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27th Season! 2015 greenstage.org SHAKESPEARE in the PARK Seattle • Bainbridge • Burien • Fall City • Lynnwood • Maple Valley • Normandy Park • Vashon July 10 - August 15, 2015 directedMUCH by Amelia ADO Meckler Bowers ABOUT NOTHING THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN directed by Ryan Higgins FREEatre! BACKYARD BARD the MACBETH • THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA directed by Ken Holmes SPONSORS MEDIA SPONSOR Youth Summer Camps for kids ages 5-15 July 10-August 21 Queen Anne Community Center Magnuson Park Community Center Volunteer Park • High Point Commons Kids take a week-long journey into the world of Shakespeare and theatre as they delve into one of the Bard’s best plays! Great for aspiring actors. All levels of experience are welcome! GreenStage.org/camp DO IT THE BARD WAY! TM HARD BARD IS BACK! HARD BARD This fall, join us for the return of one of Seattle’s favorite Halloween traditions. Two corrupt brothers demand that their widowed sister, the Duchess, never get remarried. So she goes ahead and gets married in secret, has a bunch of kids, and everyone lives happily ever after. Just joking, everyone dies. Their will be blood. And a werewolf. DATES AND LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED CANON FODDER In 2014, GreenStage reached a milestone that (according to our reserach) only about a dozen other companies in the world have accchieved. We completed our goal of producing all the plays in Shakespeare’s canon! HISTORIES TRAGEDIES COMEDIES 4 Henry IV, Part 1 (’00) 4 Antony and Cleopatra (’11) 4 All’s Well That Ends Well (’04, ‘14) 4 Henry IV, Part 2 (’02) 4 Cardenio (’12) 4 As You Like It (’97, ‘10) 4 Henry V (’05) 4 Coriolanus (’04) 4 The Comedy of Errors (’99, ‘09, ‘14) 4 Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, and 3 (’06) 4 Cymbeline (’97) 4 Love’s Labour’s Lost (’96, ‘14) 4 Henry VIII (’12) 4 Hamlet (’08) 4 Measure For Measure (’96) 4 King John (’09) 4 Julius Caesar (’97) 4 The Merchant of Venice (’03) 4 Richard II (’98) 4 King Lear (’13) 4 The Merry Wives of Windsor (’03, ‘13) 4 Richard III (’07) 4 Macbeth (’01, ‘10) 4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (’93, ‘94, ‘98, ‘06, ‘13) 4 Othello (’14) 4 Much Ado About Nothing (’00, ‘15) 4 Romeo and Juliet (’90, ‘10) 4 The Taming of the Shrew (’89, ‘02, ‘12) This is a list of all 39 of 4 Timon of Athens (’99) 4 Shakespeare’s 37 plays that Pericles, Prince of Tyre (’95) 4 Titus Andronicus (’95, ‘09) 4 The Tempest (’05, ‘11) we have produced, and the 4 Troilus and Cressida (’01) 4 years we staged them. How Twelfth Night (’91, ‘92, ‘95, ‘08, ‘13) 4 Two Gentlemen of Verona (’07) many plays on this list have 4 you seen? The Two Noble Kinsmen (’98, ‘15) 4 The Winter’s Tale (’00) 2015 SEASON www.greenstage.org You are here, our cast is complete. Welcome. Thank you for being part of our 27th season of Shakespeare In addition, the arts inspire imagination, analytical thought, and in the Park. Since 1989 GreenStage has been bringing free greater understanding of the world. Children involved in the arts theater to Puget Sound audiences. Washington’s longest running generally have higher test scores, graduation rates and are less Shakespeare company, GreenStage’s programs reach 13,000 likely to run amok. To that end we have developed programs people in parks throughout Puget Sound. We present the Seattle that help schools to fill the gap left by budget cuts for the arts. Outdoor Theater Festival, which has become the unofficial Our education programs continue to grow, offering summer launch of the summer outdoor theater season. With the addition camps, residencies, and workshops for children and adults, and of Backyard Bard, our season now includes four park shows, we’re always looking for new opportunities to reach out and and this year we bring back our popular Hard Bard Halloween build community. Show. All Free – all the time. Over the past 27 years countless people have participated in While preparing to write this note I had a particularly bad day GreenStage; on stage, behind the scenes, and in our audiences. and thought to myself, ‘who cares, does it even matter?’ The How they have been touched and what they have been moved answer came swiftly and was a resounding “It is imperative!” to do as a result is limitless to know. Take a moment and look There is more and more that pulls us from ourselves and each around you; at this beautiful park and this beautiful community other, disregards or devalues our essential humanity and the of souls all joined together to create this moment – this one loss of that is, to me, the loss of all. Live theater is an intimate moment that you will share and will never be again, but whose communion shared by all present, it is a feast of the beauty, ripples are infinite. foibles, triumphs and challenges that face us as individuals and as a society; it reminds us of our humanity. We do it free, Thank you. Enjoy the show. because it is the soul’s food and those who are hungry should – Erin Day, Artistic Director be fed. page 4 Seattle’s SHAKESPEARE in the PARK Company 27 years of free theatre! MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN Directed by Amelia Meckler Bowers Directed by Ryan Higgins CAST – in alphabetical order CAST – in alphabetical order Jennifer Crooks............................................. Beatrice J. Samuel Cowan ..............................................Arcite Acacia Danielson ...............................................Hero Kirsten Deane ............................................. Hippolyta Chad Dickerson ............................Dogberry/Balthazar Jennifer Ewing ................................................. Emilia Lorrie Fargo .......................................... Ursula/Watch Madeline Nutting ...........................Queen / Ensemble Jared Holloway-Thomas ............................... Borachio Helen Roundhill ............................... Jailer’s Daughter Noah Luce .................................... Don John / Verges Zach Sanders ..................................Pirithous / Wooer Abby Nathan ............................................... Conrade Eric Smiley ........................................................ Jailer Jeff Pierce ....................................................Benedick Tom Stewart ..................................... Theseus / Doctor Kendra Pierce ..............................................Margaret Adam St. John ............................................. Palamon Michael Ramquist ..................... Antonio / Friar/Watch Lily Warpinski .................................Queen / Ensemble Andrew Shanks ............................................. Claudio Eli Sklov Simons ............................................ Leonato Daniel Wood .............................................Don Pedro PRODUCTION TEAM Ben Driskell ...................................... Stage Manager Sarah Ross ........................................ Stage Manager Chad Dickerson ................................. Original Music Rex Kesner ....................................Costume Designer Elizabeth Power .............................Costume Designer Anna Richardson .............................. House Manager Alex Shore .................................... Costume Assistant Erin Mettling .................................... House Manager Justin Duffield .................................Technical Director / Set Designer Laura Garcia .............................................................Prop Designer Annie Nance .............................................................Scenic Painter Taylor Davis .............................................................Choreographer Ryan Spickard ..................................................Fight Choreographer Danielle Hrachovec ....................Wardrobe Manager/Costume Intern SPECIAL THANKS Paul Budraitis • Devlin Donnelly • Tony Driscoll • Lisa Holmes • Marc “Mok” Moser • Julianna Ross • Savage Color S.P.A.C.E. • Seattle Parks and Recreation page 5 2015 SEASON www.greenstage.org BACKYARD BARD! The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Macbeth Directed by Ken Holmes THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Love can be complicated. Proteus, mad for Julia, stays in CAST - in alphabetical order Verona while his pal Valentine heads off to the court of Milan to Chris Allen make his way in the world. Proteus’ father decides it is time his Two Gentlemen of Verona ... Valentine, Launce, Host, Outlaw son did something with his life, and declares that he shall follow Macbeth....................................... Macbeth, Bleeding Captian Valentine. Proteus and Julia exchange rings and promises of love Abigail Grimstad before Proteus sets out tearfully for Milan. Two Gentlemen of Verona ..........Julia, Speed, Duke of Milan In Milan, Valentine has fallen in love with Silvia, the Duke’s Macbeth....... Witch, Duncan, Macduff, Fleance, Gentlewoman daughter, who is resisting her father’s wish that she marry his Luke Sayler friend Thurio. Proteus arrives in Milan just as Valentine and Silvia Two Gentlemen of Verona ........................................ Proteus are planning to elope. At first sight of Silvia, Proteus forgets Julia, Macbeth ......Witch, Malcolm, Lennox, Porter, Murderer, Doctor who has followed him from Verona disguised as the page Nicole Vernon Sebastian. Proteus tells the Duke of Valentine’s plot, which results Two Gentlemen of Verona ....Lucetta, Antonio, Sylvia, Outlaw in Valentine’s banishment. Silvia runs away to find Valentine. Macbeth ...................Witch, Ross, Banquo, Lady Macbeth, Siward Proteus follows Silvia, and Julia/Sebastian follows Proteus. What will happen in the forest? Can they iron this out?