ESCAPED ALONE Welcome to Our Escaped Alone Audio Play, Written by Caryl Churchill
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ESCAPED ALONE AN AUDIO PLAY STREAMING ONLINE OCT NOV 19 15 WRITTEN BY CARYL CHURCHILL DIRECTED BY LORETTA GRECO from the desk of Sonia Fernandez ESCAPED ALONE Welcome to our Escaped Alone audio play, written by Caryl Churchill We are thrilled to be able to share this audio play with you. In this time of frightening uncertainty, we hope directed by Loretta Greco CAST that you enjoy the linguistic virtuosity, dry humor and prescient genius that is Caryl Churchill. Over six Sally Elizabeth Benedict*+ decades after her first stage play, Churchill continues to explore and explode dramatic form, offering fresh + perspectives and capturing the playful and complex rhythms of life. We are pleased to rectify the oversight Season Producers Vi Anne Darragh* Clay Foundation West Lena Anne Hallinan of Magic having never produced Churchill’s work until now. Her limitless imagination and daring innovation + puts her right at home in the Magic family. Larry Goldfarb Mrs. Jarret Julia McNeal* Sandra Hess Escaped Alone was meant to be our final production of the 2019-20 season, which alongside many other Kathryn Kersey AUDIO PLAY CREATIVE TEAM theatre seasons across the country was prematurely cut short. When we originally planned the season, we John F. Marx and Nikki Beach had no idea how timely this play would feel in the present moment. Escaped Alone is a play that Churchill Toni Rembe and Arthur Rock Production Manager Jackie S. Hill premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in early 2016. And yet, Churchill’s language seems to be ripped from Sound Designer Jake Rodriguez** our current anxieties, and tilted through the lens of her fresh and audacious humor. Escaped Alone Producers and Engineer Dialect Coach Jessica Berman This production was also intended to mark the end of our intrepid leader of 12 years, Loretta Greco’s, tenure. Anonymous Eugene and Neil Barth Original Music by Jake Rodriguez**and I am so glad we are able to honor her work and that of the artistic team through this audio play. Many thanks Jason Stamberger to our indomitable cast who withstood several postponements and delayed their plans to make this happen. Rebecca Eisen A very special thanks to Jake Rodriguez, who originally signed on as our sound designer, with no way of Kathyrn Kersey Casting Sonia Fernandez knowing what an integral role he would play in manifesting this piece solely through the world of sound. Leigh Wolf ORIGINAL PRODUCTION CREATIVE TEAM ESCAPED ALONE was first presented by The English Churchill’s epigraph to the play “I only am escaped alone to tell thee” comes from the Book of Job and Set and Costume Andrew Boyce** Moby Dick and evokes a solitary journey of survival. We heard this play out loud in Magic’s lounge in the Stage Company at The Royal Court Theatre, London, on 28th January 2016. The US premier was summer of 2018. Amongst our listeners were a 20-year-old apprentice and a 70-year old board member. All Designer presented at BAM Harvey Theater, New York, on Lighting Designer Chris Lundahl of us laughed out loud and were deeply moved by the reading. Though the play offers a dark foreboding, 15th February 2017, directed by James MacDonald. what surprised us that afternoon was the paradox that while the content of the play is at times upsetting, Assistant Director Hannah Meyer absurd and apocalyptic, the feeling of the play is that of resilience, optimism and comfort in each other. It offers us a necessary reminder of our extraordinary human ability to persevere and find joy and song even in LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT the midst of catastrophe. Magic Theatre sits on the native lands of Ramaytush (Rah-my-toosh) and Ohlone (Oh-loh-nee) people. We affirm the Ohlone presence and revere their past, current and future generations. While we haven’t been able to hold live productions, we have been developing and implementing our Anti- racist action plan in response to the gift of the We See You, White American Theatre and Living Document First-people were cherishing and protecting this land centuries before colonizers displaced and erased their cultures. Occupants of native land, including Fort Mason, are not excused from perpetuating the Demands that offer us a roadmap. If you haven’t read our plan, please check it out on our website. It is just deception of indigenous people through violent action and legislation. We encourage our visitors to a first step, but we think its an important one. Black Lives Matter. engage in learning and dismantling the consequences of colonialism. Thank you for joining us. We sincerely hope to share space with all of you again soon and have a season of Colonization is a global and ever-evolving process. As our activities, including this Audio Play, depend on the Internet, we recognize the colonization embedded within technology. Such advancements encompass astonishing world premiere plays planned for 2021. In the meantime, enjoy listening. Stay safe and please vote. unfair labor practices, occupation of native lands, disproportionate ecological impact, and unequal-accessibility. Warmly, As you peruse this program and listen to this Audio Play, we encourage you to acknowledge, learn about and support the land which you currently occupy. For information on Indigenous Land please visit: https://native-land.ca/. Colonialism is not a relic of the past; neither is Indigenous justice. See the living-histories of Sonia Fernandez San Francisco Bay Region’s people: http://www.muwekma.org/ Interim Artistic Director https://www.nps.gov/prsf/learn/historyculture/indigenous-period.htm http://www.ramaytush.com *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. **Member of United Scenic Artists local 829, which represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre. The video and/or sound duplication of this recording by any means whatso- +Member of Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists ever are strictly prohibitted. †Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC) This recording was made possible by an agreement with SAG-AFTA. biographies twenty-six world premieres produced Long Wharf, La Jolla Playhouse, Golden Thread. She has been Marin Theatre Company, Porchlight here have gone on to have between Intiman Theatre, Williamstown, a semifinalist for the O’Neill ANNE Theatre, TheatreFirst, Center two and seventy-one productions Coconut Grove Playhouse, Reper- National Playwrights Conference + Reperatory Company, Pacific CARYL each throughout the country and tory Theatre of St Louis, Cincinnati twice – in 2008 with American DARRAGH* Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre beyond. Magic directing credits Playhouse, and Playmakers Rep, Royals and 2013 with Rashomon VI of SF, First Person Singular, and among many others. Ms. Greco in Kansas. Her play Last Party PlayGround (where she is a CHURCHILL include the world premieres of (she/her) is directed the National Tour of at the Garden of Allah, or company member). Film and TV Barbara Hammond’s The Eva Trilogy, thrilled to be PLAYWRIGHT Emily Mann’s Having Our Say, as Lesbians in Pre-Code Hollywood credits include The Unbelievable Ong’s Grandeur, Hagedorn’s part of this well as the international premiere was to have had a reading this Truth; Flesh and Bone; Law and (she/her) The Gangster of Love, Sharr White’s amazing team. at the Market Theatre in past June at the Playwrights Order and Law & Order: SVU. was born on Annapurna, and Octavio Solis’s She began her Johannesburg, South Africa. Lab. Deep gratitude and love to Julia was a founding member of the 3 September Se Llama Cristina. She has also professional 1938 in reimagined westcoast premieres such as Loretta, Anne, Julia, Anne and Obie-Award-winning Cucaracha London and Sharr White’s The Other Place, Prior to her Magic post, Greco most of all Caryl Churchill for the career at the Magic Theatre in the world Theatre in New York and the Echo grew up in Liz Duffy Adams’ Or,, and served as Producing Artistic Direc- gift of this play. premiere of Lynn Kaufman’s Speaking in Los Angeles. She teaches at the Lake Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius, among tor of New York’s The Women’s in Tongues. Other Magic productions Tamalpais High’s internationally many others. Project, where she was proud to include Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell, acclaimed CTE program and is District and in Montreal. She help launch the careers of Liesl Rebecca Gilman’s The American in Me, the creator of the Five Ways In was educated at Lady Margaret At Magic, Greco is grateful for her Tommy, Anne Kauffman, Lisa ANNE Edna O’Brien’s Tír Na nÓg, and Paula to Character technique. Julia is a Hall, Oxford. Downstairs, her first long standing collaborations with D’Amour, and Annie Dorsen, and Vogel’s The Baltimore Waltz (among proud member of the newly born play written while she was still at playwrights Sam Shepard, Luis Alfaro as the Associate Director/Resident HALLINAN many others). She has had the honor to A.R.C. online actors collective. university, was first staged in 1958 and Taylor Mac. Greco worked close- Producer at the McCarter Theatre LENA perform in numerous world premieres juliamcnealarts.com and won an award at the Sunday ly with Shepard on Magic’s five-year in Princeton. She received her including the Eureka Theatre production Times National Union of Students Bay Area Sheparding America series MFA from Catholic University, (she/her) is of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America as She is thrilled to be part of this Drama Festival. and directed the critically acclaimed her BA from Loyola University, delighted to well as works by Michelle Carter, Barry innovative audio production.