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THE WARS OF THE ROSES May 22 - May 23, 2021 at 12pm Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre Dallas, Texas shakespearedallas.org | 2 PRESENTS THE WARS OF THE ROSES

Referencing the adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Parts I, II, III and Richard III by John Barton in collaboration with Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company

Directed by Jenni Stewart

May 22 - May 23, 2021 Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre 1500 Tenison Parkway Dallas, TX 75223

shakespearedallas.org | 3 Welcome to the People’s Theatre.

Love. Family. Ambition. Betrayal. At Shakespeare Dallas we’ve been bringing timeless themes like these to life for almost 50 years. As North Texas’ leading professional theatre company performing the works of William Shakespeare, we believe that Shakespeare is for everyone. That means providing fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds. For many, interacting with Shakespeare Dallas is a tradition that has crossed generations and delighted guests since our founding.

Our Mission Using Shakespeare’s works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Shakespeare Dallas Staff Executive & Artistic Director ...... Raphael Parry Associate Artistic Director ...... Jenni Stewart Director of Community Engagement ...... Marie Facini Production Manager ...... Adrian Churchill Company Manager ...... Korey Kent Programs Associate...... Meagan Harris Membership & Marketing Associate ...... Sterling Arroyo Artistic Associate/Director of Educational Tours ...... Marco E. Salinas Artistic Associate ...... Linda Blase Director of Training ...... Gregory Lush

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shakespearedallas.org | 5 About the Executive & Artistic Director

Raphael Parry Executive and Artistic Director

Noted director and actor Raphael Parry has been with Shakespeare Dallas since 2002. In January 2008, Mr. Parry assumed the role of Executive and Artistic Director of Shakespeare Dallas. During his tenure at SD he has directed Shakespeare in Love, King Lear, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) [revised], Tartuffe, Pericles, Twelfth Night, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet and a world premiere adaptation of Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. He most recently played the role of Titus Andronicus in Titus Andronicus. Before serving in his current role as Executive & Artistic Director and his former role as Producing Artistic Director, Raphael was a guest artist and directed Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He also acted in SD productions from 1984 including Twelfth Night, Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and King Lear. Mr. Parry is the co-founder and former Co-Artistic Director of Undermain Theatre. During his tenure at the Undermain, Raphael directed and acted in over 40 productions. Memorable projects at the Undermain include Goose and Tom Tom, Ghosts, Disgrace, Camino Real, The Deatherians, an international tour to Macedonia of Sarajevo, and play commissions from long-time collaborator Erik Ehn including The Red Plays, Beginner, and Shiner. Additional selected directing/performance credits include An Almost Holy Picture The Chairs, Road, Fool For Love Tartuffe, A Christmas Carol and A Streetcar Named Desire A recipient of citations from the Dallas Theatre Critics’ Forum and the Leon the theatrical scene with the Dallas Theatre League “Standing Ovation Award” in the fall of 2006. He is also the Director of “Texas Bound - Arts and Letters Live,” a literary series presented at the Dallas Museum of production of Diamond Dick: The Tulsa Race Riots of 1921 went to NYC to win multiple top 10 and “best of” lists and was cited by the Dallas Critics Forum Awards.

shakespearedallas.org | 6 Notes About the Adaptation

This adaptation references the masterwork that is John Barton’s The Wars of the Roses, written in collaboration with Peter Hall for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963. I was drawn to this script because it solves many of the theatrical challenges that make the staging of the also allowing for the tetralogy to be viewed by an audience in a single day.

I was also drawn to this masterwork because it perpetrates the ultimate literary heresy — Shakespeare cut, rewritten, and rearranged. Characters have been deleted and compressed, speeches reapportioned, and one whole scene has been invented. Barton’s conviction and sharp vision shines through to create something entirely new.

My apologies to Mr. Barton and Mr. Hall as I also could not stop myself from interfering with their text. As an ensemble we have deleted, compressed, reassigned, and in some cases restored, the original Shakespeare where we felt compelled to do so.

Thank you for braving this journey with us.

Jenni Stewart Associate Artistic Director

shakespearedallas.org | 7 From John Barton and Peter Hall

The text of The Wars of the Roses does not derive from any wish to provide an improved alternative to the original plays on which it is based. It represents a playing version of those plays devised for a particular production, and is the result of trying to solve particular theatrical problems.

The three parts of Henry VI and Richard III were almost certainly not wrote.

Richard III, as the fourth play, then becomes the retributive culmination of a struggle for power, its principal character not the splendid Machiavellian entertainer of stage tradition, moving nimbly among a welter of wailing ladies and ambitious barons, but embodying in his own anarchic self a judgement on the country that he rules. good politicians may be forced to do evil. But he does not use the excuse that the ends justify the means. History may dictate wrongdoing to the individual, but the individual will always be punished for these sins. The plays are therefore an intricate pattern of retributions, of paying for sins,

Power corrupts because the needs of being in power are in themselves corrupting. A man aspires to be a king, and then is destroyed by being a king, whether he be a good or bad king. Therefore, how do we govern? What do we do? Must we retire, like Henry VI, to the Shepherd’s life?

would misgovern the rest. All that Shakespeare gives us as a lesson of human experience is that at the end of every life, or every cycle of dynasty. Or the hope of young love marrying. The problems are never over, but life as a principle goes on.

shakespearedallas.org | 8 HENRY VI CAST Based on Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part I and

The English ...... Austin Tindle John, Duke of Bedford Regent of France ...... Dennis Raveneau Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and Protector ...... Raphael Parry Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter ...... Bryan Pitts* Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester ...... TA Taylor Williams, Captain to Talbot ...... Richard Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of York ...... Ethan Norris William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk ...... Montgomery Sutton* The Duke of Somerset ...... Jeremiah Johnson The Earl of Warwick ...... Vernon, Supporter of Richard Plantagenet ...... Dennis Raveneau Basset, Supporter of the Duke of Somerset ...... Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March ...... TA Taylor Lieutenant of the Tower ...... Trajan Clayton Lord Talbot, afterwards Earl of Shrewsbury ...... John Talbot, his Son ...... Trajan Clayton An English Soldier ...... Trajan Clayton King Henry VI ...... Christian Taylor Eleanor Duchess of Gloucester ...... Whitney Holotik Sir John Hume ...... Roger Bolingbroke, a Conjurer ...... Margery Jourdain, a Witch ...... Joanna Schellenberg* A Townsman of St. Albans ...... Miranda Churchill Simpcox, an Imposter...... Jeremiah Johnson Simpcox’s Wife ...... Whitney Holotik First Murderer ...... Second Murderer ...... Trajan Clayton ...... Trajan Clayton ...... Dennis Raveneau The French Charles the Dauphin ...... Christian Taylor Reignier King of Naples ...... Dennis Raveneau The Duke of Alençon ...... Whitney Holotik The Bastard of Orleans ...... Jeremiah Johnson The Duke of Burgundy ...... Joanna Schellenberg* Joan La Pucelle, commonly called Joan of Arc ...... Margaret, Daughter of Reignier, afterwards married to King Henry ...... Nicole Berastequi A French Soldier...... Miranda Churchill A Papal Legate ...... Stage Directions read by Miranda Churchill *This actor appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.

shakespearedallas.org | 9 EDWARD IV CAST Based on the last two acts of Henry VI, Part II and King Henry VI, Part III

The House of Lancaster King Henry VI ...... Christian Taylor Margaret, Queen to King Henry ...... Nicole Berastequi Edward, Prince of Wales, their Son ...... Miranda Churchill The Duke of Exeter ...... Bryan Pitts* Lord Say ...... Dennis Raveneau Lord Clifford ...... TA Taylor Young Clifford, his Son ...... Trajan Clayton Sir Humphrey Stafford ...... Raphael Parry The Duke of Somerset ...... Jeremiah Johnson The Earl of Oxford ...... A Son that has killed his Father ...... First Lancastrian Soldier ...... Dennis Raveneau Second Lancastrian Soldier ...... Raphael Parry The Earl of Warwick ...... The House of York Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York ...... Ethan Norris Edward, afterwards King Edward IV ...... Montgomery Sutton* George, Duke of Clarence ...... Jeremiah Johnson Richard, Duke of Gloucester ...... Joanna Schellenberg* Edmund, Earl of Rutland ...... Whitney Holotik The Duchess of York ...... A Father that has killed his Son ...... Raphael Parry The Duke of Norfolk ...... Whitney Holotik ...... Lord Hastings ...... Bryan Pitts* ...... Ethan Norris The Duke of Buckingham ...... Dennis Raveneau The First Watch ...... Dennis Raveneau The Second Watch ...... Whitney Holotik The Third Watch ...... The Commons Jack Cade, a Rebel ...... Christian Taylor Smith ...... Dennis Raveneau Dick ...... Whitney Holotik Michael ...... Clerk of Chatham ...... TA Taylor Alexander Iden, a Kentish Gentleman ...... Jeremiah Johnson First Keeper ...... Raphael Parry Second Keeper ...... Bryan Pitts* The Lieutenant of the Tower ...... Trajan Clayton The French Louis XI, King of France ...... Raphael Parry The Lady Bona, Sister-in-law to King Louis XI ...... The Duke of Burgundy ...... Joanna Schellenberg* The Duke of Alençon ...... Whitney Holotik Stage Directions read by Miranda Churchill *This actor appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association. shakespearedallas.org | 10 RICHARD III CAST The House of York King Edward IV ...... Montgomery Sutton* ...... Prince Edward, afterwards Edward V ...... Richard, Duke of York ...... Trajan Clayton ...... Miranda Churchill George, Duke of Clarence ...... Jeremiah Johnson Richard, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards King Richard III ...... Joanna Schellenberg* The Duchess of York, Mother to King Edward IV ...... The Duke of Exeter ...... Bryan Pitts* Lord Hastings ...... Bryan Pitts* ...... Ethan Norris The Duke of Buckingham ...... Dennis Raveneau Sir William Catesby ...... Sir Richard Ratcliff ...... Montgomery Sutton* The Duke of Norfolk ...... Whitney Holotik Sir James Tyrrel ...... Bryan Pitts* First Messenger...... Ethan Norris Second Messenger...... Christian Taylor Third Messenger ...... Bryan Pitts*

The House of Lancaster King Henry VI ...... Christian Taylor Margaret, Widowed Queen of King Henry VI ...... Nicole Berastequi Prince Edward, Son to King Henry VI ...... Miranda Churchill Lady Anne, Widow of Prince Edward, Son to King Henry VI ...... Whitney Holotik The Earl of Richmond afterwards King Henry VII ...... Nicole Berastequi The Earl of Oxford ......

Reconcilers of the Two Houses The Earl of Derby ...... TA Taylor The Bishop of Ely ...... Raphael Parry

The Commons The Lieutenant of the Tower ...... First Murderer ...... Raphael Parry Second Murderer ...... Whitney Holotik The Lord Mayor of London ...... Ethan Norris ...... Christian Taylor ...... Trajan Clayton ...... Jeremiah Johnson Monk ...... Christian Taylor Stage Directions read by Miranda Churchill *This actor appears courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.

shakespearedallas.org | 11 Board of Directors BOARD

Executive Committee

Lauren York, Chair Sarah-Michelle Stearns, Treasurer Geoff Demander, Vice Chair Maeghan Whitehead, Secretary

Board of Directors

Lori Bradley John Hall Jessica Helton Darren Dittrich David Tarlow Marcus Fuller Connie Tate Nick Gerne Evin Wood

Advisory Board

Howard Hallam Diane Brierley Donald Stone David B. Brown Roy G. Turner, III Travis Carter

shakespearedallas.org | 12 Production Team CREW

Stage Manager ...... Set Design ...... Michael J. Sullivan Sound Design ...... Kellen Voss Properties Design ...... Associate Producer ...... Korey Kent Associate Producer ...... Meagan Harris Production Manager ...... Adrian Churchill Assistant Set Design ...... David Smith Associate Production Manager ...... Nic McMinn ...... Jeremy Escobar Master Electrician ...... Cooper Simon Sound Engineer ...... Kellen Voss A2 ...... Joshua Nguyen Technical Director ...... Jordan Rousseau Assistant Technical Director ...... Emma Carnell Scenic Artist ...... Carpenters ...... Jeremy Escobar, Danelle Morrow, Peyton Wood Front of House Producer ...... James Stroman Assistant House Manager ...... Assistant House Manager ...... Brady White Shoppe Manager ...... Angelica McEwan

shakespearedallas.org | 13 2021 SUMMER SEASON SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Presented at Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre

The Hamlet Project

16 actors. 16 solo performances inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The catch? Only 24 hours to prepare.

Erik Ehn.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised]

A fast-paced parody through Shakespeare’s entire canon— performed by just 3 actors. Directed by Raphael Parry.

Limited capacity events! Reserve tickets at www.shakespearedallas.org, Facebook or Eventbrite. For questions, contact [email protected] or 214-559-2778.

shakespearedallas.org | 14 With Thanks to Our Supporters Shakespeare Dallas is honored to be supported by the following individuals, foundations, corporate sponsors and community partners.

$25,000 and Above Chris Martin Kathy and Harlan Crow Janet and John Mockovciak Dallas Arts District Arts Midwest Robert W. Baird and Co. Inc. Foundation Diane and Hal Brierley Sarah-Michelle Stearns Pari Danian and Ahmad Norma and Donald Stone Tehrani, MD and Culture TACA—The Arts Express Booksellers Dallas Tourism Public Community Alliance Laura and Steve Farrar Improvement District Texas Instruments Brandi Ferguson-Deitering Fichtenbaum Charitable Foundation Rob Gluskin Trust, Bank of America, The Ben E. Keith Foundation Tom Gunning and Renee N.A., Co-Trustee The JPMorgan Chase Richeson Shakespeare in American Foundation Ann and James Hambleton Communities Maeghan Whitehead and Julie and William Haynes Harold Simmons James LaMarca Jessica Helton Foundation Lauren and Mason York Kathleen Irvin-Walo The John and Bonnie Anonymous Samuel Lisman Strauss Foundation Barbara and Sam $2,500 to $4,999 $10,000 to $24,999 McKenney Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Judy Meagher Amy and David Brown Feld LLP Metropolitan Press Inc Carl B. and Florence E. King Baird Foundation Inc. Diana and Michael Millies Foundation Bank of America Charitable National Endowment for Kay and Elliot Cattarulla Foundation the Arts Communities Foundation Denise and Greg Boydston Dave Player of Texas Christine and Darren Dittrich Richard Rogers Dallas Park and Recreation Nick Gerne Sharon Seal Sigrid Glenn Jeffrey Sommerfeld Interabang Books Max Hartman Julie and Chris Stanton Rea Charitable Trust James Kralik Deborah and Craig Sutton Mary and Tim Ritter Linda Farina and Mark Connie and Garvin Tate David Tarlow Moynahan The Dallas Foundation Texas Commission on the Theatre Communications Arts Connie and Garvin Tate Group The Eugene McDermott Texas Instruments Walmart Foundation Foundation Foundation John D. Wilkinson, III The Hall Agency, Inc. Laura and Roy G. Turner, III Evin Wood The Theodore and Beulah Chris Wells and Betsy Cook Beasley Foundation, Inc. $500 to $999 Yardi Systems, Inc. $1,000 to $2,499 Margaret Barry $5,000 to $9,999 Stephanie and Victor Aves Julie Blackwell Lori Bradley IdaJane and Doug Bailey Clare and George Burch Kay and Elliot Cattarulla Margaret and William Amber and Travis Carter Dallas Shakespeare Club Barnes Rebecca and Neil Cobb Linda and Nathan Eaton Bloomberg Corporate Michael Dambacher Embrey Family Foundation Philanthropy Melissa and Charles Deur John Hall and Cindy Morris William R. Bond Carolyn Bacon Dickson Trudy and Charles Hess Cal and Clare Buie Chaney Rebecca and Kevin Dunn Diane and Steve Martichuski Mary Ehrlicher Allison and Patrick Elko shakespearedallas.org | 15 With Thanks to Our Supporters

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shakespearedallas.org | 17 In Collaboration with shakespeare dallas, junior players presents 12th Night: A Rock Musical. Illyria is the new Coachella when The Bard becomes the new sensation as his text is mixed into original infectious rock/pop style melodies in a new production out of California of this classic gender bending comedy. Join us as the madness for love unfolds after a shipwrecked Viola falls onto the Illyrian Shores

A u g u s t 3 - 8 , 2 0 2 1 S a m u e l l - G r a n d P a r k A m p h i t h e a t r e G a t e s o p e n a t 7 : 3 0 p m ; C u r t a i n a t 8 : 1 5 p m

F o r t i c k e t i n g i n f o r m a t i o n , v i s i t j u n i o r p l a y e r s . o r g / t i c k e t s !

This program is sponsored, in part, by Milfred and Patricia Hammerbacher, City of Dallas: Office of Arts and Culture, National Endowment for the Arts, TACA, Simmons Sisters Fund, Diane and Hal Brierley Foundation, George Family Foundation - Next Generation Fund, Moody Fund for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, John & Bonnie Strauss Foundation, VisitDallas, Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, and the Hersh Foundation

shakespearedallas.org | 18 SHAKESPEARE DALLAS THEATRE AND ACTING CAMP Now Enrolling Grades 2 - 12

Students learn all about acting, movement, vocal work, stage combat and improvisation. Teaching artists engage students with Shakespeare through a modern lens that is relatable, accessible — and FUN! Each

2021 Camp Sessions

June 14 - 18 at Lake Highlands Church, 9919 McCree Rd June 21 - 25 at Bishop Dunne Catholic School, 3900 Rugged Dr July 5 - 16

Visit www.shakespearedallas.org for more information and to reserve your child’s space. also available. Email [email protected] or call 214-559-2778 with questions.

shakespearedallas.org | 19 MUSIC IN THE PARK

In partnership with Front Yard When: Friday, June 18 and Concerts, Shakespeare Dallas Saturday, June 19 presents our inaugural Music in Where: Samuell-Grand Amphitheatre lineup of local musicians — covering Tickets: $10 - $12 performing under the stars. Reserve tickets at www.shakespearedallas.org, On Friday, June 18, Brianne Sargent Facebook or Eventbrite & Friends String Trio will perform music. On Saturday, June 19, Bobby Sparks will open followed by Cure Music in the Park is sponsored by for Paranoia with The Grays. Ben E. Keith Beverages.

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