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“ Your May-pole deck with flowery coronal; Sprinkle the flowery coronal with wine; And in the nimble -footed galliard all, Shepherds and shepherdesses, lively, join. Hither from village sweet and hamlet fair, From bordering cot and distant glen, repair: We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty: Our life is short and our days run As faster way as does the sun: And as a vapor, or a drop of rain, Once lost, can ne’er be found again, So when, or you, or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight, Lies drowned with us in endless night, Then while time serves, and we are but decaying, Come my Corinna, come, let’s go a-Maying ! “

To the custom of “going out a-Maying,” Shakespeare alludes to in his “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Act 1, Scene1 The English Journal,Volume 1, Page 318 Angell Blackfriars Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film commemorates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death with...

A Midsummer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare

Directed by Mary G. Farrell

Scenic Design Costume Design Kathryn Kawecki David Cabral

Sound Design Lighting Design Chris Warren G. Benjamin Swope

Properties Vocal and Text Coach Mary-Jo Hannigan Megan Chang

Due to the structure of this theratre, exiting your seat will result in you walking through the acting area and interfering with the actors entrances and exits. Late seating and reseating will not be possible until intermission begins.

Photography or video recording of any kind is strictly prohibited during performances in the Bowab Studio Theatre. production staff cast Theseus...... Will Oser Hippolyta...... Amanda Piechota Egeus...... Jonathon Coppe Hermia...... Jennifer Dorn Lysander...... Teddy Kiritsy Demetrius...... Dan Carroll Helena...... Veronica Murphy Quince...... Patrick Rogers Bottom...... Brian Kozak Snout...... Courteney Olenzak Starvling...... Gabriella Sanchez Snug...... Sabrina Guilbeault Flute...... Logan Serabian Puck...... Joey Macari Oberon...... Kelvin Oppong Titania...... Brittany Price Solo Fairy...... Aisling Sheahan Titania’s Fairies ...... Sabrina Guilbeault, Courteney Olenzak, Honey Perez, Gabriella Sanchez Fairy Ensemble: Emily Clark, Sabrina Guilbeault, Courteney Olenzak, Honey Perez, Amanda Piechota, Gabriella Sanchez, Aisling Sheahan, Kathy Toner, Jonathan Coppe, Mike Izzo, Will Oser, Logan Serabian Ensemble work developed by Cast.

When: Any Time Where: Act 1, Scene 1: Outside the palace of Theseus. Act 1, Scene 2: A beer garden. Act 2, Scene 1: A wood. Act 2, Scene 2: Another part of the wood,Titania’s bower Act 3, Scene 1: The same. Act 3, Scene 2: Another part of the wood. INTERMISSION Act 4, Scene 1: The same. Act 4, Scene 2: A beer garden. production staff STAGE MANAGER BOX OFFICE MANAGERS Gaby DeParis Alexandra Chase Joanna McDonough ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Kohl Peasley BOX OFFICE & PUBLICITY Catie Capolongo Emily Clark Gabi Dess LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR Olivia Ferri Isabella Christelles Joanna McDonough Alexandra Chase SOUND BOARD OPERATOR Laura Rostowski Konner Jebb HOUSE MANAGERS MOVEMENT COACH Joanna McDonough Betsy Miller Olivia Ferri

SIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTOR COSTUME SHOP CREW Mary Ellen Breen Bxter Lauren Kuhn Ashley Lewis WOODWINDS Maggie Oats Ariana Warren Rebecca Petrocelli Rosie Turner WARDROBE RUNNING CREW Kelly Atkinson SCENE SHOP CREW Julia DiBari Jake Denton Catie Capalongo Seth Pinches Ashly Maitland Benita Kalala Alexa Spina Mark Folan Erin Lasher TECHNICAL RUNNING CREW Sophia Clarkin Georgianna Silveira Benjamin Norton Diane Lamattina Anthony Stalter Chibi Nguyen Mireya Lopez

RAPPELING SAFETY USHERS Brendan Quigley The Friars Club Kohl Peasley POSTER ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Amanda Talbot Gabrielle Marks

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY Gabi Dess Stage History: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Early performances In its original performances, A Midsummer Night’s Dream was presented in daylight on the simple thrust stage of an Elizabethan playhouse, where perhaps the balcony at the rear of the stage provided Titania with her bower. No scenery and a mini- mum of props allowed the action to move swiftly and the audience to focus on the richly evocative language of the play. Music and costume added to the effect. Shakespeare wrote his plays with the strengths and talents of his fellow players in mind and the female roles were taken by his gifted group of boy players. The Merry Conceited Humours of Bottom was the title of a comic piece taken out from Shakespeare’s play and included in Francis Kirkman’s The Wits in 1673, ‘sundry times Acted In Publique and Private’. The play as a whole did not please the taste of the Restoration theatregoers. Pepys saw one of the few performances and, although he liked the dancing, he condemned the rest as ‘the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life’.

The Fairy Queen It was in an adapted form that the play found success when, in 1692, Henry Pur- cell wrote the music for a spectacular operatic version called The Fairy Queen. David Garrick’s own operatic version, The Fairies (1755), dismissed all characters except the lovers and the fairies. Fewer than 600 lines from Shakespeare’s original remained but there were an additional 28 songs, some from other plays by Shake- speare and some from other poets, such as Dryden.

19th Century Spectacle and music continued to underpin the success of the play as it appeared on stage in various adaptations. Francis Reynolds, in 1816 at Covent Garden, introduced new music for many of the songs added by Garrick. Reynolds also spared no expense in astounding his audiences with lavish pageants of classical figures, such as the Centaurs, Ariadne in the Labyrinth, the Argo and the Golden Fleece and a number of other legendary creatures.

More of Shakespeare’s text was retained in a successful production in 1840 led by Mme Lucia Vestris but she still could not do without the antiquarian settings and hosts of gauzy ballerinas. She herself played the part of Oberon and thus began a longstanding custom for a woman to take the role. From the middle of the nineteenth century for the next 100 years or so, Men- delssohn’s overture and incidental music was used in performances. Samuel Phelps, Charles Kean and Herbert Beerbohm Tree were notable among nineteenth-century actor-managers producing the play with ever more musical extravagance and picturesque detail. According to the playbill for Kean’s production, the tools used by Bottom and his fellow workmen were ‘copied from Discoveries at Hercu- laneum’. Stage History: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

20th Century In 1914 Harley Granville-Barker reclaimed the play for a Shakespearean-style stage. The fast, clear action was played out an apron stage with only two simple sets and the dextrous use of lighting and curtains to vary location. Oberon and Puck were once again played by male actors. Puck wore scarlet and a wild wig decorated with berries, while the other fairies were painted in gold, like stiffly beautiful Cambodian deities. One reviewer described them as ‘ormulu fairies, looking as if they had been detached from some fantastic, bristling old clock’. Cecil Sharp’s arrangement of traditional English folk music replaced Mendelssohn. However, in order to please the public, traditional approaches to the play continued to be staged. For example, Tyrone Guthrie’s Old Vic production (1937) in which Vivien Leigh’s ethereal Titania was attended by 22 balletic fairies. In this production, Robert Helpmann played Oberon and Ralph Richardson played Bottom. Robert Lepage conjured up an astonishing world of primordial mud in his 1992 pro- duction at the Royal National Theatre. Theseus first appeared punting an iron bed- frame into the centre of the muddy pool of a stage, around which the other charac- ters gathered for their dispute. Puck was played by the acrobat/contortionist Angela Laurier whose heavy French accent made her words sometimes difficult to follow but whose incredible agility created a truly non-human creature. In 2001 at the Albery Theatre, Dawn French played a female Bottom as a member of the Women’s Institute helping the war effort in 1940s England.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream on film •1935: Max Reinhardt’s film with James Cagney as Bottom incorporated long balletic sequences similar to those of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century stage pro- ductions. Reinhardt himself had staged the play many times between 1903 and 1939. •1969: Peter Hall made a film version of the play using some of the ideas and actors from his 1962 stage production for the RSC. •1981: The play was directed in the BBC TV Shakespeare series by Elijah Mojinsky with Helen Mirren as Titania surrounded by fairies inspired by Henry Fuseli’s eighteenth-cen- tury visions. •1996: Adrian Noble based his film on his earlier stage version. •1999: Michael Hoffman’s film set his version in a picturesque Tuscan setting, with Kevin Kline as a gentle Bottom.

Musical versions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Benjamin Britten’s opera version of the play has enjoyed great success since its compo- sition in 1960. Likewise, Frederick Ashton’s ballet, set to Mendelssohn’s music, premiered at Covent Garden in 1964 and has been a popular choice in the ballet repertoire since then.

Article from The Royal Shakespeare Company 2016 Who's who?

Fairies in the Woods Gives love potion

Oberon Married Titania King of Fairyland Queen of Fairyland

Serves Serves Loves Titania’s Fairies Puck Mustardseed, Cobweb, Trickster Fairy Moth, Peachblossom

Lovers in Gives love potion the Woods

Rivals Nick Bottom Lysander Demetrius Weaver, actor, ass Hermia’s lover Hermia’s fiance

Loves Loves Loves Peter Quince BFFs Carpenter, playwright, Hermia Helena director Demetrius’ Ex-fiance

Daughter Mechanicals/Players Flute (bellows-mender), Snout (metalsmith), Father Snug (carpenter), Starveling (tailor)

Egeus Wants Hermia to Theseus Engaged Hippolyta wed Demetrius King of Athens Former Queen of Asks help from the Amazons People in the city Resource from: PCS.com resident / guest artists David Costa Cabral David is a Eucharistic Minister and (Costume Design): David is a Lector at the Cathedral of Saints tenured Full Professor of Theatre, Peter and Paul in Providence as Dance and Film here at Providence well as a member of the Gregorian College where he has designed many Concert Choir. During his sabbatical productions. Among the Providence in the Fall of 2016 he is writing a play College Productions he has designed on the stormy relationship of Saints are The Tempest (sets and costumes), Peter and Paul. Macbeth ( sets and costumes), Summer Megan Chang and Smoke (sets and costumes), The (Voice & Text Coach) Megan is Importance of Being Earnest ( sets and Assistant Professor of Voice & costumes) and A Flea in Her Ear Diction at Providence College and ( sets and costumes). David spends his the Core Curriculum Faculty Fellow summers as Costume Director and for Oral Communication. Previously, Costume Designer at Bill Hanney’s she served as vocal coach for Playhouse Theatre By The Sea in Matunuck RI, Creatures, Addams Family the Musical, where he has designed Grease and Marie Antoinette: the Color of Flesh, Annie and is designing West Side Story and Imaginary Invalid at Providence for the summer of 2016. David has College. She also teaches a variety a BA in Theatre from Rhode Island of workshops around campus and College and an MFA in Costume to local professionals. She received Design from Southern Methodist her MFA in Vocal Pedagogy from University in Dallas, Texas. Among Virginia Commonwealth University his vast design credits during the past with a certification in Oxyrhythms, few seasons are The Sound of Music, a breath, body, and voice warm-up How to Succeed in Business... and The and conditioning system designed King and I for Ocean State Theatre for actors. Previous coaching credits Company, Spring Awakening, The Three include: The 39 Steps, A Christmas Penny Opera, Follies, West Side Story, Carol, Dial M for Murder (Triad Stage, Oklahoma, Curtains and Machinal at North Carolina); The Winter’s Tale, The Boston Conservatory, Avenue Q, Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, Deadly Sins: Adrift in Macao, Noises Off, Souvenir, A Sword Play, Hoodoo Love, The Blood and A Little Night Music at the Lyric Knot, August: Osage County, Rodgers & Stage of Boston, The Phantom of the Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (University Opera, Damn Yankees, Grease, Jesus of North Carolina School of the Christ Superstar, Big River and Loves Arts); The Glass Menagerie, Cabaret, Labors Lost at La Salle Academy Dracula, Psycho Beach Party (Virginia and The Learned Ladies, Pippin, Our Commonwealth University); and The Country’s Good, Brigadoon and Our Town Mystery of Edwin Drood (Appomattox at The Walnut Hill School in Natick. Regional Governors School). Mary G. Farrell Festival and was invited to direct for (Director) Mary G. Farrell, a their student playwriting festival held professor in the Department of at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Theatre, Dance and Film is head of Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. the Acting Program, and a mainstage This past summer, Professor Farrell director who has directed over 35 received a grant to do research at the productions for the college. She has British Library in London and The received research grants to travel Shakespeare Center, Stratford upon to Russia in preparation for her Avon, and develop a movement adaptation of Chekov’s Seagull, which concept for this production of A she directed as the last production Midsummer Night’s Dream. in the old Blackfriars Theatre in Harkins Hall and for a production Kathryn Kawecki of James Joyce’s A Portrait of the (Scenic Design) is an artist, set and Artist as a Young Man which she costume designer based in Baltimore, directed at the Irish Arts Center MD. She previously designed in NYC. For that production, she Providence College’s sets for collaborated on an adaptation of the Lysistrata, Lend Me a Tenor, The Cripple novel with PC Theatre alum, Aidan of Inishmaan, Hedda Gabler, The Sweetest Connolly. Past Providence College Swing in Baseball and costumes for Poor productions include: A Midsummer Murderer. New England scene designs Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, include: Avenue Q (Lyric Stage); Romeo and Juliet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, RENT, dollHouse (New Rep); Proof Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth (Seacoast Rep); My Fair Lady (2010 Night, Cabaret, Into the Woods, Louisa IRNE Nomination), Romeo & Juliet May Alcott’s Little Women, Blood (Stoneham Theatre); Largo Desolato Brothers, Funny Girl, Urinetown, Never (A.R.T./MXAT Institute); Anna Bella the Sinner, Waiting for Godot, Picasso at Eema (Perishable Theatre); Hansel and the Lapin Agile, Harvey, Hedda Gabler, Gretel (Boston Lyric Opera Tour). The Cripple of Inishmaan, Lysistrata Regional scene designs include: Race, and last season’s The Imaginary Invalid. Ages of the Moon (Contemporary Off-campus, her work has been seen American Theatre Festival); Anna in locally at the former Alias Stage the Tropics (Capital Rep); No Child…, (now the Sandra Feinstein Gamm Bad Dates (Hangar Theatre); Topdog/ Theatre), Newgate Theatre, The Underdog (Sacramento Theatre Co); Rhode Island Philharmonic and 1st La Traviata (Emerald City Opera). STAGE PROVIDENCE, a Theatre Costume designs include: As You for Young Audiences, which she co- Like It, Chorus Line, The Importance of founded with Nancy Mundy. Being Earnest (Gettysburg College); A She has been an active member Midsummer Night’s Dream, columbinus of the American College Theatre (Salve Regina University); Billy Witch (Northeastern Theatre); Pippin, Pirates of Penzance (Groton an MFA in Dance from The Ohio School). Honors: 2009 NEA/TCG State University and a BA in Dance Career Development Program from Connecticut College. finalist; USITT’s 2007 Young Designer Award for Scene Design. G. Benjamin Swope In addition to teaching costume Broadway: The Realistic Joneses design at Gettysburg College, (associate); Ann (associate); she also guest designs for various FELA!(assistant) International: academic theatre departments and FELA! at London’s National professional companies, including Theatre (assistant) Lagos, Nigeria upcoming projects with University and European/International of Maryland, Baltimore County and Tour (associate); Battery Dance 1st Stage. www.kawecki-art.com Company’s Dancing to Connect cultural exchange program. Betsy Miller NYC and Regional: Liberty Betsy Miller is a dance artist, Smith 1214 Foundation/New educator, and facilitator based in Arts Summer Theatre; Nine CNR Providence. Her choreography Drama; Perfect Tension, Chris has been presented in venues Ferris & Dancers; Urban Momfare throughout New York City, as well Emerging Artists Theatre; The as in Ohio, Maine, Connecticut, Rivals, and Regina Bronx Opera; Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Grease! LaGuardia High School; Texas. She is the recipient of the The Sensational Josephine Baker 2016 Rhode Island State Council Emerging Artists Theatre; Cabaret- on the Arts Choreography Merit the Dalton School; Once on Award. She has performed with This Island, Lehman College; Lostwax Multimedia Dance, Goodbye April, Hello May, Here Fusionworks Company and shove Arts Center; The Decameron at gently dance, and has recently Colgate University. Please visit www. appeared in works by Kathleen gbenjaminswope.com Hermesdorf, Heidi Henderson, Bill Evans, Rose Pasquarello Chris Warren Beauchamp, Rachel Boggia. Betsy Chris Warren is a sound artist, serves as the Dance Coordinator signal processing researcher, and of Providence’s major community educator. He is the lead inventor arts organization, AS220. She is at SuperHoax, where he develops on faculty at Providence College, unique music software. He performs Connecticut College, Dean College, with the group A Hundred Ghosts and AS220, and regularly teaches and his scoring work can be heard as a guest artist throughout New England and beyond. Betsy holds in the KPBS radio series Incoming. Dr. Warren earned a Ph.D. in Computer Music from UC San Diego, an M.A. in Music, Science, and Technology from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Music Composition from Brandeis University. His research in acoustic measurement produced the EchoThief Impulse Response Library. These sonic snapshots of distinctive spaces throughout North America provide one of the most varied collections of reverbs available. His recent interactive sonic installations have been featured in the Museum of Making Music, NAMM 2016, and the Havana Biennial. He is a resident artist at Space4Art in San Diego.

DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, DANCE

Professor / Chair, Dept. of Theatre, Dance & Film...... Wendy Oliver Assistant Professor/Managing Director, Theatre ...... James M. Calitri Professors...... David Costa-Cabral, Mary G. Farrell Rev. Kenneth Gumbert, O.P. Associate Professor ...... John Garrity Assistant Professor...... Megan Chang, Ben Sweeney Special Lecturers-Theatre ...... Kate Ambrosini, Jennifer Madden Special Lecturer-Dance...... Betsy Miller Special Lecturer -Oral Communication ...... Kate Lohman Administrative Assistant...... Ali Boyd Technical Director ...... George Marks Assistant Technical Director/Master Electrician...... Spencer Crockett Costume Shop Supervisor...... Maxine Wheelock Production Office Assistant...... Amanda Talbot Due to the structure of this theratre, exiting your seat will result in you walking through the acting area and interfering with the actors entrances and exits. Late seating and reseating will not be possible until intermission begins

PHOTOGRAPHY OR VIDEO RECORDING of any kind is strictly prohibited during performances in the Angell Blackfriars Theatre and the Bowab Studio Theatre. PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELLULAR PHONES AND PAGERS before the performance begins. TEXT MESSAGING IS NOT PERMITTED IN THE THEATRE during the performance out of respect to the performers and as a courtesy to those seated near you. ACCESSIBLE RESTROOMS are located at either end of the main lobby. THE MAIN RESTROOMS are located down the stairs in the lower lobby. TICKETS FOR EVENTS in the Angell Blackfriars Theatre and Bowab Studio Theatre may be purchased online or over the telephone by Visa or Mastercard. If you are on our mailing list, information will be sent to you prior to all mainstage events. To be placed on our mailing list or to purchase tickets, call 401-865-2218 or visit www.providence.edu/theatre. THE BOX OFFICE AT THE SMITH CENTER FOR THE ARTS is open for walk-up sales 1:30-5:00 PM Monday through Friday when classes are in session, and one hour prior to curtain on performance days. Cash, check, or credit cards are accepted for walk-up sales. ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL AND CANNOT BE REFUNDED. You may exchange tickets for a different performance of the same production by returning your tickets to the Box Office up to 24 hours prior to curtain, subject to seat availablity. BOX OFFICE: 401-865-2218 www.providence.edu/theatre

Best wishes to our Senior Crew and Cast members:

Chibi Nguyen, Brendan Quigley, and Konnor Jebb Kelvin Oppong and Senior TDF/Psychology major, Logan Serabian, for book ending his performance career at Providence College with roles in 2 Shakespearean plays: Twelfth Night Sebastian, 2012 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Flute, 2016 Special Thanks Caolan Madden & Rory Madden Jane Hughes, Pat Chicy Rock Sport Gym Mary Ellen Baxter Breen TDF Costume Collection The Boston Conservatory Chris Kelton,The Tourettes John Garrity, Kate Lohman Providence College Music Department The Committee to Aid Faculty Research at Providence College A very special thanks to... Madeline Cox, Reading Room Services Coordinator; Mareike Doleschal, Collections Librarian; Hazel Gatforend & Victoria Lawston of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford upon Avon; Qona Wright, Rare Books; Zoe Wilcox, Lead Curator of the Shakespeare in Ten Acts exhibit at the British Library for their help with research for this production.

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