. JKAGKETIC KISSES · -JO_H_N_L_Io_N_. G_e_n_er-ai_D_ire_c_to_r __...;..._.,. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF MAGI( MAATIN ESSLIN, Dramaturg MAGICSon Francisco's PMirMN Aoyhous& Administrative Director ROSSI SNIPPEA The Magic Theatre, a non-profit presents Promotio()QI Director THEATRE corporation, would like to THEATRE BEVEAL Y LOHWASSEA thank the foll owing organizations Development Director JOAN WEEKS BOARD OF TRUSTEES for their support: Office Manager Stewart Brand SHARON A. SITTLOH Fred Carroll BankAmerica foundation Production Manager Martin Esslin The Bathin Helping Fund LINDA KOULISIS Blair Fuller The California Arts Council Administrative Assistant Richard Graff AlTA LECKRONE Chevron USA, Inc. Har"" Hunt Assistant Stage Manager The Columbia Foundation NINA SHAW Matyon Davies Lewis John Uon The Davies Ch aritable Trust Promotional Assistant The Ford Foundation PAMELA WINFREY Gail Schlesinger Graphic Design Judy Wyler Sheldon Foremost-McKesson Foundation RINALDO RATTO David Stone Th e Wallace Al exander Gerbode Angelica Thieriot Staff Photographer Foundation Sandy Walker RON BLANCHETTE Th e Hancock Foundation Th e He wlett Foundation LIFETIME MEMBERS The Louis A. Lurie Foundati on BARRY M. CHAUSEA. M.D. The Nationa l Endowment for JAY EGGER Magic Theatre is a constituent the Arts BOB FAHRNER theatre of the American Arts Alli ­ SUSAN HILLSTOM ance, Californi a Th eatre Council. The Publi city and Ad vertising Fund ETHEL HUFFMAN California Confederation of the of the Ci ty of San· Francisco SAM MORFORD Arts, and Th eatre Communications The Rockefeller Foundation JOSEPH T. AAVICINI Group. The Sa n Francisco Foundation MR. & MRS. HARMON SHRAGGE The Magic Th eatre project at Fort The U. and Mary C. Skaggs JAY SPEARS Mason is presented in connection GERALD AND SHEILA SPINDEL with the Fort Mason Foundation Foundation ZEB TROUT and the G G N R A Wens Fargo Bank Foundation DON'T MISS FISH STORIES JAMES C. RAINIE AHorney at l aw David Gilbert's new comedy about Representing peop le in Theatre and other Arts in all aspects of their business ­ fucking, God, and cancer Other qua li ty s e rv i c e ~ as wel l at ~ Phone (415) 452-4726 PROJECT ARTAUD THEATRE 450 Florida (17th ST.) Thurs. -Sun. Written by------------------------ Directed by JULY 11- AUG .17th PRINTING DONATED BY SAM SHEPARD ROBERT WOODRUFF Information & reservations m Set Design JESSE HOLLIS • Light Design KURT LANDISMAN Am~~P!,~~"~?a!ble ~~~!,~Ye,press Costume Design RITA YOVINO • Sound by ROB WELLES • EMERYVILLE, CALIFOR!'J.. IA 94608 ~--a__ d a_r __ k h o_r_s_e_:p_r_o •. _u_c_•_o_n_..... d t (415) 428-18oo ~;;,·--.: •.. ; Previews July 2-5 • Plays July 10-August 10, 1980 "Be a MAN - SELL OUT" -- Lenny Bruce The Magic Starts here! CAST In order of appearance PRODUCTION STAFF Magic Theatre's I980-8I subscription Austin Production Stage Manager season sales are now underway. If you PETER COYOTE •••••••••••••••••••• LINDA KOULISIS would like to become part of the Lee Technical Director Magic at the Magic Theatre, just fill JIM HAYNIE ROBERT WOODRUFF MICHAEL FAW out our easy-to-order subscription form Saul Kimmer Director Properties available in the lobby. You can use TOM DAHLGREN SURESA DUNDES your Visa card, Mastercharge, or be TRUE WEST is the fifth work that billed later. Being a subscriber Mom Woodruff has directed at the Magic Synthesist CAROL McELHENEY ALAN LAM guarantees you seating for the best Theatre. Previous credits include new plays being written for today' s Assistant Technical Director There will be one ten minute intermission SUICIDE in B-FLAT and BURIED stage and the most provocative and •••••••••••••••••••• CHILD by Sam Shepard, WOLVES LYNN GUTSTADT adventuresome works by Performance by John Robinson and ARE YOU Stage Manager Artists. Being a subscriber also entitles SAM SHEPARD LOOK!N? by Murray Mednick (for NINA SHAW you to special benefits such as advance which Woodruff received the Bay Playwright Light Operator notice of special events and our Area Critics Award for Outstanding subscriber newsletter. Information for Sam Shepard, one of America's Achievement in Direction). Woodruff NINA SHAW Magic Theatre's new I980-8I season leading playwrights is in his fifth year won popular acclaim as the Artistic Sound Operator is now available in the lobby during of producing new works at the Magic Director of the Eureka Theatre where STEPHEN CADY intermission and before and after the Theatre. His other works at the Magic he directed Medoff's WHEN YOU Cover Photograph show, so place your order today. include ACTION, KILLER'S COMIN' BACK RED RYDER and R. VALENTINE ATKINSON I HEAD, INACOMA, TONGUES, SIZWE BANS! IS DEAD by LINDA KOULISIS MARTIN ESSLIN Dramaturg and BURIED CHILD which Fugard, Ntshona and Kani . Woodruff Martin Esslin is a true internationalist, and premiered at the Magic. Shepard resides in New York and has directed Production Services TECH'NIQUE considered one of the foremost theatre critics began his career in I963 as a profes- at Manhattan Theatre Club, Phoenix writing in English. His works on the Absurd· sional actor in New York. In I964, his Theatre, and Joseph Papp's New ists, Brecht, Artaud and Pinter are standard first two plays COWBOYS and THE York Shakespeare Festival (where he reading, and his numerous translations of ROCK GARDEN were produced at directed the American premiere of European dramatists, with his wife Renata, Theatre Genesis in New York. Since Shepard's CURSE OF THE .................... have strongly affected the American scene . .................... Before joining the faculty at Stanford, he was then, Shepard's plays have been pro· STARVING CLASS). Woodruff is head of the drama department at the B .B.C. duced all over the country and in the founder and director of the Bay He now divides his time between London and England . In I975, Shepard toured Area Playwright's Festival which will the Bay Area. with Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder take place this summer at the College Special thanks to Revue which later inspired Shepard to of Marin. THRIFT TOWN JOHN LION General Director write the Rolling Thunder Logbook. MR. & MRS. RICHARD ALLEN John Lion founded the Magic Theatre in Shepard now lives in the Bay Area •••••••••••••....... JACK STAUFFACHER I967 and has served ever since as its General Director, creating over roo original produc· with his wife 0-lan a writer and direc· CHALONE VINEYARD tions on the Theatre's behalf. He has directed for numerous theatres in Chicago and New ~tor,a~nd the~ir son~, Jesse~. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'IRUE WEST.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!II York, was a founding member of T.C.G.' s Developmental Theatre Panel, and has taught or lectured at U.C. Berkeley, Stanford University and U .C. Davis. • The Cast: JOHN LION MARTIN ESSLIN Ernest •••....•••.•••••• • ••• • ••.•• John Achorn Iris ••• • ••••••••••.••••••••••• • • • Nancy Kemp General Director Dramaturg Hulk •••••••••• • • o• ••••• • ··•• o •• o•Jeff Unger Karl ••• o •••••••••••••• 0 •••••••••• John Lion Sibyl ••••••••••••.•••••• • •••••••• Barbara Bloom Sonnenberg •••••• o•·········•• o •••Howard Swain Dr. Ziak •••• o ••••••••. • ••.••.•••• Harry Snyder Joe •••••••• •• ••••• • •••••••...••.• Sterling Houston PRESENTS Olga ••••••••••••.•••••••••••.•••• Susan Dills Mother •.•••••••••.••• o •••••••• • •• Verona Seiter MAGNETIC KISSES (Actor's biographies in Lobby) Production Staff: BY Technical Director ••••••••.•••.••• James Orman Crime Thriller WOLFGANG Production Manager ••••••••••••.••• Suresa Dundes TRANSLATED BY RENATA AND MARTIN ESSLIN Stage Manager ••••••••••••••••••••. Linda Koulisis Light Operators •••••.••••••••••••• Linda Koulisis, Linda Bergeron ADAPTED BY SURESA DUNDES AND JOHN LION Sound Operator •••••••••••••••••••• Michael Pirzl Properties ..••••••.•••••••.•••.••• Lynn Gutstadt Property Mistress .•••••••••••••••• Anne Militello Wardrobe .•••••.••••••••• • •.••••••• Marcia McGetrick, Irena Schiesser DIRECTED by JOHN LION Cherie Pinsky Music Coordinator •••••••••••••••.• Barbara Bloom Set Construction Painting/Electronics ••••.••••• Michael Kroschel Mark Hodges Leornard Menchini Debra Hurt Michael Pirzl SCENIC DESIGN by JOHN WILSON Beards •••••...•.•••••• . • • •• .• o •••• Christopher Reed Special Effects ••••••••• o • •••••••• Michael Faw Music .•••.•••••. •• •••••• ~ ••••••••• The Cast LIGHTING DESIGN by JMmS OruffiN House Manager ••.•••••••••..••.•.•• Nina Shaw Box Office •••.•••••••.•••••..•• • •• Kathleen Orloff Promotion •••.••••••••.••••.••..••• Stan L. Friedman & Associates COSTUME DESIGN by SURESA DUNDES Photography ••.•••••••••••••••••••• James Armstrong Program ••••.••••••.•••••••..•••••• Cherie Pinsky SOUND DESIGN by MICHAEL KROSCHEL Sign .•••.•.•...••••.••••.•....•.•. Steven Cady Production Services provided by Tech'nique Special thanks to Skipper Skeoch and SFS University DIRECTOR: JOHN LION Administrative Staff: John Lion founded the Magic Theatre in 1967 and has served ever since as its General Director, creating over 50 original productions on the Theatre's behalf. He has Administrative Director .••••••••..• Christopher Reed Development Director •••••.••••••••• David Glotzer directed for numerous theatres in Chicago and New York, was a founding member of Production Manager •• o •••••••• • ••••• Suresa Dundes T.C.G., and has taught or lectured at Berkeley, California College of Arts and u.c. Business Manager .••••••..• o • • ······Steven Cady Crafts and u.c. Davis. This spring he will be teaching directing at Stanford Uni­ Administrative Assistant .•••••••••• Cherie Pinsky versity. Administrative Assistant ••••.••.••.