The American Century Theater presents J.B. by Archibald MacLeish The American Century Theater presents About The American Century Theater The American Century Theater was founded in 1994. We are a professional nonprofit theater company dedicated to presenting great, important, and worthy American plays of the twentieth century—what Henry Luce called “the American Century.” The company’s mission is one of rediscovery, enlightenment, and perspective, not nostalgia or preservation. Americans must not lose the extraordinary vision and wisdom of past playwrights, nor can we afford to surrender the moorings to our shared cultural heritage. Our mission is also driven by a conviction that communities need theater, and theater needs audiences. To those ends, this company is committed to by Archibald MacLeish producing plays that challenge and move all Americans, of all ages, origins, and points of view. In particular, we strive to create theatrical experiences that entire families can watch, enjoy, and discuss long afterward. September 14–October 6, 2012

Board of Directors Gunston Theatre Two Chair Louis George 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington Vice-Chair Wes MacAdam Secretary Ann Marie Plubell Treasurer Wendy Kenney Board Paige Gold, Gabe Goldberg, Vivian Kallen, Director Stage Manager Set Design Jack Marshall, Kevin McIntyre Rip Claassen Kathryn Dooley Trena Weiss-Null Staff Lighting Design Sound Design Jack Marshall Artistic Director Zachary A. Dalton Ed Moser Paige Gold Managing Director Rip Claassen Steven Scott Mazzola Costume Design Properties Design Brian Crane Lindsey E. Moore Lorraine Slattery Michelle Hitchcock Ellen Dempsey Emily Morrison Kate Dorrell Ed Moser Tom Fuller Joli Provost A rundown circus tent Rhonda Hill Ginny Tarris somewhere in America at any time

This program is supported in part by Arlington County through There will be one 15-minute intermission. the Arlington Commission for the Arts and Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division of Arlington Economic Development; the Virginia Commission for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; and many generous donors. Please—Turn off cell phones and other distracting devices. The use of recording equipment and taking of photographs during the performance are strictly prohibited.

J.B. is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Cast J.B...... John Tweel Sarah...... Julie Roundtree Mr. Zuss ...... Steve Lebens J.B. (1958) by Archibald MacLeish Nickles ...... Bruce Alan Rauscher How is J.B. like a passenger pigeon? Mrs. Adams...... Allison Turkel Mrs. Botticelli...... Kecia A. Campbell Like one of the large, gray, tasty game birds that once were so abundant in Mrs. Lesure ...... Kathryn Browning this country that flocks of them literally could blot out the sun, Archibald Mrs. Murphy...... Jennifer Brown MacLeish’s masterpiece is a member of an extinct species, or nearly so. The Jolly/Girl...... Loren Bray species is verse drama, an ancient form that once was dominant in stage Miss Mabel/Mary ...... Chanukah Jane Lilburne art and is now scorned and forgotten, except when impressive theatrical David ...... Zak Gordon, Jakob Sudberry Jonathan/Boy...... Sam Landa fossils and beautiful preserved specimens are on display. Rebecca...... Caroline Frias J.B. was like a lone survivor even when it premiered in 1958. The verse Ruth...... Kaiya Gordon drama had been slowly dying since the seventeenth century, and its First Roustabout/Soldier/Reporter/ fatal disease was realism. Once William Shakespeare started writing Police Officer/Firefighter...... Joshua Dick some of his plays’ comic scenes in prose, the deadly virus was loose: the Second Roustabout/Soldier/Reporter/ Police Officer/Firefighter...... Joshua Aaron Rosenblum Bard recognized that prose was the tool of the realist, while verse was Bildad...... Robert Heinly the method of the romantic, the dream-weaver, the troubadour, and, for Eliphaz ...... Evan Crump a few more centuries at least, the tragedian. Zophar ...... George Tamerlani But by the 1820s, the writing was on the wall as well as the stage. The Distant Voice ...... John Dooley French writer Stendhal insisted that prose was the only possible medium Production staff for an effective tragedy. Henrik Ibsen abandoned verse as a medium Director ...... Rip Claassen after Peer Gynt in 1867, believing that poetry made drama dealing with Stage Manager...... Kathryn Dooley contemporary issues less immediate and involving. He wrote: Assistant Stage Manager...... Johanna Schoenborn Scenic Design...... Trena Weiss-Null Verse has been most injurious to the art of drama . . . . It is improbable Lighting Design...... Zachary A. Dalton that verse will be employed to any extent worth mentioning in the Master Electrician ...... Jeffrey D. Porter drama of the immediate future since the aims of the dramatists of the Sound Design...... Ed Moser future are almost certain to be incompatible with it. Costume Design...... Lorraine Slattery Properties Design...... Michelle Hitchcock The writer of A Doll’s House was largely correct, but this dying species Wardrobe Handler/Child Monitor/Animal Wrangler. . . . Lindsey E. Moore proved hardier than most. Even in America, where everything is always Publicist...... Emily Morrison modern, talented playwrights periodically employed the power of Photography ...... Dennis Deloria, Johannes Markus Program Design...... Michael Sherman verse long after Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died alone in 1914. House Manager...... Joli Provost There was MacLeish, of course, who was a poet who wrote plays rather than a playwright who used poetry, and Maxwell Anderson, who had Special thanks to— consistent Broadway success with his plays in the Thirties and Forties Backstage, Inc. Faction of Fools/Emma Jaster written in blank verse: The Wingless Victory, High Tor, Winterset, Mary of Don Barton, meter muse The Landa Family Scotland, Elizabeth the Queen, Key Largo, and Anne of the Thousand Days. The Baskir Familyz Sarah LaRue (Meanwhile, poet T.S. Eliot was holding down the verse drama fort in Robin Berry, TSNY of Washington DC Carol Feather Martin and England, with plays like The Cocktail Party.) MacLeish’s J.B., appearing in Constellation Theatre Company Trinity Presbyterian Church 1958, was a late and vigorous example of the rare breed, as was William Paul Hogan Adrian Rooney Alfred’s Hogan’s Goat, an Off-Broadway historical drama that was named the Best Play of the 1965–1966 Season. Since then, the species has been the victim of deadly predators. TV has Loren Bray (Jolly/Girl) received her BFA in Musical Theatre at Howard embedded realism in the public’s consciousness so firmly that so-called University. She was last seen in a reading of Raisin in the Sun at Bay reality shows seem more like drama than High Tor, and the use of poetry Theatre Company. on stage has retreated almost solely to musicals, which aren’t exactly Jennifer Brown (Mrs. Murphy) Stage credits: Castiza in The Revenger’s thriving either (the movie variety has pretty much vanished). Tragedy (Strawdog Theatre Company), Fand and Morrigan in Between the Nonetheless, the best of verse drama, when a theater company has the Door and the Sea: The Story of Yeats’ Cuchulain (Arc Entertainment Group) courage to produce it, is still capable of showing how beautiful and and various roles in Greater Tuna and Maggie in Texanna Rearranges high flying this exotic species could be in its prime. the Planets and Saves Your Family from the Gates of Hell (North Avenue Somewhere, Martha is cooing. Productions). She earned a BA in Theater from Columbia College Chicago. —Jack Marshall, Artistic Director Kathryn Browning (Mrs. Lesure) works most often as a film actress and voiceover artist in the New York/mid-Atlantic area. Recent film roles include network executive Carol Winstead in The Louder the Better and as Special Justice Helen Rider in Commitment (screened in the Short Film Corner, Cannes Film Festival). She was formerly producer/director of the More than half a century after this play was written, society finds itself political talk show, Think Tank (PBS). This is her first appearance with The coping with the same problems, but on an even larger scale. MacLeish’s American Century Theater. comforters—representing Religion, History, and Science—are still with us, and still as useless as he depicted them. Like many in our society, Kecia A. Campbell (Mrs. Botticelli) has been involved in several they listen only to themselves and refuse to reach out for common productions in the Washington, DC-Baltimore Metro area including: ground. In truth, the three must be understood in harmony for real Technician in Visit to a Small Planet (The American Century Theater); understanding to come. School Master in The Visit, Carmen in The Balcony, Madame Pace in Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Salesman in The Motor Show As long as our leaders refuse to listen to others’ facts and theories, (Theater J/Theatre Lab Staged Reading Series); Queen Factor in Princess we are doomed to not understand the world around us. “A scientist, a Problem It’s Time To Wed (Studio Theatre/DC Black Theatre Festival); clergyman, and a historian walk into a . . . .” Unfortunately, the joke is Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Vpstart Crow); Elizabeth in on us. Only when viewed in combination can science, faith, and history The Old Settler (African Continuum Theatre); and Mrs. Mi Tzu in The Good inform one another and lead humanity to possible answers. When people Woman of Setzuan (Theatre Lab). Training: Vera Katz, Theatre Lab, and are convinced the End Times are coming, or conversely that there are no Shakespeare Theatre Company. mysteries that science cannot answer, then we have a problem. Evan Crump (Eliphaz) has performed with many local companies, MacLeish saw the horrors of the two world wars and wrote in response including The American Century Theater, The Kennedy Center, to them. I chose to undertake this play because I have seen 9/11, the Washington Shakespeare Company, First Stage, The Keegan Theatre, Oklahoma bombing, the Family Research Council, Reverend Phelps, and Molotov Theatre Group, Georgetown Theatre Company, Chesapeake other horrors committed in the names of the Comforters, and I realize Mr. Shakespeare Company, and Active Cultures Theater. His theater company, MacLeish’s lesson has not been learned. Unstrung Harpist Productions, has premiered new works in the past three —Rip Claassen, Director Fringe Festivals, winning Best Drama for 2010’s Genesis. The only thing that winds him up as much as acting is Terrapin basketball. Become a fan of The American Century Theater on Facebook. Keep up with shows, auditions, volunteer opportunities, podcasts, videos, and more. www.AmericanCentury.org Joshua Dick (First Roustabout/Soldier/Reporter/Police Officer/Firefighter) Influence. In Washington, he has appeared in numerous productions with returns to The American Century Theater after performing in Stage Door Studio Theatre Secondstage, Signature Theatre, Folger Theatre, American last year. DC area: Flora, the Red Menace, Three Bears, Parfumerie, Don’t Ensemble Theater, Scena Theatre, Actors’ Theater of Washington, Dress for Dinner, Jack and the Bean-Stalk (1st Stage); Sweeney Todd, The Horizons Theatre, Source, Trumpet Vine Theatre, and Interact Theatre. Visit (Signature Theatre); Spot’s Birthday Party (Adventure Theatre); A Man Regional credits include the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Theater of of No Importance (The Keegan Theatre); The Music Man (Washington the Americas and Teatro Popular in Bogota, Colombia, and Savoyards). Film/TV: The Nextnik, Investigation Discovery’s Stolen Voices, The Karachi Drama Circle in Karachi, Pakistan. Television credits include Buried Secrets, Science Channel’s Human Nature Born To Kill. Joshua earned Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Steve will appear later this fall in The a BA in Musical Theatre Performance from American University and has Fantasticks (No Rules Theatre) and the web series Influence. directed for the Capital Fringe Festival and The Theatre Lab. Upcoming: Chanukah Jane Lilburne (Mary/Miss Mabel) was last seen as Helen A webseries sitcom, Confab. Bazoo in Marathon ’33 at The American Century Theater, where she also Caroline Frias (Rebecca) is a student at Wakefield High School in appeared in Babes in Arms. Founding member of Turtle Teens (NYC). Film: Arlington. She enjoys music, acting, and singing and has studied drama SleepTight, My Lovely; Pearly Girl; Dinah; The Christmas Whore; and Women’s and dance, including jazz, tap, ballet, and hip hop. She studied dance at Studies. Ballet Nova and acting with Rip Claassen’s summer program. She has also Bruce Alan Rauscher (Nickles) has worked with The American Century sung with the Arlington Children’s Chorus. Caroline performed in Where Theater (most recently as Patsy in Marathon ’33), Washington Shakespeare the Wild Things Are, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Mulan Jr. at Swanson Company, Signature Theatre, and Source Theatre. Favorite roles include: Middle School. Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man, Alan Strang in Equus, Clark Storey Kaiya Gordon (Ruth) is making her professional theater debut with in The Second Man, Alan Turing in Breaking the Code (ACT Award for Best The American Century Theater. This is her fourth show with Rip Actor), Edgar in King Lear, Kreton in Visit to a Small Planet, Gary/Roger in Claassen as Director. Noises Off, Rev. Hale in The Crucible, Edward III in Edward III and Col. N.P. Chipman in The Andersonville Trial (Helen Hayes nominee for Best Actor). Zak Gordon (David) is in his second show with The American Century He has been honored with a Mary Goldwater Award for acting by The Theater, his first having been Babes in Arms. He is currently directing Theater Lobby. In 2008, he completed a week-long run Off Broadway in Rumors for his school, H.B. Woodlawn. The Keegan Theatre production of Love, Peace and Robbery as part of the Robert Heinly (Bildad) previously appeared with The American Century 1st Irish Play Festival. Theater in Ah, Wilderness! Other credits include Biloxi Blues and The Hasty Joshua Aaron Rosenblum (Second Roustabout/Soldier/Reporter/Police Heart (Dominion Stage), Christmas Carol and Picasso at the Lapin Agile Officer/Firefighter) has been seen at The American Century Theater (Little Theatre of Alexandria), One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Port City as “Lusty” in Marathon ’33 and, earlier, in Babes in Arms. Recent credits Playhouse), To Kill a Mockingbird (Firebelly Productions), xphiles unrequited include John Darling in Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers (No Rules and Shoulder, and The B-Team (Landless Theatre). Theatre Company) and performances with Synetic Theater, 1st Stage, and Sam Landa (Jonathan/Boy) is a student at George Washington Middle Potomac Theatre Company. School. His credits include performances with The Washington Ballet in Julie Roundtree (Sarah) is performing for the second time with The The Nutcracker (2009, 2010, 2011), The Great Gatsby (2010, 2011), and Alice American Century Theater, having appeared as Mary in Native Son. Some (in Wonderland!) (2012), and with the Royal Danish Ballet in Napoli (2011). of her other favorite local roles include Anna in Shock/Trauma (Unstrung Steve Lebens (Mr. Zuss) has previously been seen at The American Harpist Productions), Froggy in Blackbird (Barrelhouse Theatre Company), Century Theater in Marathon ’33, Little Murders, The Country Girl, Visit to a Ophelia in Hamlet (Maryland Shakespeare Festival), Olivia in Twelfth Small Planet, Stage Door, Stalag 17, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Night (Wandering Souls), and a Fury in The Oresteia (Constellation Theatre An American Century Christmas, Hellzapoppin’, and Drama Under the Company). She a company member with Unstrung Harpist Productions, Wandering Souls, and Barrelhouse Theatre Company and can be seen next theatre supply store. He has taught theatre and acting at the Institute in a touring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a collaborative for the Arts for Fairfax County Public Schools, Duke Ellington School project with Wandering Souls and Unstrung Harpist Productions. of the Arts, and several other local theatre programs. Rip is Artistic Director of Teens ‘n’ Theatre Company and an artistic associate with Jakob Sudberry (David) is making his first appearance with The TACT, where he recently directed Visit to a Small Planet and costumed American Century Theater. He has been a student in Teens ’n’ Theatre Little Murders and Marathon ’33. Company and was most recently cast as Shepherd Henderson in Bell, Book and Candle. Zachary A. Dalton (Lighting Design) Design: Stopgap (Field Trip Theatre), A Doll’s House (2nd Assistant Designer) and The War Boys (both, George Tamerlani (Zophar) was last seen in the world premiere Williamstown Theatre Festival), Oedipus El Rey and Bootycandy (both, production of The Waiter (Out-Side the Box Theatre). Some favorite recent Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Assistant Designer). Upcoming: roles include Perelli in Requiem for a Heavyweight and Dr. Givings in In the Reckless (Spooky Action Theatre), Dying City (Signature Theatre, Assistant Next Room (or The Vibrator Play). He can be seen in the independent film Designer), Henry V (Folger Theatre, Assistant Designer). Zachary earned The Touchstone (Red Carpet Media) and, shortly, in the western saga Day a BFA in Theatre Technology at Longwood University. of the Gun (One-Eyed Horse Productions). www.zacharydalton.com Allison Turkel (Mrs. Adams) has been a student of The Theatre Lab and Kathryn Dooley (Stage Manager) is working on her first production at Studio Theatre’s conservatory programs, where she appeared in student The American Century Theater. Recent Stage Manager and Assistant outtake productions including August: Osage County, Death of a Salesman, Stage Manager credits include Hamlecchino and The Mandrake (Faction Medea, and The Taming of the Shrew. She recently appeared in the 48 Hour of Fools), Big Love (The Hub Theatre), Rough-Face Girl (Synetic Theater), Film Project Real Hipsters of Meridian Hill. A music aficionado, Allison hosts and Romeo and Juliet (Vpstart Crow). promotional concerts for independent label musicians in her home. Edward Moser (Sound Design) is a regional audio-production veteran. John Tweel (J.B.) last appeared at The American Century Theater in Visit to Recent designs include Marathon ’33, Visit to a Small Planet, The Country a Small Planet, also directed by Rip Claassen. John was last seen onstage Girl, and Little Murders (The American Century Theater), A Little Trick, in the DC Fringe production of R.U.X. (Rockwell’s Universal seXbots), which Afterplay, and Master Harold and the Boys (Quotidian Theatre), and Amelia won the Audience Pick Award for Best Comedy. Before that, John appeared (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage reading). in The Tooth of Crime (WSC Avant Bard). Other appearances include Marat/ Sade and A Walk Across the Rooftops (WSC), A Flea in Her Ear and Arabian Johanna Schoenborn (ASM) has worked with VpStart Crow Nights (Constellation Theatre Company), The Trial and War of the Worlds Productions (Sapphire in Princess and the Pea, Costumes for Rumors, (Scena Theatre), Scenes from the Big Picture (2007 Helen Hayes nomination ASM for Romeo and Juliet) and Barter Theatre (Production Assistant for for Outstanding Ensemble) and Improbable Frequency (both, Solas Nua), Jimmy Rogers: America’s Blue Yodeler, The Foreigner; Spot Op for Joseph The Gospel According to Fishman (Signature Theatre), and 1776 (Olney and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Little Shop of Horrors, Forever Theatre Center). John has appeared in the films Wedding Crashers and Plaid). Radford University (Theatre). Syriana and has been featured on America’s Most Wanted. Trena Weiss-Null (Scenic Design) designed and built the sets for The American Century Theater productions of Life with Father, Dr. Cook’s Garden, The Titans, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, and Cops. She works as a director, designer, and theatre teacher in professional, community, and educational venues and has a Bachelor’s in Acting-Directing and Rip Claassen (Director) has directed, produced, and costumed for Master’s in both Theatre and Education. The American Century Theater, Natural Theatricals, Howard University, American University, Bowie State, and other local venues. He has been Download the podcast: Artistic Director Jack Marshall discusses a local fixture for many years in the Washington theatre scene, where the TACT production of J.B. with actors Steve Lebens (Mr. Zuss), most know him as the dramaturge at Backstage Inc., Washington’s Julie Roundtree (Sarah), and Bruce Alan Rauscher (Nickles). Please join us in our support of Taking Care of Our Own

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