THEATRE & DANCE DEPARTMENT STAFF PRODUCTION MANAGER……..……………………………….....….Darrell F. Winn DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE PRESENTS TECHNICAL DIRECTOR..........................................................Daniel Neeland FACILITY MANAGER/AUDIO SUPERVISOR...................................Ned Jacobson PUBLICITY DIRECTOR………….………………………....................Janice Bisgaard COSTUME SHOP DIRECTOR….…………………………….......….Roxanne Femling CUTTER/DRAPER, TAILOR………………………………..............…...Abel Mercado CUTTER/HAIR SPECIALIST…..………………………………………....….Angie Kight SCENE TECHNICIAN/PROPERTIES…..……….....…………….....…..Byron Rudrow SCENE TECHNICIAN/CHARGE ARTIST…………………………….…..John Murphy MASTER ELECTRICIAN…..……………………………………….......…Brian Webber COMPUTER TECHNICIAN….………………………………….............……Huy Tran TECHNICAL THEATRE TEACHING ASSISTANTS........……................Zac Cahoon, Carrie Mullen Tony Shayne, COMPANY MANAGER..................................................................J.T. Reese PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER.............................................Samuel Shirley ASSOCIATE COMPANY MANAGER..…......……………………....….Jason Masino SCENE SHOP ASSISTANTS….…………………............Kevin Ganger, James Keith, Heidi Kendrik, Jennifer McEwen, NOVEL BY JT Reece, Samuel Shirley, Kevin Shunta, ANGELA CARTER PRODUCTION ELECTRICIAN…………...…………….......……………...Erich Bolton ADAPTED BY LIGHTING ASSISTANTS.................................... Mark Ferrando, Robert Quiggle, EMMA RICE & TOM MORRIS Daniel Reano-Koven, Pierce Soracco DIRECTED BY COSTUME SHOP TEACHING ASSISTANT…..…....………......…..…Wenting Gao PATRICIA MILLER STITCHERS...………………....................................Melissa Castillo, Jennie Chin, April Genung, Andrea Vanbuskirk STOCK ASSISTANT...……………………………………….............Jennifer McEwen WARDROBE ASSISTANT………...….………………………....…Samanta Fernandez Composer MAKEUP/HAIR ASSISTANT……..……………….…………………...……..Van Pahm Daryl Henline HOUSE MANAGERS….………....... Joe Ferreira, Jason Masino, Jennifer McEwen, Stage Manager JT Reece, Samuel Shirley, Yun Zheng PUBLICITY ASSISTANT……………......……………………........………Arielle Rabier Julie Friedrichsen WEB DESIGNERS……………..………........….......Nathan Couch, Derek Hunziker Scenic Design GRAPHIC DESIGNERS…….…..……...Jess Luckhardt, Maish Simon, Danielle Sutton Christine McCullough PHOTOGRAPHER……………………………..…….……………….... Joey Kunin MANAGEMENT SERVICES OFFICER ..……………....……………….Robert Pattison Costume Design GRADUATE PROGRAM ADMINISTRATOR….....………........…………..Victoria Dye Lynn Giavonetti ACCOUNT MANAGER………...………………….…….........……...Emma Katleba BOOKKEEPER…...………………………………………..........……Felicia Bradshaw Lighting Design RECEPTIONIST…..……………..........…………………….........…Socorro Figueroa Zac Cahoon Sound Design Wyatt Pavilion Theatre Theatre & Dance Department Faculty David Sun March 13 - 16, 2008 Sarah Pia Anderson, Larry Bogad, Stuart Carroll, Della Davidson, Rinde Eckert, David Grenke, Jose Gutierrez, Lynette Hunter, John Iacovelli, Melanie Julian, Michele Leavy, THEATREDANCE.UCDAVIS.EDU Peter Lichtenfels, Dyan McBride, Jade McCutcheon, Maggie Morgan, Tom Munn, This performance lasts approximately 2 hours and 5 minutes with one 15 minute intermission. Audio, video or photographic recording of this performance is strictly prohibited by law. Jon Rossini, Barbara Sellers-Young, Peggy Shannon, Darrell Winn Please take a moment before the performance begins to note the exits nearest your seat. At this time, please turn off the ringers on your cell phones and pagers. Food and drink are not permitted inside the theatre. Thank you for your cooperation. Director’s Notes COMING SOON My Grandmother Blanch first slipped me The winged woman explores the Main Stage Dance/Theatre Festival this thrilling novel at the susceptible age pressures of a theatrical life lived in the of 17. I was entranced by the Fevvers, spotlight, but will her wings earn her April 10 - 20 The Cockney Venus. This bawdy charmer freedom or a gilded cage? Like the Main Theatre took her freakish wings in her stride wings, Carter’s play with make-up or “the commanding life on her own terms face” becomes a metaphor for identity accompanied by her wizened sidekick, and transformation. Back Roads Lizzie the Anarchist Whore. I was Created and Performed by attracted to the play by its rich language, Historical theatrical ensemble storytelling and songs Backgrounds MFA Candidates Victor Toman and Sara Zimmerman that are part vaudeville, part Brecht. Victorian popular entertainment (music April 24 - 26 -Patricia Miller hall and circus) was lively and bawdy. Arena Theatre, Wright Hall Thanks Transvestite performers like Vesta Tilly might top the bill or star trapeze artists Lola Miller-Henline, Wendy le Meur, like Fevvers. The roughness of life was Measure for Measure Melanie Julian,Vivian Thorn, Clive embraced in the clown routines and song Nunnington, Gia Battista, Heidi Hendrick, acts that spelt out domestic abuse, by William Shakespeare Michele Lee, Theatre & Dance faculty and drinking and poverty. UK and US Directed by MFA Candidate Randy Symank staff for wisdom and support, especially circuses toured worldwide and often Peter Lichtenfels, Sara Pia Anderson, developed freak acts and side shows of May 15 - May 23 Jade McCutcheon. “Living Oddities” that displayed human Main Theatre Dedication abnormalities for the “ normal folk” to ogle. There is a current fascination with To divas and freaks everywhere and to Victorian and Edwardian freak culture Nest Angela Carter, RIP, accompanied by her that finds its way into underground art by Bathsheba Doran wizened sidekick, Lizzie the Anarchist. and performance culture in San Directed by Granada Artist-in-Residence Irina Brown Setting Francisco and London, including cult groups such as Tiger lilies, Dresden Dolls May 22 - June 1 London, 1899, the fag end of the century, and White Stripes. millennial change is in the air. We meet Wyatt Pavilion Theatre Fevvers, famed “Winged Woman of Performance Notes London,” star of the music hall circuit and Renowned UK physical theatre company, we follow her to Colonel Kearny’s circus. Knee-High, adapted Nights at the Circus 8th Annual Davis Film Festival Literary Source for The London stage. The UC Davis Presented by Davis Varsity Theatre in association with production marks the U.S. premiere of UC Davis Departments of Technocultural Studies and Nights at the Circus started as Angela Emma Rice and Tom Morris’ adaptation. Carter’s best-selling novel. It has earned Director Patricia Miller’s approach Theatre & Dance cult-like status in literary and feminist includes much physical ensemble work June 4 - 5 circles. Magical realism permits magical, akin to Theatre de Complicite and a rich Davis Varsity Theatre fantastical elements to appear in a palette of actor research and improvisa- realistic setting. It often represents a tion which marks Miller’s work. Daryl fusion between physical reality and Henline’s score is influenced by psychological reality. Her use of traditional vaudeville and minimal fairytales, rich language and character is orchestration to be played by the inherently theatrical, bursting with life. company exclusively. TICKETS ON SALES NOW AT MONDAVI CENTER BOX OFFICE (530) 754-2787 or (866) 754-2787 More Information: theatredance.ucdavis.edu WRITER & ADAPTERS Angela Carter (writer) Gia Battista (Mignon/Chorus) Elise Kane (Princess/Chorus) Angela Carter was born in 1940. She read English at Bristol University, spent two years living in Japan and from 1976-8 was Arts Council of Great Britain Fellow in Creative Writing at Sheffield Liz Burciaga (Chorus) Heidi Kendrick (Piano/Tiger/Chorus) University. She was visiting professor in the Writing Program at Brown University, Providence, Desiree M. Doyle (Vesta) Michelle Lee (Piano/Accordion/Chorus) Rhode Island, in 1980-81 and writer in residence at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, in 1984. Mark Ferrando (Samson/Chorus) Nathan Lessa (Tiger/Chorus) Her first novel Shadow Dance was published in 1965, to be followed by The Magic Toyshop Kevin Ganger (Colonel Kearney) Jesse Merz (Mr. Sugar) (which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) in 1967, Several Perceptions (which won the Somerset Daniel A. Guttenberg (Buffo) Kellie Raines (Lizzy) Maugham Award) in 1968, Heroes and Villains in 1969, Love in 1971, The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman in 1972, The Passion of New Eve in 1977, Nights at the Circus Samuel Hardie (Jack Walser) Daniel Storrow (Chorus) Published in 1984 (winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize) and Wise Children (1991). Katie Hulse (Ma Nelson/Pig) Alice Vasquez (Fevvers) Angela also published three collection of short stories - Fireworks, Black Venus and The Bloody Chamber, the latter of which won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award. Angela Carter died in February 1992. Her work has been collected in three volumes Burning Your Boats (1995) (Collected Short Stories), The Curious Room (1996) (Collected Drama) and Shaking Director/Composer Biographies a Leg (Collected Journalism and Writings). Shaking a Leg (Collected Journalism and Writings) was published in 1997 by Chatto & Windus. A number of her works have been adapted and Director Patricia Miller was Aurora Theatre Company, Magic performed on stage including a very successful, UK production by the prestigious Shared Experi- raised and trained in the UK, Patricia Theatre, NCTC and the Playwrights ence company of Bryony Lavery's dramatization of The Magic Toyshop. Miller brings a diversity of experience Foundation and for such notable directors to theatre directing, teaching and