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BAM 2012 Winter/Spring

Brooklyn Academy of Music presents

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board William I. Campbell, ’Tis Pity She’s Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board a Whore Karen Brooks Hopkins, President BAM Harvey Theater Joseph V. Melillo, Mar 20—24 & 27—31, 2012 at 7:30pm; Executive Producer Mar 25 at 3pm; Mar 31 at 2pm

Approximate running time: one hour and 55 minutes, no intermission

By Cheek by Jowl Directed by Declan Donnellan Designed by Nick Ormerod

Associate and movement director Jane Gibson Lighting Judith Greenwood Music/Sound Nick Powell Associate director Owen Horsley

Produced by Cheek by Jowl in a co-production with the Barbican, , Les Gémeaux/Sceaux/ BAM 2012 Winter/Spring sponsor: Scène Nationale, and Sydney Festival.

Major support for theater at BAM provided by: Rose M. Badgeley Residuary Charitable Trust The Corinthian Foundation The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Frederick Loewe Foundation, Inc. Gary Lynch & Kate Hall Donald R. Mullen Jr. The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund The SHS Foundation The Shubert Foundation, Inc. Harvey Schwartz & Annie Hubbard The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Lydia Wilson. Photo by Manuel Harlan ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Cast (in alphabetical order)

Hippolita Suzanne Burden Florio David Collings Donado Ryan Ellsworth Gratiano Jimmy Fairhurst Giovanni Jack Gordon Friar Nyasha Hatendi Soranzo Jack Hawkins Putana Lizzie Hopley Cardinal/Doctor Peter Moreton Grimaldi David Mumeni Vasques Laurence Spellman Annabella Lydia Wilson

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION CREDITS

Production manager Simon Bourne Costume supervisor Angie Burns manager Linsey Hall Technical stage manager Dougie Wilson Deputy stage manager Clare Loxley Lighting technician Kristina Hjelm Sound technician Mark Cunningham Wardrobe manager Victoria Youngson Assistant stage manager (Tour) Rosina Webb Assistant stage manager (rehearsals and Paris) Tilly Stokes American stage manager R. Michael Blanco

CHEEK BY JOWL

Executive director Beth Byrne General manager Roisin Caffrey Administrator & PA to the directors Edward Fortes

The actors are appearing with the permission of Actors’ Equity Association. The American stage manager is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Synopsis

The action begins with Giovanni confessing his Following the doctor’s advice, Florio is anxious love for his sister Annabella to his close friend to hasten the preparations for marriage. During the Friar Bonaventura. Giovanni attempts to a subsequent confession to the Friar, Annabella convince the Friar of his love in intellectual renounces her love, swearing that she will live terms, but the older man urges him to forget only for Soranzo. Hippolita, meanwhile, learns his passion. In the meantime, a fight between of the impending marriage from Vasques, which Grimaldi, one of the many suitors to Annabella, only strengthens her resolve to kill her former and Vasques, servant to Soranzo, suggests there lover. is fierce competition for Annabella’s hand. Of the potential matches Soranzo is the most favored by Once the marriage ceremony has been Giovanni and Annabella’s father Florio. performed, Hippolita arrives in disguise to shame Soranzo for his disloyalty to her in front of the Annabella cares little for the offers of marriage wedding party. She is betrayed in her attempt coming her way. Her mood changes upon to poison him by Vasques however; he reveals noticing Giovanni, whom she does not that he could not be corrupted by Hippolita’s immediately recognize as her brother. Once the promises and she is poisoned instead. Hippolita two are left alone, Giovanni is unable to bear it dies. and confesses his love to her; Annabella shares his feelings, and they make a vow never to Learning of Annabella’s pregnancy, Soranzo’s betray each other, to either love or kill each other. anger is considerable; and though he puts pressure on her to reveal the identity of the Having consummated their love, Giovanni is father, she does not yield. Once Annabella concerned that his sister will have to marry has left, Vasques assures Soranzo that he will eventually; she assures him that she will discover who the father is. This information he remain devoted. Putana becomes aware of the coerces from Putana with the help of the bandit relationship but is unconcerned. Gratiano.

Meanwhile, Soranzo receives a visit from a Now fully repentant of her past actions, former lover, the widow Hippolita. As she bitterly Annabella writes a letter to her brother reminds him, he had sworn to marry her in the renouncing their love. The Friar conveys this to event of her husband’s death, and has not made Giovanni who, incredulous, is convinced the good on his vow. Arguing that it was a sinful note must be forged. Vasques then invites the promise, Soranzo unrepentantly dismisses her two men to a feast in celebration of Soranzo’s claims. Hippolita swears revenge and, left alone birthday; fearing the worst, the Friar urges with Vasques, persuades the servant to join in Giovanni not to attend. Arriving at the feast, her plot. Giovanni visits Annabella in her room. While she has accepted the end of their love he cannot, Appalled to learn of Giovanni and Annabella’s and kills her. relationship, the Friar tries in vain to suggest that Giovanni put an end to it. Giovanni remains adamant as to the strength of their love; he is proven correct when Soranzo asks for Annabella’s hand and she replies that, while sensible, there would be no love in the match. As Giovanni celebrates her loyalty, Annabella is suddenly taken ill: she is pregnant. Who’s Who

Suzanne Burden (Hippolita) As associate director at the National Theatre, Theater includes: Judgement Day, King productions include: Fuente Ovejuna, Sweeney Lear, When We Dead Awaken (Almeida Todd, and the European premiere of Angels Theatre); Battle Royal, The White Chameleon, in America. Other directing credits include: Hedda Gabler, The Voysey Inheritance, The Winter’s Tale for the Maly Theatre St. The Shaughraun, Piano (National Theatre); Petersburg, in Russian, Le Cid for the Avignon Comedy of Errors, Postcards From America, Festival, and Andromaque for the Bouffes du The Winter’s Tale, Les Liaisons Dangereuses Nord, both in French. Opera: Falstaff for the (RSC); , In Praise of Love (Chichester Salzburg Festival. Ballet: at Festival Theatre); Ghosts (Arcola); The Chalk the Bolshoi. Film: Bel-Ami, co-directed with Garden (); and Nick Ormerod. He has won awards in New York, (Royal Exchange). Television includes: Midsomer Paris, Moscow, and London, including an Olivier Murders; Poirot; Life Begins; Absolute Power; for Outstanding Achievement. He is a Chevalier The Vet; You, Me And It; Secret Orchards; The de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and Cherry Orchard; Troilus and Cressida; Sharma is president of the Russian Theatre Confederation and Beyond; Bleak House; Hard Travelling; and Foundation. In 2009 he was jointly awarded The Rivals. Film includes: The Devotee, Glorious the Charlemagne Award with Craig Ventner 39, and Lost Prince. and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His book, The Actor and the Target, which was first published David Collings (Florio) in Russian, has been translated into several Theater includes: Troilus and Cressida, The languages. Changeling, Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl); King John, Richard III, Henry VIII, Romeo and Juliet Ryan Ellsworth (Donado) (RSC); The Mandate, The False Servant, Cyrano Trained at LAMDA. Theater includes: Cymbeline de Bergerac (National Theatre); Julius Caesar (Cheek by Jowl), Antigone (Old Vic Theatre), (Barbican); Richard II (Old Vic); and , Man and Superman (Shaw’s Corner), Kvetch A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park). (Iceni), The Round Dance (Roundhouse), Television includes: Crime and Punishment, The The Complete Works of Strawberry Tree, Song of Summer, The Brothers (Abridged) (UK and European tour), Where Grimm, and Julius Caesar. Film includes: There’s a Will (English Touring Theatre), and Persuasion, The Outsider, David and Bathsheba, Mrs. Gorsky (National Theatre Studio). Television The 39 Steps, Mahler, and King Lear. includes: Island at War (ITV), Manhunt (ITV), and Eastenders (BBC). Film includes: Bel-Ami. Mark Cunningham (sound) Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Jimmy Fairhurst (Gratiano) Drama. Theater includes: Earthquakes in London Trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and (UK tour); Voices Across the World, Opera Drama, where he received the Shorts (ROH); Yes, Prime Minister (Gielgud Award 2010. In 2010 he founded Not Too Tame Theatre, London and UK Tour); Clybourne Theatre Co. Theater includes: Oi For England Park (Wyndhams Theatre); Lifegame (Lyric (NTT—Edinburgh Fringe Festival); Summerfolk, Hammersmith); Posh, Off the Endz, The Seagull Pornography, Festen, Mary Stuart, and King (); and Peer Gynt (Barbican). Lear (RWCMD).

Declan Donnellan (director) Jane Gibson (associate and movement director) Declan Donnellan is joint artistic director Jane Gibson has an extensive list of film, of Cheek by Jowl. In 1999 the Chekhov television, and theater credits to her name and International Festival invited him to create his is an associate director of Cheek by Jowl. She own company of actors based in Moscow. Cheek was head of movement at the National Theatre by Jowl’s work at BAM includes Macbeth, The for 10 years. Film includes: Girl with a Pearl Duchess of Malfi, and As You Like It, in English, Earring, Nanny McPhee, Pride and Prejudice, and in Russian. Boris Godunov Atonement, Julian Jarrold’s Becoming Jane, and has been performed at Lincoln Center and Three Brideshead Revisited, among others. Television Sisters at the Kennedy Center in Washington. includes: Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Cranford,

Photo by Manuel Harlan Who’s Who and the award-winning mini-series Elizabeth I, Hypochondriac, Blood Wedding, Earthly starring . In 1996 Gibson was Paradise, Whistling Psyche (Almeida); Don nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Juan in , Days of Wine and Roses (Donmar Individual Achievement in Choreography for her Warehouse); Romeo and Juliet, Holding Fire!, work on the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice. Her In Extremis (Shakespeare’s Globe); Bernstein recent film credits include Bel-Ami, My Week Mass, Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Southbank With Marilyn, and Oz: The Great and Powerful. Centre); The Old Country, Someone Else’s Shoes (English Touring Theatre); The Caucasian Chalk Jack Gordon (Giovanni) Circle (Shared Experience); and Desperately Trained at RADA. Theater includes: Tender Seeking Susan (). Napalm (/Supporting Wall); War Horse (National Theatre West End); The Nyasha Hatendi (Friar) Miracle, DNA (National Theatre); Lulu, The Trained at RADA. Theater includes: The Car Cemetery (); Romeo and Brothers Size (); The Last Pilgrim Juliet (BAC); Incomplete and Random Acts of (White Bear); The Resistable Rise of Arturo Kindness, Scenes From the Big Picture, The Ui (Lyric Hammersmith); As You Like It (US Double Dealer, Machinal, Carmen 1936, Thark, tour); Pericles, and The Winter’s Tale (RSC). and The Duchess of Malfi(RADA). Television Television includes: Garrow’s Law, Blood and Oil, includes: The Curfew (online), Law and Order, Silent Witness (BBC); No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Eastenders, The Bill, Primeval 3, and Lewis. Agency (BBC/HBO); and Law and Order, Above Film includes: Truth or Dare (Corona Pictures), Suspicion (ITV). Film includes: The Ghost Writer Life Just Is, Panic Button (All2gethr), America (Summit International), The Comedian (The (Vita Ray Productions UK), The Devil’s Business Bureau), and The Good Shepherd (Universal). (SHH Films), It’s a Wonderful Afterlife (Bend Radio includes: The Way We Live Right Now, It Films, Hanway Films), Fish Tank (Kasander St. Joan, Mauritius Command, Leverage, The Productions), and Heartless (Starlight Places, Archers, Scoop, The Postman of Good Hope, Crossday). and Statement of Regret (BBC).

Judith Greenwood (lighting designer) Jack Hawkins (Soranzo) Greenwood is an associate director of Cheek by Trained at LAMDA. Theater includes: Jowl. She joined in 1990 and has toured the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead world lighting all but one of their productions. (Chichester Festival Theatre, Theatre Royal Other work includes: Le Cid (Avignon Festival); Haymarket), Birdsong (Comedy Theatre), and Boris Godunov, Twelfth Night, Three Sisters Otieno (Southwark Playhouse). Film includes: (Chekhov Festival); Falstaff (Salzburg); Bright Star. Homebody/Kabul (Cheek by Jowl, Young Vic); King Lear (RSC Academy); As You Like It, Kristina Hjelm (lighting associate) Great Expectations, Henry VIII (RSC Stratford); Graduated from Rose Bruford College with Romeo and Juliet (Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow); BA honors degree in lighting design. Theater (Tron Theatre, Glasgow); St.Joan includes, as designer: The Tempest (Cheek by (AandBC); and Andromaque (Bouffes du Nord). Jowl); Keep Breathing (Chris Goode—The Drum, She works with Lebanese theater companies in Plymouth); Love and Money (Maria Aberg— Beirut, and has contributed to several books on Malmo Stadsteater, Sweden); Cutting the Cord African theater. (Flying Eye tour); Count One (Linbury Studio); A Christmas Carol, Any Which Way (Only Linsey Hall (company manager) Connect); The Unknown (Cecile Feza Bushidi, Theater includes: One for the Road, Victoria BITE Barbican); The Race (Gecko, international Station, Tobias and the Angel (Young Vic); Our tour); Meltdown (Rambert Dance Company, Private Life, Loyal Women, Almost Nothing Queen Elizabeth Hall); Pagliacci (English Touring (Royal Court); L’elisir d’amore, Die Fliegender Opera); 30,000 Lies (Mkultra, Turin, Italy); Hollander, Hoffman, Turandot, Die Tote Stadt, Restricted Area, The Dark Room, 22 Rooms (F2, Acis and Galatea, La Fanciulla Del West, Athens, Greece); and Always (Mkultra, Arcola, Un Ballo in Maschera (); and BAC). Who’s Who

Lizzie Hopley (Putana) (National Theatre); All My Sons (Theatre Trained at RADA. Theater includes: Antony Royal York); The Prince of Homburg (RSC and & Cleopatra (Creation Theatre, Oxford); The Lyric, Hammersmith); As You Like It (Sheffield Grouch (West Yorkshire Playhouse); She Stoops Crucible & Lyric, Hammersmith); Good (Donmar to Conquer, Our Country’s Good (Colchester Warehouse); Comedy of Errors (Propeller); and Mercury); Pramface (Edinburgh Festival & UK Measure for Measure (Barbican). Television Tour); Abigail’s Party ( Tour); includes: Vexed, Doctors, Rosemary & Thyme, Twelfth Night (National Theatre Tour); and The Glass, Big Bad World, Grafters, Under Six Characters in Search of an Author (Young the Moon, EastEnders, As Time Goes By, Van Vic). Television includes: The Suspicions of Der Valk, Dead Romantic, and Lovejoy. Film Mr. Whicher, Any Human Heart, The Day of includes: Brides of Desire, Bodywork, and The the Triffids, Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest, Secret Garden. Randal & Hopkirk Deceased II, Active Defence, Pure Wickedness, and The Things You Do for David Mumeni (Grimaldi) Love. Film includes: Jane Eyre (BBC Films & Trained at Drama Centre London. Theater Ruby Films), Nowhere Boy (Ecosse Films), and includes: Studio66 (Roundhouse); Tits/Teeth, Pierrepoint (Granada). Eating Ice Cream on Gaza Beach, Victory Street (); Product Placement (Nabokov, Owen Horsley (associate director) Watford Palace); La Strada (English National Trained at Drama Centre London. Theater Opera); 24 Hour Plays (Old Vic); and Talking to includes, as associate director: Macbeth; as Michelangelo (Old Vic/Vineyard Theatre, NY). assistant director: The Changeling, Cymbeline, Television includes: Fresh Meat (Channel 4), and Troilus and Cressida (Cheek by Jowl). As Whitechapel (ITV), and Inside Stories (Channel director: The Duchess of Malfi, Edward II, In Bed 4). Film includes: The Inbetweeners Movie with Messalina (Eyestrings Theatre Company); (Bwark Productions/Young Films). The Malcontent (Almagro Festival, Spain); (Guildhall School of Music Nick Ormerod (designer) and Drama); and Romeo and Juliet (Love and Nick Ormerod is joint artistic director of Cheek by Madness). Jowl. For the National Theatre: Fuente Ovejuna, Peer Gynt, Sweeny Todd, The Mandate, and Clare Loxley (deputy stage manager) both parts of Angels in America. For the Theater includes: Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Royal Shakespeare Company: The School for Cymbeline, The Changeling, , Homebody/ Scandal, King Lear (RSC Academy), and Great Kabul (Cheek by Jowl); The Bacchae, Antigone, Expectations, which he also co-adapted. Other A Conversation, Cyrano de Bergerac, Come work includes: The Rise and Fall of the City of Blow Your Horn, Playboy of the Western World Mahagonny (English National Opera), Martin (Manchester Royal Exchange); The Marriage Guerre (), Hay Fever of Figaro, Life x3 (The Watermill, Newbury); (), Antigone (), and Speechless (Shared Experience, Sherman Falstaff (Salzburg Festival). He co-directed the Theatre); and The Gigli Concert (Druid). feature film Bel-Ami with Declan Donnellan. Productions also with Sherman Theatre, Leicester Haymarket, English Touring Theatre, Young Vic, Nick Powell (composer and sound designer) Chichester Festival Theatre, Northern Stage, Theater includes, as co-creator: Get Santa Derby Playhouse, Birmingham Rep, Nottingham (Royal Court). Composition/sound design: 27, Playhouse, Citizens Theatre, Wolsey Theatre, The Wheel (National Theatre of Scotland); and . Dunsinane (RSC); Lord of the Flies, (Regent’s Park); Falstaff Falstaff (Centro Peter Moreton (Doctor, Cardinal ) Dramático Nacional, Madrid); Paradise (Ruhr Theater includes: The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet Triennale); Urtain (Animalario—Premios Max (Cheek by Jowl); Berlin Hannover Express Best Musical Composition); The Drunks (RSC); (Hampstead Theatre); The Life and Adventures The Vertical Hour, Relocated (Royal Court); of (); Tonight Panic (Improbable); The Family Reunion at 8:30 (Chichester); Tales From Vienna Woods (Donmar Warehouse); Bonheur (Comédie Jack Hawkins and Laurence Spellman. Photo by Manuel Harlan Who’s Who

Française); Marat/Sade (Animalario—Premios stage manager: Royal Opera House/Linbury Max Best Production); The Wonderful World of Studio/Japan Tour; English Touring Opera; Dissocia (EIF—TMA Award Best Production); Lakme (Opera Holland Park), and The Producers and The Wolves in the Walls (NToS—TMA Award (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane). Best Show for Young People). Powell is half of OSKAR, which released LP:2 recently. Dougie Wilson (technical stage manager) Theater includes: Macbeth, The Changeling, Laurence Spellman (Vasques) Cymbeline (Cheek by Jowl); Twelfth Night Trained at Guildhall School of Music & Drama. (Beijing, Ulaan Baatar), Mother Courage Theater includes: Troilus and Cressida, (Uganda Tour, Washington); Hold Your Horses, Cymbeline, The Changeling (Cheek by Jowl); and Mussolini (Edinburgh Festival). Emperor and Galilean (National Theatre); Sus (Young Vic); The Gods Weep (RSC); Cyrano de Lydia Wilson (Annabella) Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre); Kebab Trained at RADA. Theater includes: The Acid (Royal Court); Bent (Trafalgar Studios); Antony Test, The Heretic (Royal Court); Blasted (Lyric and Cleopatra (Royal Exchange); and Charley’s Hammersmith); Pains of Youth (National Aunt (Northcott). Television includes: Food Theatre); and The House of Special Purpose (Channel 4), New Tricks (BBC), The Tudors (Chichester Festival Theatre). Television includes: (BBC), Small Island (BBC), Henry VIII: Mind of Black Mirror: The National Anthem, Dirk Gently, a Tyrant (Channel 4), The Bill (ITV), and The South Riding, The Crimson Petal and the Waltz King (BBC). Film includes: The Libertine White, Any Human Heart, Pete Versus Life, and (Weinstein Company). Midsomer Murders. Film includes: Never Let Me Go (DNA Films, Fox Searchlight Pictures). Tilly Stokes (assistant stage manager, rehearsals and Paris) Vic Youngson (wardrobe manager) Trained at Guildhall School of Music and Theater includes: Cymbeline, The Changeling, Drama. Theater includes: The Black Diamond Othello (Cheek by Jowl); Richard III, Titus (Punchdrunk, various locations); She Loves Andronicus, Measure for Measure, King Lear, A Me, Oklahoma!, Calendar Girls (Chichester Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tantalus (RSC); 3 Festival Theatre); The Heretic (Royal Court (The Cholmondleys & the Featherstonehaughs); Theatre); Pandemonium (US tour); Thriller Live! 2001 Season (The Globe); , and (International tour); For King and Country (UK Spend, Spend, Spend (Pola Jones). Television tour); Calendar Girls (UK tour); Sinatra Live! includes In Search of Shakespeare (BBC). (UK tour); Scenes From a Marriage, Monged (Coventry Belgrade); The Tempest (UK tour); R. Michael Blanco (American stage manager) Confucious Says (); and Hear BAM: Karole Armitage’s The Predator’s Ball; Our Voice (European tour). Jonathan Miller’s St. Matthew Passion and Così fan tutte; Playing Shakespeare USA with John Rosina Webb (assistant stage manager, tour) Barton; Sydney Theater Company—White Devil, Graduated from Guildhall School of Music Hedda Gabler; Donmar Warehouse—Uncle and Drama with BA (honors) degree in stage Vanya/Twelfth Night; RSC—Don Carlos, Midsum- management and technical theater. Theater mer Night’s Dream, Hecuba; Watermill/Propel- includes, as stage manager: Elton John & Ray ler—Merchant of Venice; Vesturport Theatre Cooper In Concert, 2010 BAFTAs (Royal Opera Company—Metamorphosis. Metropolitan Opera House); Die Puppenfee (Royal Ballet); The House: Kirov Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, Robert Wil- King’s Speech (Pleasance Theatre); Connect son’s Le Martyre de Saint Sebastian. Dance Festival, Ionnagata (Sadlers Wells); Rita (Linbury Studio); and Jack the Ripper the Musical (). As deputy stage manager: various projects (Royal Opera House), Les Grandes Bals de Legende (Buckingham Palace), Tosca (Opera Holland Park), and The Magic Flute (Salisbury Playhouse). As assistant