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356 West 44 Street, NYC Tel: 212.445.0131 Website: www.theirishrogue.com MINT THEATER Jonathan Bank, Producing Artistic Director Sherri Kotimsky, Finance & Production presents RUTHERFORD & SON by GITHA SOWERBY with Robert Hogan, Eli James, Allison McLemore, James Patrick Nelson, Sandra Shipley, Dale Soules, Sara Surrey, David Van Pelt

Sets Costumes Lighting Vicki R. Davis Charlotte Palmer-Lane Nicole Pearce

Composer & Sound Sound Props Ellen Mandel Joshua Yocom

Dialects & Dramaturgy Wigs Casting Amy Stoller Gerard Kelly Amy Schecter

Production Stage Manager Asst. Stage Manager Production Manager Allison Deutsch Andrea Jo Martin Sherri Kotimsky

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Directed by Richard Corley OPENING NIGHT FEBRUARY 27TH, 2012

Rutherford & Son is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and with public funds from the Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. CAST RUTHERFORD & SON

Living Room of John Rutherford’s home. Act I An evening in December. 10 Min. Intermission ACT II Two Days Later 10 Min. Intermission ACT III One Night Later

John Rutherford Robert Hogan John his son Eli James Richard his son James Patrick Nelson Janet his daughter Sara Surrey Ann his sister Sandra Shipley Mary young John’s wife Allison McLemore Martin David Van Pelt Mrs. Henderson Dale Soules

ROBERT ELI JAMES PATRICK SARA HOGAN JAMES NELSON SURREY

SANDRA ALLISON DAVID DALE SHIPLEY MCLEMORE VAN PELT SOULES RUTHERFORD & SON ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT GITHA SOWERBY: FROM CHILDREN’S AUTHOR TO DRAMATIST by Patricia Riley

Very early on the morning of and inferior example of evolu- February 1st, 1912, Githa Sow- tion. Women were considered erby crept out of the to have been created by God flat she shared with two of her solely for the procreation of sisters and headed for the near- children and the sexual satis- est news vendor’s stall. Was it faction of men. In that climate really true that yesterday after- it is no coincidence that Ruth- noon, after the premiere of her erford & Son was billed at its first play Rutherford & Son, premiere as having been writ- that the Royal Court Theatre in ten by “KG Sowerby”, not by Sloane Square had resounded “Githa Sowerby”. The manager to cheers, prolonged applause, of the Royal Court knew that and cries of “Author! Author!”, Githa’s play would not get a and tickets for her play were fair hearing unless her gender now the hottest theatre tickets Opening night program was hidden. in town? acclaim for a play written by These patronising and sexist Any lingering doubts Githa a woman was unprecedented. attitudes can clearly be seen may have had about the re- English Victorian and Edward- in the astonished reactions of ality of the previous day’s ian middle-class family life had journalists who subsequently events were quickly dispelled. been founded on the premise interviewed Githa the se- The success of Rutherford & that women, to be considered cret was out. Keble Howard of Son was headline news and pure and womanly, must not as- London’s Daily Mail wrote: pire to a role outside the home. the billboards were screech- “This new dramatist, about ing: COURT THEATRE-NEW Astonishing as it may seem to us now, it was then widely ac- whom half the play-going world AUTHOR’S REMARKABLE is talking, is just the sort of young cepted (in accordance with TRIUMPH. Within a few min- Englishwoman you may meet by utes Githa was walking back Charles Darwin’s theory put the score on tennis lawns or up along the Thames embank- forward in his 1871 book “The the river. Tall, fair, with a pretty ment clutching copies of all Descent of Man: Selection in face and a very pleasant voice, the morning newspapers, and Relation to Sex”) that females you might suspect her of eating the billboard poster which the of all species, including hu- chocolates or talking nonsense in the shade, but you would never kindly news vendor had let her mans, represented a stunted dream that she could be the au- keep. It was no dream. Ruther- thor of a play with the grim force ford & Son, the tale of a ruthless of a Pinero in the story or the father who sacrifices his chil- sureness of a Galsworthy in the dren for his huge glassworks in characterisation.” England’s industrial north, was Nor was there less critical in- a smash hit. Indeed, it was be- credulity when the play crossed ing hailed as the best play to be the Atlantic later that year. staged in the West End for a de- Rutherford & Son came to cade, and the writing was being New York’s Little Theater in compared to that of Ibsen. December 1912 and, in a piece In our more enlightened twen- entitled “When Lovely English ty-first century, Githa’s success Miss Turns to Playwriting- Be- as a female playwright may ing A Discussion of One No- not seem particularly remark- table Achievement With A Hint able. But in 1912 such critical Of What Tea Table Ambition Githa Sowerby circa 1912 ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT CONT. RUTHERFORD & SON

Sometimes Leads To”, the New the Shaw Festival Theater Rutherford & Son has been York Times critic Adolph Klauber in Niagara-on-the-Lake in hailed by the National The- scoffed: 2004. In 2009, Rutherford & atre in London as one of the “Even with Miss Sowerby as a shin- Son came triumphantly home top 100 plays of the twentieth ing example, we do not feel that the to Tyneside when it received century, and I feel very privi- playwriting instinct in young ladies its first professional produc- leged to have been entrusted calls for immediate or emphatic en- tion with a complete cast of in 2007 by Githa's family couragement.” Tyneside actors at Newcas- with the job of telling her Clearly Githa Sowerby was a wom- tle-upon-Tyne's Northern story. an of determination and consider- Stage. able courage: it was no mean feat to take on the British male theatre establishment and win through as she did. But from where did Githa get the ideas that eventually gave birth to this searing indictment of the legacy of the industrial revolu- tion- a legacy that in the play she compares to child sacrifices to the ancient fire god Moloch? For many years this information was hidden by the smokescreen of misinfor- mation that Githa herself created, presumably to protect her own and her family’s privacy. But through the research I did for my book “Looking For Githa,” published in England in 2009, the answer finally emerged: the ruthless industrialist John Rutherford is based on Githa’s grandfather, John Sowerby (1808- 1879). After her marriage Githa continued to write very successful children's books. She also wrote a number of other plays, but none achieved the success of Rutherford & Son. She died in 1970 aged 93, believing that her work had been forgotten and, wrongly, that her family had no in- terest in her achievements. In 1980, however, an abridged version of Rutherford & Son was performed in London by women's group, Mrs. Worthington’s Daughters, and since that time there have been a number of amateur and professional pro- ductions in England and America, notably by the National Theatre in London in 1994, by the Mint The- ater in New York in 2001, and by RUTHERFORD & SON ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT TIMELINE 1851 John, Githa's grandfather, opens the huge Ellison Glass Works on the banks of the River Tyne in the north of England. He raises his two sons to take over the glassworks, and arranges marriages for his four daughters that will benefit the business financially and socially. The Ellison Glass Works becomes market leader, dominating the European and American markets for mass-produced glassware. 1871 John's eldest son John George (Githa's father) takes over the glassworks.

John Sowerby, In 1872 John George Sowerby marries Githa’s Grandfather 1872-82 Amy Hewison and they have six chil- dren, including Githa, born 1876. 1883-90 Record sales are achieved, but the board forces Githa's father to resign. He returns as a salaried worker.

Githa's brother, Lawrence enters the 1890 glassworks as a manager but leaves and refuses to return, emigrating to Canada in 1912.

Githa's father severs his connection 1896 with the glassworks. Building on his previous hobbies of paint- ing and illustrating children's books, he John George Sowerby, becomes a full-time artist. Githa’s Father 1905-11 Githa moves to London with her sister Millicent, earns her living writing chil- dren's books which Millicent illustrates. They take on the care of their disabled sister, Marjory. In 1905, Githa becomes a socialist and joins the Fabian Society. 1912 Rutherford & Son is a smash hit at London's Royal Court Theatre. She be- comes engaged to poet and dramatist John Kaye Kendall after knowing him only three weeks, and marries him two months later.

Githa gives birth to a daughter, Joan, 1918 whose memoirs account for much of the material in the book Looking For Captain John Kendall, Githa. Githa’s Husband

Photos on previous page:Top:Githa, far left with umbrella, and the Sowerby Family Bottom: Newspaper ad for Sowerby’s Elllison Glassworks ABOUT THE DIALECT RUTHERFORD & SON

Geordie: “Standard” English: A’m gannin’ hyem to wor lass. I’m going home to my wife. - Scott Dobson’s Larn Yersel’ Geordie

A Geordie is a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (and Gateshead); more broadly, of Tyne- side and Wearside, used sometimes also of Durham and southern Northumberland. The Geordie dialect, with its close relationship to Anglo-Saxon roots, has more in common with other northeastern dialects, and even Danish, than it does with the Norman-French- influenced “Standard” English of London and the rest of England’s southeast. The Geor- die accent shares some attributes with Yorkshire and others with the Scottish Lowlands, but is ultimately unique. Our job has been to fulfill the class distinctions drawn by the playwright within this speech system, and to honor the speech of real Geordies—which challenges most English actors and audiences!—without sacrificing all intelligibility. Some editing of accent features has been necessary, but we have kept it to a minimum. by Amy Stoller GLOSSARY

Bairn: Child. Lear man: A lear (usually spelled leer or lehr) is an annealing oven or anneal- Feckless: Feeble, ineffective, careless, ir- responsible. ing furnace. (To anneal is to temper glassware by controlled, gradual cooling Fell: Upland stretch of open country; promptly after manufacture). moor; barren or stony hill. Fell racing is a popular sport in the area. Linty: Willow wren or linnet. No stronger nor a linty: No stronger than a wren. Girdle Cake: A girdle is a flat circular iron plate with handle, used on an open fire. Metal: Glassmaking term for the basic Americans might call it a griddle. Girdle glass mixture, particularly when molten. cakes are similar to pancakes. The cake Ordinary white metal: ordinary clear glass. in Act I seems to be a large one. Usually Muffle:Small oven for bringing enameled there would be several small ones. or gilded glass to the heat needed for melting the decoration, thus permanently Grantley: Githa Sowerby’s fictional name for Gateshead, the Tyneside town that attaching it to the glass body. The Ruth- sits across the river from Newcastle, in erford factory, like the Sowerby factory on roughly the same relationship as which it is based, produces molded and to . pressed glass, such as vases and elegant tableware: “ glass for the millions.” Haad yer whist: Literally, keep your si- lence; generally, shut up. Pot: Fireclay crucible used for founding or melting of glass. Hided: Flogged. Tarn: Small mountain lake. The Tarn Cot- Hame (pronounced hyem): Home. tage is a small lakeside house. Lad: Boy or man. Wor: Our, ours, my (sometimes we). He Lass: Girl or woman; but also, a sweet- was Wor John: He was Our John. heart. My lass means my sweetheart. Worrit: To worry; by extension, a worrier. RUTHERFORD & SON BIOGRAPHIES

ROBERT HOGAN (John Rutherford) with the comedy group Quiet Library at New Broadway: A Few Good Men, . Off- York’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and Broadway: Blood & Gifts (), People’s Improv Theater. www.eli-james.com. , Abe Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party, Accomplices (New Group), ALLISON MCLEMORE (Mary) Mint: What Didn’t Happen, On the Bum (Playwrights The Madras House. New York: Nora and Horizons), Further Than the Furthest Thing The Dybbuk at Marvell Repertory Theatre. (Manhattan Theatre Club), Never the Sinner Regional: Dracula at The Pioneer Theatre (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Company. A Christmas Carol at Cincinnati Actor), Hope is the Thing With Feathers Playhouse in the Park. The Nibroc Trilogy and (Drama Dept.), Waiting for Lefty (Dir: Joanne Turn of the Screw at Chester Theatre Company; Woodward), Boy (Primary Stages), Romania Last Train to Nibroc at Peterborough Players; Kiss Me, Rainbow Kiss (59 E. 59), Baby Dance The Underpants at The Olney Theatre; Cyrano (), In the Western Garden (EST), at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival; Major Crimes, Lighting Up the Two-Year-Old, and Jane Eyre at Pittsburgh Irish and Classical (Actors Studio Theatre). Regional: Ibsen’s The Theatre; (Denver Post Ovation Master Builder (Yale Rep), William Kennedy’s Award) and Enchanted April at Creede Grand View (Capitol Rep, Albany), Eugene Repertory Theatre. O’Neill’s Moon for the Misbegotten (, Washington DC, Helen Hayes Award JAMES PATRICK NELSON (Richard) made nom. for Best Actor). FILM: “Too Big to Fail”, his Off-Broadway debut in Austin Pendleton’s “Welcome to Academia”, “Species II”, “Lady production of The Three Sisters at Classic Stage in ”, “Sweetland”, “Universal Signs”, Company with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter “Borough of Kings”, Michael Crighton’s Sarsgaard. Regional Theatre: The Norman “Westworld”, “Hamburger, the Motion Conquests (dir. John Christopher Jones), Picture”. TV: “The Wire”, “Law and Order”, Galileo (dir. David Wheeler), The Duchess of “L&O Criminal Intent”, “L & O: SVU” Malfi (Actors Shakespeare Project), Much Ado “Deadline”, “Now and Again”, “Cosby”, About Nothing, The Tempest (Olney Theatre “Cupid & Cate” (), Center) and The Group (at the Actors Theatre of “M*A*S*H” and many other shows. Robert Louisville). National Tour: Romeo and Juliet, was in the original cast of Rutherford & Son All’s Well That Ends Well, and Knight of the and is happy to be back at the Mint. Burning Pestle with the American Shakespeare Center. NYC: Primary Stages, Page 73, 47th ELI JAMES (John) last appeared at the Mint Street Theatre (dir. ), the Actors as Moses Barron in Temporal Powers. His Studio (dir. Diane Ladd), Theatre for the New solo play William and the Tradesmen has been City, Hudson Guild, HERE, etc. He is the performed at numerous venues around the voice of Tom Daniels in “The Adventurecast” city, including and La Mama. Other (Episode 1: Shark Bait!). James is a Young stage credits include the Broadway production Arts Scholar with the National Foundation of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, The Four for Advancement in the Arts. Education: BFA of Us at Manhattan Theatre Club, Becky Boston University School of Theatre, London Shaw at Boston’s Huntington Theater, and Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. the world premiere of Jason Grote’s Maria/ Stuart. Further regional credits include the SANDRA SHIPLEY (Ann) BROADWAY: East Coast premiere of Tom Stoppard’s The The Importance of Being Earnest, , Invention of Love at The Wilma Theater, and , Pygmalion, Retreat from , Gross Indecency with Philadelphia Theater Vincent in Brixton, Indiscretions. OFF- Company. TV credits include “Lights Out” on BROADWAY: Suddenly Last Summer, Arms FX and “Mercy” on NBC. His essay “Finding and the Man, Deep Blue Sea (Roundabout) the Beat” was published in the Random Stuff Happens, Venus (Public), Kindertransport House anthology Twentysomething Essays (MTC), Once Around the City (Second Stage), by Twentysomething Writers, a Boston Globe Phaedra In Delirium (CSC), The Clearing bestseller. He co-founded, wrote and performed (Blue Light), Hannah and Martin (Epic), BIOGRAPHIES CONT. RUTHERFORD & SON

REGIONAL: Guthrie, Huntington, Yale Rep, Cleopatra (The Old Globe) Anna Christie Long Wharf, Hartford, Dallas Theater Center, (Arena Stage) The Black Dahlia (Yale Rep) La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe, Williamstown, Hayfever ( Center Stage) The ATL Humana Festival, Boston Shakespeare Archbishops Ceiling (Westport Country Company, American Repertory Theater. Playhouse) Three Days of Rain (Studio Arena UNITED KINGDOM: Royal Shakespeare Theatre) Arcadia (Portland Stage Company) Company, Royal Court, West End. FILM: FILM/TELEVISION: “Staten Island”, “Law & “Monument Ave”, “John Lennon Story”. TV: Order C.I.”, “Law & Order”, “Tough Crowd” “Law & Order”, “Law & Order SVU”, “Third w/ Colin Quinn, “The Job”, “Guiding Light”. Watch”, “Lipstick Jungle”, “”. TRAINING: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts AWARDS: Elliot Norton Medal for Sustained Graduate Acting Program. Theatre Excellence, LA Robbie Award for Best Actress in a Drama. DAVID VAN PELT (Martin) NY Theatre: Mint (Rutherford and Son; understudy for The DALE SOULES (Mrs. Henderson) has been Daughter In Law) Abingdon (Many readings, performing On-Broadway, Off-Broadway, staged readings, workshops and main stage regionally, and internationally for over forty productions including Jan Buttram’s Zona, years. Making her Broadway debut in the and Texas Homos, , dir), landmark musical Hair (Jeanie); co-starring Understudy for the Peach in The Melting Pot/ with magician, Doug Henning in The Magic produced Cobb at the Lucille Show (Cal) introducing Stephen Schwartz’s Lortel, TNC (Gint), Currican (The Borderland songs “Lion Tamer” and “West End Avenue”; w/ Larry Lau), Actor’s Playhouse (Girl’s (Sarah Good) dir., Town). Former member of Circle Rep Lab. and most recently Grey Gardens (covering and Regional: Aspen Music Festival (Claudius and playing Edith Bouvier Beale) Michael Greif the Ghost in Hamlet, Quinton Gordon, dir.; dir. Off-B’way includes: ’s John Mauceri, conductor), New Jersey Rep Getting Out (Arlene), Builders Association’s (Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us, w/ Obie winning Jet Lag; with Atlantic Theatre Linda ), Pittsburgh Public (Cobb, The Co: The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, School for Wives), Stamford Theater Works Blithe Spirit, and The Water Engine; many (Red Barber in National Pastime), Actor’s productions with: The Public Theatre, MTC, Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival’s Mabou Mines, Lincoln Center; also Red Bull’s Mystery of Attraction, Richard Corley, dir.; Pericles. Regional: Guthrie, Seattle Rep. Dracula in Dracula; A Christmas Carol), Center Stage. ATL Humana Festival, Yale Rep., Romulus Linney’s Heathen Valley for Baylor La Jolla Playhouse, & most recently Vermont University’s Festival and Stage (Well) and Gulfshore Playhouse (Doubt). Appalachian Summer Festival (Jim Houghton, TV & FILM include: “,” dir.), Pete Gint in Romulus Linney’s Gint, “,” Maurice Sendak’s “Really Romulus Linney, dir., (International Ibsen Rosie”, “Law & Order”, and “The Messenger.” Festival, , Norway), Old Globe, Denver Dale is a Usual Suspect with NYTW. Awards Center, Long Wharf (, dir.), include: New Dramatists Charles Boden Award Huntington (Eric Simonson, dir.), Wisconsin for dedication to new work and Richard Porter Shakespeare. National Broadway Tour: A Few Leach Fellowship SUNY. Good Men (Don Scardino, dir. W/ Michael O’Keefe, , and Scott Sowers). SARA SURREY (Janet) NYC: Secret Agenda TELEVISION: “Law and Order”. University of Trees (Cherry Lane Mentor Project) Five of North Carolina School of the Arts. Flights (Rattlestick Theatre) Where We’re Born (Rattlestick Theatre) Where’s My Money? RICHARD CORLEY (Director) is pleased to (Manhattan Theater Club) REGIONAL: return to the Mint and to Rutherford and Son. Elemeno Pea (ATL Human Festival) Lost in He is a based director, playwright, Yonkers (Papermill Playhouse) The Dining producer and educator whose work has been Room (Dorset Theater Festival) Antony & seen across America and internationally. Most recently Richard served for six years as International Fringe Festival, where he also the Artistic Director of Madison Repertory played the role of company manager for Theatre in Wisconsin, where he created the RadioTheatreNYC’s production of The Mole city’s first new play development program People in 2008. He is a recent graduate of and commissioned, produced and directed Marymount Manhattan College where he numerous world premieres and classics, directed both Falsettoland and You’re a Good including the world premieres of Sarah Ruhl’s Man, Charlie Brown. Through the college, Eurydice and Eric Simonson’s Lombardi/The Jesse was also able to assist Barbara Siman, Only Thing, the mid-west premieres of Jeffrey Charles Repole and Patricia Birch on numerous Hatcher’s Mercy Of A Storm and Tina Howe’s workshops at the . Jesse’s work as Rembrandt’s Gift, and with Andre a director was last represented Off-Broadway De Shields. Prior to that, he was Associate at with Moses Mogilee’s Producing Director of The Acting Company, original production of Ghosts of Provincetown: founded by and Margot two one-act plays. A proud member of AEA, Harley, where he directed, O Pioneers! and As Jesse would like to thank Jonathan Bank and You Like It, and developed a number of new Richard Corley for this experience. plays. Richard is an Associate Artist of the Berkshire Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, VICKI R. DAVIS (Sets) Previous productions where he has directed for eight seasons. He at the Mint: Temporal Powers, Wife to James has directed new plays and productions of Whelan, The Fifth Column, The Skin Game, The Shakespeare, Chekhov, Turgenev, Marivaux, Lonely Way, Echoes of the War, Far and Wide, Corneille, O’Neill, Miller, Williams, and Rutherford & Son, The Voysey Inheritance, many others at numerous theatres nationally, Miss Lulu Bett, Welcome to our City, August including Hartford Stage Company, Dallas Snow & Night Dance, The House of Mirth, and Theatre Center, Arena Stage, Magic Theatre The Time of Your Life. Off Broadway: Shpiel, () American Conservatory Shpiel, Shpiel, Pirates of Penzance, A Novel Theatre, City Theatre (Pittsburgh), Romance, Songs of Paradise, An American Philadelphia Theatre Company (five seasons), Family, Yoshke Muzicant (Folksbiene), Delaware Theatre Company, Jean Cocteau Meanwhile, On...Mount Vesuvius (Adobe), Repertory (New York), Shakespeare Theatre Caucasian Chalk Circle (LaMaMa), ‘Til The of New Jersey, Southwest Shakespeare Rapture Comes (WPA), The Occupation, (Arizona), and Chicago’s Shattered Globe. Slasher, Out To Lunch and Relative Values. His New York premiere of Tom Dulack’s Regional: Arena Stage, The Alliance, play Incommunicado, with , Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Dallas Theater received a Drama Desk nomination, and he Center, Laguna Playhouse, Starlight Kansas directed the Russian premiere of Tennessee City, Madison Rep., The Barter, Capital Williams’ Small Craft Warnings at Moscow’s Rep., Passages, Georgia Shakespeare, Utah Sovremennik Theatre. Richard is the author of Shakespearean Festival, Utah Opera, Kansas the play Tierra Del Fuego, based on the life City Opera, Omaha Opera, Theater of the of Charles Darwin, and original translations of Stars, Boston Lyric Opera, Lake George Opera Marivaux’s The Game Of Love And Chance, Festival, Chester Theatre, and Music Theater Chekhov’s Seagull (with Nina Familliant) North. Ms. Davis received a TCG/NEA and Three Sisters (with Nadia Vinogradova). Design Fellowship and is a member of United Richard is the recipient of numerous awards, Scenic Artists Local 829. including the TCG/NEA Director Fellowship, and he has served on the panel for the National CHARLOTTE PALMER-LANE (Costumes) Endowment Career Development Program. Charlotte is originally from the UK. While in He is a member of SDC. London she worked for the BBC as a Costume designer and assistant on many productions JESSE MARCHESE (Assistant to the such as, “The Chronicles of Narnia”, “Miss Director) is both excited and honored to be Marple”, “Dr Who”, “The Men’s Room”, “The working with the Mint Theater Company. Buddha of Suburbia”, and “She’s Been Away”, This past August, he assisted Adam Blanshay directed by Sir . Since moving to in directing The Apartment for the New York the USA she has worked on features such as BIOGRAPHIES CONT. RUTHERFORD & SON

“Guarding Tess” directed by Hugh Wilson and Time), Supernatural Wife (Big Dance Theater “Quiz Show” directed by Robert Redford. She - BAM). Upcoming shows include RED has been designing for the last four seasons at (Maltz Jupiter and Asolo, director Lou Jacob), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, creating Food and Fadwa (NYTW, Shana Gold), The costumes for Pericles, , Troilus Egg Layers (New Georges & Barnard, Alice and Cressida and last summer’s production of Reagan). Regional theater includes: Denver Hamlet. Other recent design credits include, Center Theatre Company (Henry Award Cross that River for NYMF festival, Sirens for The Catch), City Theater (Pittsburgh), for Penguin Rep, Rounding Third for Penguin Williamstown Theater Festival, Capital Rep Rep. Is He Dead? for Half Moon Theatre, (Albany), Yale Repertory, Dorset Theater Three Penny Opera and The Seagull for the Festival, Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Depot Theatre. Recipient: NEA-TCG Career Development Grant, Meet the Composer. Graduate of NICOLE PEARCE (Lighting) Mint: Wife Harvard and the Yale School of Drama. to James Whelan. Selected NY Theatre: The American Dream & The Sandbox directed by ELLEN MANDEL (Composer & Sound) has ; Edgewise and US Drag directed created music for over fifty plays, including, by Trip Cullman; Beebo Brinker Chronicles for the Mint, The Voysey Inheritance, A directed by Leigh Silverman (37Arts); Farewell to the Theatre, The Flattering Word, Savage in Love directed by Pam MacKinnon Welcome to our City, Madras House, and (Juilliard); The Lady with All the Answers (The The Power of Darkness. Other theatres: Jean Cherry Lane); (Juilliard); Cocteau Repertory (Resident Composer), Penalties & Interests (LAByrinth Theatre Arkansas Rep, Riverside Shakespeare Company); Lady and Underneathmybed (NYC), Boarshead, Asolo, Tennessee Rep, (Rattlestick); Expats and Strangers Knocking Peterborough Players (NH), Riverside (FL), (The New Group); Betrothed (Ripetime); and Phoenix Theatre Ensemble (NYC). Ellen Sakhram Binder (The Play Company); has written four film scores and music and Trial by Water (Ma-Yi Theatre Company). lyrics for six children’s shows including The Regional: Sugar Syndrome, A Nervous Smile Three Pigs, The Toymaker’s Apprentice, and and Blithe Spirit directed by Maria Mileaf Puss in Boots. She has released three CDs: A (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Selected Wind Has Blown the Rain Away: Fifteen e.e. Dance: The Joffrey Ballet, Ballet , cummings Songs, The First of All My Dreams, Philadanco, Boston Ballet, Mark Morris Dance songs to poems by Cummings, Heaney, W.B. Group, Introdans, Hubbard Street Dance Yeats, and others, and Every Play’s an Opera, Company, and Netherlands Dance Theater, theatre music. Her songs have been performed with choreographers including Mark Morris, in concerts from New York to California, and at Aszure Barton, Robert Battle, Larry Keigwin, Ireland’s Kilkenny Arts Festival. ellenmandel. Jessica Lang, Andrea Miller and David Parker. com www.nicolepearcedesign.com. JOSHUA YOCOM (Props) collaborates JANE SHAW (Sound) At the Mint: Temporal with the Mint for the third time on Rutherford Powers, A Little Journey, Wife to James and Son. He also propped their productions Whelan, Dr. Knock, Return of the Prodigal, of A Little Journey and Temporal Powers. Susan and God, Fifth Column, Walking Down Joshua has worked as a properties master and Broadway, Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (Lortel freelance artisan with a number of New York Nomination). New York City projects include: companies, including Keen Company, Epic The Coward (Lincoln Center 3), Richard II (The Theatre Ensemble, Red Bull Theatre, Pearl Pearl), Hamlet, Merchant of Venice (TFANA/ Theatre Company, Second Stage, Theatre for a RSC/National Tour/Eliot Norton Nomination), New Audience, Gotham Chamber Opera, NYC En el tiempo de las Mariposas (Repertorio Ballet, Lincoln Center, Dreamlight Theatre Español/Premios ACE nomination), Co, Mannes Opera, Queens Theatre, Across (Juilliard Drama), Septimus and Clarissa (Ripe the Aisle Productions, Snug Harbor, and the York Theatre Company. Joshua also props and “The Ten,” “The Savages,” “King Bolden and styles bedding and rooms for Nautica, Martha Notorious.” Stewart, and Bed Bath and Beyond through the Mayo photography studios. AMY SCHECTER (Casting) - happily casting for the Mint since 2005. AMY STOLLER (Dialect & Dramaturgy) celebrates 15 happy years as the Mint’s ALLISON DEUTSCH (Production Stage resident dialect designer/coach (and occasional Manager) Off-Broadway credits include: New dramaturge), most recently with Teresa Deevy’s World Stages – White’s Lies with Betty Buckley Temporal Powers. Other highlights include and Peter Scolari; Mint Theater - The Widowing Wife to James Whelan, The Widowing of Mrs of Mrs. Holroyd, The Fifth Column, Power of Holroyd, The Daughter-in-Law, Echoes of the Darkness, The Madras House, Far & Wide, War, The Voysey Inheritance, and Rutherford The Voysey Inheritance, No Time For Comedy; and Son (2001). In New York this season she is Perry Street Theatricals - A Dangerous represented by Dedalus Lounge (Royal Family Personality; Rattlestick - Down South; Om Productions, current), The Bald Soprano (Pearl, Productions - WASPs In Bed. Regional credits recent) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (Pearl, include: Ford’s Theatre – Trying starring James upcoming). Other NYC credits include Let Whitmore; Geva Theatre Center - Gem of the Me Down Easy at Second Stage (and national Ocean; Peterborough Players - ten seasons tour), plus shows at Keen, Origin, Boomerang, including the World Premiere of This Verse and many others. Regional includes world Business starring Gordon Clapp, Measure premieres by Athol Fugard, , Anna for Measure, Dr. Knock, 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Deavere Smith, and Aditi Brennan Kapil at Tartuffe, Little Shop of Horrors, Heartbreak the Long Wharf, and productions at Arena House, Doubt, Our Town, Last 5 Years, The Stage, A.R.T., People’s Light & Theatre, and Heiress, Cookin’ at the Cookery, Inherit the Peterborough Players. Television includes: Wind, Candida, and Mr. Pim Passes By. Proud ’s, “Let Me Down Easy” member of Actors’ Equity Association. on (PBS), animated series, commercials, and a documentary. Learn more ANDREA JO MARTIN (Assistant Stage at www.stollersystem.com and Stoller System Manager) is happy to be back at the Mint. on Facebook. Credits include Broadway: (sub); [Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS] BC/ GERARD KELLY (Wigs) Broadway EFA fundraiser Broadway Backwards 3, 4, production of Hair (Tony Award for Best 5 and 6. Off-Broadway: Mint - Temporal Revival). New York: What the Public Wants, Powers, A Little Journey, The Widowing of Mrs. Dr. Knock, and The Madras House at the Mint Holroyd, The Glass Cage, and The Madras Theater, The Public, , The House; The York Theatre - Busker Alley, York, , and The Pearl Fanny Hill, A Fine and Private Place, and 10 Theater. Regionally: Westchester Broadway Musicals in Mufti including The Baker’s Wife Theater, North Shore Music Theater, Walnut and Enter Laughing; at New World Stages - La Street Theater, Maltz Jupiter Theater, Dallas Barberia, White’s Lies, Love Child, and Naked Theater Center, for Maine State Music Theater, Boys Singing! (sub), at Theatre Row - Beauty Carousel Dinner Theater, Sierra Repertory on the Vine, WASPs In Bed, Amas , San Francisco Theater Works, Theatre - Signs of Life; Perry Street Theatricals Cape Playhouse, The Ahmanson Theater, - A Dangerous Personality; Houses on the Sacramento Music Theater, Downtown Moon - De Novo. Festivals: at NYMF: Date Cabaret, Westport Country Playhouse, and of a Lifetime, Judas & Me; at Fringe: Dancing George Street Playhouse. Shakespeare With Abandon and Trouble in Shameland. Festivals include New York, Lake Tahoe, New Andrea is also a sub at NEWSical the Musical. Jersey, Idaho, and San Francisco. Premieres include: Tom Jones, Memphis, Fanny Hill, The DAVID GERSTEN & ASSOCIATES (Press Three Musketeers, The Internationalist, Tale Representatives) currently represents the long Of Two Cities, Slug Bearers Of Kayrol Island. running Off-Broadway hits Black Angels Over FILM: “Transamerica,” “Girls Will Be Girls,” Tuskegee, The Devil’s Music: The Life & Blues BIOGRAPHIES CONT. RUTHERFORD & SON

of Bessie Smith, and Naked Boys Singing, JONATHAN BANK (Producing Artistic as well as INTAR, Keen Company, Woodie Director) has been the artistic director of King’s New Federal Theatre, New Georges, Mint since 1996 where he has unearthed and National Asian American Theatre Company, produced dozens of lost or neglected plays, New World Stages, Red Bull Theater, Stage many of which he has also directed. Most Entertainment US and Summer Shorts, the recently for the Mint, Bank directed Temporal Annual Festival of New Plays at 59E59. Powers by Teresa Deevy. Other Mint credits David serves on the Board of Governors of include: Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me ATPAM, The Association of Theatrical Press God! at the Lucille Lortel, which received Agents & Managers. He is a member of the four Drama Desk nominations, including Off-Broadway League and a founder of the Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director; Off-Broadway Alliance. www.davidgersten. Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living?, the com American Professional Premiere of The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway, The Return of THE PEKOE GROUP is a full service the Prodigal by St. John Hankin (Drama Desk advertising and marketing company for nomination for Outstanding Revival) and events and attractions, specializing in Susan and God by . Bank both niche marketing and tailor-made strategic adapted and directed Arthur Schnitzler’s Far campaigns based on each event’s target and Wide and The Lonely Way which he also demographic. Clients include Ripley’s co-translated (with Margaret Schaefer). These two plays were published in a volume entitled Believe It Or Not! , Freud’s Last Arthur Schnitzler Reclaimed which Bank Session, Mint Theater Company, Chekhovek, edited. He is also the editor of three additional Psycho Therapy, Second Stage Theatre, and volumes in the “Reclaimed” series (Teresa more. www.thepekoegroup.com Deevy, Harley Granville Barker, and St. John Hankin) as well as Worthy But Neglected: SHERRI KOTIMSKY (Finance & Plays of the Mint Theater Company. Production) Produced for Naked Angels: Meshugah, Tape, Shyster, Omnium Gatherum, Fear: The Issues Project and several seasons of workshops and readings. As Naked Angels mint theater company Managing Director, Hesh and Snakebit. Spring Benefit 2012 Produced: Only the End of the World, and Blood Orange. For two years Theatre Manager The Importance of Being a Woman for the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts by Rachel Crothers at Pace University, home to National Actors Theatre, Tribeca Film and Theatre Festivals, directed by Eleanor Reissa River to River Festival and the Carol Tambor Awards 2005 productions, amongst many save the date: others. Currently working with several theater April 23, 2012 companies as business consultant, including The Cosmopolitan Club Theater Breaking through Barriers and Premieres.

next at the mint... Love Goes To Press by Martha Gellhorn & Virginia Cowles directed by Jerry Ruiz

performances begin May 26, 2012 ABOUT THE MINT THEATER COMPANY

2011-2012 Mint Theater Company produces TEMPORAL POWERS By Teresa Deevy worthwhile plays from the past that have RUTHERFORD & SON By Githa Sowerby LOVE GOES TO PRESS By Martha Gellhorn & Virgina Cowles been lost or forgotten. These neglected plays offer special and specific rewards; it 2010-2011 is our mission to bring new vitality to these WIFE TO JAMES WHELAN By Teresa Deevy plays and to foster new life for them. WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS By Arnold Bennett A LITTLE JOURNEY By Rachel Crothers Under the leadership of Jonathan Bank as Producing Artistic Director, Mint has secured 2009-2010 a place in the crowded theatrical landscape IS LIFE WORTH LIVING? By Lennox Robinson SO HELP ME GOD! By Maurine Dallas Watkins of New York City. We have received Special DOCTOR KNOCK By Jules Romains Obie and Drama Desk Awards recognizing the importance of our mission and our 2008-2009 success in fulfilling it. The Wall Street THE GLASS CAGE By J.B. Priestley Journal describes Mint as “one of the most THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD By D.H. Lawrence consistently interesting companies in town.” 2007-2008 Our process of excavation, reclamation THE POWER OF DARKNESS By Leo Tolstoy THE FIFTH COLUMN By Ernest Hemingway and preservation makes an important contribution to the art form and its 2006-2007 enthusiasts. Scholars have the chance to JOHN FERGUSON By St. John Ervine come into contact with historically significant THE MADRAS HOUSE By Harley Granville Barker RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL By St. John Hankin work that they’ve studied on the page but never experienced on the stage. Local 2005-2006 theatergoers have the opportunity to see WALKING DOWN BROADWAY By Dawn Powell plays that would otherwise be unavailable SOLDIER’S WIFE By Rose Franken to them, while theatergoers elsewhere may SUSAN AND GOD By Rachel Crothers also have that opportunity in productions 2004-2005 inspired by our success. Important plays THE LONELY WAY By Arthur Schnitzler with valuable lessons to teach—plays that THE SKIN GAME By John Galsworthy have been discarded or ignored—are now read, studied, performed, discussed, written 2003-2004 MILNE AT THE MINT Two Plays by A.A. Milne about and enjoyed as a result of our work. ECHOES OF THE WAR By J.M. Barrie Educating our audience about the context 2002-2003 in which a play was originally created and THE CHARITY THAT BEGAN AT HOME By St. John Hankin how it was first received is an essential FAR AND WIDE By Arthur Schnitzler part of what we do. Our “EnrichMINT THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW By D.H. Lawrence Events” enhance the experience of our audience and help to foster an ongoing 2001-2002 RUTHERFORD AND SON By Githa Sowerby dialogue around a play-post-performance NO TIME FOR COMEDY By S.N. Behrman discussions feature world class scholars discussing complex topics in an accessible 2000-2001 way and are always free and open to the WELCOME TO OUR CITY By Thomas Wolfe THE FLATTERING WORD & A FAREWELL TO THE THEATRE general public. By George Kelly & Harley Granville Barker We not only produce lost plays, but we are DIANA OF DOBSON’S By Cecily Hamilton also their advocates. We publish our work 1999-2000 and distribute our books, free of charge THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE By Harley Granville Barker to libraries, theaters and universities. ALISON’S HOUSE By Our catalog of books now includes an MISS LULU BETT By anthology of seven plays entitled Worthy but 1995-1998 Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater plus QUALITY STREET By J.M. Barrie four volumes in our “Reclaimed” series, MR. PIM PASSES BY By A.A. Milne each featuring the work of a single author: UNCLE TOM’S CABIN By George Aiken Teresa Deevy, Harley Granville Barker, St. THE HOUSE OF MIRTH By Edith Wharton & Clyde Fitch John Hankin and Arthur Schnitzler. The following generous Individuals, Foundations, and Corporation support the Mint Theater, and we honor their contributions:

Crème de Mint: Dorinda J. Oliver Mary & David Lambert $10,000 and above Pfizer Foundation Jonathan Landers & Bloomberg Philanthropies Eleanor Reissa & Sandra Reimers The Gladys Krieble Delmas Fnd. Roman Dworecki Judith & John LaRosa The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Fnd. Judy & Sirgay Sanger Audrey & Joseph Lombardi The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Wallace Schroeder Charlene & Gary MacDougal Samuels Fndtn Anne Sheffield James Marlas Mr. & Mrs. Ciro Gamboni Karen & John Q Smith Edith Meiser Foundation The Little Family Fnd. David Stenn Leonard & Ellen Milberg The Andrew W. Mellon Fnd. Sukenik Family Foundation Doreen & Larry Morales New York Theater Program Katherine & Dennis Swanson Joseph Morello New York City Department of Kathryn Swintek Jeanine Parisier Plottel Cultural Affairs Bertram Teich Susan & Peter Ralston New York Foundation for the Arts George Robb SpearMint: $600 - $1,499 New York State Council on Herbert Schlesinger Harry Abrams the Arts Susan Scott Linda & Lloyd Alterman The National Endowments Drs. Robert M. Koros & Richard Barnes & Marta Gross for the Arts Carole M. Shaffer-Koros Frances Bauer The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Rob Sinacore Julia Beardwood & The Ted Snowdon Foundation State of New York: Office of Jonathan Willens The Dorothy Strelsin Foundation Parks, Recreation & Historic Evelyn Bishop The Geraldine Stutz Trust Inc. Preservation Joann & Gene Bissell Anonymous Milton & Barbara Strom Leslie (Hoban) Blake M. Elisabeth Swerz SilverMint: $5,000- $9,999 Steven Blier Lila Teich Gold Axe-Houghton Foundation Allison M. Blinken Helen S. Tucker, The Gramercy Virginia Brody Rose-Marie Boller & Webb Turner Park Foundation Barbara Bell Cumming Fnd. Ann Butera Wein Family Fund Lori & Edward Forstein Robin Chase Anonymous Lucille Lortel Foundation Claudia & Frank Deutschmann The South Wind Foundation Julie Durkin DoubleMint $150- 599 (First Priority Club) The Harold & Mimi Steinberg H. Read Evans Charitable Trust Edmee & Nicholas Firth Actors Equity Foundation Litsa Tsitsera Eva & Norman Fleischer Gretchen Adkins Michael Tuch Foundation Joan & Edward Franklin Judith Aisen & Kenneth Vittor Phyllis Freed Shihong & Peter Alden ChocolateMint: $1,500- Judith & Charles Freyer Louis Alexander $4,999 Dr. H. Paul & Delores Gabriel Linda Alster Jonathan Bank The Gordon Foundation Laura Altschuler Lea & Malvin Bank Arthur Grayzel, MD & Marc Anello Robert Brenner Claire Lieberwitz Anthony Linda Calandra Julia B. & James C. Hall Louise Arias Jon Clark Carol & Patrick Hemingway Barbara Austin Jeffrey Compton & Hickrill Foundation Judith Barlow Norma Ellen Foote Dana Ivey Hugh Baron & Carla Lord Cory & Bob Donnalley Jacqueline & James Johnson William Barth Charitable Fdn. Roberta A. Jones Frances Bauer William Downey Joseph Family Charitable Trust Barbara Berliner & Sol Rymer The Friars Foundation Christopher Joy & Al Berr Ruth Friendly Cathy Velenchik Nidia Besso Janet & John Harrington Peter Haring Judd Fund Helena & Peter Bienstock The Heidtke Foundation Brian Kaltner Evelyn Bishop Blanche & Irving Laurie Fnd. William Karatz Zelda & Julian Block Dorothy Loudon Foundation Joan Kedziora, MD. Dorothy & Stuart Blumner Lionel Larner Linda Irenegreene & Ronald H. Blumer New York City Council for the Martin Kesselman Dorothy Borg Humanities Sarah-Ann Kramarsky In honor of Sharron Bower Bristol- Myers Squibb Co. Jean & Raymond Firestone James Jackson Debra & Clinton Brockway Barbara Fleischman Ellie Jacob Edgar Brown Martha Fleischman Ellen & Peter Jakobson Ambassador & Mrs. W. L. Jerry Floersch & Alan Jeffrey Lyons Brown Jeffrey Longhofer Susan & Stephen Jeffries E. R. Buultjens Charles Flowers Gus Kaikkonen & Kraig Swartz Jason J. Buzas Janey & Jerry Fodor Thomas Kane Maureen & James Callanan Helene Foley Anne Kaufman Peter Cameron Donald W. Fowle Jules Kaufman & James Carroll Charlotte Frank Ann MacDougal Richard Carroll Diana & Jeffrey Frank Frances Keithley Aurelie Cavallaro Glenda Frank Laurie Kennedy & Keith Mano Sharon M. Chantilles-Wertz & Barbara & Robert Gaims-Speigel Roberta & Gerald Kiel Kevin Wertz Michael Garber Gerard Kiernan Andrew H. Chapman Mary Ann & John Garland Jospeh Kissane Lynne Charnay Agnes & Emilio Gautier Kaori Kitao Joseph Cimmet Phyllis Gelfman Caral G. Klein Abraham Clott James C. Giblin Elizabeth & William Kloner Steven R. Coe Ardian Gill & Anna L. 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Assistant Production Manager Wayne Yeager Assistant to the Director Jesse Marchese Assistant Costume Designer Matthew Keating Assistant Lighting Designer/Programmer Carla Linton Wardrobe Supervisor Leah Mitchell Board Operator Robert Mendoza Production Assistant Josephine Ronga Carpenters Daniel Halliday, Eric Nightengale

Box Office Brenna Ormiston, Adrienne Scott House Manager Brian Fitts Videographer Joshua Paul Johnson Marketing & Advertising The Pekoe Group / Amanda Pekoe, Kerry Minchinton, Jessica Ferreira, Beth Chrobak, Katlyn Campbell, Jason Murray, Gregory Fullum, Caroline Searfus Press Representation David Gersten / Daniel DeMello

Lighting installed by the Lighting Syndicate Set Constructed By Carlo Adinolfi Rutherford & Son rehearsed at Manhattan Theater Club’s Creative Center wish to thank the tdf Costume Collection and Fairway Market for their assistance in this production. Lighting equipment provided in part by the Technical Upgrade Project of the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York through the generous support of the New York City Council and the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs.

Actor’s Equity Association was founded in 1913. It is the labor union representing over 40,000 American actors and stage managers working in the professional theatre. For 89 years, Equity has negotiated minimum wages and working conditions, administered contracts, and enforced provisions of its various agreements with theatrical employers across the country.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES Jann Leeming- Chair Kathryn Swintek- Treasurer Jonathan Bank Ciro A. Gamboni John P. Harrington Eleanor Reissa

“When it comes to the library,” our Obie citation states, “there’s no theater more adventurous.”

The Mint was awarded a special for “unearthing, presenting and preserving forgotten plays of merit.”

MINT THEATER COMPANY commits to bringing new vitality to neglected plays. We excavate buried theatrical treasures; reclaiming them for our time through research, dramaturgy, production, publication and a variety of enrichment programs; and we advocate for their ongoing life in theaters across the world.

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