PITTSBURGH IRISH & CLASSICAL PITTSBURGH THEATRE by Oscar Wilde adapted and directed by Alan Stanford July 11-27, 2013 The Charity Randall Theatre Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre World War I has just ended. Don Juan, presents shell-shocked and repentant, returns to Berlin, which is as damaged as he is. On a quest to Lady Windermere’s Fan find the love he left at the altar, he finds himself by Oscar Wilde increasingly at odds with the man he used to adapted and directed by Alan Stanford be. After years of abstinence, can he resist the Lady Windermere Jodi Gage* debauchery that once made his name? Lord Windermere Leo Marks* Lord Darlington John DeMita* Mrs. Erlynne Nike Doukas* The Duchess of Berwick Helena Ruoti* Lord Augustus Lorton Martin Giles* Mr. Dumby James FitzGerald* Mrs. Cowper-Cowper Lily Davis Lady Plymdale Lisa Ann Goldsmith* Mr. Cecil Graham Casey Jordan Mr. Guy Barkley Jordon Ross Weinhold Lady Agatha Carlisle Heidi Friese Mr. Hopper Luke Halferty Sir James Royston Dylan Marquis Meyers Lady Jedburgh Colette Freiwald Parker the Butler David Whalen* Ms. Graham/Rosalie Hannah R. Morris Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Michael Thomas Essad Cat Wilson Joan Markert Sound Designer Production Manager Technical Director Steve Shapiro Gianni Downs Aaron Bollinger Props Master Stage Manager Scenic Charge Artist Johnmichael Bohach Cory F. Goddard* Jennifer Kirkpatrick Voice & Dialects Assistant Stage Manager Master Electrician By Odon Von Horvath in a new English version by Duncan MacMillan Natalie Baker Shirer Joanna Obuzor* Madeleine Steineck U.S. Premiere starring David Whalen as Don Juan. August 8–31 Assistant Stage Manager Henry Heymann Theatre in the Stephen Foster Memorial, Oakland Garrett Kerr PLEASE NOTE: The video and/or audio recording of any of the performances in Tickets at picttheatre.org or call 412.561.6000 x207 Lady Windermere’s Fan by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Professional Theatre in Residence at *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the University This production runs approximately 2 hours and the Union of Professional Actors and THEATRE of Pittsburgh 20 minutes including one intermission. Stage Managers in the United States. Lady Windermere’s Fan Production Staff & Crew Asst. Technical Directors ....................................Jacob Rothermel, Luke Foco Asst. Master Electrician .....................................Duncan Lynch Apprentices in Electrics ......................................Douglas Roberts, Regina Tvaruzek Light Board Operator ........................................Douglas Roberts Sound Engineer ..................................................Stephen Tipton Sound Board Operator .......................................Stephen Tipton Carpenter ...........................................................Vincent Lobello Wardrobe ............................................................Ali Roush Stitchers ..............................................................Michael Montgomery, Kate Bagin would like to thank Apprentice in Stage Management ......................Stephen Brakey Intern in Painting ...............................................Natalie Flango Intern in Properties ............................................Pia Marchetti our 2013 Media Sponsors! 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Follow Us! facebook.com/PICTFans We appreciate your support! twitter.com/PICTPlays About the Playwright Timeline: the Life of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was an Anglo-Irish novelist, 1854: Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde is born into a respectable and well- connected Irish family. playwright, poet and critic, and a celebrity in late 19th century London. 1871: Wilde starts studying classics at Trinity College in Dublin. 1874: Wilde moves to Oxford where he continues his study of classics and begins Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was writing poetry. born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. His fa- ther was a successful surgeon and his mother a 1881: Wilde publishes his first collection of poetry. writer and literary hostess. Wilde was educated 1882: Wilde goes on a year-long lecture tour in the United States. He also produces at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen Col- his first play, Vera, or The Nihilists, in New York City, but it receives little lege, Oxford. While at Oxford, Wilde became favorable attention. involved in the aesthetic movement. After he 1883: Wilde lectures throughout England and writes his second failed drama, The graduated, he moved to London to pursue a Duchess of Padua. literary career. 1884: Wilde marries Constance Lloyd. In the following two years, his sons are born. His output was diverse. A first volume of his 1887: Wilde writes for Women’s World and helps to rejuvenate the magazine. poetry was published in 1881 but as well as 1888: Wilde publishes a collection of fairy tales called The Happy Prince and Other composing verse, he contributed to publica- Tales. tions such as the ‘Pall Mall Gazette’, wrote fairy stories and published a novel 1891: Wilde publishes several works, including a book of short stories, essays on The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). His greatest talent was for writing plays, and aestheticism, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. This is also the year he meets he produced a string of extremely popular comedies including Lady Windermere’s Lord Alfred Douglas (“Bosie”), with whom he becomes infatuated. Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). Salomé was performed in Paris in 1896. 1892: Lady Windermere’s Fan is produced in London and becomes Wilde’s first success in the theatre. He also writes Salomé, which is banned from production Drama and tragedy marred Wilde’s private life. He married Constance Lloyd in England due to its depiction of Biblical characters. in 1884 and they had two sons, but in 1891 Wilde began an affair with Lord 1893: Wilde returns to the London West End with A Woman of No Importance, which Alfred Douglas, nicknamed ‘Bosie’. In April 1895, Wilde sued Bosie’s father, the receives similar acclaim to Lady Windermere’s Fan. Marquis of Queensberry, for libel, after the Marquis has accused him of being 1894: Though it remains unproduced, Salomé—originally written in French—is homosexual. Wilde lost and, after details of his private life were revealed during published in English for the first time. the trial, was arrested and tried for gross indecency. He was sentenced to two 1895: Following the West End openings of An Ideal Husband (in January) and The years of hard labour. While in prison he composed a long letter to Douglas, post- Importance of Being Earnest (in February), Wilde enters a legal battle with the humously published under the title De Profundis. His wife took their children to Marquis of Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas’s father. Queensbury accuses Switzerland and adopted the name ‘Holland’. Wilde was released with his health Wilde of sodomy, and Wilde sues for libel. Queensbury is acquitted and Wilde irrevocably damaged and his reputation ruined. He spent the rest of his life in is arrested, tried, and found guilty of “gross indecency” – homosexuality. He Europe, publishing The Ballad of Reading Gaol in 1898. He died in Paris on 30 is sentenced to two years hard labor. November 1900. 1897: Wilde is released from prison, lacking both money and good health. He lives out the rest of his life exiled in France. 1900: Wilde converts to Catholicism on his deathbed and passes away from “Oscar Wilde,” from the BBC website, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/wilde_ meningitis. oscar.shtml Lady Windermere’s Fan Acting Company Lily Davis (Mrs. Cowper-Cowper) graduated from Point Park University’s acting program just this past May! She couldn’t be more grateful to be working for PICT as her first professional job. Lily worked with Alan Stanford in her last show, The School for Scandal, at PPU as Lady Teazle. Before that Lily was seen LEVINFURNITURE as Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible, also at PPU. Other credits levinfurniture.com include Jane in 800 Words with Caravan Theatre Group, for which she was mentioned in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette this past year; Cassie in A Chorus Line; Her Sidekick in The Time of Your Life; a & few student-directed one-acts (all at PPU); and Miss Sandwich in The Elephant Man at PrimeStage Theatre last year. She also had the pleasure of being a part of the 2013 New York Senior Showcase in May. Thank you to Alan for all of the inspiration and opportunities, as well as to James FitzGerald, Marty Giles, and Jodi Gage, who have strongly influenced me in the past year in the classroom and in rehearsals. Thank levinmattress.com you also to the entire cast and crew of Lady W; I couldn’t be more excited! John DeMita* (Lord Darlington) returns to PICT, where he previously played Jack Lawson in David Mamet’s Race in 2011. Additional acting credits include the world premieres of Liberty Inn and A Magic Christmas (Andak Stage Company) and shows at Proud to The Hollywood