SCHILLER’S SHAKESPEARE THEATER About CST A global theatrical force, Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is known for vibrant productions that reflect Shakespeare’s genius for storytelling, musicality of language, and empathy for the human condition. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and Executive Director Criss Henderson, Chicago Shakespeare has redefined what a great American Shakespeare theater can be—a company that, delighting in the unexpected, defies theatrical category. —The Merry Wives of Windsor A Regional Tony Award-winning theater, CST produces acclaimed plays at its home on Navy Pier, throughout Chicago’s schools and neighborhoods, and on stages around the world. In 2017, the Theater unveiled its third year-round venue, The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare, with an innovative design that has changed the shape of theater-making. Together with the Jentes Family Courtyard Theater and the Thoma Theater Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare, The Yard positions CST as the city’s most versatile performing arts venue. Chicago Shakespeare’s year-round season features as many as twenty productions and 650 performances—including plays, musicals, world premieres, and visiting international presentations—to engage a broad, multigenerational audience of 225,000 community members. Recognized in 2014 in a White House ceremony hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama, CST’s education programs support literacy and creativity for 40,000 students each year. Each summer, 30,000 family audiences welcome the free Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks tour into their neighborhoods across the far north, west, and south sides of the city. The Theater is the leading producer of international work in Chicago and, touring its own plays across North America and abroad to Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Middle East, CST has garnered multiple accolades, including the prestigious Laurence Olivier Award. Emblematic of its role as a global theater, CST spearheaded Shakespeare 400 Chicago, a yearlong international arts and culture festival, which engaged an estimated 1.1 million people through 863 events at 231 locations across the city in 2016—all in celebration of Shakespeare’s 400-year legacy. n BOARD OF DIRECTORS Steven J. Solomon* Criss Henderson* John Rau Chair Stewart S. Hudnut Nazneen Razi Eric Q. Strickland* William R. Jentes* Ingrid Razny Treasurer John P. Kellerw Lance Richards Christie B. Kelly Sheli Z. Rosenbergw* Frank D. Ballantine Richard A. Kent John W. Rowe* Brit J. Bartter* Barbara Malott Kizziah Robert Ryan John Blazey Chase Collins Levey Carole B. Segal Thomas L. Brown Anna Livingston Harvey J. Struthers, Jr. Allan E. Bulley III Judy Loseff Sheila G. Talton Clive Christison Renetta E. McCann Marilynn J. Thoma* Patrick R. Daley Raymond F. McCaskeyw* Gayle R. Tilles Brian W. Duwe Robert G. McLennan William J. Tomazin Philip L. Engelw Jess Merten Donna Van Eekeren Jeanne B. Ettelson Linda K. Myers Pallavi Verma Kevin R. Evanich Madhavan Nayar Priscilla A. (Pam) Walterw* Harve A. Ferrill Christopher O’Brien Ray Whitacre Sonja H. Fischer Dennis Olis* Ava D. Youngblood Richard J. Franke Mark S. Ouweleen* Barbara Gaines* Judith Pierpont *Denotes Executive Committee C. Gary Gerstw* Paulita A. Pike Members M. Hill Hammockw* Richard W. Porter* wDenotes Former Board Chairs Kathryn J. Hayley www.chicagoshakes.com 3 Contents

Chicago Shakespeare Theater 800 E. Grand on Navy Pier On the Boards 10 Chicago, 60611 A selection of notable CST events, plays, and players 312.595.5600 www.chicagoshakes.com

©2018 Conversation with the Director 12 Chicago Shakespeare Theater All rights reserved. ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Cast 19 CARL AND MARILYNN THOMA ENDOWED CHAIR: Barbara Gaines EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Criss Henderson Playgoer's Guide 20 cover: K.K. Moggie and Kellie Overbey, photo by Jeff Sciortino Profiles above: Barbara Robertson and 24 K.K. Moggie, photo by joe mazza A Scholar’s Perspective 34 Part of the John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Inquiry and Exploration Series

www.chicagoshakes.com 5 “WELCOME, Welcome GOOD FRIENDS” –HAMLET, II, ii

DEAR FRIENDS, For centuries, palace intrigue has captivated our imaginations. The juxtaposition of the monarchy’s absolute power and reputed omniscience set against the reality of their human frailty and emotional complexity makes for good drama. Today’s production of Schiller’s Mary Stuart explores a royal relationship that caused endless rumor and speculation during Shakespeare’s own time involving Queen Elizabeth I and her ill-fated cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots.

This new version of the play by Peter Oswald offers audiences access to a fictitious meeting of these two rulers. United by their lineage and roles in a male-dominated Chicago Shakespeare Theater strives to make its facility and world, yet divided by the political motivations of those surrounding them, theirs is performances accessible to all patrons. You’ll find our staff a complex relationship that is fascinating to explore through a theatrical lens. Jenn Thompson’s fearless direction and the dynamic ensemble of actors that inhabit the is ready to help in any way possible if assistance is required. world she has created make for a spellbinding drama. Simply request accommodations when purchasing your tickets. During the run of Schiller’s Mary Stuart, student audiences will be treated to Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Presented as a • Accessible parking 75-minute abridgment in our new, flexible third theater, The Yard at Chicago Open-captioned • Courtesy wheelchair service Shakespeare, the play will welcome 1,200 audience members each day during its performances run on Navy Pier, followed by a two-week tour to . Our • Wheelchair-accessible student productions and extensive offering of professional training programs and seating Audio-described workshops for English teachers make us a leading partner in literacy for Chicago’s performances with • Close to Pace Paratransit schools. Your patronage helps to make this aspect of our work possible, and for optional Touch Tours drop-off/pick-up that we are truly grateful!

• Assistive-listening devices We hope you enjoy today’s show and look forward to welcoming you back ASL Duo-interpreted again soon. n performances • Personal induction neckloops • Large-print programs • Braille programs

Barbara Gaines Criss Henderson Steve Solomon Artistic Director Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors Carl and Marilynn Thoma Endowed Chair 312.595.5600 • TTY 312.595.5699 www.chicagoshakes.com/access www.chicagoshakes.com 7 “The greatest new theater in the world ” M –CHICAGO TRIBUNE AARON POSNER and TELLER (of Penn & Teller), creators of the sold-out, A award-winning The Tempest, reunite to spin a C tale of dark magic and ambition. B

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The Yard last September, E audience members have

already experienced this TH INNOVATIVE, NEW VENUE in a multitude of ways—from its large and small proscenium configurations to a unique cabaret-like environment, and a courtyard-style thrust stage with runway aisles.

THE SEASON CULMINATES THIS SPRING as The Yard TELLER: AARON POSNER: transforms once again for a “We’re trying to put you in “Shakespeare wants people one-of-a-kind production of the same off-kilter position to sit forward and engage Shakespeare’s classic thriller, as Macbeth is to his world. deeply with this haunting MACBETH. When something happens and rich play. Teller and I on stage that seems to are both populists in that defy the rules of physics— we genuinely care that this what’s happening to production—with the magic, you is echoing that and music, and movement— moment in the story.” is available to as many TICKETS ON SALE NOW people as possible.” pictured: Teller and Aaron Posner; Ian Merrill Peakes and Chaon Cross. photos by Michael Brosilow, 312.595.5600 • chicagoshakes.com Chuck Osgood, Jeff Sciortino, MARY STUART CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER On the Boards

ON STAGE IN THE COMMUNITY AROUND THE WORLD BEHIND THE SCENES

In December, Macbeth directors On January 24, CST opened the doors Over the years, the work of acclaimed The Artists Breaking Limits and Aaron Posner and Teller, composer of The Yard to students for its latest international artists Peter Brook and Expectations (A.B.L.E.) ensemble Andre Pluess, and instrument designer/ abridged production, Short Shakespeare! Marié-Hélène Estienne has been presented continues its partnership with Chicago consultant Kenny Wollesen met up A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The as part of Chicago Shakespeare’s Shakespeare this May with their in Chicago for a music and magic show is helmed by Jess McLeod, who World’s Stage series. The Theater’s production of Edmond Rostand’s developmental residency. Together with returns to CST after serving as assistant international partnerships like these Cyrano de Bergerac. First performing CST’s artisans and technicians, the team director for Gary Griffin’s production of provide opportunities for Chicago artists Twelfth Night at CST in 2016 as a partner began shaping a haunting soundscape Gypsy in 2014. In past years, Chicago to be exposed and introduced to the in Shakespeare 400 Chicago, this that will underscore the world of this Shakespeare has been proud to serve greatest theater makers of our time. talented group of young adult actors supernatural thriller using found items, 40,000 students and educators annually; Touring here with their 2002 production with cognitive and developmental like Sardinian bells played with a violin now, with an extended seven-week of Le Costume, Brook and Estienne were differences will perform in The Yard on bow and an exercise ball fashioned into run in The Yard, this annual program introduced to Karen Aldridge; during May 17. Together with A.B.L.E. teaching a mallet instrument. Over the past year, will engage thousands more than ever their 2017 tour of Battlefield, which artists and facilitators, performers CST Creative Producer Rick Boynton before. Following its performances on CST co-presented with the Museum of immerse themselves in the play, each and the production’s artistic team have Navy Pier, Midsummer will go on the Contemporary Art, they met Larry Yando. portraying two characters. With music, been collaborating on this extraordinary road, touring to Chicago Public Schools Both Aldridge and Yando now join the humor, and sword fighting, ensemble interpretation, which marks the return across the city. Since CST launched its cast of the upcoming tour of Battlefield, members bring this classic story of love of Posner and Teller to CST after their first student matinees more than twenty- the thrilling 70-minute adaptation of and heartbreak to life. The creative blockbuster 2015 production of five years ago, the Theater's education the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata. process empowers these young actors The Tempest. This highly anticipated programming has impacted the lives of Audiences across five European countries to develop the confidence to share who culmination to the season begins more than two million young people. will be introduced to two of Chicago’s they are as they discover their own performances in The Yard at Chicago most accomplished actors. unique voices and celebrate their Shakespeare on April 25. Tickets are ever-expanding abilities. available at www.chicagoshakes.com.

From left: Aaron Posner and Teller; Christiana Clark and Adam Wesley Brown; Karen Aldridge, Edwin Lee Gibson, and Larry Yando in Battlefield; Company of A.B.L.E.'s Twelfth Night in rehearsal. photos by Michael Brosilow and Bill Burlingham. 10 Winter 2018 | Schiller's Mary Stuart www.chicagoshakes.com 11 POINT OF VIEW

A Conversation with the Director

Visit chicagoshakes.com enn Thompson met with the to explore more ideas and stories behind the CST staff on the first day of the As a director, what’s your way into the story? art on CST’s stages. J All the conversations rehearsal process to share her with our design team Initially, it certainly felt like it was Mary’s story—after all, it’s called ‘Mary Stuart.’ But the more I’ve worked SCHILLER'S MARY STUART thoughts on directing Mary Stuart . and actors involve us on it, I have come to feel that the play is exceptionally

n IN A NEW VERSION BY finding ways to present even-handed about these two women. A good play PETER OSWALD When Barbara Gaines and Rick Boynton first reached out will do that: you think it’s one thing and then you peel n DIRECTED BY JENN THOMPSON to you to talk about this play, what drew you to it? these women in all and you peel, and then you get to know the story n COURTYARD THEATER and the characters. All the conversations with our n FEBRUARY 21–APRIL 15, 2018 I have many friends who have worked here and speak so their complexities, how n 312.595.5600 highly of the institution, and so I was thrilled to get their design team and actors involve us finding ways to n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM phone call. I’d seen the Donmar [Warehouse] production to humanize these two present these women in all their complexities, how to in New York in 2009. It was gripping then—and it’s even iconic figures. humanize these two iconic figures. They are lots of more relevant now. This play is a pot-boiler political thriller, things, as all of us are. They are not victims. They are laced with romantic and sexual intrigues, which have real not monsters. They are human beings. potential for depth and complexity. There’s so much room And they have never met one another—except in Schiller’s imagination. in this story to talk about women in power, and women Yes, it’s two women who don’t know each other. And when they finally meet in being manipulated by men. I’m interested in our production the scene that Schiller creates, they’ve never laid eyes on each other before—but exploring how can you be a woman, be feminine, and have they have been primed their entire lives to fear and hate the other. We never see power. But I think the most important thing is to honor them alone together without men whispering in their ear, pushing them down this these two women as full, complex, flawed people. Schiller's Mary Stuart path. I find myself thinking about what that conversation between them might Director Jenn Thompson Returning to this play now, has the story become a have been if they had been alone. different one from when you saw it first several years ago? What kind of world did you want to create for this production? How each one of us views a production at the same time I imagined these two women against a massive, masculine landscape in its size is always going to be different, and in fact how I see a and scope, but also wanted to explore how both women use their femininity matinee and how I see the evening performance could be set against this backdrop. [Set Designer] Andromache Chalfant and I have different based on the news story I just read or a phone been friends for years and admirers of each other's work, but hadn't found a call I just had. If there’s an upside to the climate we’re project of our own; with Mary Stuart, I knew it was our chance. Influenced by the living in now, I do think there’s a pressure—and a great style of Brutalist Architecture, Andromache describes the set as ‘monumental opportunity—for storytelling. As artists we feel that charge and unforgiving, but with a beauty in its surfaces; a simplicity of form, and an more than ever. It’s certainly the most important moment awesomeness in its strength and scale.’ We looked for ways to emphasize what in my lifetime. I believe that our audiences feel that, too. was similar about Mary’s and Elizabeth’s circumstances. Obviously, one was People are listening differently now, and I think that makes in prison and one was sitting on the throne, but in many ways they were both this an extraordinary and important time to tell any story, imprisoned by their world. but particularly this story.

12 Winter 2018 | Schiller's Mary Stuart www.chicagoshakes.com 13 You’re also working with Costume Designer Linda Cho. SALUTE TO SPONSORS I have always wanted to work with Linda, but what drew me to her for this project Chicago Shakespeare Theater is proud to recognize the partnership in particular is how she dresses women. I love how she celebrates women’s bodies of our leading contributors, whose visionary support ensures that in all of their femininity, and power, and strength. We wanted to create a world Shakespeare lives in Chicago today and for generations to come. of the 1580s, but didn’t want it to feel like a museum piece. The costumes are MAJOR SEASON SUPPORTERS inspired by the time period but have a modern sensibility. We’re interested in how constricted these women were and how manipulated their bodies were. We know that Elizabeth liked to wear extremely elaborate clothing and was all about accessorizing. Those eighteen thousand pearls became her armor, a need to exert an image of power—and femininity. I want to emphasize that this struggle—of being a woman in power, of exercising your authority as a woman—is a forever and timeless struggle: it has always been, it is now, and perhaps it will always be. Raymond and Judy McCaskey I want to emphasize What do you hope to create with Co-Sound Designer Mikhail Fiksel for this production? Burton X. and Timothy R. Schwertfeger that this struggle—of Sheli Z. Rosenberg and Gail Waller Schiller took a lot of liberties with the history, being a woman in which I’m grateful for because it frees us up to The Harold and Mimi Carl and Donna Van Eekeren Steinberg Charitable Trust Marilynn Thoma Foundation power, of exercising tell the story we want to tell in the way we feel that people will respond to it now. The aim is to LEAD SPONSORS your authority as a be as fluid and cinematic as we can. We want Anne and Andrew Abel Bulley & Andrews ITW Richard W. Porter the soundscape to have a percussive quality and Charitable Fund woman—is a forever Joyce Chelberg Jan and Bill Jentes and Lydia S. Marti a drive that reflects these two women lunging Allscripts Eric's Tazmanian JLL John W. and Allstate Insurance Angel Fund Jeanne M. Rowe and timeless struggle. toward the edge of a cliff together. KPMG LLP Company Exelon Patrick G. and Shirley The John D. and You’ve chosen Peter Oswald’s version, which he wrote in verse, as Schiller did. Paul M. Angell Family W. Ryan Foundation Harve A. Ferrill Catherine T. Foundation The Segal Family Can you tell us more about your choice? Sonja and Conrad MacArthur Foundation Anonymous Foundation Fischer Lew and Susan Manilow The Oswald text is beautifully written. There is musicality and poetry in it, but it A. N. and Pearl G. Barbara and Barre Food For Thought National Endowment is very accessible and we don’t have to do extra work to hear it. It feels modern— Barnett Family Seid Foundation Barbara and Richard for the Arts Foundation The Shubert which has influenced all the other things that we’ve been talking about. It’s a very Franke Polk Bros. Foundation BlueCross BlueShield Foundation muscular, visceral type of read. It jumps off the page and leaps out of peoples’ of Illinois Virginia and Gary Gerst Peter and Alicia Pond mouths in a very immediate way. Oswald succeeds in dropping in the necessary exposition artfully. And I think that this translation is very successful in its clarity, ENDOWED FUNDS, CHAIRS, AND PROGRAMS its comedy, and its bite—and those qualities will influence how the play moves. Mary and Nick Babson Fund Pritzker Foundation to Support Chicago Actors Team Shakespeare Fund Last question…how much of this history does the audience need to know? The Canon in Honor of Barbara Gaines John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Inquiry and Exploration Series I don’t think they need any. I would not dissuade anybody from reviewing the Team Shakespeare Endowment The Chicago Music Theatre Endowment The Segal Family Foundation historical context, but one of the strengths of this play is that its story stands on Student Matinee Fund The Davee Foundation World’s Stage Fund Dick Simpson its own. It’s like a political thriller and should feel like one in the way it moves. We The Hurckes Fund for in memory of Sarajane Avidon already know what ends up happening, and so it becomes our collective job to Artisans and Technicians Carl and Marilynn Thoma Kirkland & Ellis Audience Enrichment Fund make the story so compelling that everybody forgets that they know how it ends! Artistic Director Chair Anstiss and Ronald Krueck Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Music Fund We come to the theater to have that experience. Human beings in conflict—that’s Stage Design Fund The Sheldon and Bobbi Zabel the event. The framework is the history, but we’re there to see the struggle. n The Malott Family Student Access Fund Bard Core Program Ray and Judy McCaskey Education Chair

For more information about how you can support our work on stage, in the community, and around the world, please contact Brooke Flanagan, Managing Director Previous page: Jenn Thompson and Andrew Chown in rehearsal; photo by joe mazza for Development and External Affairs, at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. 14 Winter 2018 | Schiller's Mary Stuart UP & COMING

BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director Carl and Marilynn Thoma Endowed Chair

RICK BOYNTON E. BROOKE FLANAGAN Creative Producer Managing Director for Development and External Affairs

presents

SHORT SHAKESPEARE! SCHILLER’S SCHILLER'S A MIDSUMMER MARY STUART in a new version by Peter Oswald NIGHT’S DREAM directed by Jenn Thompson adapted & directed by Jess McLeod MARY STUART CST’s Courtyard Theater The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare NOW THROUGH APRIL 15 SATURDAYS AT 11:00 am & 2:00 pm THROUGH MARCH 10 in a new version by PETER OSWALD

Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design ANDROMACHE LINDA CHO GREG HOFMANN CHALFANT PHILIP ROSENBERG

Sound Design Wig & Make-up Design MIKHAIL FIKSEL RICHARD JARVIE MILES POLASKI

Fight Choreographer Verse Coach Dialect Coach DAVID WOOLLEY KATHRYN WALSH EVA BRENEMAN

Casting New York Casting Production Stage Manager BOB MASON NANCY PICCIONE DEBORAH ACKER

FROM IRELAND: DRUID’S MACBETH directed by JENN THOMPSON by William Shakespeaare WAITING FOR GODOT adapted & directed by Aaron Posner and Teller by Samuel Beckett | directed by Garry Hynes Schiller’s Mary Stuart, in this new version by Peter Oswald, was first performed at the The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare CST’s Courtyard Theater MAY 23–JUNE 3 , on July 14, 2005. The play has been licensed by arrangement with APRIL 25–JUNE 24 The Agency (London) Ltd, 24 Pottery Lane, London W11 4LZ e-mail: [email protected]

2018/19 SEASON TICKETS PRODUCTION SPONSORS Another year of exceptional artistry awaits— Raymond and Judy McCaskey Carl and Marilynn Thoma including works by Shakespeare, a world premiere musical inspired by a classic film, and ComEd is the official lighting design sponsor of Chicago Shakespeare Theater. special theatrical events from around the world. Watch your mailbox for details! Welcome. If we can help accommodate you during your visit, please speak with our House Manager. Please note that flashing lights and haze may be used during this performance. Also, actors will make entrances and exits throughout the theater. For your safety, we ask that you keep aisles and doorways clear. We request that you refrain from taking any photography and other video or audio recordings of the production. • 312.595.5600 www.chicagoshakes.com There will be one 15-minute intermission.

MAJOR 2017/18 SEASON SUPPORTERS The Harold and Mimi www.chicagoshakes.com Steinberg Charitable Trust 17 CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER

Cast (in order of appearance)

Amias Paulet, Knight, guardian of Mary KEVIN GUDAHL* #cstMaryStuart Drugeon Drury, second guardian of Mary KAI ALEXANDER EALY Hanna Kennedy, Mary’s nurse BARBARA ROBERTSON* Mary Stuart, Queen of K.K. MOGGIE* Mortimer, Paulet's nephew ANDREW CHOWN* Lord Burleigh, High Treasurer DAVID STUDWELL* Elizabeth, Queen of KELLIE OVERBEY* Count Aubespine, French Ambassador PATRICK CLEAR* Count Bellievre, Envoy Extraordinary of France MICHAEL JOSEPH MITCHELL* George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury ROBERT JASON JACKSON* Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester TIM DECKER* O’Kelly, Mortimer’s friend KAI ALEXANDER EALY William Davison, Secretary of State MICHAEL JOSEPH MITCHELL* Melvil, Mary’s house steward PATRICK CLEAR* Sheriff KAI ALEXANDER EALY Guards/Pages NATHAN CALARANAN† JAKE ELKINS†

Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance: Alan Ball* for George Talbot, Count Aubespine/Melvil, Whether sitting in the Theater, traveling on the Metra, Count Bellievre/William Davison; Patrick Clear* for Amias Paulet; Shanesia Davis* for or relaxing at home, share Mary Stuart with friends! Mary Stuart;Kai Alexander Ealy for Mortimer; Martin Hanna for Drugeon Drury/O'Kelly, Guards/Pages; Isabel Liss* for Elizabeth, Hanna Kennedy; and Jeff Parker* for Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, Lord Burleigh.

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VISIT US www.chicagoshakes.com *denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association. †Chicago Shakespeare Theater gratefully acknowledges Carin Silkaitis along with the faculty of North Central College for their participation in this production’s intern program. TAG US @chicagoshakes

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Edward III was a strong, stable, and remarkably fertile English king. He fathered Playgoer’s Guide thirteen children—of whom eight were male. But the king’s eldest son and heir apparent, Edward, the Black Prince, died one year prior to his father’s own death when the succession fell to the Black Prince’s oldest living son, crowned Richard II THE STORY of the House of York.

Charged with conspiracy to commit regicide against England’s queen, her cousin That might have been the end of the story had it not been for Richard’s Lancastrian Mary, Queen of Scots, is held captive in Fotheringhay Castle, where she awaits her cousin, Henry Bolingbroke. In 1399 Henry deposed his Yorkist cousin and assumed verdict. The nephew to her guardian in this castle, Mortimer brings news to Mary the throne as Henry IV. Henry IV managed a successful reign, and the crown that the court’s decision is concluded: she is guilty of treason. He reveals to Mary passed peacefully to his son, Henry V. But less than a decade into his reign, Henry his secret conversion to Catholicism and his allegiance to her. Mary entrusts the contracted dysentery and died. young man with two letters: one, addressed to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester— Henry V’s infant son ascended to the throne. Dominated by his courtiers and later Elizabeth’s beloved favorite and lifelong friend; the second, to her cousin Elizabeth, by his French wife, Margaret of Anjou, Henry VI proved a weak, ineffective king. Queen of England, requesting an audience with her. Under his reign, England’s claim to France was lost and the crown ran up massive Upon reading the letter, Elizabeth asks Mortimer to assume responsibility for the debts. The Yorkists—claiming their right to the throne through two sons of queen’s death, and he gives his consent. Receiving Mary’s letter, Leicester privately Edward III—grew evermore exasperated with Lancastrian rule. confesses that he too supports the Scottish queen, then urges Elizabeth to accept The Wars of the Roses (1455–1485) commenced—thirty years of civil war in which her cousin’s request for a meeting between them. Upon Leicester’s advice, the next the crown was passed between the Houses of Lancaster and York. Among this day Elizabeth with her retinue sets out to Fotheringhay for the fateful meeting of succession of kings was Richard III, who reigned from 1483 to 1485, after declaring two queens, both determined to live and to rule. his late brother’s marriage invalid and heirs illegitimate.

A NOTE ON PETER OSWALD’S TEXT In 1485 Henry Tudor returned to England from France, where he had been preparing for a rebellion against the Yorkist kings. Henry triumphed, and with English translations of ’s Mary Stuart are numerous and variant. Richard III’s death, Henry VII became the first of the Tudor dynasty. A pragmatic English playwright Peter Oswald’s 2005 version, commissioned by the Donmar ruler, Henry married Elizabeth of York, strategically uniting the houses of Lancaster Warehouse in London and published by Oberon Books, is intended as a script for and York at last (see line of succession, pg. 22). His intentions for the country’s production. It is, in fact, the second of two versions written by Oswald; in 1996, future were symbolized by the name of their first born son: Arthur, England’s king Oxford University Press published his translation of Schiller’s Don Carlos and Mary of ancient legend. To protect England against its historic French enemy, Henry Stuart in a single edition, intended primarily for an academic audience. Oswald’s allied with Spain and a marriage between Prince Arthur and the Spanish princess, 2005 version remains as faithful as possible to the original text, though not at the Catherine of Aragon, was arranged. expense of the play’s poetry. Extensive cutting and the use of a more modern Five months into their marriage, Arthur died. When Henry VII, too, died in 1509, his vernacular allowed Oswald to make the script more relevant and accessible to surviving son ascended to the throne, as Henry VIII. Only with a papal dispensation contemporary theatergoers. His changes were strategic: this version, unlike his did Henry marry his brother’s widow and father one living child, named Mary earlier one, was meant to be performed. (not the same as Mary, Queen of Scots). Desperate to produce a male heir, Henry broke with the Roman Catholic Church and divorced Catherine in 1533. He quickly THE HISTORY remarried the pregnant Anne Boleyn and declared Mary illegitimate. Anne too The imagined events of Schiller’s Mary Stuart transpire over the course of a few gave Henry one living heir, the princess Elizabeth, before the queen was charged days, but its story’s roots—and its consequences—begin two centuries earlier in with a litany of crimes and executed. Elizabeth, too, was subsequently declared 1377, and “end” in 1603, fifteen years after the play concludes. illegitimate. His third wife, Jane Seymour, bore the king a son, Edward, before she died of postnatal complications. The legacy of the Plantagenet king, Edward III (1312–1377) looms over its story. Founder of the dynasty from which both Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, Henry’s subsequent three marriages produced no more children. In 1543 his descend, Edward III is the indirect cause of the struggle for power between these parliament passed the Third Succession Act, which returned both Mary and two queens who, through Edward, each asserts her claim to the English throne. Elizabeth to the line of succession following Edward. When Henry died in 1547, his nine-year-old son became Edward VII, reigning for just eight years. Not wanting

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to leave England to the Catholic Mary, Edward and his Protestant advisors tried to divert the succession to Lady Jane Grey, great-granddaughter to Henry VII. The plan failed, and Edward’s eldest half-sister succeeded him as Mary I (“Bloody Mary”), who died a few years later, without issue.

In 1558, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII’s heirs, ascended to the throne, where she would remain until her death in 1603, despite competing claims for the crown: Mary, Queen of Scots, another great-granddaughter to Henry VII, was one of those claimants. Mary’s son, James VI of Scotland, wuold inherit the English throne, as England’s James I. James—raised away from his Catholic mother in a largely Protestant Scotland—was meant to ensure that England remained beyond the reach of the papacy. The English throne secured James’s silence following his mother’s execution. 1603 marked the end of the Tudor dynasty and the rise of the Stuarts under James I. Y h P a hotog R co P S a ca R

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22 Winter 2018 | Schiller's Mary Stuart CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER PROFILES Profiles Theatre, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Drury Lane Theatre, and Victory Gardens Tale, The Merchant of Venice (First Folio ANDREW CHOWN TIM DECKER (Robert Theater. International credits include: five Theatre); The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? (Mortimer) makes his Dudley, Earl of Leicester) seasons with Stratford Festival; Canadian (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company); Chicago Shakespeare returns to Chicago Stage; Donmar Warehouse; and the Royal Underneath the Lintel (City Lit Theater Theater debut. Canadian Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare Company (CST tour). Film Company); and A Christmas Carol (Drury credits include: where his credits credits include: While You Were Sleeping, Lane Theatre). Regional credits include Shakespeare in Love include: The Comedy of Home Alone III, and The Poker House. productions with: Asolo Repertory (Citadel Theatre/Royal Errors and Short Television credits include: Chicago Fire, Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Indiana Manitoba Theatre Shakespeare! Romeo and Crisis (NBC); Boss (STARZ); Empire, The Repertory Theatre, BoarsHead Theater, Centre); Vimy (Soulpepper Theatre Juliet. Other Chicago credits include: City of Chicago Code (FOX); and Early Edition and Colonial Theatre. Film credits include Company); Romeo and Juliet, The Merry Conversation (Northlight Theatre); Spill (CBS). Mr. Gudahl is a multiple Jeff Award Falsely Accused and Scrooge & Marley. Wives of Windsor (Bard on the Beach); (TimeLine Theatre Company); stop. reset., recipient and CST verse coach. Television credits include Chicago Fire Taking Shakespeare (New Stages Theatre); Black Star Line (); Million (NBC). Mr. Mitchell received a BFA in The Circle, The Seagull (National Theatre Dollar Quartet (); ROBERT JASON JACKSON theater from Drake University, and also School of Canada); and Harry the King: The Toys in the Attic (Joseph Jefferson Award, (George Talbot) makes studied at the National Theater Institute Famous Victories of Henry V (Repercussion American Theater Company); Ghetto his Chicago Shakespeare and the Théâtre des Amandiers in France. Theatre). Film and television credits (Famous Door Theatre); Mornings at Seven Theater debut. Other include: Her Friend Adam (Sundance), (Drury Lane Theatre); and The Complete Chicago credits include K.K. MOGGIE (Mary Stuart) Reign, and Beauty and the Beast (The CW). History of America (abridged) (Noble Fool The Road and Death and makes her Chicago Mr. Chown graduated in 2014 from the Theatricals). Recent film projects include the King’s Horseman Shakespeare Theater acting program at the National Theatre Slice and Thrillride. Television credits (Goodman Theatre). debut. Off-Broadway School of Canada. include: Chicago Justice, Chicago Fire Favorite roles include: Othello in Othello credits include: The (NBC); Empire (FOX); and Boss (STARZ). (Denver Center for Performing Arts Theatre Gravediggers Lullaby PATRICK CLEAR Company); Polonius in Hamlet (Shakespeare (The Actors Company (Count Aubespine/ KAI ALEXANDER EALY Theatre Company); and Bolingbroke in Theatre); Daphne’s Dive Melvil) returns to (Drugeon Drury/O’Kelly/ Richard II (Mark Taper Forum NAACP Best (Signature Theatre); Charles Francis Chan Chicago Shakespeare Sheriff) makes his Actor nomination). Broadway credits Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery Theater, where he has Chicago Shakespeare include Amonasro in Aida (Palace Theatre) (National Asian American Theatre appeared in eighteen Theater debut. Other and Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler Company); Summer Shorts (59E59 productions, including: Chicago credits include: (Roundabout Theatre Company). Off- Theaters); Bareknuckle (Vertigo Theater Henry V, The Madness Franklinland (Jackalope Broadway credits include: A Soldier’s Play Company); One Night… (Cherry Lane of George III, As You Like It, Troilus and Theatre Company); Two (Second Stage Theater); The Merchant of Theatre); The Golden Dragon (The Play Cressida, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Mile Hollow (First Floor Theater); 30th Venice, The Treatment (Public Theater); Company); Bottom of the World (Atlantic All’s Well That Ends Well, Timon of Athens, Young Playwrights Festival (Pegasus The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Theater Company); The Bereaved (Partial and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Other Theatre Chicago); Migration, In De’ Beginnin’, Skin (Playwrights Horizons); and Comfort Productions); Grace (MCC recent Chicago credits include: Native and Among All This You Stand Like a Fine Funnyhouse of a Negro (Signature Theatre). Theater); Richard III (Classic Stage Gardens (); By Brownstone (eta Creative Arts Foundation). Regional credits include: The Greeks Company); and A Peddlers Tale (Women’s the Water, The Mousetrap (Northlight Film credits include Fallen. Television credits (Hartford Stage); Macbeth (Guthrie Project Theater). Film credits include: After Theatre); Carlyle, By the Way Meet Vera include Chicago Fire (NBC). Theater); and Anouilh’s Antigone and Party (Best Feature Comedy 2017 Madrid Stark, Teddy Ferrara, Race (Goodman Mourning Becomes Electra (Quintessence International Film Festival); Home (Dances Theatre); Port Authority (); KEVIN GUDAHL (Amias Theatre Group). Television and film credits with Films 2013 Industry Choice Award); and The March (Steppenwolf Theatre Paulet/Fight Captain) include: guest-starring roles on Law & Anna and the King; and The Sleeping Company). Broadway credits include: returns to Chicago Order, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, Dictionary. Short film credits include:You Hollywood Arms and Noises Off. Regional Shakespeare Theater, Feds, New York Undercover, New Jersey Beautiful Crazy Blind Cripple (lead); The credits include productions with: Hartford where his credits Drive, and Altamont. Mr. Jackson is a Audition (RatPac Entertainment, directed Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Maltz include: Tug of War: graduate of Northwestern University (BA) by Martin Scorsese); and Memory Box. Jupiter Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Foreign Fire and Civil and Temple University (MFA). Television credits include: The Good Wife Indiana Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Strife, Pericles, King Lear, (CBS); Gossip Girl (The CW); Mercy (NBC); Guthrie Theater, American Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry VIII, MICHAEL JOSEPH and White Collar (USA). Ms. Moggie is a Theatre, Center Stage, Folger Shakespeare The School for Lies, Elizabeth Rex, Macbeth MITCHELL (Count Partial Comfort Productions company Library, Huntington Theatre Company, and (title role), Antony and Cleopatra (title Bellievre/William member, as well as an adjunct professor the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Film role), Troilus and Cressida (title role), Davison) makes his for Pace University’s film and television credits include: The Dark Knight, Losing Brutus in Julius Caesar, Fredrik in A Little Chicago Shakespeare department. She received her MFA in Isaiah, and The Babe. Television credits Night Music, Hal in Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Theater debut. Other acting from Columbia University. include: Empire (FOX); Chicago P.D. (NBC); and Kayama in Pacific Overtures. Other Chicago credits include: and Boss (STARZ). Chicago credits include productions with: My Fair Lady (Lyric , Goodman Theatre, Writers Opera of Chicago); Assassination Theater Theatre, , Northlight (Museum of Broadcast Communications);

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KELLIE OVERBEY (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Camino , formed part of the 2002 nominations, including Outstanding (Elizabeth) makes her Real, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, House season that won the Evening Standard Director and Musical); Angel Street Chicago Shakespeare and Garden (Goodman Theatre); Who’s Award for Best Season. ’s (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Vanya and Theater debut. Broadway Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, La Bête, Little production of Mr. Oswald’s version of Sonia and Masha and Spike (Denver Center credits include: The Coast Foxes (Court Theatre); and Emma’s Child Schiller’s Mary Stuart won the South Bank for the Performing Arts); Abundance of Utopia, Twentieth (Victory Gardens Theater). Regional Award. In 2002, Mr. Oswald co-founded (Hartford Stage–four Connecticut Critics Century, “Q.E.D.”, credits include Other Than Honorable The Abyss Theatre Company, where he Circle nominations, including Outstanding Judgment at Nuremberg, (Geva Theatre Center). Touring credits served as writer and actor, performing at: Director and Play); All in the Timing, Noises Present Laughter, and Buried Child. include Angels in America Parts 1 and 2 The Tobacco Factory, Bristol; Soho Theatre, Off, Barefoot in the Park, and Boeing- Off-Broadway credits include: Women (first national tour). Film credits include London; and English Theatre, Berlin. In Boeing (Dorset Theatre Festival, where Without Men (Drama Desk nomination, Mint Robert Altman’s The Company and David 2016 he co-founded the Columbina Theatre she is a resident director). Theater Company); Dada Woof Papa Hot Lynch’s A Straight Story. Recipient of more Company, devoted to poetry performance www.jennthompsondirector.com (Lincoln Center Theater); Love and than twenty awards and nominations as and new plays rooted in the commedia Information (New York Theatre Workshop); an actress, Ms. Robertson also teaches at tradition. Mr. Oswald writes and performs ANDROMACHE CHALFANT (Scenic Designer) Rapture Blister Burn, The Savannah Columbia College. poems and long story-poems based on makes her Chicago Shakespeare Theater Disputation (Lucille Lortel nomination), Icelandic sagas and folktales, which he debut. Off-Broadway credits include: The Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights DAVID STUDWELL (Lord has performed at the Folger Theatre, Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois (Atlantic Horizons); Sleeping Rough (Drama Desk Burleigh) makes his Washington, DC; Hay Festival; and Wells Theater Company); Rimbaud in New York nomination, Page 73 Productions); Lemon Chicago Shakespeare Festival. He performed his long poem (BAM); A Kid Like Jake, brownsville song Sky (Keen Company); Animals Out of Theater debut. Other Weyland (Oberon Books) at the Ledbury (b-side for tray) (Lincoln Center); Sex Paper, Good Boys and True (Second Stage Chicago credits include: Festival. Additional published poems with Strangers (Second Stage Theater); Theater); The Music Teacher (Minetta Lane As You Like It, Pal Joey, include Three Folktales (Letterpress, 2014) Wild Animals You Should Know (MCC Theatre); Hamlet (Classic Stage Company); Romeo and Juliet, Sunday and Sonnets of Various Sizes (Shearsman, Theater); Food and Fadwa (New York Gone Home, Comic Potential, and The in the Park with George, A 2016). Mr. Oswald received a Society of Theatre Workshop); Massacre, The Long Debutante Ball (Manhattan Theatre Club). Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Authors traveling scholarship in 2016. He Shrift, Through the Yellow Hour (Rattlestick Film credits include: Imitation Girl, That’s Forum (Goodman Theatre); Elmer Gantry, lives in Devon, UK, with his wife, Alice, and Playwrights Theater); Edgewise (The What She Said (also screenwriter), Favorite How to Succeed in Business Without Really three children. www.peteroswald.net Play Company); Inked Baby (Playwrights Son, Sweet and Lowdown, 35 Miles from Trying, The New Yorkers, Chess, South Horizons); and El Gato Con Botas (The Normal, Outbreak, Defenseless, and Pacific, Brigadoon (Marriott Theatre); Secret JENN THOMPSON New Victory Theater, El Museo del Barrio). Misplaced. Television credits include: Law & Garden, Falsettos, The Rothschilds (Apple (Director) makes her Regional credits include productions Order: SVU, Blindspot, Blue Bloods, 30 Tree Theatre); Crazy for You, The Mystery of Chicago directorial with: Hartford Stage, Two River Theater Rock, The Good Wife, Law & Order, Edwin Drood (Candlelight Dinner Playhouse); debut. Recent credits Company, McCarter Theatre, American Unforgettable, The Job, That’s Life, and The Hamlet (Wisdom Bridge Theatre); and Glass include: The Secret Repertory Theater, Williamstown Theatre Stand. Ms. Overbey is an Eastern Principle House (Northlight Theatre). Off-Broadway Garden (Denver Center Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Councilor at Actors’ Equity Association, a credits include Applause! ( for the Performing Arts); Old Globe, Arena Stage, Minnesota Opera, founding member of Fair Wage OnStage, Center Encores!). Regional credits include Oklahoma! (Goodspeed Virginia Opera, and Opera Philadelphia. and the executive director of the nonprofit work with: Alliance Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Musicals); and Miss Bennet: Christmas at Ms. Chalfant is a company member of "A is For." Indiana Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Pemberley (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis– LAByrinth Theater Company and an Stage, The Kennedy Center, TheatreWorks five St. Louis Theater Circle Award associate artist of The Civilians. She BARBARA ROBERTSON Silicon Valley, PCPA Theaterfest, John W. Nominations). New York credits include The teaches in the graduate design program (Hanna Kennedy) returns Engeman Theater, Ogunquit Playhouse, and Gravedigger's Lullaby (The Actors at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where to Chicago Shakespeare Hangar Theatre. Film credits include Dave Company Theatre, world premiere) and she earned her MFA. Theater, where her Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys. Television Women Without Men (Mint Theater credits include: Tug of credits include Crime Story (NBC). Mr. Company, 2016 Lucille Lortel, Off- LINDA CHO (Costume Designer) returns to War: Foreign Fire, The Studwell received a BFA in musical theatre Broadway Alliance Award nominations for Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where she Tempest, Gypsy, Julius from SUNY Fredonia and his MFA in Outstanding Revival, and five Drama Desk designed Othello and Two Noble Kinsmen Caesar, Hamlet, A Little performance from Purdue University. Award nominations, including Outstanding (Jeff Award nomination). Broadway Night Music, The Winter’s Tale, Kabuki Director and Revival). Ms. Thompson credits include: Anastasia (Tony Award Lady Macbeth, King Lear, and Antony and PETER OSWALD (Adapter) is a poet, served as co-artistic director of Off nomination), A Gentleman’s Guide to Cleopatra. Other Chicago credits include: playwright, and performer. He served as Broadway's The Actors Company Theater Love and Murder (Tony Award), and The The Detective’s Wife (Writers Theatre); Life a writer-in-residence at Shakespeare’s from 2011 to 2015, directing the critically Velocity of Autumn. Other Chicago credits Sucks (Lookingglass Theatre Company); Globe from 1998 to 2009. His plays, acclaimed productions of Abundance (2015 include work at the Goodman Theatre. Winter (Rivendell Theatre Ensemble); On written in verse and published by Oberon Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Regional credits include productions with: the Town (Marriott Theatre); Love Loss Books, have been performed around Revival), Natural Affection, Lost in Yonkers Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, The and What I Wore, Working, Grand Hotel the world, including: Shakespeare’s (2012 Drama Desk nomination), The Old Globe, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, (Broadway Playhouse); Wicked (Cadillac Globe, the National Theatre, Almeida Memorandum, The Late Christopher Bean, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Guthrie Palace Theatre, Oriental Theatre); Yeast Theatre, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Bedroom Farce, and The Eccentricities of a Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Nation (the triumph of life) (American on London’s West End, and Broadway. Nightingale. Additional credits include: Bye Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theater Company); Pursued by Happiness Produced at Shakespeare’s Globe, Bye Birdie (Goodspeed Musicals–five Theatre Festival, and Goodspeed Musicals. Mr. Oswald’s The Golden Ass, starring Connecticut Critics Circle Award Opera credits include: Los Angeles Opera,

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Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. She will make TheatreWorks, Huntington Theatre Pace Gallery, and MBL Productions, Mr. Woolley is a co-creator and performs her Metropolitan Opera debut next season Company, Portland Stage Company, among others. Mr. Polaski was the as Guido in Dirk & Guido: the Swordsmen! with Samson et Dalila. Ms. Cho is a recipient The Actors Company Theatre, Barrington resident sound and video designer He has received two Joseph Jefferson of the Irene Sharaff Young Master Award Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre for five seasons at Barter Theatre in Awards for fight direction. A professor at and the Ruth Morley Design Award from Festival, Bay Street Theater, Shakespeare Abingdon, VA, where he designed Columbia College Chicago, he coordinates the League of Professional Theatre Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, over sixty-five musicals and plays. violence and intimacy, and is a fight Women. She is an alumna of McGill George Street Playhouse, and Westport master with the Society of American Fight University and holds a MFA degree Country Playhouse. Directors and is a member of the Stage RICHARD JARVIE (Wig & Make-up Designer) from the Yale School of Drama. Directors and Choreographers Society and is the wig and make-up supervisor for www.lindacho.com Actors Equity Association. MIKHAIL FIKSEL (Co-Sound Designer) Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where his returns to Chicago Shakespeare credits include: Red Velvet, The Taming GREG HOFMANN (Co-Lighting Designer) Theater where his credits include: Short KATHRYN WALSH (Verse Coach) returns to of the Shrew, Madagascar, the Chicago returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Shakespeare! productions of Romeo and Chicago Shakespeare theater where her Shakespeare in the Parks production of where his credits include: Love’s Labor’s Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, credits include: King Charles III, the Chicago Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare in Love, Lost, Ride the Cyclone, Road Show, and the Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks Shakespeare in the Parks production of Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, Short Shakespeare! productions of A production of Romeo and Juliet, and The Twelfth Night, Short Shakespeare! Twelfth Love’s Labor’s Lost, and King Charles Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Book of Joseph. Other Chicago credits Night, The Comedy of Errors, Henry VIII, III, and the inaugural season of Chicago and Romeo and Juliet. Other Chicago include: The Hunter and the Bear (Writers The Feast, and The Madness of George III. credits include: Elf, Jesus Christ Superstar, Theatre); The Wolves, 2666, The Sign in Shakespeare on Navy Pier. Mr. Jarvie spent Chicago directing credits include: Women Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Oklahoma, The Sidney Brustein’s Window, Venus in Fur twenty-eight years with Lyric Opera of Beware Women, Richard II, As You Like It Who's Tommy (Jeff Award), Mary Poppins, (Goodman Theatre); Learning Curve, Feast, Chicago, eleven as the wig master and (Two Pence Theatre Company); James Annie, 42nd Street (Paramount Theatre); and God’s Work (Albany Park Theater make-up designer. Other Chicago credits and the Giant Peach (Filament Theatre); The Game's Afoot, Les Misérables (Jeff Project). Off-Broadway and regional credits include productions with: Goodman and breaks & bikes (Pavement Group). Award nominee), Oliver! (Drury Lane include: The Treasurer, A Life (Playwrights Theatre, Court Theatre, Steppenwolf Ms. Walsh received her MFA from Theatre); A Loss of Roses, Vieux Carre Horizons); The Undertaking (The Civilians/ Theatre Company, and Drury Lane Theatre Northwestern University and BA from (Raven Theatre); Sweeney Todd, Pal Joey, BAM); Tiger Style! (La Jolla Playhouse); Oakbrook. Regional and international Harvard University. She teaches and Tick Tick Boom! (); The Royale (American Theater Company, credits include productions with: the Tom and (Chicago Children’s City Theatre Company, The Repertory serves as program mentor in Wonderland Patterson Theatre in Stratford, Ontario; Theatre). Off-Broadway credits include Theatre of St. Louis); The World of Extreme Northwestern’s MFA Directing Program. Guthrie Theater (wig master); Alliance Ride the Cyclone (MCC Theater). Regional Happiness (Manhattan Theatre Club); Theatre; and McCarter Theatre. Opera credits include: Outside Mullingar, Mr. Fulfillment (The Flea Theater, American (Dialect Coach) returns to credits include productions with: The EVA BRENEMAN Burns, Silent Sky, Sons of the Prophet, Theater Company); and The Old Man and Chicago Shakespeare Theater, where her Atlanta Opera, San Francisco Opera, Hawaii and 44 Plays for 44 Presidents (Forward the Old Moon (City Theatre Company, credits include: Red Velvet, Shakespeare in Opera Theatre, , Theater Company). Mr. Hofmann has The Old Globe, New Victory Theater, Love, King Charles III, Tug of War: Foreign Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and the designed over forty-five productions for Williamstown Theatre Festival, Writers Fire and Civil Strife, Henry V, The Merry Spoleto Festivals of Charleston, South Cedar Fair amusement parks across the Theatre). Film credits include: Glitch, The Wives of Windsor, Elizabeth Rex, and country, including Cedar Point’s Luminosity. Wise Kids, and In Memoriam. Mr. Fiksel has Carolina, and Italy. The Madness of King George III. Recent He received his MFA from University of received two Lucille Lortel Awards and Chicago credits include: Blind Date, Wisconsin-Madison. Drama Desk nominations, multiple Jeff DAVID WOOLLEY (Fight Choreographer) Yasmina’s Necklace (Goodman Theatre); Awards, and The Michael Maggio Emerging returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Doppelganger (Steppenwolf Theatre PHILIP ROSENBERG (Co-Lighting Designer) Designer Award. www.mikhailfiskel.com where his credits include: Red Velvet, A Company); All My Sons, The Belle of returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, (Court Theater); , where his credits include: The Book of MILES POLASKI (Co-Sound Designer) Peter Pan, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Amherst Plantation Hard Joseph, King Charles III, Othello, returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Cymbeline, King John, Troilus and Cressida, Times (Lookingglass Theatre Company); (Writers Henry V, Gypsy, Julius Caesar (Jeff Award where his credits include The Book of Macbeth, and Short Shakespeare! A The Importance of Being Earnest Theatre); and nomination), The School for Lies, Sunday Joseph. Other Chicago credits include Midsummer Night’s Dream. Current In the Next Room or, The in the Park with George (Jeff Award productions with: Collaboraction Chicago credits include The Gentleman Vibrator Play (TimeLine Theatre Company). (Raven Theater)and nomination), Beauty and the Beast, A Theatre, 2nd Story, Goodman Theatre, Caller Beauty Queen Regional credits include: Three Seasons of Leenane (Northlight Theatre). Off- Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elizabeth Rex, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, American (American Players Theatre); Always...Patsy , , Broadway credits include The Elaborate The Taming of the Shrew Macbeth Theater Company, Red Tape Theatre Cline, The Who and the What (Milwaukee Edward II, Amadeus (Jeff Award Entrance of Chad Deity (Second Stage Repertory Theater); and (Jeff Award for Mouse in a Jar), Chicago Love’s Labour’s nomination), and Cymbeline (Jeff Award Theater) and Edmond (Provincetown Dramatists, The Gift Theatre Company, Lost (Actors Theatre of Louisville). nomination). Broadway credits include: Playhouse). Regional credits include: Steep Theatre Company, and About National tours include: Fun Home, The Elephant Man, A Gentleman’s Guide The Three Musketeers and Henry V (Utah Motown the Musical, and Mamma Mia. Face Theatre, among others. New York Shakespeare Festival); to Love and Murder, and It’s Only a Play. The Elaborate Ms. Breneman is an associate artist at credits include productions with: The Flea Entrance of Chad Deity (Geffen Playhouse); Off-Broadway credits include The Explorers TimeLine Theatre Company. Club and Cactus Flower. Regional credits Theater (Drama Desk nominee, Jeff Award God of Carnage, Escanaba in da Moonlight, include productions with: The Kennedy nominee for Fulfillment), The Playwrights Norma and Wanda (Oakland Press Award), Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford's Theatre, Realm, National Asian American Theatre and, currently, The Case of the Elusive Ear Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Company, Ma-Yi Theater Company, (The Purple Rose Theatre Company).

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DEBORAH ACKER (Producton Stage BOB MASON (Artistic Associate/Casting Edinburgh, Vancouver), Othello: The production of Shakespeare 400 Chicago, Manager) has stage managed the Director) is in his eighteenth season as Remix (CST, London, Germany, Edinburgh, the 2016 international celebration of South Korea, New York), Shakespeare’s legacy, she created a world past twenty-eight seasons at Chicago CST’s casting director, where his credits Funk It Up About Nothin’ (CST, Edinburgh, Australian premiere Shakespeare history cycle, Tug of Shakespeare Theater. Other stage include over one hundred productions and tour, London), A Flea in Her Ear (CST, War, including the rarely staged Edward III. management credits include: Puttin’ on thirty-two plays in Shakespeare’s canon. Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Three Ms. Gaines received an Honorary Doctorate (National Jewish Theater); In addition to numerous productions with the Ritz Six Musketeers (CST, Boston, London), The of Letters from the University of Birmingham Degrees of Separation, Driving Miss Daisy, Barbara Gaines, other productions of note include: a host of Sondheim musicals Emperor’s New Clothes, The Adventures (UK), the University Club of Chicago’s I’m Not Rappaport (); directed by Gary Griffin;Rose Rage: Henry of Pinocchio, Murder for Two (CST, New Cultural Award, and the Public Humanities The Nerd (Royal George Theatre); and VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3, directed by Edward York), and The Feast: an intimate Tempest Award from the Illinois Humanities Council. A…My Name Is Alice (Ivanhoe Theatre). Hall; and The Molière Comedies, directed (in collaboration with Redmoon). Former She has production managed extensively by Brian Bedford. He recently directed artistic director of the Marriott Theatre CRISS HENDERSON throughout Chicago, and has also provided and co-created Shakespeare Tonight! and multiple Jeff Award-winning actor, (Executive Director) lighting designs for: the , with Beckie Menzie, as part of CST's he has starred in productions nationally, has produced Chicago Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, Chicago Shakespeare 400 Chicago festival. Prior to including CST’s production of A Flea in Shakespeare Theater's Shakespeare Theater’s Team Shakespeare, casting, Mr. Mason enjoyed a career as a Her Ear as Camille (Jeff Award, After Dark past twenty-eight the Museum of Science and Industry, Some Jeff Award-winning actor and singer, and Award). As casting director/associate at seasons, and developed Like It Cole (tour), and Pump Boys and has been a visiting educator for the School Jane Alderman Casting, projects included: the citywide, yearlong Dinettes in Branson, Missouri. at Steppenwolf, Acting Studio Chicago, the television series Early Edition, Missing celebration through the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Persons, Untouchables and ER; the films 2016 of Shakespeare’s legacy, Shakespeare While You Were Sleeping and Hoodlum, JINNI PIKE (Assistant Stage Manager, Northwestern University. 400 Chicago. Under his leadership, CST among others; and numerous national through March 25) returns to Chicago has become one of the nation’s leading tours. Mr. Boynton has lectured at his alma Shakespeare Theater, where she assistant NANCY PICCIONE (New York Casting) is the regional theaters and one of Chicago's mater Northwestern University, and is stage managed Ride the Cyclone. Other director of casting at Manhattan Theatre most celebrated cultural organizations, the former president of the board of the Chicago credits include: Elf the Musical, Club. Broadway credits include: Jitney, honored with the 2008 Tony Award for National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Sweeney Todd, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Heisenberg, The Father, Venus in Fur, Wit, Outstanding Regional Theatre, as well as Hairspray, The Who's Tommy (Paramount Time Stands Still, Top Girls, Shining City, multiple Laurence Olivier and Joseph Theatre); Bakersfield Mist, Danny Casolaro The Assembled Parties, Outside Mullingar, BARBARA GAINES Jefferson Awards. Mr. Henderson has Died for You, The How and the Why, Raisin Casa Valentina, and Constellations. She cast (Artistic Director/Carl garnered multiple honors, including: the in the Sun, and Wasteland (TimeLine the original productions of Proof and The and Marilynn Thoma 2013 Cultural Innovation Award from the Theatre Company). Regional credits Tale of the Allergist’s Wife on Broadway Endowed Chair) founded Chicago Innovation Awards; the Arts include: seven seasons as production and off-Broadway, as well as their national Chicago Shakespeare Administrator of the Year by Arts stage manager with Heart of America tours. Off-Broadway credits include: Linda, Theater, where she has Management Magazine at the Kennedy Shakespeare Festival (Kansas City, Incognito, The Explorers Club, Choir Boy, directed nearly fifty Center and the Chevalier de L'Ordre des MO); three seasons as production stage The Whipping Man, Ruined, Equivocation, productions of Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of manager and twenty-five productions at The World of Extreme Happiness, and Shakespeare’s plays. Honors include: the Culture of France. He was named among Unicorn Theatre (Kansas City, MO); and Of Good Stock. Prior to working at 2008 Tony Award for Outstanding the top 40 business people under the age A Christmas Carol at Kansas City Manhattan Theatre Club, she was a Regional Theatre; the prestigious Honorary of 40 in Crain’s Chicago Business. He Repertory Theatre. member of the casting staff at the New OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order serves as president of the Producers’ York Shakespeare Festival for ten years, of the British Empire) in recognition of her Association of Chicago-area Theaters and contributions strengthening British- ELISE HAUSKEN (Assistant Stage Manager, where she worked on Shakespeare in the is director of the MFA/Arts Leadership American cultural relations; and Joseph beginning March 27) returns to Chicago Park and numerous productions at the Program, a two-year graduate-level Jefferson Awards for Best Production Shakespeare Theater, where her credits Public Theatre. She cast the American curriculum in arts management training (Hamlet, Cymbeline, King Lear and The include Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer actors for the first two seasons of the created through a joint partnership Comedy of Errors), and for Best Director Night’s Dream and CPS Shakespeare! Bridge Project, produced by BAM and the between Chicago Shakespeare Theater and (Cymbeline, King Lear and The Comedy of The Taming of the Shrew. Other Chicago Old Vic London. She is a graduate of the The Theatre School at DePaul University. Errors). Ms. Gaines has directed at the credits include: The Minutes, Linda Vista Yale School of Drama and a member of Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford- (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); Crazy for the Casting Society of America. on-Avon, and The You (Drury Lane Theatre); Arcadia, Isaac’s Old Globe in San Diego. As the cornerstone Eye, Days Like Today, Hedda Gabler, The RICK BOYNTON (Creative Producer) focuses Old Man and the Old Moon, The Liar, Sweet on current and future artistic planning and Charity, Hamlet, A Little Night Music, and production, as well as the development of Hesperia (Writers Theatre); and The Apple all new plays, musicals and adaptations for Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers Family Plays (TimeLine Theatre Company). CST. Projects include: The Book of Joseph, in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, During the summer, Ms. Hausken serves as Ride the Cyclone (CST, MCC, upcoming at including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international the production manager at . 5th Avenue/ACT), Sense and Sensibility organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org She holds a BA in theatre and English (CST, Old Globe), Cadre (co-director) literature from Northwestern University. (CST, Johannesburg, Grahamstown, The Director is a member of the STAGE The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers of this DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS production are represented by United Scenic Artists, SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union. Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

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Staff

BARBARA GAINES CRISS HENDERSON Artistic Director Executive Director Carl and Marilynn Thoma Endowed Chair

CAITLYN DeROSA PATRICIA LOPEZ LISE STEC WIGS AND MAKE-UP MARY ANN CRONIN ARTISTIC EDUCATION AND Donor Relations and Production Management Head Draper TICKETING, GUEST The Yard Consultant RICK BOYNTON COMMUNITY Research Coordinator Apprentice RICHARD JARVIE SERVICES, AND EVENTS Creative Producer ENGAGEMENT MAGGIE HOFMANN Wig and Make-up Supervisor ARC WORLDWIDE, BRYAN HOWARD ZOE NICHOLS Draper LYNN COOLEY A LEO BURNETT Box Office/Guest BOB MASON MARILYN J. 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Visit chicagoshakes.com Near the end of Hamlet, Shakespeare subtly discloses a to explore more ideas and stories behind the secret of his own craft. The Prince, explaining to Horatio art on CST’s stages. why Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, observes In Mary Stuart, politico-theological conflict plays out as a tug of war between that it is dangerous for ordinary mortals to get caught up two radically different monarchic temperaments: Mary’s sensual, impulsive, in the conflict between “mighty opposites” (here, Hamlet open-hearted; Elizabeth’s cool, calculating, and self-contained. Mary has been SCHILLER'S MARY STUART and his usurping uncle). wed (and widowed) three times, and even now has many suitors, one of whom

describes her as having “the gift of life” so fully “in her possession,” that “to be n IN A NEW VERSION BY Dangerous, yes. But also, at least at the playhouse, hugely PETER OSWALD with her is ecstasy forever.” Elizabeth has suitors too, but plays them off each n DIRECTED BY JENN THOMPSON entertaining. Mighty opposites are the stuff of drama, other for political gain, and already aspires, as dexterous politician and Virgin n COURTYARD THEATER and getting caught up in their combat is a privilege we Queen, never to wed at all. Again and again she reminds herself and others that n FEBRUARY 21–APRIL 15, 2018 ordinary playgoing mortals are happy to pay for. n 312.595.5600 “I am not like the Stuart.” In Mary Stuart Friedrich Schiller, who worshipped n WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM In important ways, though, she’s partly wrong. Schiller, like Shakespeare, knows Shakespeare, draws us adroitly into an impassioned clash that opposition achieves its fullest dramatic torque not in difference but in of mighty opposites: Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and kinship. The clash resounds most forcefully only when—and because—the mighty Elizabeth I of England. And Peter Oswald, in his fresh opposites turn out to have much in common. English adaptation of the text (quoted here), has focused, accelerated and intensified the conflict. Schiller, like Shakespeare, So it is with Mary and Elizabeth. They share a common bloodline, a fierce intelligence, and When the play begins, the conflict has been raging even, at various points in the play, the seductive for nineteen years, with each queen asserting her knows that opposition attentions of the same man. And they share monarchal rights across perhaps the most seismic split in achieves its fullest too, with one another but with few other English history: the moment, five decades earlier, when Stuart Sherman, who women in history, a barely precedented Henry VIII, intent on discarding his first wife and marrying dramatic torque not in contributes this essay, experience of power: as queens by succession is a professor of English Anne Boleyn, renounced the Roman Catholic Church and difference but in kinship. at Fordham University and not by marriage, each has known what it declared himself Supreme Head of the (now Protestant) and the author of Telling is to rule in her own right. For both of them, the play makes clear, this predicament Time: Clocks, Diaries, and Church of England. English Diurnal Form, is at once profoundly solitary and, in a world still overflowing with masculine 1660–1785. Elizabeth, daughter of Henry and Anne, embodies her prerogative, overcrowded. nation’s precarious Protestant present, and hopes to And this turns out to be the common ground to which Schiller devotes his sustain it, by way of her own charismatic power, into the most sustained attention. He surrounds each queen with many, varied men— perpetual future. Mary, ardent Catholic granddaughter of Machievellian, humane, amorous, ambitious, baffled, subservient—and tracks the Henry’s sister, has functioned throughout her checkered complicated consequences. life as a lightning rod for rebels intent on reclaiming England’s throne, and with it the entire island, for the At its first appearance, in 1800,Mary Stuart flourished (and still does) as a high Church of Rome. With Mary in prison and Elizabeth in verse tragedy mingling the grandeur of the Greeks with Shakespeare’s gorgeous power, the Queen of England must decide whether the incandescence. In 2018, amid the mighty maelstrom of #MeToo, the play works Queen of Scots is to live or die.

34 Winter 2018 | Schiller's Mary Stuart www.chicagoshakes.com 35 also as an audacious thought experiment: what if women were to hold the highest power possible, but with all the presumptuousness of male manipulation still forcibly in play?

The results, while galvanic, are also Mary alone understands unsettling. Though Elizabeth aspires to rule the ways in which their her kingdom “like a man,” she gradually embraces a craven tactic, offloading all commonalities might responsibility for her fateful, equivocal lead to redemption, or to decisions onto her factious, opportunistic male adherents. We’re used to imagining ruin, for both of them. this queen as virtually the patron saint of Shakespeare (think Judi Dench, in Shakespeare in Love) and hence of our own humanity. It’s striking to watch Schiller (and Oswald in his new version) call hers so stringently into question.

Mary’s humanity is never in doubt. She too is beset by men who assert their allegiance to her, but who nurture their own needs even more. Generous, discerning, and endangered, she earns her primacy, as the tragedy’s titular character, by virtue of her larger soul. Her humanity deepens scene by scene. It is she, far more than Elizabeth, who recognizes the “we” in their shared predicament. Having been tried, as she points out, by “a court of men, and none of them my peer,” she now implores her handlers to set up a meeting with Elizabeth, because

with the Queen I share My sex, my blood, my rank. To her alone, Sister, queen, woman, can I speak in freedom.

In the fulfillment of her request lies Schiller’s sharpest departure from actual history. In real life, the two queens never met. In the play they do, precisely because Mary alone understands the ways in which their commonalities might lead to redemption, or to ruin, for both of them.

The poet Alexander Pope once declared, in praise of playgoing, that at the theater we get to “be what we behold”; we become, while our absorption lasts, the characters we watch. In Mary Stuart, by this logic, we become for the time being both Elizabeth and Mary, recognizing in them our own conflicting impulses toward tactical self-interest and toward freer, truer, and imprudent passions. Absorbed in the clash on stage, we end up adjudicating our own inner lives, weighing, however subliminally, where to place ourselves along the spectrum between these mighty opposites.

Neither Schiller nor Shakespeare ever asks of us anything less. Early in the play, in a gruff incisive line, Schiller sets forth what might serve as all great playwrights’ First Commandment to their nightly audiences: “You are the Judges. So judge!” n

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Paice Swati and Siddharth Mehta Eva and Gary Quateman Fund at The Chicago Evelyn J. Diaz Stephen and Elizabeth Geer Davis Jenkins To learn more about the Bard Circle, please contact Martha and Richard Melman Sam Razi and Julie Zhu Community Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Byram Dickes Lolly and John E. Gepson Justine Jentes and Dottie Bris-Bois, Director of Campaign and Major Gifts Dr. Janis Mendelsohn David and Lee Reese Caroline Blowers Roberta S. Dillon C. Graham and Christy Gerst Dan Kuruna [email protected] | 312.667.4965 Mary Donners Meyer Lynne and Allan Reich

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Lutze and George Morrissey Thomas Quinn and Karen B. Shank and F. Joseph Tomecek Christopher Elderkin Michele Grimaldi Stein Harriet and Ernest Karmin Hilda Demuth-Lutze Ms. Maureen Mosh Eileen Furey Toby Lange Frank and Janis Tomecek Jacquetta Ellinger Mary M. Grobarcik Diane and Byron Karzas Brad Lyerla and Dr. Martin and Chava Veena and Sunil Arora Jane Shapiro Marci A. Eisenstein and Deane Ellis Marilyn Grogan Mike and Jane Kathman Donna Morgan Mozes Dorothy Victoria Ramm Myron and Beverly John W. Treece James P. and Joyce Elmes Merle K. and Barry Gross Stuart Katz and David Underwood Mr. and Mrs. David M. Barbara Randolph Shapiro Janet Trowbridge Barry K. Elmore Dan Groth Keith Erickson David and Tracy Mack Murdoch J. M. and Hildegund Peggy Shapiro Cheryl Trudeau Sarah and Joshua Elzinga Paul M. Gruber Nancy L. Kelly Dave and Nancy Madsen Arthur J. Murphy Ratcliffe Catherine Sharifi Martha Trueheart Ms. Teresa A. Maganzini Rev. Harold B. Murphy Hsi-Tsin Tsiang

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Amy B. Tu Mr. and Mrs. John Wallace Mary and Ronald Robert O. Wyatt and Rheal And Denise Ed Walsh Whitaker Terri A. Lacky Turcotte Rev. Mark J. Walter James N. Wicklund Dimis Wyman Bonnie and William Jerry Warren Lisa Wiersma Julie Yamaguchi Twohig Craig and Deloris Watson Herbert and Catherine Diane Yarborough Tribute Program Jane and Howard Tyner Jim and Kim Watson Wigder Derek Yeghiazarian Barbara Valerious Dr. Russell and Marie Watt Diana Williams Don Youngberg An honor or memorial gift is a distinctive way to honor the memory of friends Joanna B. Vanni Cynthia Weglarz Jessica and Cristine Linda Youngman and family or pay tribute to milestone celebrations. For more information Julia and Ben Van Vliet Nancy and Eugene Weil Williams Joan and Russ Zajtchuk James Vardiman Dr. Carol Weinberg and Jan Williams Michael J. Zolik regarding this program, please contact Brooke Flanagan in the Advancement Ronald J. Vaughn Mr. Harold J. Winston Gemma M. Witt Charles and Gail Office at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Patricia and Michael B. Dr. Jenny Wojcik Zugerman Vavrinek Weinstein Diane and Ted Woolever Karen Zupko Reflects gifts received between January 15, 2017–January 15, 2018 Thomas and Elizabeth Lois Weiss David and Elizabeth Dr. Carol Ivy Ventura Victor and Tamar Wright Tim McGonegle and Kim Wagner Weissberg Jill and David Archer Barbara Sullivan MEMORIAL GIFTS Lillian Walanka Patricia Wess Rachael Wright FOR SARAJANE AVIDON FOR JULIE L. HALL Belle Waldfogel Susan and David Westby Ruth N. Wukasch Gregory Desmond and Kamiah Walker Richard Wheeler AND FELIX SHUMAN Shauna Scott and Michael Segobiano Stephen and Connie King J. Parker Hall, IV FOR ABBY S. MAGDOVITZ- Dick Simpson FOR DR. JINGER HOOP WASSERMAN Jonathan Daniel FOR CAROL CHAPMAN David Wasserman, M.D Sandy and Tim Chapman FOR JACK KARP FOR TONI MCNARON Susan and Lawrence Aaron Carol Grant FOR DAVID COHOON David and Ann Diaz Rick and Deborah Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Abel Friedman FOR WILLIAM H. ROBB John Hirsch Louise Robb FOR LOIS DUNN Louise A. Holland Kathy Dunn FOR MAUREEN STEINDLER Theodore and Harriette James F. Callahan FOR ARLENE FIELDSTEEL Perlman Nicholas DePinto V.E. Hicks Michael and Sandra Perlow Christel Draeger FOR JACK FULLER FOR NORTON H. KAY Marcy Steindler Debra Moskovits Sandra Blau FOR COURTNEY VODA FOR EDITH GAINES FOR KENNETH KUEHNLE Robert and Barbara Lawrie Robert W. Andersen and Andrea Atlass Gerald and Patricia May George P. Schneider Ellen Voda FOR ELIOT LANDAU PRODUCERS’ GUILD AT FOR ANDREA GUNDERSON Eileen Landau FOR RHETA ANNE WENZEL Michelle Mace Bonnie and Roger Schmidt CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER FOR MARTHA LAVEY The Producers' Guild is a leadership group, shaping the future of Chicago Shakespeare HONORARY GIFTS Theater by introducing new audiences FOR GERALD AND FOR JASON HARRINGTON FOR PAULITA PIKE MARCIA BURKE Paul Rink Paul Dykstra and Susan Cremin Adam Burke to CST's extraordinary productions and FOR CRISS HENDERSON FOR PHILIP S. ROSENBERG World's Stage series, promoting family and FOR PHIL AND LA ENGEL Faye Marlowe Emily Rosenberg Pollock Diana F. Blitzer FOR CRISS HENDERSON FOR BONNIE SEEBOLD Joann and Bill Braman arts-in-education programs, and supporting AND RICK BOYNTON Leslie Smith and Michael Uzer FOR HARVE FERRILL Herbert Boynton key Theater initiatives. Members also: FOR STUART SHERMAN William and Anne Goldstein Mr. Alan R. Gordon Anonymous FOR E. BROOKE FLANAGAN FOR BETSY KARP • Participate in exclusive CST Events FOR ST. CRISPIN DAY SOCIETY Claire Rice Mr. and Mrs. Abel Friedman • Enjoy complimentary VIP ticketing Dan Froth FOR MARILYN HALPERIN FOR BARBARA MALOTT and interval service La and Philip Engel KIZZIAH Charles and Caroline Huebner • Host family and friends at FOR HILL AND CST performances CHERYL HAMMOCK FOR MARK OUWELEEN James Mann Mark Levine and Andrea Kott

www.chicagoshakes.com/support For more information on how to become a member Dottie Bris-Bois 312.667.4965  [email protected] www.chicagoshakes.com 53 INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS Matching Gifts

By providing matching support, the following organizations are actively contributing to causes that improve the communities where their employees live and work. Chicago Shakespeare Theater salutes these employers for increasing the impact of donor support. Contact your employer today to find out more about their matching gift initiatives.

Reflects gifts received between July 1, 2016–January 15, 2018 Members of the First Folio Society have generously included Chicago Shakespeare Theater in their estate plans. Chicago Shakespeare honors Aetna Foundation, Inc. Exelon Morgan Stanley their thoughtful commitment to our future. Allstate Insurance GE Foundation Nuveen Investments Company General Mills Foundation Pepsi Co. Archer Daniels Midland Goldman, Sachs & Co. Polk Bros. Foundation Anonymous (2) Raymond and Judy McCaskey Company Google Prudential Capital Group Mary and Nick Babson Jonathan F. Orser Arris Group Inc. HSBC Ropes & Gray LLP AT&T Foundation IBM Corporation Sipi Metals Corporation John W. Barriger Sheila Penrose and Ernie Mahaffey Baird Foundation, Inc. ITW Sony Pictures Joan Israel Berger Barbara Petersen Bank of America Illinois John D. and Catherine T. Entertainment The Boeing Company MacArthur Foundation Texas Instruments Kathy Dunn Chuck Simanek and Edna Burke BlueCross BlueShield Johnson Controls Northern Trust of Illinois Foundation The Saints La and Philip Engel Michael and Sharon Sloan Caterpillar Foundation JPMorgan Chase United Healthcare Michael Goldberger Steve and Robin Solomon CDW Kirkland & Ellis LLP of Illinois Charles Scwab Leo Burnett USG Corporation Linda D. and Craig C. Grannon David and Ingrid Stallé Foundation Company, Inc. Visual Marketing, Inc. Dick Hurckes Susan Tennant CTC Trading Group Lloyd A. Fry Foundation William Blair & Company Empact Emergency McDonald’s Corporation Dr. Anne McCreary Juhasz Helen and Richard Thomas Physicians LLC Microsoft Corporation Judy and John Keller Gayle and Glenn R. Tilles Mr. and Mrs. Martin J. Koldyke Linda Vertrees Anstiss Hammond Krueck Wilmont "Vic" Vickrey, Founding Principal, VOA Architects Contributed Materials Anne E. Kutak Contributed materials and services are an essential component in sustaining Chicago Shakespeare’s role as a gathering place for audiences, artists Chicago Shakespeare gratefully acknowledges the following estates that and members of the community. We thank the following individuals and have provided gifts of bequests. organizations for their valuable donations of goods and/or services. Evelyn D. Barriger Edith B. Gaines Reflects contributions received between July 1, 2016–January 15, 2018 George W. Blossom III Julie and Parker Hall Acadia Communications Direct Make It Better Media Carol Irma Chapman Corinne Johnson Ryan McCaskey Food For Thought MDR Creative Nelson D. Cornelius Harold H. Plaut Ambiente Chicago Hall’s Rental Service Shure Incorporated Arc Worldwide Rich Hein Starwood Hotels and Resorts S.M. Evans Rose L. Shure and Sidney N. Shure BBJ Linen Heritage Wine Cellars, Ltd. Intersection Bukiety Floral Design HMS Media, Inc. Van Duzer Vineyards - Carol’s Event Staffing Inspired Catering and Events Carl and Marilynn Thoma Chicago Public Media by Karen and Gina Stefani WTTW, WFMT To include Chicago Shakespeare in your estate plans, please contact Mary T. Christel KPMG Family for Literacy Brooke Flanagan at 312.595.5581 or [email protected]

54 Winter 2018 | Schiller's Mary Stuart Support the Theater’s nationally recognized education initiatives and Chicago Shakespeare in the Parks tour at this exquisite event that features a theatrically inspired dinner and one-night-only performance.

Discover SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE Door County’s 2018 CIVIC HONOREES MARILYNN AND Theatrical Treasure CARL THOMA Greg Vinkler, Artistic Director

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Join the generous community of civic and corporate leaders supporting this bold vision for Chicago Shakespeare. Your gift will provide capital funding for The Yard and safeguard the Theater’s work on stage and in the community.

To make a gift, contact Brooke Flanagan at WWW.CHICAGOSHAKES.COM/CAMPAIGN 312.595.5581 or [email protected]. 58 Winter 2018 | Schiller's Mary Stuart www.chicagoshakes.com 59 Our role has always been to play a supporting one.

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