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SPECIAL THANKS Many people and organizations gave of their time and energy to help make this production. We would like to thank some of them here. We are deeply grateful for their generosity. The Lion Theatre at Theatre Row John H. Abeles, MD Nat Connacher, Shira Nayman Nora Balaban Connacher Designs The 93rd Street Crowd Jeanne, Joseph, Judith Cornelia Street Cafe Piper Theatre Productions December 29, 2013 – March 2, 2014 & Lydia Barnes Veanne Cox Red Wall Productions Alice Barrett Mitchell Isidore Elias Joseph Henry Ritter Doug Barron Nyasha Gutsa David Shookhoff Gary Bond Laura Heller Sustainable Markets Foundation Theodore Braun Robin Hirsch Angelo Verga Chip Brenner Mina Jones The VH Theatre Development Peter Bretz Dr. Craig Katz Foundation, Ludovica Villar- Brooklyn College Dept. of Theatre Fungai Mabs Hauser & Teresa Lotz CUNY Norma Jean Markus Carl Wallnau Centenary Stage Company John McEneny Dr. Elliot Zeisel Tapiwa Chisa Carter Anne McGowan v Heartfelt thanks to Manhattan Theatre Club, especially staff members Scott Laule, Properties Supervisor; Lily Fairbanks, Assistant Properties Supervisor; Erin Hennessy Dean, Costume Supervisor; and Thatcher Stevens, Studio Manager. v Collaboration, sensible risk taking, communication skills, stillness, decisiveness, ingenuity, calm under pressure, listening, focus, empathy, joyousness, compassion, self reliance. Are you interested in your child deepening these qualities? Acting Skills That Go Beyond the Stage Learn from experienced performers who love to teach children. Congratulations are in order to so good it had to be done again Doug Barron Plaza desktop publishing 24 years serving the theatrical community in graphics & web design PlazaDesktopPublishing.com | 212.947.1608 THE LION THEATRE AT THEATRE ROW TWO PLANKS PRODUCTIONS CONTRIBUTORS (as of December 18, 2013) BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE could not have been produced without the generosity of our donors. We Two Planks and a Passion Productions are deeply thankful for their support. Please thank them if you know them. If we have made a mistake in association with with the spelling of a name or missed a contributor, please let us know. Piper Theatre Productions, Centenary Stage Company and Susan Jane Walker Architect ($5,000 and above) William Everdell Helen & Ed Kweksin Una Jackman Malcolm Ewen Diana Lawrence presents The Seaver Institute Sue & Fraser Grace Richard Mann Susan Walker (in memory of John Jiler Gillian Marshall Harry Salwen) Craig Katz Joan & Jean McAllister Arthur & Roelfi n Kuijpers David McCormick Keystone ($1,000-4,999) Gail Carson Levine Maureen McSherry Anonymous Chris & David Lindsay-Abaire Kevin Miller BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE Joshua Barnes & Julie Iezzi Steven & Yoko Michaud George Morfogen Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Burton Rich Miller & Aviva Goldstein Shira Nayman Claudia & Arthur Cohen Moira Wylie Diana Ohlbaum Richard Costello & Linda Olson Donald Moffatt & Gwen Arner Hasan Padamsee Michael Douglas Antonio Magagnini Sonya Pancaldo Thomas Dubin and Pam Klem By FRASER GRACE Peter McCabe & Hillary Richard Lucille Poirier Warren Esanu Carter Anne McGowan Dave, Jennifer & Sonya Robinson Otho Eskin David & Stephanie Sassoon Tom & Julie Hirschfeld Steven & Yoko Michaud Directed by DAVID SHOOKHOFF John & Betsy Sprague Midge Kennedy Jay Neugeboren Cathy Stewart & Dick Allerton Harriet McGuire Mary Osborne Vivian Swain & Marielle Vigourt Stuart Warner Joanne Pattavina Starring CHE AYENDE EZRA BARNES Paul Vernet Jerry Weinstein Beth Peelle Florence & Jonathan Phillips Lucile Walther ROSALYN COLEMAN MICHAEL ROGERS Vaulted Arch ($500-999) Brooke Kamin Rappaport Laurie & Thomas Weinstein Anonymous Rea Rosno & Michael Champagne Ben Yarmolinsky Wanda Kownacki Jerry Rosenband ($25-49) Arthur Kroeber Martha Seaver & Scott Walecka Nuts and Bolts Scenic Designer Costume Designer Anonymous Lucile & Sheldon Lichtblau Jessica Solomon LEE SAVAGE TERESA SNIDER-STEIN Cynthia Babak Barclay Palmer & Dana Cowin Anne Silverstein Claire Beckman & John Morgan Lighting Designer Sound Designer Richard Raiford Lois Smith William Brenner Paul Tierney Dhuane Stephens JOYCE LIAO COLIN WHITELY Diane & Pericles Caminis Jeptha & Betty Wade Greg Trupiano Lori Cerchione Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Ann Zeller Geoff Underwood & GARY ADAMSEN DEVIN DAY Dede Danforth Bill Cohen Cinderblocks ($100-499) Anna Verdi Joyce Cohen Production Manager General Managers Anonymous Alan Wade Celina Guerrero DREW FRANCIS LISA DOZIER KING Anonymous Jill Wade & Semih Firincioglu Steve Danielson Anonymous Moira Driscoll & David Pence HARRISON HARVEY Mary Watson Jenny Apostol DiPaul Steven Williford Kate Fodaski Violence Consultant Marketing Sarah Baird William & Darunee Wilson Alec Harrington J. DAVID BRIMMER RED RISING MARKETING Jill Bates Paul Hecht Peggy Blumenthal Bricks and Mortar ($50-99) Patricia House Press Graphics Lisa Brailoff & Dan Sedgwick Elizabeth Atkeson (in memory of Tammy Langalis SM COMMUNICATIONS DOUG BARRON Dulcy Brainard Mary Atkeson) David Margulies Sally Brody Lloyd & Margaret Aubry Barbara McKinney & Fred Brooke Judith Barnes Boubacar Sow Patricia Buckley Jessica Bauman Donald & Julie McKinney BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE was fi rst performed on 17 October 2005 by the Royal Sarah Cawkwell & Sylvester Stein Dan Bergner Marven Moss Shakespeare Company in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon as part of the 2005 Christopher Coucill George Blecher Mary Lee Paine New Work Festival. Veanne Cox Pericles & Diane Caminis Susan & Chip Schroeder Peter & Bettina Drummond-Hay Ruth Chapman Charlie & Marsha Shaw BREAKFAST WITH MUGABE was fi rst presented in New York Off-Broadway by Two Thomas Dunne & Nancy Phillips Rachel & Steven Coates Marla & Robert Sterling Planks Productions at the Pershing Square Signature Center, August 7, 2013. Richard Edelman Max Hall Michael Wiener John Eisner & Jennifer Dorr White David Herskovits To make a tax-deductible donation, make checks payable to Piper Theatre Productions, P. O. Box 150613, Brooklyn, NY 11215 (write Two Planks in the memo). KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN DONORS CAST The following individuals donated to our Kickstarter campaign. We are deeply thankful for their (in order of speaking) support. Please thank them if you know them. If we have made a mistake with the spelling of a name Andrew Peric . EZRA BARNES or missed a contributor, please let us know. Gabriel . CHE AYENDE Keystone Maria Rozos Sean O’Donnell Grace Mugabe . .ROSALYN COLEMAN ($1,000) Arlene Solomon Elaine Reidich Jeffrey Fergus Greg Trupiano Christine Siracusa Robert Mugabe . MICHAEL ROGERS Michael J. Gillespie Ludovica Villar-Hauser Fran Van Horn Julie Iezzi Alan Wade Becky Vas The action is set in the State House in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, Christopher Jones Susie Watkins Randy Wade in October 2001 in the months preceding the Presidential Elections Arthur Kroeber Coco Wilde Cindy Wasserman which took place in spring 2002. Vaulted Arch Bricks and Mortar Charles Weinstein ($500) ($50-99) Theodore Wiprud THE PLAY WILL BE PERFORMED WITHOUT INTERMISSION Anonymous John Cariani Marnye Young Susan and Robert Doran Isidore Elias AND RUNS APPROXIMATELY 100 MINUTES Art and Fran Greenberg Camilla Golden Hammer ($10-24) Nan Newton Amy Griffi n Actors and Stage Managers are members of Actors’ Equity Association Barclay Palmer Alfred Hyslop Karen Abrams Felicia Kobylanski Alice Barrett Dinner for Breakfast Andy Lee Robert Carreon Glossary of Shona and Culturally Specifi c Terms ($475-499) Lora Lumpe Mary Louise Clemens Barbara Anderman Ambuya – respected female, roughly equivalent to auntie or, in the play’s Norma Jean Markus Alexandra Draxler Elizabeth Saunders context, madam Carolyn Muller June E. Music of Zimbabwe Diana Ohlbaum Paul F. Chimurenga – uprising or revolutionary struggle (see note under Ne- ($110-474) Jennifer Robinson Dave Hall handa, below) Gail Bach Caroline Ryburn Alec Harrington Fred Brooke David Shookhoff Paula Heitman Chiremba – respectful term for doctor Thomas Bullard Ming Tung Suen Legends of Enlightenment Concession – town and rural area an hour’s drive north of Zimbabwe’s Doug Elliot Amy Sargent Swank Rahul Munshi capital, Harare Malcom Ewen Anna Verdi Joanne Pattavina Tom Galbraith Jimmy Weinstein Mark Peters Muntu – derogatory term for black African Nina Kingsdale Piff Gabriela Kohen Nuts and Bolts Murungu – ambivalent term for white person ($25-49) Nick Plakias Patrice Mackey George D. Armiger Andrea Porter Ndebele – second most populous tribe in Zimbabwe, mainly living in the John Middleton Stephen Bradbury Christopher P. Neville south and west of the country (Matebeleland) Monique Lee Breindel Jerry Patch Ruth Chapman Nehanda – a senior royal ancestor spirit, one of whose mediums (Char- Glen Schofi eld Rachel Coates we) was hanged by the British South Africa Company on the suppres- Dhuane Stephens Joyce Cohen Paul Tierney sion of the fi rst Chimurenga at the end of the 19th century Madeline Cohen Chap Attwell Elizabeth Jasicki De Alvarez Ngozi – a bitter, malevolent spirit. A departed spirit may become an Cinderblocks Daniel Ellman ngozi by dying violently, by remaining childless, or by not receiving ($100) David Frutkoff proper burial rites. Charlotte Colavin Andrew Goldberg Alfred DiGrazia Michael Goodfriend Pamberi ne… – “Power to…” Hedda L. Fields Stephanie Gunning Shona – largest tribe in Zimbabwe, dominating the center and east of JoAnn Forman Nyasha Gutsa Jason Fuhrman Joanne Robinson Hill the country and, progressively since independence, the government. Renee Glicker Peter Hirzel Shona also refers to the spoken