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FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE 2015-2016 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT ROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PRESENTS SPONSORED BY RAYMOND JAMES® STARRING Ensemble Members CARRIE LUND* • BRENDAN POWERS* • PETER THOMASSON* and KATE HAMPTON* DIRECTED BY ensemble member CHRIS CLAVELLI** SET DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER RAY RECHT*** KATE SMITH ALEXANDRIA VAZQUEZ ensemble member SOUND DESIGNER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ASST. STAGE MANAGER JOHN KISELICA JANINE WOCHNA* KATINA WHITE ensemble member Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. World Premiere at the Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, California. Artistic Director Jack O’Brien. Managing Director Thomas Hall. The Play was first produced in New York by Roger L. Stevens, Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch and Richard Frankel. 2015-16 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS Anonymous • The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Naomi Bloom & Ron Wallace Bruce & Janet Bunch • Gholi & Georgia Darehshori • Ed & Ellie Fox • Dr. & Mrs. Mark & Lynne Gorovoy John & Marjorie Madden • Sue & Jack Rogers • Arthur Zupko This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. CAST (in order of appearance) Bradley...........................................................................................PETER THOMASSON*† John.................................................................................................BRENDAN POWERS*† Ann.............................................................................................................CARRIE LUND*† Nina.......................................................................................................KATE HAMPTON*† TIME & PLACE The play takes place during early evening in early fall in the mid-seventies, in a city in upstate New York. THE COCKTAIL HOUR will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Understudy: Ryan Gallerani (John) Wardrobe: Courtney Rigdon Lighting and Sound Board Operator: Rachael Smith Assistant Costume Designer: Meredith Hubbard ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT A.R. GURNEY was born in 1930 in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Williams College in 1952, served as an officer in the Navy, and afterwards attended the Yale School of Drama. For many years, he taught literature at M.I.T., but moved to New York in 1982 to devote more time to writing for the theatre. Gurney has been married to his wife Molly for over fifty years. They have four children, and eight grandchildren, and now live in Roxbury, Connecticut and New York City. His plays include The Cocktail Hour (Lucille Lortel Award), The Dining Room, Sylvia, Love Letters, Scenes from American Life (Drama Desk Award), Children, The Middle Ages, Richard Cory, The Golden Age, What I Did Last Summer, The Wayside Motor Inn, Sweet Sue, The Perfect Party, Another Antigone, The Snow Ball (adapted from his novel), The Old Boy, The Fourth Wall, Later Life, A Cheever Evening, Overtime, Let’s Do It (a Cole Porter musical), Labor Day, Far East, Darlene and the Guest Lecturer, and Ancestral Voices. He wrote the libretto for the opera Strawberry Fields with music by Michael Torke. His other novels include The Gospel According to Joe and Entertaining Strangers. He is the recipient of the 2011 Drama Desk Special Award, a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Body of Work and has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, and New England Theatre Conference. He is now a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. †Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s Ensemble of Theatre Artists. See page 23 for the entire ensemble. The Actors & Stage Manager * employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity ** *** Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. DRAMATURGY WASP CULTURE “The acronym WASP derives from White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. It is also referred to as a closed group of high-status White Americans of English Protestant ancestry... believed to control disproportionate social and financial power.” And although the term serves as an insult, “scholars agree that the group’s influence has waned since the end of World War II, with the growing influence of Jews, Catholics, African Americans, Asians, and other former outsiders.” Born, raised, and educated in a period of unchallenged WASP ascendancy, A.R. Gurney came of age as a dramatist when that party was ending. He dramatizes this social transition in a number of his plays as a tension between generations, with old WASPs and their middle-aged offspring squaring off against each other. The former look back fondly and longingly at a mode of life that has largely vanished; the latter, while sharing some of this nostalgia, have mostly come to accept the critical view of the WASP world held by those “former outsiders” who are taking over. This leads to conflict between the generations, and conflict leads to drama. GURNEY’S PLAYS AT FLORIDA REP A.R. Gurney’s plays are favorites among Florida Rep audiences, and his play, SYLVIA, still holds the record as Florida Rep’s biggest hit. How many of these A.R. Gurney plays did you see at Florida Rep? Adams Nick Photo: Hoffman Chip Photo: BLACK TIE/April 2012 SYLVIA/Jan 2011 Adam Jones, Carrie Lund, & Peter Thomasson Michelle Damato & Gordon McConnell Photo: Chip Hoffman Chip Photo: Fisher Dorit Photo: INDIAN BLOOD/Dec 2008 THE MIDDLE AGES/Jan 2006 Carrie Lund, Daniel Benzing, & Peter Thomasson Greg Longenhagen & Mindy Woodhead ORIGIN OF THE MARTINI The exact origin of the martini is unclear, though it is widely accepted as a uniquely American invention. Numerous cocktails with names and ingredients similar to the modern-day martini were first seen in bartending guides of the late 19th century. For example, in the 1888 Bartenders’ Manual there was a recipe for a drink that consisted in part of half a wine glass of Old Tom Gin and a half a wine glass of vermouth. In 1863, an Italian vermouth maker started marketing their product under the brand name of Martini, and the brand name may be the source of the cocktail’s name. Make your Own! INGREDIENTS INSTRUCTIONS 1 ounce dry vermouth Fill a metal shaker with cracked ice. Pour in the dry vermouth, stir briefly, and strain out (this may be discarded). Add 4 ounces gin 4 ounces gin (around 94-proof.) Stir briskly for about 10 seconds, strain into cocktail glass chilled cocktail glass, and garnish with an olive or lemon twist. lemon twist SOURCES: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL • The Public Theater • Wikipedia CREATIVE TEAM KATE HAMPTON* (Nina) BRENDAN POWERS*† (John) is very glad to be back at Select Florida Rep credits Florida Rep. Broadway: The over the past eight seasons Best Man, The Deep Blue Sea. include A Christmas Story, First national tour: Spring The Unexpected Guest, Awakening. More NYC: The Dividing the Estate, Around Master Builder (BAM), All the World in 80 Days, The My Sons (Roundabout), Fantasticks, Doubt, Opus, Have You Seen Steve Steven? Boeing-Boeing, and The Glass (13P), The Typographer’s Dream (Clubbed Thumb), Menagerie. He is married to fellow Rep ensemble Over the River and Through the Woods. Regional: Les member Rachel Burttram and also serves as a Liaisons Dangereuses (Palm Beach Dramaworks), Development Associate. Other credits include the Social Security, Lend Me a Tenor (Florida Rep), Talley’s Tony Award-winning play, Art, and The Big Knife, Folly (Peterborough Players), Fallen Angels, God both with Alec Baldwin, the Noel Coward revue, of Carnage, Once in a Lifetime, The Innocents, Las Oh, Coward! at Off-Broadway’s Irish Repertory Meninas, Boeing-Boeing, La Bête, Pride and Prejudice, Theatre, God of Carnage, August: Osage County, Expecting Isabel (Asolo Rep), Absurd Person Singular Our Town, Arsenic and Old Lace, and numerous (Bristol Rep), Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom others. TV work includes FBI Agent Rick Cranston (Humana Festival), Loot (The Arden), The Real Thing on Graceland (USA Network), and David Weller (Olney), All My Sons, Hard Times (Williamstown). in the Netflix original series, Bloodline, starring TV: Bones, The Law & Order trifecta, The Education of Sissy Spacek. He can also be seen driving the big Max Bickford, Sex and the City. www.katehampton.net blue Cadillac in a series of national commercials for Alabama Road Trips. His cartoon captions have CARRIE LUND*† (Ann) Co- been winners for various contests including The founder, a company member, New Yorker, Hartford Courant, Denver Post, Moment and Associate Producer of Magazine, Clinical Psychology, Inside Higher Ed, and Florida Rep, and has acted the Greensboro News-Record. BrendanPowers.com in over 90 productions in Southwest Florida. In PETER THOMASSON*† 2012, she was named Best (Bradley) is grateful to Actress of the Year and return to Florida Rep where named one of the “Power he’s an ensemble member Women of the Year” by having last appeared as the Florida Weekly. She produced and acted on Sanibel devilish Mr. Lockhart in Island from 1984-1998 at the Pirate Playhouse and The Seafarer, the scarfaced on Captiva Island with Carrie Lund Presents. She Jonathan Brewster in Arsenic taught theatre at Florida Gulf Coast University and Old Lace, and mean old in its early years, produced theatre companies in Uncle Henri Trouchard in My Three Angels. This past her hometown of Erie, PA and New York City, season he appeared in On Golden Pond as Norman and performed in regional theatres in NY, VT Thayer, Jr. at Roanoke’s Mill Mountain Theater; as and NC, as well as the Three River Shakespeare Mathias Gold in My Old Lady at Sarasota’s Banyan Festival, Pittsburgh Playhouse, and American Ibsen Theater for which he was nominated for a Handy Theatre in Pittsburgh, PA.