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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Wayne Johnston novelist Robert Chafe playwright Jillian Keiley director Patrick Boyle composer ACT 1: 1927 - 1932 CAST (in order of appearance) 1. Fielding Astrid Van Wieren Sheilagh Fielding 2. At the Mansion of Sir Richard Squires Colin Furlong Joseph Smallwood 3. Smallwood Prepares to Walk the Humber District Jody Richardson Sir Richard Squires 4. On Water Street with Clara Alison Woolridge Minnie Smallwood/ 5. Fielding Writes Field Day Lady Squires 6. Sir Richard Reads Field Day Steve O’Connell Charlie Smallwood 7. Prowse and Smallwood, Together Again. Willow Kean Clara Smallwood/ 8. Fielding Writes for the Papers, Smallwood and Nurse Prowse Write to the Papers Brian Marler Daniel Prowse 9. Squires Celebrates Re-election Paul Rowe Andrews/ 10. Fielding’s Rooming House Louis St. Laurent 11. Riot at Colonial Buildiing Charlie Tomlinson Mackenzie King/ Sir John Hope Simpson ACT 2: 1933 - 1941 Darryl Hopkins David Hanrahan/ Gordon Bradley 1. Smallwood Walks the Outer Reaches Again Angus Younghusband The Boy 2. Field Day Welcomes the Commission of Government 3. Sir John Hope Simpson and the Commission of CREW Government Entertain the Press 4. Fielding in the Harbour Light Addictions Centre Shawn Kerwin set design 5. Smallwood Becomes the Barrelman Leigh Ann Vardy lighting design 6. Waiting in Line, the American Movie Theatre in Fort Don Ellis sound design Pepperrell. Marie Sharpe costume design 7. Smallwood’s New Fame as Barrelman Connie Walsh costume assistant/ 8. Fielding’s Rooming House. dresser Amy Edwards Dresser ACT 3: 1947-1948 Karl Simmons Technical Director set construction 1. Fielding Flora Planchat Props 2. In the office of W.L. MacKenzie King, Prime Minister Christine Brubaker Assistant Director of Canada Sarah Garton Stanley Dramaturge 3. Smallwood Tours the Outer Reaches Yet Again Patrick Foran producer / 4. The Home of Charlie and Minnie Smallwood, and production manager the First Referendum Kai Yueh Chen Stage Manager 5. Fielding’s Rooming House Mark Denine Assistant Stage Manager 6. The Final Tally, Fielding on the Streets of St.John’s Brian Kenny lighting/sound assistant Renate Pohl Set Painter Victoria Wells Media Production PLAYWRIGHT’s NoTES I have a confession to make: in writing this history play, I did precious little historical research. When I wrote Oil and Water my desk was covered in books, the same with Tempting Providence. My desk this time around had one book, and lots and lots of post-it notes. I read Wayne’s novel 10 times or more, dissecting it, cutting it up and reassembling it. What I didn’t do was give much consideration to historical accuracy. Wayne himself strayed from the record, most notably of course in his creation of Sheilagh Fielding. I have strayed further. In adapting this epic book, certain things are necessarily lost or truncated, and certain facets of Smallwood and Newfoundland’s history are mutated, twisted, or omitted all together. The history buff will have no trouble calling me out. But I made my primary task to reflect the spirit and heart of this magnificent book within the often-confining demands of a stage play. I hope what remains here evokes the sweep of Wayne’s storytelling, and in some way continues his investigation of the man, his country, and the key moments that made and unmade them. MUSIC NOTES The music of Colony invokes the jazz spirit in that pieces were both composed and improvised. This “comprovisational” approach facilitates the creation of sounds that are of the moment, unbound by genre, and unique to this production and these people: Patrick Boyle (trumpet, guitars, piano, loops), Bill Brennan (piano, vibraphone), Frank Fusari (accordion, double bass), Heather Kao (violin, piano) and Don Ellis (engineer). WHEN IT’S YOUR MOVE AND LET EXPERTS GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF THEIR EXPERIENCE LeDREW’S MOTOR EXPRESS THANK YOU The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was developed with the support of The Shaw Festival, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, Memorial University’s Department of English, National Arts Centre’s English Theatre, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. Patricia Corrigal, Trina Bowers, Janet March, Erin Brothers at Grant Thornton LLP, Krista Ryan at Morrissey Professional Corporation, John Williams at Dick’s & Co-Typewriter repairs, Livyer’s Antiques, Jenny Smith, Adam Stephens, Sherrie Reynolds & Jeff McLean at the Ray Agency, Sue Jefferson, Rex and Martin Ledrew and everyone at Allied Domestic Moving & Storage, Rick Rowe, Nathan Anthony and Dave Boone at EC Boone Ltd., Dave Chaulk at Metrobus, Lee Ann Surette and Paul O’Brien at Newfoundland Power, Wayne Johnston, Ian Arnold at Catalyst TCM, Sue Roy, Nathan Medd, Judi Pearl & Andy Lunney at Canada’s National Arts Centre, David Morgan at the Parish of the Anglican Cathedral, Aiden Flynn, Peter Rompkey, Katie Jackson, Sandra Wood, Helen Picco, Karl Simmons, Dave Hewitt, Debbie Clarke, Connie Wilson & Randy at St. John’s Arts and Culture Centre, Colin Sangster at Technically Yours, Mark Fine at Air Magic, Bernie Brittain at Kent’s, Blair at Kanstor, Thea Morash and Wendy Mugford at The City of St. John’s, Gina Pinsent, Andrew Hawthorn and Aiden Hibbs at VOCM, Louis Power and Tara Bradbury at The Telegram, Angela Antle, Ted Blades and Zach Goudie at the CBC, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, Playwrights Workshop Montreal, The Shaw Festival, Joanna Falck, Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, Sarah Garton Stanley, Jillian Keiley, National Arts Centre’s English Theatre, Alison Woolridge, Brian Marler, Paul Rowe, Mark Power, Petrina Bromley, Marie Jones, Patrick Foran, Janet Edmonds. Support Artistic Fraud! If you donate to Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland you are helping to create some of the most ambitious theatre in Newfoundland and Labrador. Our company prides itself on creating innovative takes on home-spun stories and sharing them with the world. Last year alone, 28,000 people across Canada were introduced to the story of Lanier Phillips, the wreck of the USS Truxtun, and the miners of St. Lawrence when we toured Oil and Water. Your donations help us bring these stories to the stage. Artistic Fraud is a registered charity, governed by a volunteer board of directors. Artistic Fraud Board of Directors 2014 Chair David Somers, B. Sc. (Mech Eng.) Treasurer David A. Hood, FCA, ICD.D, TEP, Director Chris Brookes, C.M., D. Lit Director John Drover, B.A.,M.A., LLB Director Erin French Advisory Member Jenny Smith Charitable Registration: 89708 3283 RR0001 The Colony of Unrequited Dreams February 18-21, 2015 cast and Crew ROBERT JILLIAN CHAFE KEILEY Jill is the Artistic Director of the Robert Chafe is a playwright based National Arts Centre, and founding in St. John’s, whose work has been Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud. For seen across Canada, the UK, Australia NAC: Alice Through the Looking Glass, and in the United States. He is the Metamorphoses and Andy Jones’ author of seventeen stage scripts and Adaptation of Tartuffe. For the Stratford co-author of another eight. He was Festival: Alice Through the Looking shortlisted for the Governor General’s Glass, and this summer, The Diary of Award for Drama for Tempting Anne Frank. For Artistic Fraud: Colony Providence and Butler’s Marsh in 2004, of Unrequited Dreams, Oil and Water, and won the award for Afterimage Fear of Flight, Afterimage, Under Wraps, Belly Up, Emile’s Dream, Jesus Christ in 2010. Tempting Providence, directed by Jillian Keiley and produced by Superstar, Salvage. Other: Jack Five- Oh! Tempting Providence, Stars in the Sky Theatre Newfoundland Labrador (Corner Brook, Newfoundland), is entering Morning, Possible Worlds, The Syringa Tree, Honk. Wind in the Willows, Anne and its thirteenth year of Canadian and international touring. He has been writer Seamus, Orpheus, Sailor Boy. Jill has directed in Canada, Ireland, Australia, and in residence at Artistic Fraud, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, Playwrights Italy. She is the winner of The Canada Council John Hirsch Prize, The Siminovitch Workshop Montreal, Forest Forge Theatre, (Hampshire, UK), and Memorial Prize for Directing, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from MUN. University of Newfoundland, and a guest instructor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and The National Theatre School of Canada. His play Oil and Water, premiered in a sold out run in February 2011 in St. John’s and continues to tour Canada. His first opera (with composer John Estacio), Ours, premieres with Opera on the Avalon in St. John’s, July 2016. WAYNE JOHNSTON Wayne Johnston was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. After a brief stint in pre-Med, Wayne obtained a BA in English from Memorial University. He worked as a reporter for the St. John’s Daily news before deciding to devote himself full-time to writing. En route to being published, Wayne earned an MA (Creative Writing) from the University of New Brunswick. Then he got off to a quick start. His first book, The Story of Bobby O’Malley, published when he was just 27 years old, won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel award for the best first novel published in the English language in Canada in that year. Subsequent books consistently received critical praise and increasing public attention. The Divine Ryans was adapted to the silver screen in a production starring Academy Award winner Pete Postlethwaite - Wayne wrote the screenplay. Baltimore’s Mansion, a memoire dealing with his grandfather, his father and Wayne himself was tremendously well received and won the most prestigious prize for creative non-fiction awarded in Canada - the Charles Taylor Prize. Both Colony of Unrequited Dreams and Navigator of New York spent extended periods of time on best seller lists in Canada and have also been published in the US, Britain, Germany, Holland and China.

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