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Newstead College Auditorium, 30 Cypress Street, Newstead.

GLORIA By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

THREE RIVER THEATRE

AND IO PERFORMANCE

PRESENT

WEDNESDAY 5th MAY to

SATURDAY 8th MAY 7:30pm

MATINEE SATURDAY 1:30pm

Directed by Georgie Todman

Three River Theatre welcomes you!

On behalf of Three River Theatre, welcome to our first major production for

2021—and our first return to the theatre since the blank canvas that 2020 be-

came, thanks to COVID-19.

Gloria continues our tradition of giving the stage over to a sharply-written, witty

and confronting contemporary drama. The characters of this play navigate to-

wards, and then deal with consequences from, significant trauma, and Branden

Jacobs-Jenkins delivers us all into fascinating moral territory when it comes to

ownership of our stories and the right we have to benefit from them.

We would like to thank our good friends at IO Performance for partnering with us

in bringing this production to life. Their expertise, energy and commitment to ex-

cellence in theatre is something that Launceston’s cultural community will only

benefit from, and we have been thrilled to have worked with them again.

We hope you enjoy Gloria—please stay tuned on our Facebook page for news of

our next playreading on June 16th, featuring the debut work of an exciting local

playwright, Oliver Johns. And then in November, former Three River Theatre pa-

terfamilias Stan Gottschalk will bring the American classic Of Mice and Men to

the stage at the Earl Arts Centre.

Thank you again for your support.

Cameron Hindrum

President

Welcome to Gloria...

Gloria/Nan: Renée Bakker

Miles/Devin: Mason Bennett

Sasha/Callie: Delia Breen

Kendra: Georgia Heiniger

Lorin: Travis Hennessy

Dean: Mitchell Langley

Shawn/Rashaad: Jasper Tabuyo

Ani/Jenna: Sakura Walker

Act 1 : Miles, Ani, Dean, Kendra, Nan (voice), Gloria, Lorin

Act 2.1: Nan, Dean, Kendra, Shawn, Sasha

Act 2.2: Lorin, Nan Callie, Rashaad, Jenna, Devin

Run Time: 105 Minutes - including interval

Warning: This play contains confronting adult themes, simulated violence and is

suitable for ages 15 plus. See front of house for additional warnings/information

Gloria

Cast

About The Play

Editorial assistant Dean stumbles into work, hungover from last night’s mortifying party

at Gloria’s house. Surrounded by his ambitious co-workers in their Manhattan maga-

zine office, the only thing that matters is how fast you can climb the journalistic ladder

of success and get your name in print. Today is just another ordinary day, until suddenly

it’s not and the stakes for who gets the story become higher than ever.

Act One: Spring 2015

Act Two (Scene 1): Autumn 2015

Act Two (Scene 2): Spring 2017

Thank you for supporting Three River Theatre!

With a proud 65-year history, Three River is dedicated to the best of community theatre: Excellent

productions, energising social events and great company.

The Three River Theatre Committee are as follows and the Gloria team thank them for their sup-

port and tireless work in relation to producing this show:

IO is back collaborating with Three River Theatre on their latest production:

Gloria.

Gloria is an incredible story of human interaction, how we navigate the re-

lentlessness of the daily grind and within that, lay our own plans for the

future. Gloria examines what happens, within us, when all of that goes out

the window in a crisis. After watching a run of Gloria, it was clear that the

cast and director, Georgie Todman, had taken the time to make each of

these people authentically real in a business that makes a profit from the

superficial. We were brought on as designers for this production and want-

ed to create this sense of mediocrity as well as hypocrisy through the set

design’s stimulus blocking aesthetic. The use of grey with the uniformity of

the space signifies the stereotypical office environment; a place where the

everyday is changeless and eternal… until it’s not.

We hope once seeing Gloria, you can analyse the human aspect of our ex-

istence and be more aware of our differences and similarities as we navi-

gate our, sometimes tumultuous, paths. You go away with the reminder of

how we treat our circumstances and each other.

Cameron Hindrum (President)

Georgie Todman (Vice President)

Pauline Robson (Financial Officer)

Debbie Parish (Secretary)

Ant Butchart

Johanna Breen

Delia Breen

Amanda Dawes

Jonathan Pedler

From the Director...

GEORGIE TODMAN... Director Georgie completed a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts with a major in Theatre and English at UTAS

and has had a long-standing relationship with theatre. Creative highlights include co-writing the

musical Happy Me, which received funding to tour 13 locations in Tasmania, and publishing a co

-written script One, Two Three, Home through Australians Plays.

Other theatrical high points include performing in productions such as God of Carnage (Three

River), The Last Five Years, When the Rain Stops Falling and Hayfever (Centrstage) and Les Mis-

erables, Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors with Launceston Musical Society, Launceston Players

and Encore. Georgie more recently loves to get behind the

scenes and has directed Something Natural but very Childish

(Centrstage), Dusty - The Original Pop Diva (LMS) and was assis-

tant director for We Will Rock You (Encore). Her production of

Killer Joe for Three River received the Best Production Award

(Community) at the Tasmanian Theatre Awards in 2019 and she

has been thrilled to return to directing for Three River with this

production of Gloria. Georgie is a Drama and English teacher at

Brooks High, is on the Three River Theatre committee, is the

Creative Director of the Tamar Valley Writers Festival and is on

the social committee for Friends of Theatre North.

Three River Theatre in collaboration with IO Performance are invigorated to be presenting Branden Jacob-

Jenkins multi award-winning play, Gloria. Originally slated for a season in 2020, we feel blessed to have

relaxed Covid-19 restrictions and have retained most of our original team for the production you shall see

tonight.

Gloria is a contemporary text with something extraordinary to say about our fractured, ferociously ambi-

tious, media-saturated world. The characters are beautifully nuanced and grossly dislikeable at times and

it has been a challenge to unpack this whip-cracking and confronting script. The dialogue feels very au-

thentic and often characters talk over the top of each other, not unlike many vibrant offices I have shared

over the years. I have been awed and inspired by the exceptional skill of the acting team, who have been

very generous in their delivery of Jacobs-Jenkins modern and scathing dialogue, and their commitment in

developing the complex and flawed characters you will witness tonight, not to mention most actors play

more than one role.

I will warn you, Gloria can be assaulting as a play text. Gloria begins as a satire of 20-somethings in the

office and suddenly becomes a dissection of ambition, misery and the desire to be heard. As an educator

of young people and an avid consumer of media, I knew from the moment I sat down to watch a produc-

tion of Gloria at MTC three years ago, that I would bring this play to Tasmanian audiences. I have found

more recent debates over who should pay for journalistic content online fascinating and Gloria manages

to offer a scathing insight into why we are in the place we are now (even though it starts in 2015).

We are living in an increasingly user-created digital world and young people, in fact all people (through

their socials such as Instagram and Tik Tok) seem to be vying for human connection and for their 15

minutes of fame and the question still remains, at what cost?

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, a self-described

‘bookish’ child, grew up in a community in

Washington DC where theatre and perfor-

mance were at the forefront of the social

agenda. He read every copy of The New York-

er he could find, handing over a dime at the

public library for old issues as often as he

could. Branden Jacobs-Jenkins received a BA

(2006) from Princeton University and an MA

(2007) from New York University, and he is a

graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace Ameri-

can Playwrights Program at Juilliard (2014).

His plays have been performed at such ven-

ues as Lincoln Center Theater/LCT3, Soho

Rep, the Public Theater, Yale Repertory

Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, and

Center Theater Group, among many others.

He is a playwright drawing from a range of

contemporary and historical theatrical

genres to engage frankly with complicated issues around identity, family, class and

race. Many of Jacobs-Jenkins’s plays use an historical lens to satirise and comment on

modern culture, particularly the ways in which class, ambition and race are negotiated

in both private and public settings. Although the provocation of his audience is

purposeful, Jacobs-Jenkins’s creation of unsettling, shocking, often confrontational

moments is not gratuitous; these elements are of a piece with the world he has

established on stage and in the service of the story he is telling.

With Gloria (2015), Jacobs-Jenkins returns to the naturalistic play, using the biting

satire of the comic drama to explore the stratified, competitive world of the modern

workplace and its sometimes fatal consequences. In these and other works, Jacobs-

Jenkins’s subversive, fearless and risky approach is challenging audiences to reconsid-

er the integrated spaces we share and to reflect on opportunities for sympathetic con-

nection.

About the playwright...

Director: Georgie Todman

Stage Manager: Shawna Collins

Lighting Design: Chris Jackson

Set Design: Georgie Todman and Grace Roberts

Set Construction: Grace Roberts, Chris Jackson, Shawna Collins

Sound Design: Georgie Todman and Chris Jackson

Original Composition: Travis Hennessy (Glitter Witch)

Special Effects: Chris Jackson and Grace Roberts

Vocal Coaching/Accents: Travis Hennessy

Technical Operators: Chris Jackson, Grace Roberts, Shawna Collins

Program: Debbie Parish

Photos: Grace Roberts

Publicity Manager: Georgie Todman and Pauline Robson

Ticketing: Pauline Robson

Front of House Manager: Cameron Hindrum and Three River Theatre

Bar Manager: Cameron Hindrum and Three River Theatre

Ushers: Cameron Hindrum, Sheryl Neasey,

Nick Cummings, Joh Breen, Jonathan Peddler

Production Team...

Gloria is set in the world of publishing a media and mentions some American places

and abbreviations that might be unfamiliar. Below are some terms that might assist.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS

.

Edit: department that prepares edition for

publication, by correcting, revising, or

adapting.

Copy: written material, in contrast to photo-

graphs or other elements of layout. Copy

Editor checks readability, fitness, facts.

Sample Sale: where brands sell their trial-

run clothing to consumers for a very limited

time, also includes overstock and past sea-

son merchandise

By-Line: a printed line of text accompanying

an article, giving the author's name.

Editor In chief: the editor-in-

chief determines the look and feel of the

publication, has the final say in what is pub-

lished and leads the publication's team

of editors, copy editors, and writers.

Associate Editor: the next step af-

ter Assistant Editor. Associate Editors are

usually responsible for writing and/or as-

signing stories to other writers,

Ghost Writer/Ghost Editor: A ghost writer or

editor creates or edits written content that

is published in another person's name.

Pasadena: Pasadena is a city in Los Ange-

les County, California, United States.

LSATs: initialism for Law School Admission

Test.

J School: abbreviation of Journalism School.

Harper Collins: HarperCollins Publishers is

one of the world's largest publishing compa-

nies.

YA Crossover: YA is abbreviation for the

Young Adult novel genre, novels are consid-

ered crossover when the publisher is hop-

ing to reach not only teenage readers, but

adult readers as well.

Cortado: drink of espresso coffee with a

small amount of steamed milk.

Option: an option is an agreement where a

writer (of a novel usually) gives a production

company/network/screenwriter the exclu-

sive rights to try and produce/shop the

movie version

Packaging: tying multiple creative elements

to a film project to assist in gaining $$.

Those elements can be actors, directors,

producers etc.

Profiling: a written portrait of a person. Of-

ten, a profile is published as a narrative non

-fiction article in a magazine. The story is

based on facts discovered through research

as well as interviews.

FSG: abbreviation of Far-

rar, Straus and Giroux. An American

book publishing company,

RENEE BAKKER... Gloria/Nan

Renée Bakker studied Performing Arts at the Water-

front Theatre School in Cape Town, and then pursued

a postgraduate degree at the Guildford Conserva-

toire, UK. Her multicultural and multilingual upbring-

ing allowed Renée to pursue numerous roles on

stage, and in front of the cameras.

Her stage credits include Oklahoma!, Sailor Beware,

Canterbury Tales, and recently, the award-winning

Anatomy of a Suicide with IO Performance. Alongside

her acting career, Renée’s been teaching drama for

fifteen years, and has directed numerous plays and

musicals across three continents.

Since moving to Tasmania, Renée has been the Jun-

ior Company Director at LYTE, and founded Bakker

Productions; a company that runs theatre programmes for children. Renée brings a breadth of

experience in acting and directing children’s theatre and is passionate about the role theatre

can play in the development of young people.

MASON BENNETT... Miles/Devin

Mason has just recently graduated from Scotch Oakburn College in 2020, studying dra-

ma and theatre in his final two years.

Whilst at Scotch Oakburn, Mason was a part of a

number of shows such as A Midsummer Night’s

Dream (2017), Avenue Q (2018) and Away

(2019).

During 2020 Mason was a ensemble member in

Encore Theatre’s Mamma Mia, that was sadly

postponed due to COVID-19.

As a keen acting and film enthusiast, Mason

hopes to pursue acting in the future. He is cur-

rently working through 2021, in hopes to support

himself through acting school, possibly in 2022

on the mainland.

The Cast...

DELIA BREEN... Sasha/Callie Delia first fell in love with the theatre at the ripe

old age of four thanks to Launceston Youth Thea-

tre Ensemble. Since then, she has seldom missed

an opportunity to be on or near the stage.

She has appeared in 11 years’ worth of produc-

tions with LYTE- including The Wizard of Oz,

Around the World in 80 Days, and Animal Farm.

Her other acting credits include Flashdance, Ar-

gonautika (Launceston College), The Season at

Sarsaparilla and Our Town (Three River Theatre).

She has also appeared in various play readings

for Three River and is a current board member.

Delia has assistant-directed several works for the

junior company of LYTE, most recently Twist! un-

der Renée Bakker. She is set to appear in Grease as Miss Lynch (Launceston College)

and Kill Climate Deniers (IO Performance) later this year.

GEORGIA HEINIGER... Kendra Georgia Heiniger graduated from the University of Tasmania’s Tasmanian College of the

Arts (TCoTA) in 2013 with a Bachelor of Contemporary Arts Theatre. Extending her act-

ing training in Sydney, she graduated from

Screenwise in 2016 with a Diploma of Screen

Acting.

Georgia’s experience spans multiple mediums

from theatre festivals Short + Sweet Sydney

(2017), Mudlark Theatre’s One Day (2013,

2019, 2020) to musical The Hard Boiled Egg

(2014), stage Motel (2014), feature length film

The Grey Areas (2015), short film Lies (2016)

and voice over Janet King (2016). This is Geor-

gia’s first time on stage with Three River Theatre

and her second time working with IO Perfor-

mance following 2019’s Very Still and Hard to

See, directed by Caitlin McCarthy.

The Cast...

TRAVIS HENNESSY... Lorin Travis is a graduate of the Victorian College of the

Arts (PG Dip Voice) and has a BA and MA in Theatre

(UTAS). He is the recipient of two Tasmanian Theatre

Awards for acting in community theatre (Outstanding

Supporting Actor - Killer Joe, 2018; Outstanding Lead

Actor - 1984, 2019). Travis works as a freelance pro-

fessional Actor, Musical Director, Musician, Compos-

er, Voice Coach, Tutor and Arts Educator in Tasmania.

Already in 2021, Travis has appeared in Caravan

Boat Treehouse (Mudlark Theatre), and following Glo-

ria, Travis will appear in Become The One (IO Perfor-

mance). Travis is also one of the core creatives for

Launceston College’s major musical Grease. Previous

acting credits include: Angry Men (Three River,

2016), I am a Lake (Mudlark, 2016), Wicked (Encore, 2017), Killer Joe (Three River, 2018),

1984 (Launceston Players, 2019), It Happened One Day (Mudlark, 2019), The Gloaming

(Stan Network, 2019).

MITCHELL LANGLEY... Dean

Mitchell has been involved in the local theatre scene for the last decade and credits his

passion for performing to his degree, the Bachelor of Contemporary Arts, where he ma-

jored in theatre.

Since graduating, Mitchell has been an active

member of the Launceston theatre community.

Some of his past acting credits include Killer Joe

(Three River/IO Performance), Disclosed (Three

River) and Twelve Angry Men (Three River),

Something Natural But Very Childish

(CentrStage) and Bengal Tiger at The Baghdad

Zoo (CentrStage).

Mitchell has thoroughly enjoyed sinking his teeth

into the role of Dean and hopes the audience en-

joys this gritty piece of theatre.

The Cast...

JASPER TABUYO... Shawn/Rashaad Jasper Tabuyo graduated Launceston College in

2019 where he started his acting career. Since

then Jasper has been involved in numerous plays

and musicals such as Launceston Colleges’ Pro-

duction of Matilda the Musical, where he played

Bruce Bogtrotter, and in the previous year’s Jesus

Christ Superstar as a featured role. Jasper has

also performed in the Australian Musical Theatre

Festival and Festivale as a singer/songwriter for

numerous years.

Gloria is Jasper’s first play experience outside of

school. He has had such an enjoyable time in the

rehearsal process and is very excited to share this

story with you. He hopes you have just as good a

time watching tonight’s performance.

SAKURA WALKER... Ani/Jenna

Sakura is originally from Burnie, Tasmania and moved to Launceston three years ago to

complete her UTAS Bachelor of Contemporary

Arts Degree. She was a part of many shows with

UTAS such as I <3 ... (2018), Myth, Propaganda

and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary

America (2019), and Perfect Stranger (2020).

She was an active member of Fawkes Theatre

Company over her three years at UTAS and per-

formed in shows such as Lines (2018) and Polar-

oid Stories (2018). For two years until her gradu-

ation, she was also the Artistic Director for the

company. Sakura is currently in her first year of

her Master of Teaching (Secondary) Degree. This

is her first time performing in a show in Launces-

ton outside of her Theatre Degree at UTAS.

The Cast...

CHRIS JACKSON... Technical Designer Chris holds a BCA Theatre, MCA performance-making and theatre, and

MFA performance/theatre-making and actor training. He has worked in

various capacities across the theatre and performance sector including:

Directing, Writing, Acting, Performance Art, Production, Designer and Mu-

sic. His work has seen local, state, national and international stages. He is

co-founder and co-artistic director of IO Performance.

His highlights include: Actor - Dancing Back Home (JUTE/Mudlark), Per-

former - Borders (Ihos /Junction), Assistant Director - Barbarians (Ihos /

MONAFOMA), Actor - Savages (Persona Collective/Junction); Performer -

Artaud Defacteau (OzFrank), Vision Designer - Relax The Chimp

(TasDance/JUNCTION), Actor - Islamophilia (NextStage/MTC); Performance

Artist - PANOPTICON-Horizons (Dark MOFO), Actor - Blood Brothers (Encore). Chris has also been

recognised by the Tasmanian Theatre Awards in 2017 for Best Design Professional Theatre - I

Am A Lake (Mudlark), and in 2020 for Outstanding Direction - Anatomy of a Suicide (IO) and Out-

standing Sound Design - Iron (IO).

Technical Crew...

GRACE ROBERTS... Technical Designer Grace is a past graduate of the UTAS theatre course. She recently com-

pleted her Masters of Fine Arts in post-dramatic theatrical design and

scenography, focussing on audience placement within a design in 2017.

Grace’s jobs in the industry include: Production Manager for Launceston

Youth Theatre Ensemble, Lecturer at the University of Tasmania, Former

Lecturer at Charles Sturt University and Co-Artistic Director/Producer of

IO Performance. Grace has also been involved in many other theatrical

productions in different capacities, from Lighting Designing for O; The

Tragedy of Ophelia (2018), Set designing and acting for Killer Joe (2018),

Projection Design, Stage Manager and Assistant Director for I Am a Lake

(2016-2017), Acting for Wild (2018), Acting for Anatomy of a Suicide

(2019) and for several productions worked as the makeup artist. Grace

has worked with such theatre companies as Three River Theatre, Relevant Theatre, Launceston

Players, Mudlark Theatre and Blue Cow Theatre.

SHAWNA COLLINS... Stage Manager Shawna grew up in and around the Launceston theatre community. This

was fostered when she began studying and performing with LYTE, where

she starred in shows such as The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

(White Witch) and Alice: Through the Looking Glass (Tweedledumb.) In

2015, she was awarded best actress at the Deloraine Theatre Festival

and following her graduation from SOC, she performed in A Midsummer

Nights Dream (Titania) and The Laramie Project (Various) under the

guidance of Georgie Todman and Marcus Bower. Shawna went on to do

work with the University of Tasmania, where she discovered her passion

for technical theatre. Shawna has had a close working relationship with

IO Performance and Three River Theatre for around 3 years now and

cannot wait for you to see what they bring to the office, with this produc-

tion of Gloria.

Three River wishes to acknowledge the following individuals and organisa-

tions for their invaluable assistance:

Acknowledgements...

And all those unknown at the time of printing.

Lyndon Riggall

Newstead College

Examiner Newspaper

Dana Andrews

ABC Northern Tasmania

BJ King

Chilli FM

Dan Taylor

Alarna Hingston

Debra Scott

Simone Rigby

Christine Gilmore

Nelson Clay

TasVillas Group

Gill and Fred Todman

Alicia Mueller

Tom Butler

Richard Cetti

Launceston College

Stuart Heiniger

Coopers Brewery

Michael Mason

Cafe Mondello

Original cast members: Rae

Smith, Tansy Gorman, Troy

Ridgway and Anne Riley

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