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AA TENDERTENDER THINGTHING by Ben Power

NOVEMBER 5– DECEMBER 8, 2013 NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Belfry Theatre WINCHESTER GALLERIES 2260 Oak Bay Ave. 250-595-2777 758 Humboldt St. 250-386-2773 796 Humboldt St. 250-382-7750 winchestergalleriesltd.com The Belfry Theatre presents AA ATENDERTENDER Tender Thing By Ben Power

Starring THINGTHINGPeter Anderson as Romeo and by Ben ClarePower Coulter as Juliet

Director Peter Hinton Designer Christina Poddubiuk Lighting Designer Robert Thomson NOVEMBERComposer, Sound Designer5– DECEMBER Brooke Maxwell 8, 2013 NORTH AMERICANStage Manager PREMIEREJennifer Swan Assistant Stage Manager Ben Cheung Assistant Director Elizabeth Saunders Belfry Theatre A Tender Thing is performed without an intermission.

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Welcome to the North American premiere of A Tender Thing, by Ben Power. This is the second Shakespeare- themed production in our season, and we are blessed with the cast and creative team that have assembled to bring it to life for you.

Our director and designers are all making long-overdue debuts at the Belfry. Peter Hinton is one of this country’s most respected directors. He is a master working at the height of his talent. His sensitive and innovative productions have been seen at the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, and he is the former Artistic Director of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. In that position, Peter was a good friend to the Belfry, assisting us with the development of The Life Inside, bringing our tours of The Year of Magical Thinking and Big Mama! to the NAC, and commissioning and co-producing And Slowly Beauty… In fact, it was through that production that Peter became familiar with Brooke Maxwell’s music, and invited him to compose the score for A Tender Thing. Our designers Christina Poddubiuk and Robert Thomson come to us with a wealth of talent, and extensive experience at all of the major theatres in this country.

And then there are our Romeo and Juliet: Peter Anderson and Clare Coulter, two of Canada’s leading actors, renowned for their unique qualities and astonishing performances. Clare is a Toronto legend – closely associated with the Tarragon Theatre for many years, and an acclaimed interpreter of Wallace Shawn’s writing. Her most recent – and riveting – performance was as King Lear in Toronto. Peter is a BC legend – an actor and playwright – best known for his remarkable performances across Canada and around the globe in The Overcoat. He was also one of the creators of The Number 14 and a frequent creative force at the Caravan Farm Theatre in Armstrong, BC. His physical prowess has previously been seen at the Belfry in Flying Blind and The Number 14.

It seems impossible, but these two seasoned artists are working together for the first time, in this most intimate of plays, sharing their talent and their open and generous hearts with all of you. Only through such honesty can a play of this nature be truly realized, filled as it is with love and loss. I am thrilled to share it with you.

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“When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutored youth, Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, Although she knows my days are past the best, Simply I credit her false speaking tongue On both sides thus is simple truth supressed. But wherefore says she not she is unjust? And wherefore say not I that I am old? O love’s best habit is in seeming trust, And age in love loves not to have years told. Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flattered be.”

William Shakespeare; The Passionate Pilgrim.

I am a passionate pilgrim – travelling far from home in search of the meanings that lie between love and death. Each time we sit down to witness the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, we think, “this time they will survive. This time love will triumph.” But in the battle of light and dark, of larks and nightingales, we are reminded that ultimately love is never about the outcome… its value always lies in the measure of what it attempts. It is never too late. Words are like eggs, once broken – impossible things to repair. Directors are nothing without their actors. To Clare and Peter – each day you amaze me in your tender attempts to forestall the coming morning. Peter Hinton

Creative Team

Ben Power Playwright Ben Power is a writer and dramaturg. Since 2010 he has been an Associate Director of the National Theatre (UK). Dramaturgy for the National Theatre includes: Earthquakes in London, Greenland, Double Feature, 13, Antigone, The Doctor's Dilemma, Timon of Athens, This House, The Effect and Strange Interlude. In 2013, he commissioned and pro- grammed a year of work in the NT's new temporary theatre, The Shed. Ben's own work in The Shed includes The Hush with Matthew Herbert and an adaptation of Ross Collins' The Elephantom. From 2006-2010, Ben was the Associate Director of Headlong. Work commissioned and developed includes Lucy Prebble's award-winning ENRON (Chichester/ Royal Court/West End/Broadway); King Lear (Young Vic/ Liverpool Everyman); Six Characters in Search of an Author (Headlong/Chichester/West End/International Tour); and Stephen Adly Guirgis' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Almeida). Other work for the theatre includes: A Tender Thing (RSC); an adaptation of Ibsen's Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre, Olivier Award); Cinderella (Lyric Hammersmith); dramaturgy on Theatre Complicite's A Disappearing Number (London/New York/International Tour, Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics' Circle Awards for Best Play); Faustus (Hampstead/UK tour); and Paradise Lost (Oxford Stage Company/UK tour). Radio includes: A Disappearing Number (BBC Radio 3). TV includes: Screenplays for Richard II (co-adapted with Rupert Goold) and Henry V (BBC/Neal Street). Harold Mortimer-Lamb: The Art Lover November 15, 2013 – February 23, 2014

Peter Anderson Clare Coulter Peter Hinton

Peter Anderson then "small" theatre, and finally Clements’ Copper Thunderbird, Romeo just "theatre". In the Vancouver Shakespeare’s Macbeth, The Previous credits for the Belfry: area she performed The Farm Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Flying Blind and The Number Show, and 1837 with Theatre Romeo and Juliet, William 14. Other acting credits include Passe Muraille at the Vancouver Congreve’s The Way of the Don Quixote (Arts Club/ East Cultural Centre, Damnée World, Michel Tremblay’s St Centaur/Axis), My Turquoise Manon, Sacrée Sandra directed Carmen of The Main, trans- Years (Arts Club), Tosca Café by John Van Burek and The lated by Linda Gaboriau, Sam (ACT/ Theatre Calgary/ Belle of Amherst directed by Shepard’s Buried Child and Vancouver Playhouse) and the Kathryn Shaw, at the Arts Selma Lagerlöf’s The Changeling international hit The Overcoat. Club, and The Fever by Wallace translated by Sylvia Söderlind. Writing credits include this past Shawn at Pink Ink (Pi Theatre), He was an associate artist at summer’s Head Over Heels (an The Hornby Island Festival, the Stratford Festival for seven adaptation of Twelfth Night for and homes, clubs and bars seasons, directing The Taming of the Caravan Farm Theatre), around the west coast. Previous the Shrew, Shakespeare’s Universe, and Nativity and Creation roles directed by Peter Hinton The Odyssey, Fanny Kemble, (both recently produced at the include Celia in As You Like The Duchess of Malfi, Into the National Arts Centre under It, The Abbess in A Comedy of Woods and all three parts of his Peter Hinton’s artistic direc- Errors, Mrs. Linde in A Doll own verse trilogy entitled The tion). Peter has received six House, and Haley in Buried Swanne. Peter spent five years Jessie Richardson Awards, a San Child. Clare originated perfor- as the dramaturg in residence at Francisco Critics’ Award and a mances of Good Bones, poems Playwrights Workshop Montreal New York Drama Desk nomi- by Margaret Atwood, The and has been Associate Artistic nation. He lives in Vancouver Seaford Tapes, a found conversa- Director at both the Canadian with his wife of thirty years, tion, and Sessions, a psychoana- Stage Company and Theatre writer and mask-maker Melody lytic document belonging to Passe Muraille in Toronto. He Anderson. the Montreal analyst, the late was named an Officer of the Dr. Clifford Scott. Order of Canada in 2009. Clare Coulter Recent projects include Lady Juliet Peter Hinton Windermere’s Fan and When the From age 15 to 21, Clare Director Rain Stops Falling, for the Shaw apprenticed with the Stratford Peter was Artistic Director Festival. He will be directing Shakespeare Festival (Artistic of the National Arts Centre his own adaptation of Anton Director Michael Langham), English Theatre from 2005 to Chekhov’s The Seagull for the after which she devoted her 2012. His selected directing Segal Centre in Montreal and time to what was then known credits for the NAC include directing the Shaw Festival’s as the "underground" theatre, Peter Anderson’s Creation, Allen upcoming revival of Cabaret in then the "alternative" theatre, Cole’s The Wrong Son, Marie 2014. Rehearsal Photography by Peter Pokorny 2013 /2014 OPERA SEASON AT THE ROYAL THEATRE 2013 /2014 OPERA SEASON ARIADNEAT THE ROYAL THEATRE�trauss �erAUFdi NAXOSFALSTAFF OCTOBERFEBRUARY 17, 13, 19, 15, 23, 21, 25,23 /27 2014 / 2013 ARIADNE SUBSCRIBE �trauss�ozart FOR AS LOW AUF NAXOSTHE MARRIAGE AS $84 FORGIVE THE GIFTFEBRUARY 13,OF 15, 21, FIGARO 23 / 2014 3 OPERAS!OF OPERA THIS APRIL 24, 26,� 30, MAYozart 2, 4 / 2014 CHRISTMAS! THE MARRIAGE OF� FIGAROlus �lus SOUTHAPRIL 24, 26, PACIFIC 30, MAY 2, 4 / 2014 SOUTH PACIFICIN CONCERT NOVEMBER 23 & 24 / 2013 IN CONCERT & �harpentier’s NOVEMBER 23 & 24 / 2013 &ORPHÉE �harpentier’s MARCHORPHÉE 14 & 15 / 2014 MARCH 14 & 15 / 2014 Call 250.385.0222 to order or www.pov.bc.ca Creative Team

Christina Poddubiuk Robert Thomson Brooke Maxwell Christina Poddubiuk Christopher Newton, Des Brooke Maxwell Designer McAnuff and Antoni Cimolino. Composer, Sound Designer Other theatres: Romeo and He served as Resident Lighting Brooke Maxwell studied music Juliet (Denver Centre Theatre Designer for 12 seasons at the at Berklee College of Music and Company); Faith Healer, Come National Ballet of Canada, Malaspina College, and after Back Little Sheba, On the Rocks, designing over 25 productions, paying tuition to various insti- A Moon for the Misbegotten, and through 24 seasons at the tutions across Canada, he even- Major Barbara, The Circle, The Shaw Festival (ten as Head of tually graduated with degrees Heiress, Ah Wilderness, Widowers' Lighting Design), he is credited in Literature and Education. Houses, Picnic, Heartbreak on more than 55 productions. In Victoria, Brooke developed House, Lady Windermere's He has worked with a diverse an innovative music program Fan (Shaw Festival); Phèdre range of Canadian companies, at Selkirk Montessori School, (American Conservatory including the NAC, Canadian and began writing music for Theater); All's Well That Stage, Citadel Theatre, MTC theatre and film. He is currently Ends Well, Hamlet (Stratford and Pacific Opera Victoria. working as music director for Festival); You Can't Take It Internationally, his designs have Esquimalt United Church and With You, The Fantasticks, been featured at Lincoln Center as a freelance musician and Travesties, Mary Stuart, King Theater, Metropolitan Opera, composer in the Victoria area. Lear (Soulpepper Theatre); Goodman Theatre, Hartford Composing credits include: Romeo and Juliet (National Stage and Stuttgart Ballet. Mr. the award-winning and criti- Arts Centre); Othello, Much Thomson’s award-winning cally acclaimed musical Ride Ado About Nothing (Chicago design for Robert Lepage's the Cyclone (Atomic Vaudeville/ Shakespeare); Tosca, Capriccio Bluebeard's Castle/Erwartung HotFeat), the English lan- (Pacific Opera Victoria). has been seen across Canada guage premiere of And Slowly Upcoming: Don Quichotte and around the world. His Beauty… (Belfry/NAC/Tarragon (Canadian Opera Company). acclaimed designs have garnered Theatre), The Cursed Cabaret of a Sterling Award, four Dora Kelowna Day Taylor (Giggling Robert Thomson Mavor Moore Awards and the Iguana), Mr. Right is Stuck in Lighting Designer prestigious Siminovitch Prize in Traffic (W Network) and The Robert Thomson is widely rec- Theatre for 2012. UFA Brand videos (UFA). He ognized as one of Canada's most would like to thank his parents prolific and versatile lighting for forcing him to stay in piano designers for theatre, opera and lessons. dance. Over twelve consecutive seasons at the Stratford Festival, his 28 productions include col- laborations with Peter Hinton, Jonathan Miller, Jennifer Tarver, Rehearsal Photography by Peter Pokorny Creative Team

Elizabeth Saunders Jennifer Swan Ben Cheung Elizabeth Saunders Jennifer Swan Ben Cheung Assistant Director Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Selected credits include: Some of Jen’s favourite cred- Ben is a graduate of UBC’s BFA Director: Holy Mothers (Divine its at the Belfry include: Art Theatre Design and Production Bovine), Assistant Director: (Belfry/Great Canadian Theatre program. He is overjoyed Speed The Plow (Soulpepper), Company, Ottawa), Mary’s to be with the wonderful Beyond The Cuckoo’s Nest (YPT). Wedding (Belfry/Vancouver Belfry family once again! His Creator/Director: As If (YPT). Playhouse), I Am My Own Wife, stage management highlights Actor: Stop Heart (Factory), The The Syringa Tree, Trying and include A Christmas Carol, Vibrator Play (Tarragon/MTC), Urinetown. Favourite shows Speaking in Tongues, Let Me Calendar Girls (Moonpath), elsewhere include: tours of Billy Call You Sweetheart, Goodnight In General (Pyretic Prod), Nothin’, The Wedding Pool and Desdemona (Good Morning Dinner With Friends (Aquarius), My Three Sisters with Theatre Juliet) (Belfry); Love in Public 4.48 Psychosis (Aether of Us), SKAM; Studies in Motion and (SFU); Fresco (BellaLuna); Unless, The Stone Angel, Transit Tear the Curtain! with Electric Aesop’s Fables, The Wizard of of Venus (Canadian Stage), Company Theatre; two winters Oz, Munscha Mia, Seussical: The Confederation (Videocabaret - spent at Caravan Farm Theatre; Musical, The Hobbit (Carousel); Dora Nomination), Goodnight and most recently, The Kite Best Before (PuSh Festival); Desdemona (Good Morning Runner for Theatre Calgary/ Billy Bishop Goes To War (UBC, Juliet), Dancing at Lughnasa Citadel Theatre. Jen feels very Persephone, Belfry, Arts Club); (Grand Theatre), La Bête, The lucky to be back at the Belfry High School Musical, Always… Crucible, A Midsummer Night’s this season. Patsy Cline (Viva Musica); and Dream (Citadel), four seasons Blackbird (Rumble). He’s con- at the Shaw Festival. FILM/TV: tinually grateful to every brave Orphan Black, Copper, Saving soul who ventures to join him Hope, Murdoch Mysteries, Nurse. on his theatrical journey. Fighter.Boy, Slings & Arrows. UPCOMING: 6 Essential Questions (Factory Theatre).

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2013-2014 Fundraising Campaign Michael Olson Alan & Dianne Hanna The following individuals have Ronald & Judith Parish Don & Mary Harris invested generously to raise funds Joan Peggs John & Elaine Hooper in support of ongoing Belfry Theatre Pauline Price Katrin Horowitz & Andrew Croll operations. Provincial Employees Community Helen & Edward Hughes Services Fund Walter & Lynda Hundleby Godsend ($10,000 +) Mary-Ellen Purkis Fiona Hyslop Rob & Shirley Hunter * * Adrienne Radford Rex Johnson Karen Richardson Sheila Reid Sue Johnson Patrick Stewart Michael Shamata John Krich Anonymous (1) Ernie Skinner Aileen Kritzinger Kathy St. John * * Angela Lane Sustainer ($1,000 - $4,999) Stage Wine Bar Ltd Oliver & Helen Lantz Eric & Lee Adler Judy Stewart Marty Laurence David & Sandra Anderson Peter Symcox Ed & Jean MacKenzie Ian & Gloria Back Robert Thomson Mel & Judi MacLeod Sherri Bird Patricia M. Young Wendy Magahay & Eric & Nora Clarke Anonymous (2) Garry McLaughlin Commodore & Mrs Jan Drent Warren Magnusson & Sharon Walls Terry & Leslie Farmer Adherent ($300 - $499) Ken & May Mah-Paulson Brian & Susan Findlay Barbara & Les Copley Helen Malcolm David H. Flaherty Judith & Donald Daly Jessie Mantle Ian Gibson & Rachel Yukich * * Lawrence Eastick Margaret Martin Barbara Greeniaus & Bill Israel Derek & Katharine Ellis H. & R. Matsuo Ivan Habel & Ereca Hassell Eric & Michele Fretz Frank McGilly Fiona Hunter William Hamilton Terence & Ann McMullen Mohan & Kathy Jawl Chris & Catriona Harker Lois McNabb Robert & Suzanne Johnston Andrew Karwowski & Sylvie Cote Graham Meckling John & Anne Keay Kindred Spirits Veterinary Hospital Margie Morris * * In Memory of Jean Elizabeth Ködar Helen & Jason Lindholm Bill & Coline Neilson Helen Lansdowne Bruce & Nikki MacKenzie Kelvin & Elisabeth Nelson Bill & Maureen Murphy-Dyson John & Marvie McEown Victor & Audrey Neufeldt Claude & Joan Mury Jon & Gail Muzio Kirk & Beate Northcott Grace & Gordon Rogers Edwin & Carmen Pitcher Margie Parikh & Lonn Friese Robert & Joan Snowden Ronald & Juliana Polstein Marie Peach Lee & Karl Soberlak Foundation Jaci Ross Emily & Carol Prowse Frank & Moira Somers Richard Shapka & Donna Christie Walter K. Quan John & Suzanne Stewart United Way Jo-Ann Richards, Anonymous (1) Robert & Betty Wallace Works Photography Anonymous (5) Ann Saddlemyer Disciple ($500 - $999) Anastasia Shkilnyk * * Dr. Arturo Aranas & Bill Herriot Advocate ($150 - $299) C. Stephen & Mary Smith Tom & Nancy Bailey Vi Armstrong Jane & Ray St. John * * Adrienne Betty Kenneth & Sylvia Austin Michael Stewart David Black Peter Douglas Bray & Team TELUS Cares Lorie Bradley & Russ Pym Lorna Popham David & Dorothy Torontow Chris & Mary Chapman Syd & Barbara Bulman-Fleming Suzan M. Turner Patrick Corrigan * * Sherry & J.A.G Butler In Memory of Janis Lynn Turner Ginny Crawford Jane Butler-McGregor Nick & Carmel van Der Westhuizen Mary Jane Derksen Miriam Caplan Richard Wait Julie Elizabeth Ida Chong Donovan & Maryla Waters Leslee Farrell Jane Clinckett Derek Whittle & Lois Lacheur Katherine Farris & Kit Pearson Darlene Elaine Clover Nigel Williamson Marguerite Friesen George Copley David & Victoria Woodman Georgia Joanne Gibbs Ron Cox Anonymous (7) Thomas & Mary Gilmour Pat Davey Bob & Sara Harman Trudy David & Helmut Burke Our thanks to our 128 Believers Joe & Linda Harvey Susan & Graham Debling ($50 - $149) Jean Horowitz Oksana Dexter and 62 Friends (Up to $49) Bruce & Barbara Housser Rod & Marnie Dobell Duncan & Betty Locke Milus Douglas As of October 16, 2013 Ian & Margaret Mair John Dutton * ** New Donor Phillip Marsh & Cindy Petrowski Rita Estock * Donor moved up a category since Thomas W. Mayne Jean Field last show Mark F. McLean Malcolm Foy Robert Milne Peter & Beverly Gibson Michael Morres Debbie Gill & Stephen Cushing Patricia O'Brien & Michael Gaudet Jim & Bunny Hackler Ivo & Sara Olivotto M.P. Hanen & R.G. Weyant Bravo!

The Belfry Theatre gratefully acknowledges the Opening Night/Performance Sponsors financial support of The Canada Council for the Andrew Peller Ltd. Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Caffé Fantastico Province of British Columbia through the British CD Specialty Cleaning & Restoration Columbia Arts Council and the Gaming Policy and Charelli’s Delicatessen Enforcement Branch, the Capital Regional District Dowell's Moving & Storage Arts Development Office and the City of Victoria Fastrac Mail Services Gabriel Ross Furniture Islandnet.com Jennifer Roberts Florist KPMG Prism Imaging Spinnakers Brewpub & Guesthouse The Finishing Store The Soap Exchange

Belfry 101 Sponsors RBC Foundation The Joint Pizzeria & Deli

SPARK Festival Sponsors Canadian Heritage Hillside Printing CVV Magazine

Crush Sponsors Graham Isenegger & Neil Chappell of CIBC Wood Gundy Heenan Blaikie Season Sponsors Times Colonist Cook’s Day Off Everything Wine Thrifty Foods Boulevard Magazine Times Colonist Inn at Laurel Point

Show Sponsors Property Partner BMO Financial Group Fallingwater Property Maintenance Graham Isenegger & Neil Chappell of CIBC Wood Gundy Accessibility Sponsor Helijet Beltone Jane Francis Design Sea Cider Foundations TD Canada Trust Ian & Gloria Back Fund through the Victoria Foundation Host Hotels Anne McLaughlin Fund The Fairmont Empress through the Victoria Foundation The Magnolia Hotel & Spa Belsonia Bogatin Paul & Frank Paul Foundation through the Victoria Foundation Media Sponsors APM Fund for the Arts Times Colonist through the Victoria Foundation Kool FM Anonymous Fund CFAX 1070 through the Victoria Foundation 103.1 Jack FM Belfry Theatre Society Endowment Fund Boulevard Magazine through the Victoria Foundation FOCUS Magazine Barraclough Foundation Monday Magazine RBC Foundation 100.3 the Q Island Savings Growing Families Together Fund Shaw TV through the Victoria Foundation The Zone @ 91.3 The Stewart Fund 98.5 The Ocean through the Vancouver Foundation CHEK News Vancouver Foundation Victoria Foundation Seek culture, creatvity, community. Find it at the Farquhar Auditorium Te Amo, Argentina “…It was Featuring Miriam Larici & magical the way these Leonardo Barrionuevo two dancers Internationally-acclaimed Tango responded to Dancers as seen on Broadway’s the music… Forever Tango, NBC’s Superstars It was spectacular!” of Dance, and FOX’s So You Think You Can Dance. - Peninsula Reviews tickets.uvic.ca Wednesday, Nov 20, 8 pm 250-721-8480

Don’t miss Bruce McCulloch, legendary Kid in the Hall, January 24

We applaud great performances. At BMO® Financial Group, we take pride in the arts and theatre of our local communities. We look forward to enjoying the Belfry Theatre’s production of A Tender Thing with you.

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