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TALLEY's Folly 15th ANNIVERSARY SEASON 2O12-2O13 HISTORIC ARCADE theatre • fort myERS RIvER DISTRICT ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODuCInG artisTIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS TALLEY’s folly By LANfORD WILSON SPONSORED BY mADELEINE TAENI and ‘TWEEN WATERS INN ISLAND RESORT STARRING COMPAnY MEMBERs RACHEL BURTTRAm* & CHRIS CLAvELLI* DIRECTED BY JACKSON PHIPPIN** SET DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER COsTuME DEsIGnER RICHARD CROWELL mATTHEW mcCARTHy*** ROBERTA mALCOLm sOunD DEsIGnER AssT. sTAGE MAnAGER DIALECT COACH KATE SmITH GRACE vARLAND LOUIS COLAIANNI PRODuCTIOn sTAGE MAnAGER JANINE WOCHNA* TALLEY’S FOLLY is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York 2012-13 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Bruce & Janet Bunch • Cheryl & David Copham Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • John & Marjorie Madden • Arthur Zupko This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Associa- tion that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. CAsT (In Order of Appearance) Matt Friedman.....................................................................................CHRIs CLAVELLI* Sally Talley....................................................................................RACHEL BuRTTRAM* TImE & PLACE July 4, 1944. Early Evening. An old boathouse on the Talley place, a farm near Lebanon, Missouri. TALLEY’S FOLLY will be performed without an intermission. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. ABOuT THE PLAYWRIGHT LANfORD WILSON received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Talley’s Folly. He was a founding member of Circle Repertory Company and one of twenty-one resident playwrights for the company. His work at Circle Rep includes: The Family Continues (1972); The Hot L Baltimore (1973); The Mound Builders (1975); Serenading Louie (1976); 5th of July (1978); Talley’s Folly (1980); A Tale Told (1981); and Angels Fall (1982), all directed by Marshall Mason; and the one-act plays Brontosaurus (1977) and Thymus Vulgaris (1982). His other plays include: Balm in Gilead (1965); The Gingham Dog (1966); The Rimers of Eldritch (1967); Lemon Sky (1969), and some twenty produced one-acts. He also wrote the libretto for Lee Hoiby’s opera of Tennessee Williams’ Summer And Smoke and two television plays, “Taxi!” and “The Migrants” (based on a short story by Tennessee Williams). Other awards include the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and an Obie for The Hot L Baltimore, an Obie for The Mound Builders, a Drama-Logue Award for 5th of July and Talley’s Folly, the Vernon Rice Award for The Rimers of Eldritch, and Tony Award nominations for Talley’s Folly, 5th of July, and Angels Fall. He was the recipient of the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in Theatre Arts and the Institute of Arts and Letter Award. Mr. Wilson completed an entirely new translation of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, which was commissioned and produced by the Hartford Stage Company. His play Talley And Son (the third play in the Talley Trilogy) opened in New York City in September 1985. His play Burn This opened at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in January 1987 starring John Malkovich and Joan Allen and opened on Broadway in October 1987 with the same cast. Burn This was also done in London in 1990, again starring Mr. Malkovich. His play Redwood Curtain opened in Seattle in January 1992 and in Philadelphia in March, and at the Old Globe in San Diego, California, in January 1993. It opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway on March 30, 1993. ** * *** *The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. TALLEY’S FOLLY CREATIVE TEAM RACHEL BURTTRAm* Together, The Foreigner, The Glass Menagerie, (Sally Talley) is thrilled The Santaland Diaries and The Lady with All to be back on the boards the Answers. The Virginia Stage Company: at Florida Repertory Irma Vep, Vaudeville and Rough Crossing; Off Theatre! Her relationship Square Theatre: All in the Timing, Stones in His with the company started Pockets; Two River Theatre Company: House of 10 years ago in 2002 Blue Leaves and 16 productions for The Depot in Mousetrap and as Theatre, most recently The Drawer Boy starring Company Manager. Other John Christopher Jones. Other theatres: Theatre work at Florida Rep includes: August Osage South Carolina, the New York Fringe Festival, County, Gaslight, Trying, Art of Murder, Dancing Actors Theatre of Louisville, (Solo Mio), the at Lughnasa, Amy’s View (with Carol Lawrence), Southwest Florida Symphony, Symphony Space, Rabbit Hole, Proof, Opus, The Glass Menagerie York Theatre, 78th Street Theatre, Greenbrier and Doubt as well as wearing the hats of Director Valley Theatre, Chenango River Theatre, of Audience Development and Associate Riverside Theatre, Neighborhood Theatre Director. In September, Rachel played Frankie in for Kids, and the famed Actors Studio. As an the Kitchen Theatre’s production of Frankie and actor he has worked here at Florida Rep in 14 Johnny in the Clair De Lune in Ithaca, NY where productions and all over the country. In 2012 she created the Next Steps job creation program he was named Florida Weekly’s Best Actor of with funding from Ithaca Urban Renewal the Year, and has been the recipient of both the Agency. Selected Regional work includes: Hair, Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) and the South Christmas Carol, Backstory (Actor’s Theatre of Florida Carbonell for best actor. His one-man Louisville & the Humana New Play Festival), play, A Little More Than You Wanted to Spend, Private Lives, Oleanna, Noises Off!, The recently played Theatre South Carolina and is Foreigner (13th Street Ensemble), The Cripple slated for a New York production. of Innishman (City Equity Theatre), Almost, Maine (Barnstormer’s Theatre) and Inconsolable JACKSON PHIPPIN (Director) has directed (Gloucester Stage). NYC Credits include: plays from coast to coast. He was chosen by the Pushkin: A Tragedy in Verse (Actors’ Studio Arts America Agency to go to Shanghai, PRC., with Daniel Sunjata), Falling (Vital Theatre to participate in the celebration of Eugene Company), Young, Sexy & Talented? (NYC O’Neill’s 100th birthday and to direct O’Neill’s International Fringe Festival). TV & Film: Burn Marco Millions with the Shanghai Peoples’ Art Notice, World Traveler. National commercials. Theatre. He was the first American to direct in Rachel is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and Shanghai since WW II. He served as Associate is eligible for the Screen Actors’ Guild. Thank Artistic Director at Center Stage in Baltimore you to Bob, John, Carrie and the gang. Proud to where he helped develop and premiere many call Florida Rep our Theatre Home! new plays. He also developed and ran the MFA www.rachelburttram.com directing program at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. for a time. CHRIS CLAvELLI* He is happy to be working with the company (Matt Friedman) is at Florida Rep and getting to know the Fort the Associate Artistic Myers community. Directing credits include Director of Florida the world premiere of Eric Overmyer’s On the Repertory Theatre, and is Verge or The Geography of Yearning, as well as A a faculty member in The Doll’s House, The Taming of the Shrew, The Film Summer Conservatory Society, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, A Lesson at The New York from Aloes, Our Town, and Inherit the Wind – all Academy of Dramatic at Center Stage in Baltimore, MD; Lady from Arts. He was honored with an Alan Schneider the Sea at Cleveland Playhouse; Roosters at The Directing Award nomination through Theater Public Theatre/Intar in New York City; The Communications Group. He was a founding Misanthrope at Dallas Theatre Center; Long member and co-artistic director of The Day’s Journey into Night at Berkeley Rep in Neighborhood Theatre for Kids in Brooklyn. Berkeley, CA; Buried Child at The Virginia Stage Directing credits: At Florida Rep: Lend Me Company; Happy Days at Portland Stage; The a Tenor, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Black Tie, Rainmaker at St. Louis Rep; and Children and A Sideman, Trying, Rounding Third, Alone Moon for the Misbegotten at Hartford Stage in Hartford, CT. TALLEY’S FOLLY nOTEs FROM THE DIRECTOR I AM DELIGHTED to be part of the team introducing the words of Lanford Wilson to the audiences of Florida Rep. Talley’s Folly is a beautiful, funny, and lyrically poetic American play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. The echoes of themes long mined by another great American playwright, Tennessee Williams - isolation, loneliness and need for intimacy - infuse the play. These themes, combined with the two painful stories of Matt and Sally, carried by Wilson’s lyrical realism, take us on a journey of personal revelations, leading to unexpected vulnerabilities. Did I mention it’s a love story? Following is a little timeline leading up to this evening of July 4, 1944. TIMELInE 1807 – First Jew settles in Missouri; Joseph Phillipson, a merchant, arrives in St. Louis. 1821 – Missouri becomes a state. 1830 – German communities appear in Missouri. 1859 – Thorstein Veblen born in Cato, Wisconsin. 1861 – Missouri sends 30,000 German-Americans to fight in the Civil War. 1869 – Emma Goldman born in Kovno, Russia; present day Kaunas, Lithuania. 1870 – Everett Talley Builds a boathouse near Lebanon, Missouri. 1891 – Fanny Brice born in New York City 1899 – Thorstein Veblen writes The Theory of the Leisure Class. 1900 – Theodore Roosevelt elected president. 1901 – Queen Victoria dies in London.
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