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January 19 –23, 2011 the Long Center for the Performing Arts the Rollins Studio Theatre W INTER /SPRING 2011 A USTIN S HAKESPEARE I NTERNSHIPS Work side by side with professional, friendly, and exuberant arts administrators. Join this professional Actors’ Equity Union Small Professional Theater and learn skills from production to arts administration (systems/accounting/development) to stage management! For production, become involved for part or all of the rehearsal and performance process from mid-March to the end of May. You can also be part of the running crew for performances at The Curtain, a replica of an Elizabethan Theatre. Spring production internships available in light, sound, set, costume, or props. You can also apply to be an assistant to the stage director! - April-June internships for our Shakespeare in the Park Production in Zilker Park. - June-July 2011 education internships with students for summer camps, or for teens for a production that rehearses in the evening and performs on weekends. - Aug-Sept rehearsals for Austin Shakespeare's Fall Production to be performed at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. Please visit www.austinshakespeare.org for more information. January 19 –23, 2011 The Long Center for the Performing Arts The Rollins Studio Theatre www.austinshakespeare.org W INTER /SPRING 2011 Anthem, Ayn Rand’s Classic set to Original Music January 19 – 23, 2011 at The Rollins Theatre The Long Center Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw February 17 – March 6, 2011 at The Rollins Theatre The Long Center Shakespeare, Politics and Shylock A political forum addressing Jewish issues in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice March 26, 2011 The Curtain Theatre 101 W 6th Street Words by Shakespeare, Music by Austin A fundraiser featuring some of Austin’s finest musicians performing songs of Austin, Texas 78701 Shakespeare’s words April 21 & 22, 2011 512-479-0044 The Curtain Theatre Shakespeare’s Birthday Revel www.goldsgym.com A day of fun for the whole family to celebrate the Birthday of the Bard April 23, 2011 The Curtain Theatre/Castleton Village Love’s Labours Lost, a Shakespearean Comedy SUPPORT AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE Directed by Robert Faires May 5 – 29, 2011 at Zilker Hillside Theatre at Zilker Park Join us at Austin Shakespeare to make a difference in our city through the arts. Austin Shakespeare (free to the public) not only brings high quality classic productions to Central Texas, but educates and stimulates 1,000’s of people each year by its programs. We do this with the help of people like you. "Young Shakespeare’s" Troilus and Cressida IN THESE DIFFICULT TIMES IT IS IMPORTANT TO GIVE WHAT YOU CAN. GIVE GENEROUSLY. June 23 – July 3, 2011 at The Curtain Theatre Our summer program for Teens culminating in a • classes • lectures • camps • education outreach • readings • workshops • professionally-produced show. SUPPORT LIVE THEATRE. SUPPORT SHAKESPEARE. SUPPORT YOUR COMMUNITY. Contact Alex at [email protected] or stop by membership table to find out how. MISSION STATEMENT OF AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE Austin Shakespeare presents professional theatre of the highest quality with an emphasis on the plays of William Shakespeare, bringing to the public performances that are fresh, bold, www.austinshakespeare.org imaginative, thought-provoking, and eminently accessible, connecting to the truths of the past with challenges and possibilities of today. ANN CICCOLELLA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ALEX B. ALFORD, MANAGING DIRECTOR PRESENT AYN RAND’S Anthem Adapted by JEFF BRITTING Music by JEFF BRITTING Directed by ANN CICCOLELLA Costume Design………………………………….………………………….……JENNIFER MADISON Lighting Design…………………………………..………..……………………………….JASON AMATO Scenic Design…………………………………………………..……………………..JOHN AARON BELL Video Projections…………………..………………………………………..…………K. ELIOT HAYNES Video Design……….…………..………………………..……………………………….…ROBERT Sound Effects………….……………..………………………………………..…………K. ELIOT HAYNES Properties Coordinator………………..………..………………………….….SHANNON RICHEY* Music Supervisor and Original Music …………………..………..……MICHAEL McKELVEY Production Coordinator……………………………………………………….………MELINDA PARR Stage Manager……………………….………….…………………………………SHANNON RICHEY* *Member Actors’ Equity Association January 19 — 23, 2011 The Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre Special thanks to Leonard Peikoff for permission to produce this play. This production is presented under a Small Theatre Professional Contract with Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors & Stage Managers in the United States. Austin Shakespeare’s programs are funded in part by the City of Austin through The Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts. C HARACTER L IST ( IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE ) EQUALITY 7-2521………………….………..……….……………………….………….…………Collin Bjork INTERNATIONAL 4-8818………………………………………………………..…..….Michael Dalmon LIBERTY 5-3000…………………………………………………………………….……….……Helen Merino* TOWNSPEOPLE………………..……….………………………Katherine Beamer, Peter Beilharz Justin Gordon, Heather Tucek *Member Actors’ Equity Association Anthem will be performed without an intermission. The run time is approximately 65 minutes. S PECIAL T HANKS Greater Austin Creative Alliance for sustenance and most especially Latifah Taormina who makes it all happen! Nicole Shiro and Casey Shiro for year-round support of every kind. Lisa Jones for services above and beyond the call of duty. Dale Flatt, Richard Garriott & The Curtain Theatre The Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre Zilker Theatre Productions The Vortex Diane Ingram Anu Seppala, Simon Federman, Yaron Brooke, Donna Montrezza and The Ayn Rand Institute N OTES F ROM T HE D IRECTOR Shakespeare theaters across the country often do new works these days; but I must publicly thank the Austin Shakespeare Board members, who love ideas, for supporting this new production of Anthem. Knowing it would be controversial and not necessarily agreeing with its point of view, they have been tremendously open to the conversation. Also, thanks to playwright/composer Jeff Britting for sharing this world with us. I’ve known Anthem since I was in high school, but in working with these actors and with Jeff, I’ve found the experience of living in this world every day simply inspiring. Anthem doesn’t focus on the dark future but opens to reveal a bright world in which each of us can re-discover the treasure of our very self. Perhaps that is why it appeals to that optimistic youth that is our best self -- body and spirit. Jeff Britting conceived this theatrical experience as an ―oratorio‖ of Ayn Rand’s words. Anthem is a hymn to honor the self. We look forward to hearing from our audiences those who love Shakespeare and our classical work – and from new audience members too --- we hope that you will stay after the show and share your thoughts with us. - ANN CICCOLELLA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TEEN AUDITIONS FOR: Young Shakespeare 2011 Troilus and Cressida Performed at the Curtain Theatre, a replica of an Elizabethan Theatre Shakespeare’'s classical tragedy takes place in the midst of the long and bloody Trojan War as Troilus, the youngest son of Priam, King of Troy, meets and falls in love with the beautiful Cressida, daughter of a deceptive and treacherous Trojan priest. Although the two vow to stay true to one another, Cressida is forcibly taken from Troy after her father defects to the Greek army and begins to fall in love with Diomedes, her Greek captor. As Troilus vows to avenge her betrayal on the battlefield, Agamemnon, king of the Greeks, attempts to lure the famous warrior Achilles out of a state of depression and apathy and back into the war. The play comes to a violent and epic conclusion as a series of battles pit mythic warriors against each other in single combat for the future of Troy. For more audition information, contact [email protected] A BOUT A YN R AND A USTIN S HAKESPEARE B OARD OF D IRECTORS Thanks to our extraordinary board! Every book by Ayn Rand published in her lifetime is still in print, so far totaling more than 26.5 million copies. Born in in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February Scott Brutocao, President 2, 1905, she was thoroughly opposed to the mysticism and collectivism endemic to Ogletree Deakins Russian Society. Mary Barrow Nichols, Vice President During her high school years, she was Texas Mutual Insurance eyewitness to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, which Lisa Jones, Secretary she denounced from the outset. When introduced to Writer and Editor American history in her last year of high school, she immediately took America as her model of what a Catherine Wildermuth, Treasurer nation of free men could be. Retired Project Manager, IBM At the University of Petrograd she studied Chris Aiena - Human Initiatives philosophy and history. She arrived in New York City in February 1926. Her first novel, We the Living, was Joy Baskin - Texas Association of School Boards completed in 1934; the most autobiographical of her Kirsten Billhardt - Dell Computer Corporation novels, it was based on her years under Soviet tyranny. Boyce Cabaniss - Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody Ayn Rand, New York City, 1943 She began writing The Fountainhead in 1935 -- taking a short Dr. Lawrence Foster - Miller Professor of Strategic Business, University of Alabama, break in 1937 to write the anti-collectivist novelette Anthem. In The Fountainhead’s Retired character of the architect Howard Roark, she presented for the first time the kind of Mary Keeney - Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody hero whose depiction was the chief goal of her writing: the ideal man, man as ―he Monique Maley - L3 could be and ought to be.‖ When published in 1943,
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