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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Welcome, Tonight we celebrate the world premiere of Vera Starbard’s beautiful play, Our Voices Will Be Heard. What you will see in Vera’s debut work is a play about a terribly difficult subject: sexual abuse. It’s also about a mother’s and daughter’s strength in the face of limited options. It is a “ It is a play that took great courage to write. One of my earliest theatre memories at Perseverance was a production play that of Paula Vogel’s play about AIDS called The Baltimore Waltz. The AIDS epidemic was at its height, and Paula’s play was the first artful work took great on this tragic and important subject that I had seen. I thought of Paula when meeting Vera Starbard a few years ago because Vera’s story about a girl coming of age while dealing with a sexually abusive uncle courage to brought up Paula’s 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, How I Learned to Drive. write. Over time, I’ve become aware of an interesting resonance with the ” younger Paula Vogel’s earlier work. Both are very theatrical, deeply personal, and written to build understanding of an ongoing tragedy. Stigma, victim blaming, and challenges in empathizing with the human beings caught up in abusive situations are common threads in both writers’ work. The plays are starkly different, but on a deeper level there is a connection in their approaches: both writers are writing what they know. Both writers draw on personal experience and create a theatricalized version of lived reality in order to examine it with their audience. Both writers create fiction based on fact. In Our Voices Will Be Heard, we are seeing a Tlingit writer explore what making a Tlingit play means to her. I’m delighted to let you know that next year Alaska Native playwright, Frank Kaash Katasse, will give us an opportunity to see his approach to making a Tlingit theatre piece with the rolling world premiere of his play, They Don’t Talk Back. Subscribing to Perseverance’s season is a strong way to show your support for theatre by and for Alaskans. 2016-2017 subscription forms have just been released, and are available in the lobby or at ptalaska.org. Thank you for helping to make professional theatre happen in Alaska! Art Rotch Executive Artistic Director 1 Open 7 Days a Week 2 Alaska Dispatch News presents Perseverance Theatre’s production of Art Rotch Artistic Director Molly Smith Founder our voices Bob Urata Board President 914 Third Street Douglas, Alaska 99824 907-364-2421 • fax 907-364-2603 www.ptalaska.org will be heard Juneau Run January 15 - February 7, 2016 Written by Hoonah Run February 13, 2016 Vera Starbard Anchorage Run Directed by February 19 - 28, 2016 made possible by support from Larissa FastHorse Scenic Designer Akiko Nishijima Rotch ϯ Lighting Designer Art Rotch Costume Designer Meg Zeder Composer/Sound Designer Ed Littlefield Northwest Coast Visual Artist Rico Worl WITH SEASON SUPPORT FROM Dramaturge Luan Schooler Andrew W Mellon Foundation City & Borough of Juneau Stage Manager Anne Szeliski Juneau Arts & Humanities Council The Shubert Foundation Atwood Foundation Production Manager Associate Costume Designer Production Stage Manager The Rasmuson Foundation Kathleen Harper Rick Silaj BJ Brooks 800 KINY – 630 KJNO – MIX 106 Technical Director Costume Shop Manager Development Director TAKU 105 – 1330 KXJ Earnest Eckerson Valerie Snyder Maggie Rabb The Juneau Empire Props Master Casting Marketing and Box Office Juneau Community Foundation KTOO – KXLL – KRNN Marley Horner Shona Osterhout Tom Robenolt Alaska State Council on the Arts Master Electrician Sound Engineer Playbill The CIRI Foundation Todd Hunt Betsy Sims Joshua Lowman Alaska Airlines Charlotte Martin Foundation Our Voices Will Be Heard was commissioned by The Alaska Native Heritage National Endowment for the Arts Center for the Alaska Native Playwrights Project, 2011-2013. Anchorage Press Our Voices Will Be Heard was developed by Native Voices at the Autry at the Benito & Frances C. Gaguine Foundation Native Voices 2014 Annual Retreat and Festival of New Plays. Alaska Public Media The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever are strictly prohibited. Alaska Dispatch News ϯ United Scenic Artist Local USA 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Alpha Media 3 www.alyeska-pipe.com 4 CAST BUSINESS & Erika Stone ......................................................................................................................Litaa ORGANIZATIONAL Erin Tripp ....................................................................................................................Kutaan FUNDERS Jane Lind* .................................................................................................................. Shanaa Robert Vestal* .................................................................................................................... Ta 2015 - 2016 Season Leetta Gray ......................................................................Wanadoo (Juneau & Anchorage) Xoodzi .............................................................................................................................Sagu Grantors $50,000+ Frank Henry Kaash Katasse .......................................................................Jinahaa (Juneau) Andrew W Mellon Foundation Dylan Carusona* ............................................................... Jinahaa (Hoonah & Anchorage) City & Borough of Juneau Jack Dalton ........................................................................................................... Storyteller Juneau Arts & Humanities Council *Members of Actors Equity Association, the Union of Shubert Foundation Professional Actors and Stage Managers Leaders $25,000-$49,999 800 KINY – 630 KJNO – MIX 106 – ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF TAKU 105 – 1330 KXJ Zebadiah Bodine .......................................................................... Assistant Stage Manager Atwood Foundation Susan Oshida ................................................................................. Costume Shop Assistant The Juneau Empire Amanda Filori .......................................................................... Assistant Master Electrician KTOO – KXLL – KRNN Run crew provided by I.A.T.SE. local 918 The Rasmuson Foundation SETTING A late-19th-century Tlingit village in Southeast Alaska’s deciduous rainforest, and a Advocates $10,000-$24,999 Southeast Alaska cannery town. Alaska Airlines Alaska Dispatch News SPECIAL THANKS Alaska Public Media Don Starbard for use of traditional drums, and for the original design of the Alaska State Council on the Arts Wolverine. Linda Starbard for donation of Tlingit items. David Katzeek for Tlingit Alpha Media language assistance and recording. Dr. Larry Severson, Ken & Joy Harper, South Anchorage Press East Alaska Regional Health Consortium (SEARHC), Aiding Women in Abuse & Rape Benito & Frances C. Gaguine Emergencies (AWARE), Standing Together Against Rape (STAR), Hoonah Indian Foundation Association, Sealaska Heritage Institute, Hoonah Heritage Foundation, Sue Schrader, Charlotte Martin Foundation Brett Rewalt, Diane Benson, Erik Robertson, and Naaqtuuq Dommek. The CIRI Foundation Fundraiser host and supporters: Hoonah Indian Association Lt. Govener Byron Mallot, Sealaska President Anthony Mallot, Mandy Mallott, Sen. 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ORGANIZATIONAL Lyrics by Vera Starbard. FUNDERS Our Voices It’s Pouring Rain You can hear it from far away My poor baby, my poor baby 2015 - 2016 Season Our culture The rain is pouring down You can hear it from far away My poor baby, my poor baby Our voices The rain is pouring down Benefactors $5,000-$9,999 Come rest in the shelter of the tree Alaska Community Foundation Alaska Technical Solutions Wolverine My child, my child Avis The young boys, they trapped it You became strong Conoco Phillips The young boys, they trapped it My child, my child Hecla Greens Creek Mining Co Don’t let the wolverine bite you! You became strong Kreielshimer Foundation Because of the rain Sealaska Heritage Institute My grown child, my grown child My Heart You chopped it down Sponsors $2,500-$4,999 My heart My grown child, my grown child Alaska Children’s Trust It is crying out Alaskan Brewing Company You chopped it down Altman Rogers & Co My heart Now the sun is shining It is wounded Alyeska Pipeline Service Company The Copper Whale Inn Driftwood Lodge DIRECTOR’S NOTE ExxonMobil Heidi Reifenstein Design I have been fortunate to be with this play since its first ten pages. To follow a script The Historic Anchorage Hotel