Passionate Words Poems to Love an hours program of poetry and song

with JOY COGHILL* STEPHEN ABERLE* YA-WEN V. WANG pianist

directed by PAMELA HAWTHORN* -Members of canadlanActors Equity Msociation

Western Gold Theatre Society ---..,...... ,. r

PASSIONATE WORDS lOY POEMS TO LOVE COGHILL C.M. an hours program of poetry and song Veteran actor and trail­ blazer JoY Coghill has SONGS developed careers as a Drink to Me Only Ben Jonson theatre producer, director, actor and teacher. In Corn Rigs Are Bonnie Robert Bums 1995 she founded the Down By the Salley Gardens "Western Gold Theatre" W.B. Yeats a company for senior Fear No More the Heat 0' th' Sun Shakespeare from Cymbeline professionals; in 1953 she created "Holiday Theatre" a professional POETRYFROM company for young W. Wordsworth audiences. Both were firsts in Canada. Known Shakespeare for innovation JoY wrote Robert Bums and produced in 1987 Song ofThis Place a play Dylan Thomas with puppets based on W.B. Yeats the life of ; in 1996 she played King Don Marquis Lear in The Lear Project and in 1998 she created Robert Browning The Alzheimer Project Elizabeth Barrett Browning for Western Gold. Coghill was Artistic Director of p.K. Page the Playhouse (67-69) and the English FROM PLAYS Acting Section of The National Theatre School Hamlet Shakespeare (70-73). She received The Rivals R.B. Sheridan honourary degrees from (94) and the University of (95). She is the recipient of four "Jessie" Awards, the Gascon-Thomas Award STEPHEN YA-WENV. ABERLE WANG pianist (NTS) , the Herbert Agraduate of Studio 58, Ya-wen (Chinese musical director of Whittaker Critic's Assoc. Stephen has scampered translation: Asian Rain Urinetown, The Musical, Award and a lifetime about to work with many Dripping on Literature) Vancouver's "hottest Membership in Canadian BC theatre companies and her creative water ticket in town" (The Actors Equity Association. including the Arts Club, continue their journey Vancouver Sun) and Best She is a Member of the Barkerville, Carousel, Fly of transformation. A Production 2006. She is Order of CanMa and By Night, Frederic Wood, practitioner of music and looking forward to serving received the Governor Green Thumb, New Play art for life thus far, she is as a musical director for General's Performing Arts Centre, Richfield currently working towards the Vancouver Moving Award in 2004. Courthouse, Savage God, her certification as an Theatre's upcoming The Touchstone, Tamahnous, integrative energy medicine Shadows Project, as well TUTS and Westcoast practitioner. As an artist as premiering her new Actors. He's done the odd she composes, conducts, compositions written for movie and TV bit here directs music and performs the documentary concert and there. He sang in the as an interdisciplinary Triaspora throughout Vancouver Opera chorus performer. She is the year. for a dozen delightful equally passionate in years and appeared in the troubleshooting and recent September with retuning the harmonies Sondheim series at Christ in music as well as living Church cathedral. being's holistic health. Stephen also sings with Recipient/nominee of the the Vancouver Jewish Jessie Richardson Theatre Folk Choir and the Award (for Outstanding Solidarity Notes Labour Original Musical), the Choir. AMSSA Riasat Ali Khan Diversity Award and many Canada Council and BC Arts Council awards, Ya-wen has written for the CBC and BBC Radios, Vancouver's critically acclaimed Orchid Ensemble, and enjoys being a "published" composer since last November. She was the WESTERN GOLD STAGED READINGS THEATRE FOR 2007 AWealth of Experience on Stage Western Gold Theatre, which was Victoria's Men founded in 1994 by Joy Coghill, a program about Queen Victoria produces outstanding professional theatre that expands horizons and enriches the lives of mature artists An Evening with and their audiences. The company Gilbert & Sullivan offers powerful role-modeling, creative opportunity and active engagement to a rapidly growing The Importance senior population and provides inspiration to divers generations ofBeing Ernest of theatre lovers. Oscar Wilde Some of Western Gold's past productions include The Dream Passionate Words Project, which went on to be the Poems to Love subject of a CBC documentary, a program of poetry & song The Courage to Dream; Alice: a Play with Music at the Arts Club Theatre; Strangers Among Us, The Bear which won two Jessie Richardson Anton Chekhov awards and was presented at the Adapted by Morwyn Brebner Roundhouse Theatre; and One Last Kiss, which was co-produced by the Vancouver Playhouse and Watch for our upcoming Victoria's Belfry Theatre production, an adaptation of Balzac's Pere Goriot by James Fagan Tait Western Gold acknowledges the For more information support of the Province of BC Gaming or to book please call Policy and Enforcement Branch Judith Marchesi 604-408-7469 --~, BRITISH ~ COLUMBIA Ministry of Attorney General www.westemgoldtheatre.com Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch