Candide SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY BEGINS JANUARY 26 presents The National Theatre of Scotland’s production of BLACK WATCH by Gregory Burke directed by John Tiffany “It’s essential that you January 26–February 6, 2011 see Black Watch.” Sidney Harman Hall New York Observer Hurtling from a pool room in Scotland to an armored wagon in Iraq, Black Watch is based on interviews conducted by Gregory Burke with former soldiers who served in Iraq. Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watch reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, what it means to be part of the war on terror and what it means to make the journey home again. John Tiffany’s production from the National Theatre of Scotland makes powerful and inventive use of movement and music to create a visceral, complex and urgent piece of theatre. This production of Black Watch launches its U.S. tour at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, having played to universal acclaim in Australia, New Zealand, London, Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Edinburgh and more. Runtime is 1 hour 50 minutes long with no intermission. Black Watch contains very strong language, loud explosions and strobe lighting. Recommended for audiences 13 years and older. Special notice for stage seating: Due to the highly physical nature of the performance, there will be absolutely no late seating for these seat locations. If you need to leave during the show you must be escorted by an usher and will not be allowed to re-enter the show. Tickets on sale now! Call 202.547.1122 or visit ShakespeareTheatre.org today! Media Partners: Groups of 10+, call 202.547.1122, option 6 Photos: Cameron Barnes as Macca; Chris Starkie as Stewarty, Keith Fleming as Sergeant and Scott Fletcher as Kenzie34 in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Black Watch. All photos by Manuel Harlan. Table of Contents Feature Beyond the Sea 7 Program About the Playwright 13 Title Page 15 Cast 17 Orchestra 19 Cast Biographies 20 Direction and Design Biographies 24 Shakespeare Theatre Company Creative Conversations 23 Shakespeare Theatre Company 28 Happenings at the Harman 30 For the Shakespeare Theatre Company 32 Board of Trustees 35 Affiliated Artists 35 Individual Support 36 Year-End Giving 45 Corporate Support 49 Foundation and Government Support 50 Classes for Adults, Teens and Young People 51 Special Thanks 52 Staff 52 Academy for Classical Acting 55 Audience Services 56 Cover photo: Geoff Packard by Brian Warling. Design/direction by Kelly Rickert. Right: Photo of Geoff Packard and Larry Yando by Liz Lauren. CymbelineWilliam Shakespeare's directed by Rebecca Bayla Taichman January 18–March 6, 2011 Lansburgh Theatre Cymbeline marks the return of director Rebecca Bayla Taichman, whose recent Twelfth Night was “gorgeously romantic… as brand new as a first kiss” The( Downtowner), and whose The Taming of the Shrew found “a satisfying quantity of heart in a play that can be made to seem The Taming of the Shrew merely playful” (Washington City Paper). The Shakespeare Theatre Company premiere of Cymbeline follows Imogen on her search for reconciliation against the backdrop of a colorful and magical journey. Forbidden love, mistaken identities, banishment and a magic potion—Shakespeare combines multiple styles in this endlessly inventive fairy tale. Twelfth Night The Taming of the Shrew photo of Christopher Innvar and Charlayne Woodard by Scott Suchman. Twelfth Night photo of Samantha Soule and Floyd King by Carol Rosegg. 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Beyond the Sea Candide has become a theatrical explaining Lisbon’s fate: the thinkers classic, but like its title character, it called Optimists believed that has navigated a long and surprising everything God did was for the best; journey to achieve that status. It is and the English Protestant reformer the result of the collaboration across John Wesley saw the deaths of so centuries between two iconoclastic many devout Catholics as proof of artists: the French writer known as “the hand of the Almighty, arising to Voltaire, and the American composer maintain his own cause.” Leonard Bernstein. Both combined the instincts of showman and philosopher Voltaire struck back as only he could. to create a work that entertains His Poem on the Destruction of Lisbon even as it takes on some of the most took special aim at the English writer strongly-held human ideals. Alexander Pope, who had declared in the 1730s that “whatever is, is Candide’s voyage began on a quiet right.” Would a God who intended Sunday in November of 1755 in all for the best deliberately cause so Lisbon, Portugal. Most of the citizens much suffering, Voltaire asked? The sat peacefully in church to observe problem, he decided, lay not with acts All Saints Day. Suddenly, their of God but with the acts of humans prayers and calm were shattered; an who thought they understood his will. earthquake, followed by a devastating “Do we know all the ways of God?” he tsunami, all but wiped one of the would later write in his 1763 Treatise great cities of Europe off the map on Tolerance. “Must every individual within minutes. Upon hearing news usurp the rights of Divinity?” His of the disaster, Voltaire took it as solution? “The fewer dogmas, evidence of life’s unpredictability: the fewer disputes,” he declared. “what a game of chance human “And the fewer disputes, the fewer life is,” he wrote to a friend. But misfortunes.” other philosophers went further in 7 presents From the stage to the big screen. Presented at Sidney Harman Hall NT Live enters its second season of broadcasting performances from London’s National Theatre in HD! Broadcast in HD Buy the series and Season Schedule SAVE 20% Hamlet Monday, December 27, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. Nicholas Hytner directs this “constantly compelling” (The Daily Telegraph) production that “demands to be seen” (The Independent), featuring Rory Kinnear in the title role. Fela! Monday, January 17, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. This Tony Award-winning musical stars Sahr Ngaujah as Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. King Lear Monday, February 7, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. The Donmar Warehouse presents Shakespeare’s classic, starring British luminary Derek Jacobi, winner of Tony, Emmy and Helen Hayes awards and founding member of the National Theatre. Frankenstein Monday, March 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. Danny Boyle’s production of a play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley. The Cherry Orchard Monday, July 11, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. A play by Anton Chekhov, directed by National Theatre Associate Director Howard Davies, whose recent productions of Russian plays have earned huge critical acclaim. *dates subject to change VIP seating will be given to series holders and $20 Tickets! STC subscribers and donors. Call 202.547.1122 or visit ShakespeareTheatre.org/NTLive. Photos of Rory Kinnear by Ela Hawes; The original Broadway cast of Fela! by Monique Carboni; and King Lear by Johan Persson. Three years later, a different kind Un-American Activities Committee. of earthquake rocked Europe: a But far from creating a heavy-handed slim volume by a German doctor political satire, Bernstein followed named Ralph. Immediately banned Voltaire’s example and wrote one in Paris and Geneva and placed on of the most sublimely entertaining the Vatican’s list of forbidden books, scores of the American musical Candide became a sensation, selling theatre. The music brims with wit and thirty thousand copies in its first year verve, remaining refreshingly original alone. What made it so controversial? even as it parodies other operas Candide follows the journeys of an and musicals. It travels from aria to innocent young man through a series patter song to chorale as briskly as its of calamities (including the Lisbon characters journey from land to land. earthquake), each of which challenges The original cast recording became a his Optimist tutor’s maxim that “all is best-seller soon after its appearance for the best in this best of all possible in 1957, and Bernstein’s melodies worlds.” But as Candide faces mostly have found enduring popularity in the man-made disasters, the book skewers more than fifty years since. every sacred institution in Europe: religious and political authority, Candide became a labor of love for marriage, war and commerce. Bernstein; “there’s more of me in Voltaire’s writing style and anti- that piece than anything else I have dogmatic thinking were unmistakable ever done,” he later told a friend. He in the work of “Doctor Ralph.” continued to revise and rearrange the piece for more than thirty years Instead of criticizing his targets after its first appearance, completing with the anger that marked his his “final version” only two years poem about Lisbon, however, before he died.