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The University of Southern Maine Department of Theatre • Russell Square Players presents ~ April 22-24 and April 27-May 1 , 1994 Main Stage, Russell Hall• Gorham campus Director's Notes As the World Turns, and locally with Mad Horse Theatre·and Shenanigans Productions, where he's also directed. Will Born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1914, Tennessee received a faculty scholarship to the Kennedy Center in Williams gained popular notoriety in 1945 when his Washington, ~as studied at the American Academy of production of The Glass Menagerie was successfully produced Dramatic Art and National Shakespeare Conservatory in on Broadway. Other well-known works include A Streetcar New York, and holds theatre degrees from the·University of Named Desire, 194 7, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1955 -- both Rhode Island and the University ofillinois. winners of the Pulitzer Prize. Despite Williams' personal tragedies -- he suffered from depression, alcoholism, and drug · Biographies of the Designers addiction -- he remained a prolific writer, producing not only plays but poetry, short stories, novels, and screenplays. Charles S. Kading has taught design and stagecl!aft at Summer and Smoke was originally produced in 1947, in USM for 13 years. His professional credits include Goodnight Dallas, Texas and then on Broadway in 1948 to lukewarm Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) and Dark River for Mad reviews. It was revived in 1952.with Geraldine Page in the Horse Theatre; Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Cabaret role of Alma at Circle-in-the-Square Theatre, New York, and for Maine State Music Theater; Big River for Philadelphia's met with critical acclaim. It is somewhat autobiographical, as Walnut Street Theater; and Noises Off and Blithe Spirit at are many of Williams' works -- his mother was a minister's The Alaba¢a Shakespeare Festival: He has also worked daughter (Alma); his father, a traveling salesman (Archie); extensively at The Alley Theater in flouston. His credits and the setting is his birthplace, Mississippi. there include the USA premiere of Alan Ayckbourne's This play has provided our student actors the Hencefo_rward. In addition, Charles has designed scenery for opportunity for in-depth exploration of complex, emotional th~ Seattle Repertory Theater, Intiman Theater, Cabaret characters from an era and locale much different from their Repertory Theater, and the Portland Stage Company. own. I've also chosen to insert Williams' original prologue to the play which had been struck from the acting edition and Susan Picinich joined the USM Department of Theatre which has provided an opportunity for two local ten-year-old faculty in 1987 and has since .designed costumes for 31 actors! I hope this play will provoke thought regarding our University productions. She has an MFA degree from the ideas on spiritual love versus physical passion, the influence University of Michigan ·and previously taught at SUNY of family and environment, concepts of society's expectations, Albany and Western Illinois University. This season Susan and our need to create beauty out of chaos - among others! designed Three Postcards at Portland Stage Company and All ''All of us are in the gutter My Sons at Mad Horse Theatre. In the summer she takes to but some of us are looking at the stars" the .road and practices her craft at Maine State Music · ... Miss Alma, quoting Oscar Wilde, Summer and Smoke Theatre in Brunswi·ck. Last summer's West Side Story and Be$t Little Whorehouse in Tex(ls were her work. Will Kilroy, assistant professor of theater at USM, previously taught at Santa Monica College in California, and This is Patrick Kelly's first year with USM as the Technical was a member of the Michael Chekhov Drama Group and the Director and Lighting Designer. Patrickwas born and raised Hollywood Directors Lab. Active in summer theatre for the in Hawaii where he has ten years of professional theatre past 15 years, Will has directed productions ranging from experience. After moving to the mainland, he served for two Nunsense at Maine's Strawflower Theatre to Look Back in years as the Master Electrician with the Pasadena . Anger in Venice, CA. He has performed at New York's West Playhouse. From California, Patrick moved east to New Bank Theatre, in the Hollywood premiere of Hotel Universe, England where he spent three years with the American in commercials, in the daytime serials All My Children and Repertory Theatre, Ca~bridge, ¥ass. SUMMER AND SMOKE by Tennessee Williams Design and Technical Staff directed by Will Kilroy Scene Designer Charles Kading Cast Costum'e Designer Susan Picinich Young John Christopher Hutt · Lighting Designer!I'echnical Director Patrick Kelly. Young Alma Leah Childers Stage Manager John P. Gagnon Reverend Winemiller Jayson Jolin Production ASM Burke Brimmer Mrs. Winemiller Susan Palmer Costumer Christenia Kinne John Buchanan, Jr. Guy Durichek Sound Designer Alison Lowe Alma Winemiller Anjanett Hawk-Johnson Master Electrician John Gagnon Rosa Gonzales Krista Richardson Property Master Craig Ela Nellie Ewell Celeste Dutil Property Assistant . Loretta Valle Roger Doremus Jayson Mathieu­ Publicity/Box Office Manager Mary Snell/Sarah Fortin Dr. John Buchanan, Sr. Ryan Corliss Soundboard Operator · Rene Renner Mrs. Bassett Alison Lowe Lightboard Operators Ted Cahill, Kevin Oakes Vernon Jamie Grant Dresser · Cynthia Amirault Rosemary Laurel Piccone Research Assistant Alison Lowe Dusty Brian Saunders Sp~sn consultant Professor Charlene S. Suscavage Gonzales Stan Paul Discussion Leaders Professors Michelle Hutt, Archie Kramer Christopher Sias Richard West, Barbara 1:Iope Rehearsal Supervisors Michelle and Guy Hutt · PARTI:ASUMMER Ms. Childers Prologue: The fouptain Costume Construction Costuming I Lab: - Scene 1. The fountain. Katherine L. Rodman, Susan Butler, Scene 2. The doctor's office. Frederica Jepson, Rene Renner, Scene 3. 'The rectory interior. Amy Handy, Samantha Kinne Scene 4. The rectory interior. Scene 5. The doctor's office. Scene 6. The rectory interior. Summer and Smoke, copyrighted in 1948 by Tennessee Scene 7. The arbor. Williams, is presented with permission of Dramatists Play Servi<;e, Inc., 440 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10016. 15 MINUTE INTERMISSION PART II: A WINTER -A Thank You to Scene 1. The rectory and doctor's office. Maine State Music Theatre · Scene 2. The doctor's office. Portland Stage Company Scene 3. The rectory and doctor's office. Fryeburg Academy Scene 4. The fountaip. USM Biology Department Scene 5. The doctor's·"office. USM Department of Music Seen~ 6. The fountain. J enkinstrhomas Productions Nyman Inc. - The entire action takes place in the town of Glorious Hill, · Sheri~nigans Productions Mississippi. Time: Turn of the centµry, thnJUgh 1916 Biographies of the Cast and Crew Burke Brimmer (Assistant Stage Manager), of Portland. "It Anjanett Hawk-Johnson (Alma Winemiller), of - has b~e-n. a real pleasure to work with this particular cast and. Frenchtown, Montana, is a senior with a double major in crew, although we were all a bit rough in the beginning. I Theatre and domestic engineering! She has performed in feel everyone smoothed out wonderfully, especially the cast. several university and community theatre productions All the best to everyone involved." ·· including It Just Is and Agnes of God. She is on staff at The Theatre Project in Brunswick and lives with a physician who Leah Childers (Young Alma), of Scarborough is in the _ really loves her. She has had a very positive and educational fourth grade, and is being home schooled by her mother. This experience and wants to thank the ensemble for all of their is Leah's first year in a major drama. "I hope this is the first support. She has learned from Alma, that fate happens at the of many plays for me to act in." - right time with the right person. Ryan Corliss (Dr. John Buchanan, Sr.), of Bar HarbQr, has Christopher Hutt (Young John), of Freeport, is in the played the stage for eight years now. He mostly spends his fourth grade and enjoys singing in the Southern Maine o~stage moments creating interesting bio's for future use. Children's Chorus at USM. Although he has performed in some of his school plays he is excited about this, his "first Guy Durichek (John Buchanan, Jr.) is a second-year college super play." His performance is dedicated to his Mom The~tre major who is also studying psychology through a self­ and Dad, brother Joshua, and friend Jared. He thanks designed minor. This is ·his second appearance-.with the everyone involved in Summer and Smoke for their help and Russell Square Players, his first being last year's production patience, especially Will and the builders of the second story of Sganarelle. stage. Celeste Dutil (Nellie Ewell), of Augusta, is a junior here at Jayson P. Jolin (Reverend Winemiller), of Saco, is coming to USM. She appreciates the experiences that the Theatre you for the first time in over a year. His last part was in Lyric department offers and is anxious to "be discovered." Her Theatre's Annie, where he played several characters.