THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Tuesday, January 28, 2020; 2 & 7 pm Wednesday, January 29, 2020; 2 & 7 pm THE CORNLEY UNIVERSITY DRAMA SOCIETY PRESENTS CAST INSPECTOR CARTER – CHRIS BEAN CHARLES HAVERSHAM – JONATHAN HARRIS THOMAS COLLEYMOORE – ROBERT GROVE PERKINS – DENNIS TYDE FLORENCE COLLEYMOORE – SANDRA WILKINSON CECIL HAVERSHAM – MAX BENNETT ARTHUR THE GARDENER – MAX BENNETT CREATIVE WRITER – SUSIE H.K. BRIDESWELL PRODUCER – WAYNE BLEXT DIRECTOR – CHRIS BEAN DESIGNER – CHRIS BEAN COSTUME DESIGNER – CHRIS BEAN PROP MAKER – CHRIS BEAN BOX OFFICE MANAGER – CHRIS BEAN PRESS & PR – CHRIS BEAN DRAMATURGY – CHRIS BEAN VOICE COACH – CHRIS BEAN DIALECT COACH – CHRIS BEAN FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER – CHRIS BEAN REHEARSAL ROLE ‘MR FITZROY’ – CHRIS BEAN STAGE MANAGER – ANNIE TWILLOIL LIGHTING & SOUND OPERATOR – TREVOR WATSON THIS PRODUCTION WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE BRITISH-AMERICAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM 34 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG continued A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Hello and welcome to The Murder at Haversham Manor. We are thrilled that the Cornley University Drama Society is performing in the USA. We can only apologise to those involved in the production of Equus originally scheduled for this week, which due to a clerical error, is now being performed in the Cornley University Gymnasium. We hope there are no hard feelings and we’ve left the vaulting horse out for you. The question everyone at Cornley has been asking is: are we ready for a venue of this size? The answer is “yes.” The cast and I rehearsed for weeks using only the best acting teachings to inspire us. We read that Sanford Meisner once said, “Acting is behaving truthfully,” so we immediately changed all the names in the play to our own names and cut the murder, the manor house setting and any other element that we hadn’t personally experienced. We then found the piece rather flat, and it only ran at 17 minutes. So we went back to the Meisner book and we realized the full quote was in fact: “Acting is behaving truthfully... under imaginary circumstances,” so we reinstated the cuts and we were then quickly back on track. We found the teachings of Michael Chekhov less confusing. He says, “An actor has to burn inside with an outer ease.” So that evening it was vindaloos all round at the Sunam Balti House on Cornley High Street. However, try as we did to not react to our burning insides, it was certainly noticeable that we were all in significant discomfort, which just goes to show how tough acting can be. At the end of the evening, Dennis was actually sick in the restaurant bathrooms. We always knew he was one of the weaker actors. All this hard work and preparation has left us with an ensemble piece that has achieved such critical acclaim as “VERY INTERESTING” from Mr. Harwood, esteemed head of Design Technology at Cornley University, and “RATHER UNSETTLING” from real-life police chief Mr. Greaves of the Cornley Volunteer Police Force. I’m sure that with a full audience, the piece will truly bring down the house. CHRIS BEAN President of the Cornley University Drama Society & Director of The Murder at Haversham Manor www.harriscenter.net 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE 35 THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG continued CHRIS BEAN MAX BENNETT INSPECTOR CARTER & CECIL HAVERSHAM DIRECTOR Touring debut! Max is in his Touring debut! Chris is the first year at Cornley University newly elected head of the where he is studying human Drama Society. For tonight’s geography and crime. He is an show, he served as the voice coach, dialect coach, fight avid fan of films, and his favourite is The Legend choreographer, casting director and costume designer. of Bagger Vance, which he’s seen 27 times. This is He also plays the lead role and, of course, Max’s first production with the Drama Society, and directed. The Society would like to thank Chris he is very glad to have donated a large portion of his for his remarkable passion and efforts. Credits recent inheritance to help the show reach Broadway. within the University: Hamlet in Hamlet, Macbeth in Macbeth and Othello in Othello. DENNIS TYDE PERKINS ROBERT GROVE Touring debut! After failing THOMAS COLLEYMOORE the tryouts for the football, Touring debut! A member of cricket, volleyball and the Cornley Drama Society for basketball teams, Dennis three years, Robert uses the decided to join the Drama Society. Dennis does Stanislavsky method. Credits not live in the Cornley halls of residence and include Lame Horse in Black Beauty, Victorian commutes in daily from his parents’ house. He Policeman in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horror hopes the Society will give him the chance to meet – Live!, Dopey in Snow White and The Tall Broad like-minded people. Dennis’ only stage credit dates Gentlemen and Augustus Gloop in Charlie & The back to 1995 when he appeared in his primary Chocolate Factory. Robert’s next performance school nativity. Credit: Shepherd. will be as Godot in a newly self-written sequel to Beckett’s classic. ANNIE TWILLOIL STAGE MANAGER JONATHAN HARRIS Touring debut! The unsung CHARLES HAVERSHAM hero of the Society, Annie has Touring debut! Jonathan works designed, built, painted, stage as a model and is therefore managed and costumed every excited to learn transferrable single Society show in the last three years. Her hard skills by appearing in The work and dogged determination behind-the-scenes Murder at Haversham Manor. He is no stranger to lies behind so much of the Society’s success. After acting and appeared in Casualty when he was just The Murder at Haversham Manor, Annie will begin an 5 years old. Jonathan also performed with Emote, internship at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. another local theater company, in A Midsummer Night’s Stamina, which featured a cast of 14 TREVOR WATSON pedalling exercise bikes for the full two-hour LIGHTING & SOUND performance. OPERATOR Touring debut! Trevor is only SANDRA WILKINSON participating in The Murder FLORENCE COLLEYMOORE at Haversham Manor to Touring debut! This is earn much needed extra credit for his electronics Sandra’s 11th season with module in order to pass his engineering course at the Cornley University Drama Cornley University. Once he has passed the course, Society, during which she he will not continue to work with the Drama Society. has proudly performed roles such as Snow White in Trevor credits his success to his sunny disposition Snow White and The Tall Broad Gentlemen, Virginia and his positive outlook on life. Woolf in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Cow in Jack and the Bean. Sandra has been performing from a very young age, since her mother appeared in A Winter’s Tale pregnant. 36 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG continued www.harriscenter.net 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE 37 THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG continued KEVIN McCOLLUM J.J. ABRAMS KENNY WAX STAGE PRESENCE LTD. CATHERINE SCHREIBER KEN DAVENPORT DOUBLE GEMINI PRODUCTIONS/deROY BRUNISH DAMIAN ARNOLD/TC BEECH GREENLEAF PRODUCTIONS/BARD ROTH MARTIAN ENTERTAINMENT/JACK LANE/JOHN YONOVER LUCAS McMAHON PRESENT A MISCHIEF THEATRE PRODUCTION OF BY HENRY LEWIS, JONATHAN SAYER AND HENRY SHIELDS STARRING RYAN VINCENT ANDERSON TODD BUONOPANE CHRIS FRENCH JACQUELINE JARROLD ASHLEY D. KELLEY CHRIS LANCELEY ADAM PETHERBRIDGE MICHAEL THATCHER BROCK BIVENS SHELLEY FORT JEMMA JANE CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN NIGEL HOOK ROBERTO SURACE RIC MOUNTJOY SOUND DESIGN ORIGINAL MUSIC ANDREW JOHNSON ROB FALCONER PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT UK PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT MICHAEL DANEK JOHN EDKINS DIGBY ROBINSON GENERAL MANAGEMENT MARKETING SERVICES THEATER MATTERS BD PRODUCTIONS JOHN E. GENDRON TOUR MARKETING & PRESS TOUR BOOKING AGENCY ALLIED TOURING THE BOOKING GROUP TOUR DIRECTED BY MATT DiCARLO ORIGINAL BROADWAY DIRECTION BY MARK BELL THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG WAS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED BY MISCHIEF THEATRE AT THE OLD RED LION THEATRE, LONDON. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DAMIEN DEVINE, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR NICK THOMPSON 38 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE www.harriscenter.net THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG continued CAST (in order of appearance) Trevor . .RYAN VINCENT ANDERSON Chris . .CHRIS LANCELEY Jonathan . CHRIS FRENCH Robert . .MICHAEL THATCHER Dennis . .TODD BUONOPANE Sandra . JACQUELINE JARROLD Max . ADAM PETHERBRIDGE Annie . .ASHLEY D. KELLEY UNDERSTUDIES Swings and understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance. for Trevor—BROCK BIVENS, CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY for Chris—BROCK BIVENS, CHRIS FRENCH for Jonathan—BROCK BIVENS, CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY for Robert—CHRIS FRENCH, CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY for Dennis and Max—BROCK BIVENS, CONOR SEAMUS MORONEY for Sandra and Annie—SHELLEY FORT, JEMMA JANE Jemma Jane is appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association RYAN VINCENT TODD CHRIS JACQUELINE ANDERSON BUONOPANE FRENCH JARROLD ASHLEY D. CHRIS ADAM MICHAEL KELLEY LANCELEY PETHERBRIDGE THATCHER BROCK SHELLEY JEMMA CONOR SEAMUS BIVENS FORT JANE MORONEY The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device or such photographing or sound recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages. www.harriscenter.net 2019-2020 PROGRAM GUIDE 39 THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG continued WHO’S WHO in the CAST RYAN VINCENT ANDERSON (Trevor). Off-Broadway:The Play That BROCK BIVENS (Understudy). New York/Regional: Bubble Boy (N.Y. Goes Wrong (New World Stages), Scissoring (INTAR Theatre), We premiere), Williamstown Theatre Festival, SITI Company, American Live Here (Ensemble Studio Theatre). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Songbook at Lincoln Center, Broadway Rose Theatre Co. Training: Festival, Marin Theatre Company, PCPA, L.A. Theatre Works, Emerson College, UCB. Endless gratitude to The Roster, Stephen TheatreSquared, Portland Center Stage, Antaeus Theatre Company Kopel and Mike Miller, the Wrong team and my incredible family.