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Illustration by Much Ado By Rosa Joshi and Kate Wisniewski PericlesBy William Shakespeare AboutBy William Nothing Shakespeare Directed by Rosa Joshi Directed by Annie Lareau Directed by Jon Kretzu 2017–2018 INDOOR SEASON Julius Caesar The Merchant of Venice The Government Inspector Shakespeare in Love Timon of Athens ES077 covers.indd 2 6/28/17 2:56 PM July 2017 Volume 13, No. 7 Paul Heppner Publisher SUMMER 2017 Sara Keats, Jonathan Shipley Encore Stages Editors Susan Peterson Contents Design & Production Director 4 Putting Classics to Ana Alvira, Robin Kessler, Shaun Swick, Stevie VanBronkhorst the Test Production Artists and Graphic Design Keeping the canon Mike Hathaway contemporary Sales Director Dialogue Brieanna Bright, Joey Chapman, Ann Manning, Rob Scott 8 Encore Stages talks to Seattle Area Account Executives Jasmine Joshua of Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed Reboot Theatre Company San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Jonathan Shipley 10 Encore Stages editor Ad Services Coordinator Jonathan Shipley bids Carol Yip farewell Sales Coordinator Sara Keats, Jonathan Shipley Intermission Brain Transmission Online Editors 11 Test yourself with our trivia quiz Leah Baltus Encore Stages is an Encore Arts Editor-in-Chief Program that features stories about Paul Heppner our local arts community side-by-side Publisher with information about performances. 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All rights reserved. ©2016 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 2 ENCORE STAGES DESIRE Has met its match. Luxury lives here. ColdwellBankerBain.com/GlobalLuxury EAP full-page template.indd 1 6/16/17 11:17 AM Putting Classics to the Test Producing plays from the canon to contemporary effect Sally Brady, Jeffrey Azevedo, Cherdonna, and Samie Spring Detzer in Cherdonna's Doll's House. Photo by Jeff Carpenter. Seattle theatres are Henrik Ibsen’s play, A Doll’s House, love a classic, test it,” he says. “F**k with premiered in 1879 in Copenhagen. It it to see if it’s still relevant. Truly engage taking on classics through was Christmastime, and audiences with it.” contemporary lenses. may have been expecting something a bit more festive. Instead, they were There are many reasons that classics presented with a shockingly feminist endure. Many are beautiful wrought, play, one where women make decisions satisfyingly structured, and engage and have agency. Over the intervening themes that remain relevant far decades, the play has become a classic beyond their initial premiere. There’s and is performed and adapted all over artistic and fiscal value for theatres the world. Just a few months ago, the to produce work well-loved works Washington Ensemble Theatre presented from the cannon. Seasoned theatre- Cherdonna’s Doll’s House, an adaptation goers have seen many plays by Miller, of A Doll’s House featuring beloved Seattle Shakespeare, Ibsen, O’Neill, Williams, bio queen Cherdonna Shinatra. Director and more. Reinterpretations and an new Ali Mohamed el-Gassier was excited to adaptations of classics bring new light see how the original play would bend and to characters many theatre audiences break with Cherdonna in the mix. “If you know well and can challenge us to see 4 ENCORE STAGES new perspectives in old stories. Seattle Shakespeare Theatre produces Enjoy the all-organic luxury almost exclusively classic work, mostly of a better night’s sleep. by Shakespeare. But the productions are hardly ever styled in a straightforward Elizabethan manner. “This is still contemporary theatre,” says George All organic. Mount, Seattle Shakespeare Theatre's All natural comfort. artistic director. “We are speaking Made in Seattle. directly to an audience that night, a new audience every night. Each night is fresh. It’s never the same. Every single performance is new.” Earlier this year, Seattle Shakespeare Company presented Bring Down the House. Adapted by Rosa Joshi and Kate Wisniewski, it was an epic 2-part adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI trilogy. Produced in partnership with the upstart crow collective, the cast was entirely women. “Here we were highlighting power structures,” notes Mount, “and we were tech-ing the production the day the Women’s March was taking place. There were shouts of fremont • bellevue • soaringheart.com power right outside our doors.” The play premiered in 1592. Thrilling at the time, the history play deals with the English political system torn apart by personal squabbles and deepening jealousies. The play is hundreds of years old, but it is still relevant. Mining and adapting classic stories After the show, stop by Tom Douglas’ newest restaurant, for their modern relevance is itself a located across the street from the Paramount Theatre. The classic idea. “It’s what Shakespeare was Carlile Room is a 70’s style lounge focusing on plants, doing at the time,” Mount says. “What late night snacks and fantastic cocktails. Aeschylus was doing.” The ancient Greek poets wrote dramatized adaptations Open til Midnight Daily Happy Hour 4-6pm and 10pm-Midnight Brunch Saturday + Sunday 10:00am-3:00pm 820 Pine st. | 206-946-9720 | TheCarlile.com The cast of Medea. Photo by John Ulman. encoreartsseattle.com 5 Alexandra Tavares in the titular role in Seattle Shakespeare Company's production of Medea, directed by Kelly Kitchens in fall 2016. Photo by John Ulman. of mythology to engage the issues and theme with which society was wrestling. Through that process, new ideas and perspectives within the story were brought to light. “We have to keep doing that,” Mount says of stories audiences know by heart. “Take them apart and reimagine them. We have to look at each play afresh and askance.” ACT Theatre's Artistic Director John Langs looks to past works to see the future. “Producing the classics assists us in our vision of finding the classic theatre of tomorrow,” he says. This fall, Langs directs The Crucible at ACT. The classic Miller play about the Salem witch trials that is really about the dangers of McCarthyism stunned audiences when it premiered in 1953. The Cruciblehas now become a central work in the canon of American drama. Business, meet box office. The production at ACT this fall will be a new interpretation. "Classics endure. Encore connects your business to arts patrons They deal with issues that come around wherever they are. again and again” says Langs. The production will draw parallels between To learn what Encore can do for your business, the American political landscape that visit encoremediagroup.com. from 1953 and today. “The theme of a community turning in on itself and targeting its own is something our 6 ENCORE STAGES WOODEN O SPONSORS WHAT’S IN A NAME? Our name is a misnomer when you start to consider it. In 1991, the company set out to produce professional productions of Shakespeare’s works for the Seattle area. But time has a way of changing things. After more than 25 years of producing the classics, our reach and influence has expanded well beyond the confines of the city. You might be surprised to learn that the majority of the people who see our shows don’t live in the city of Seattle at all. In fact, you may be one of those people! This summer more than a third of the people who attend a Wooden O production will come from outside the Seattle-city area. Many who attend a Wooden O show don’t ever see any other Seattle Shakespeare Company shows. They just have an annual tradition of free Shakespeare in the park each summer. And that’s great! Seattle Shakespeare Company’s touring productions perform in 14 Washington State counties. That’s a lot of time spent on the road! Next year we expect to reach 15,000 middle school and high school students through 60 performances of our small-cast productions of the classics. While our base of operation is in Seattle with our 5 indoor productions, most of our audience is lives beyond the city limits. Maybe it’s time to rethink our name . Lynnwood Year-Round and Statewide Public performances, including Wooden O Small-cast touring performances Seattle In-school workshops and residencies Bremerton Bellingham Issaquah Tacoma Wenatchee Tacoma Walla Walla encoreartsprograms.com A-1 PLOT SYNOPSIS PLOT SYNOPSIS Pericles is presented to the audience Don Pedro and his brother, Don by Gower, who introduces John, are guests in the house of Antiochus, king of Antioch, and his Leonato. In their company are daughter, with whom the king is Don Pedro’s young Italian friends, having an incestous affair. Pericles Claudio and Benedick. Claudio comes to ask for her hand in confesses to Benedick that he marriage and inadvertantly discovers is in love with the governor’s their secret. Antiochus sends an daughter, Hero. Benedick is a assassin to pursue him back to Tyre. confirmed bachelor but keeps Pericles hides in Tarsus, where he By William Shakespeare By William Shakespeare up a bantering relationship with is welcomed by Queen Dionyza Hero’s cousin, Beatrice.