Theater Latté Da Presents IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON

Ritz Theater November 27 - December 29, 2019

December 15 – 18, 2016 ● Pantages Theatre 1 PEOPLE CITED Dick Barron, 2nd London Mounted Brigade Private Frank Bass, THE COMPANY 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment Robert Burns, 7th Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Winston Churchill, DIRECTOR First Lord of the Admiralty Peter Rothstein** Private W. T. Colyer, Artists’ Rifles Lance Corporal Coulson, MUSIC DIRECTOR London Rifle Brigade Cyril Drummond, Erick Lichte Royal Field Artillery Corporal John Fergusen, CAST Seaforth Highlanders General Sir John French, Sasha Andreev* British Expeditionary Force Paul R. Coate* Count Gleichen, Brigadeir General, 15th Brigade Benjamin Dutcher* Captain Sir Edward Hulse, Andrew Hey* Scots Guards Ben Johnson Hugo Klemm, 133rd Saxon Regiment Riley McNutt Maurice Laurentin, Rodolfo Nieto* Commandant 6e Compagnie Francis Edward Ledwidge, James Ramlet Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Andrew Wilkowske Geoffrey Lillywhite, Royal Engineers Evan Tyler Wilson* George Littlefair, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, 1914 Durham Light Infantry PRODUCTION STAFF Private Tom Macdonald, 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment Trevor Bowen***, Costume Designer Patrick MacGill, Marcus Dillard***, Lighting Designer London Irish Regiment Nicholas Tranby, Sound Designer & Engineer Lt. General C.F.N. Macready, British Army Abbee Warmboe, Properties Master Private Peter McGregor, D. Marie Long*, Stage Manager 14th Battalion Argyle and BY PETER ROTHSTEIN Sutherland Highlanders Kyla Moloney, Assistant Stage Manager Albert Moren, Keely Wolter, Dialect Coach 2nd Queen’s Regiment I studied World War I in high school of this remarkable event? The propaganda The music ranges from trench songs to Elissa Adams, Dramaturg Sgt. G. H. Morgan, and college, but I don’t remember reading machine of war is powerful, and news of patriotic and sentimental tunes, as well as Royal Warwickshire Regiment about the Christmas Truce in any of my soldiers fraternizing across enemy lines would Christmas carols from the participating Allen Weeks, Production Director Oberstleutnant Johannes Niemann, Sam Wend, Production & Artistic Administrator 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment textbooks. If I had, I certainly would have put a human face on the Germans and readily countries. Wilfred Owen, remembered. This extraordinary event took undermine public support for the war. The One of the reasons I love working in the Bethany Reinfeld, Technical Director Manchester Regiment place in 1914, the first year of the war, heroes of this story are the lowest of the ranks theater, versus film or television, is because Micayla Thebault-Spieker, Master Electrician Second Lieutenant Arthur Pelham-Burn, and was never repeated. Thousands of men — the young, the hungry, the cold, and the the theater is a two-way street. It asks the 6 Gordon Highlanders Eric Charlton, Master Carpenter Private W.R.M. Percy, put down their guns and left their trenches optimistic — those who acted with great audience to engage their imagination in Samantha Johns, Scenic Charge London Rifle Brigade to meet their enemies in No Man’s Land. courage to put down their guns, overcoming order to complete the story. So here are the Pope Benedict XV They exchanged gifts of tobacco, rum and a fear that placed a gun in their hands in the words and the songs of these remarkable Mary Farrell, Costume Design Assistant Jack Rogers, chocolates; even photographs of loved ones. first place. Their story puts a human face on men. Completing the story, putting a Dakota Blankenship, Laundry Crew Sherwood Foresters They sang songs, played a game of soccer, war, and that’s the story I hope to tell. human face on war — well, that’s up to Siegfried Sassoon, Lisa M Smith*, Sub Stage Manager Royal Welch Fusiliers and buried each other’s dead. Upon orders The text is taken from a wide range you. To the thousands of men who changed Becky Raines, Sub Light Board Op Private Frank Sumpter, from above, they eventually returned to their of sources including letters, journals, history, thank you. May we do your story Whitley Cobb, Ty Waters, Matt Boerst, Carpenters London Rifle Brigade Private Jack Sweeney, trenches and re-instigated a war that would official war documents, poetry, gravestone justice. Nick Fetting, Emmet Kowler, Megan Winter, Trevor Zapiecki, last four more years. So why did I not learn inscriptions — even an old radio broadcast. 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment Alexi Carlson, Ray Steveson, Electricians G. T. Forrestier-Walker, Brigadier General *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage H.G.R. Williams, Managers in the United States. London Rifle Brigade **Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. Henry Williamson, Mr. Rothstein would like to extend his gratitude to these generous individuals and impressive institutions for their research assistance: ***Member of United Scenic Artists, a national union that represents designers and scenic Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra National de Paris; Imperial War Museum, London; In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium; Dominiek Dendooven, painters for the American Theater. London Rifle Brigade Frank and Maurice Wray, Knowledge Center, Musée de l’Armée, Paris; Over the Top Tours, Ypres, Belgium; Royal Museum of the Armed Forces; and Military History, Brussels. ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 was developed and produced by London Rifle Brigade Cantus Vocal Ensemble and Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 2007.

2 All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Nov. 27 - Dec. 29 ● Ritz Theater 3 Prologue Die Wacht Am Rhein Karl Wilhelm Christmas Day in the Cookhouse English Traditional Will Ye Go to Flanders? Scottish Traditional O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) German Traditional The Optimistic Departure The Truce Come on and Join (Alexander’s Ragtime Band) Music: Irving Berlin, Words: Anonymous Stille Nacht (Silent Night) Franz Gruber God Save the King English Traditional Angels We Have Heard on High French Traditional Good-Bye-Ee R.P. Weston and Bert Lee Er is een Kindeke geboren Flemish Traditional Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabella French Traditional The Grim Reality The First Noel English Traditional It’s a Long to Tipperary Jack Judge and Harry Williams Ihr Kinderlein, kommet Music: Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Les Godillots Paul Briollet and Eugene Rimbault, based on French Traditional Words: Christoph von Schmid Pack up your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag George Henry and Felix Powell Wassail Erick Lichte, based on Traditional English Texts The Old Barbed Wire English Traditional Minuit Chrétiens Adolph Adam I Want to Go Home Lieut. Gitz Rice Will Ye Go to Flanders? (Reprise) Scottish Traditional When this Bloody War is Over Music: Charles Crozat Converse, Words: Anonymous Es ist ein Ros entsprungen German Traditional (What a Friend We Have in Jesus) Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern Philip Nicolai Raining, Raining, Raining (Holy, Holy, Holy) Music: John B. Dykes, Words: Anonymous Good King Wenceslas Piae Cantiones Deutschlandlied Franz Joseph Haydn Keep the Home-Fires Burning Ivor Novello The Return to Battle O Come, O Come Emmanuel 12th Century Chant Auld Lang Syne Scottish Traditional We’re Here Because We’re Here Music: Scottish Traditional, Words: Anonymous Christmas (Aulde Lang Syne) Christmas in the Camp Harrington and Scott We Wish You a Merry Christmas English Traditional Epilogue The Last Post English Bugle Call Silent Night (Reprise) Franz Gruber

PHOTOGRAPHS AND CARDS FROM THE COLLECTION OF PETER ROTHSTEIN. THE COMPANY THE COMPANY CAST CREATORS

SASHA ANDREEV proudly with Mill City Summer Opera, and Fogg, Night Music, Mother’s Younger Brother ANDREW WILKOWSKE is returns to All is Calm for his Ensemble, and Anthony U/S in Sweeney in Ragtime, and Doug in Six Degrees of thrilled to return to Theater ERICK LICHTE (Arranger/Music Director) has been hailed by third year in the trenches. Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Separation. Riley has played Gordon Schwinn Lattè Da’s production Washington Post for the “audacity” of his programming and noted by the Other Theater Latté Da Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, FL. in A New Brain, Marius in Les Misérables, of All is Calm. Recent Chicago Tribune for the “meticulous preparation” of his choirs. Fanfare credits include Ragtime Ben has also worked with companies such Phillippe in Phantom, and Lloyd Dallas performances include the Magazine declared that he created and helmed “the premier men’s vocal (Ivey Award), Steerage Song as Trademark Theater and Skylark Opera, in Noises Off at Artistry. Riley was in the world premiere of The Fix ensemble in the United States.” As a founding member, singer and Artistic (Fitzgerald Theater, Lab and has been in multiple world premiere chorus of Silent Night (Pulitzer Prize winning with Minnesota Opera; The Director of the male vocal ensemble Cantus, Lichte created and sustained Theater, Regional Tour), and theNEXT productions with Minnesota Opera – most opera), La Traviata, and Le Cenorentola, with Marriage of Figaro with Cincinnati Opera; one of only two full-time vocal ensembles in the United States. His work Festival. Recently seen in Jimmy & Lorraine notably playing Bobby Lembeck in the Minnesota Opera. Other productions include Guns N’ Rosenkavalier at Honey Minneapolis; with Cantus garnered the 2009 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, the highest at Pillsbury House Theatre, he’s performed premiere of The Manchurian Candidate. Beauty and the Beast at the Ordway, How I Diva Cage Match with Opera Out of the Box; honour from the professional choral organization Chorus America. In January 2013, he at Asolo Repertory Theater, Guthrie Became a Pirate at the Old Log Theater, and Silent Night with Minnesota Opera, Austin began his tenure as Artistic Director of Vancouver BC’s Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, one of the Theater, Walker Art Center, Actors Theatre ANDREW HEY is excited to Heaven with Flying Foot Forum. Please join Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Philadelphia, most active and popular amateur choirs in North America. His first recording with Chor of Louisville, Frank Theatre, Mixed Blood return to Theater Latté Da us for this amazing story. Atlanta Opera and Lyric Opera Kansas City; Leoni, Wandering Heart, received a perfect vestar review from the UK’s prestigious Choir Theater, Park Square Theatre, Jungle Theater, after touring North America Don Pasquale with Fort Worth Opera; 1776 and Organ Magazine, and Oregon Arts Watch has declared that, under his leadership, Chor Trademark Theater and Theatre de la Jeune with the cast of All is Calm RODOLFO NIETO has with Milwaukee Opera Theatre; andThe Magic Leoni is now “one of the best male choirs on the continent.” Lune. On screen, he’s appeared in The Soviet last season. Andrew has established himself as a Flute with Komische Oper Berlin. Upcoming Sleep Experiment, Best Man Down, Ghost performed at the Ordway, much sought after performer projects include Fellow Travelers with Madison PETER ROTHSTEIN (Creator/Director) has directed 78 mainstage from the Machine, Tom Clancy’s The Division: Minneapolis Musical in musical theater and opera Opera; La Traviata with Opera Southwest; productions for Theater Latté Da, including 11 world premieres. Other Agent Origins (Amazon); as host of Operation Theatre, and Chanhassen Dinner Theatres. in the Twin Cities. Recently, and A Streetcar Named Desire with Opera collaborations include the Guthrie Theater, the Children’s Theatre Build (A&E) and Curb Appeal (HGTV); as Regional credits include: Grease (Doody), he performed with Artistry Roanoke. Company, Minnesota Opera, Ten Thousand Things, Minnesota Orchestra, (Joseph), as Dr. Jafar Berensteiner a guest expert on ShopHQ; and in numerous Joseph and... Dreamcoat Newsies Utah Shakespeare Festival, Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater, the Zach Theatre, (Finch/US Jack), Fiddler on the Roof (Fyedka), in A New Brain, and as Uberto in Mill City EVAN TYLER WILSON commercial campaigns. Sasha is a graduate Boston Lyric Opera, and Asolo Repertory Theatre. He is the creator of All Camelot (Sir Dinadan), Mary Poppins Summer Opera’s production of La Serva enthusiastically returns to of Vassar College and the National Theater is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 which won the 2019 New York Institute. (Northbrook), The Little Mermaid (Esemble/ Padrona. With Theater Latté Da he has played All is Calm after sharing US Prince Eric), Leap of Faith (Jake), and Maximilian in Candide, Count Carl-Magnus this heartfelt message across Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. Peter was named the 2015 Artist of PAUL R. COATE is excited Pirates of Penzance (Esemble/US Frederick). Malcolm in A Little Night Music, Czolgosz in the nation for the past four the Year by the Star Tribune, Theater Artist of the Year by Lavender, and Best Director by and honored to return He also has a MA in Counseling Psychology Assassins, Dr. Carrasco in Man of La Mancha, years! Among the three City Pages. He has received nine Ivey Awards and has been awarded grants and fellowships for this production after from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota and performed in both the 2017 National tours, Evan also performed from the National Endowment for the Arts, Theatre Communications Group, the serving on three National and is a Licensed Professional Counselor. Love Tour and 2018 Off-Broadway Tour ofAll Is with the Drama Desk Award-winning Off- Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. He holds a B.A. in Music and and North American tours to Shinah! Calm. Other notable roles include Carlos/ Broadway production. Regional Theatre: Theater from St. John’s University and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the of All Is Calm. Paul most Rygor in Dirty Business with History Theater, Assassins (Theater Latté Da),Sweeney Todd University of Wisconsin-Madison. www.Peter-Rothstein.com. recently appeared as Rev. BEN JOHNSON is thrilled Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls with Lyric (Theater Latté Da),Grease (Chanhassen Shaw Moore in Footloose at Artistry, and as to return for a fifth year in Arts, Steven Kodaly in She Loves Me with Dinner Theatres),RENT (Phoenix Theatre). TIMOTHY C. TAKACH (Arranger) Reviewed as “gorgeous” (Washington the title role in Sweeney Todd at the Duluth All is Calm! Ben lives in DalekoArts, El Duende in Des Moines Metro Evan holds a BM in Musical Theatre from Post) and “stunning” (Lawrence Journal-World), the music of Timothy Playhouse. Previous Theater Latté Da credits Minneapolis with his family Opera’s production of María de Buenos Aires, Arizona State University. Love to his beautiful C. Takach is rapidly gaining momentum in the concert world. include The Full Monty and Evita. Paul has and continues to perform Starbuck in 110 in the Shade with Theatre in boyfriend: Evan, his amazing friend group, Applauded for his melodic lines and rich, intriguing harmonies, Takach performed with the Guthrie Theater, Artistry, locally with Theater Latté the Round, and the Marine in Safe at Home Peter, Erick, and this incredible cast of is a full-time composer and has received a number of commissions from Park Square Theatre, History Theatre, Skylark Da, Artistry, MN Opera with Mixed Blood Theatre. Along with his musicians. various organizations including VocalEssence, the St. Olaf Band, Cantus, Opera, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber and Chanhassen Dinner Theaters. Favorites stage work, Rodolfo promotes the music Pavia Winds, cellist Kirsten Whitson, Lorelei, The Rose Ensemble and Orchestra, Lyric Opera Of The North, Opera include: Marius in Les Miserables and Corny of México and Latin America to the public the University of Notre Dame DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. His compositions have Omaha, The Omaha Symphony Orchestra, Collins in Hairspray (Chanhassen Dinner through bilingual concerts. been performed on A Prairie Home Companion, The Boston Pops holiday tour, multiple Theatre Elision, Nebraska Shakespeare, Theaters); Candide inCandide and Archibald www.rodolfo-nieto.com. All-State and festival programs and at venues such as the Library of Congress, Kennedy Nebraska Repertory Theatre, and many more. Craven in The Secret Garden (Artistry). Ben Center and Royal Opera House Muscat. Takach has been awarded grants from the Member AEA. www.paulrcoate.com has also performed in 50 productions with JAMES RAMLET is American Composers Forum, Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minnesota MN Opera, including world premiers of The honored to return for his State Arts Board and Meet the Composer, and yearly ASCAP awards since 2004. He BENJAMIN DUTCHER is Manchurian Candidate, Doubt, and Silent fifth year inAll is Calm. studied Music Theory and Composition at St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, where he truly thrilled to be returning Night. A special thanks goes to his super Other Theater Latté Da graduated with honors. Takach lives in Minneapolis with his wife and two sons. to All is Calm, having been supportive family for again creating space for credits include Judge Turpin with the production every this exciting opportunity! Upcoming: Assistant in Sweeney Todd: The year since its re-imagining Directorial debut this spring in Theater Latté Demon Barber of Fleet Street, in 2015 – including the Da’s production of La Bohème. Grandfather/Henry Ford in Ragtime, and Drama Desk Award-winning Orson Déjaloux in the world premiere of C. company in NYC last winter. A St. Paul RILEY MCNUTT returns for He has also appeared at the Guthrie Theater, native, his past roles with Theater Latté a fifth year inAll is Calm, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Children’s Theatre Da include Charles Guiteau in Assassins, after spending last year Company, and American Repertory Theater. Tony in Master Class, and Harry Houdini/ performing in the award- As an operatic performer, James has been seen Willie Conklin in the Ivey award-winning winning Off-Broadway run, on the stages of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, production of Ragtime. Ben’s other recent and he couldn’t be happier Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the credits include Steven Kodaly in She Loves for it. Also with Theater Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Me with Artistry, Remendado in Carmen Latté Da, Riley has played Henrik in A Little and many others.

6 All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Nov. 27 - Dec. 29 ● Ritz Theater 7 THE COMPANY BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF CREATIVE Officers: Nancy Jones, Chair Elissa Adams Peter Rothstein TREVOR BOWEN (Costume Playhouse in the Park. A proud graduate of The Shadow Theatre Company, the University of Kevin Winge, Vice Chair Associate Artistic Director Founding Artistic Director Designer) is glad to be College-Conservatory of Music at University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA program, Jay Harkness, Secretary Libi Baehr Courtney Rust back at Theater Latté Da. Cincinnati. and many others. Keely is also a voice and Brian Svendahl, Treasurer Previous productions stage actor, a member of VASTA (the Voice Development Manager Concessions Supervisor ABBEE WARMBOE include: Ragtime, Lullaby, and Speech Trainers Association), and former Directors: Luke Stiller (Properties Master) Chris Cartwright Steerage Song: The Tour editor of the VASTA Voice publication. Kent Allin Marketing Associate House Manager and Our Town. Twin Cities THEATER LATTÉ DA: ELISSA ADAMS Les Bendsten credits include: Penumbra Theatre, The Chicago, To Let Go and Matt Fulton Sarah Dayley Micayla Thebault-Spieker Jungle Theater, Pillsbury House Theatre, Fall, Hedwig and the Angry (Dramaturg) THEATER Ron Frey Box Office Associate Master Electrician & Mixed Blood Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Inch, A Little Night Music. LATTÉ DA: C., Lullaby, Katie Guyer Rentals Coordinator Ten Thousand Things Theater, Macalester THEATER: Penumbra Assassins, Five Points, Sandy Hey Michael Dunne College, and Guthrie Theater. Regional credits Concessions Manager Nicholas Tranby Theatre: Pipeline; Penumbra Theatre/Theater Underneath the Lintel, Lisa Hoene include: BLKS (Steppenwolf ), Ragtime Audio Engineer Mu: The Brothers Paranormal; Theater Mu: Once, A Little Night Music, Christine Larsen Michael Hanisch (5th Ave), Welcome To Fear City, Byhalia, Fast Company, Hot Asian Doctor Husband; Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kate Lawson Videographer Allen Weeks Mississippi, pen/man/ship, We Are Pussy Riot, To Let Go And Fall, Chicago, NEXT Festival Carolee Lindsey Production Director The Exceptionals, Inana, Dead and Breathing, Old Log Theater: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love (Producer); THEATER: Director of New Jim Matejcek Andrew Leshovsky Race, We Are Here, A History of Light and Murder; Mixed Blood Theatre: The Song Play Development at Children’s Theatre Penny Meier Marketing Director Samantha Wend (Contemporary American Theatre Festival). of Summer; History Theatre: Gloria: A Life; Production & Artistic Company (1998- 2017); Sundance Theatre Gary Reetz Trevor has an M.F.A. in Costume Design from Ordway: Smokey Joe’s Café; Mill City Summer Peter Rothstein Roni McKenna Administrator West Virginia University. Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte. AWARDS: 2018 MN Lab; Playwrights’ Center; TRAINING: MFA (ex-officio) Accounting Consultant Theater Awards Honoree for Exceptional in Dramaturgy UC San Diego. Thomas Senn Michelle Woster MARCUS DILLIARD Renata Nijiya Managing Director Design, 2017 Ivey Award for Production Cara Sjodin (Lighting Designer) LISA M. SMITH (Sub Stage Manager) Lisa Box Office Manager Design and Execution for Six Degrees of Kari Groth Swan THEATER LATTÉ DA: A has been working with All is Calm since Diane Beck Separation, Overall Excellence for Ragtime. Libby Utter Little Night Music, Assassins, Tiffany K. Orr Katie DeBoer 2012. It is a powerful show that has evolved David Young Production Stage Manager Kate Houns Man of La Mancha, Peter D. MARIE LONG (Stage over the years sharing a touching message Jane Zilch Janet Lewis and the Starcatcher, C., All is Manager) is honored to be of humanity with audiences near and far. Denise Prosek Grace Peterson Calm, Our Town, Cabaret, back for her 3rd year with THEATER LATTÉ DA: NEXT, C., Lullaby, Co-Founder Marlee Schlegel Steerage Song, Aida, Song of Extinction, Violet, All is Calm, after sharing Into the Woods, Our Town, Company, Spring THEATER Kathleen Sullivan ; The Full Monty, Old Wicked Songs, Susannah this story the last 2 winters LATTÉ Bethany Reinfeld Concessions Staff THEATER: Guthrie Theater, Minnesota Awakening, Passage of Dreams, and Old Wicked with thousands of audience DA Technical Director Opera, The Jungle Theatre, Theatre de la Jeune Songs. THEATER: Theater Mu: A Little Night members across North THEATER MUSICALLY Lune, Children’s Theatre Company, Ordway Music, Kung Fu Zombies vs Cannibals, Yellow America. She has been a stage manager in the Music Theater; AWARDS: Sage Award, Vey Fever, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, Twin Cities for 7 years. D. Marie has worked Award, McKnight Foundation Theater Artist Yellowface, Flower Drum Song, (and many with Jungle Theater, Park Square Theatre, Fellowship (2); TRAINING: Professor at Playwrights’ Center, and History Theatre. more); History Theatre: Dirty Business, Teen SPECIAL THANKS University of Minnesota department of Theatre She got her BA from Concordia College in Idol: The Bobby Vee Story, Dance Til You Drop; Arts and Dance. Moorhead, MN and her MFA in Directing Ordway: Annie, In The Heights, West Side Story, Laura Little Pirates of Penzance, Songbook Series; Guthrie NICHOLAS TRANBY (Sound from the University of Montana. Proud AEA Nicholas Harper & Rogue Buddha Gallery Designer & Engineer) is a union member since 2014. Theater; Choir Boy; As well as productions freelance sound engineer with Old Log Theater, Frank Theatre, KYLA MOLONEY (Assistant Stage Manager) and designer based in Producing House, Trademark Theatre, Mixed THEATER LATTÉ DA: To Let Go and Fall Minneapolis. He is excited Blood Theatre, MN Orchestra, Collide and Chicago; THEATER: History Theatre, to be working on All is Calm Theatrical, TU Dance, and Mu Daiko. Park Square, Ordway, Penumbra, and CLIMB. for the 4th consecutive year. Working in the Twin Cities as an Assistant Other Theater Latté Da projects include: Stage Manager, Video Designer, Spot Op, Chicago, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Candide, Technician, and Stage Hand. A Little Night Music, Man of La Mancha, Peter and the Starcatcher, Ragtime, Gypsy, KEELY WOLTER (Dialect Assassins, Five Points, and Underneath the Coach) holds an MA in Lintel. He was the Sound, Video and Lighting Voice Studies from the Royal Associate at Children’s Theatre Company for Central School of Speech 4 years; while there he was Associate Sound and Drama in London. Designer for Shrek: The Musical, Pinocchio, In addition to working Alice in Wonderland and Robin Hood. Head with Theater Latté Da, she Audio Engineer for international tours of has served as a voice and accent coach with The Wedding Singer and The Wizard of Oz. the Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theater, Park Theater Latté Da is a proud Other venues have included Guthrie Theater, Square Theater, Old Log Theater, Walking partner of the Northeast Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Cincinnati Minneapolis Arts District IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, 1914

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10 All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Nov. 27 - Dec. 29 ● Ritz Theater 11 any German officers in my crowd, and the noise It was now 11.30 a.m. and at this moment about our dead, who were still lying out between died down (as this time I was myself in my own George Paynter arrived on the scene, with a hearty the trenches. The trenches are so close at this point, cap and badges of rank). I found two, but had to “Well, my lads, a Merry Christmas to you! This is that of course each side had to be far stricter. talk to them through an interpreter, as they could damned comic, isn’t it?” George told them that he Well, he found an extremely pleasant and superior neither talk English nor French. I explained to thought it only right that we should show that we stamp of German officer, who arranged to bring them that strict orders must be maintained as to could desist from hostilities on a day which was all our dead to the half-way line. We took them meeting half-way, and everyone unarmed; and we so important in both countries; and he then said, over there, and buried 29 exactly half way between both agreed not to fire until the other did, thereby “Well, my boys, I’ve brought you over something to the two lines. This officer kept on pointing to our Despite the bitter fighting which had been going on for over four months, a remarkable creating a complete deadlock and armistice (if celebrate this funny show with,” and he produced dead and saying, “Les Braves, c’est bien dommage.” armistice was observed in many sectors on Christmas Day 1914, and English and German strictly observed). Meanwhile Scots and Huns were from his pocket a large bottle of rum (not ration When George heard of it he went down to that soldiers ceased killing each other for one day and fraternized in a most genuine manner. fraternizing in the most genuine possible manner. rum, but the proper stuff). One large shout went section and talked to the nice officer and gave him In the following chapter a Captain of the Scots Guards describes the extraordinary scenes Every sort of souvenir was exchanged, addresses up, and the above-mentioned nasty little spokesman a scarf. That same evening a German orderly came enacted between the lines during this highly unofficial truce. The author held a regular given and received, photos of families shown, etc. uncorked it, and in a heavy, ceremonious to the half-way line, and brought a pair of warm, commission in the Scots Guards in 1914 — he was killed in action, France, One of our fellows offered a German a cigarette: manner, drank our healths, in the name of his woolly gloves as a present in return for George. March 12, 1915, aged 25. the German said, “Virginian?” Our fellow said, “camaraden;” the bottle was then passed on Well, all was quiet, as I said, that night, and

SIR EDWARD “Aye, straight-cut.” The German said, “No thanks, and polished off before you could say knife. next morning, while I was having breakfast, one Eye HULSE -witness of 1 914 Armistice I only smoke Turkish!” It gave us all a good laugh. During the afternoon the same extraordinary of my N.C.O.s came and reported that the enemy Just returned to billets again, after the most that he thought it only right to come over and wish A German N.C.O. with the Iron Cross, gained, scene was enacted between the lines, and one were again coming over to talk. I had given full extraordinary Christmas in the trenches you us a happy Christmas, and trusted us implicitly to “atrocity reports.” We had a heated, and at the he told me, for conspicuous skill in sniping, of the enemy told me that he was longing to instructions, and none of my men were allowed out could possibly imagine. Words fail me completely, keep the truce. He came from Suffolk, where he same time, good-natured argument, and ended started his fellows off on some marching tune. get back to London, I assured him that “So of the trenches to talk to the enemy. I had also told in trying to describe it, but here goes! On the had left his best girl and a 3 h.p. motor-bike! He by hinting to each other that the other was lying! When they had done I set the note for “The was I.” He said that he was sick of the war, the N.C.O. of an advanced post which I have up a 23rd we took over the trenches in the ordinary told me that he could not get a letter to the girl, I kept it up for half an hour, and then Boys of Bonnie Scotland, where the heather and and I told him that when the truce was ended, ditch, to go out with two men, unarmed, if any of manner, relieving the Grenadiers, and during and wanted to send one through me. I made him escorted them back as far as their barbed wire, the bluebells grow,” and so we went on, singing any of his friends would be welcome in our the enemy came over, to see that they did not cross the 24th the usual firing took place, and sniping write out a postcard in front of me, in English, having a jolly good look round all the time, everything from “Good King Wenceslaus” down trenches, and would be well-received, fed, the half-way line, and to engage them in pleasant was pretty brisk. We stood to arms as usual at and I sent it off that night. I told him that she and picking up various little bits of information to the ordinary Tommies’ song, and ended up with and given a free passage to the Isle of Man! conversation. So I went out, and found the same lot 6.30 a.m. on the 25th, and I noticed that there probably would not be a bit keen to see him again. which I had not had an opportunity of doing “Auld Lang Syne,” which we all, English, Scots, Another coursing meeting took place, with no as the day before; they told me again that they had no was not much shooting; this gradually died We then entered on a long discussion on every under fire! I left instructions with them that Irish, Prussian, Wurtembergers, etc., joined in. It result, and at 4.30 p.m. we agreed to keep in our intention of firing, and wished the truce to continue. down, and by 8 a.m. there was no shooting sort of thing. I was dressed in an old stocking- if any of them came out later they must not was absolutely astounding, and if I had seen it on respective trenches, and told them that the truce was I had instructions not to fire till the enemy did; I at all, except for a few shots on our left. cap and a man’s overcoat, and they took me for a come over the half-way line, and appointed a a cinematograph film I should have sworn that it ended. They persisted, however, in saying that they told them; and so the same comic form of temporary At 8.30 a.m. I was looking out, and saw four corporal, a thing which I did not discourage, as I ditch as the meeting place. We parted, after was faked. From foul rain and wet, the weather were not going to fire, and as George had told us not truce continued on the 26th, and again at 4.30 p.m. Germans leave their trenches and come towards had an eye to going as near their lines as possible. an exchange of Albany cigarettes and German had cleared up the night before, to a sharp frost, to, unless they did, we prepared for a quiet night, I informed them that the truce was at an end. We us; I told two of my men to go and meet them, I asked them what orders they had from their cigars, and I went straight to H.-qrs. to report. and it was a perfect day, everything white, and but warned all sentries to be doubly on the alert. had sent them over some plum puddings, and they unarmed (as the Germans were unarmed), and officers as to coming over to us, and they said On my return at 10 a.m. I was surprised to the silence seemed extraordinary, after the usual During the day both sides had taken the thanked us heartily for them and retired again. to see that they did not pass the halfway line. none; that they had just come over out of goodwill. hear a hell of a din going on, and not a single man din. From all sides birds seemed to arrive, and opportunity of bringing up piles of wood, straw, Many thanks for your letters, which amused We were 350–400 yards apart at this point. They protested that they had no feeling of enmity left in my trenches. I heard strains of “Tipperary” we hardly ever see a bird generally. Later in the etc., which is generally only brought up with me greatly with the various anecdotes. Please wish My fellows were not very keen, not knowing what at all towards us, but that everything lay with their floating down the breeze, swiftly followed by a day I fed about 50 sparrows outside my dug-out, difficulty under fire. We improved our dug-outs, Gramps very many happy returns of to-day, and was up, so I went out alone, and met Barry, one authorities, and that being soldiers they had to obey. tremendous burst of “Deutschland iiber Alles,” which shows how complete the silence and quiet roofed in new ones, and got a lot of very useful tell him that I have instructed you to hand this of our ensigns, also coming out from another I believe that they were speaking the truth when and I saw, to my amazement, not only a crowd of was. I must say that I was very much impressed work done towards increasing our comfort. The letter to him, as Birthday Wishes, as I have not a part of the line. By the time we got to them, they said this, and that they never wished to fire a about 150 British and Germans at the half-way with the whole scene, and also, as everyone else, Border Regiment were occupying this section on minute to write any others. Very Best Wishes for they were half of the way over, and much too shot again. They said that unless directly ordered, house which I had appointed opposite my lines, astoundingly relieved by the quiet, and by being Christmas Day, and Giles Loder, our Adjutant, the New Year to you and O., and all at home. near our barbed wire, so I moved them back. they were not going to shoot again until we did. but six or seven such crowds, all the way down able to walk about freely. It is the first time, day went down there with a party that morning on They were three private soldiers and a stretcher- They think that our press is to blame in working our lines, extending towards the 8th Division on or night, that we have heard no guns, or rifle- hearing of the friendly demonstrations in front of bearer, and their spokesman started off by saying up feeling against them by publishing false our right. I bustled out and asked if there were firing, since I left Havre and convalescence! my Coy., to see if he could come to an agreement

German army, led by Erich Ludendorff Archduke Franz Ferdinand Emperor Franz Joseph and Paul von Hindenburg achieves its Trench warfare begins heir to the throne of the of Austria-Hungary Austria-Hungary declares Germany mobilizes her greatest victory of the war on the Eastern to dominate the Western Austro-Hungarian Empire, declares war on Serbia. war on Russia. armed forces and declares front against Russia at the Battle of First trenches of the and his wife are assassinated Front. war on Russia. AUG 6 Tennenberg. Western front are dug. in Sarajevo. JUL 28 NOV JUN 28 AUG 1 AUG 26–30 SEP 15

JUL 31 AUG 4 AUG 22 SEP 5–10 DEC 25 AUG 3 Germany declares war on neutral “The Battle of the Frontiers” First Battle of the Unofficial Christmas Truce As an ally of Serbia, Russia OCT 19 Belgium and invades in a right 27,000 French soldiers die on this Marne halts German declared by soldiers in the trenches announces full mobilization Germany declares flanking move designed to defeat single day in an offensive thrust to invasion in France. First Battle of Ypres begins. along the Western Front. of her armed forces. war on France. France quickly. As a result of this the east of Paris, towards the German pbs.org/greatwar/timeline/time_1914.html invasion, Britain declares war on borders. Germany.

12 All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Nov. 27 - Dec. 29 ● Ritz Theater 13 he First World War provides one of the seminal moments of the twentieth-century in which literate Wilfred Owen, 1893–1918 Siegfried Sassoon, 1886–1967 soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems reflecting Owen was born near Oswestry, Sassoon was born at Weirleigh T Wordsworth’s ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.’ Shropshire on the 18th of March, outside of the village of Matfield “‘POETRY,’ Wordsworth reminds us, ‘is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,’ and there can 1893. Owen graduated from in Kent on September 8, 1886 to a Shrewsbury Technical School wealthy Jewish merchant family. He be no area of human experience that has generated a wider range of powerful feelings than war: hope and in 1911 at the age of 18. Owen lived the leisurely life of a cultivated fear; exhilaration and humiliation; hatred — not only for the enemy, but also for generals, politicians, attended University College, country gentleman before the First and war-profiteers; love — for fellow soldiers, for women and children left behind, for country (often) and Reading, and is known to have World War, pursuing his two major cause (occasionally). studied the diverse subjects of interests, poetry and fox hunting. botany and poetry. Owen returned Following the outbreak of the First The poetry offered here is fine literature. If literature should not only indicate how mankind thinks, but to England in autumn 1915 and World War, Sassoon served with the also how mankind feels, then the poems of the First World War succeed on both counts. enlisted in the Artists’ Rifles. His Royal Welch Fusiliers, seeing action – Dr. Stuart Lee, 1996 training was completed in Hare in France in late 1915. Sassoon is Hall Camp in Essex, but this allowed him time to make best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems trips to London, notably to the Poetry Bookshop run by of WWI, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Harold Monro who he met. On 4th June 1916 Owen was Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Francis Ledwidge, 1887–1917 Patrick MacGill, 1889–1963 commissioned as a second lieutenant with the Manchester he wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and Ledwidge was a war poet born on MacGill was born in Glenties, Donegal, Regiment. Owen composed nearly all of his poems in contemptuously satirized generals, politicians, and churchmen August 19, 1887 in the village of Ireland on January 1st 1889. He was slightly over a year, from August 1917 to September 1918. for their incompetence and blind support of the war. He Slane, County Meath, Ireland. The the eldest of eleven children born into His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches published a series of volumes containing poems inspired by eighth of nine children of an evicted a poor farming family. He attended and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend and the war: The Old Huntsman(1917); Counter-Attack and Other tenant-farmer, Patrick Ledwidge, he Mullanmore National School until mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast Poems (1918); and Picture-Show (1919). would later claim to be “of a family the age of 10, after which, at age 12, both to the public perception of war at the time and to the who were ever soldiers and poets.” he went to the hiring fair in Strabane, confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets. In Leaving school at the age of 14, he where he was hired to a County Tyrone November 1918 he was killed in action at the age of 25, one Trench Duty week before the Armistice. worked in various manual labor farmer. MacGill was later employed as Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake, positions while developing a love for an itinerant ‘navvy’. The term ‘navvy’ and honing his own poetical talents, originated from the word Navigator. Out in the trench with three hours’ watch to take, writing whereever he could, Navvies worked as labourers building 1914 I blunder through the splashing mirk; and then sometimes even on gates or fence posts. Though a strong roads, railways, tunnels and dams. During his years as a navvy, War broke: and now the Winter of the world Hear the gruff muttering voices of the men nationalist, he enlisted in Dunsany’s Regiment, the 10th McGill became a member of the many circulating libraries Crouching in cabins candle-chinked with light. (Irish) Division, Inniskilling Fusiliers in October 1914 — and educated himself. During WWI, MacGill served with the With perishing great darkness closes in. to serve in France and Flanders during WWI. Sometimes London Irish Rifles (¹⁄₁₈th Battalion, The London Regiment) The foul tornado, centred at Berlin, Hark! There’s the big bombardment on our right known as the “poet of the blackbirds,” he was killed in and was wounded at the Battle of Loos on October 28, 1915. Is over all the width of Europe whirled, Rumbling and bumping; and the dark’s a glare action in Flanders, at Boezinge, on 31 July, 1917 during He was recruited into Military Intelligence, and wrote for MI Rending the sails of progress. Rent or furled Of flickering horror in the sectors where the Third Battle of Ypres, at the age of 29. 7b between 1916 and the Armistice in 1918. MacGill wrote a We raid the Boche; men waiting, stiff and chilled, memoir-type novel called Children of the Dead End. Are all Art’s ensigns. Verse wails. Now begin Famines of thought and feeling. Love’s wine’s thin. Or crawling on their bellies through the wire. A Soldier's Grave The grain of human Autumn rots, down-hurled. ‘What? Stretcher-bearers wanted? Some one killed?’ A Lament From The Trenches Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Then in the lull of midnight, gentle arms For after Spring had bloomed in early Greece, Why did he do it? ... Starlight overhead— Lifted him slowly down the slopes of death, I wish the sea was not so wide that parts me from my love; And Summer blazed her glory out with Rome, Blank stars. I’m wide-awake; and some chap’s dead. Lest he should hear again the mad alarms I wish the things men do below were known to God above! An Autumn softly fell, a harvest home, Of battle, dying moans, and painful breath. I wish that I were back again in the glens of Donegal, A slow grand age, and rich with all increase. –Siegfried Sassoon And where the earth was soft for flowers we made They’d call me a coward if I return but a hero if I fall! But now, for us, wild Winter, and the need Of sowings for new Spring, and blood for seed. A grave for him that he might better rest. Is it better to be a living coward, or thrice a hero dead? So, Spring shall come and leave it sweet arrayed, It’s better to go to sleep, m’lad, the colour-sergeant said. –Wilfred Owen And there the lark shall turn her dewy nest. –Patrick MacGill –Francis Ledwidge

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Mcdermott Bill Schoppert Tom Hoch and Mark Addicks Jaime A. Roman and Jim Bernier Dan Delaney Mark and Mary Henderson Kathleen McGonigle Christine Schraml Meg Delapp Laura Silver and Jeff Hertzberg Nancy Mcintyre Meg Schuller Virginia and John Dell Joan Higinbotham Peg Mckee Judy Schwartau Debra Denoyelles Wilbur Hill Roni McKenna Robert and Margaret Schwob Brian Dernbach Anonymous Anita McKeown Trish and Ralph Scorpio Legacy Circle Annie Doughty and Jim Detmar Joel Hoekstra and Eric Jensen Lisa Mclean Katie and Ken Searl David Miller and Mary Dew Jim and Mary Holland Rebecca Mcnamara Michelle Seefeld We gratefully recognize the following individuals who have chosen to include Theater Latté Da in their estate plans. Caroline Dey Joe Holmers Julie Meredith Sharon and Stephen Segal These estate gifts will sustain our artistic excellence and fiscal health for years to come: Michael Diblasi Nanette Hoover Douglas and Cindy Merrigan Miriam Seim Alison Didier David Horstmann Fern Meshbesher Marsha and Joel Seltz Brett Diethert Marcy Horwitz Frank and Ginny Meuers Kelly Sharp Kent Allin and Tom Knabel Bill Venne and Doug Kline If you have included Theater Latté Da in your estate plans but are not listed here, or if Marcus and Cynthia Dilliard Margaret and Mark Hottinger Barb Michaels-Rauen Gale Sharpe Mary Ebert and Paul Stembler Patti Pinkerton you would like to learn more about legacy giving to Theater Latté Da, please contact James and Sharon Dimond Elizabeth Watkins and Tom Huberty Carole Senty and Richard Miller William and Katrinka Sharpe Stephen Fischer Kevin Winge and Kevin Shores Libi Baehr at [email protected] or 651-204-6852. 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Please accept our apologies for any errors or omissions. A complete list of donors can be found Tim Evens Daniel Pinkerton and Jane Johnston Nelson and Beth Neubrech Olivia Snortland Kristin Evenson Lois Juster Kristen Neurer Linnea Sodergren online at latteda.org. For corrections, please contact Libi Baehr, Development Manager, at 651-204-6852 or [email protected]. Maurice and Kathleen Failer Shirley Kaplan Rick Nielsen Ron and Kathy Sofie Gary and Connie Falkenstein Mark Kappelhoff Judy Nobles Anthony Sofie Mary Kelley, Mark Falstad Lois Kapteina and David Truckenmiller Mary Weber Nord Wendy Sommer Ryan Feltman James R. and Mary M. Kaster Becca Norris and Lynn Moline Lawrence Sonsthagen George Ferguson Heidi Keil Gary P. 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