PLAYBILL CAYMAN DRAMA SOCIETY www.cds.ky Page 2 ~ Cayman Drama Society www.cds.ky Chairman's Message

Steel Magnolias! WOW! As the title edies. The entire show takes place in suggests, the main female characters in Truvy’s beauty shop, where they discuss this incredible comedy-drama, can be the mysteries of life, and death, hus- both as delicate as a magnolia and as bands and children and, of course the tough as steel. Many of you here tonight ever important hair and nails! may remember the film directed by Her- Steel Magnolias was written by Rob- bert Ross in 1989 starring Daryl Hannah ert Harling in memory of his diabetic in the role of Annelle, Dolly Parton as sister, Susan Harling and who was the Truvy, Sally Field as M’Lynn, Olympia inspiration for the play and subsequent- Dukakis as Clairee, Shirley MacLain as ly the film. It has many memorable the grouchy Ouiser (pronounced “Wee- quotes, one the my personal favourites: zer”) and Julia Roberts as the lovely “I would rather have thirty minutes of Shelby. Well, I can certainly tell you all wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing here tonight you are in for a real treat; special”. our cast of six are equally talented! Through the talented direction of our Set in Louisiana, the play focuses on own Peter Kosa, he has brought these the lives and friendships of six women six steel magnolias to life. I have to and the bonds and support that come congratulate him for putting together through sharing their triumphs and trag- the magnificent cast who have made the www.cds.ky Cayman Drama Society ~ Page 3 Chairman's Message characters real and the emotions even a Platinum Patron, LIME who provide more real. Thank you to Peter and his telecommunication services, Ropers production team and our very talented who keep our house clean, iEye News cast members. We certainly appreciate who continue to provide advertising and all of your hard work and energy, espe- articles for our shows. Wigglypen and cially right after the Christmas holidays! OSA who continue to support us through Diabetes is a disease characterised by donations of services in kind, Paige from elevated glucose. In the US alone 26 Paige and Co. for her time, talents, and million Americans live with diabetes and props and Debbie Walker from the Sa- it is frightening to note that with the rise lon who has also assisted with props and of obesity, type II diabetes has become backstage. We continue to be a 100% an epidemic in industrialised, first world volunteer organisation and the only way societies. We are lucky in Cayman to that we can do so is with your help and have the Cayman Islands Diabetes Asso- support. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! ciation, an official member of the Inter- Our membership committee is now our national Diabetes Federation, an organ- Membership and Volunteer committee, isation of over 200 member associations so if you can help, in ANY way, please in more than 165 countries. CIDA’s contact them at [email protected]. mission is to “work towards a future Finally, thank you for coming to this without diabetes by creating awareness, our first show of 2014. This year is providing education to our community; proving to be a very exciting season. while improving the lives of diabetics Don’t miss our next production, Legally and their families”. Further information Blonde coming in March! on how you can help this worthy cause can be found at www.caymandiabetes. Share the show! com or on their Facebook page. The Sheree Ebanks Cayman Drama Society is proud to be Chairman, 2014. able to support the association through donations from our production of Steel Magnolias. CDS productions are only made pos- sible through our patrons, sponsors, friends of the theatre and our volunteers. We would like to specifically thank But- terfield who continue to support us as

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Welcome to the first major produc- tion of the 2014 season – Steel Magno- lias. Our opening social back in January re looking was an Evening of Readings directed e’ 4 by Phil Pace. We have in rehearsal Le- W gally Blonde (The musical) and also we are providing set piece rehearsal facili- ties for the local movie The Devil You Know. This means that your theatre has never been more active with more than one group using its facilities nearly every day. I would like to thank the Theatre Management committee stalwarts, Tracy Moore and Bill Mervyn, for sharing the load on the occasional security issues which crop up while I am off island. 2014 is a massive season and we have to fit work in somehow. Some of the things we would like to do as soon as possible are (a) to update the auditorium including walls and floor as required; (b) to paint the publicly visible concrete walls outside of the theatre, and (c) to make some changes on stage to help with future fast-change box set construc- tion. All of this takes time and money – but Volunteers! it also takes volunteers. Consider joining the Theatre Man- maintain lights; create sounds and de- agement committee if you have one of sign sounds for shows using SCS11, and the skills that it takes to keep our the- anyone who genuinely wants to pitch in. atre maintained and our costs low. We are looking for people who can build Come on - Share The Show and maintain stuff, design lighting and Paul de Freitas

www.cds.ky Cayman Drama Society ~ Page 5 Welcome, from the Director

I have the good fortune to live in a wonderful place, I have always thought of Cayman as an island where we all can reinvent ourselves, as often as we wish! Bankers become dive instructors, lawyers become marathoners or arctic explorers. We all have the chance to do the things we always wanted to do at home. The Cayman Drama Society is one of those places that facilitate our mittyesque dreams. We have a strange annual ritual here where we all get to- gether over a glass (or six) of wine, and plan our upcoming theatrical program. It was at one of these production “meet- ings” that this production was born, the key ingredients (other than the wine) be- ing a terrific script and a wealth of high- ly capable women actors in the society. We auditioned over 60 people for the six roles and it would have been pos- sible to produce two or three excellent props crew (all women). As with all my ensemble. Despite the challenges of a endeavours Mary Anne my wife (Ou- very short production period, a cold/flu/ iser), figures prominently in this produc- virus that worked its way through the tion as actor, muse, and technical spiri- cast and oh yes christmass/newyears tual and financial advisor, I truly could holidays the cast and crew have worked not think of doing this without her help. incredibly hard to bring our play to you. I hope you enjoy seeing the show as Thanks of course are due and the list is much as we enjoy performing it for you. exhaustive. The CDS, Paul De Freitas, Share the show ! Bill Mervyn, the Phoenix Group lend a hand gang, my producer Debbie Hand, Peter Kosa the stage management, backstage and Directory, Steel Magnolias

Page 6 ~ Cayman Drama Society www.cds.ky About our Performance

Steel Magnolias is a comedy–drama three years with Shelby’s Type 1 diabe- play about a group of Southern women tes and how the women interact at times in northwest Louisiana. with conflict but in the end resolved Written by Robert Harling, based on friends: Shelby’s decision to have a child his experience with his sister’s death. despite the complication that can be The title suggests the “female characters with the condition, Clairee’s friendship are as delicate as magnolias but as tough with the curmudgeon Ouiser; Annelle’s as steel”. The magnolia specifically ref- transformation from a shy, anxious new- erences a magnolia tree they are arguing comer in town to a good-time girl then about at the beginning. repentant revival-tent Christian; and The play opens on Shelby’s wedding Truvy’s relationships with the men in her day and takes place in the fictional north- family. Although the main storyline in- western Louisiana parish of Chinquapin volves Shelby, her mother M’Lynn, and at Truvy’s in-home beauty parlour where Shelby’s medical battles, the underlying the women regularly gather. group-friendship among all six women The play covers events over the next is prominent throughout the drama.

www.cds.ky Cayman Drama Society ~ Page 7 Cast of Characters

Rebekah Jefferson Teri Lynne AliceAnne Brunn

Rebekah Jefferson - Annelle Teacher at Sir John A. Cumber Primary Rebekah Jefferson, who plays the School, where she has remained for the role of Annelle, has always been an en- past ten years. Rebekah has produced thusiast of the stage. From childhood and directed quite a number of Musicals, and throughout her teenage years she including her most ambitious project to was involved in school productions, date, Beauty and the Beast Jr., which musical ensembles, small group perfor- boasted a very talented cast of over 60 mances, solo singing and speech items. kids. After completing her high school Rebekah regards acting as her first education, Rebekah attended Florida love and would like to thank her family Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, and friends for their continued support where she obtained her Bachelor’s De- and encouragement. She would also like gree in Music Education with a concen- to thank her director Peter Kosa for al- tration in Vocal Studies. During her time lowing her to enjoy this valuable experi- at FSC, Rebekah was very involved in ence. Opera Theatre, performing in such pro- ductions as Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Teri Lynne - Truvy Gretel”, Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Trial by Teri hails from the great white north Jury”, and Mozart’s “The Marriage of has been acting for over twenty years. Figaro” as Cherubino. She also toured She graduated with a B.A. in Theatre with the Flamenco Group, American Arts with honors from the University of Gypsies, in 2006 with performances Winnipeg. She went on to receive her mainly at the Tampa Bay Performing MFA in Education from the University Arts Centre. of Manitoba. Teri’s background includes In 2004, after completing her de- teaching drama and film at several well- gree, Rebekah returned home to Grand known institutions such as: The Uni- Cayman and was appointed as a Music versity of Winnipeg, Prairie Theater

Page 8 ~ Cayman Drama Society www.cds.ky Cast of Characters

Kristine Gray Sue Howe Mary Anne Kosa

Exchange, Manitoba Theater for Young This is Teri’s second production for People and The Panache Talent Agency. The Cayman Drama Society and she is Simultaneously, she developed her own over joyed to be a part of such a talented theater company called The Backyard and creative cast of women. Teri would Theatre School. like to thank her friends, family and the In addition to teaching theatre, film love of her life Dillon for supporting her and TV acting, Teri has been cast in over through her artistic journey, as anyone a dozen commercials internationally, who lives with an actor knows, we gen- and has been cast in a handful of TV and erally think more with our hearts than Feature Films including: Woman Want- with our heads. ed, The David Milgard Story, The Crim- son Code, Never Back Down and Away AliceAnne Brunn - Clairee We Go (to name a few), and has been AliceAnne is thrilled to be back on in dozens of plays (from Shakespeare to stage at CDS, especially to play her fa- Neil Simon) and has toured Canada with vorite character, Clairee, in one of her Pendulum Productions showcasing three favorite shows! She enjoyed working original productions. with Sue, Pete, and Mary Ann in Wit Teri has been the Orlando Producer a few years ago, and has thoroughly for the internationally acclaimed film enjoyed working with them again and competition The 48 Hour Film Project. making new friends in this show. Alice- Teri has been appointed the Creative Anne grew up in Norfolk, Virginia, as Director of the Cayman Islands Inter- the daughter of a Navy pilot. Before set- national Film Festival that will premier tling there at age 10, she and her family early 2015. Currently Teri is a radio had lived in several places in the South- personality and has been co-hosting the eastern United States (and in pre-Castro morning show with JB on Spin 94.9 FM Cuba). She and her husband met in for over the past three years. graduate school in clinical psychology at www.cds.ky Cayman Drama Society ~ Page 9 Baylor, in Waco, Texas, where they lived pect Playhouse since 1996. Her perfor- and worked, until coming to Cayman in mances include “Last Panto/Last Tango” 2007. She now teaches Behavioral Sci- (as Joyce), “Who’s Afraid of Virginia ence and Ethics at St. Matthew’s Univer- Woolf” (as Martha), “Ghost Writer” (as sity, where she is also Associate Dean for Ruby), “Death of a Salesman” (as Lin- Student Affairs. Her accent is derived in da Loman), “Moon Over Buffalo” (as part from her life in Virginia and Texas, Charlotte Hay), “Wit” ( as Susie Mona- of course, but also from her the genuine han), “Caytube” (both as writer and ac- “Steel Magnolias” in her father’s South tor). Carolinian family. She dedicates her She started co-directing and co-pro- performance to “Mammy,” her paternal ducing under the wing of Penny Phillips grandmother, Crystabel Claire Myers for the shows “The Complete Works Coleman, of Pamplico, South Carolina. of William Shakespeare (Abridged)”, “The Complete History of America Kristine Gray - Shelby (Abridged)”. She then directed “Hay- Kristine is happy to be in her sec- wire”, “Annie Get Your Gun”, and the ond production with the Cayman Drama recent “Stomp the Rock”, which she Society. She has had a diverse upbring- also created with her daughter Hannah ing in Kuwait, Philippines, France and Howe and Tom Blake. Thailand before completing law school “I feel very fortunate to have played in England. Her first introduction to the such wonderfully written characters, and stage was in The Canterbury Tales at I am very grateful to have been given the the Théâtre de Fontainebleau in France. opportunity to portray M’Lynn and to Since moving to the Cayman Islands be on stage with this great cast in “Steel three years ago, Kristine has been in- Magnolias”. volved in various media, including a I’d like to thank my family for their PSA for the Crisis Centre and the CDS’s amazing support and patience which al- production of Spanish playwright Fred- lows me to call the Playhouse my second erico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding home. and The House of Bernarda Alba, in which she appeared as Adela. Mary Anne Kosa - Ouiser When not acting, she pursues her Mary Anne is a graduate of the Fac- other passions of playing piano, guitar, ulty of Music, University of Toronto. singing and exploring the world. She’s always had a passion for theatre but outside of performing in high school Sue Howe - M’Lynne musicals and later directing high school Sue started acting in Canada. musicals, she really was only able to hit Amongst her favorite productions there the boards again as an actor here in Cay- was “The Woolgatherer” (as Rose) , man with CDS. “Cowboy Mouth” (as Cavale) Directing is another love and she has Sue has been performing, directing done several local productions. and producing on the CDS stage at Pros-

Page 10 ~ Cayman Drama Society www.cds.ky Our hardworking Cast and Crew

From left to right: Deanna Thompson, Mary Anne Kosa, Pat Steward, Gwynneth Ham- ilton, Ashleigh Moore, Sue Howe, Teri Lynne, Kris Gray, Rebekah Jefferson, Alice Anne Brunn and Debbie Walker. Missing from photo: Alison Parker, Lisa Parks, Ushani Abey- nayake, Paul deFreitas, Debbie Hand, Peter Kosa, Phoenix Group crew, Marvette Darien, Jan Zora, Malcolm Ellis, Eric St-Cry & Rosa Scarpellini.

Director...... Peter Kosa Producer...... Debbie Hand Set Design...... Peter Kosa Set Construction...... Phoenix Group, Bill Mervyn Set Paint & Decoration...... Sue Howe, Jan Zora, Gwynneth Hamilton Sound and Light Production....Deanna Thompson, Paul deFreitas Sound Effects...... Paul deFreitas Stage Manager...... Patricia Steward Hair & Makeup...... Debbie Walker Music...... Mary Anne Kosa, Malcolm Ellis Props and Costumes...... Gwynneth Hamilton, Ashley Moore, Allison Parker Lobby Decoration...... Sue Howe Photography...... Debbie Hand Promotion...... Marvette Darien, Debbie Hand Front of House...... Lisa Parks, Ushani Abeynayake Bar Management...... Eric St-Cry, Rosa Scarpellini

www.cds.ky Cayman Drama Society ~ Page 11 Thank you to our Supporters

INDIVIDUALS Friends of the Theatre Peter and Penny Phillips • Phillips Electrical Ltd. Peter and Anne Passold • Androgroup Ltd. In memory of Marion Auld • Butterfield Bank (Cayman) Ltd. Michael Parton • CITN Television Centre Visual Arts Society • Cayman Coating Industries Joyce Cantlay • Deloitte • Island Electronics Group Corporate • Peleme Caribbean Ltd. Butterfield Bank • Megasol Technologies (Cayman) Limited • iNews Cayman Ropers Janitorial Service • Wigglypen Creative Services LIME Special Thank You The Ministry of Health, Environment, Youth, Sports and Culture.

Cayman Drama Society

Secretary Updates ... Gwynneth Hamilton Treasurer The Cayman Drama Society An- Vijay Singhera nual General Meeting was held on January 14th with approximately thirty with Debbie Hand, Jacoline Frank, Rory attendees. Reports were received from Mann, Ashliegh Moore, Alison Parker, the Chairman, the Theatre Manager and Teri Quappe, Rosa Scarpellini and Eric the Treasurer. As a result of the elections St-Cyr rounding off the rest of the Ex- the following are your 2014 Executive ecutive. Committee: A big thank you goes out to our Chairman retiring executive committee members Sheree Ebanks Niamh Hutchinson, Tracy Moore and Deputy Chairman/Theatre Manager Neil Rooney for all of their hard work in Paul DeFreitas 2013 in continuing to build your society.

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