NOVEMBER 10– DECEMBER 13, 2009 THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING by JOAN DIDION starring SEANA McKENNA

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Second Annual Christmas Spectacular Sunday, December 6th, 8pm Belfry Arts Centre $15 advance/$18 at the door Featuring: Tickets available at the Belfry box office 250-385-6815 thehumanstatues.com The Belfry Theatre presents The Year of Magical Thinking By Joan Didion Starring Seana McKenna

Director Michael Shamata Designer John Ferguson Lighting Designer Michael Walton Composer Brad L’Écuyer Stage Manager Kim Charleen Smith Apprentice Stage Manager Sara Robb

The Year of Magical Thinking is approximately 90 minutes long with no intermission.

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The Year of Magical Thinking was originally produced in New York by Scott Rudin, Roger Berlind, Debra Black, Daryl Roth, The Shubert Organization, and Executive Producers Stuart Thompson and John Barlow.

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Staff Board of Directors Front of House Manager Michelle Buck Chair Barbara Greeniaus General Manager Mary Desprez Vice-Chair Michael Ziegler Production Manager Shawn Donellsen Treasurer Glenn Terrell Publicist Mark Dusseault Secretary Bill Murphy-Dyson Maintenance/Technician Sam Estok Directors Joan Snowden Box Office Manager Casey Fitterer Dr. Brian Winsby Assistant Box Office Manager Ian Gibson Maureen Murphy-Dyson Audio Technician Gordon Heal Veronica Jackson Technical Director Keith Houghton Michelle Morris Wardrobe Coordinator Karen Levis Ronald Parish, CA Artistic Associate Erin Macklem Chair Emeritus Patrick Stewart Accountant Patricia O'Brien Props Coordinator Peter Pokorny Scenic Carpenter Dale Pudwell Apprentice Stage Manager Sara Robb Special Thanks Artistic Director Michael Shamata Cover Photo: Seana McKenna in Resident Stage Manager Kim Charleen Smith The Year of Magical Thinking/ Development Manager Kathy St. John Photo by Terry Manzo/Jane Francis Design Assistant General Manager Jennifer Swan The Stratford Shakespeare Festival Ruth Stevens, Stratford Shakespeare Festival Dr. Brian Winsby Belfry Support Staff Graphic Designer Jane Francis Web Designer Darren Hill Belfry Theatre Photographers David Cooper 1291 Gladstone Avenue Jo-Ann Richards Victoria, British Columbia Tony Bounsall Canada, V8T 1G5 Belfry 101 Coordinator Kate Rubin Box Office Clayton Baraniuk 250-385-6815 Box Office Susan Boutilier 250-385-6835 Administration Cassy Carter 250-385-6336 Facsimile Sarah Fitterer www.belfry.bc.ca Shiraz Higgins Calvin Regan Charitable donation number Celine Stubel 11921 5549 RR0001 Front of House Clayton Baraniuk Michael Delamont Celine Stubel Programme Advertising Design and Production Production Support Staff Victoria Arts Marketing Scenic Artist Carole Klemm P.O.Box 8629 Scenic Artist Diana Nielsen Victoria V8W 3S2 250.382.6188 Crew Nathan Brown Email: [email protected] Ben Brysiuk www.vicarts.com Miles Provencher Publisher Philomena Hanson Amanda Verhagen Design/Production Lyn Quan The Arabesque Collection

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Welcome to the Belfry A piece of theatre of this Theatre. And welcome to nature would be pointless two very special events: the without an actress of the Canadian premiere of Joan most exceptional quality. Didion’s The Year of Magical In this respect, we could Thinking, and a return to not be more blessed. Seana the Belfry stage by Seana McKenna is one of this McKenna, after an absence country’s most gifted and of 13 years. respected artists. Working with her on this remark- This beautiful story, which able piece has indeed been premiered in New York a a “magical” experience. I mere two and a half years thank her for her bravery, ago, reminds us of theatre`s her simplicity, and her unbe- roots in storytelling. The lievable honesty. power of the shared experi- ence strengthens the human I also thank you, our audi- bond between everyone in ence, for the kind of support to the world as it is seen this room together. Through that makes it possible for us by Joan Didion and Seana the incredible specificity to bring you the best in con- McKenna. found within her story, temporary theatre. Theatre Didion achieves a universal- that makes us see the world Michael Shamata ity that is inescapable. through new eyes. Welcome Artistic Director CTF Anne Ad (VAM Oct 27):CTF Anne Ad (VAM Oct 27) 10/22/09 3:26 PM Page 1 ANNE BY PAUL LEDOUX FROM THE NOVEL ANNE OF GREEN GABLES BY L.M. MONTGOMERY NOVEMBER 12 TO JANUARY 2

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At home in Malibu, Quintana Roo Dunne and her parents, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, in 1976. (John Bryson/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Born in Sacramento, and Up Close and Personal, Henry, a collection of twelve California in 1934, Joan starring Robert Redford and geographical essays. In 1996, Didion is an American Michelle Pfeiffer. she published a romantic author, best known as a thriller, The Last Thing He novelist and writer of per- Didion wrote her first work Wanted. sonalized, journalistic essays. of non-fiction, Slouching During her senior year at Towards Bethlehem, in 1968. Didion is celebrated as a the University of California, Her novel, Play It As It Lays, practitioner of “new journal- Berkeley, she won first prize set in Hollywood, was pub- ism”, a genre which was pop- in an essay contest sponsored lished in 1970, and A Book ularized by Tom Wolfe, who by Vogue; the prize was a job of Common Prayer was pub- explained that “it is possible in the magazine’s New York lished in 1977. to write journalism that office. The White Album, a collec- would read like a novel,” and tion of journalistic essays which exhibits subjectivity. During her two years with from her time at Life, In “new journalism’” the Vogue, Didion worked her Esquire, The Saturday author’s voice is critical to way up to associate feature Evening Post, The New York the reader’s experience. editor, wrote her first novel, Times, and The New York Run, River, and met her Review of Books, was pub- Joan Didion began writing future husband of almost lished in 1979. The Year of Magical Thinking forty years, John Gregory on October 4, 2004, and Dunne, who at the time was Her 1983 essay, Salvador, finished it on New Year’s writing for Time Magazine. was written after a trip to Eve, 88 days later. She went The couple married in 1964, El Salvador with Dunne. on a book tour following the and moved to Los Angeles, Democracy (1984) deals with release of this memoir, giving where they made their her concern for the loss of many readings and inter- home for the next 20 years. society’s traditional values. views – a process which she They co-wrote a number Her 1987 novel, Miami, found to be “therapeutic”. of screenplays, including addresses U.S. foreign policy. The Panic in Needle Park, In 1992, she published After starring a young Al Pacino, RE-VISIT CREATIVE PURSUITS t Berwick House we provide all the services and A amenities for a healthy and fulfi lling lifestyle. You’ll enjoy the stimulating environment for meaningful hobbies and group activities. We are dedicated to providing seniors with comfort and security. Berwick House Call Gail at 250-721-40621-4060662 Retirement Community I SLAND OWNED & MANAGEDANAANAG D 4062 Shelbourne Street www.berwickrc.comw.berwickrc.corc.cc m Victoria

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A Proud Supporter of the Arts For information call 1-250-749-4252 or 1-888-749-4252 or visit our website www.honeymoonbayretreat.com Seana McKenna The Night of the Iguana, Private Film and television credits Lives, Fallen Angels, Noises include Flashpoint, Eleventh Celebrating thirty years as Off and the premiere of Good Hour, Burn Up and a Genie a professional actor, Ms. Mother. At MTC she appeared Award for her work in The McKenna is delighted to return in Hedda Gabler, Much Ado Hanging Garden. She teaches to the Belfry and be reunited About Nothing, Born Yesterday, at Stratford's Birmingham with Artistic Director Michael Dancing at Lughnasa and the Conservatory, is the host of Shamata and designer John Canadian premiere of Wit, CBC Radio's Worldplay and Ferguson. She was last seen which she also starred in at writes a column on theatre here acting in Atlantis with CanStage and the Vancouver for the quarterly, Escarpment her husband Miles Potter, a Playhouse, earning a Jessie Views. She lives in Harrington, past A.D. of the Belfry. She Award. She has Dora Awards for Ontario with Miles and their also appeared here in Children, acting, in Saint Joan (Theatre son Cal. Educating Rita and in the first Plus Toronto) and Orpheus Canadian production of another Descending (MTC/ The Royal solo piece, The Search for Signs Alex), and for directing Valley of Intelligent Life in the Universe, Song (New Globe). Other which toured Canada. Most favourite roles include Blanche recently, she played the title Dubois (TNB; MTC/Citadel), role in Phèdre at the Stratford Maggie the Cat ( MTC;The Festival, where she has spent Grand), Eliza Doolittle (Shaw) 18 seasons playing more than and Cleopatra (Centaur). Last twenty of Shakespeare's lead- winter, she starred in Medea ing ladies, including his wife (MTC/Mirvish Productions) in Shakespeare's Will. Other and in Doubt (Canadian Stage), Stratford credits include Trojan and this January, will reprise Women, The Glass Menagerie, Phèdre at San Francisco's A.C.T. Creative Team

Joan Didion John Ferguson Michael Walton Playwright Designer Lighting Designer

Joan Didion was born in John is back at the Belfry where Recent design credits include: Sacramento California and he most recently designed The A Midsummer Night’s Dream, earned her BA degree from Real Thing. John has been Macbeth, Hamlet (Stratford the University of California at resident designer for Theatre Festival); Mimi, or a Poisoner’s Berkeley. She has written five Calgary, Neptune Theatre, Comedy, East of Berlin and novels, eight works of nonfic- the National Arts Centre, Generous (Tarragon); ’Night tion, and seven screenplays with the Canadian Stage and has Mother (Soulpepper); The Lord her late husband John Gregory designed for all the major of the Rings (Associate Special Dunne. The Year of Magical regional theatres from coast Effects Designer – London & Thinking was first produced to coast as well as Mirvish Toronto); Oliver! and Blood at the Booth Theatre in New Productions, The Canadian Brothers (Theatre Aquarius); A York on March 29th 2007. She Opera Company, Pacific Opera New Brain (Acting Up Stage); is a member of the American Victoria (most recently The Offensive Shadows (Studio Academy of Arts & Letters, Magic Flute), the Shaw Festival 180); Norway. Today and Tiny American Academy of Arts and and the Stratford Festival Dynamite (Theatre Smash); Sciences, The Berkeley Fellows, where he has designed twenty The Drawer Boy, Sexy Laundry, and Council on Foreign productions. He is the recipi- Moonlight and Magnolias and Relations. Awarded the 1996 ent of two Dora Mavor Moore Over the River and Through the Edward MacDowell Medal, Awards, Montreal’s La Soirée Woods (Grand); Oliver! and 1999 Columbia Journalism des Masques Award, Vancouver’s This Is How It Goes (Neptune); Award, 2002 George Polk Jessie Richardson Award and a The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Book Award, 2005 American Tyrone Guthrie Award. The Last Five Years (MTC); Academy of Arts & Letters The Vertical Hour (PTE); and Gold Medal in Criticism & Hay Fever (Theatre Calgary). Belles Lettres; 2005 National A native of Winnipeg, Michael Book Award for Nonfiction; now calls Stratford, Ontario and 2007 National Book Award home. for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She is a contributor to various periodi- cals, most frequently The New York Review of Books, which published in serial parts both Salvador and Miami. Brad L’Écuyer Kim Charleen Smith Sara Robb Composer Stage Manager Apprentice Stage Manager

Artistic Director for Victoria’s As Resident Stage Manager Sara graduated from the Gotta Getta Gimmick and at the Belfry, Kim continues Technical Theatre Program at a graduate of the Canadian to enjoy her season with The Malaspina in 2006. She has College of Performing Arts, Year of Magical Thinking. She worked as a freelance techni- Brad is thrilled to be back at is very happy to have made the cian and seamstress for the last the Belfry. Credits include decision to return to her native 3 years in Victoria with several Composer/Lyricist: Samuel Vancouver Island just over companies, including Intrepid (Belfry MiniPlays), The a year ago to join the Belfry Theatre, the Belfry Theatre Darkside Cabaret (Victoria family. Her career has spanned and Atomic Vaudeville. She Fringe) and the Free Spirit over 20 years and she has been is thrilled to be back at the Conservation Tour (Royal blessed with the opportunity Belfry as the Apprentice for BC Museum/BC Hydro); to Stage Manage opera, ballet, her second season. Other Stage Bandleader: Urinetown (Belfry); musicals, sporting events, plays Management credits include: Music Director: Sweeney and performance art pieces. Death Of A Salesman (Blue Todd, Falsettos, Little Shop of A graduate of The National Bridge Repertory Theatre), Horrors (GGG), City of Angels Theatre School of Canada, Kim Ride The Cyclone (Atomic (Company C); Orchestrations: continues to seek new and excit- Vaudeville), Peter Pan; Romantic Victoria Symphony and Noel ing opportunities in which to Hearts; Inferno (BalletVictoria), Coward’s Play Orchestra, Play learn and grow in her chosen Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad (The (Shaw Festival). Brad was this profession. Selected company Other Guys Theatre Company) season’s music intern at the credits: Pacific Opera Victoria, and The Josephine Knot (Theatre Shaw Festival where he worked Canadian Stage, Vancouver Bombus). on Sunday in the Park with Playhouse, Opera Hamilton, George and Play Orchestra, Play. Theatre Calgary, Royal Winnipeg Ballet and Livent Productions.

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