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Directed by TOM GRUENEWALD

Sunday, February 19. 2:30 p.m March 2-25 Tuesday, February 21, S:30 p.iv

I.IMvAS KOSS, Conductor ZI\<> FKANCKSCATTl, Violinist

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APPILY, theatre is an artistic known to TV audiences as host of form that can be enjoyed in a two shows— Dialogue and Viewpoint persona] wav, without any deeper . Another invaluable Studio consideration than the fact that it A R E N A by-product is its Project represents en tertainmen t, d iversion, Curtain Call, a plan to develop purely and simply. However, when theatre interest at school levels the fundamental pleasure is en­ throughout the Greater Buffalo hanced by an understanding of area, particularly in underprivileged theatre in structurally artistic terms environments where opportunities for —from the points of view of the attending professional theatre would playwright, the director and the be limited, if not non-existent. Proj­ actor— the experience for the viewer ect Curtain Call takes theatre into the becomes- more personal and com­ schools and -brings to -the theatre, a plete . . . Among the plusses of the plan calculated to build future audi­ Studio ARENA Theatre organization ences for the Studio A R E N A but just are its special undertakings involv­ as importantly designed as a contri­ ing its public. A highlighting ex­ bution to the enrichment of culture ample this week (Friday) is the in areas which m ight otherwise be lorum to discuss Marat/de Sade untouched . . . jazz buffs in the Following the evening performance. Buffalo area are having 'more than For audience benefit, the production usual to swing about currently. The will be discussed from three points Ramsey Lewis Trio broke it up at of view— the director's, the actor’s Kleinhans last Sunday and on Sun­ and the playwright’s. Involved as day, Feb. 12 the Dave Brubeck panelists will be Marat/de Sade Quartet will play a one-nighter in director Jon Joryj actor Max Gulack the same hall. Meanwhile, starting who plays the Marquis de Sade; Dr. Norman Holland and Dr. Leslie Monday, Feb. 6, the team of Jackie Fielder, 'both from the State Uni­ and Roy (Kraal) will make the Royal versity English department. M odera­ Arms the place to be, if vou’re look­ tor will be Dr. Alan J. Drinnan, also ing for tlie ultimate in jazz vocaliz- of the Slate U. lacultv and well- ing. H

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ol C'harenlon under the Direction of Peter Weiss the Marquis da Sade, abbreviated by popular concession to Marat/Sade, HTEH WEISS, painter, film and a play which swept: Europe be­ P director, novelist and play­ fore coming to America, is based on wright, was horn at Nowawes, near Merlin, in 1916. He left two historical truths: the famous — infamous — Marquis de Sade was Germany when Nazism came in, confined in the lunatic asylum ol and has lived in Sweden ever since, although he continues to Charenton, where lie staged plays: write in German. His experi­ and the revolutionary Jean-Paul mental films have been shown in Marat was stabbed in a bathtub by this country, and one of his Charlotte Corclay at the height of novels, l.ea retaking, has been the Tenor during the French devo­ translated. This play opened in lution. Berlin, at the Schillertheatre, in But this play-within-a-plav is not April 1964 and evoked an extra­ historical drama. Its thought is as ordinary response from the press modern as today’s police states and as well as the audiences: through­ the Bomb; its theatrical impact has out the reviews Weiss was m en­ everywhere been called a major in­ tioned as the German playwright novation. It is total theatre; philo­ to succeed Brecht, having brought sophically problematic, visually terri­ a new concept of theatre to the fying, it engages the eye, the ear international scene. W hen Peter and the mind with every imaginable Brook’s production was performed dramatic device, technique and stage in by the Royal Shakes­ picture, even including song and peare Company a little later that dance. All the forces and elements year, it was greeted with similar possible to the stage are fused in acclaim. one overwhelming experience. This is theatre such as has rarely been seen before, NE ol the; most extraordinary Featured in the major roles at the O hit plays in many Broadway Studio A R E N A Theatre are John seasons is now intriguing playgoers Schuck as the inmate who portrays attending buffalo's Studio ARENA Jean-Paul Marat; Max Gulaek as the Theatre. The Persecution and. Assas­ Marquis de Sade; and Linda Selman sination of Jean-Paid Marat; as Per­ as the inmate who takes the role of formed by the Inmates of the Asylum Charlotte Corclay. Cuest director is Jon jory, artistic director of the Long modern times, lie the borderlines of Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Con­ sanity? necticut. Between 1797 and 1811 the direc­ According to jorv, the Studio tor of the Charenton Asylum which A REN A production is the first time was located near Fontainebleau, out­ Marat,/de Sade has been done on a side Pads, established regular the­ thrust stage. It has posed special atrical entertainments in his clinic as scenic problems which have been part of: the therapeutic treatment of solved by guest designer, Kar] Eigsti, his patients. l)e Sade, an inmate of former resident Scene Designer for Charenton from !8(Jo until his death Arena Stage, Washington, D.C. His in 1814, wrote and directed many of wife, Melly, is designing the M arat/ these entertainments am! it became de Sade costumes. fashionable in Paris to visit the The play is basically concerned asylum, as much to watch the antics with the problem of revolution. Are of the lunatics as to watch the per­ the same things true for the masses formance. These facts an; the stall­ and for llu-ir leaders? And where, in ing point ol Peter Weiss’s plav.

Peter Weiss's notes on the historical background of the play

From .1801 until his death in 1811 Sade’s encounter with Jcan-Paul tin; Marquis d.e Sade was interned Marat, which is the .subject of I his in tin; asylum of ( ’harenton, where pla\. is entirely imaginar\. based over a period of years he had the; only on the single fact that it was chance of producing plays among Satie who spoke the memorial ad- the patients and appearing as an actor himself. Charenton was an in­ stitution which catered to all who.se ( /m-An Mi\ \liuiinx rcnlci: Jtiliii Si hiii k in behaviour had made them socialh Mm til. K rnnrth illtin, Sttn W tllwrs uni! Jt'iii: Hchhurn impossible, whether they were luna­ tics or not. Here, were locked up "perpetrators ol (.'limes whose han­ dling in open court would not be in the public interest, as well as others who had been arrested lor serious political misdemeanours or who had allowed themselves to be used as the evil tools ol high intrigues." In exclusive Paris circles it was considered a ran; pleasure to attend Sade s theatrical perloi inances in the "hiding place lor the moral rejects of civilized soeietv.” d l'C S S lit Yhll'ill's I * i in •!':! 1. Fveil i.’i tin’s not be taken as evidence ol heroism, speech his real attitude towards since his imprisonment was due to Marat is i| lies', ionable, since hr charges of sexual extravagance and made [In.: speech primarily to save not to political acts. These, excesses, his own skin; at that time his posi­ in monstrous written iorni; were tion was in danger,, his name on the once again to cause his downfall list ol those marked out lor (hr under the new regime. guillotine. It is difficult to imagine Sade in W hat inti;ri:sti:d mi- in bringing [lie role of a worker lor the com­ together Sadi1 and Marat is [hr con- mon good. He felt himsell obliged I lift bet worn individualism carried to adopt- a double-laced attitude. On lo extreme lengths and tin: idi:a ol' the other hand he approved Marat s a political and social upheaval. Fven radical arguments, on the other lie Sadi: knew the Revolution to be saw the dangers of totalitarianism. necessary: his works arc one. single II the idea ol bringing Sade into attack on a corrupt ruling class. He contact with Marat in his filial hour flinched however Irom the violent is my own invention, the picture ol methods of the progressives and, Marat at 1 his lime accords with lad. like the modern advocate of a third I In.1 psychosomatic skin disease irom approach, fell between two stools. which he suffered in the last years Sade’s claim that he had suffered ol his life-—a legacy of privation in at the hands ol the old regime can- the cellars in which he hid — forced him to spend many hours in the bath in order to soothe his itching. And here he was on Saturday. .1 o July .1 i when (.’harlotte (.’onlay came three times to his door belore she gained entry and slabbed him. Marat’s words in the play corre­ spond in content and often almost For the fin al charcoal-broilcd chicken . . exactly in expression with the writ­ complete dinners or tnacki. ings he Iclt behind. From our vantage point- today we must bear in mind that Marat was one ol those who was in the process ol building the socialist image, and that much in his ideas ol change bv lorcelul means was still undigested or overreached itself. Both Locations C.’harlotte (,’ordav had in lact let OPEN 11 A.M. fo 4 A.M. nobody into her secret. Schooled by 643 M AIN STREET, BUFFALO convent lilt: in the art ol ecstatic TL 2-0008 withdrawal, she went her way alone

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NEAL DU BROCK, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

presents

PETER WEISS'

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE

English version by Geoiiroy Skelion

Vorsi> adaptation by Adrian Mitcht-ll

Directed by

JON JORY

Resident Company

MICHAEL BRADSHAW RUSSELL DRISCH BILL GALARNO MAX GULACK JEAN HEBBORN LAWRENCE JAMES ELAINE KERR NANCY KOCHERY RENEE LEICHT KENNETH McMlLLAN REGINALD MILES AINA NIEMELA PHILIP POLITO GERALD RICHARDS SALLY RUBIN JOHN SCHUCK LINDA SELMAN JOE SERVELLO JAMES J. SLOYAN NAN WITHERS ALAN ZAMPESE

Scenery Designed by Costumes Designed by Lighting by

KARL EIGSTI MELLY EIGSTI DAVID ZIERK

Musical Direction by

PIERO HADJIKAKOU

February 2-25, 1967

856-5650 THE CAST

Marquis de Sade ...... MAX GULACK Coulmier ...... MICHAEL BRADSHAW Jean-Paul Marat ...... JOHN SCHUCK Simonne Evrard ...... ELAINE KERR Charlotte Corday ...... LINDA SELMAN Duperret BILL GALARNO Jacques Roux ...... LAWRENCE JAMES Herald ...... JAMES J. SLOYAN Cucurucu ...... KENNETH McMILLAN Polpoch ...... PHILIP POLITO Kokol ...... NAN WITHERS Rossignol ...... JEAN HEBBORN Mother ...... AINA NIEMELA Father ...... GERALD RICHARDS Schoolmaster ...... JOE SERVELLO Military Representative...... RENEE LEICHT Scientist ...... RENEE LEICHT Newly Rich ...... RICHARD ROBERTS Voltaire ...... GERALD RICHARDS Lavoisier ...... REGINALD MILES Mad Animal ...... ALAN ZAMPESE Coulmier's Wife ...... BETTY BOUCHER Daughter ...... ELLIE SULLIVAN Two Guards ...... RUSSELL DRISCH, LOUIS PULVINO Two Sisters ...... SALLY RUBIN, SUSAN SLACK Musician ...... PIERO HADJIKAKOU Inmates ...... : DOTTIE DRUMMER, LINDA HARTMAN, PATRICIA HARTMAN, JANE HOLCOMBE, NANCY KOCHERY, BETTY LUTES, JOHN PASCO, JAMIE RANDAZZO

PLACE: The Asylum of Charenton

TIME: 1808

THERE WILL BE ONE INTERMISSION

(During the intermission visit the Stage Left Lounge, then after the show stop again and join the theatre staff and actors} (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

MICHAEL BRADSHAW (CouUnier) has His off-Broadway credits include A turned in several fine characterizations- Country Scandal, Marcus In The High in this, his first season at the Studio Grass, A Worm hi The Horse-Radish and AiliiNA, including Beverly Carlton in The Poppa- Is Home. Man Who Came To Dinner, Pish-Tush in The Mikado and the Mad Hatter in the current Children’s Touring Show, Alice JEAN HEBBORN (Rossignol) is appearing In Wonderland ’67. Last summer he ap­ in her fifth consecutive role at the Studio peared in the at Niagara- ARENA, having brought a number of on-the-Lake. He is a Cockney by birth memorable portraits to the boards this but a Canadian by adoption. season. Las: year she appeared :hri.-c productions, and last summer she was seen in Private Lives. Her birthplace is BILL GALARNO (Duperret) played Rolf England, which gave her both training in the national road company of The and experience in the theatre before bid­ Sound Of Music for a year and ap­ ding her good-bye to take up residence peared in the road tour of 110 In The in Buffalo. Her Buffalo appearances, out­ Shade. Off-Broadway he was seen in side of the Studio ARENA, include My Nathan The Wise The and as Orestes in Fair Lady, Marriage-Go-Round and The Flies. He was selected by star Albert Boy Friend Dekker and author Gore Vidal for a key ruie in a try-out of Vidal’s On The March To The Sea. He also appeared with Mamie Van Doren in Wildcat! at LAWRENCE JAMES (Jacques Roux) is the Meadow Brook Dinner Theatre. As currently causing quite a stir among the a writer, lie is currently completing the younger set as a silver-sparkled Astro­ book for a new musical, Kiss, Children, naut, in Alice In Wonderland ’67, who Ki.'is! now under option for a New York appears on stage in a sudden explosion production. and a puff of smoke. Alice is the second Curtain Call presentation of the season for the Buffalo school children. His last major appearance was as John ii: Tin- MAX GULACK (Marquis de Sade) is Man Who Came To Dinner in November, appearing in his fifth role at the Studio but his other roles in Buffalo theatricals ARENA Theatre this season. Seen as are too numerous to mention. He is an Montfieury in Cyrano De Bergerac, the alumnus of the Grand Island Playhouse, captive host in The Man Who Came To the Off-Broadway at the Richford Hotel Dinner, the smiling Go-To in The Mikado and the Arena Theatre at the Jewish and as the father in After The Fall, Center. Gulack has an enviable list of acting roles behind him, half of which were played during his time of residence in France while the others were played in ELAINE KERR’S (Simonne Evrard) ap­ American stock or on New York stages. pearances at tin- Studio AKE.NA this sea­ son have found her twice as a nagging was seen at the Williamstown Summer wii'e (Cyrano De Bergerac, After The Theatre in Massachusettes, an engage­ Fall), once as a glamorous star of the ment which followed his days at the Yale theatre (The Man Who Came To Dinner) School of Drama in New Haven (Con­ and as an ingenuous school girl in The necticut) where he appeared in The Mikado. Her combination of talent, sultry Imaginary Invalid. He indulged in a little voice and comeliness spell versatility, moonlighting, so to speak, at the Hof Brau and that is what Miss Kerr has brought Haus where he joined forces with Renee to the stage this season. Indiana is her and A llan Leicht, also on the Studio home ground. The Neighborhood Play­ ARENA staff, in an underground revue house School of the Theatre provided audaciously entitled "‘Bananas and Peels." her with training before she took off for Italy and the Festival of Two Worlds, in Spoleto, where she appeared in The Trojan Women. JOHN SCHUCK (Jean-Paul Marat) re­ verses the procedure of most young actors who get started in home town produc­ tions and then go on to professional theatre elsewhere. Schuck became a full- KENNETH McMILLAN (Cucxirucu), usual­ ly thought of as a comedian, turned in fledged professional, before returning home a convincing and sobering characteriza­ (Buffalo) last summer to appear in The tion in After The Fall as Lou, a teacher Fantasticks as El Gallo. His success in driven to suicide in middle age as a result that production is not coincidental to his of his Communistic affiliation in his youth return to appear as Marat. Off-Broadway during the hard days of the depression. he has been seen in Streets Of Neio York His comedy appearances this season in ­ and was in the touring company of A clude the entomologist in The Man Who Rainy Day In Newark which starred Came To Dinner and the timorous Tailor, Imogene Coca. Prior to being a member Ko-Ko, in The Mikado which won him of the Studio ARENA acting company, the "Best Actor” award for the year he was a member of the resident com­ rrom the Buffalo Courier-Express. pany of the Center Stage Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland.

PHILIP POLITO (Polpoch) has an affi­ LINDA SELMAN (Charlotte Corday) may nity, it would seem, for animals. His have provoked the skeptics when it was first Buffalo appearance after Cyrano was announced she would appear as Maggie as Many Bears, a young warrior, in the in After The Fall —■ a role that was the Curtain Call presentation of Indian Cap- complete antithesis to her common-sense- live, which was shown to hundreds of but-charming role of Maggie in The Man the city’s school children. In Alice In Who Came To Dinner — but those who Wonderland ‘67 he is seen as a frantic came to see an actress fall on her face White Rabbit, and in The Mikado he was ended up falling on their own faces in a Poo-Bah, which, incidentally, is not an praise of a magnificent performance.-. animal. It just sounds like one. Prior to Marat/de Sade is another challenge, and his Studio ARENA assignments, Polito with the run of that and the remaining season it is hard to believe that Miss to be content with being "Everybody’s Selman won't depart Buffalo an accom­ Sw eel heart” . plished actress. The audiences' wish is, of course, that she won't depart Buffalo. 9 Her time prior to the Studio ARENA was JON JORY (Director) is a co-founder and spent in doing roles in and around New Artistic Director of the Long Wharf York as well as making lucrative com­ Theatre in New Haven, . He mercials. has directed nine of its productions, in ­ cluding The Hostage and Uncle Vanya. He acted at the age of six, directed pro­

JAMES J. SLOYAN (Herald) has a long fessionally at the age of 16, and had his list of appearances in classical theatre, in ­ first play professionally produced at the cluding Henry V, The Taming Of The Cleveland Playhouse when "e was 2D. Shrew and Romeo and Juliet for the He was seen in four national tours, Cat New York Shakespeare Festival. He per­ On A Hot Tin Roof, My Three Angels, formed in Hamlet, Macbeth and M id­ Volpone and Candida. His undergraduate summer Night’s Dream at the Fallsburg work at the University of Utah was Festival, Fallsburg, New York. In the followed by graduate study at tin: Yak: Atlanta Municipal Theatre Repertory Com­ University School of Drama. He has pany, he was seen in Saint Joan and Death appeared on television in Wagon Train, Of A Salesman. Earlier this season, Mr. Hallmark Hall of Fame, H;m:l. Two Faces Sloyan staged the dueling scenes for the West and Show of Shows. Me is a recip­ theatre’s opening show, Cyrano De Ber­ ient of the A.E.T.A. playwrighting award. gerac. Mr. Jory directed the delightful The Man Who Came To Dinner earlier this season.

NAN .WITHERS’ (Kokol) greatest aim in Buffalo is to "break type” and portray a K ARL EIGST1 (Scene Designer) was fallen woman, or an evil wench, or per­ awarded a Fulbright Grant in Theatre to haps a lady who is just totally out­ Study in England where hi: received a rageous. Up until now, despite her success, Master's degree in Drama from the U ni­ her roles have shown her as the lovable versity of Bristol. While inure In.- de­ one who needs help and protection. Miss signed and served as a production assist­ Withers’ goal: to show her other talents. ant at the Bristol Old Vic, at the Theatre Actually some of these sides have been Royal, and directed a production of seen in other places, on other stages. For Fulgens and Lucres for the English Arts example, Gittel in Two For The Seesaw Council as part of Britain’s 400th Anni­ (a dancer who is not too concerned with versary Celebration of Shakespeare s bin!:. the presence of a wedding band) and He served as Resident Designer for the Annie Sullivan (the determined and Arena Stage in Washington. D.C., J»!' ironed-willed teacher of Helen Keller) two seasons and has been a guest de­ are both a far-cry from her Yum-Yum signer at such regional theatres as the of Tht: Mikado, :i:i: AHKNA S December Theatre of the Living Arts in Philadelphia show. Until the right "Wronged One” and the Long Wharf Theatre in New comes along, Miss Withers will just have Haven, Connecticut. He directed The Dumbwaiter and The Private Ear for the ’ Woman Of Trachis. At present Actor's Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky. he is the Musical Director of WBFO-FM, the educational radio station at the Uni­ versity. Marai/de Sade marks his debut, MELLY EIGSTI (Costume Designer), wife as a .musical director in the theatre, for of designer Karl Eigsti, has designed for this piano-and-organ artist. the Arena Stage in Washington, served as an assistant to Theoni Aldrege in New York on productions for the Shakespeare SPECIAL CREDITS Festival and on such Broadway shows as Minor Miracle, Skyscraper and Luv. She Lobby and Publicity Photographs by Sherwin Greenberg, McGranahan also served as an assistant to Fred Voelpel and May., Inc. for the Lincoln Center for Performing Studio A KEN A "Bus'* courtesy of Granville Arts forum theatre. A former student of Volkswagen the University of Bristol drama depart­

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