By JOE HORTUA DAVID EMMES

38th Season • 370th Production SECOND STAGE / JANUARY 22 THROUGH FEBRUARY 24, 2002

David Emmes Martin Benson Producing Artistic Director Artistic Director

presents the World Premiere of

by JOE HORTUA

Scenic and Costume Design Lighting Design Dramaturg ANGELA BALOGH CALIN GEOFF KORF JERRY PATCH

Stage Manager Production Manager *VANESSA J. NOON JEFF GIFFORD

Directed by DAVID EMMES

This play was developed in part with the support of the 2001 Sundance Theatre Lab.

PERFORMING ARTS NETWORK / SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P -1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (in order of appearance)

Dora ...... *Jennifer Griffin Jack ...... *Heath Freeman Paolo ...... *JD Cullum Claire ...... *Laura Hinsberger Mo ...... *Dileep Rao Haji ...... *Assaf Cohen Leonard ...... *Nicholas Hormann

SETTING: A restaurant. New York City.

LENGTH: Approximately two hours, including one 15-minute intermission

PRODUCTION STAFF Casting Director ...... Joanne DeNaut Production Assistant ...... Karen Cecilio Assistant to the Lighting Designer ...... Celeste Thompson Stage Management Intern ...... Chrissy Church

Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. 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.

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P - 2 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY / PERFORMING ARTS NETWORK From ‘American Tune’ Half Empty . . . …I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered I don’t have a friend who feels at ease I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered “Success is man’s god.” –Aeschylus, 460 BC Or driven to its knees Oh, but it’s alright, it’s alright We’ve lived so well so long Still, when I think of the road we’re travelling on “I think the American Dream for most people is just survival.” I wonder what’s gone wrong, –Sandy Scholl, cleaning service owner, I can’t help it, I wonder what’s gone wrong quoted in The Great Divide, by Studs Terkel (1988) And I dreamed I was dying I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly Looking back down at me, smiling assuredly And I dreamed I was flying “The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an And high up above my eyes could clearly see avoidance of responsibility and commitment. The American The Statue of Liberty Dream is really money.” Sailing away to sea –Jill Robinson, American Dreams, And I dreamed I was flying Part I, by Studs Terkel (1980) We come on the ship we call the Mayflower We come on the ship that sailed the moon We come in the age’s most uncertain hour “Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so And sing an American tune… climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.” – Paul Simon, Charing Cross Music, BMI –Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, Warner Bros. Records “Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of Success is counted sweetest this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At By those who ne’er succeed. all costs one must have wealth.” To comprehend a nectar –Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband Requires sorest need. –Emily Dickenson, 1859

“The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the “These days are dangerous; palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.” Virtue is choked with foul ambition, – H.L. Mencken And charity chased hence by rancor’s hand.” –William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II

PERFORMING ARTS NETWORK / SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P - 3 From ‘New York, . . . Half Full New York’ Start spreadin’ the news “…Come, my friends, I’m leavin’ today ‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.” I want to be a part of it –Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ulysses New York, New York…

I want to wake up in a city that doesn’t sleep And find I’m king of the hill “The daily diary of the American dream.” Top of the heap –advertisement for The Wall Street Journal These little town blues Are melting away I’ll make a brand new start of it “It is a grand thing to rise in the world. The ambition to do so In old New York is the very salt of the earth. It is the parent of all enterprise, and the cause of all improvement.” If I can make it there – Anthony Trollope, Is He Popinjoy? I’ll make it anywhere It’s up to you New York, New York –John Kander/Fred Ebb “Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He EMI-Capitol creates a discontent with present surroundings and achieve- ments; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to bet- ter things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.” –Lyndon B. Johnson “There’s no country I’ve been to where people. . .so often ask you, ‘What do you do?’ And, being American, many’s the time I’ve almost asked that question, then realized it’s good for my soul not to know, not to rank everybody every minute of the “Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past day.” smells.” –Elizabeth Taylor –Arthur Miller

P - 4 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY / PERFORMING ARTS NETWORK ASSAF COHEN JD CULLUM HEATH FREEMAN Haji Paolo Jack

Artist Biographies

*ASSAF COHEN (Haji) is making his es to thank his family and friends for maan (Geffen Playhouse). Recent on SCR debut. His regional theatre cred- the love and support. camera work includes “Judging Amy,” its include Macbeth and Tell the Tales “NYPD Blue,” Dead Last and *61. of Shakespeare at San Francisco *JD CULLUM (Paolo) is making his Shakespeare Festival; Becket and SCR debut. Originally from New York *HEATH FREEMAN (Jack) is making Shorts Festival at Marin Theatre Com- City, he has performed on and Off- his SCR debut. His theatre credits in- pany; A Question of Mercy at the Magic Broadway alongside distinguished per- clude The Winter’s Tale, Never in My Theatre; The Man Who Came to Dinner formers such as Geraldine Page, Uta Lifetime, Road’s End, Love and Manip- at TheatreWorks; A Midsummer Hagen, Amanda Plummer, Philip ulation and Altamont Now! at the Uni- Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Bosco, Victor Garber, as well as his fa- versity of Texas and The Lines, The Shrew and Robin Hood at Marin Shake- ther, actor John Cullum. Recent L.A. Corn is Green and Rivers and Ravines speare Festival; Love’s Labour’s Lost appearances include Joe Louis Blues at NYU Tisch School. Film and televi- and Man of La Mancha at PCPA The- (Tiffany Theatre), The Lady's Not For sion credits include The Painting, So- atrefest; and the title role in Picasso at Burning (Malibu Stage) and Side Man phie, Running the Gambit, Perfection the Lapin Agile at Holmdel Theatre (Pasadena Playhouse). Other notable in a Wall, I Like to Eat Jam, The Grim Festival in New Jersey. Cohen has ap- productions include Waiting for Godot Vaguery, “E.R.” and “Rhonda’s Lament.” peared in the film Scream and on tele- (Matrix Theatre), Affliction of Glory vision in “Party of Five.” He holds an (Getty Center), The Liar (Secret Rose *JENNIFER GRIFFIN (Dora) is MFA from Rutgers University and wish- Theatre) and The Cripple of Inish- pleased to return to SCR where she

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PERFORMING ARTS NETWORK / SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P - 5 JENNIFER GRIFFIN LAURA HINSBERGER NICHOLAS HORMANN Dora Claire Leonard

made her debut as Lily in Ah! Wilder- “Snoops,” “Profiler,” “Time of Your *NICHOLAS HORMANN (Leonard) ness. Her regional theatre credits in- Life,” “Nothing Sacred,” “Cybill” and last appeared at SCR as Teddy in The clude Medea in Sexual Mythology at “Foxworthy”; the made-for-television Homecoming and Tobias in A Delicate the Baltimore Theatre Project, Kate in movies Only in America: The Life and Balance. Before that he played Lau- Taming of the Shrew and Titania in A Crimes of Don King, Murder in the rence Olivier in Orson’s Shadow at the Midsummer Night’s Dream at the San Heartland and Margaret Bourke- Globe Theatres (San Diego). Other SCR Antonio Shakespeare Festival, Desde- White. credits include Henry Higgins in Pyg- mona in Othello at the Fort Worth malion, Charles Condomine in Blithe Shakespeare Festival, Mrs. Linde in A *LAURA HINSBERGER (Claire) Spirit, Tesman in Hedda Gabler, John in Doll’s House and Peggy in the pre- made her Equity debut at SCR in Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Beverly Carl- miere of Octavio Solis’ Santos and Shaw’s Pygmalion. A graduate of ton in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Santos at the Dallas Theatre Center, SCR’s Professional Conservatory, she Prosper Blondlot in The Company of and Fran in the premiere of James has also appeared in SCR’s produc- Heaven and Spindlequick in Boundary McClure’s Fran and Brian at the tions of All My Sons, Death of a Sales- Waters. He appeared on Broadway in Arkansas Repertory Theatre. An oft man and the staged reading of Drink Execution of Justice, Saint Joan, The seen company member of the award- Me. Some of her other regional cred- Visit, A Member of the Wedding and winning LA theatre troupe Bottom’s its include: Rocket to the Moon with Moose Murders. His Off-Broadway ap- Dream, she was nominated for an LA the Hunger Artists, Very Truly Yours pearances include new plays at the Pub- Ovation Award for her portrayal of at the Tiffany Theater and Under Milk lic Theater, Playwrights Horizons, the Clytemnestra in Elektra Fugues. Her Wood at the Hudson Theater. Ms. Manhattan Theater Club, Second Stage film credits include Vanilla Sky, A Per- Hinsberger received her MFA from the and Chelsea Theater Center. Else- fect World, JFK, The Stars Fell on Hen- American Conservatory Theater in San where, he has performed at ACT (San rietta and two recent indies Hotel Francisco, where she appeared in pro- Francisco), La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Lobby and Would I Lie to You? Televi- ductions of Three Sisters, Romeo and Taper Forum, Ahmanson, McCarter The- sion credits include “Six Feet Under,” Juliet, The Kentucky Cycle, The Cau- ater (Princeton), Huntington Theater “The X-Files,” “Angel,” “Judging Amy,” casian Chalk Circle and Company. (Boston), Williamstown Theater Festi-

P - 6 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY / PERFORMING ARTS NETWORK PLAYWRIGHT, Good and Harry Kondoleon’s Christmas DIRECTOR on Mars; and the Southland premiere of &DESIGNERS Top Girls (at SCR and the Westwood Playhouse). Recent productions include JOE HORTUA (Playwright) is a writer the West Coast premieres of Three View- whose work has been read and staged in ings by Jeffrey Hatcher, The Secret Rap- New York City at Playwrights Horizons, ture by David Hare and New England by MCC Theatre, the Actors Studio, Second Richard Nelson; and Arcadia by Tom Stage Theatre Company, Rattlestick The- Stoppard, Six Degrees of Separation by atre Productions, Rising Phoenix Reper- John Guare, The Importance of Being tory and the LABrynth Company. In Lon- Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Ayckbourn’s don and abroad: the Royal Court Theatre Woman in Mind and You Never Can Tell and the American Theatre Company of by George Bernard Shaw, which he Brussels. Regional: The Geva Theatre in restaged for the 1990 Singapore Festival Rochester, the Chicago Dramatists Work- of Arts. His producing responsibilities in-

DILEEP RAO shop and the Sundance Institute. Sick, a volve the overall coordination of SCR’s Mo short screenplay he wrote, was produced programs and projects. He has served as by Film Forge Productions and directed a consultant to the Orange County Per- in the Summer of 2000 by the theatre di- forming Arts Center and as a theatre val, Kennedy Center, the O’Neill Center, rector Ron Daniels. He was Playwright- panelist and onsite evaluator for the Na- Sundance Institute, Milwaukee Reperto- in-Residence at the 2001 Chautauqua tional Endowment for the Arts. He has ry and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Summer Festival. Making It was select- served on the board of the California He most recently performed in 1776 for ed by the Sundance Theatre Laboratory Theatre Council, the Executive Commit- the Reprise! Broadway series in Los An- last summer, where it was developed for tee of the League of Resident Theatres, geles. He has appeared in numerous three weeks in Utah. His next play has and as a panelist for the California Arts television movies and series. Mr. Hor- been commissioned by SCR. Council. After attending Orange Coast mann has received grants from the NEA College, he received his BA and MA from and the Sears Foundation to serve as an DAVID EMMES (Director/Producing California State University, San Francis- Affiliate Artist and has taught at the Artistic Director) is co-founder and Pro- co, and his PhD in theatre and film from American Academy of Dramatic Arts and ducing Artistic Director of SCR, one of USC. the SCR Professional Conservatory. He the largest professional resident theatres studied Asian history and piano at Ober- in California. He has received numerous ANGELA BALOGH CALIN (Scenic/ lin and has an MFA from the Yale School awards for productions he has directed Costume Designer) is excited to be back of Drama. during SCR’s 37-year history, including a at SCR collaborating for the first time 1999 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle with David Emmes. Her previous SCR *DILEEP RAO (Mo) is making his SCR Award for the direction of George credits include set and costume design debut. Theatre credits include Indian Bernard Shaw’s The Philanderer. He di- for The Lonesome West, the set design for Ink, The Lover, Tartuffe, Purple Dust, rected the world premieres of Amy Play Strindberg as well as the sets and Three Sisters, Escape from Happiness Freed’s The Beard of Avon and Freedom- costumes for SCR’s Educational Touring and Sure Thing at the American Conser- land, Thomas Babe’s Great Day in the Productions Power Play, Bad Water vatory Theatre, Sturm and Durang at Morning, Keith Reddin’s Rum and Coke Blues, My Mom’s Dad and The Day after the Secret Rose Theatre. Film and tele- and But Not for Me and Neal Bell’s Cold Evermore. She is a resident designer at vision credits include “Heroes Always Sweat; the American premiere of Terry A Noise Within where her designs in- Die,” A Promise Broken and Catfish Johnson’s Unsuitable for Adults; the clude costumes for The Imaginary In- Blues. West Coast premieres of C.P. Taylor’s valid, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Misan-

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PERFORMING ARTS NETWORK / SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P - 7 thrope, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Other Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Prize-winning Wit, which he also directed Part of the Forest (Los Angeles Drama The Guthrie Lab, The Children’s Theatre at Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Critics Circle Award and Garland Company of Minneapolis, Chicago Chil- Alley Theatre in Houston. He has direct- Award), Little Foxes (Garland Award), dren’s Theatre and Stage One in ed American classics including Ah, The Seagull, A Winter’s Tale, The Three Louisville. Mr. Korf is a member of the Wilderness!, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Penny Opera (Drama-Logue Award) ensemble of Cornerstone Theater, and he Delicate Balance and All My Sons. Mr. and Twelfth Night (Drama-Logue is a graduate of California State Universi- Benson has been honored with the Award). Ms. Calin has designed over 40 ty, Chico and the Yale School of Drama. Drama-Logue Award for his direction of productions for local theatres and in her 21 productions and received LADCC Dis- native country Romania. Some of those *VANESSA J. NOON (Stage tinguished Achievement in Directing productions are The Last of Mr. Lincoln Manager) returns to SCR having previ- awards an unparalleled six times for the at El Portal, Diablogues at the Tiffany ously stage managed Nostalgia, The two Shaw productions, John Millington Theatre, The Sunshine Boys and Harvey Lonesome West and The Countess. Be- Synge’s Playboy of the Western World, for the La Mirada Center for the Per- sides working at SCR, she has stage man- Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Sally forming Arts, Cabaret and Company for aged for the Mark Taper Forum’s New Nemeth’s Holy Days and Wit. He also di- the West Coast Ensemble, Ivona, Works Festival & P.L.A.Y. Tour, Shake- rected the film version of Holy Days Princess of Burgundia for the Odyssey speare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Festi- using the original SCR cast. Along with Theatre, Blood Poetry (Drama-Logue val/L.A. and A Noise Within. She has David Emmes, he accepted SCR’s 1988 Award) for Theatre 40, How to Teach the been a production assistant on the Tony Award for Outstanding Resident History of Communism for the Open Academy Awards, the Primetime Emmy Professional Theatre and won the 1995 First Theatre and Ancestral Voices for Awards, the Democratic National Con- Theatre LA Ovation Award for Lifetime the Falcon Theatre. She has worked ex- vention at The Staples Center and Achievement. Mr. Benson received his tensively in film and television in the “America: A Tribute to Heroes” telethon. BA in Theatre from California State Uni- U.S. and Romania, having 16 credits with Last year she was a stage manager on- versity, San Francisco. I.R.S. Media, Cannon Films, PBS, Full board the John C. Stennis in Hawaii for Moon Entertainment and Romanian the Pearl Harbor movie premiere. Ms. PAULA TOMEI (Managing Director) is Films. She graduated with an MFA in set Noon has a BFA in Stage Management responsible for the overall administra- and costume design from the Academy of from USC. tion of the day-to-day operations of SCR. Arts in Bucharest. In her spare time she A member of the staff since 1979, she has works at her fine arts career, having now MARTIN BENSON (Artistic Director) served in a number of administrative ca- participated in two dozen exhibitions. shares co-founder credit and artistic pacities including Subscriptions Manag- leadership of SCR with his colleague er, Business Manager and General Man- GEOFF KORF (Lighting Designer) has David Emmes. As one of SCR’s chief di- ager. She currently serves as President designed lighting for the SCR produc- rectors, Mr. Benson has directed nearly of Theatre Communications Group tions of Hold Please, Art, Entertaining one third of the plays produced here in (TCG), the national service organization Mr. Sloane, Amy’s View, The Summer the last 37 years. He has distinguished for theatre where she just completed a Moon, References to Salvador Dali Make himself in the staging of contemporary two-year term as Treasurer, and has Me Hot and Two Sisters and a Piano. Re- work, most notably Paul Osborn’s Morn- served as the Vice President of the cently at the Mark Taper Forum, he de- ing’s at Seven, the critically acclaimed League of Resident Theatres (LORT). In signed the lighting for the The Body of California premiere of William Nichol- addition, she has been a member of the Bourne, directed by Lisa Peterson. On son’s Shadowlands, Athol Fugard’s Play- LORT Negotiating Committee for indus- Broadway, he designed the lighting for land, Brian Friel’s Dancing at try-wide union agreements and repre- August Wilson’s Two Trains Running, di- Lughnasa, David Mamet’s Oleanna, sents SCR at national conferences of rected by Lloyd Richards. For Corner- Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming,the TCG and LORT; is a theatre panelist for stone Theater, he designed Shishir West Coast premiere of Peter Hedges’ the National Endowment for the Arts and Kurup’s An Antigone Story, Los Biom- Good As New and David Hare’s Skylight. the California Arts Council (CAC), and bos/The Screens, directed by Peter Sell- He has won accolades for his direction of site visitor for the CAC; served on the Ad- ars and Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella, di- five major works by George Bernard visory Committee for the Arts Adminis- rected by Bill Rauch and Tracy Young. Shaw, including the Los Angeles Drama tration Certificate Program at UC Irvine; Regionally, his designs have appeared in Critics Circle (LADCC) Award-winners and has been a guest lecturer in the productions at La Jolla Playhouse, Old Misalliance and Heartbreak House. graduate school of business at Stanford. Globe Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Seattle Among the numerous world premieres he She graduated from UC Irvine with a de- Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, has directed are Jon Bastian’s Noah gree in Economics and pursued an addi- Trinity Repertory, Yale Repertory The- Johnson Had a Whore..., Tom Strelich’s tional course of study in theatre and atre, The Kennedy Center, Huntington BAFO, and Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer dance.

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