation. Co-founder of the Portable Theatre (1968) and the Joint Stock Theatre Group (1975), Hare went on to be resident playwright at the Royal Court Theatre (1969-71) and is now the associate director of the National Theatre. A prolific playwright, his early, politically-charged works include Plenty, Pravda, and Fanshen. Later works include Racing Demon (1990), Skylight (1995), Amy’s View (1997), The Breath of Life (2002), Via Dolorosa (1998), The Vertical Hour (2006), and The Power of Yes (currently playing at the National, London). He was knighted in 1998.

KATHRYN MacMILLAN (Director) is the Lantern’s associate artistic direc-tor. Founder of the Lantern’s education program, Illumination, KC has held various positions since joining the Lantern in 2001. Directing for the Lantern: The Hothouse (Barrymore Award nominations include Outstand-ing Direction & Outstanding Overall Production of a Play), The School for Wives, QED, and The Lady from the Sea. Other credits: The Violet Hour and The Laramie Project (Theatre Horizon), GLBT Theatre Festival, Fringe, and Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company, where she will be directing The Miser this summer. An acting teacher and professor, KC teaches in the theater department of West Chester University and the Wilma’s Studio School.

REBECCA SMITH (Stage Manager) is pleased to be back at the Lantern for her second season. She is a graduate of Temple University with a BA in European History and a minor in Theater. She has previously worked with Brat Productions, Kaibutsu, and Temple University Theater. Previous shows at the Lantern include The Hothouse, The Government Inspector, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, Hamlet, Happy Days, and Scapin.

WHO’S WHO

M. CRAIG GETTING (Assistant Director) is a Philadelphia-based director who proudly hails from nearby King of Prussia. Local directing credits include Act Without Words II and Molloy (Lantern Theater Company) and Really Rosie (Theatre Horizon), plus assistant direction on Hamlet and The Government Inspector (Lantern) and Working (Theatre Horizon). He received his BA in Drama from Kenyon College, where he directed The Last Five Years and Waiting for Godot (whose tramps shared the Paul Newman Acting Award). Thanks to KC and everyone at the Lantern for this wonderful opportunity. Love to his friends and family.

ROWEN HAIGH (Assistant Director) is a director and dancer based in Philadelphia. Recent projects include assistant directing Becky Shaw at The Wilma Theater and directing August Strindberg’s Creditors in the 2009 Philly Fringe Festival. Rowen practices Contact Improvisation dance and is a founding member of the experimental dance company the Philly Contact Collective. Look for PCC’s first evening-length work as part of Festivale, the 2010 GLBT Arts Festival at the University of the Arts this June.

CHARLES McMAHON (Artistic Director) co-founded the Lantern and serves as artistic director in addition to acting and directing for the company. Previous roles include Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Edmund in King Lear, and Pete Seeger in Un-American. Lantern directing credits include Hamlet, Othello, La Ronde (also translator and adaptor), Richard III (Barrymore Award, Outstanding Production of a Play), Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors (Barrymore nomination), The Tempest, King Lear, and A Doll’s House. Charles is a graduate of NYU’s theater department where he studied acting and directing before returning to Philadelphia.

ANNE SHUFF (Managing Director) has served on the Lantern’s Board of Directors for the past seven years, including four years as Treasurer and three as Personnel Committee Chair. As founding managing partner of MindLabs.net, she has guided online marketing strategy for arts organizations in Philadelphia and around the country, and her work has been featured in WIRED magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia City Paper, and the design reference book Web Site Design Goodies. She previously served as Business Manager at the Wilma and Assistant Controller & IS Manager at the Walnut. She is proud to be part of this amazing theater company. Love to M/S/E.

TIM MARTIN (Production Manager) is immensely pleased to be joining the Lantern this season. He has worked with many companies including Commonwealth Classic Theatre, Rebecca Davis Dance, Mum Puppettheatre, International Opera, Enchantment Theatre Company, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, and sundry others. In the academic world, Tim has worked for Drexel University, The Shipley School, and Swarthmore College. A playwright, several of his plays and adaptations have been seen in the Philadelphia area. He has much appreciation for this fine cast and creative team.

WHO’S WHO

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Special Thanks To: Curio Theatre Company, Melissa Dunphy, Stacy Maria Dutton, Doug Greene, JBL Glass and Mirror, John Lionarons, Eric MacMillan, Helen McMahon, Mariaelena Morales, St. Stephen’s Church (Dr. Charles Flood and Mark Yurkanin).

STAFF

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DirectorsMichael K. BrophyMartha E. CandielloNicholas D. ConstanDavid S. ConwayCristian DavidJay L. Goldberg

Philip HawkinsLucille LarkinCharles McMahonStephen P. RushAnne ShuffSarah F. Weinstein

ADMINISTRATIVEArtistic Director Charles McMahonManaging Director Anne ShuffAssociate Artistic Director Kathryn MacMillanEducation Director Joshua BrownsProduction Manager Tim MartinAdministrative Assistants Katrina McCarty, Ali RoyBookkeeper Erin Foreman-MurrayAudience Services Associates Kristen Burke, Clara Elser, Katherine

Fritz, Colleen Hughes, Elisabeth Kersey, Meredith Rich, Mary Beth Simon, Ryane Nicole Studivant

PRODUCTIONStage Manager Rebecca SmithTechnical Director Meghan JonesAssistant Technical Director/ Master Carpenter Lance KniskernBoard Operator M. Craig GettingMaster Electrician Christopher HetheringtonElectricians Matt Barnes, Chris Frey,

J. Michael StaffordCarpenters Newton Buchanan, M. Craig Getting,

Stephen Hungerford, Allen RadwayProperties Tracy Jones, Katie Lynch, Tim Martin,

Jonathon WelshScenic Charges Christina Chadwick, Kate Coots,

Sharri Jerue, Lance KniskernProduction Interns Tracy Jones, Katie Lynch,

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Evita*New Candlelight Th eatre3/6/2010-4/25/2010302.475.2313

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By William ShakespeareDirected by Charles McMahon

APRIL 1 - MAY 2, 2010

If you enjoyed our darkly comic, Barrymore Award-winning Richard III, you’ll love this gripping plot from Shakespeare’s history canon. As trouble brews, King Henry is horrified to see his own son and heir keeping com-pany with thieves, drunkards, and whores. Witness the tug of war for the soul of young Prince Hal between his guilt-ridden father and Sir John Fal-staff, a charming rogue. As Hal wavers, the King’s ambitious enemies, led by the young Hotspur, are on the rise. Prince Hal must make hard choices and face his fears as civil war threatens to swallow up the kingdom.

In a dark corner of Hell’s bureaucracy sits mid-level demon Screwtape, scratching out letters to his nephew, Wormwood, filled with advice on how to corrupt a human soul. Gleefully, Screwtape catalogs the list of human frailties upon which Wormwood is to prey – war, lust, debauch-ery, decadence, and all sorts of wickedness. This rollicking adaptation turns the revered classic into a sumptuous multimedia event withmusic, dance, and infernal unpredictability.

MONDAYSAPRIL 5, 12 & 19

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SCHOLARS: IN CONVERSATIONPrinces, Clowns, and the Fight for the Crown:Understanding Henry IV, Part I

This three-part panel discussion on Henry IV, Part I will take you on a journey with scholars and Lantern artists through Shakespeare’s themes, with his char-acters...and to the Rosenbach Museum & Library! We’ve partnered with the Rosenbach to bring you a dynamic series: talk about character with Pete Pryor (our Falstaff!), engage with scholars in Shakespear-ean politics, and take a hands-on tour of theRosenbach’s Shakespeare collection.

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From the novel by C.S. Lewis

MAY 19 - 30, 2010