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Saturn Returns 46th Season • 439th Production JULIANNE ARGYROS STAGE / October 23 - November 22, 2009 David Emmes Martin Benson PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR presents SATURN RETURNS BY Noah Haidle Ralph Funicello Nephelie Andonyadis Lonnie Rafael Alcaraz Kimberly Egan SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN Nelson T. Eusebio III Kelly L. Miller Joshua Marchesi Chrissy Church* ASSiStANt DirectOr DrAmAturg PrODuctiON mANAger StAge mANAger DIRECTED BY David Emmes Bette and Wylie Aitken HONOrArY PrODucerS Originally produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2008, New York City. SATURN RETURNS is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc. New York. Saturn Returns • SOUTH COA S T REPE R TO R Y P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Gustin, 88 ............................................................................................... Nick Ullett* Suzanne/Zephyr/Loretta ..................................................................... Kristen Bush* Gustin, 58 ...................................................................................... Conor O’Farrell* Gustin, 28 .................................................................. Graham Michael Hamilton* SETTING Grand Rapids, Michigan. LENGTH Approximately 80 minutes with no intermission. PRODUCTION STAFF Casting ..................................................................................... Joanne DeNaut, CSA Assistant Stage Manager ............................................................... Jamie A. Tucker* Assistant to the Set Designer ........................................................... Bryan Redfern Assistant to the Lighting Designer ................................................ Karyn Lawrence Production Assistant ............................................................................... Wendy Leef Stage Management Intern ................................................................... Jessica Kilzer Light Board Operator ..................................................................... Aaron Shetland Dresser ............................................................................................. Heather Bassett Wigs ..................................................................................................... Gieselle Blair Additional Costume Staff ....................................... Cecelia Parker, Katie Schmidt Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. The use of cameras and recorders in the theatre is prohibited. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. Segerstrom Stage Season Media Partner Media Partner P2 SOUTH COA S T REPE R TO R Y • Saturn Returns Saturn Returns refers to an astrological phenomenon that occurs nearly every thirty years, when the planet Saturn returns to the position it occupied at the time of a person’s birth, ushering in crucial turning points in that person’s life. Each Return of Saturn marks a momentous life change. “How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, What is love? ‘tis not hereafter; When memory plays an old tune on the heart.” Present mirth hath present laughter; – Eliza Cook What’s to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; svsvs Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth’s a stuff will not endure. Age is an issue of mind over – Feste, Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene 3 matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. svsvs – Mark Twain When You are Old svsvs When you are old and grey and full of sleep, The events in our lives And nodding by the fire, take down this book, happen in a sequence And slowly read, and dream of the soft look in time but in Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; their significance to ourselves How many loved your moments of glad grace, they find their own And loved your beauty with love false or true, order. the con- But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, tinuous thread of And loved the sorrows of your changing face; revelation. – Eudora Welty And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled svsvs And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. Each year – William Butler Yeats, The Rose (1893) brings new problems of svsvs Form and Content, Sonnet XV new foes to tug When I consider everything that grows with: at Holds in perfection but a little moment, Twenty That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows I tried Whereon the stars in secret influence comment; to When I perceive that men as plants increase, vex Cheered and check’d even by the self-same sky, my Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease, elders, And wear their brave state out of memory; past Sixty it’s Then the conceit of this inconstant stay the young whom Sets you most rich in youth before my sight, I hope to bother. Where wasteful Time debateth with Decay, – W. H. Auden To change your day of youth to sullied night. – William Shakespeare Costume rendering for Loretta by designer Nephelie Andonyadis. Saturn Returns • SOUTH COA S T REPE R TO R Y P3 Artist Biographies KRISTEN BUSH * True West; Strange Snow; the European tour of Zoo Suzanne/Zephyr/Loretta Story; Alexander; and Same Time Next Year. Film and television credits include three years as the Un- is making her SCR debut. She dersheriff on “CSI,” “Medium,” “The Unit,” “Prison made her Broadway debut in A Break,” “Without a Trace,” “Eli Stone,” “NCIS,” “Des- Touch of the Poet at the Round- perate Housewives,” “Nip/Tuck,” “ER,” “NYPD Blue,” about Theatre Co. Off-Broad- “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “CSI: Miami,” Flash of Ge- way credits include King Lear nius, Stir of Echoes, The Trigger Effect, 61, From the and As You Like It for The Pub- Earth to the Moon, and many others. Mr. O’Farrell lic Theater and Great Expectations at Lucille Lortel recently completed four months in Australia filming Theatre. Regional credits include The Goodman HBO’s mini-series “The Pacific,” Steven Spielberg’s se- Theatre’s production of Passion Play and The Old quel to “Band of Brothers,” which is due out in 2010. Globe’s production of The Violet Hour. Television He is a proud member of Actors Equity. appearances include “Law & Order: SVU,” “Numb3rs,” “Knightrider,” “Medium” and “NCIS.” Film appear- NIC K ULLETT * ances include Calling It Quits and Charlie Kaufman’s Gustin, 88 Synecdoche, New York. Ms. Bush is a graduate of The Guildhall School of Music & Drama. made his SCR debut last season in Noises Off. Broadway credits GRAHAM MICHAEL HAMILTON * include Me and My Girl, Loot Gustin, 28 and Cole Porter’s Gay Divorce. Additional theatre credits in- appeared at SCR previously in clude The Tempest and End- Hamlet. He appeared Off-Broad- game at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Zhivago and Loot at way in Hamlet (TFANA) and The La Jolla Playhouse; Pygmalion, Man for All Seasons, Two Noble Kinsmen (The Public Woman in Black and A Funny Thing Happened on Theater). Regional productions the Way to the Forum at Bristol Riverside Theatre; include All’s Well That Ends Well, Tooth and Claw at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New Romeo & Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Othello, A Midsum- York; Major Barbara and The School for Scandal at mer Night’s Dream, Vincent in Brixton, Antony & Mark Taper Forum; Many Happy Returns at Laguna Cleopatra (The Old Globe); Romeo & Juliet (Folger Playhouse; and Fields of Ambrosia at George Street Shakespeare Library); Third (Huntington Theatre Com- Playhouse. Film and television credits include Hook, pany); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare Festi- Down and Out in Beverly Hills, “Yes, Dear,” “The val/LA) and Mozart (Walt Disney Concert Hall). Film Practice,” “Home Improvement,” “Golden Girls” and and television credits include How I Got Lost, “Lincoln “As the World Turns.” He is a proud member of the Heights,” “Cold Case” and “Guiding Light.” Mr. Hamil- Ensemble Studio Theatre and Actors’ Equity. Find ton received his BFA from The Juilliard School and is a out more than you ever needed to know at: www. proud member of AEA. www.grahamilton.com nickullett.com. CONOR O’FARRELL * Gustin, 58 PLAYWRIGHT , DIRECTOR AN D DESIGNERS made his SCR debut last season NOAH HAI D LE (Playwright). His most recent play in Goldfish. Theatre credits in- What is the Cause of Thunder? opened at The Wil- clude the original play PJ, for liamstown Theatre Festival in July. His plays have which he won a Denver Drama been seen at Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Critics Circle Award; Death of Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Huntington a Salesman at Germinal Stage; Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Woolly P4 SOUTH COA S T REPE R TO R Y • Saturn Returns Mammoth Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights for the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Theatre, and others around the country and abroad. panelist for the California Arts Council. After attend- He has taught playwriting at Princeton University, ing Orange Coast College, he received his BA and MA The Kennedy Center and in Kenya and Uganda as from San Francisco State University, and his PhD in part of The Sundance Theatre Institute. He is a theatre and film from USC. graduate of Princeton University and The Juilliard School, where he was a Lila Acheson Wallace play- RAL P H FUNICELLO (Scenic Design) returns for his wright-in-residence. He is the recipient of three 25th season at SCR. Among his SCR credits
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