Adapted and Directed by Mary Zimmerman• from the Book by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Lookingglass Theatre Company in a co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre presents Adapted and Directed by Mary Zimmerman• From the book by Robert Louis Stevenson PRODUCTION SPONSORS Allstate is the Production Sponsor and proud supporter of the matinee program for Treasure Island. Andrew White• Rachel E. Kraft Philip R. Smith• Heidi Stillman• Artistic Director Executive Director Producing Artistic Director Artistic Director of New Work Todd Rosenthal, USA Ana Kuzmanic, USA TJ Gerkins, USA Andre Pluess, USA♦ Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Design/Composer Jeri Frederickson Joel Hobson Chad Hain Blair Thomas Production Stage Manager Production Manager Technical Director Puppet Designer Sarah Burnham Claggett Kathy Logelin Properties Designer Dialect Coach CAST Jim Hawkins .......................... John Babbo Pew ................................... Anthony Irons* Squire Trelawney ................. Matt DeCaro* Black Dog/Ben Gunn ......... Steve Pickering* Dance/Dick ....................... Travis Delgado Israel Hands .......................... Ariel Shafir* Long John Silver ....... Lawrence E. DiStasi•* Musician .................................. L.J. Slavin Billy Bones/Redruth .. Christopher Donahue* Captain Smollett .............. Philip R. Smith•* Mrs. Hawkins/Musician ........ Kasey Foster* Dr. Livesey ......................... Andrew White•* Musician ................................ Greg Hirte* Grey/Musician .................. Matthew C. Yee UNDERSTUDIES Jamie Abelson*, Jeanne T. Arrigo, Charlie Babbo, Gregory Geffrard, John Gregorio and Brian Rife USA denotes Member of United Scenic Artists, the union for Designers, Artists and Crafts people; *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers; •Lookingglass Theatre Company Ensemble Member, Artistic Associate or Production Affiliate LEAD PRODUCER’S CIRCLE PRODUCER’S CIRCLE OPENING NIGHT SPONSOR SUPPORT PROVIDED BY: SUPPORT PROVIDED BY: Leigh and Henry Bienen Paul and De Gray TREASURE ISLAND is produced by special arrangement with Bruce Ostler, BRET ADAMS, LTD., 448 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. www.bretadamsltd.net. Lookingglass Theatre Company is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for American Theatre, and of the League of Chicago Theatres, the local service organization for theatre. Treasure Island 1 PRODUCTION STAFF Assistant Director ......................................................................................... Risher Reddick Associate Technical Director ............................................................................. Ben Dawson Interim Assistant Technical Director ............................................................ Sam Moryoussef Production Coordinator ....................................................................................... Kelly Crook Assistant Stage Manager ........................................................................... Mary Hungerford Assistant Lighting Designer .................................................................... Steve Sorenson, USA Assistant Costume Designers ................................................... Caitlin McLeod, Melissa Motz Assistant Properties Designer ................................................................. Amanda Herrmann Assistant Sound Designer ................................................................................ Chris LaPorte Master Carpenter ......................................................................................... Isaac Schoepp Lead Carpenter ........................................................................................... Jake Puralewski Carpenters ............................................... Nic Belanger, Elyse Estes, Nick Harazin, Jon Harvey, Alex Miller, Erin Ohland, Joseph Wesolowski Carpenter/Welder ........................................................................................ Gordon Granger Scenic Charge .................................................................................................. Zoe Shiffrin Assistant Scenic Charge ................................................................................... Sarah Lewis Scenic Artists ...................................................... Kassie Davis, Tiffany Goarcke, Karina Kim Master Electrician ............................................................................................... Jeff Glass Assistant Master Electrician ........................................................................... Shawn Kronk Costume Shop Manager ........................................................................ Mieka van der Ploeg Costume Shop Assistant .............................................................................. Katie Johancen Drapers ............................................................................................ Kitty Knapp, Beth Uber Crafts ................................. Melissa Bochat, Marliss Jensen, Pamela Maurer, Meredith Miller, Stitchers .................................. Alice Broughton, Caitlin Dalton, Greta Humphries, Maddy Low Rosalinda Miller, Megan Turner, and Amy Prindle Wardrobe Supervisor ................................................................................... Amber N. Collins Wardrobe Crew .......................................................................... Melissa Motz, Erika Clauson Makeup ......................................................................................................... Nan Zabriskie Wigs .................................................................................................................. Rick Jarvie Deck Crew ................................................................................. Austin Kopsa, Jake Weiner Casting ............................................................................ Philip R. Smith• with Raymond Fox• Young Performer Supervisor ................................................................................ Katie Cora Scene Shop Interns ....................................................... Michaella Cipriani, Wesley Patterson Stage Management Interns .................................................. Jackie Bautista, Emma Horvath USA denotes Member of United Scenic Artists, the union for Designers, Artists and Craftspeople; *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers; •Lookingglass Theatre Company Ensemble Member, Artistic Associate or Production Affiliate The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago’s Performing Arts Medicine Program is the exclusive provider of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation for Lookingglass Theatre Company SPECIAL THANKS Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Bruce Osher, Bret Adams Ltd., Kim Ford, Jamieson Werling, Kelly L. Page, Dana Omar, Zack Barr, Michael Fleisher, Tom DeFrancisco, Ariana Burks, Anaiya Burks, Phia Ringo, Othel Robert Owen, Ben Sachs, Alex Teller, Kristy Ryan, Julie Cameron, Mary Dombrowski, Stacy Ratner, Dan Ratner, Genevieve Thiers, Marc Rosenberg, Nick Petit, Katy Vogt, Zak Kates, Kevin Kotowski, Horace Flournoy, Don Clippinger, Pamela Hanratty, Howard Tullman 2 Lookingglass Theatre Company In Conversation with Ensemble Member Mary Zimmerman Interview by Literary Manager and Company Dramaturg Marti Lyons When did you first read poems, though I didn’t know it when I Treasure Island? entered the library last summer. I didn’t read it until last summer. I have a house on an island off the coast of I’ve read that there have been Maine. It’s a very maritime culture about 50 prior adaptations of there and I always like to read things Treasure Island. Have you absorbed connected in some way to where I am any of them or will you? when I’m away from home (although, No, I won’t. I don’t want to put myself in in fact, everything I’ve done has had a situation where I accidentally imitate something to do with the sea, I had a or copy something. The amount of great romance about that as a child prior adaptation both encourages and growing up in Nebraska). So in Maine discourages me. It discourages me I came across it at the local library, a because I realize it isn’t a very original beautiful edition with the N.C. Wyeth idea to dramatize this story, but it illustrations—this great classic from encourages me in that many people young adulthood that I had never read. have similarly found it or thought of it The moment I started reading it, I was as stage-worthy. I think some of those completely smitten by it and in an adaptations go back a hundred years. unusual way; instead of experiencing it in the filmic way one usually has I’d love it if you’d talk a little when reading (a kind of virtual filmic bit about your process. experience) I was very much seeing it I have an unusual process that I’ve on a stage—in a room, in a theatre. somehow just gotten away with for the Initially, I was feeling kind of odd about last however many decades, and it’s approaching it for adaptation because that I don’t start with a script—although unlike so much of what has comprised I’m always starting with a source text my adult work, this wasn’t a great —and with my designers who design childhood favorite of mine. But then, without that script. I also cast with no very early in my research I realized script, although I sometimes write little Stevenson was the author of A Child’s scenes for actors to read in auditions. I Garden of Verses, which was perhaps write the script in the hours before and my first literary obsession