Dept. of Theatre College of Humanities & Fine Arts University of Northern Iowa www.uni.edu/theatre
Count Draculaby Ted Tiller based on Bram Stoker’s Nineteenth Century novel, “Dracula”
Directed by Richard Glockner Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Leonard Curtis Ron Koinzan Costume Designer Hair & Makeup Designer Carol Colburn Amy S. RohrBerg Properties Designer Stage Manager Mark A. Parrott Laura A. Neill
April 15-18 & 23-25, 2010 Strayer-Wood Theatre There will be two intermissions during the performance. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
Theatre UNI's casting and season selection policy supports the ideals of equal opportunity and affirmative action. Theatre UNI and the Department of Theatre support theatre in education and the National Theatre Standards. From the Artistic Director
Welcome to Count Dracula. I don’t know if any of you were a fan of the Canadian comedy program, SCTV, but I was. I remember Count Floyd vividly as he told his audience in TV-land to hold onto our seats for we were about to witness “some scary monsters” during the Monster Chiller Horror Theatre. The late John Candy and Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd would make their own 3D by moving into and out of the camera promising us that we would truly be scared. Tonight you will see some scary monsters, I’m sure, and we hope you are chilled and thrilled by our final production of the season. Now it is time to look towards next season and the four shows that will provide you with comedy, drama, and music. In October we will open the Strayer-Wood Theatre’s 2010-2011 season with Oliver Goldsmith’s Georgian comedy, She Stoops to Conquer, directed by Gwendolyn Schwinke. The subtitle for this comedy is “The Mistakes of a Night” and that’s exactly what happens as two noblemen are led to mistake a country noble’s house for an inn and his daughter for a barmaid. Mistaken identities and mischief proliferate, but as in all comedies, boy gets girl and girl gets boy, and everyone is forgiven in the end. November will see the Theatre Department in conjunction with the GBPAC hosting the Iowa Thespian Festival, leading to our December production, Mother Hicks by award-winning Theatre for Youth writer, Suzan Zeder, and directed by Gretta Berghammer. Mother Hicks has been described as “an emotionally compelling play set during the great depression, which eloquently depicts three outsiders who find their way to themselves and each other via poetry and sign language” (from a Study Guide by Nola D. Smith for the Pardoe Theatre Production.) Girl, an orphan, and Tuc, the deaf storyteller of the piece, try to find their way in the world and their place in it. The spring semester begins with a production in February of On the Verge by Eric Overmeyer and directed by Cynthia Goatley. Three intrepid female explorers from the 19th century set out on a journey to Terra Incognita which leads through time as they explore their way into the 1950s and beyond. They begin to “osmose” the future and find that it is an exhilarating place to be. And last in our season, in April, is the musical, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert. Directed by Jay Edelnant, How to Succeed satirically examines how a young window cleaner with a mind for advancement moves up the corporate ladder “without really trying,” eventually becoming head of the corporation. We feel it is a perfect time to bring this 1961 musical to the Strayer-Wood Theatre stage. Please join us next year as we provide a rich season of productions for thought and laughter and often both. With that, I am signing off as Artistic Director as Eric Lange returns to his regular post next year. See you at the theatre! - Cynthia Goatley Production Team continued From the Dean
Costume Construction Crew (continued)...... Susanne Hauser, Stefanie Haxmeier Adam Hobeiche, Lauren Holsing, Nate Howard Brett Jones, Emily Kautz, Amber Kearney, Edis Kescrovic, Briar Kleeman, Jenna Kramer Nothing can take the place of live theater. The opportunity to Codye Lazear, Emily Merfeld, Meghan McKinney, Megan Catherine Moore, Jeneka watch actors and the other creative artists involved make decisions Mortensen, Ashley Myers, Bailey Otto, Jens Petersen, Rachel Rathe, Tori Rezek in real time about what and how they communicate to an audience Lindsey Sample, Megan Schafer, Rachel Schroeder, Justin Simmons, Abby Sieren cannot be matched on film, videotape, or digital recording. I love Terrell Sinkfield, Astrella (Shaggy) Tanguma, Ethan Taylor, Abby Thiessen, Taylor Thoreson Megan Trepp, Suzanne Vartabedian, Alex Westrum theater! Sound Coordinator/Board Operator...... Kris Rutz Dr. Goatley offered me a few lines in which to introduce myself. Wardrobe Crew Head...... Adam Hobeiche As the new dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, I’m Wardrobe Crew...... Josh Colpitts, Jenna Graupmann, Evan Hoyt delighted to be associated with UNI Theatre. My own academic Brett Jones, Sam Pelelo-Ray, Clay Swanson, Lizzie White background is in mathematics, but I am a member of Stage, Inc.; Hair & Makeup Crew Head...... Kelli Craig, Molly Franta, Abby Thiessen Hair & Makeup Crew...... Emily Draffen, Neena Eatmon-McClendon, Josh Hilliard in fact, I have served as a board member and even president of that Amber Patterson, Mackenzie Roth organization. The UNI community and the entire Cedar Valley are Marketing Director...... Jascenna Haislet indeed fortunate to be able to experience firsthand the results of the Assistants to the Marketing Director...... Ryan Decker, Sara VanHulzen collaboration among the talented faculty, staff and students of the Box Office Managers...... Jane Fitzpatrick, Kayla Nalan Theatre Department. Box Office Staff...... Ellie Heins, Anthony James Lempares Andrea Michelle Morris, Sara VanHulzen Thank you for your attendance at this performance of Count House Manager...... Julie Baldwin, Ryan Decker, Abby Gobeli, Tori Rezik Dracula, and I look forward to seeing you at many more productions Acting Head/Dept of Theatre/Strayer-Wood Theatre Artistic Director...... Cynthia Goatley of UNI Theatre in the future. Dean, College of Humanities & Fine Arts...... Joel Haack - Joel Haack
Department of Theatre
Eric Lange, Head Gretta Berghammer, Carol Colburn, Leonard Curtis, Jay Edelnant Richard Glockner, Cynthia Goatley, Linda Grimm, Jascenna Haislet Ron Koinzan, Tange Kole, Mark A. Parrott, Amy S. RohrBerg Gwendolyn Schwinke, Steve Taft Office Assistants: Ann Meade
The mission of the Department of Theatre is to create theatre which excites, and which illuminates the human condition in ways that are relevant to students, audiences, community members, teachers and guest artists. To this end, the department offers coursework and productions that are diverse, creative and participatory, serving students who want to prepare for a life in the theatre and also students who want to prepare a place for theatre in their lives. We create theatre and, in this process, educate. From the Director On Dracula and “Draculas” continued Thirty-three years ago, almost to the day, I opened in Ted Tiller’s But from whence came these profoundly complicated children of the night, these Count Dracula, playing the title role.. I was an MFA student at Temple gloriously ridiculous monsters who thrill and amuse, threaten and entice? Most imagine they were the invention of the late-Victorian writer Bram Stoker, whose 1897 University in Philadelphia. novel Dracula popularized a particular image of the vampire as an interloper among The theatre we played in was the studio where The Mike Douglas the pure white race of the English. Dracula’s difference—that is, his otherness—stands Show was filmed from 1965-1972. Located adjacent to Philadelphia’s as sharply in contrast to the imagined purity of the British as do his hard white fangs famous Rittenhouse Square, it sat one hundred forty people. We opened against his soft, moist, red lips. Red and white—blood and skin, blood and milk, blood to a full house and sold out quickly for the entire run of the show. and semen, depending upon which interpreter one reads: these are the colors of the vampire, threatening to stain the pristine purity of Britishness, to dirty the clean living The show was immensely popular with audiences. So much so that that Britons wanted to believe was theirs alone. producers from the local Playhouse in the Park, a star-driven summer Stoker’s vampire crystallized a heady mix of cultural threats, of “others” whose very theatre, optioned the production for the summer following our run. My embodiments of difference threatened to sink their teeth into what Britons fantasized inflated ego was soon crushed when they hired Farley Granger to star was their own uniform purity: the New Woman, that early feminist whose radical as Dracula and not me! ideas of freedom are scoffed at by Stoker’s Lucy and Mina; the bachelor, that suddenly problematic embodiment of the chaste male whose resistance to marriage unmasked So when, this past fall, we decided to postpone our production of The matrimony as merely an option, not a requirement, for adult sexuality; the Jew, whose Wind In The Willows and were searching for a replacement that would rejection of the belief that Britons positioned at the center of their cultural identity be fun, popular and, hopefully, attract an audience, I immediately threatened to obliterate the uniformity of the faith of the race; and the homosexual, that thought of Count Dracula. The Dracula legend continues to fascinate newly defined being who had risen to the fore in the same year Stoker began writing us. Each generation since Bram Stoker’s novel seems to have its his novel with the accusation, trial, and conviction of Oscar Wilde for crimes of gross indecency. Like Stoker, Wilde was Irish, not English, an outsider writing his way into own reincarnation of the vampire. Ted Tiller’s version, based on the to the main stream—and one who, on a more personal level, occupied a fraught role in novel and echoing the 1931 Bela Lugosi film, is a melodramatic mix Stoker’s life, since it was Wilde, not Stoker, who first proposed to Florence Balcombe, of comedy and suspense. Tiller, whom I met when I played the role, the young lady who would eventually become Mrs. Stoker after all, and since both was an old world gentleman of polish and sophistication. A veteran men had risen to prominence in the relatively small and highly competitive world Broadway actor who appeared there in such productions as A Witness of the London theatre. Such was the genesis of Stoker’s vampire: a figure based to some degree on existing literary types, including James Malcolm Rymer’s Varney the For the Prosecution and The Great White Hope, Tiller could easily Vampire and J.S. LeFanu’s Carmilla; to some degree on a historical figure, Vlad the have been cast as Seward or Von Helsing. He wrote the play in 1971 Impaler; and to some degree on the “others” who threatened to unravel the increasingly and since that time it has been produced around the world. threadbare notion of Britishness as an unassailable, homogenous cultural type. The script offered the designers, cast and crew many challenges. For me, even a century after its creation, Stoker’s remains the most compelling All who worked on the show have been supremely tested! I wish to of the vampire’s myriad iterations, for its embodiment of otherness is not diluted by the sympathetic aspects introduced to the myth by Anne Rice’s Interview with the offer them all my personal thanks for their artistry and hard work. I Vampire series and, more recently, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. Instead, Stoker’s would especially like to thank Leonard Curtis and Ben Sheridan for vampire offers a shockingly simple reversal of that other compelling cultural type who their vision and indefatigable support. I hope you enjoy the show! negotiates death and life through the blood exchange: Jesus, the Christian Messiah, whose offer of salvation through a blood ritual (the sacrament of the Eucharist) is - Richard Glockner perverted—that is, ¬repeated and reversed—in the blood exchange of the vampire and his victim, which at once sustains the figure of evil even as it damns the recipient of the vampire’s kiss. Through blood, Christ saves, just as through blood, the vampire For Your Information damns. It is this reversal, this perversion, that I find at the center of it all. • Larger print programs are available at the box office. Then again, it’s fun to be scared, and there’s something terrifyingly titillating about • There is no smoking in the Strayer-Wood Theatre. Food and beverages are allowed only in the all that necking. In the end, one is left to hold the vampire now in fascination, now in lobbies. fear, the very sort of double-response we have to all things that complicate that not- • Restrooms are located through the large doors at the back of the Strayer-Wood Theatre and in the so-fixed boundary between good and evil, life and death, self and other. In some ways, lower level lobbies. the vampire is already (within) us, and that is perhaps the most shocking aspect of its • The taking of photographs and the use of recording devices is strictly prohibited. Please check cultural centrality: me and not-me, the vampire appears before me as the embodiment cameras and recorders at the box office. of difference, yet it holds up a mirror to show me that I am that difference, too. • A public phone is located in the lobby on the outer wall of the box office. • Lost and Found is located at the box office. • Please turn off watch chimes, alarms, cell phones, and pagers before the show begins. • Latecomers will be seated at the discretion of the House Manager. Production Team Cast Production Manager...... Amy S. RohrBerg Sybil Seward...... Andrea Michelle Morris Production Stage Manager...... Jascenna Haislet Assistant Production Manager...... Tom Kobes Hennessey...... Tyler Gracey Assistant to the Production Manager...... Brett Jones Dr. Arthur Seward...... Jeremy Dixon Dialect Coach...... Gwendolyn Schwinke Renatta...... Dani Jo Stephenson Assistant Director...... Benjamin S. Sheridan Wesley...... Michael Braga Assistant Stage Managers...... Michaela Nelson, Matthew Vichlach Jonathan Harker...... Nicholas Chizek Fight Captain...... Laura Neill Assistant Lighting Designer...... Mandy Heath Mina Murray...... Eden Neuendorf Assistant Costume Design Team - Costume Design Class...... Benjamin S. Sheridan Count Dracula...... Michael Owen Achenbach Tori Rezik, Michael Brown, Mandy Heath Van Helsing...... Sam Lilja Assistant Hair & Makeup Designer...... Amy Garretson* Lucy Westenra...... Rachel Russell Scenery Studio Technical Director...... Ron Koinzan Vampires...... Kenosha Carr, Emily Draffen, Abby Thiessen Scenery Studio Assistant Technical Director...... Aaron Mayer † Special Effects Coordinator...... Mark A. Parrott Special Effects Designer/Co-Coordinator...... Britin Tylar Robinson Scene: Living quarters in Dr. Seward’s Asylum for the Insane, north of London Scenery Construction Crew...... Chad Albert, William Azbill, Callie Buck Act I: An autumn eveing in the first half of the Twentieth Century Melissa Champion, Joshua Dirks, Sarah Duster, Neena Eaton-McClendon Act II: Nearly midnight, three nights later Gleena Goldman, Mandy Heath, Jonathan Hudspeth, Jessi Kadolph, Al Kueker Act III, Scene I: Twenty-eight hours later, before dawn Aaron Mayer, Stephen Miller, Sam Pelelo-Ray, Seth Pyle, Matt Runnells, Kris Rutz Katy Slaven, Allie Smith, Sara Spieker, Ethan Taylor, Matthew Vichlach Act III, Scene II: the Crypt at daybreak
Ronald L. Wells Jr., Stephanie Wessels, Katie Wilford † Paint Crew...... Michael Owen Achenbach, Ashley Armstrong, Victoria Arreola S.T.A.G.E. Inc., Scholarship Recipient * member, TAP William Azbill, Julie Baldwin, Lucas Bauer, Michael Brown, Nicholas Chizek, Kelli Craig Nick Divarco, Neena Eaton-McClendon, Elyssa Espanto, Amy Garretson Glenna Goldman, Ian Goldsmith, Sam Lilja, Shelby Long, Rachel Malkewitz, Aaron Mayer Kathy Mixdorf, Andrea Morris, Eden Neuendorf, Rachel Rathe, Rachel Russell Special Thanks Lindsey Sample, Allie Smith, Steve Taft, Jordan Taha, Coral Thede, Abby Thiessen Austin Vincent, Ronald L. Wells Jr., Stephanie Wessels Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center; Chris Tuzicka; American Red Properties Master...... Ronald L. Wells, Jr.†* Cross; Dr. David Neill, Optometrist; Bailey Otto; Cara Ullrich; Tom Kobes Properties Assistants...... Jessi Kadolph, Lindsey Sample, Stephanie Wessels A Special Thanks to HyVee Cedar Falls for their generous contribution. Properties Construction Crew...... Nicholas Chizek, Michaela Nelson Sam Pelelo-Ray, Cara Ullrich Deck Chief...... Michael Brown Props & Scenery Run Crew...... Callie Buck, Joshua Dirks, Alexis Kline, Shelby Long On Dracula and “Draculas” Rachel Malkewitz, Seth Meyer, Jordan Taha, Coral Thede, Justus Thompsen, Valerie Vivian Samuel Lyndon Gladden Master Electrician...... Jonathan Hudspeth Associate Professor of English and Acting Head, Department of Modern Languages Assistant Master Electrician...... Ben Schulz Electrics Crew...... Chad Albert, Ashley Armstrong, Michael Brown Nicholas Divarco, Neena Eatmon-McClendon, Anthony James Lempares, Sam Lilja Perhaps the most exciting thing that leaps to mind as beginning with “v” (vodka and Sam Pelelo-Ray, Matt Runnels, Rachel Russell, Ethan Taylor vixens leap, as well), vampires have long held culture in their very mouths and teeth, Light Board Operator...... Nick DiVarco kissing us, biting us, and drawing from us the force of life that is half fascination, half Spot Light Operator...... Sarah Kleinhesselink fear. Both apart from us and a part of us, vampires call to us, entice us, and threaten to Costume Studio Technical Director...... Linda Grimm convert us to one of themselves, to take us over and to make us bow to the forces of Costume Studio Assistant Technical Director...... Michael Owen Achenbach darkness which they serve. Costume Construction Crew...... Michael Owen Achenbach Or not. Vampires have also reveled in the silly playfulness of it all, the badly accented Catherine Au Jong, Lindsey Banes, Jessica Baumeister, Jenny Blindt, Michael Braga lines of “I vant to suck your blood,” the sleeping in coffins, the hissing at crucifixes Cassie Brokaw, Emily Ann Brueck, Becca Byrne, Ashley Capare, Ashley Capone and garlic—that whole lot. And, of course, they have been rendered innocuous, as Jordin Cowan, Mackenzie Cowden, Kelli Craig, Anna Croghan, Emily Draffen, Jill Edwards, well: battling The Three Stooges, appearing on cereal boxes in the guise of Count Lauren Galliart Amy Garretson, Abbie Gobeli, Tyler Gracey, Jenna Graupmann Chocula, and teaching generations of children their numbers on Sesame Street. continued continued Archangels Dan & Chris Lorenz Ben & Pat Allen Lynn & Mary Nielsen 2009-10 Mark & Peggy Baldwin Ed & Mary Ann Poynor Michael & Janet Blad Tom & Julia Romanin Scholar- Society of Theatrical Angels, Scott Cawelti & Angeleita Floyd Bob & Susan Runkle Gallivants & Enthusiasts, Inc. Steve & Gerry Chamberlin Colette & Tim Slaven Robert D. & Alice Talbott ship Gordon B. Gish * The Society of Theatrical Angels, K.E. & G.D. Hopper* Margaret Logan Willoughby Recipient Gallivants, Enthusiasts, Inc., was founded Neal Perry Jacobs Harold Wohl & Jean Lund in 1977 and remains a group of dedicated Eric & Caroline Lange * patrons. S.T.A.G.E., Inc., memberships Jim & Nancy LaRue Enthusiasts Ronald L. Wells, Jr. provide support for UNI theatre students Susan & Jim Ohrt Maynard C. Anderson A senior with a passion for scenic in small ways by funding some of Dianne Phelps Jeff Boorom art and design, Ronnie Wells will serve the food for strike nights and in more Laura & Jon Scoles Eugenia Furneaux-Arends as scenic artist for Marat/Sade, scenic academic ways by helping fund student Katrinka Smith Cyd Q. Grafft designer for Three Tall Women, and props master for Count Dracula this season. trips to Minneapolis or Chicago theaters. Fayeth Walton & Thomas R. Furneaux Lois M. Hansen * He has previously served as assistant Most important, however, the majority Jean R. 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