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Into the Breeches! BJ Jones Timothy J. Evans ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR presents INTO THE BREECHES! BY GEORGE BRANT DIRECTED BY JESSICA THEBUS Scenic Design Arnel Sancianco Costume Design Samantha C. Jones, USA Lighting Design JR Lederle Sound Design Kevin O’Donnell, USA Production Stage Manager Rita Vreeland, AEA Casting by Paskal Rudnicke Casting OPENING NIGHT: MAY 17, 2019 at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie World Premiere Produced by Trinity Repertory Company Curt Columbus (Artistic Director), Tom Parrish (Executive Director) COLOR COLOR SPONSORSHIP CAST & PRODUCTION INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTION SPONSORS CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) J. DOUGLAS GRAY CAROL AND STEVE MULLINS Darci Nalepa* .............................................................................................Maggie Dalton Hollis Resnik* ..........................................................................................Celeste Fielding CORPORATE PRODUCTION SPONSORS Fred Zimmerman* .................................................................................. Ellsworth Snow Penny Slusher* ..........................................................................................Winifred Snow Mitchell J. Fain* ........................................................................................... Stuart Lasker Penelope Walker* ...............................................................................................Ida Green Molly Hernández ......................................................................................... June Bennett Annie Munch .............................................................................................Grace Richards SEASON SPONSORS Understudies: Robin Beaman (Ida), Margo Chervony (Grace/June), James Hesla (Stuart/Ellsworth), Chelsea Milligan (Maggie/Grace), Mary Nigohosian (Winifred/Celeste) Understudies will not substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance. *Member of the Actors Equity Association, NORTHLIGHT THEATRE IS SUPPORTED IN PART BY: the union of professional actors and stage managers. Setting: Evanston, Illinois, Fall of 1942 THE DAVEE FOUNDATION Into the Breeches! will be performed with one 15-minute intermission. THE OFFIELD FAMILY THE SULLIVAN FAMILY FOUNDATION FOUNDATION ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION STAFF Assistant Director ..............................................................................................Iris Sowlat MODESTUS BAUER Production Dramaturgs ........................................ Lauren Shouse, Kristen Osborn FOUNDATION Properties Master .......................................................................................Mary O’Dowd EDGERTON Production Assistant ..................................................................................... Katy Garcia FOUNDATION FOR NEW PLAYS AWARD Costume Coordinators ..........................................Mieka van der Ploeg, Bob Kuhn Running Wardrobe ...................................................................................Robert Goode Fight Director ........................................................................................Samuel Hubbard Assistant Dramaturgs ...................................................Seph Mozes, Gabrielle Seed THE HAROLD AND MIMI STEINBERG CHARITABLE TRUST Bridgeview Bank Group | Kirkland and Ellis Foundation | Polsinelli | Niles Township Corporate Fund | Jackie Mack and More | Dr. Scholl Foundation | Full Circle Foundation | Video and/or audio recording of this performance Henrietta Lange Burk Fund | Lloyd A. Fry Foundation | Mammel Family Foundation | by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. The Lerner Group at HighTower | Northwestern University | Sanborn Family Foundation | The Lehman-Stamm Family Fund 2 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | 3 COLOR COLOR PROGRAM NOTES PROGRAM NOTES FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PLAYWRIGHT CONT. Great theatre is never simple. It takes us on a journey of At the time I had a commission with Trinity reflection and provocation, while embracing the value of Repertory Company, a theatre which I’m quite entertainment. Into the Breeches! has all of these familiar with from our time living in Rhode Island, elements. It’s a clever, touching play celebrating women so the play ended up a bit of a hybrid between written by George Brant, a Park Ridge native and alumnus the history of the two theatres. of Northwestern University. He has triangulated a theatrical celebration, a paean to women, and an ode to What is your connection to Chicago’s North inclusivity, and casts them against the backdrop of Evanston, Illinois shore? during the Second World War. Well, I actually lived in the area for some time. I grew up in Park Ridge, attended Northwestern As you know, in Shakespeare’s time, plays were performed with men in University and then wrote and acted in Chicago all of the roles, male or female. Brant has flipped this tradition around, for about ten years after that. And it will always be casting women in all of the roles out of necessity during the War. Into the George Brant, photo by Heidi Bohnenkamp Old Orchard Mall to me and I miss Marshall Field’s. Breeches! is indeed a comedy, but this reversal is not just in service of humor. Breeches takes the opportunity to discuss gender roles, theatrical While the play was originally set in Providence, you shifted the play for funding, racial issues, and class structure. When searching for a funny and our local community - how does that impact the story, if at all? thoughtful piece to complete our season, I was delighted with its complex Yes, as Breeches! makes its way out into the world, I thought it might be yet entertaining journey. more interesting to encourage theaters to work in the WWII history of their area into their productions to make it more personal. Growing up in the Into the Breeches! was first produced by my friend Curt Columbus at Northlight area as I did, I was happy to research the area’s history myself Trinity Rep in Providence, Rhode Island, written for the ensemble there. and make those changes. It’s been fascinating for me to get to know how But it is a perfect vehicle for the amazing ensemble that is the Chicago each part of the country contributed in their own way to the effort. theatre community. And Brant has even adapted the script to set it in Evanston instead of Providence! We are delighted to welcome back some What is your connection to Shakespeare’s works, especially The Henriad, of Northlight’s favorite artists, as well as some exciting new faces, under Shakespeare’s play series following the rise of Prince Hal? the gifted direction of Jessica Thebus. I grew up loving Shakespeare; I don’t know how many times as a kid I watched the VHS tape I’d recorded of Olivier’s King Lear. I’ve had the The celebration of theatre that is Into the Breeches! is an invigorating pleasure of seeing a full Henriad at Trinity Rep and many productions of the finish to this wonderful 44th season. individual plays. The Henry plays, particularly Henry V, felt like the perfect match for a theatre trying to rally the troops and the home front. BJ Jones What do you hope audiences take away from this play? Although the script takes place in the '40s, my hope is that it resonates in PLAYWRIGHT GEORGE BRANT IN CONVERSATION our present day as well. Breeches! depicts a time when our country pulled WITH DRAMATURG LAUREN SHOUSE together in common sacrifice; a juxtaposition which I hope puts our current home-front efforts (or lack thereof) in sharp relief. In addition, while the What was your inspiration for writing Into the Breeches!? play pokes fun at the sometimes absurd world of the theatre, I hope it also My wife Laura Kepley is the Artistic Director for The Cleveland Play House, shares its unique ability to allow a person to become their best self while and the theatre was about to celebrate their 100th anniversary, and as a portraying someone else. result, everyone on the staff was digging into the theatre’s history. I became intrigued by the effort, which led me to rifling through the Women’s What are you working on next? Committee’s archived scrapbooks of the Play House’s WWII years and Next up in September is The Prince of Providence at Trinity Rep, an discovering the pivotal part that the women on the home-front played in adaptation of the book by Mike Stanton about the colorful and corrupt keeping the theatre afloat during that difficult time. This spurred me on long-time Mayor of Rhode Island’s capital city. I’m also working on a solo to further research: wartime diaries, sweethearts' correspondence with play, Tender Age, about child detention at the border and developing an soldiers, African-American poetry of the time and anything that expanded operatic adaptation of Grounded at the Met with music by Jeanine Tesori. my knowledge of women on the home-front beyond Rosie the Riveter. 4 | NORTHLIGHT THEATRE NORTHLIGHT THEATRE | 5 COLOR COLOR PROGRAM NOTES PROGRAM NOTES THE PLAY WITHIN THE PLAY In Into the Breeches! the Oberon Play House is producing an adaptation of • The Chorus plays an important part of Henry V, guiding the audience three plays in Shakespeare’s Henriad, Henry IV Part 1, Henry IV Part 2, and through the action of the play with speeches at the start of each act and Henry V. Here are the need-to-know characters and elements you’ll hear urging the audience to use its imagination to set the full scene, since the mentioned: theatre cannot literally represent the grandeur of the battles onstage. • Prince
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