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ST. EDWARD'S UNIVERSITY THEATER ARTS STAFF AND FACULTY Dean of Humanities .. ......... ...... ..... Father Louis T. Brusatti . FULLCIRCLE Artistic Director/Area Coordinator .. .. ...... .. ....... Ev Lunning, Jr. Managing Director . ... .. ...... .. .... .. ...... Michelle S. Polgar Administrative Coordinator .. ... ... ...... Robin Grace Thompson BY Costume Shop Manager .... .. .. .... ...... ... T'Cie Mancuso Technical Director .......... ... ..... ........ ..... Chase Staggs CHARLES L. MEE Master Electrician ............ ... ( . Natalie George Costume Technical Specialist ........ ....... ... ..... Michelle Heath DAVID LONG Assistant Professors . David Long DIRECTOR Sheila Gordon Sara Medina-Pape Michael Massey LEILAH STEWART LAURA CANNON Adjunct Instructors ......... .... .......... ..... Dr. Brooks Barr SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN Ann Mary Carney Bhagirit Crow DIANA DUECKER BUZZ MORAN Todd Dellinger LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Diana Duecker Kathy Dunn Hamrick ROBIN LEWIS TARA COOPER Babs George CHOREOGRAPHY MAKEUP/HAIR DESIGN Rachel Magee Bill McMillin MICHAEL MCKELVEY BROOKS BARR Dr. Michael McKelvey MUSIC DIRECTION PRODUCTION DRAMATURG Margita Pencevova Gary M. van der Wege KATE KAMPSCHROEDER* PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER SPECIAL THANKS Joe Carpenter JILL BLACKWOOD* Pedro Gallardo GREG HOLT* Rude Mechanicals EQUITY GUEST ARTISTS Ike Machamer Mark Porter Isaac Ruiz Sponsored in part by Kerstin Somerholter School of Behavioral and Social Sciences Lindsey C. Taucher Robert Whyburn CHRONICLEliifA · 3 ,_ 9· FULL CIRCLE was originally produced under the title THE BERLIN CIRCLE as a world premiere at the Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago . Sept. 26-Oct. 7, 2007 Marthy Lavey, Artistic Director, Michael Gennaro, Managing Director. Funding for the original production of FULL CIRCLE was made possible by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust The Company Production Staff Pamela Dalrymple. Jill Blackwood* Assistant to the Technical Director ..... .. .. .. .... ... Connor Hopkins Mr Market/Warren . David Gallagher** Properties Consultant . ...... .... .. .... .. ..... .. Rachel Magee Translator/Crowd . ... ............ .. ...... .Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie** Assistant Stage Managers .. ... ... ...... Katie Andries, Elliott Dooley, Elizabeth Rische, ChristopherSmith Zhu/Hermann .... ........ ... ... .. ..... ... .. ..... Jarrett King** Properties Design and Construction . .. ..... Hans Klein, Patricia Greenwell, Ping/Crowd/Cook's Assistant ......... .. ....... Stephanie Denson** EvangelineJime nez, Sherry Mauch, Maryann Menzies Ching/Student/Werner . ....... ... .. .... ....... Nathan Osburn** Assistant to the Master Electrician/Board Operator .... .. KristopherCarpenter Sly Modrow/Student/Gunter ............... ...... Maarouf Naboulsi** Assistant to the Sound Designer/Board Operator . .... ... ..... Elle Mahoney Stupid Krenz/Student/Masseur/Helmut. Austin D. Alexander** Spot Operators . ... ..... .. .... .. .. Charles Bryant, Joseph Luedeke Erich Honecker/Crowd/Cook . ... ... .... ........... .. .Clay Cartland** Scene Shop Staff . .. ...... .. .. .Austin Alexander,Michelle Brandt, Heiner Muller . ..... ... ......... .......... .. ... ..... Greg Holt* Amanda Hartley,Stacy Vandervorst Costume Designer/Bui/horn/Concierge . ...... .... ..... Julia Trinidad** Costume Shop Staff. .. .. ... .. .. .. Karina Cooper, Miriam Jurgensen, Christa . ................................... Micaela Garcia-Baab** Heidi Mashaka,Allie Towell Dulle Griet . ........ .... .... .... ....... ... Helyn Rain Messenger** Box Office Staff ... ... .. Shannon Bishop,Tomas Contreas, Kate Eminger, Lisa Maree Chiriboga, Elizabeth Shortall The Band House Manager . ...... ...... ...... .. ... .. Eric Cardona Matthew Hines ... ....... ..... .. ... .Trombone, Keyboard, Guitar House Crew . .. .. .... ..... Brandon Balque, Libby Dees, Austin Lowery, Aisha Melhem, Roy Varney,Jessica Townes Catherine Lippman-Bartkus ... ........... .................. Bass Head Dresser . Miriam Jurgensen Cesar A. Osorio II .............. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. ... .Lead Guitar Dressers . ... ... .. .Charli Brath,Andrew Butler,Whitney Carpenter, Austin D. Alexander .............. .......... ........... .... Drums Sarah Anderson, BlaiseTreuting Laundry. Brook Friesen,Elle Mahoney Setting: Berlin, 1989 Costume Crew ... .Stephanie Denson, Liana Hinojosa, Miriam Jurgenson, Jarrett King, Ashley Moore, Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie, There will be one ten-minute intermission Nathan Osburn, Kari Strunk, Julia Trinidad, and the students of THAR 1331 *Member of Actors ' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and Scenic Crew .. .......... Monica Azcarate, Brandon Balque, LeRoy Beck, stage managers in the United States. Lydia Breed, KristopherCarpenter, **Equity Member Candidate Stephanie Denson, EvangelineJimenez, Hans Klein, Sherry Mauch,Aisha Melhem, ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 Maryann Menzies, Helyn Messenger,Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie, actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, pro Ema Ramsower,Alex Riegelman,and the students ofTHAR 1330 mote and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our soci Make-Up and Hair Crew ..... .. .... .. ..... Chad Duda, Sarah Shade ety. Equity negotiate s wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL- Lighting Crew ...... Sarah Burkhalter,Kristopher Carpenter, Scott Kyrish, ACTORS' CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing Valerie Lara, Maarouf Naboulsi,Nigel O'Hearn, JacobTrussell, EQ LJfTY arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. and the students from THAR 3323 Assoc111.noN 1913 www.actorsequfry.org Pamela Dalrymple is inspired by the life of the British-born socialite Pamela Beryl Digby From the Dramaturg Churchill Hayward Harriman ( 1920-1997). Harriman made a name for herself first as the The full-bore theatricality of Charles Mee's Full Circleis rooted in Bertholt Brecht's epic wife or lover of a succession of prominent men and later as a doyenne of the Democratic theatre. Brecht preferred to call his theatre a "theatre of dialectic" - the clash of oppos Party. Her list of liaisons included Randolph Churchill, Edward R. Murrow, Prince Aly ing ideas and concepts. This c.lash of opposites not only makes up the wildly entertaining Khan, the Fiat automobile heir Gianni Agnelli and Baron Elie de Rothschild. She married dramatic structure ofMee's play, as polarities of diought and behavior are pushed to comic Randolph Churchill, Broadway producer Leland Hayward and diplomat W Averell Har (and even offensive) extremes, but it is also the inner-dialogue of the play, as Mee com riman. In 1992 Pamela Harriman was made U.S. Ambassador to France, and in 1996 she ments on the story he has inherited from Brecht and his predecessors. was awarded the Commander of the French Legion of Honor's Order of Arts and Letters. BrooksBarr, Dramaturg l Dulle Griet is the central figure in two large paintings by Pieter Breugel the Elder (c. CHARLES MEE ON FULL CIRCLE: 1525-1569). Traditionally known in English as "Mad Meg," Griet is depicted as a heavily Ful{Circle is ... a conversation with an entire dramatic tradition. The original narrative armed thief crossing the mouth of Hell, her sword raised against the grotesque array of comes from a fourteenth-century Chinese play, The Chalk Circle, which was rewritten demons that surround her. Mee invokes this history of a patron "saint" of thieves. b~ the German playwright Klabund in 1924 as Der Kreidekreis.Brecht responded to Erich Honecker (1912-1994) was First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party and thus Klabund's play in 1926 when he wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and my play, Full head of state of the German Democratic Republic from 1971-1989. He advocated Circle,is an argument with Brecht and the earlier versions of the story, which seem to me modest consumerism but strict social controls. Under Honecker's rule, the GDR adopted romantic and na"ive. a program of "consumer socialism," which resulted in a marked improvement in living 1b'e Chalk Circleplays all conclude with a famous trial scene. A baby is placed in the mid standards. Still, internal dissent remained oppressively · subdued. A number of East dle of a circle and his adoptive and birth mothers stand on opposite sides of the circumfer German citizens were killed during this period while trying to cross the border into West ence. Both women try to pull the baby to them until one of them lets go, whereupon the Berlin . Honecker's career was inextricably linked with the Berlin Wall, from 1961 when judge declares that the true mother is the one who released her son for fear of hurting him. he was put in charge of its construction, through 1989 when the Wall was breached in So much for the myth. I want~d to return to the ancient roots of the Chalk Circle nar the bloodless revolution that overthrew his communist regime, to 1993 when criminal rative. CaucasianChalk Circleis one of Brecht's greatest plays - it certainly contains his charges were filed that he had issued "shoot-to-kill" orders to East German border guards. best argument for Marxism - but I wanted to escape Brecht, to turn him upside down. Honecker emigrated to Chile in 1993 and died the following year. My first decision was therefore to take the play back to Brecht's hometown, indeed to his Heiner Miiller (1929-1996) joined Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemb .le in 1951, working