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A24004_8a_BHD6147-Fall-2019-Print-BerkeleyRep-v2_P2.indd 07.25.19 Epson HP FROM THE MANAGING DIRECTOR 12/2/19 11:39 AM - - - - to have Sarah Ruhl back with back Ruhl Sarah have to life for the first time. This piece, commissioned commissioned piece, This time. first the for life us! And even more so to have her here with here her have to so more And even us! by The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for Center Rep’s Floor: Berkeley The Ground by years... three least at for works the been in has and as is so often the case with something new something with case the often so is as and in us to come has it unimagined, previously and artists who are helping us bring this new play to play new this bring us helping are artists who the Creation and Development of New Work, of Development and Creation the WHAT A JOY IT IS IT JOY A WHAT Anne Kauffman and this wonderful team of team wonderful this and Kauffman Anne than helping a playwright turn words into action. We take take We action. into words turn a playwright helping than

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Best regards, We always love taking on the responsibility for and the opportuni the and for responsibility the on taking love always We It’s just not the same as producing a play that has been written been written has that a play producing as same the not just It’s Making new work sometimes means waste...wasted time, wasted wasted time, waste...wasted means sometimes work new Making Susie Medak It’s always a grand adventure. a grand always It’s Once we start rehearsals, roles that start out deep and meaty may may meaty start and deep out that roles start we rehearsals, Once And yet, there are few things more satisfying for this compa this for satisfying more things few are there And yet, —

unnecessary…the variables seem to be endless. to seem variables unnecessary…the bring their own unique contributions to the storytelling. First rehearsal rehearsal First storytelling. the to contributions unique own their bring writer and director the after months, even weeks, sometimes comes direc casting by them to been brought have who actors selected have ed reception that they could expect anywhere in the country. the expect in anywhere could they that ed reception enormous pride in helping to midwife these precious creations into into creations precious these midwife to helping in pride enormous 51 now years, for really years, many these all over that love We being. home for new work. To be a home for new work means having the having means work new be for a home work. To new for home quick reversals, changes, unexpected: the accommodate to capacity be cut. Minor roles may become critical. Entire scenes will come and come will scenes Entire critical. become may roles be Minor cut. moment in its development. The first day of rehearsals comes long comes rehearsals of day The first its development. in moment necessary when a character is written out of a scene; the program may may program the a scene; of out written is a character when necessary heart artisan your to dear and near so project special that from nature, to ability the requires anything a creative making money…because ny after the seed of the idea has turned into a script, words have been put have words a script, into turned has idea the seed of the after welcoming home that assures a playwright the best, the open-heart most a playwright assures that home welcoming already be at the printer when the noted intermission is found to be to found is intermission noted the when printer the be at already unknowns the where and theatres other in a sense, in “tested,” and of kind a certain takes it why is That contained. more somewhat are linear. art isn’t Making start and anew. away something wipe us of all its own sweet time and with its own set of challenges. of set its own with and time sweet its own is actually being cooked. Costumes built and fitted may no longer be longer no may fitted and built Costumes cooked. being actually is go. Locations may change. The stove in a kitchen may have simply been simply have may kitchen a in The stove change. may Locations go. tors who may have seen the first, second, or even third draft of a script draftscript of a third even or first, the second, seen have may who tors opens. production the until evolving keep will that ty to dig deeply into and support a play or musical at this most critical critical most this at musical or support a play and into deeply dig ty to and pruned, reconceived, honed, tossed, expanded, reframed, paper, to theatre and a special team of theatre-makers to create a welcoming a welcoming create to theatre-makers of team a special and theatre good with away, walk cold-heartedly to ability an and turnarounds, preview. third the in a scene from cut was that set decoration until a note from the rehearsal hall indicates that soup that indicates hall rehearsal the from a note until decoration set you and audiences that came before you have helped us create the create us helped have you before came that audiences and you finally put in front of a team of collaborators who are given a chance to chance a given are who collaborators of team of a front in put finally

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BY KATIE CRADDOCK

The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work invites artists to make new theatre of all kinds, at every stage of development, at our bustling Summer Residency Lab each year. The Lab runs for four weeks and usually contains between 15 and 20 projects. Our ambassador program invites aspiring theatre-makers to join us at the Lab, delving into the world of new play development through intensive, hands-on experience. True to their unusual title, ambassadors serve as liaisons between Berkeley Rep staff and artists and are integral to crafting a welcoming, fun space to generate new work. No two days (indeed, hours) at the Lab are the same, so we asked a few alumni to share favorite memories as glimpses into their ambassadorships.

Leah Mesh-Ferguson · 2017 Ambassador Alina Whatley · 2018 Ambassador In the middle of getting a degree in theatre that stuck to A favorite memory has to be meeting my all-time creative the canon and (a few) contemporary plays, the Summer Lab hero Sarah Ruhl and discovering that she is exactly as smart blew my mind. New plays were being written! By people from and kind and interesting as her writing makes her seem. I met all over the country and about all kinds of things and not all so many incredible theatre professionals who each had taken a of them were being conceived for a classic proscenium stage! different path to get where they were, which was exactly what I remember sitting on one of Berkeley Rep’s sunny balconies a young, panicking new graduate needed. Attending Ambassa- with the manager of The Ground Floor. I told her that I loved dor Hours (educational sessions tailored to us) and getting to working in theatre, but wasn’t quite sure where I fit in. She be in the offices of a working theatre simultaneously broad- said, “Leah, I think you’re a company manager. Just some- ened my horizons and allowed me to focus my energy when it thing to think about.” One year later, every time I passed that came to my career. balcony as the Company Management Fellow at Berkeley Rep, I would remember feeling the sun on my face and contemplat- Niara Robinson · 2019 Ambassador ing a position I’d never heard of before. Now, as the company I loved watching the Young Writers of Color Collective’s manager of a large off-Broadway theatre, I thank my lucky staged readings at the Lab. The writers were very talented stars for perceptive mentors, sunny balconies, and a push to and had such distinct voices; I felt I got to know them a little explore new avenues. through their pieces and by speaking with them when they

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Susan Soon He Stanton, Alyssa So, and Lileana Blain-Cruz have an enthusiastic discussion during the 2016 Ground Floor Summer Lab Above, left to right ed the joyous end to the Lab at our goodbye party, I remember the delight of reminiscing about all the projects. The Ground Floor helps create a new canon of American plays, and being an ambassador was a hands-on lesson in what it means to seed joined us for dinner. I was really impressed when I heard about the field with work that will challenge and invigorate and enter- their yearlong program, and was thrilled to support them as tain. My summer as an ambassador made me certain I wanted an audience member. This is an essential part of the Summer to engage with new work in my career, and I am so grateful for Lab program — it is always beneficial to hear from under- that artistic community in which I could grow and learn. represented voices, and to support youth with an interest in theatre-making. The Summer Lab stays true to its objective, Julianna Yonis · 2018 Ambassador giving artists no matter the age the space, time, and resources The ambassador program introduced me to the most gen- to create. (To learn more about the Young Writers of Color erous, collaborative, and creative theatre-makers and friends. Collective, visit berkeleyrep.org/school/ywocc.asp.) My favorite memory is of the ambassadors and staff crowding into the kitchen to help with some dishes from one of our Andy Jacobson · 2018 Ambassador nightly dinners. Someone turned on music, and a dish-washing Our nightly communal dinners at the Summer Lab fell dance party began — there was ballet with a serving spoon, somewhere between a family gathering, networking event, step-touching to and from the dish cabinet, and all of us giggled and warm celebration of the day’s work, all spread across late into the night. It’s a small memory that captures the heart five lively tables filled with artists, ambassadors, and staff. As of The Ground Floor: a group of people who support each other ambassadors, we had the best of both worlds— we shared and who always fill the mundane moments with laughter. responsibility for cultivating the space and enjoyed the fruits of our labor. Each night, we shared tales from rehearsal, read each other’s astrology signs, and bonded across the dinner table Ambassadors have gone on to opportunities at the- amidst an exceptionally deep sense of community. The ambas- atres across the country, including year-long fellow- sador program is steeped in artistry, education, and a healthy ships and other positions here at Berkeley Rep. If dose of friendship that I’ll cherish for many years. you are, or you know, a curious and resourceful early career theatre-maker, please encourage them to Madeleine Rostami · 2017 Ambassador apply to be an ambassador at the 2020 Lab! The sense of kinship I built with my cohort of ambassadors is one of my favorite takeaways; I’m still friends with many of For more info, visit berkeleyrep.org/groundfloor them. This idea of community and family in art-making also (click “Summer Residency Lab,” then “Ambassador”) extended to the Summer Lab staff and artists— as we celebrat-

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BN.program.emg.3.indd 10 12/2/19 11:39 AM SARAH RUHL AND BERKELEY REP GO WAY BACK. We first produced Sarah’s work in 2004, when Les Waters directed her stunning Eurydice. Sarah has transported us from that Greek underworld to provincial Russia (Three Sisters), midcentury New England and Brazil (Dear Elizabeth), Neverland (For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday), and more. Becky Nurse of Salem marks Sarah’s sixth production at Berkeley Rep and her second commission. The first was In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), which had its world premiere here in 2009 and went on to Broadway that same year. As Madeleine Oldham, director of The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work, explains, “We had a fantastic time working with Sarah on that commission and were eager to offer her another. When the timing was right, she took us up on it — in 2015, Sarah reached out and said she had an idea.” From there, the path to this production was rather speedy (for the world of theatrical development, at least). We invited Sarah to The Ground Floor’s Summer Residency Lab in 2018 to work on the commission; shortly before her residency began, she emailed Madeleine the first draft of Becky Nurse — and then five subsequent drafts, all on the same day! She spent a week writing at the Lab, bookended by cold readings (staff and artists, unrehearsed, gathered around a small table to read the drafts aloud). Artistic Director Johanna Pfaelzer is a longtime admirer of Sarah’s writing, and knew Berkeley Rep was one of Sarah’s artistic homes when she came aboard. She was delighted to learn of the commission, and that Sarah’s play might even be ready for her inaugural season. While Johanna and Sarah hadn’t worked together before, they knew each other socially; Johan- na’s husband Russell Champa has frequently served as lighting designer on Sarah’s plays (now including Becky Nurse). Johanna was thrilled to discover that Anne Kauffman, a dear friend and treasured collaborator, was available to direct. “The kismet of these two insanely busy artists having their schedules align in were hanged at Gallows Hill. As you’ll read in Sarah’s program the season felt fated — and this was reinforced when days later, note, five women — including Sarah, Johanna, and New York a slot opened up in New York Stage and Film’s summer Power- Stage and Film’s Director of Production Anne Harrigan, a house season, where I would be finishing up my tenure as artis- descendant of Rebecca Nurse — gathered the morning of the tic director. And Sarah was available for it, which was shocking reading to mark the occasion with a ritual. In a way, that coin- and delightful. And it just so happened Madeleine was already cidence feels analogous to both Sarah’s body of work and the going to be visiting Powerhouse that week, so all of us— Sarah, birth of Becky Nurse. This play came to be from solid, compre- Anne, Madeleine, and I — had the opportunity to be in a room hensible sources like Sarah’s rigorous attention to American together working on this play. By the end of the week, we felt history and its ties to current events, and her deep critical ready to launch it together,” Johanna enthuses. engagement with Arthur Miller’s The Crucible… but ultimately In yet another strange twist of fate, it so happened that leaves room, out of respect, for the inexplicable. the Powerhouse reading fell on July 19, the day in 1692 that Rebecca Nurse and four other women convicted of witchcraft

The ritual completed on July 19 in commemoration of the women hung at Gallows Hill the same day in 1692. Top, left to right Bryn Weiler, Polly Noonan, Anne Harrigan, Johanna Pfaelzer, and Sarah Ruhl (photos by Caroline Englander)

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I had not approached the witchcraft out of nowhere, or from purely LOCKMiller writes in a footnote “Echoes down HER UP! HANG social or political considerations. My own marriage of twelve years the corridor” that legends say Abigail grew was teetering and I knew more than I wished to know about where the up to be a whore in Boston. There is no ev- blame lay. That John Proctor the sinner might overturn his paralyzing idence for that line of thinking, nor is there personal guilt and become the most forthright voice against the mad- any evidence that she and John Proctor ness around him was a reassurance to me, and, I suppose, an inspira- knew each other from the witch trials. tion: it demonstrated that a clear moral outcry could still spring even Playwrights deserve the creative from an ambiguously unblemished soul. Moving crabwise across the liberty to enter their plays with all of profusion of evidence, I sensed that I had at last found something of their emotional heat and history. I do myself in it, and a play began to accumulate around this man.” not begrudge anyone a love story, real or fictional. After all, as my friend Ezra (the (My italics, Arthur Miller, The New Yorker) THEself-proclaimed maker of the best falafelBITCH! WITCH in the Western world) once told me, OFTEN, A PLAYWRIGHT HAS both a public way into a play, and a every good story has to contain a love story. I suppose what private way into a play. Ostensibly, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible strikes me as fundamentally dishonest about The Crucible is was about McCarthyism and the blacklist. But privately it was the mixture of fact and fiction; the copious historical notes, about his guilt at wanting to sleep with Marilyn Monroe. This unusually embedded in the stage directions, lead us to believe bit of truth was passed on to me by the brilliant playwright we are watching actual history unfold. But we are watching Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. We were talking about The Crucible what we always watch on stage — a psychic drama from the over a glass of wine at a retreat in Princeton. I was explaining mind of a complicated individual relating their psyche to to Branden that I’d recently experienced some rage after humankind’s larger collective unconscious. seeing a production of The Crucible. My rage had nothing to do That The Crucible is done at almost every high school, with it being a masterpiece or not a masterpiece— I think it is a andHUNT.LOCK is in fact the way American girls and boys understand the HER UP! masterpiece — but instead with how I felt the whole concept of history of Salem, added to my frustration. I thought— all those witchery was redirected toward girls’ desires for older married bonnets — all those Goodys — and really, Arthur Miller wanted men which felt like a massive historical imposition. to have sex with Marilyn Monroe. I thought: all those women “Oh,” said Branden, “didn’t you know that Arthur Miller witches died, but John Proctor was the hero of the story. I wanted to get with Marilyn Monroe when he wrote that play thought: no one to this day knows why the girls engaged in and he felt guilty about it because he was married and she mass hysteria, but it probably was not the lust of one duplici- was young?” I did not. But watching the brilliant documentary tous 11-year-old for one middle-aged barkeep. Rebecca Miller made about her father, and reading Timebends For all of these logical reasons, I thought I would end up (Miller’s biography), I saw that indeed, Miller struggled with his writing my own historical drama about the Salem witch trials feelings for the younger Marilyn Monroe during the writing of but every time I tried to dip my toe in the 17th century my The Crucible. Of course, the play was also very much a parable pen came back HANGand told me to stay in my own era. Perhaps THE BITCH! for McCarthyism, for his friend Elia Kazan’s betrayal— but the because I felt too dwarfed by the long shadow cast by the heat of the play is the lust of John Proctor for Abigail Williams. mastery of Arthur Miller. Or perhaps I wanted to stay in the Miller said that he saw a painting of the trials in Salem— of Ab- present moment because I have been undone and fascinated igail Williams reaching her hand to John Proctor— and found by the language of the witch hunt used by Donald Trump a passage about her hand having a burning sensation when it from his campaign in which he whipped crowds into a frenzy, touched Proctor. That was his way in. The real Abigail Williams yelling “Lock her Up!” with the crowds often replying, “Hang was 11. Miller made her 17 in the play. The real John Proctor was the bitch!” to his time in office when he’s used the term a tavern keeper, aged 60. Miller made him an upright farmer, “witch hunt” hundreds of times, describing himself as the age 35. The real Abigail Williams never turned to prostitution; victim. NotWITCH since the burning of witches in Europe was the HUNT.LOCK

12 · THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE · 2019–20 · ISSUE 3 BN.program.emg.3.indd 12 HER 12/2/19UP! 11:39 AM HANG THE BITCH! WITCH HUNT. LOCK HERiconography of witchery used with suchUP! base hypocrisy um trade with China thatHANG destroyed many Chinese citizens and to such effect. greatly enriched Boston. The money from the 19th-century Although most contemporary historians have dis- opium trade even helped to finance cultural institutions like missed the rye bread explanation for the symptoms of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Even in 19th-century hysteria in Salem as sheer folly and conspiracy, we do know Boston, doctors like Dr. Fitch Edward Oliver warned against that rye was rare in the new world, and was shipped from the dangers of opium, particularly for women: Europe, often moldering on the long journey. And we do “Doomed, often, to a life of disappointment, and, it know that Tituba fed rye bread mixed with urine to the may be, of physical and mental inaction, and in the smaller girls, trying to get to the bottom of their maladies. It would and more remote towns…deprived of all wholesome social be ironic if the “cure” for witchcraft was actually a biolog- diversion, it is not strange that nervous depression, with ical deepening and intensifying of the girls’ symptoms, all its concomitant evils, should sometimes follow, — THE BITCH!which would have subsided on their own after St. Antho- opiumWITCH being discreetly selected as the safest and most ny’s fire left their bodies. Most contemporary historians agreeable remedy.” eschew a biological explanation, preferring explanations The current cultural attention afforded to the opioid of post-traumatic stress from the American-Indian wars, crisis, which disproportionally affects white Americans, property disputes, and the like. I don’t know that we’ll ever is in stark contrast to the lack of attention, empathy, and know why those girls accused their elders of witchcraft. But resources directed toward public health crises that feature what we do know is that the accusations were not a func- fewer white faces on posters. While some patients are able tion of the lust Abigail Williams had for John Proctor. to manage long-term opioid usage for chronic pain without Speaking of Tituba and the Indian-American wars, I developing an opioid use disorder, the incredibly addictive think the historical characters of Tituba and “John Indian” potential of the medicine is now clear to the medical deserve their own investigations at the center of two new community, and companies like Purdue Pharma are now HUNT.LOCKplays (and two contemporary novels have already been HERbeing held accountable. UP! written about Tituba). Apparently Tituba was possibly not from Barbados, but instead from South America, a member CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 of the Arawak tribe. The magic she was asked to do was not from Barbados, but was instead European witchcraft PROCTOR already known to the white women who asked her to I will make you famous for the whore perform it. The othering of Tituba throughout the ages, you are! and the great mystery surrounding her own desires and intentions, deserve investigation. I thought that story was ABIGAIL not mine to write. (grabs him) A note on the opioid crisis. Massachusetts is one of 10 Never! I know you, John HANG statesTHE with the highest casualties for opioid overdoses in BITCH!moment singing secret —hallelujahs you are this that America. There were 28 deaths per 100,000 people in Mas- your wife will hang! sachusetts in 2017; 64,000 people died of opioid overdoses in 2016 across the country, more than died in automobile PROCTOR accidents. It is the largest preventable cause of death for (throws her down) people between the ages of 18 and 35. This cluster has creat- You mad, murderous bitch! ed what some call a lost generation, flooding the foster-care system with their children. The greatest increase in opioid — Screenplay, deaths was accounted for by synthetic opioids like fentanyl. The Crucible, WITCHIn a bizarre karmicHUNT.LOCK loop, or bitter irony, the 19th-century opi- Arthur Miller

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BN.program.emg.3.indd 14 12/2/19 11:39 AM THIS COMBATIVE SPARK FLICKERED THROUGHOUT THE NORTHEASTERN SETTLEMENTS, BUT NOWHERE DID IT CATCH FIRE THE WAY IT DID IN SALEM.”

IN COLONIAL NEW ENGLAND, it was commonly accepted that was a slave who may or may not have been born in Barbados. the devil had the power to possess people, and that this rea- These women all shared in common that they did not go to sonably explained all sorts of undesirable behavior. “Spectral church, and lived on the outskirts of “polite” society. evidence,” which consisted of things like visions and halluci- When Tituba’s claims of innocence were relentlessly nations, held the same weight in court as something tangibly rejected, she attempted to deflect scrutiny by accusing other proven. This meant a person could describe a dream where women of witchcraft. This was likely an act of desperation: someone confessed to misdeeds — with no grounding in fact of the three women’s positions, as a slave hers was the most or real world experience — and that the content of this dream vulnerable. Following these allegations, more girls experienced counted as much as a fingerprint or dna match does today. fits of violent contortions and complained of pinching sensa- The law at that time had not yet adopted the prem- tions, which led to more accusations, and the situation snow- ise that people were innocent until proven guilty; rather, it balled out of control. No longer confined to women perceived assumed the opposite, and the burden fell on accused people as outsiders, the indictments spread to honorable members of to establish their innocence. So when a person felt they had the community, and motivations of revenge and envy seam- been wronged in some way, the temptation of finger-pointing lessly entered into the chaos. could be hard to resist. It was much more difficult to refute an One of the most shocking developments transpired allegation than to make one, and thus, humans being human, when a frail, elderly pillar of the community named Rebecca accusations flew. This combative spark flickered throughout Nurse was counted among the accused. The pious Nurse had the northeastern settlements, but nowhere did it catch fire the a previously unblemished reputation for kindness and service, way it did in Salem. and to include her name on the list of potential witches caused Salem, Massachusetts in the 1690s consisted of two a great stir. Many people risked their own safety by signing a separate geographical areas: Salem Town and Salem Village. petition to defend her, and she was originally found innocent. Already from the nomenclature, one has a glimpse of how this But public outcry demanded a second look, specifically at one story unfolds. Wealthier, economy-driven Salem Town expe- particular statement, and when asked about it, Nurse failed to rienced friction with the less affluent farming community of hear the question and therefore did not reply. Her silence was Salem Village. Salem Village itself divided into east and west. A interpreted as guilt and she received a death sentence. fraught history ensued, filled with regular tussles over property The trials lasted just under a year and a half, and the fren- lines, political and religious agency, and competing agendas. zy saw over 200 people accused and 19 hanged. But it didn’t People regularly took each other to trial over all things great take long for the tide of public opinion to shift: only four years and small, and the courts enjoyed a robust position as arbiter later, Massachusetts announced a day of respect to fast and of everything from falling asleep in church and hair-pulling to wrestle with the trials’ legacy. Over the next few years, calls more serious crimes. for absolutions, apologies, and reparations flooded in, and Public opinion would embrace nothing less than model within 10 years, the Massachusetts General Court deemed citizenry. Strict religious doctrine governed everyday life, and the whole affair illegal, rendering it a shameful episode in promoted a climate of conformity that perceived even a small their jurisdiction’s past. deviation as a threat. And so when two young girls, ages 9 and But Salem wasn’t the only mass panic that swept Ameri- 11, began to display unexplainable physical and vocal outbursts can history away on a tide of hysteria. Fast forward about 250 seemingly out of nowhere, it was cause for great alarm. When years, and we find ourselves in the 1950s. The fear has changed the town doctor couldn’t identify a medical cause, he declared shape: it no longer belongs to the devil, but rather to commu- the root of the problem to be supernatural, saying the girls nism. Having already experienced the first “red scare” from were bewitched. The courts got involved, pressuring the girls 1917 to 1920 when communism entered the world stage as a into offering names upon which they could place blame, and perceived threat to democracy, the groundwork had been laid the worms leapt out of the can. for a second one. Some American politicians saw communist For reasons one can only speculate about, the girls ac- ideology as representing chaos and anarchy, and fomented an cused three individuals: Sarah Good, an unapologetic woman urgent need to quash the influence of this dangerous radical- whose circumstances required her to beg charity from others ism. A narrative tying communism to extremism and inevitable for her survival; Sarah Osborne, who “fell” from society after violent revolution gained momentum. The government estab- her husband died and she made the unimaginable decisions: 1) lished the House Un-American Activities Committee (huac) to marry an immigrant and 2) to try and keep the family prop- as early as 1938. Whispers of Russian infiltration blossomed erty for herself instead of handing it directly over to her sons; into full-on terror when news of Soviet atomic bomb testing and Tituba, about whom little is known other than that she reached the public in 1949. The intention to flush out

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communists from the American midst was shaped to feel like a and if you say something enough times it defines what’s true. LOCK HER UP! HANG life or death situation. McCarthy had an uncanny ability to tap into populist anxieties This ferreting-out of potential traitors started in politics, and divert them into promoting his vision of fear-mongering but spread very quickly to other arenas. The huac named the governance, which then secured fierce allegiances despite his famous “Hollywood Ten,” a group of suspected communists completely unprincipled practices. And all of this vigorously whom the film industry subsequently blacklisted, and, as hap- fueled an epic partisan divide. Sound familiar? pened in Salem, a wildfire ignited. Soon over 300 artists lost A key link in the chain connecting Joseph McCarthy to their ability to work because their names appeared on a list of Donald Trump, the famous lawyer Roy Cohn was a virtuoso people no one would hire. of unscrupulous but brilliant strategy. (Tony Kushner fasci- Arthur Miller watched this happening, picked up his natingly depicts this same Cohn in Angels in America.) Cohn pen and wielded it as a weapon, and wrote The Crucible in represented both McCarthy and Trump during the course THE BITCH! WITCH response. The Crucible showcases the allegorical powers of of his career, and undoubtedly infused each of them with a theatre in glorious fashion: simply by writing it during the deep understanding of how to manipulate the system and height of the anti-communist fervor, Miller highlighted a how to win at all costs. Trump’s recent attempts at portraying parallel between the Salem witch trials and what was going himself as the victim of a witch hunt display all the hallmarks on in the contemporary world outside it. Not surprisingly, of a Cohn-endorsed design, from deflection and distraction after writing the play, Miller drew the suspicions of the huac. to brazen admission and previously unthinkable taunts. He is He was summoned to appear in a hearing and refused to resolutely determined to strong-arm everyone and remain the name names, earning him a prison sentence and a place on last man standing. the blacklist. His conviction was appealed and overturned, Which brings us to a question: amidst all of this bluster, but the firsthand experience of such grievous injustice never showmanship, ruthlessness, and megalomania, where are the HUNT.LOCK HER UP! left him. women? Have we left them behind in Salem? Enter Sarah Ruhl, There is perhaps no more prominent symbol of this zeal- who has astutely addressed this question in Becky Nurse of ous anti-communist quest, often referred to as a witch hunt, Salem. We like to hold up the uncomplicated heroes who bravely than Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy’s name is often used stand up in the face of injustice, but in this case we’ve laid the interchangeably with the huac, but in fact his influence ran credit at the feet of the John Proctors and the Arthur Millers of parallel to the committee — he had no affiliation with it other the world, using the stories of the hanged women to do that. than an ideological one, and its activities operated complete- Sarah Ruhl offers some balance back into that equation, remind- ly separately from McCarthy’s pursuits. Miller offers a vivid ing us of the women’s legacy and re-centering the story to focus description of looking back on McCarthy’s legacy in an article on a hero who continues their narrative in a complex, contem- he wrote for The New Yorker in 1996: “… films of Senator Joseph porary, and deeply human way. As we find ourselves in the HANG THE BITCH! McCarthy are rather unsettling — if you remember the fear middle of a profoundly chaotic moment in our country’s history, he once spread. Buzzing his truculent sidewalk brawler’s snarl Becky Nurse throws us a lifeline where integrity and straight- through the hairs in his nose, squinting through his cat’s eyes forwardness still exist. Maybe we don’t need to muscle our way and sneering like a villain, he comes across now as nearly com- out of it — perhaps we can find a different, quieter, less flashy ical, a self-aware performer keeping a straight face as he does but more sensible way through it instead. One could argue that his juicy threat-schtick.” our nation is teetering on the edge of another episode of mass McCarthy employed shameless tactics of character as- hysteria: fantasies about the threat of immigration smolder all sassination, smear campaigning, and defamation to previously over the country. It remains to be seen whether we will fan the unheard of extents. He zealously attacked his opponents with flames and invite a conflagration, or whether we can smother no regard for facts and flagrantly invented lies. Once again, the sparks. Maybe this time, instead of persecuting innocent WITCH HUNT.LOCK accusation implied guilt rather than innocence. Compromise people, we will choose love over fear and as the Witch says, use was for the weak, might was right, the loudest voice wins, our power for good.

AS WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE MIDDLE OF A PROFOUNDLY CHAOTIC MOMENT... BECKY NURSE THROWS US A LIFELINE WHERE INTEGRITY AND HER UP! HANG THE STRAIGHTFORWARDNESS STILL EXIST.”

16 · THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE · 2019–20 · ISSUE 3 BN.program.emg.3.indd 16 12/2/19 11:39BITCH! AM WITCH HUNT. PROGRAM NOTE FROM THE PLAYWRIGHT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13 As for the ergotism theory about Salem— ergot Nurse said, before she died, “Oh, Lord, help me! It is derives from a fungus that grows on rye. The condition false! I am clear. For my life now lies in your hands.” On LOCKwas also called St. Anthony’s fire, named for St.HER Anthony, July 19th, before the reading, we didUP! a ritual at a very HANG who was pursued by the hallucinations of the devil in the large tree — the tree had the largest self-supporting desert and resisted. Acute and chronic ergotism create branch in the United States. I cannot tell you what we convulsions, pain in the extremities, and delusions. lsd did around that tree. Today, August 19th, is the day that was originally synthesized from ergot, and medications John Proctor was hung. John Proctor, also an innocent derived from ergot are used to treat migraines and victim, became the cultural symbol of the witch trials Parkinson’s disease. I don’t wish to add to conspiracy (rather than the large group of women put to death) be- theories by writing this play, nor do I want to ignore a cause of the outsized success of Arthur Miller at turning biological explanation for hysteria. But it continues to Proctor into a tragic hero. fascinate me that the same substance that was found on Arthur Miller once lived down the street from me. THEmoldy rye bread, capable of causing hallucinations,BITCH! was Maybe we heard the same fog horns from the water in WITCH also used in the old world by midwives to stop excessive Brooklyn Heights while thinking about witches. There bleeding in childbirth — and both midwives and drug-in- is a public way into a play and a private way in, like a duced hallucinations were frowned upon by the church, worm turning over the earth. Earthworms are blind. So as pointed out by Michael Pollan in his book How to are writers, often, and especially when in the midst of Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics writing. Often a playwright will never know their own Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depres- private way into a play. Sometimes the playwright knows sion, and Transcendence. and keeps it secret. Sometimes the playwright does not Now, if we are to insist on fact, it should be noted know while writing but realizes with some embarrass- that Gallows Hill does indeed appear to be at the site ment on the first preview and blushes. Sometimes the HUNT.LOCKoverlooking a Walgreens in Salem, not the Dunkin’ playwright does not know while writing but realizes HER 10 UP! Donuts. Some townspeople and amateur sleuths years later, and, like the great Arthur Miller, writes about claimed the original site was now a Dunkin’ Donuts, it in a very thick memoir. Let playwrights have their but the Walgreens was designated in 2016 as the most secrets, their private lusts, their compulsions — but do probable site of the executions. Much of the evidence let us free Abigail Williams from her manufactured lust was wiped away in an attempt to forget, and one of the for John Proctor. When John Proctor says “It is a whore!” few historical sites still preserved is Rebecca Nurse’s and the “it” is a child called Abigail, let us consider that homestead, in Danvers. the real historical child was not an “it” and not a whore. I did a reading of this play on July 19th in Pough- As for my own private reason for writing this partic- keepsie at New York Stage and Film, and a descendant ular play, I either don’t know or I will never tell. HANGof Rebecca Nurse who worked at the theatre wanted THE BITCH! to mark the day; July 19th in 1692 was the day Rebecca — Sarah Ruhl, August 19th, 2019, Nurse, Sarah Good, and three other women were hung. Provincetown, Massachusetts

Sarah Ruhl lighting candles for the group’s personal ritual. (photo by WITCHCaroline Englander) HUNT.LOCK HER UP! HANG THE

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CAST Bob Gail Stan Witch Music Shelby Casting Dramaturg PRODUCTION STAFF Becky Nurse Powerhouse Season, Summer 2019. Shape Shifter . iatse -829, Scenic Design Sound Design Lighting DesignLighting Costume Design Center for the Creation and Development of New Work. Assistant Stage Manager Developed with the support of New Stage York and Film & Vassar’s Theatres are represented by United represented are Theatres Production Manager Stage the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The actors and stage managers are members of Actors’ Equity Association, Scenic Artists usa Local Affiliations the Society ofThe director is a member of Inc., and Choreographers, anStage Directors labor union. The Scenic,independent national and Sound Designers in Lighting, Costume, lort Commissioned by Berkeley Rep and developed in The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s

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Vineyard Horizons, Playwrights Stage, Company,Atlantic Theater Second Company, Center, Theatre Roundabout Lincoln including theatres off-Broadway ing From Nebraska Man You, Bike, Alive Village With The Animal, of Sunday, premieres IWas Most Broadway: of Significant premiere world Other , Room of Marvin’s revival /ALife, Seawall Inside, Sound The Orchestrations), nation, Broadway: DANIEL KLUGER Theatre); (Atlantic Ridge Blue Theatre); Room Alien Abductions nominations); Award Recent Desk Drama Fairview nuity include credits Rep Berkeley previous Mikaal’s MIKAAL SULAIMAN MUSIC SOUND DESIGNER DIRECTOR, THE GROUND FLOOR RESIDENT DRAMATURG/ Fairview . Daniel has produced scores for many many for scores has produced . 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FACE TIME The mannequins in Becky Nurse of Salem have distinctive facial features and poses — but they didn’t arrive at Berkeley Rep that way. Our props and costumes team collaborated to turn these fashion mannequins into townspeople. Here props artisan Dara Ly sculpts the Free Form™ air (epoxy putty) she added to the mannequin’s face, using images of ordinary people as a guide.

PHOTO BY CHESHIRE ISAACS

34 · THE BERKELEY REP MAGAZINE · 2019–20 · ISSUE 3

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Wakey, Wakey

by Will Eno Directed by Anne Kauffman Starring two-time Emmy Award winner Tony Hale (from Veep, Arrested Development, Photo by Cheshire Isaacs Cheshire by Photo and Toy Story 4) JAN 23–FEB 16 A.C.T.’s Geary Theater

An intimate comedy about love and life that provides a labyrinth of experiences for an unsuspecting audience.

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by Lydia R. Diamond Directed by Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon Choreographed by Camille A. Brown A coproduction with Arena Stage MAR 5–29 A.C.T.’s Geary Theater They said she couldn’t, so she did: the unforgettable true story of a trail- blazing Bay Area athlete

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