EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY presents

Doudna Fine Arts Center Charleston, Illinois PLAYBILL '97 < ollege of Arts and Humanities James K. Jolmson, Dean Eastern Illinois University Theatre welcomes its first two Artists-in-Residence University Theatre Staff This residency is made possible by the Professors Newton E. Tarble Excellence in Fine Arts Endowment Clarence P. Blanchette Jerry D. Eisenhour E. T. Guidotti, Chair David L. Jorns Associate Professors Niyi Coker David W. Wolski

Assistant Professors Karen A Eisenhour Jean K. Wolski Instructors John R. Poole Mary E. Yarbrough Academic Support Professional J. Sa:in Specialist Stephen P. Carmody

A Theatre Arts Major is r esident at EIU l»bat l\ougb 1ieast is>loucbes which includes concentrations in performance, by Brad Fairchild design, and literature and directing A teacher certification option is available. For additional information call (217) 581-3121 or 581-3219 Directed by Clarence P. Blanchette or visit the main office, FAT 105. Original Music arranged and edited by Larry Corse Production Coordinator - John Poole EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY THEATRE Scenery Design by Clarence P. Blanchette is a member of the Illinois Theatre Association, Costume Design by Karen Eisenhour Ughting Design by David Wolski EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY THEATRE is a participant in Region III Make-up Design by Karen of the American College Theatre Festival. Sound Design by Stephen P. Carmody Visit our website at http://www.eiu.edu- theatre Characters What Rough Beast Slouches Clint Vrona* PHILIPP EULENBURG- Diplomat, composer Time and Place: Berlin, early in the 2oth century and closest friend of the Kaiser. MAXIMILLIAN HARDEN - Editor of Berlin Act One Bryan Grossbauer* + weekly The Future (Die Zukunft). "Shadows Reel" KAISER WILLIAM II - Last Emperor of Dietrich von HOisen-Haeseler Dusty Weir Prologue Germany. Scene 1 Maximilian Harden, Kaiser William II, and Count Philipp zu Eulenburg Kate Slovinski+ OTIO von BISMARCK - Ex-Chancellor of Scene 2 Tiergarten: Harden and Eulenburg Germany Scene 3 Harden and Otto von Bismarck SECOND PORTER Scene 4 Eulenburg and Kaiser BATH-HOUSE KEEPER Scene 5 Harden and Mrs. Harden THE GHOST OF ALEXANDRINE- Deceased Scene 6 Harden and Eulenburg mother of Philipp Eulenburg Scene 7 Count Kuno von Moltke and Eulenburg DR. MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD - Pioneer in Scene 8 Eulenburg sexology Scene 9 Three Porters Scene 10 Harden Melissa Hard* FRIEDRICH von HOLSTEIN - Scene 11 Harden and Bath-House Keeper Ex-Privy Counselor in the Foreign Scene 12 Eulenburg and Kaiser Office Scene 13 Alexandrine MRS. HARDEN -wife of Maximillian Harden Scene 14 Eulenburg with Kaiser and Moltke FIRST PORTER Scene 15 Harden and Eulenburg BOLLHARDT- Soldier in the Garde-du-Corps JAKOB ERNST - Former oarsman of Philipp Intermission- 15 minutes Eulenburg Act Two AUGUSTA EULENBURG- Wife of Philipp "Masque of a Medieval King" Eulenburg BASHER Scene 1 Harden Scene 2 Eulenburg Nathan Smith DIETRICH von HOLSEN-HAESELER - Scene 3 Harden, Bollhardt, Lily von Elbe, Member of the Kaiser's circle Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld KUNO VON MOLTKE - Member of Kaiser's Scene 4 Eulenburg and Kaiser circle and close friend of Philipp Scene 5 Harden and Bath-House Keeper Eulenburg Scene 6 Kaiser THIRD PORTER Scene 7 Harden, Poodle, Jakob Ernst LILY von ELSE - former wife of Kuno von Scene 8 Eulenburg and Kaiser Moltke Scene 9 Moltke POODLE Scene 10 Augusta Eulenburg BASHER Scene 11 Kaiser Seth Berry, Michael Papaleo+ TOWEL-BOYS Scene 12 Three Porters Scene 13 Eulenburg *Indicates membership in Alpha Psi Omega, Alpha Alpha Zeta Cast, Honorary Dramatic Fraternity at Easlem Illinois University Scene 14 Harden and Kaiser Scene 15 Harden and Bashers +Indicates recipient of EFA Award, sponsored by the Newton F Tarble family Scene 16 Eulenburg Production Staff Gatherer's Note Jewishness that is to blame. What is to blame is that Harden, as an oppressed This play is either a work of fiction Assistant Director...... Vicky Walker• minority, aligned himself with right-wing Technical Director...... C larence Blanchette based on history or a work of history nationalists who were intolerant of the Properties Master...... Set h Berry* with a fictional twist. I don't know which. Jewish segment of the population. Media Developer...... E.T. Guidotti I've written things that I'm sure never Harden would have done well to take Media Coordinator...... W illiam Gibbs ,actually occurred, such as the nighttime the advice of his own rhetoric (said in Computer Hardware Applications ...... John Looby 1 park meetings of Philipp Eulenburg and response to his would-be assassins Maximilian Harden. But I can say that Photo Digital Recalibrattons and Computer Applications ...... Stacia Kuhn 1 being acquitted): "Everywhere I go in Animation of Political Cartoons ...... Arn ie Levin , the intent of these events is legitimate. other countries I hear: 'You Germans Videographer/Editor...... Stephen P. Carmody Eulenburg and Harden needed to com­ will be ruined by solidarity with your House Manager...... Ke lly Kleck municate and however this was histori­ murderers!"' This is not to say that Business Manager...... J. Sain* cally achieved - through intermediary other segments of the population, or letter or public discourse - each including the one Eulenburg would came to realize what the other wanted. have been a part of, were not also anti­ This same sort of *legitimate intenr can semetic and even further to the right in Technical Staff be applied to some of the play's other some ways than Harden, but it was scenes as well. It has been only recent­ expressly the extreme nationalist and Stage Manager...... Vicky Walker ly that historians have begun to explore militarist groups that Harden tried to Master Electrician ...... David Wolski the question of whether or not appeal to that gave rise in later years to LBO ...... Lisa French* Eulenburg and the Kaiser had an actual the virulently anti-semetic Nazi party. Deck Electrician/Effects ...... Christopher Ham sexual relationship. This aspect of the Harden would not live to see the Sound Operator...... Stephen Carmody story has been always either totally Holocaust and Wor1d War II , and one ComputerNideo Operator...... Chris Gadomski ignored or else attributed a kind of one­ can only wonder if he knew that the Costume Shop Supervisor...... Karen Eisenhour sided, unrequited desire on Eulenburg's widespread societal intolerances by Assistant Costume Design ...... Jenni Zorn* part. One source even provides as which both he and Eulenburg had been proof of the Kaiser's abstinence from destroyed would inflate into the most male-male sexual relations his interest horrific era of human history. When in •manly" pursuits such as military Harden died in 1927, Josef Goebbels affairs and hunting. As there exists no issued the statement "the only thing we Support Staff conclusive evidence to disprove the regret about the death of Mr. Harden is Video Crew ...... Seth Berry, Chris Gadomski, Chri s Ham occurrence of sexual relations between that we did not carry it out Set Construction ...... Stephen Carmody (Foreman), Seth Berry, Eulenburg and the Kaiser and merely ourselves." Shawn Connors•, Chris Gadomski, Erika Goff, Bryan Grossbauer, their well-documented love for each I'd like to say something about the dia­ Christopher Ham, Sauda Jackson*, Jessica Muldowney•, other to offer support to the suggestion, logue of the play. A portion of it is actu­ Michael Papaleo, Heather Prince, Katy Reidy, Emilie Wood only those historians with an unfortu­ al or at least derived from actual Lighting Execution ...... Chris Gadomski, Christopher Ham, nate tendency toward homophobia can speech of the characters involved, Katy Reidy, Emilie Wood, David Wolski be vehement in their denial of the albeit removed from the real circum­ Properties Running Crew...... Seth Berry possibility. stances and environments. However, Costume Construction ...... Stephanie Aide, Caren Evers, Jessica Klimek, I anticipate that perhaps the strongest the essence, I believe, remains Angela Lathem, Robyn Lyons, Dawn McCallister*, criticism I may receive for the play will unchanged. For instance, when Heather Prince*, Rebecca Richardson, Lisa Shumard, 1corne from those who see it as anti­ William refers to the Czar's family por­ Nathan Smith, Emilie Wood, Mary Yarbrough, Jenni Zorn , semetic, seemingly blaming the horrors trait, he is speaking to Philipp, whereas Costume Running Crew...... Amy Buchmeier, Beth Frahm, Caren Evers, · of the first half of this century on in life, this comment was written in a Angela Lathem, Emilie Leadley, Katy Reidy, Heather Prince (Crew Chief) .tHarden, a Jewish Man. But that is too letter and to someone other than Ticket Office ...... Paul Hengels, Sandy Frick, J. Sa in simplistic and not correct. Harden's role Philipp. But that doesn't preclude the Ushers...... The Men and Women of RSVP cannot be denied, but it was the atti­ fact that he could have spoken to tudes of an entire society (including the Philipp about it also. I feel the inclusion Kaiser) that gave credence to Harden's of •actual dialogue· adds a greater air hateful voice. I certainly don't want to of authenticity to the work It provides separate Harden from his Jewishness (continued on next page) a kind of entry point from our time to RESIDENT ARTISTS Music includes: turn-of- the-oentury Berlin. Some of the Brad Fairchild, the son of a soldier and passages I have included are taken a Mary Kay lady, was born in Mississippi •seerose· and Monatsrose· by Philipp Eulenburg, arranged for string trio by Larry Corse from Eulenburg's letters and diary in 1969. A scene from What Rough entries in either the original or amended Beast Slouches was included in the translations of Ethel Colburn Mayne. I "Diablo" by S. Translateur and "Vor Liebchens TOr" by Brandt, feel the need to thank her, even though Smith and Kraus publication The Best performed by the Salonorchester Eclair she has no idea who I am or what I've Stage Scenes of 1995. He has worked done. She may not even be with us any with the German film director Rosa von "Des Grossen Kurfusten Reitermarsch" by Kuno Graf von Moltke longer. Her translations were done in Praunheim. He is currently working on a .. 1930. play that is set on an 18th century The material on Eulenburg is hard to English slave ship. He is pursuing an find, at best. I had never even been MFA in Drama at the University of aware of the whole scandal and its Georgia. implications until I accidentally hap­ University Theatre pened upon an article by James presents a Steakley, "Iconography of a Scandal." I Larry Corse is Professor of English at would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Clayton College & State University and Benefit Performance Steakley for providing the inspiration for artistic director of Clayton State Theater, this project. I was fortunate to be able to a college and community theater spe­ of spend some time in Berlin while I cializing in the development and produc­ worked on the play. The research was tion of new works. As a composer, He Ut!i4 T .ROUGH BE4STSLOUCHES fascinating: digging out old issues of has written two one-act operas, three for Reach Out Task Force On HN/AIDS Harden's journal at the library; visiting children's musicals, and a cabaret with Eulenburg's great grandson; attending Brad Fairchild. His current project is an the Sunday afternoon salons of 8:00p.m. Nicholaus Sombart and felling very self­ opera on the life of Frederick the Great conscious and inadequate; reading the to a .libretto by Mr. Fairchild. February 26, 1997 bogus plaque outside of Harden's In memoty ofthase Ea.stem 1/Jfnois University lJJeatre IJdS last to AiDS house in Grunewald; and lounging on the grass of the nergarten imagin1ng all the goings-on of almost ninety years earlier. -Brad Fairchild, May 6, 1995 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Video Equipment provided by Vipro, a PFG, Inc. Enterprises, Charleston, IL Reach Out Sound Equipment provided by A2Z OJ Sound Service, Charleston, IL Macintosh 7200 Computer provided by the Department of Journalism courtesy of Glenn Robinson Task Force Mary Yarbrough Grand Ball Costumes & More, Charleston, IL On Dan Crews and J .A. Winders

In addition the to above, University Theatre wishes to thank HIV/AIDS Dr. David L. Joms, President Es tablished March 1994 Eastern Illinois University

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NEW PLAYWRIGHT'S SERIES featuring WHAT ROUGH BEAST SLOUCHES by Brad Fairchild on the Mainstage February 20,21,22,26,27,28 & March 1 at 8 p.m. March 2 at 2 p.m.

ON THE VERGE by David Radavich on the Mainstage March 6,7,8 AT 8 p.m. March 9 at 2 p.m.

TSA{GIA{SUMMERFEST THEATRE AUDITIONS March 29 by appointment

SLOW DANCE ON THE KILLING GROUND in the Studio March 27,28,29 & April 2,3,4,5 at 8 p.m. April 6 at 2 p.m.

WILEY AND THE HAIRY MAN on the Mainstage April16,17,18,19 at 7 p.m April 20 at 2 p.m.

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