By Michele Riml Directed by Mary M. Finnerty

SEPT 15 – OCT 22 Andy Boss Thrust Stage

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2 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org Dear Park Square Patron:

Welcome to the opening production of Park Square Theatre’s 43rd season in downtown Saint Paul. As Mayor of the capital city, I thank Artistic Director Richard Cook for his long career bringing audiences like you together for great theatre. Now with the new Palace Theatre humming across the street and Park Square’s two stages in the Historic Hamm Building, more than 100,000 patrons will be coming to just THIS ONE BLOCK of Saint Paul’s Cultural Corridor this season.

My hat is also off to this show’s director, Mary Finnerty, who also serves as Park Square Theatre’s Education Director. Mary has inspired more than 350,000 teenagers over the last 23 years with Park Square’s award- winning programs and performances. Park Square is “back to school” this month, welcoming more than 30,000 students from all over the entire state – as well as Wisconsin and Iowa.

As one of the six Saint Paul mayors who served on the Capital Campaign Committee, welcome to the Andy Boss Thrust Stage, which opened just three years ago. I am proud that the city invested nearly $200,000 of funds through our Cultural STAR program to create this beautiful, intimate arts facility. Public investments in our community keep our city vibrant, livable and a great destination for friends from across the river or around the world.

Thank you, truly, for coming together here – for this performance, in the same room as the gifted local artists who can’t wait to share today’s show with you.

Yours, Chris Coleman Mayor of Saint Paul

OUR MISSION is to enrich our community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

3 When the going gets tough, the tough go camping...sort of. If they can make it through this weekend, Henry and Alice just might discover how to survive a true mid-life crisis.

FROM THE DIRECTOR Welcome back to the world of Henry and Alice. I know many of you fell in love with these two during Sexy Laundry in 2014. In that chapter of their relationship, Alice is feeling the spark has gone out their marriage and reserves a romantic weekend in a super upscale hotel to try and rekindle things. Henry can’t figure out how to sit in the strangely designed chairs or even how to turn on the lights and Alice’s insistence on their revealing their fantasies is torture until Henry finally reveals that his fantasy woman is Alice whom he adores. Now in chapter two, Henry and Alice: Into the Wild, it’s 18 months later, Henry has lost his job and they are camping instead of staying at their usual luxury cottage for a week to save money. Playwright Michele Riml puts Alice in a new situation in this chapter: now she is unsure about how to cook, use the bathroom or get into her sleeping bag. This new environment challenges their relationship once again and we enjoy watching them struggle, stretch and grow to become more like us – hilariously human. – Mary M. Finnerty, Director

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

MICHELE RIML is a critically acclaimed playwright from Vancouver, British Columbia. Her plays have been widely produced across Canada. They include Miss Teen, Under the Influence, Poster Boys, Souvenirs, On the Edge, The Amaryllis and Henry and Alice: Into the Wild, the sequel to Sexy Laundry which has been translated and produced in Poland, Germany, New Zealand, Iceland, Mexico and the United States. Her plays for young audiences include RAGE (winner of the 2005 Sydney Risk prize for Outstanding Original Play), The Skinny Lie, The Invisible Girl and Tree Boy. Michele was nominated for the 2008 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre.

4 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org on the ANDY BOSS THRUST STAGE

By Michele Riml

Director ...... Mary M. Finnerty Scenic Designer ...... Kit Mayer Costume Designer...... Rebecca Karstad Lighting Designer ...... Michael P. Kittel Sound Designer ...... Jacob M. Davis Properties Designer ...... Meagan Kedrowski Assistant Director...... Libby Wasylik Stage Manager ...... Amanda K. Bowman* Assistant Stage Manager ...... Kyla Moloney CAST Henry ...... John Middleton* Alice ...... Carolyn Pool* Diana ...... Melanie Wehrmacher

SETTING: A campsite in British Columbia. PERFORMANCE TIME: The performance will run approximately 2 hours including a 20-minute intermission.

HENRY AND ALICE: INTO THE WILD is produced by permission of the Playwright and Marquis Entertainment Inc. www.mqlit.ca.

HENRY AND ALICE: INTO THE WILD was first produced by the Arts Club Theatre Company in June of 2012 (Vancouver, BC).

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. As a courtesy to our actors and those around you, please DEACTIVATE all PHONES and ELECTRONIC DEVICES.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Park Square Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre.

5 CAST JOHN MIDDLETON* Wedding; Actors Theatre of Minnesota: Fezziwig’s Henry Feast, Princess Diana the Musical; Red Eye: Iris, Park Square Calendar Girls, Maria/Stuart Training National Theatre Institute, Romeo and Juliet, Sexy Laundry, Drake University Other Company Member of The School for Lies, American Science Live Theatre, Member: Dramatists Guild Family, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, of America Becky’s New Car Representative Theatre Theater Latté Da: Six Degrees of Separation, C!, Song ARTISTIC STAFF of Extinction; Jungle Theater: You Can’t Take it MARY M. FINNERTY with You, Detroit; Theatre Pro Rata: Up, 1984; Director Torch Theater: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, True Park Square 22 Productions West, Glengarry Glen Ross; Gremlin Theatre: since 1992 including: Calendar Six Characters in Search of an Author, Petrified Girls, Sexy Laundry, Opus, Rock Forest, Hedda Gabler; Girl Friday Productions: ‘n’ Roll, The Sisters Rosensweig, Idiot’s Delight, Camino Real, Street Scene Agnes of God, Steel Magnolias, The O’Conner CAROLYN POOL* Girls, Enchanted April, The Waiting Room, Of Mice Alice and Men, Taking Sides, The Cryptogram, Hamlet, Park Square Calendar Girls; 2 The Crucible, Equus, A View From the Bridge, Sugars, Room for Cream; August: The Glass Menagerie Representative Theatre Osage County; Dead Man’s Cell The Refreshment Committee: The Clearing, The Phone; The Sisters Rosensweig; Scarlet Letter; Theatre Max: Detective Fiction by Proof; The Last Night of Ballyhoo; Born Yesterday Patrick Coyle (World Premiere); Sell the Cow Representative Theatre Hippodrome Theatre: Theater and The Playwrights’ Center: Uncommon Women in Jeopardy; Old Log Theater: Almost, Phenomena; University of Minnesota Theatre: Maine; Illusion Theater: Miranda,Three Viewings; The Three Sisters, Mourning Becomes Electra Gremlin Theatre: Orson’s Shadow; Jungle TV/Film Forevermore: Written and Directed Theater: Honour Training B.A., Augsburg by Patrick Coyle Training M.F.A. Directing College Accolades/Other Artist/Mentor for The Program, University of Minnesota (3 years) Chicago Avenue Project; Ivey Award winner Accolades/Other Critic’s Choice Awards: The 2008 (Ensemble, Orson’s Shadow) and 2013 Glass Menagerie, A View from the Bridge, The (Ensemble, 2 Sugars, Room for Cream); Best Scarlet Letter; Kendrick Wilson Directing Award: Actress 2011 SoCal Film Festival (Rotations of The Three Sisters, Mourning Becomes Electra; the Earth) Upcoming Projects October 2017 Sally Ordway Award for Excellence in Education; Daleko Arts: Sometimes There’s Wine; November Founded Park Square Theatre Education 2017 S.O.S. Theatre: Roller Derby Queen Program in 1994 and has served as Director of MELANIE WEHRMACHER Education for over 22 years. Diana AMANDA K. BOWMAN* Stage Manager Park Square The Language Park Square The (curious case of the) Watson Archive Representative Theatre Intelligence Representative Theatre Theater Latté History Theatre: Orphan Train, Da: Peter and the Starcatcher; Music Theatre Tales Along the Minnesota Trail; Wichita, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Casa Old Log Theatre: Blithe Spirit; Yellow Tree Theatre: Mañana Training B.A., Theatre, Wichita State Dancing at Lughnasa, On Golden Pond, The Diary University Upcoming Projects Theater Latté Da: of Anne Frank; Brave New Workshop: A Snowplow All is Calm Tour and Assassins Named Desire, Twerking Around the Christmas JACOB M. DAVIS Sound Designer Tree; Gremlin Theatre: Don’t Dress for Dinner; Park Square Amy’s View, Flower Drum Song, Pioneer Place: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; The Soul of Gershwin, Love Person, Nina Simone: Hennepin Theatre Trust: Girls Only: The Secret Four Women Representative Theatre Theater Comedy of Women; Minnesota Jewish Theatre Latté Da: Sweeney Todd; Nimbus Theatre: The Company: My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Kalevala; Theatre Pro Rata: Up; Tedious Brief 6 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org ARTISTIC STAFF Productions: Meed Hall; Gremlin Theatre: State University Moorhead Other Theatre Coup Sea Marks; Minneapolis Musical Theatre: d’Etat: Core Company Member and Technical Big River Training M.F.A., Sound Design, Coordinator; Savage Umbrella: Company California Institute of the Arts; B.F.A., Theatre Member Upcoming Projects (as actor) Savage Design, University of Minnesota Duluth Umbrella: Ex-Gays: Not a Str8 Remount; Theatre Other Professional Member: Theatrical Sound Coup d’Etat: Moby Dick ARTISTIC STAFF Designers and Composers Association; MICHAEL P. KITTEL Lighting Designer Company Member: Theatre Pro Rata; Member: Park Square Over 150 productions (as Resident United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 Upcoming Lighting Designer) including The Color Purple, Projects Theatre Pro Rata: The Minotaur; Red, Ragtime, Grey Gardens, Democracy, To Kill a Nimbus Theatre: Ludlow Mockingbird, Rock ‘n’ Roll Representative Theatre KIT MAYER Scenic Designer Ordway, Frank Theatre, Stages Theatre Company, Park Square The House on Mango Street; Steppingstone Theatre, Mu Performing Arts, Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue; Shooting Star; Stick Fly Bloomington Civic Theatre TV/Film tpt: The Representative Theatre Resident Scenic Designer St. Olaf Christmas Festival Training University at Commonweal Theatre Company; Founding of Wisconsin-River Falls Accolades Ivey Award Member and Designer: Fairbanks Shakespeare for The Pillowman (Frank Theatre); Lavender Theatre Training M.F.A., University of Minnesota; Magazine Best Lighting Design 2008 & 2009 B.A., University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse LIBBY WASYLIK Assistant Director REBECCA KARSTAD Costume Designer Park Square Debut Representative Theatre Park Square Debut Representative Theatre (lumin)theater lab: Escape From Happiness; Theatre in the Round: The Three Musketeers, Phipp’s Theater: Best Christmas Pageant Ever; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, House of Blue Leaves, Locally Grown Theater: The Crucible; Black The Beaux Stratagem, Appointment with Death, Dirt Theater: Hamlet, Guys and Dolls Round and Round the Garden, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Midnight Star Production Staff & Crew Productions: It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Assistant Stage Manager: Kyla Moloney Play at the St. Paul Hotel; Actor’s Theater of Run Crew: Jorge Rodriguez Minnesota: A Christmas Carol Training B.A., Sound Operator: Nathaniel Glewwe English, Gustavus Adolphus College Upcoming Projects Theatre in the Round: The Canterville Production Director: Rob Jensen Ghost, Postmortem Technical Director: Ian Stoutenburgh Paint Charge: Mary Montgomery-Jensen MEAGAN KEDROWSKI Properties Designer Park Square (in various positions) 33 Variations, Master Carpenter: William Bankhead Amy’s View, A Raisin in the Sun, The Soul of Carpenters: Meagan Kedrowski, Brittany Pooladian Gershwin, Flower Drum Song, Nina Simone, Wardrobe Supervisor: Aaron Chvatal Macbeth, The (curious case of the) Watson Master Electrician: Brent Anderson Intelligence, Amy’s View, Might as Well Be Dead Sound Supervisor: Charlotte Deranek Representative Theatre Prime Productions: Little Wars; Four Humors: The Importance of Being Special Acknowledgements Earnest; Savage Umbrella: June; Theatre Coup Park Square would like to thank the following: d’Etat: Equus; Chameleon Theatre Circle: Jesus Christ Superstar; Theatre in the Round: Don’t Drink Judith James Reis, our fabulous Dance and the Water Film Don’t Wake Theodore Hall Training Movement Consultant; Joe’s Sporting Goods; A.A., Educational Theatre, Central Lakes College; The Wine Company, our Opening B.A., Acting/Directing/Technical Design, MN Night champagne toast sponsor.

*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Today, Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

7 SHARE THE MAGIC OF GREAT STORYTELLING 11 shows on 2 stages. Mix it up and choose any 3 to save!

HENRY & ALICE: HAMLET OF MICE AND MEN DOT INTO THE WILD Oct 13 – Nov 11, 2017 Nov 9 – Dec 16, 2017 Dec 8, 2017 – Jan 7, 2018 Sept 15 – Oct 22, 2017 Tragedy Drama/Literary Classic Comedy/Drama Comedy

CARDBOARD PIANO THE PIRATES A RAISIN THE DIARY OF ANNE Jan 19 – Feb 18, 2018 OF PENZANCE IN THE SUN FRANK Drama Feb 9 – Mar 25, 2018 Feb 22 – Mar 24, 2018 April 19 – 28, 2018 Comedy/Musical Drama Drama

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