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SAYEG RANDALL ROBERT TICO new world in financial management. VIDEO DESIGN FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY BEN CROP KEN MERCKX CASTING DRAMATURGY AMY LIEBERMAN, CSA ANNA JENSEN PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGEMENT ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGEMENT JESSIE VACCHIANO* ELENA CRUZ WITH SPONSORSHIP FROM Wealth Investment Trust & ELLEN AND PETER O. JOHNSON Planning Management Estate Services Local Photographer: Richard Salas THE 2019–20 SEASON SPONSORED BY DANA WHITE MONTECITOWEALTH . BANK | (805) 564-0298 The Costume and Lighting Designers are members of United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE. Now Accepting Applications For Ages 13-19 YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS --- 3 NEW LOCATIONS FESTIVAL so ENROLLMENT Lorem Ipsum +30 days free +1 free young personal training session playwrights’ Santa Barbara Downtown Santa Barbara Uptown festival 21 W. Carrillo Street 3908 State Street 2019 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 (805) 695-3922 (805) 695-3888 www.GoldsGymSoCal.com Application Deadline December 22 Sponsored by Limited Time Only/ Must be local resident and at least 18 years of age or older. Local /0 required. Special valid www.etcsb.org only at Gold's Gym Santa Barbara locations: SB Oowntown, SB Uptown and Goleta. Must be a new member for promotion to be valid. Some restrictions may apply. Ensemble Theatre Company acknowledges its generous corporate sponsors, partners, and supporters. WELCOME TO ETC CORPORATE SPONSORS Welcome to ETC! We begin our new season with one of my favorite Shakespeare plays, and one that I find to be his most modern. While Measure for Measure is arguably his most contemporary play, in light of the #MeToo movement – as well as the political turmoil that is gripping the world – the play is especially of the moment. The original story is set in a city where brothels, prostitution, and general sexual mayhem seem to run rampant. In thinking about our contemporary culture, it occurred to me that much of that activity now happens online. At the same time, surveillance cameras are all JONATHAN FOX ARTISTIC DIRECTOR around and there’s a sense that we’re always being watched. This notion led to our placing the world of the CORPORATE PARTNERS play within a context of video screens. In one particularly haunting moment, the Duke, when asked what the state of the world is, answers: “There is so great a fever on goodness that the dissolution of it must cure it. There is scarce truth enough alive to make societies secure … This news is old enough, yet it is every day’s news.” It’s extraordinary that a play that premiered more than 400 years ago, one which looks at gender dynamics, hypocrisy, and political repression in such a complex and poetic way, can remain so accurate and insightful. Welcome to the opening production of ETC’s 41st season, Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare, the first of the five plays we’ll be bringing you this season – plays that are rich and varied in style, tone and genre. It is that variety that is a cornerstone of all regional professional theaters. This past August we took a group of ETC supporters to London to see five plays in five days. Seeing As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe put them in exactly the right frame of mind for this opening production. And last May we took another hearty ETC group to Washington D.C. to visit several fellow regional professional theaters. Plans included seeing a world premiere at Arena JILL SELTZER MANAGING DIRECTOR Stage which was ultimately cancelled due to the illness of a lead performer. Instead of seeing the production, we spent the afternoon with Arena Managing Director Edgar Dobie. Perhaps he thought he owed us, but for my money, he over-paid with his time and insight. He helped us understand that the vision of Arena co-founder Zelda Fichandler lives on in the efforts of all regional FOUNDATION SUPPORT professional theaters. Among regional theater’s needs, according to Zelda, are: imagination, taste, risk tolerance, and a nose for the audience’s subconscious hopes and fears. Ann Jackson Family Foundation Schlinger Chrisman Foundation ETC’s new season is designed to do just that. Join us as we endeavor to pique your Hutton Parker Foundation Shubert Foundation imagination, realize your hopes and allay your fears. The Léni Fund Towbes Foundation P.S. Don’t miss ETC’s Ghost Light Night on Sunday, October 27th. Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation Zegar Family Foundation Santa Barbara Foundation THE CAST IN ORDER OF SPEAKING THE DUKE ...........................................................ABDUL-KHALIQ MURTADHA* ESCALUS/BARNARDINE ................................ PAUL MICHAEL SANDBERG ANGELO .........................................................................................RICHARD BAIRD* MISTRESS OVERDONE/FRANCISCA................................ TIFFANY STORY POMPEY ................................................................... MATTHEW FLOYD MILLER* LUCIO......................................................................................................BRIAN IBSEN* CLAUDIO................................................................................TREVOR PETERSON* PROVOST ............................................................................................. TIM McMANUS FRIAR THOMAS/ELBOW .....................................................ROBERT LESSER* ISABELLA ..............................................................................................LILY GIBSON* MARIANA/JULIET ............................................................................. PAIGE TAUTZ Measure for Measure will be performed with one 20-minute intermission. Please turn off all electronic devices while in the theater. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. SPECIAL THANKS: Kevin Acuna Katie Laris Ashraf Berika Jeff Marlow Michael Bernard John and Ruth Matuszeski Paul Canter Marlin and Ginger Miller Francois-Pierre Couture Lisa Reich and Bob Johnson Peter Crawford Kate Saubestre Nancy Davidson SBCC Theatre Group Aurelio DeRobles Helene Segal David Ellenstein Jenny Sullivan Ken Johnson Bob and Leah Temkin Sina Khoda Sam and Barbara Toumayan Jon Koons Simon Williams THIS PRODUCTION IS DEDICATED IN MEMORY OF: James Breen Elaine Kendall Geoffrey Rutkowski *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. PRESENTED WITH SUPPORT FROM Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara is a professional regional theater employing members of the Actors’ Equity Association and is a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theater. A NOTE FROM THE DRAMATURG The title of Measure for Measure alludes to the New Testament admonition to withhold judgment and practice mercy, remembering that one day everyone will be judged and “with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured unto you again (Matthew 7.1-2).” For the play’s plot, Shakespeare varied from his practice of looking to historical sources. drawing on folktales that were well known at the time. One of these folktales, known as “The Monstrous Ransom,” forms the basis of the interaction between the main characters (the Duke, Lord Angelo, Claudio, and Isabella). The folk story involves a judge who agrees to release a woman’s husband or brother from a death sentence if she will have sex with him. In “monstrous ransom” stories, the woman consents to the judge’s bargain, but the judge reneges on his promise: he has sex with the woman and executes the man. [Music lovers may recognize this folk motif from Judy Collins’s song “Anathea,” Bob Dylan’s “Seven Curses,” Led Zeppelin’s “Gallows Pole,” or, opera lovers may recognize it as the major motif in Puccini’s Tosca.] In the folk tales and songs, the executed man’s head would be sent to the woman to terrorize her further. The story continues when the severely wronged woman appeals to a higher authority than the judge for justice. Tension gathers around how the ruler to whom the woman brings her complaint will craft a just verdict that suitably punishes a judge who has corrupted justice. When these stories of the “monstrous ransom” circulated in the 16th and 17th centuries, the ruler (typically a judge or a king) solved his judicial dilemma by sentencing the malefactor to marriage to the