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This playbill is a publication ofTheatreThree, Inc., 2800 Routh Street, Suite 168, Dallas, Texas 75201, 214-871-3300, www.1hut1e]@rl1"..c.om ln suppora of A.my'$ VI•w (the- rourlh show of the 2009-2010 TheautThrC"C' St.uon).Sonts-ofth, R.,d� ,.,:ad: The Muiko/Don,t)'�aye (lhe fifth "Showofthe:1009-2.010 Thuw: Too Seuoo), ,nd I Lov.::Yov, You·rc Puf�,1, Now Chanee: (chc si�th '5'howofthct aoog-::1010 •Thc:atrc Too Sea-son) PLAYBILL EDITORS: Jae Alder� Kimberly Richard PROOFREAOER: Adele Acrey TheaterJ ones.com ILLUSTRATION: Joe Howard PHOTOGRAPHY: Ken Birdsell/The Image After Unoaetructed views DESIGN c(LAYOUT: David w Radabaugh/D Magazine C EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DIRECTOR JAC ALDER PRESENTS ... Amy's View PLAYWRIGHT David Hare Produced by Special Arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. ARTISTIC STAFF PRODUCTION STAFF Jae Alder's View on Amy's View THEATRE A DI RECTOR'S THOUGHTS THREE DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN AEA STAGE MANAGER JacAlder ''Bruce R. Coleman Nothing is more thrilling than truer understanding of our existence. COSTUME DESIGN TECHNICAL DIRECTOR exceptional characters moved through Does this come about? You tell me. Bruce R. Coleman Daniel Pucul extraordinary circumstances by a power­ It would be an insult to this LIGHTING DESIGN MASTER CARPENTER ful plot. Amy's View is that kind of show. multifarious play to reveal more. It defies Josh Blann JeffreySchmidt Amy's View, David Hare's easy summary, prompt evaluation. You SOUND DESIGN MASTER ELECTRICIAN prizewinning drama, covers sixteen years must pay close attention to details, and Richard Frohlich David Gibson - between 1979 and 1995. think long after." SCENIC ARTIST CAST His story, centering on the If all this sounds like "heavy David Walsh small familyof a famous theatrical lifting" foraudiences, I've led you astray. ESME ALLEN DRAMATURG *Connie Coit actress, is skillfully set against the Terrificactors are here to help! It takes Kimberly Richard swirling backdrop ofBritish politics, a cadre of six accomplished actors to FRANK ODDIE PRODUCTION ASSISTANT world economy, and ruthless media power this play to its full emotional ''Sonny Franks David Gibson exploitations. Esme Allen is talented, revelations, and it's been my honor PRODUCTION CREW admired and managing a life in London to work with six great truth tellers to TOBY COLE John Davenport, David Gibson, Jason Kennedy theatre. She believes in theatre - in Art. prepare this production forTheatre Fumiyo Hamada, Samantha Her daughter, Amy, passionately believes Three. My sincerest thanks to each in the EVELYN THOMAS Saucedo and Sara Schultz in her new boyfriend, Dominic. He's a cast, and especially to author David Hare Terry McCracken SCENE SYNOPSIS bit rough around the edges, more than forthis beautiful, tall dramatic mountain DOMINIC TYGHE ACT I a little opportunistic, and overtly hostile he's given us to climb. **Kevin Moore Scene 1: Esme's house in to the pretentions of artists. Still, he Pangbourne, England, 1979 has ambitions to shake up the world he ARTISTIC STAFF AMY THOMAS Scene 2: Esme's house, 1985 **Danielle Pickard criticizes. And, he's sexy. Two other characters circu­ David Hare PLAYWRIGHT» Playwright, BBC NEWS READERS ACT II late around Esme, her sometimes TiffanyLonsdale-Hands, Andy Scene 1: Esme's house, 1993 exasperating mother-in-law, Evelyn, and English-born Sir David Hare, was educated McCollum, Rick Spiegel Scene 2: Esme'stheaterdressing Esme's financialadvisor (and would-be at Lancing College and Jesus College, room in London, 1995 suitor), Frank. Using this small family, Cambridge, and currently lives in London. the playwright details an avalanche of He co-founded Portable Theatre Company; changing circumstances that push and became Resident Dramatist at the Royal pull on each character's life trajectory. Court Theatre in London and then Resident As hard-to-please New Yorker Dramatist at the Nottingham Playhouse in critic John Simon wrote: 1973. He co-foundedJoint Stock Theatre "You may want to know what Group with David Aukin and Max Stafford­ David Hare's Amy's View is about. Hard Clark in 1975. He has been Associate to answer .. the best I can do is: It's about life. About mothers and daughters, Director of the National Theatre since 1984, husbands and wives, human relations. was knighted in 1998, and is a Fellow of the It is about the childlike artist and the Royal Society of literature. From 1974-1998, diligent worker; about theater versus David Hare's writings include Knuckle; real life; about art versus pseudo-art (TV, Fanshen, Plenty; Pravda:A Fleet Street Com­ action movies); about being right but edy, The Secret Rapture; the trilogy Racing ultimately wrong, or wrong but ultimately Demon, Murmuringjudges and The Absence proven right. It is about the lure and of War, about three British institutions: the pitfallsof a materialistic society, about Anglican church, the legal system and the whether love and faithand perseverance ABOVE: Labour party; Skylight; Amy's View; and The cast of Amy's View will prevail over hedonism and greed or be unjustly punished. It is, I repeat, The Judas Kiss. More recent plays include gathers forthe first My Zinc Bed, rehearsal. about life. firststaged at the Royal Court RIGHT: Being about life, it is about Theatre, London, 2000; The Breath ofLife; Terry McCracken surprises all the way: big surprises that and The Permanent Way which opened There will be one 15 minute intermission the author springs on us quasi-casually, at the Royal National Theatre (RNT) in between the firstand second acts. and leaves not fully explained. Amy's January 2004. His play, StuffHappens, was * indicates members working under Actor's Please silence your cell phones and all eponymous view assumes different Equity Association contracts in this production electronic devices, No photography or premiered at the RNT in 2005, and is about ** indicates a performer enrolled in the AEA videography is allowed without the consent of meanings in the course of the play, yet the Iraq invasion. His filmwork includes membership candidate program. the Theater. all are attempts at a clearer perception, C AMY'S VIEW BIOGRAPHIES LEFT TO RIGHT: Danielle Pickard, Jason Kennedy, Connie Coit, Kevin Moore,& Sonny Franks the screenplay forthe Mainstage in Irving, and (2006 Column Award). York Theater and Town Shakespeare Festival, and Lloyd in Crimes of the screen adaptation of Plenty, Richard The Third (Critics His credits also include Hall and for five European in other venues such Heart on our stage. His and he wrote and directed Forum Award) and various Metroplex venues: tours, she performed characters as Leo Bloom credits in other Metroplex the films Wetherby, Paris Reckless forKitchen Dog Contemporary Theatre of the role of Carlotta in the in The Producers, Anthony venues include The Last by Night and Strapless.