BAMbill APR 2010

2010 Spring Season

Robin Williams, Pocahontas, 2009

BAM 2010 Spring Season sponsor: 2010 Spring Season

Brooklyn Academy of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board

Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer

presents

The production of

Approximate By in a new version by David Greig running time: one hour and BAM Harvey Theater 30 minutes, no Apr 16—18, 20—24, 27­—30, May 1, 4—8, 11—15, 2010 at 7:30pm intermission Apr 18, 25, May 2, 9 & 16 at 3pm

Directed by

Set designer Ben Stones Costume designer Fotini Dimou Lighting designer Howard Harrison Composer & sound designer Adam Cork

CAST Adolph Tom Burke Gustav Owen Teale Tekla Anna Chancellor

BAM 2010 Spring Season is sponsored by Bloomberg.

Creditors is part of Diverse Voices at BAM sponsored by Time Warner Inc.

Major support for BAM Theater is provided by The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, Inc., The SHS Foundation, and The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, with additional support from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust, Nash Family Foundation, Gary Lynch & Kate Hall, and the Billy Rose Foundation, Inc. Creditors Owen Teale & Tom Burke . Photo by Hugo Glendinning Hugo by Photo . Burke Tom & Teale Owen

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Lighting associate Paul Miller Sound associate Chris Cronin

Production manager Lucy Tory Deputy production manager Kate West stage manager Kristi Warwick American stage manager Peter Wolf Assistant stage manager Laura Sully Costume supervisor Bryony Fayers Costume supervisor Lynette Mauro Wardrobe supervisor Tansy Blaik-Kelly Production carpenter Dave Skelly

Set constructed and painted by All Scene All Props Set modification byBower-Wood Productions Costumes and accessories provided by Cosprop Additional costumes made by David Plunkett Dying by Penny Hadrill Curtains made by Tracy Clarke Sculpture made by Luke Jones Sculpture cast by Giles Corby

The actors in Creditors appear with the special permission of Actors’ Equity Association. The American stage manager is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Note

GERMAINE GREER ON STRINDBERG’S CREDITORS: A TRAGICOMEDY

The Strindberg husband is not an educated middle class Swede of the late 19th century but any man at any time. Though August Strind- berg’s marital career was phantasmagoric, his plays are not autobiographical or confessional though they are, as they must be, true to his Anna Chancellor. Photo by Hugo Glendinning Hugo by Photo Chancellor. Anna experience. When he was 28 he fell heavily in love with a married woman, the beautiful . Siri was prevented by her husband, Baron Brangel of Sauss, from pursuing her ambition to be an actress. By the time she and Strindberg were free to marry in 1877 she was seven months pregnant. This baby died, but they went on to have three more children. From 1877 to 1881 Siri worked as an actress in the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, playing lead roles in her husband’s plays. In 1882 Strindberg outraged the Swedish establishment with two books of forthright commentary on Swedish culture and religion and took refuge first in Switzerland and then in France. As the couple struggled with shortage of money and derstanding. When the playwright is Strindberg Strindberg began drinking heavily, their relation- the essential dilemma is presented with as little ship became ever more tempestous. At one in the way of circumstantial explanation as point Strindberg convinced himself that Siri was possible. No character in a Strindberg play is al- planning to have him committed to a lunatic lowed to rationalise or excuse, let alone explain asylum. The agonies of that long on-again off- away, the appalling deeds and words that we again relationship, which ended in their divorce are forced to witness, as helpless and appalled in 1891, are relevant to Creditors but they are as children listening to their parents fighting. not what the play is about. The three characters Because nothing is explained and right is on are not individuals but archetypes. nobody’s side, we find ourselves watching a conflict as bruising and meaningless as a street No one writes better about marriage than Au- fight between hooligans. The fact of conflict is gust Strindberg. He has been called a misogy- lifted out of its context so that it becomes monu- nist because the women in his plays behave so mental, mythic. In the paradigm of coupledom badly. What is less often perceived is that his there can be no arbitrator, no censor, only the husbands behave equally badly. His appalled eyeball to eyeball confrontation of two people audiences were meant to ask themselves how who, though they speak the same language, such a ghastly distortion of humanity could experience the world in entirely different ways. possibly have come about. How could it be that The characters don’t argue; they use words like sensitive, intelligent human beings could spend clubs. Nobody wins; everybody loses. their lives torturing each other to madness? It is not the playwright’s job to answer questions, —Professor Germaine Greer, Writer and but to dramatise them so that the audience Academic, September 2008 begins to consider the issues with a fuller un- Who’s Who Tom Burke & Anna Chancellor. Photo by Hugo Glendinning Hugo by Photo Chancellor. Anna & Burke Tom

AUGUST STRINDBERG (author) Damascus, The Architect, Europe (Traverse); August Strindberg (1849—1912) is the author Yellow Moon—TMA Best Play For Children and of more than 50 plays, as well as several novels, Young People, 2008 Brian Way Award (TAG short stories, poems, political studies, and Theatre Co); Pyrenees (Paines Plough, Tron); The autobiographies. His works include A Namesday American Pilot, Victoria (RSC); San Diego—Best Gift, The Freethinker (1869), (1872), New Play, Tron Theatre Awards (Edinburgh Inter- The Red Room (1879), Lucky Peter’s Journey national Festival, Tron Theatre); Outlying Islands— (1883), Getting Married (1884), The Son of a Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel—Best New Servant (1886), The Father (1887), Miss , Play, Scottish Critics Awards, (Traverse & Royal Creditors (1888), Playing with Fire, The Bond Court); Not About Pomegranates (Palestine); The (1892), Inferno (1897), Parts I & Speculator (Edinburgh International Festival, Grec II (1898), Erik the Fourteenth (1899), , Festival, Barcelona & Traverse); Caledonia Dream- The Dance of Death (1900), To Damascus Part ing (7.84 Theatre Company, Herald Archangel); III, The Dream Play (1901). In 1907 he founded The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He his own Intimate Theatre in Stockholm and wrote Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union—John chamber plays to be performed there: Storm, The Whiting Award (Paines Plough & Tron); Stalinland Burnt House, , and The Pelican. (Citizen’s). Translations and adaptations include: Strindberg’s final play was The Great Highway Peter Pan (National Theatre of Scotland); Tintin (1909). in Tibet, Herge (Young Vic & Barbican); Battle of Will, Laurent Gaude (NT studio); King Ubu (Alfred DAVID GREIG (author) Jarry). For the Donmar: the adaptation of Albert Camus’ Caligula. Plays include: Dunsinane (RSC); Mis- ALAN RICKMAN (director) cummer (Traverse/); Kyoto (Tra- As theater director: includes Creditors (Donmar verse); Being Norwegian (Oran Mor/Traverse); Warehouse), The Winter Guest (WYP & Almeida), Who’s Who

My Name is Rachel Corrie—2005 Theatre Goers’ and the Baker Street Irregulars, Rebus, The award for Best New Play & Best Director (Royal Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton, Suburban Shootout, A Court, Playhouse & New York), Live Wax (West Waste of Shame: Shakespeare and his Sonnets, End). As film director: The Winter Guest—Best Spooks, Fortysomething, Tipping the Velvet, Pride First Film, Venice Film Festival & Best Film, and Prejudice, Kavanagh Q.C. Chicago Film Festival. Most recent theater ap- pearances: The Reading Room (Jonathan Lunn Owen Teale (Gustav) Dance Company), Private Lives—2002 Variety Theatre: includes Creditors (Donmar), Mary Club Award and Theatre Goers Awards & Tony Stuart, Anjin—The English Samurai, , nominations for Best Actor (Albery & New York). The Four Seasons (Clwyd Theatr Cymru), The Most recent film appearances: Alice in Wonder- Dance of Death (Lyric), Ivanov, Berenice (NT), land, Nobel Son, Bottle Shock, Sweeney Todd, The Country (Royal Court), A Doll’s House—1997 Perfume, Snowcake, and the Harry Potter series. Tony Award winner (Playhouse & Broadway), Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Tom Burke (Adolph) King Lear, Julius Caesar, Henry IV Part I (RSC), For the Donmar: The Cut, Creditors (Ian Charleson Comedy of Errors (Bristol Old Vic), When She Award). Theater: I’ll Be the Devil (RSC/Tricycle), Danced (Kings Head), The Fifteen Streets (Bel- Don Juan Comes Back from the War (Belgrade, grade Coventry and film). Teale is the Associate Coventry), Glass Eels, Fragile Land (Hampstead), Artist of Clwyd Theatr Cymru. Film: includes Love Scenes from an Execution (), The Me Forever, Inconceivable, The Last Legion, King Incarcerator (Old Red Lion), Macbeth (Almeida), Arthur, Conspiracy, Cleopatra, The Cherry Or- (Globe), The Monument (Fin- chard, Robin Hood. Television: includes Lewis— borough), Gertrude the Cry (). Old School Ties, , Tsunami Aftermath, Film: includes Barafundle Bay, Look Stranger, The Last Detective, Marian Again, Murphy’s Law, Telestar, Donkey Punch, I Want Candy Anastezsi, Midsomer Murders, Murder in Rome, Spooks, The Libertine, Dragonheart: A New Beginning. Island at War, Ted and Alice, Judas and Jesus, Television: My Life with Barbara, Napoleon, Num- Ballykissangel, Thin Blue Line. ber 13, Dracula, All About George, Jericho, The Brief, Casanova, Bella and the Boys, Inspector Ben Stones (set designer) Lynley, P.O.W, The Young Visitors, State of Play, For the Donmar: Kiss of the Spider Woman, All the King’s Men, Dangerfield. Creditors. Theater: includes Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre, Leicester Square); Humble Boy, Anna Chancellor (Tekla) Paradise Lost, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, For the Donmar: Creditors, Boston Marriage, The 101 Dalmations, James and the Giant Peach Real Inspector Hound/Black Comedy. Theater: (Theatre Royal Northampton); The Musical of The Observer, Never So Good (NT), Mammals Musicals! (Kings Head); Paradise Lost—Linbury (UK tour), Way of the World (Wiltons Music prize winner (UK tour for Headlong); The Arab Hall), King Lear (RSC), Stanley—1997 Olivier Israeli Cookbook (Tricycle); The Mighty Boosh (UK Award nomination (NT & Broadway), Faithless tour); The Vegemite Tales (The Venue), When Five (NT Studio). Film: St. Trinians, Breaking and Years Pass (Arcola); The Two Faces of Mitchell Entering, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and Webb (UK tour), The Herbal Bed, The Real Unhitched, The Dreamers, Agent Cody Banks II: Thing (Salisbury Playhouse); Taste of Honey, Salt Destination , What A Girl Wants, Crush, (Royal Exchange Manchester); Romeo and Juliet Killing Dad, Four Weddings and A Funeral, Stag- (Shakespeare’s Globe); My Mother Said I Never gered, Princess Caraboo, Fairy Tale (One Golden Should (Watford Palace Theatre); Speaking in Afternoon), This Man Who Knew Too Little, Heart. Tongues (Duke of Yorks, West End); An Enemy Television: Miss Marple, Law and Order, Christ- of the People, My Dad’s a Birdman (Sheffield mas at the Riviera, My Family, Sherlock Holmes Crucible). Forthcoming designs include: No Idea Who’s Who Anna Chancellor & Tom Burke. Photo by Hugo Glendinning Hugo by Photo Burke. Tom & Chancellor Anna

(Improbable Theatre Young Vic); Ingredient X The Storm, Speculators, Fashion (RSC). Some (); Crocodile (Sky Arts Live); singing Blood, Sore Throats, The Queen and I, Doctor Faustus (Royal Exchange Manchester); Road (Royal Court Theatre), Present Laughter Lower Ninth (Donmar Trafalgar Season). (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester), The Father (Touring Partnership), The Provoked Wife (Theatre FOTINI DIMOU (costume designer) Royal Plymouth), Eugene Onegin (ENO). Dance After studying theater design at the Central St. costume design includes Naked (Sadlers Wells), Martins School of Art and Design in London, Orpheus Singing and Dreaming, Broken Stolen Dimou moved to NYC to continue her studies (QEH), White Nights (English National Ballet at which included Stella Adler’s course in playwrit- ENO). Television costume design includes Second ing, and fine art. She designed sets and costumes Sight (three-part series, BBC1), Commander Part for several off Broadway productions and later 2 and Part 3 (LaPlante productions, ITV), Man became resident costume designer at the Alley and Boy (BBC Film). Feature film costume design: Theatre Houston Texas, after which she returned The Browning Version, Ripley’s Game, Skin. to London. Theater costume designs include Julius Caesar (RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon); Hay HOWARD HARRISON (lighting designer) Fever (Chichester Festival); Girl with a Pearl Harrison’s current and recent work includes: Mary Earring (Cambridge Arts Theatre & Theatre Royal Poppins (London/Broadway/US Tour/Holland); Haymarket); Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night Mamma Mia! (London/Broadway and world- (Open Air Theatre); Gethsemane, Fram, Thérèse wide); Macbeth (West End/BAM/Broadway); Tom Raquin, , Secret Rapture (NT); Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll (Royal Court/West End/ Dido and Aeneas (Teatro alla Scala, Milan and Broadway); Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare ROH); The Last Confession (Chichester Festival Company); Creditors (Donmar); King Lear (Liver- & Theatre Royal Haymarket); Saturday, Sunday, pool and Young Vic); Inherit the Wind (Old Vic); Monday (Chichester Festival); Mme Melville Glengarry Glenn Ross, Love Song, Guys & Dolls, (Vaudeville Theatre). Theater, set, and costume Donkey’s Years and Heroes (All West End); The designs: A Jovial Crew, The School of Night, Ion, Music Man, Hay Fever, and The Circle (Chich- The Duchess of Malfi, The Archbishop’s Ceiling, ester Festival Theatre); In a Dark Dark House, Who’s Who Tom Burke & Anna Chancellor. Photo by Hugo Glendinning Hugo by Photo Chancellor. Anna & Burke Tom The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida) and Radio: includes Losing Rosalind, The Luneberg Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! and Edward Scis- Variation, The Colonel-Bird, Don Carlos, Othello, sorhands at Sadler’s Wells and on tour in the UK On the Ceiling. and the US. Harrison was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Lighting Designer in 2008 PETER WOLF (American stage manager) for his work on Macbeth. He has been two times Peter Wolf is happy to be at BAM and working Tony nominated, for his work on Mary Poppins with this terrific company from the Donmar Ware- and Macbeth on Broadway. house. Broadway: Mary Poppins, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Adam Cork (composer & sound designer) 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The For the Donmar: Red (also New York), A Streetcar Light in the Piazza, Good Vibrations, Prymate, Named Desire, (also New York), Madame Taboo, Cabaret, Thou Shalt Not, Miss Saigon, de Sade, Ivanov, Creditors, The Chalk Garden, Grease, Show Boat, My Fair Lady, The Will Roger Othello, John Gabriel Borkman, Don Juan in Follies, Aspects of Love, and Cats. National Tour: Soho, Frost/Nixon (also Gielgud/New York/ Irving Berlin’s White Christmas; Ragtime; Miss US tour), The Cut, The Wild Duck, Henry IV, Saigon; My Fair Lady; Bye, Bye Birdie; and Cats. Caligula. Theater: includes Enron (Chichester/ Off Broadway: The Toxic Avenger, Penn & Teller: Royal Court/Noel Coward), All’s Well that Ends Rot in Hell. Regional: An American in Paris at Well, Phèdre, Time & The Conways (NT), A View The Alley Theatre, the Billy Porter & Stephen from the Bridge, No Man’s Land (Duke of York’s), Sondheim Project Being Alive at Westport Country Macbeth (New York), Six Characters in Search of Playhouse, and the upcoming Robin and the 7 an Author, Don Carlos (Gielgud), The Tempest, Hoods at The Old Globe. Speaking Like Magpies (RSC), The Glass Menag- erie (Apollo), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The THE DONMAR WAREHOUSE Late Henry Moss (Almeida), Suddenly Last Sum- One of London’s leading producing theaters, the mer (Albery). Film: includes Bust, Tripletake. TV: Donmar has garnered critical acclaim at includes Frances Tuesday, Re-ignited, Imprints. and abroad for its unparalleled catalogue of work. Who’s Who Tom Burke & Anna Chancellor. Photo by Hugo Glendinning Hugo by Photo Chancellor. Anna & Burke Tom

Donmar-generated productions have received Marketing Manager Jonathan Aplin 38 Olivier Awards, 23 Critic’s Circle Awards, 21 Press Representative Kate Morley for Blueprint Evening Standard Awards, and fourteen Tony Awards. The Donmar has a long and successful Office AdministratorFrankie Bridges history of presenting its work outside of its home General Assistant Nina Segal in Covent Garden. Productions in the West End include Ivanov, Twelfth Night, Madame de Sade, Deputy Production Manager Kate West and Hamlet in the Donmar West End season Head of Wardrobe Tansy Blaik-Kelly at the Wyndham’s Theatre; Piaf; Frost/Nixon; A Deputy Head of Wardrobe Morag Pirrie Voyage Round My Father; Mary Stuart; Guys and Dolls, and The Real Thing. Productions in the US Associate Directors Rob Ashford, Jamie Lloyd include Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night at BAM, Resident Assistant Director Titas Halder Red, Hamlet, Parade, Mary Stuart, Frost/Nixon, Education Associates Dominic Francis, Cabaret, Electra, The Blue Room, The Real Sophie Watkiss Thing, True West, Nine, and Take Me Out.

Donmar Warehouse Donmar Warehouse Projects Ltd Board of Directors Artistic Director Michael Grandage Executive Producer James Bierman Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury (Chair), Simon General Manager Jo Danvers Meadon (Secretary), Dominic Casserley, Diane PA to the Executive: Miriam Green Henry Lepart, Stephanie McClelland, David Parkhill, Ed Richards, Jill Shaw Ruddock, Sir Tom Casting and Creative Associate Anne McNulty Stoppard, Peter Williams, Roger Wingate Casting Assistant Vicky Richardson Development Director Kate Mitchell Development Manager Deborah Lewis For further information on the Donmar’s work go Development OfficerRosie Dalling to www.donmarwarehouse.com. Development Administrator Fraser Anderson