By Amy Herzog David Emmes

50th Season • 475th Production SEGERSTROM STAGE / OCTOBER 18 - NOVEMBER 17, 2013 Marc Masterson Paula Tomei ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR David Emmes & Martin Benson FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTORS presents 4000 MILES by Amy Herzog Ralph Funicello Sara Ryung Clement Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz Cricket S. Myers SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Jackie S. Hill Sue Karutz* PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Directed by David Emmes Steve and Laurie Duncan and Barbara Roberts and Brooke Roberts-Webb Honorary Producers 4000 MILES was originally produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2011, New York City 4000 MILES is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. 4000 Miles • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Leo Joseph-Connell ................................................................. Matt Caplan* Bec ......................................................................................... Rebecca Mozo* Amanda ................................................................................. Klarissa Mesee* Vera Joseph ............................................................................ Jenny O’Hara* SETTING An apartment in Greenwich Village. LENGTH Approximately one hour and 40 minutes with no intermission. PRODUCTION STAFF Casting ..................................................................................... Joanne DeNaut, CSA Dramaturg ................................................................................... Kimberly Colburn Assistant Stage Manager ............................................................... Jamie A. Tucker* Assistant Director .................................................................................... Clint Foley Assistants to the Scenic Designer ............................... Chad Dellinger, Mason Lev Costume Design Assistant ............................................................ James David Leal Assistant Lighting Designer ............................................................ Stacy McKenney Stage Management Intern ............................................................... Lilly Deerwater Light Board Operator ................................................................... Andrew Stephens Sound Board Operator ...................................................................... GW Rodriguez Wardrobe Supervisor/Dresser ............................................................... Bert Henert Wig and Makeup Technician ............................................................... Jenni Gilbert * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. Video taping and/or recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Segerstrom Stage Season Media Partner Media Partner P2 • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • 4000 Miles The Long Road Home “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer de- spair for the future of the human race.” From Country to City ~H.G. Wells, novelist my Herzog has written two plays about the family fea- Atured in 4000 Miles. In an in- “You can kiss your family and friends same things back from them” terview with Lincoln Center, she good-bye and put miles between you, ~Amy Herzog, 4000 Miles talks about why she sets the play but at the same time you carry them in New York: with you in your heart, your mind, your “Consider a man riding a bicycle. Who- “The play has to take place stomach, because you do not just live ever he is, we can say three things about in NYC because it’s where Vera in a world but a world lives in you.” him. We know he got on the bicycle and lives, but I was also interested in ~Frederick Buechner started to move. We know that at some what that environment means point he will stop and get off. Most im- to Leo, outdoorsman and latter- “The test of our progress is not wheth- portant of all, we know that if at any day transcendentalist that he is. er we add more to the abundance of point between the beginning and the I biked across the country the those who have much; it is whether end of his journey he stops moving and summer after I graduated from we provide enough for those who have does not get off the bicycle, he will fall college, and almost immedi- little.” off it. That is a metaphor for the journey ately thereafter moved to this ~Franklin D. Roosevelt through life of any living thing.” city to embark on adult life. It ~William G. Golding, author of was a rude awakening in ways I “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes Lord of the Flies, in a 1977 speech didn’t recognize at the time...I round in another form.” had been traveling across these ~Rumi, 13th-century Persian poet “Each of us has his own rhythm of suf- expansive, gorgeous, lonely fering.” landscapes for two months, “Life shouldn’t be printed on dollar ~Roland Barthes, sometimes covering upwards of bills.” Mourning Diary, 2010 seventy miles without seeing a ~Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty town, and urban life was a dif- “When the spirits are low, when the ficult adjustment. I missed the “If all else perished, and he remained, day appears dark, when work becomes simplicity of life on the road and I should still continue to be; and if all monotonous, when hope hardly seems the feeling of accomplishment else remained, and he were annihilat- worth having, just mount a bicycle and that came at the end of every ed, the universe would turn to a mighty go out for a spin down the road, with- day.” stranger.” out thought on anything but the ride ~Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights you are taking.” ~Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “Without alienation there can be no in Scientific American, 1896 politics.” ~Arthur Miller “Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we “It’s so much darker when a light goes deserve.” out than it would have been if it had ~George Bernard Shaw never shone.” ~John Steinbeck, “It is worth remembering that the time The Winter of Our Discontent of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest “I find if you approach people with love difficulty.” and trust you can count on getting the ~Dalai Lama Amy Herzog 4000 Miles • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • P3 The Village History reenwich Village, During the 1960s, it was a cen- where Vera’s apart- ter for hippie counterculture. ment is located, is Many gay people also began known as an en- congregating in the area; in clave for artists. By 1969, a group of patrons at Gthe turn of the 20th century, the Stonewall Inn grew angry it was ethnically diverse and with police harassment and widely known for its toler- a riot broke out that sparked ance for radicalism and non- the beginning of the gay rights conformity. In 1924, the land- movement in America. Green- mark off-Broadway Cherry wich Village has remained a Lane Theatre was established progressive center, a rallying there, and in the 30s and place for anti-war protestors 40s the Living Theatre, The- in the 1970s and a center for atre of the Absurd and the mobilization efforts for the Downtown Theater move- AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, ment all took root there. In even as gentrification of the the 1950s, Greenwich Village neighborhood has driven up had become the center of the cost of living there. the Beat movement started by writers like Jack Kerouac, Photos top to bottom: 1912 Suffragette Alan Ginsberg, and William protest in Greenwich Village; Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, S. Burroughs—who inspired Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso (in a philosophy on innovation the hat) in the 1950s; The Stonewall in style, experimentation in riots on June 28, 1969; Senator Joe all forms, and sexual fluidity. McCarthy conferring with aide. ences on the left-wing Progressive Politics side of the political spectrum include the he modern progressive movement labor movement. The in America has roots in the late 19th American Federation Tand early 20th centuries, founded of Labor formed with the goal of improving society by an alliance with the eliminating corruption and improving Democratic party in the welfare of citizens. Other influ- 1906, and the next several decades saw a growth in labor unions as their in the membership of the party in social and political influence grew. America, the progressive ideals did not The American Communist Party die out. People continued to spread also supported workers’ rights and the word about the socially conscious helped organize labor unions, and policies being put into place in coun- counted upwards of 200,000 mem- tries like Cuba, where laws were intro- bers in various communist-supported duced to provide equality for black organizations at its peak. While the Cubans, greater rights for women, and Second World War and subsequent improved access to healthcare, hous- McCarthyism caused severe declines ing and education. P4 • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • 4000 Miles Artist Biographies MATT CAPLAN* Leo Joseph-Connell at The Colony Theatre Company; The Cherry Orchard opposite Annette Bening and Alfred Molina at Center is making his SCR debut. On Theatre Group; Ghosts at A Noise Within; and Mrs. War- Broadway he appeared in Rent, ren’s Profession, Peace in Our Time, King Lear, Cousin South Pacific and Spider-Man: Bette, Pera Palas, ClassicFest’s A Month in the Country Turn Off the Dark

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