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Study Guide: Students & Educators CLOUD NINE Heather Baird Director of Education Study Guide: Students & Educators CLOUD NINE Heather Baird Director of Education Tyler Easter Education Associate Fran Tarr Education Coordinator Section 1: The Play Synopsis, Characters, Setting, Themes Section 2: Cast & Creative Director & Cast Bios Section 3: Your Students As Audience Critical Thinking Activity, Gender & Sexuality in the World of Cloud Nine, Theater Vocabulary, The Complexities of Genre (Discussion or Writing Activity), Historical Context: British Imperialism; Colonialism in Africa Section 4: Your Students As Actors Reading A Scene for Understanding, Practical Aesthetics, Scene Analysis, Mini-Lesson Vocabulary Section 5: Your Students As Artists Critical Thinking Activity (Examining Aesthetics), Theater Genre Examination Learning Log, Critical Thinking: Attitudes towards Gender and Sexuality in Society, Common Core & DOE Theater Blueprint Section 5: The Atlantic Legacy Atlantic Theater Company, Atlantic Acting School SOURCES 2 Section 1: The Play PLAY PLAY Synopsis, Characters, Setting, Themes SYNOPSIS Set in colonial Africa and 1979 London, this landmark play is about Clive Colonial Aristocrat, Father, And Husband power, politics, family, Queen Victoria, and sex. A timeless and bitingly funny modern classic, Cloud Nine has not been seen in a major Betty New York production since 1981; when it ran for over two years. Clive’s Wife Edward Cloud Nine is a hysterical, in-your-face, energetic, and Clive’s Son occasionally dark play that confronts traditional ideas of gender, sexuality, and patriarchy. Act one begins in Africa under British Victoria Clive’s Daughter Imperialist rule in 1879 where we first meet Clive, a domineering husband, father, and master. Through his heavy handed approach Harry Bagley in his many roles, Clive is both a literal and a metaphorical An Explorer representative of the British Empire’s intent to “civilize” the natives Mrs. Saunders through his treatment of his subservient family. His wife, Betty, A Widow is played by a man. His son, Edward, is played by a woman. His servant, Joshua, is an African native, but is played by a Caucasian Lin A Lesbian actor. These casting choices create a visual analogy to challenge the conventions of the time and to reveal underlying truths Martin about each character. As each actor is introduced they quickly Victoria’s Husband betray their customary roles and expose how tradition and Ellen convention can impact the individual and their contributions Edward’s Governess to the society they must operate within. Gerry Act Two opens in 1979 London, which seems to be an Edward’s Lover alternate universe operating within a very different set of Cathy societal norms. While not as dictatorial a society at first glance, Lin’s Young Daughter the characters must still navigate the aftermath of the dark, Maud patriarchal, sexually oppressive world from which they come. Clive’s Mother-In-Law Continuing in the style of shifted conventions, despite nearly 100 years passing from Act I to Act II, the characters have only Joshua aged 25 years. Throughout Act II, we observe the characters Clive’s African Servant, Played By A Caucasian Actor challenging their own ideas of social mores, examining the relationships in their lives, and searching for acceptance both inside themselves, and in society. SETTING Act One A British Colony In Africa; 1879. Act Two London; 1979. 4 Section 2: Cast & Creative CAST Director And CAST Cast Bios CARYL CHURCHILL JAMES MACDONALD Playwright Director Stage plays include: Owners (Royal Received an Obie Award last season Court Upstairs, London and New York for Love and Information, which Theatre Workshop); Objections to played to rave reviews at New York Sex and Violence (Royal Court); Light Theatre Workshop; the London Shining in Buckinghamshire (Joint production of this play garnered a Stock UK tour, Royal Court Upstairs); nomination for the Evening Standard’s Vinegar Tom (Monstrous Regiment, Award for Best Director. James’s UK tour); Traps (Royal Court Upstairs production of Cock at the Royal Court and New York Theatre Workshop), received the 2010 Olivier Award Cloud Nine (Joint Stock UK tour– for Outstanding Achievement in an Royal Court and Atlantic Theater, New Affiliate Theatre, before transferring York); Three More Sleepless Nights to New York, where James was (Soho Poly and Royal Court Upstairs); nominated for the 2013 Lucille Lortel Top Girls (Royal Court and The Public Award for Outstanding Director. Theater, New York); Fen (Joint Stock Also in New York, James has directed UK tour–Almeida Theatre and Royal acclaimed productions of King Court and The Public Theater); Soft- Lear, Book of Grace, Drunk Enough cops (RSC at the Pit); A Mouthful of to Say I Love You? (The Public Theater), Birds with David Lan (Joint Stock John Gabriel Borkman (BAM/Abbey UK tour–Royal Court); Serious Money Theatre), Top Girls (MTC/Broadway), (Royal Court and Wyndham’s Theatre Dying City (Lincoln Center), A Number and the Public Theater); Icecream (New York Theatre Workshop) and (Royal Court and Public Theater); Mad 4.48 Psychosis (St. Ann’s Warehouse). Forest (Central School of Speech and Recent London credits include Drama, the Royal Court, and New York The Wolf from the Door, Circle Mirror Theatre Workshop); Lives of the Great Transformation (Royal Court), The Poisoners with Orlando Gough and Father (Theatre Royal Bath/The Ian Spink (Second Stride UK tour and Tricycle), Roots (Donmar), #AIWW– Riverside Studios, London); The Skriker The Arrest of Ai Weiwei (Hampstead), (National Theatre, London, and A Delicate Balance, Judgment Day Public Theater); Thyestes trans. from (Almeida), Dido Queen of Carthage, Seneca (Royal Court Upstairs); Hotel The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each with Orlando Gough and Ian Spink Other, Exiles (National Theatre), and (Second Stride, UK tour and The Glengarry Glen Ross (West End). Place, London); This is a Chair (London From 1992 to 2006, Macdonald was International Festival of Theatre associate director of the Royal Court, at the Royal Court); Blue Heart (Joint where he directed world premieres of Stock, UK tour, Royal Court and work by writers including Caryl Churchill, BAM); Far Away (Royal Court Upstairs Sarah Kane, Martin Crimp and and the Albery Theatre, London Christopher Shinn. He also directed and New York Theatre Workshop); the film version of Caryl Churchill’s A Number (Royal Court Theatre, A Number, featuring Tom Wilkinson and New York Theatre Workshop); a new Rhys Ifans, for HBO. This summer, version of Strindberg’s A Dream Play James will direct the world premiere (National Theatre); Drunk Enough to of Anne Carson’s translation of The Say I Love You? (Royal Court and Bakkhai at London’s Almeida Theatre. Public Theater); Bliss translation of Olivier Choiniére’s play (Royal Court), Seven Jewish Children (Royal Court and New York Theatre Workshop); A Ring A Lamp A Thing an opera with Orlando Gough (Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House); Love and Information (Royal Court and New York Theatre Workshop) and Ding Dong the Wicked (Royal Court). 6 BROOKE BLOOM SEAN DUGAN LUCY OWEN CHRIS PERFETTI (Edward / Betty) (Joshua / Gerry) (Maud / Victoria) (Betty / Edward) Theatre Credits: D Deb Debbie Broadway: Next Fall Was last seen in The Village Bike Broadway: Picnic (dir. Sam Gold). Deborah at Clubbed Thumb, David (Drama Desk Award nomination). (directed by Sam Gold) at MCC. Off-Broadway: The Tempest Greenspan’s I’m Looking for Helen Off-Broadway: The Illusion, Next Other theatre credits include: (Public Theatre/NYSF), Sons of Twelvetress at Abrons Arts Center, Fall, The English Channel, Perfect Clybourne Park at the Long Wharf the Prophet (Roundabout), The You Got Older with Page 73, Somewhere Harmony, BFF, Nerds: The Musical, Theatre, Body Language (Active Tutors (Second Stage). Television: Fun at Vineyard Theatre, Lungs at the Valhalla, Flesh and Blood, Corpus Theatre), Complete (NY Fringe “Crossbones” (NBC), “Looking” Studio Theatre in D.C. and Barrington Christi and Shakespeare’s R&J. Encore). Regionally: Berkeley Rep (HBO), “Next Caller” (NBC). Stage, Becky Shaw at the Wilma, Regional: Actors Theatre of (Cloud Nine), San Francisco Upcoming: “Criminal Justice” The Grown-Up at the Actors Theatre Louisville, Chautauqua Theater Shakespeare Festival (Henry IV, (HBO). Education: B.F.A., SUNY of Louisville, Marie Antoinette at Company, American Conservatory parts 1 & 2; Winter’s Tale), PCPA Purchase Conservatory. ART, as well as A Feminine Ending, Theater, Round House Theatre, Theatrefest (Arcadia, Amadeus, Completeness and Hamlet all at Yale Repertory Theatre, Huntington A Midsummer Night’s Dream, South Coast Rep. Film: Extremely Theatre Company, The Old Globe, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Romeo Loud and Incredibly Close, Ceremony, and American Repertory Theater. and Juliet, Skylight) Theatreworks He’s Just Not That Into You, Gabbi Film: Dinner@40, Stephen King’s in Mountainview (Shakespeare in on the Roof in July, Swim Little Fish A Good Marriage, On the Slope, Hollywood), Porchlight Theatre Co. Swim (SXSW 2013) and She’s Lost Gigantic, Trust the Man, Company (The Seagull, An Ideal Husband). Control (Independent Spirit Nom. Man and Overnight Sensation. Film/TV credits include: The Mend 2014, Berlinale 2014). Television: Television: “The Lottery,” “Smash,” (opposite Josh Lucas), Kelly & Series Regular on Amazon’s “Alpha “Boardwalk Empire,” “Blue Bloods,” Cal (with Juliette Lewis), Jonathan House,” guest appearances on “Louie,” “Elementary,” “I Just Want My Pants Demme’s Ricki and the Flash, “Person of Interest,” “Law & Order,” Back,” “The Good Wife,” “Fringe,” Liv, Game for Motel Rom, Higher “The Good Wife,” recurring role on “Law & Order: SVU” and “Criminal Ground, “The Big C,” “Law & Order “CSI: Miami” and various pilots for Intent” and HBO’s “Oz.” SVU,” “The Americans,” “Delocated,” NBC and Fox. Obie recipient 2014, “Inside Amy Schumer,” “Alpha Drama Desk Nomination 2014. IRNE House,” “The Good Wife,” “Elemetary.” 2013 and Barrymore 2012. Lucy will next be seen as Connie on Showtime’s “Billions.” 7 JOHN SANDERS IZZIE STEELE CLARKE THORELL (Harry Bagley / Martin) (Ellen / Mrs. Saunders / Lin) (Clive / Cathy / Soldier) Broadway: Matilda, Peter Izzie Steele is London born with Broadway: Annie (Rooster Hannigan), and the Starcatcher.
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