Half Life

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CanStage presents Necessary Angel’s production of
Half Life
By John Mighton / Directed by Daniel Brooks
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CanStage
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Necessary Angel’s production of
Half Life
JAN 8 to FEB 3 2007
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Eric Peterson, Carolyn Hetherington and Barbara Gordon. Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann.
When Half Life premiered in 2005 it was an immediate hit. Both
audiences and critics agreed that this touching story was “a gain,
in every sense of the word, for the Canadian theatre canon”
(Globe and Mail). It won both the Governor-General’s Award
for Drama and the Dora Award for Outstanding New Play.
I am very proud to be able to present this wonderful work by
John Mighton on the Bluma stage – the largest venue in which
it has yet been presented. This work deserves to be seen by as
many people as possible.
I am also thrilled that the entire original cast is part of this
production. We truly have a stellar cast and creative team with
us to present one of the best Canadian plays to premiere in
Playwright
Director
Set & Costume Design
Lighting Design
Sound & Music
Assistant Lighting Design
Technical Director
Head of Wardrobe
JOHN MIGHTON
DANIEL BROOKS
DANY LYNE
ANDREA LUNDY
RICHARD FEREN
DAVID DUCLOS
NATHANIEL KENNEDY
JOLENE ANTLE
CAST
(in alphabetical order)
Anna
Agnes/First Scientist/Diana
Clara
Tammy/Second Scientist
Reverend/Stanley
Donald
Patrick
LAURA DE CARTERET
BARBARA GORDON
CAROLYN HETHERINGTON
MAGGIE HUCULAK
RANDY HUGHSON
DIEGO MATAMOROS
ERIC PETERSON
the last few years.
We all have bits and pieces of memories that have become
more fiction than fact – this show goes to prove that sometimes
it’s not the actual event that’s important; it’s the way we
remember it that matters.
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
CRYSTAL SALVERDA
KATE PORTER
The show runs approximately 90 minutes. There will be no intermission.
I hope Half Life is an unforgettable theatre experience for you.
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CAST
LAURA DE CARTERET
BARBARA GORDON
Anna
For CanStage Debut.
Most Recently Canadian Festival and
Scottish tour of Half Life.
Elsewhere Half Life, Sideman (Tarragon
Theatre); Skylight, The Gist (Manitoba
Theatre Centre); Getting Married (Shaw
Festival); School For Scandal (Banff
Advanced Actors Workshop); The
Rehearsal, Digging for Fire, Two Rooms
(Paramour Productions, co-founder).
Film & Television Television guest
appearances on “Angela’s Eyes,” “Puppets
Who Kill,” “Queer As Folk,” “Kevin Hill,”
“This is Wonderland,” “The West Wing,”
“Widow On The Hill,” “Dark Oracle,” among
numerous others. Selected film credits
include “Heartstopper,” “Mean Girls,” “Spirit
Bear,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Redemption,”
“Our Fathers.”
Upcoming George A. Romero’s “Diary of the
Dead,” “The Magic Flute” (Sullivan
Entertainment) and “Shoot ‘Em Up” (New
Line Cinema); Half Life in Melbourne.
Etcetera For my beautiful daughter, Isabel.
Agnes/First Scientist/Diana
For CanStage Homechild, Written on Water.
Most Recently The Clean House (Globe
Theatre); Arab-Israeli Cookbook (Studio
180); That Time (Theatre Centre).
Film & Television “Skinwalkers” (feature
film); “Congratulations Daisy Graham”
and “Hooked on Speedman” (independent
films); “Still Small Voices,” “Let It Snow”
(MOWs); “Life With Derek” (TV).
Etcetera Married to writer Douglas Roger
with children Melody and Dougal.
LAURA de CARTERET
BARBARA GORDON
CAROLYN HETHERINGTON
Clara
For CanStage Written on Water.
Most Recently Lillibet (Ships Company Theatre);
After the Orchard (National Arts Centre).
Elsewhere Burnt Piano, The Beauty Queen
of Leenane – MECCA Award, Wit,
Copenhagen, The Cripple of Inishmaan,
Driving Miss Daisy, Having (Centaur
Theatre); Homeward Bound, The Beauty
Queen of Leenane, A Day in the Life of Joe
Egg (Citadel Theatre). Other Theatres
include Soulpepper, Tarragon, Stratford
Festival, Theatre Aquarius, Grand Theatre
and the Great Canadian Theatre Company.
Film & Television Sarah Polley’s “Away From
Her,” “Blue Murder,” “Road to Avonlea,”
“The Thriller.”
CAROLYN HETHERINGTON
ACTOR NAME
Upcoming Canadian tour of Half Life.
Etcetera Ms. Hetherington was nominated
for a 2005 Dora Award for Half Life.
MAGGIE HUCULAK
Tammy/Second Scientist
For CanStage Titania in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream.
Most Recently A Christmas Carol
(Soulpepper); The Clean House (Globe
Theatre); 4:48 Psychosis (SummerWorks);
The Wild Duck (Soulpepper); Half Life
(Necessary Angel); The Glass Menagerie
(Globe Theatre).
Elsewhere Frequently with Necessary Angel
including Tamara, Beating Heart Cadaver,
The Piper, King Lear and Seven Lears.
Frequently with Theatre Columbus
including The Betrayal, Lonely Nights
and Other Stories, Twelfth Night; Faust
(Tarragon Theatre).
Film & Television Regular and recurring roles
in “Eric’s World,” “The Adventures of Shirley
Holmes,” “Wind at my Back,” “Queer as Folk,”
“Puppets Who Kill.” Narrated CBC’s epic
documentary, “Canada: A People’s History.”
Upcoming Half Life on tour; a new play
in progress entitled Teetering, with
Theatre Columbus.
Etcetera Ms. Huculak is a six-time Dora Award
nominee. She is a faculty member of Dean
Armstrong Acting Studio, Shakespearience,
and is a qualified TDSB tutor.
ACTOR NAME
ACTOR NAME
RANDY HUGHSON
Reverend/Stanley
For CanStage Homechild; Take Me Out;
Lonesome West; Silver Dagger; Of The
Fields, Lately.
Most Recently Insomnia (Buddies in Bad Times);
The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom (Blyth Festival);
Morris Panych’s one-man show Earshot
(National Arts Centre/Tarragon Theatre).
Elsewhere Mr. Hughson has worked in
theatres across the country. Selected
credits include the world premiere of John
Mighton’s Half Life; The Crucible
(Vancouver Playhouse); Julius Caesar
(Citadel Theatre); The Dishwashers, The
Optimists and the title role in Faust (Tarragon
Theatre); the title role in Hamlet (Theatre
Calgary) and directing at the Blyth Festival.
Film & Television “The Shoemaker” (Genie
Award nomination); “Blue Murder” (Gemini
Award nomination); short films “The Feeler”
(Golden Sheaf Award); “Breakwater”
(Golden Sheaf Award nomination).
Etcetera Mr. Hughson has been nominated
for 10 Dora Awards, three Jessie Awards,
two Betty Mitchell Awards, three Edmonton
Sterling Awards and has been awarded
one of each.
MAGGIE HUCULAK
RANDY HUGHSON
CAST CONTINUED
DIEGO MATAMOROS
Donald
Diego Matamoros is a founding member
of the Soulpepper Theatre Company in
Toronto, one of its four founding associate
artistic directors, a year round resident
artist, and a founding teacher of the
recently inaugurated Soulpepper Academy:
a masterclass level two year theatre
internship program for actors, directors,
writers, and designers.
As an actor, Mr. Matamoros has played
more than a dozen leading roles for the
company since its inception in 1998. These
include most recently the role of The Fool
in King Lear, the role of Davies in Harold
Pinter's The Caretaker, Khlestakov in
Gogol's The Government Inspector, the
title role in Uncle Vanya, Clov in Endgame,
Hjalmar in Ibsen's The Wild Duck, and
Theseus in Phedre by Jean Racine.
Over the past twenty-five years he has
performed in leading roles at most of the
major theatres across Canada as well as in
the United States including five seasons with
the Stratford Festival, several productions
with Tarragon Theatre, productions at
The Manitoba Theatre Centre, The Citadel
Theatre, The National Arts Centre, The
Centaur Theatre in Montreal, The Court
DIEGO MATAMOROS
ERIC PETERSON
CREATIVE
Theatre in Chicago, The Cincinnati
Playhouse, and Off-Broadway. He has
also appeared in more than forty Canadian
and American television and film
productions. As well as being a teacher
and director of theatre over the past
twenty years, Mr. Matamoros has won
several acting awards for both his stage
and television work. He will be appearing
as Jozef in the upcoming feature film
Fugitive Pieces, directed by Jeremy
Podeswa, adapted from the novel by
Canadian author Anne Michaels.
ERIC PETERSON
Patrick
For CanStage Homechild, The Beard of
Avon, Boy Gets Girl, Picasso at the Lapin
Agile, Hysteria.
Most Recently Half Life, The Dishwashers
(Tarragon Theatre).
Other Credits Other shows that he is proud
of: Billy Bishop Goes to War (co-creator
with John Gray); The Designated Mourner
(Tarragon Theatre), for which he won a
Dora Award.
Film & Television “Corner Gas,”
“This is Wonderland,” “Street Legal.”
Upcoming Looking forward to another
season on the prairies shooting “Corner Gas.”
ACTOR NAME
ACTOR NAME
DANIEL BROOKS
DANY LYNE
Director
For CanStage Daniel Brooks has been a
mainstay of Canada’s theatre community
for the past 20 years.
He has worked as a director, writer, actor,
producer, and teacher. Some of his
creations include Red Tape and 86; An
Autopsy (with Don McKellar and Tracy
Wright); The Lorca Play, House, Here Lies
Henry, Monster and Cul-de-sac (all with
Daniel MacIvor); The Noam Chomsky
Lectures and Insomnia (with Guillermo
Verdecchia), Bigger Than Jesus (with Rick
Miller) and The Good Life. His work as a
director includes John Mighton’s Possible
Worlds and Half Life, Goethe’s Faust, and
Beckett’s Endgame. His most recent play is
The Eco Show. He has won and been
nominated for many theatre awards. He
was the first recipient of the prestigious
Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in
Theatre for directing. His work has traveled
across Canada and around the world. He is
currently the Artistic Director of The
Necessary Angel Theatre Company.
Set & Costume Design
For CanStage HAIR, Twelfth Night (Dream
in High Park, 1993).
Ms. Lyne is the recipient of the 2006
Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. She has
designed over 70 productions in Canada,
the United States & Europe including
Daniel Brook’s Phedre (2003) for
Soulpepper Theatre. Recent collaborations
include Peter Hinton’s The Wrong Son
(2006) for the National Arts Centre and
Into the Woods (2005) for the Stratford
Festival. With director Nicholas Muni:
Macbeth (2005) and Pelléas et Mélisande
(2000) for the Canadian Opera Company;
The Maids (2004), The Emperor of Atlantis
(2004), La Voix Humaine (2003), Seven
Deadly Sins (2003), Medusa (2003) and
Elektra (2002) for the Cincinnati Opera.
With director Tim Albery: Rodelinda (2005)
for the Canadian Opera Company, Nathan
the Wise (2004) for Soulpepper Theatre,
Idomeneo (2002) for the National Reis
Opera (Netherlands) and Opera North
(England) and The Abduction from The
Seraglio (2001) for the De Vlaamse Opera
(Belgium).
ACTOR NAME
ACTOR NAME
DANIEL BROOKS
DANY LYNE
CREATIVE CONTINUED
ANDREA LUNDY
RICHARD FEREN
CRYSTAL SALVERDA
KATE PORTER
Lighting Design
For CanStage The Comedy of Errors; Side
by Side by Sondheim; The Shape of
Things; Adam Baum and the Jew Movie;
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning
Juliet); The Taming of the Shrew.
Most Recently Insomnia (Necessary Angel);
Mathilde (Nightwood Theatre); Kafka and
Son (Theaturtle); Care, Humble Boy
(Tarragon Theatre); American Buffalo
(Soulpepper); bloom (Modern Times);
Hana’s Suitcase (Lorraine Kimsa Theatre);
Einstein’s Gift (Grand Theatre).
Upcoming Chimera (Tarragon Theatre);
Whistle in the Dark (The Company Theatre);
Lucy (CanStage); The Eco Show (Necessary
Angel); The Pessimist (Tarragon Theatre).
Etcetera Ms. Lundy is the recipient of six Dora
Mavor Moore Awards. She is production
manager and tour manager for Necessary
Angel Theatre, production designer for the
Dora Awards and a member of Associated
Designers of Canada.
Sound & Music
For CanStage Blue/Orange; Goodnight
Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet); Habitat.
Elsewhere Here Lies Henry, The Soldier
Dreams, Monster, In On It, You Are Here,
Cul-de-sac (da da kamera); Insomnia, The
Eco Show (Necessary Angel); King Lear,
The Chairs, Mirandolina, Phèdre, Uncle Vanya,
Betrayal, Platonov, Endgame (Soulpepper).
Film & Television “Possible Worlds” (dir.
Robert Lepage); “Past Perfect” (dir. Daniel
MacIvor); numerous short films.
Upcoming Monster (Buddies in Bad Times);
I Am My Own Wife (Saidye Bronfman
Centre); The Three Sisters (Soulpepper).
Etcetera Mr. Feren is the recipient of five
Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding
Music and Sound Design. He was awarded
the 1999 Pauline McGibbon Award.
Stage Manager
For CanStage Debut.
Most Recently The Caretaker
(Soulpepper Theatre).
Elsewhere American Buffalo, Olympia,
Hamlet (Soulpepper Theatre); Half Life Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa,
Scotland tour - Glasgow, Perth (Necessary
Angel); Dioclesian, Fairy Queen (Toronto
Masque); The Real McCoy (Factory Theatre);
Five Guys named Moe – tour (Moe
Productions); Booster McCrane (Perth
Theatre Projects); Murmel, Murmel,
Mortimer Munch (Grand Theatre); He Won’t
Come In From The Barn, The Black Bonspiel
of Wullie MacCrimmon (Blyth Festival).
Etcetera Specification Manager (Architainment
Lighting); Sales Manager (Westsun).
Assistant Stage Manager
For CanStage Debut.
Most Recently Stage manager for The Cape
Town Project (Tarragon/Theatrefront), This
Is How It Goes (Neptune Theatre), The
Man Whose Mother Was A Pirate (Lorraine
Kimsa Theatre), Revisited (2b Theatre)
Opera Briefs 6 (Tapestry); assistant stage
manager for Rheingold, Macbeth
(Canadian Opera Company), Snow White
and the Group of Seven (Ross Petty
Productions), Half Life (Necessary Angel).
Elsewhere Apprentice credits from the
Stratford Festival, Soulpepper, Tarragon,
Mirvish, Canadian Opera Company, Theatre
Passe Muraille and Steppenwolf Theatre.
Etcetera Ms. Porter is a graduate of
Yale University.
ANDREA LUNDY
RICHARD FEREN
ACTOR NAME
ACTOR NAME
ACTOR NAME
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CRYSTAL SALVERDA
KATE PORTER
Q&A
Photo by Cylla von Tiedemann
with Director
Daniel Brooks
A History of Half Life
The world premiere production of Half Life was presented by Necessary Angel in coproduction with the Tarragon Theatre in the spring of 2005. Necessary Angel then toured
the play to three Canadian theatre festivals: Théâtre d’Ailleurs in Quebec City; Festival de
Théâtre des Amériques in Montreal, where it was awarded the Montreal English Critics
Circle Award for Best Visiting Production; and the Magnetic North Theatre Festival in
Ottawa, where it won the Capital Critics Circle Award for Best of a Festival. In the fall
of 2005, Necessary Angel, in co-production with Scotland’s Tron Theatre (Glasgow)
and Perth Theatre (Perth), took Half Life on a month-long, two-city tour of Scotland.
Half Life was developed and first presented in a full-scale workshop production by
Necessary Angel in its 2003/04 season. It was also developed, in part, in residence with
da da kamara through the support of the Ontario Arts Council Residence Grant and the
Canada Council for the Arts Artist in Residence Program, and in partnership with the
National Theatre School of Canada, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama/Tron
Theatre and North Carolina’s Playwright Project.
Half Life was awarded the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama and the
2005 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play. The play’s author (John
Mighton), director (Daniel Brooks) and set & costume designer (Dany Lyne) are all
winners of the Elinor and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, the most prestigious award
for achievement in Canadian theatre.
Were there specific challenges in shifting Half Life from the small, intimate
theatres, where it’s played until now, into a large space (like the Bluma Appel)?
The Bluma stage is much bigger—there’s more empty space around each actor. It takes
him or her longer to cross the stage or open a curtain. I have to consider how this will
change the feel of the play, because the audience will experience relationships
between characters in a different way.
The loss of intimacy is replaced by a greater theatricality. The themes – even though
they’re played in a delicate, naturalistic manner – are large. They can definitely fill a
space as large as the Bluma.
What would you say the underlying themes are?
The play looks into many things in a poetic, probing and playful way. It has its
characters and the audience question what constitutes a person, an identity, a thought,
a memory.
What does it mean to live knowing that we die, knowing that all that we think and all
of our memories ultimately disappear? What is memory and how does it live with us?
What do you live for if there’s no greater memory of our existence? There’s a beautiful
line in the play: “If there is no God, then everything will be forgotten.”
And what does it mean to love? In the play someone rekindles a love for somebody
they think they used to love. But as an audience we don’t even know if she knew that
person. So how real is that love? How real is any love?
Is Half Life a dark play?
No. Not at all. I think it’s an extremely optimistic play… to take very seriously a love
affair between a man who is nearing the end of a very difficult life and a woman who
is not entirely coherent is such an act of generosity and optimism. It’s a play that
celebrates connections and failures to connect in life…
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“...having spent the last 20 years doing
everything I could to avoid productive work...
I think I have a better idea of why we are
so efficient as a society at wasting time.”
Photo by Chris Chapman
John Mighton
Recipient of the Siminovitch Prize for Playwriting, 2005
The following is an excerpt from the
acceptance speech made by John Mighton
at the 2005 Siminovitch Prize in theatre
honouring playwrights on October 25, 2005.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, when I was
studying philosophy at McMaster University,
I wanted to write a book called “The Waste
Ethic,” which I hoped would be the first
attempt in the history of the social sciences
to accurately measure the amount of time
people waste at work. I wasn’t simply
interested in tracking the time wasted by
people who hate their jobs or who are
totally unqualified for their positions. I
wanted to find out what proportion of our
work goes into producing, marketing and
disposing of the vast array of products that,
before the advent of mass media, nobody
knew they needed or wanted.
I never did find the time to write that
book, but having spent the last 20 years
doing everything I could to avoid productive
work – in a variety fields – I think I have
a better idea of why we are so efficient as
a society at wasting time.
It seems to me that there are always two
kinds of ignorance at work in our society,
one extremely destructive and the other
healthy. My career in theatre and
mathematics was initially shaped by the
first kind of ignorance in ways I am only
beginning to understand. I came to these
fields rather late in life, because I grew up
thinking that to be an artist or a scientist
you needed to be born with a special gift.
It wasn’t until I read Sylvia Plath’s letters to
her mother, and I saw how as a teenager
she had learned her craft in small,
determined steps, dismantling poems like
motors to see how they worked, and
writing imitations of the things she loved,
that I began to believe there was a path I
could follow to develop a voice of my own.
The destructive form of ignorance has
divided many societies: it is the ignorance
that says there are fundamental, in-born
differences between people: between
peasants and nobility, slaves and slaveowners or minorities and majorities. It is
the ignorance that leads us, even in this
affluent age, to neglect the majority of
children, by educating them in schools
in which only a small minority are ever
expected to naturally love or excel at learning.
Two years ago, during a visit to the York
Detention Center, I saw the effects of this
ignorance in its most devastating form.
I had been asked to teach a lesson in
mathematics to a group of teenagers who
were awaiting trial and who were not
thrilled to be spending their afternoon
doing math. I reassured the students that
if they didn’t understand something in
my lesson it would be my fault for not
explaining it properly so they could ask me
to explain it again. I told them I had once
struggled with mathematics myself and I
promised I would try to make the subject
more interesting and easier than they might
remember it being at school. The teenagers
responded to my promise exactly as I have
seen young children respond – they raced
through their worksheets and called for the
tutors to give them extra work. One girl
who I had heard complaining at the
beginning of the lesson made me put check
marks beside each of her answers. When I
was finished she said “I’ve never had that
in my life, I’ve only had this.” and she wrote
a large X across her page.
The letter X is a fitting symbol for our
failure to care for those individuals who,
like the girl at the York Detention Center,
happen to struggle or fall behind in school
or in life – the crossed lines evoke the
barriers we place, out of ignorance and
indifference, between the majority of
children and their unrealized potential.
But the letter X is also a universal sign for
a different, and potentially redeeming kind
of ignorance: in the sciences and in
mathematics, it is the letter most commonly
used to stand for the unknown.
Einstein once wrote: “The most beautiful
and deepest experience one can have is the
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sense of the mysterious... One who has
never had this experience seems to me if
not dead, then at least blind. To sense that
behind anything that can be experienced
there is something that our mind cannot
grasp and whose beauty and sublimity
reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble
reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense
I am religious.”
We must use the resources
of the stage as they were
used in the past, to discover
and represent new ideas
about human nature, about
our place in the world...
There was a time when the theatre, even
more than mathematics or science, was a
means by which a society could experience
the religiousness and sublimity that Einstein
describes. Today there are signs, in the
work of Canadian artists, that the theatre
might regain something of its former role,
but only if we aspire to do more than
produce plays that simply entertain or
illustrate ideas: we must use the resources
of the stage as they were used in the past,
to discover and represent new ideas about
human nature, about our place in the world
and about the very means we use to
explore and communicate those ideas.
Among the artists working in Canadian
theatre today, few have worked so
rigorously to develop the tools by which we
might convey the religiousness or mystery
of existence as Daniel Brooks, the first
winner of the Siminovitch Award. Daniel
has shaped my work and has helped me
understand how it is possible, with no
more than the simplest sound or lighting
cue, or by means of the subtlest look or
gesture, to create entire worlds in the
minds of an audience.
We have the good fortune to be living
in a time when the arts and the sciences
are converging by different means to
radically new insights about the world and
about human nature. If we were to make
the profound sense of mystery that lies at
the heart of these movements the basis of
our society, rather than the ignorance that
underlies our divisiveness and greed, we
might be less inclined to squander the
resources we depend on to survive, or to
waste the sublime and precious moments
we have been granted in this world.
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An ordinary man acquires a beautiful coat. His identity is
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is eventually shattered by this simple acquisition. Based on
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LEADERSHIP GIFTS
CanStage gratefully acknowledges the exceptional support provided through Leadership Gifts.
We are extremely thankful for the outstanding commitment of the following individuals:
EXTRAORDINARY GIFTS–$50,000+
Bluma and Bram Appel
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VISION IN ACTION
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CANSTAGE ENDOWMENT FUND
The CanStage Endowment Fund supports
J.P. Bickell Foundation
the continued pursuit of presenting, creating
The Sarmite D. Bulte Musical Commission Fund
and producing the most compelling
The Henry N.R. Jackman Foundation
contemporary theatre. We would like to
William A. MacKinnon
acknowledge the following supporters for
The John McKellar Charitable Foundation
their outstanding contribution.
The James W. Leech Playwright Fund
In Memory of John D’Angelo
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Play a Leading Role
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company, CanStage depends on the support of its audience. With your help,
CanStage will continue to provide excellence on stage in Toronto and around
the world. CanStage continues to support cultural expression through our
unique Play Development program as well as education and outreach programs
for students and youth.
CanStage would like to thank all of our supporters who have demonstrated their
passion for contemporary theatre. For more information on ways you can make a
difference and levels of donation, please visit our website at www.canstage.com
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PARTNERSHIP
For more information about the APC program or to make any listing changes, please contact Jennifer Watson,
Artistic Producer’s Circle Manager at 416.367.8243 x308 or [email protected].
For more information about the Partnership program or to make any listing changes, please contact Laura Clark,
Partnership Manager at 416.367.8243 x249 or [email protected].
Barbara Hackett, Chair
Artistic Producer’s Circle
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& Jane Humphreys*
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& Laurie Clark*
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& Cynthia A. Young*
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& Suzanne Galipeault*
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Williamson**
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CAST MEMBERS
$1,500 - $2,499
David Abel*†
Jay Allison*
In Memory of
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& Studio City
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& Alan Cranfield
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Rooney
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Charles Jacobsen*
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& Diana Burke
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& Anthony Poser
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& Jerome Morse
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Barrett**
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Rosemary & John McIntosh
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Andrea Molyneux*
Mary F. Mulqueen
Peter Nosalik & Richard
Armstrong
Perry Orestes & Tim Giguere
Monique & Greg Peebles
Robin Perry
Karen Redman, M.P.,
Kitchener Centre
Ross & Patti Rennie *
Leslie Roberts
David Rosenbaum
& Debbie Strauss
Kathleen & Robert Rueter
Suzanne & Christopher
Sadler
Diana & Paul Sealy**
Vincenza Sera*
Mary Anne Shaw
Paul B. Hickey
& Mary C. Sheppard
Harvey Sims
Sandra & Crawford Spencer**
Denise Tobin
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Jennifer Tory
Mary & George Turnbull**
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& Charles Petersen
Elaine Vacheresse
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& Nancy Nightingale
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($750 - $999)
Michael Golych**
Pauline & Don Marston
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BENEFACTORS
($500 - $749)
Sharon & Lloyd Atkinson
Nani Beutel
W.S. Bishop
Paulette Bourgeois
Peggy & Murray Boyne
Peter Buckley
Karen Cheah
In Memory of Mervin
Cooper
Mary Beth Currie
Pat & Bill Davidson
Christopher Ferguson**
J. Gordon Fleming
Denise & Bob Graham
Debra M. Haak
& Hugh A. Christie
Michael & Marjorie Hale
The Hand Family
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Patrick & Barbara Keenan
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Robert W. Korthals
Spencer Lanthier
& Diana Bennett
H. Ian MacDonald
Dr. Aaron Malkin
Dale McCarthy
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M. A. Pattison
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Derek Phillips
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($250-$499)
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Serrano
Linda Barnett
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Blankstein**
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Mary Borden Spears
David & Patti Bragg
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Cansfield Family
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Laura Clark†
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Paul Cutler
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Maureen Dancy
Rita Davies
David Devine
Margaret Dickson
Paul & Stephanie Don
Gail Donald
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Ross Dunsmore
Brodie Edmonds
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Paul Ellis
George & Margo Enns
Denis Erwin
Jeannie Farquharson
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Anne Fitzell
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& Susan Rebicka
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Peter Hendrick
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Mary Hockin
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Anthony Lisanti
Craig & Kim Loudon
Sarah & David C.W.
Macdonald
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Jane Marshall
Ms Helen Mazewski
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Robert Morassutti
Sonia Mulligan
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Katherine Munkley
Edward Murray
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& Jennifer McShane
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In Memory of
Art & Thelma Trotter
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HEADING
GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
James H. Wilson
Donald L. Woods
& Alida Dubray
Wendy & William Wright
A. Glenn Yorke
David Young
Anonymous (15)
† CanStage Staff Member
**10 or more years of support
CanStage is also grateful for the
support of Partners at the Donor and
Member levels.
FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS
GENERAL SUPPORT
The Bennett Family Foundation
The Silver Tree Foundation
Winberg Foundation
PLAY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES
John McKellar Foundation
The Norman & Margaret Jewison
Charitable Foundation
THE FESTIVAL OF IDEAS
AND CREATION
The Hal Jackman Foundation
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
INTERNSHIPS
George Cedric Metcalf Foundation
EDUCATION PROGRAMS
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CANSTAGE RECOGNIZES THE SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT OF OUR PUBLIC FUNDERS:
Cultural Strategic Initiatives Fund
through the Ontario Ministry of Culture
We acknowledge the support of the Canada
Council for the Arts which last year invested $22.6
million in theatre throughout Canada. Nous
remercions de son soutien le Conseil des Arts du
Canada, qui a investi 22,6 millions de dollars l'an
dernier dans le théâtre à travers le Canada.
The Tomorrow Starts Today Program of
the Department of Canadian Heritage
Human Resources and Skills Development Canada
Arts Promotion Program of the Department
of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
SPECIAL THANKS
Cover photo of Eric Peterson and Carolyn Hetherington by Shin Sugino.
CanStage is a member of the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres (PACT) and
the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) and engages, under the terms of the
Canadian Theatre Agreement, professional artists who are members of the Canadian Actors’
Equity Association. The professional technicians at this theatre are represented by the
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees – Locals 58 and 822.
PLAY DEVELOPMENT UPDATE
Photo by Rosie Shaw
BASH! – CanStage’s Artist
Development Program
Over the course of the 06.07 season, 14 indie artists will explore the world of creating
contemporary theatre for larger stages. With bi-weekly development sessions and
workshops with members of the CanStage artistic, production and administrative teams,
participants will be immersed in the complexities of producing for larger stages and
creating, sustaining and engaging an audience in Toronto. Our BASH! artists will host
eight supplementary events, one connected to and inspired by each show of the
CanStage season, which will incorporate what has been learned through this process.
Congratulations to the participants in the first season of BASH!
Anna Chatterton
Scott Lale
Kwame Stephens
Chris Dupuis
Mitchell Marcus
Lindsay C. Walker
Brendan Healy
Katherine Sanders
Norman Yeung
Njo Kong Kie
Erin Shields
Jacob Zimmer
rahim ladha
Rebecca Singh
For more information please contact Natasha Mytnowych at 416.367.8243 x277 or [email protected].
Paul Thompson and ahdri zhina mandiela at the Festival of Ideas and Creation. Photo by Joseph Michael.
RAW! RAW! RAW!, our Play Development
program’s new play reading series, had its
debut in December of 2006 in the Upstairs
Theatre and featured readings of Savage
Brown by Jane Edmonds, directed by
Alison Sealy-Smith; Black Mothers Don’t
Say I Love You, by trey anthony, facilitated
by Iris Turcott; Waxworks by Trina Davies,
directed by Ron Jenkins and Scratch by
Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman, directed by
ahdri zhina mandiela. In October, Adam
Pettle, our long-standing playwright-inresidence, was sent on a writing retreat
with dramaturge Iris Turcott, and then in
November we held a reading of his first
draft of Rattle the Bones.
We held dramaturgical sessions and three
readings of Damien Atkins’ Lucy which
will enjoy its world premiere at CanStage
Berkeley this March. We were sad to wave
goodbye to Chris “Scully” Scholey, a great
boon to our Play Development department
for two years, but are overjoyed to welcome
Katherine Grainger as Artistic Coordinator.
Bonnie Green
Associate Producer – Play Development
Iris Turcott
Dramaturge
Katherine Grainger
Artistic Coordinator
UPCOMING EVENTS
WHAT’S UP AT BERKELEY
INDIVIDUAL GIVING
Opening Night Dinner – Half Life
Thurs. Jan. 11, 2007
Penelope Restaurant
(For Partners $100 and above and
all APC members)
For more information please contact APC
Manager Jennifer Watson at 416.367.8243
x308 or [email protected]
or Partnership Manager Laura Clark at x249
or [email protected].
STARS Cocktail Party
Wed. Jan. 31, 2007
(For APC members $2,500 and above)
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Teacher Preview Evening –
What Lies Before Us
Mon. Jan. 15, 2007 6:30-8:00 p.m.
(play begins at 8:00 p.m.)
Berkeley Street – front lobby
Educators are invited for a pre-show discussion
of themes and points of engagement for students,
followed by a performance of the play.
Dress Rehearsal – The Overcoat
Sat. Feb. 10, 2007
Bluma Appel Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre
(For Partners $120 and above and all APC
members)
Opening Night Dinner – The Overcoat
Thurs. Feb. 15, 2007
Le Papillion
(For APC Members $1,500 and above)
2007 CanStage Theatre Ball
– Passion at Kool
Thurs. Mar. 1, 2007
The Kool Haus
Opening Night Dinner – The Rocky
Horror Show
Thurs. Mar. 29, 2007
The St. Lawrence Hall
(For APC Members $1,500 and above)
Meet the Creators – Damien Atkins (Lucy)
Tue. Mar. 27, 2007, 6:00 p.m.
CanStage Berkeley, evening
(For Partners $120 and above
and all APC Members)
Backstage Tour – The Rocky Horror Show
Sat. Apr. 14, 2007, 11:00 a.m.
Bluma Appel Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre
(For Partners $250 and above and all APC
Members)
APC New York Theatre Weekend
May 4 – 6, 2007
(For APC Members $1,500 and above)
Spring Preview – Who Knew Granny?
Fri. May 11, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
CanStage Berkeley
(For Partners $75 and above and all APC
Members)
Half Life Talk Backs and Tea Talks
Jan. 16 – Jan. 31, 2007
Following the Tuesday evening and Wednesday
matinee performances. An informal questionand-answer period with cast members.
Bluma Appel Theatre
What Lies Before Us Talk Backs
Jan. 25 – Feb. 22, 2007
Following Thursday evening performances.
An informal question-and-answer period
with cast members.
Berkeley Street Theatre
Half Life Theatre Club
Sat. Feb. 3, 2007, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon
Like a book club, join fellow audience
members for an opportunity to discuss your
personal insights into this production.
Berkeley Street Theatre – front lobby
Teacher Preview Evening – The Overcoat
Mon. Feb. 12, 2007, 6:30-8:00 p.m.
(play begins at 8:00 p.m.)
Educators are invited for a pre-show discussion
of themes and points of engagement for students,
followed by a performance of the play.
Berkeley Street – front lobby
What Lies Before Us Theatre Club
Sat. Feb. 24, 2007, 10:30-12:00 noon
Like a book club, join fellow audience
members for an opportunity to discuss
your personal insights into this production.
Berkeley Street Theatre – front lobby
For more information please contact Director of
Audience Development Patty Jarvis at
416.367.8243 x245 or [email protected]
What Lies
Before Us
“What lies behind us and what lies
before us at any time are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
WORLD PREMIERE
JAN 15 to FEB 24 2007
CanStage BERKELEY
CanStage presents the Crow’s Theatre production of
What Lies Before Us By Morris Panych / Directed by Jim Millan
Starring Matthew MacFadzean and David Storch
Ambrose and Keating, two junior surveyors, are lost
in the Canadian Rockies with Wing, the Chinese cook. As the snow
begins to fall, the men’s discussion of colonialism, women, faith
and the future, descends into petty and hilarious squabbles. What
Lies Before Us is another brilliant trip from two-time Governor
General’s Award-winner Morris Panych. What Lies Before Us is
a darkly comic look at man, mountains and the meaning of life.
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CANSTAGE STAFF AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MARTIN BRAGG
Artistic Producer
Chris Smith
Sales Manager
David Abel
Executive Producer
Heather Burns
Group Sales Manager
Odette Nader†
ARTISTIC
Bonnie Green
Associate Producer – Play
Development & Casting
Iris Turcott
Dramaturge
Katherine Grainger
Artistic Coordinator
Adam Pettle
Gina Wilkinson
ahdri zhina mandiela**
Playwrights-in-Residence
Erica Batdorf
Sunil Kuruvilla
Associate Playwrights
PRODUCING
Natasha Mytnowych
Executive Assistant to
the Artistic Producer
& Company Manager
Gail Packwood
Associate Production Manager
DEVELOPMENT
Joan Bosworth
Director of Development
Corporate Development
Dan Hickey
Corporate Development
Manager
Lesley Choules
Corporate Coordinator
Marion Hart for
MHEvents Management
Special Events Manager
Individual Giving
Jen Watson
Artistic Producer’s Circle
Manager
Group Sales Assistant
Carla Arnold
Customer Service Manager
& Privacy Officer
Amar Bajracharya
Patron Systems Administrator
Chris Gunter
Assistant Customer
Service Manager
Rhonda Meek
Customer Service Coordinator
Allan Gillespie
Jameson Kraemer
Shaun Shetty
Customer Service Supervisors
Aaron Forward
Matt Bois
Heather Burke
Stuart Dowling
Shelley Goldstein
Blair Irwin
Cam Johnston
Ken MacDougall
Nicole Myers
Clara-Lynn Naccarato
Louise Plunkett
Customer Service
Representatives
Vanya Garraway
Katherine Sanders
Receptionists
Front of House
Kyle Blenkhorn
Berkeley Front of House
Manager & Dream Site
Manager
Operations Manager
Tyler Devine
Technical Associate/IT Systems
Serge Plourde
Production Assistant
Zen Waligora
Caretaker
Set & Properties
Mary Spyrakis
Head of Props
Shelley Heebner
Props Coordinator
William Sovie
Senior Props Builder
Wardrobe
Barbara E. Singer
Head of Wardrobe
Susan Batchelor
Wardrobe Mistress
Sharon Ryman
Wig Construction & Styling
Associate Companies
Abbey Theatre,
Dublin, Ireland
Bushnell Center for the
Performing Arts, Hartford,
Connecticut
Philharmonic Center for the
Arts, Naples, Florida
Play Creation Group
Nicola Cavendish
Marion de Vries
Joy Lachica
Ann Mortifee
Maria Popoff
Elyne Quan
Gina Wilkinson
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Susan Crocker*
Chair
Barbara Hackett*
Vice-Chair
Laura Clark
Partnership Manager
Elizabeth McDermott
Jessica Merek
Berkeley Front of House
Supervisors
MARKETING &
COMMUNICATIONS
Katie Inverarity
Director of Marketing
& Communications
AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT
& EDUCATION
Patty Jarvis
Director of Audience
Development
Public Relations
Kim Blackwell
Publicity & Communications
Manager (on leave until
February 2007)
Bob McCarthy
Manager of Volunteer
Resources
Richard T. Adams
Andrew Auerbach
John F. Bankes
Barbara Barde
Diane Bean
Glenn M. Bowman
Marcia Lewis Brown
Helen Burstyn*
Wendy Cecil*
Gord Cunningham*
Irene David
Doone Estey
André Galipeault
Peter Gillin*
Helena Gottschling
Pamela Hallisey
Lawson A. W. Hunter
Brian C. Imrie
Ron Lalonde*
Janet Lindsay
Councillor Pam McConnell
Richard McCoy*
Ellen Moore
Maureen Parkinson
Valorie Block
Interim Publicity &
Communications Manager
Rosie Shaw
Publications Editor & Publicist
Sales & Marketing
Patricia Barretto
Advertising & Marketing
Manager
Maria Simonelli
Marketing Coordinator
FINANCE &
ADMINISTRATION
Brad Nickorick
Director of Finance
& Administration
Caryn Liles
Payroll & Benefits
Administrator
Maricar Hernandez
Accounting Coordinator
PRODUCTION
Craig Putt
Technical Director
Roger West
Cynthia Young*
Secretary
Councillor Kyle Rae
Jack Rose
W. Brian Rose*
David Rosenbaum
Stephen P. Sigurdson*
Margaret Sims
Anna Stahmer Jarmain
Lorne Stephenson*
Chip Vallis
Arlene Willis
Jos Wintermans
Board of Directors
Honorary Council
Howard Bateman
Jill Black
Susan Brenninkmeyer
Sarmite D. Bulte
Richard Coles
Patti Cunningham
Rita Eskudt
Debbie Gibson
George Glover
Barbara Hejduk
Peter Herrndorf
Edward P. Kerwin
James Leech
William A. MacKinnon
Michael MacMillan
Trina McQueen
Derek Nelson
Barbara Palk
Len Racioppo
Ross Rennie
Dan Sullivan
CanStage Celebrates Past
Presidents & Chairs of
the Board of Directors
Thomas B. Hendry
Harry A. Malcomson
David Black
J.C. Lockwood
Arthur Gelber
James Crang
Helen Phelan
John McKellar
Donna Digby
Bill Buchanan
Duggan Melhuish
Kathleen Hermant
Peter Herrndorf
James W. Leech
Sarmite D. Bulte
William A. MacKinnon
Maureen Parkinson
Chip Vallis
Legal Counsel
John D. McKellar
THEATRE, FRIENDS AND FUN! *
Volunteers receive the opportunity to broaden skills, network at social events, participate in
theatre education activities, see high-quality productions and, as a result, make an enormous
contribution to the success of CanStage. We welcome your enthusiasm, energy and
commitment as a volunteer with CanStage and will undertake to provide you with an
enriching and satisfying experience.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTLY AVAILABLE
• Front of House at the Berkeley Street Theatre (ushers or bar servers)
• Weekly Administrative Crew involving ESL Conversation Circle and
office support (one set day each week, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.)
• Volunteer Intern positions (email [email protected] for postings)
• Departmental support involving working with Microsoft Access
and Excel (weekday afternoons)
BENEFITS
• Experience the world of theatre at its liveliest
• CanStage’s commitment to excellent education opportunities
• Free monthly social events and an annual volunteer dinner, featuring
noted speakers from all aspects of the arts
• Chance to develop, enhance or share your customer service skills
• Flexible and reasonable commitment that fits your schedule
• Access to a weekly OPPORTUNITIES email that lists volunteer opportunities, job postings
and intern postings from a variety of arts organizations along with other intriguing items
CanStage thanks the following VOLUNTEER INTERNS
for all the excellent work that they do.
CanStage VOLUNTEER INTERNS
Clare Christensen (Partnership Intern)
Ananya Ohri (Individual Giving Intern)
Bick Trinh (Volunteer Resources Intern)
THAN K
YOU
List as of Dec. 15, 2006
*Executive Committee
**Courtesy of the Canada
Council for the Arts
† Courtesy of CHRC
Creative
Scott Thornley + Company
stcworks.ca
For further information about the benefits of volunteering or to find out more about our current
volunteer internship postings please contact Bob McCarthy, Manager of Volunteer Resources
at 416.367.8243 x252 or [email protected].
* Congratulations to Kaitlynn Smith for winning the CanStage Volunteer Resources 06.07 season slogan contest!
GENERAL INFORMATION
Late Arrivals
As a courtesy to the audience and artists,
latecomers will be seated at an appropriate
break in the play.
Hearing Assistance
The theatre is equipped with an infrared listening
system for the hearing impaired; headsets are
available free-of-charge at the coat check.
Customer Service
For ticket exchanges, additional tickets, tax receipt
requests, season ticket renewals or other
questions, visit the Box Office in the lobby.
Advertising Inquiries
Advertising inquiries for Bluma Appel Theatre
programmes, please contact: Entis Communications
Group Inc., 2800 Skymark Avenue, Suite 10A,
Mississauga ON L4W 5A6 Phone 905.212.9777.
Cell phones, pagers, candy wrappers and beeping
watches are distracting for actors and audience
members. For those who must have access to
pagers for emergencies, please leave them with
the House Manager who will record your seat
number and name. Cellular phones and watch
alarms must be turned off during performances.
Please respect patrons with perfume sensitivities.
Photos and Recordings
The use of cameras and recording devices
during performances is strictly prohibited.
For more information
CanStage, 26 Berkeley St., Toronto, ON M5A 2W3
Box Office
Administration
Facsimile
416.368.3110
416.367.8243
416.367.1768
COMMENTS? Please email to [email protected]
www.canstage.com
ENTIS AD #4
ST. LAWRENCE CENTRE STAFF
General Manager
James Roe
BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
Director of Sales
& Marketing
Carol Henderson
Senior Event
Manager
David Pearsons
R. Peter Gillin, Chair
Dan Sullivan, Vice Chair
David Rosenbaum, Secretary
Event Manager
James Ufton
House Manager
Larry Westlake
House Manager
Lynn Frenette
Head Electrician
Chris Root
Head Carpenter
Reg Taylor
Property Master
Douglas Parker
Sound Operator
Aaron Hanna
Assistant Electrician
Tim Flawn
Flyman
Rob Rea
Stage employees of the St. Lawrence Centre are
represented by Local 58 of the International Alliance
of Theatrical Stage Employees.
Usher and concession staff employees of the
St. Lawrence Centre are represented by Local 2652
of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Bluma Appel
Anne Marie H. Applin
Diana Arajs
Howard Bateman
Ulla Colgrass
Susan Crocker
V. Tony Hauser
Irene Jones
David Kee
Councillor Pam McConnell
John McKellar
Maureen Parkinson
Councillor Kyle Rae
Iain Scott
Benjamin J. Trister
Chip Vallis
(As of Dec. 15 2006)
For more information visit www.stlc.com
CANSTAGE
FEBRUARY – MARCH 2007
The Overcoat
Co-Created and Directed by Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling