double edge theatre
presents
Shahrazad
A Tale of Love and Magic
July 18 - August 24
Directed and designed by Stacy Klein Co-directed by Matthew Glassman Spectacle project originally
conceived by Stacy Klein and Carlos Uriona
Project direction by Adam Bright
Music arranged and directed by John Peitso
Script by Matthew Glassman, with Jennifer Johnson Music and script collaboration by Brian Fairley
Drawn from The Arabian Nights, Song of Songs, The Conference of the Birds, and Rumi
Cast
Shahrazad - Jeremy Louise Eaton
The King, Shahrayar - Matthew Glassman
Vizier - Carlos Uriona
featured singing by Hayley Brown and Amanda Miller
Stories
The Hoopoe: Hannah Jarrell
The Ebony Horse:Magician
Jennifer
Jullanar of the Sea:
JohnsonPrince Ahmed
Andrew
Jullanar
Todd
Queen Lab
The Princess
Amanda Miller
Aladdin’s Lamp:
Genie
Aladdin
Sarah Cormier
Evan Barth
Milena Dabova
Hannah Jarrell
The Jeweler’s Wife:
The Jeweler’s Wife
The Jeweler
With Carroll Durand
Joanna Caplan
John Peitso
Eliot Peitso and Bethany Bright
Musicians
John Peitso, Walken Schweigert, Jordyn Albert
A Wonderful Chorusof dancers, guards, demons, sea creatures, merchants, and a genie
Sophia Daly, Rachel Rees, Emma Ross, Susannah Wilson, Amber Adeline, Camille Nattans,
Nicolas Carmona Glassman, Henry Abramowitz, Jordyn Albert
Overall technical and rigging design by Adam Bright
Facade and tent painting by Rachel Silverman and Hayley Wood
Facades by Russ Loomis and Richard Van Schouwen
Indoor castle and puppet designs Amanda Miller and Sarah Cormier, based on original design by Jorge
Onofri, with Brently Michael Davis
Bridge and marketplace by Jeff Bird
Metal fabrications by Mark Day
Scenic decoration by Carroll Durand
Jullanar stone terrace by Ryan O’ConnorHorse design by Nancy Milliken, with horse drove by Lynne
Feinberg, Beckie Kravetz
Costume design by Tadea Klein, with Amanda Miller
Lighting by John Peitso
Choreography by Milena Dabova and Emma Jaster
Stage Manager – Clare Boyes
Lighting Operator – Sophia Daly
Dramaturg – Amrita Ramanan
Costumiere – Liz Spilsbury
Food Systems Director – Rob
LizotteCreative Advisor – Morgan Jenness
Master Carpenter – Russ Loomis
Vocal Training – Walton Wilson
Tae Kwon Do – Master Robert Markey
Circus – Elsie Smith
Landscaper – Ryan O’Connor
Photography and Film – David Weiland, Maria Baranova, Gus Ganley
Shahrazad and the Summer Spectacle Project presented in association with Charlestown Working
Theater.
The collaboration of our community has made this possible!
Farm Designs and Landscaping
Jim & Bill Vieira (stonework), Harry Dodson (garden), Cynthia Fischer (mosaic), q-Staff Theatre (bridge and pavilion wall), Hayley Wood (murals)
Volunteers and Crew
Danielle Newbury (coordinator), Gus Viveiros, Suzi Day, Eugenio Uriona
Matthew Baumes, Julie Becker, Branimira Belegova, Audrey Bird, Emmett Bird, Jon Bremmer, Jess Bryant, Katie Burgess, Shani Chartier, Colleen Clark,
Christopher Cleveland, Charlotte Curtis, Paul Cushing, Aaron Day, Parker Denton, Jill Greenberg, Laura Iveson, Cariel Klein, Lulu Kline, Patricia Kochin,
Hrefna Lind Larusdottir, Justin Lively, Janet Macfadyn, Tiffany Maliff, Peggy Malone, Nancy Marshall, Sophia Miller, Anna Morin, Paul Moshimer, Roy
Nilson, Berit Nowicki, Ryan O’Connor, Molly O’Keefe, Miguel Paredes, Torii Pasternak, Hannah Pepper, Camilo Quiroz-Vazquez, Josh Perlstein, Kevin
Pless, BZ Reily, Sophie Rhemus, Pamela Rickenbach, Melissa Rudder, Katie Russavage and Shawnie, Julia Schonberg, Nick Slie, Towner Smith, Liz
Spilsbury, Jacob Stejskal, Ben Tobin, Nathan Tibbits, Sandy Timmerman, Ellpetha Tsivicos, Cecilia Viveiros, Jim Vieira, Kyle Vieira, Jennifer White
Double Edge Ensemble
Stacy Klein, Carlos Uriona, Matthew Glassman, Hayley Brown, Jeremy Louise Eaton,
Adam Bright, Hannah Jarrell, Milena Dabova, Carroll Durand, Amanda Miller, Andrew ToddDouble Edge Company
Joanna Caplan, Walken Schweigert, Amrita Ramanan, Sarah Cormier, Evan Barth, Rob Lizotte
Board
The Double Edge ensemble, Ceceile Klein, Amy Shapiro, Bruce Lessels, Rachel Moore, Don AllisonAdvisors
Lou Cove, Rus Peotter, Joe Poirier, Edgar Alejandro, Alan Singer, Phil Pless, Nan Parati
Consultants and Staff
Marion Dienstag (strategic planning), Meg Nelson (grants), Danny Skinz (branding), Eugenio Uriona (food)
Thanks to our funders
Doris Duke Artist Awards, The Hess Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council,
The Trust for Mutual Understanding, National Performance Network Performing Americas; Cultural Facilities Fund, The C.A.N. Foundation, Mid-Atlantic
Arts Foundation, NET Travel and Exchange Network, Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, USDA, and F & H county cultural councils
Business Sponsors
Zoar Outdoor, Hillside Plastics, Greenfield Savings Bank, Baystate Health, Dodson & Flinker Landscaping, Bread Euphoria, West Road Woodworks
Ryan&Casey Liquors, Custom Metal Fabrications, Northampton Walmart Store, Coldwell Banker Upton-Massamont Realty, Greenfield Cooperative Bank
Business Contributors
Arise Farm to Table Pizzeria . Elmer’s Café . The Ashfield Lakehouse . Brass Buckle Café . The People’s Pint . The Brewmaster’s Tavern . Steady Lane
Farm . Ashfield Hardware Store . Wright Builders . Berkshire Bank Foundation . Lowe’s Home Improvement of Hadley . Home Depot Greenfield &
Hadley . Green Fields Market . Indigo Coffee . India Palace . Thai Garden . Magpie Pizzeria . Hope & Olive . Warner Farm . Shelburne Falls Coffee
Roasters . Solar Store of Greenfield . WMECO . Bug Hill Farm . Blue Star Equiculture . Sherwin Williams Hadley . Fleurry Lumber Easthampton Boswell
Books . Mocha Maya’s . Moe’s Fudge Factor . La Luncheonette . Nolan’s Neighbors . Bear Meadows Apiary . Gypsy Apple . Heart of Art . Fritha Pengelly
Feldenkrais . Floral Affairs . Molly Cantor Pottery . Stillwater Porcelein . Plants for Pleasure . South Street Sugarhouse . Just Soap . Four Seasons Wine, Don
Allison, Allison, Angier, Bartmon & Fernold, LLC, Trader Joe’s, some fabrics and costumes donated by parents and students from Emirates International
School – Jumeirah
Thanks to our Supporting Members Circle
Platinum Circle: Justin Alfond & Rachael Weinstein, Mauricia Alvarez, Mark & Judy Caplan, Chia Collins & Michael Cohen, Bonnie Cordon & Laura
Siskind, Peter & Diane Jones, Ceceile Klein, Stacy Klein & Carlos Uriona, Russ Loomis & Nancy Marshall, Rachel Moore & Harry Dodson, Ellen
Morrison, Rus Peotter, Jack & Sydney Ramey, Andy & Nancy Smith, Bob Stachel, Joe & Debra Weinberg, Sandy & Jenny Weymouth, Michael Williams &
Sally Russ, Adele Zilber
Gold Circle: Wendy Batson & Bob Eaton, Sigrid Bauschinger, Howard Bryant, J. Doster & Mary Barringer, Rebecca Caplice & Joe Poirier, Marion
Dienstag, Ed & Nancy Dzielenski, Ben & Jennie Markens, Jessie Ann Owens & Anne Hoffman, Jennifer Johnson & John Peitso, Constance Platt, Nancy
Porter & James Barton, Daina Robins & Peter von Websky, Florence Rosenstock & Jim van Luik, Eva Schocken, Al & Mary Siano, Elliott Smolensky
Silver Circle: Don & Edith Allison, Mark Barry & Sandra Magsamen, Joan & Tito Bianchi, Evan Bollinger & Ellen Grobman, Rosie Caine & Howard
Nathanson, Daniel Chess & Richard Lilly, Kathy Coughlin & Michael Dorval, Lou Cove, James Cutler, Jonathan Diamond & Dana Blackburn, Bernard
Fine, Stephen & Beth Fox, Margaret Fitzpatrick & Tanya Bryant, Rachel Ford, Mitch & Judy Glassman, Norbert Goldfield, Josh & Marina Goldman, Gene
Goldstein, Barbara & Steven Grossman, Michael & Joan Haley, Valerie Heron-Duranti, Catherine Ives and Steve & Alex Herrmann, Mary Hocken, Hannah
Jarrell & Rob Lizotte, Gayle Kabaker & Peter Kitchell, Steve & Suzanne Kulik, Christopher Landry, James Latzel & Lisa Niedermeyer, Bruce Lessels &
Karen Blom (Zoar Outdoor), Tom Lesser & Maggie Spiegel, Dale Melcher & Bill Newman, Terry Mollner, Karen Moore, Marcia Morrison, Richard Norris,
Gerard & Carolann O'Connor, Gina Onushco & Charlie Tierney, Phil Pless & Linda Taylor, Gail Pressberg, Fanny Rothschild & Michael Morgan, Regan
Rowan, Chris Rzonca & Krystyna Ilakowicz, Nancy Sherman & George Reynolds, David & Esther Short, Virginia Sullivan & Brown Williams, Claire
Chang & John Ward (Solar Store of Greenfield), Roger Taylor, Susan Todd, Ann & Amnon Wachman, Glenn & Debbi Weinberg, Mike Wisseman (Warner
Farm), Boris Wolfson & Amanda Walling, Jen Wood, Susan Wood, Arthur & Heide Zajonc, Kristi Zea
Contributing Members Circle: Maria Baranova, Jeff Bird, Mark & Suzi Day, Ray & Marsha Gray, Morgan Jenness, Alan Kirschner, Paul Mark, Bob
Markey, Carol Martin, Dr. Robert Miller, Nancy Milliken, Danielle Newbury, Ryan O’Connor, Rachel Silverman, Jim Vieira, Bill Vieira, Dr. Richard
Warner, Dr. Dave Weiland, Gail Wiedmann, Hayley Wood,Mark & Gerri Pollard (Bread Euphoria)
Individual donors: Thorvald Aagarard, Steven & Susan Abdow, Frieda Aboyoun, Caitlin Adams, David Anstey, Roberta & James Armenti, Jessica
Atwood, Christine Aubrey, Maria Baranova, Judith Barnes, Cindy Barth, Evan Barth, Kathleen Barth, George Basbas, Davis Bates, John Bechtold, Julie
Becker, Karen Becker, Javiera Benavente, Eugene Berman & Patricia Kozaczka, Tobias Bernstein, Ashley Berry, Joel Bigger, Kevin Bigger, Jeff Bird,
William Bither, Anne Bogart, Donald Boissonault, Nathalie Bourdeu-Root, Alden & Lissa Booth, Daniel Boyd, Michael Brann, Jonathan Bremner, Adam
Bright, Colin & Jane Bright, Gavin Bright, Natalie Bright, Adam Brown, Cole Brown, Darla Brown, Hayley Brown, Preston Browning Jr ., Tanya Bryant &
Margaret Fitzpatrick, Veronique Bryant, John Bos, Christine Burgess, Susana Byers, Matthew Cahoon, Branimira Calvanese, Molly Cantor, Joanna Caplan,
Alison Carey, Steven Carlin, Victoria Carlin, Delta Carney, Susan & Rick Chandler, Jeffrey & Maryann Ciuffreda, Diane Clancy, Heather Clark, Downing
Cless, Amy Cohen, Ron & Nina Coler, Peter Christakos, Marit Cranmer, Mary Cohn, Raymond Coughlin, Christina Cronin & Mark Langevin, Walter
Cudnohufsky, Hannah Cunningham, Daniel Cutler, Jonathan Daen, Milena Dabova, Miriam Daly, Sophia Daly, Justin David, David Dewitt, Andrea Dishy,
Jeanne Douillard, Sarah Dunlap, Carroll Durand, Leslie Dwight, Katherine Eaton, Jeremy Louise Eaton, Jonah Eaton, Zach Eaton, Peter Ellis, Deb Ellison,
Susan Elena Esquivael, Rima Fand, Lynne Feinberg, Bill Feinstein & Deb Sherr, Scott Felluss, Tjasa Ferme, Corey Fischer, Sandra Frizpatrick, David
Flaxman, Megan Frank, Laurie Franklin, Fred Forman, John & Gretchen Fox, Dan Froot, Bruce Gantt, Peter Garbus, Nolan Gear, Vanessa Gilbert, Jeffrey
Ginsberg, Matthew Glassman, Zillah Glory Langsjoen, Prudence Grand, Larry Grob, David Goff, Goff Media, Inc., Rueben Goldstein, Carol Gray, Jill
Greensberg, Lauren Gruenberg, Carol E. Goans, Joanna Hall, Judith Hamilton, Mack Headrick, Amanda Herman, Elisabeth Hill, Janet & Herbert Hodos,
Sarah Holbrook, Timothy Holcomb, Chris Herbie Holland, Joshua Hornick, William & Donna Hughes, Zuzonna Huot, Andrew Ingall, Bryan Jabaay,
Jeremiah & Christine Jarrell, Kara Jasinski, Kevin Johnson, Erin Grace Johnston, Heide Jonassen, Lynda Joyce, Herbert Kanarick, Joan Kane, Harry
Keramidas & Renee Rastorfer, Susan Kilburn, Rebecca King, Beth Kipetz, Tadea Klein, Bradley Kohr II, Eric Kupers, Lexzek & Michal Kuriata, Jennifer
Ladd, Joan Lancourt, Ingrid Lantner, M T Laverty, Genevieve C. Lawlor, Gerard LeBlanc, David Levine & Judith Katz, Laurie Levine, Jordan Lieberman,
Perry Lueders, Roger Lynch & Lyndsay Fletcher-Lynch, Kathryn Lyons, Robin Mader, Doris Magovern, Carol Martin & Richard Schechner, Vijay Mathew,
Amalia Mathewson, Edward McCabe, K T McGibney, Paige McGinley, Patricia McKey, David Miller, Nicole Miller, Nancy Milliken, Marilyn Millstone,
Sidney & Miriam Moss, Jeffrey Mosser, Jamie Mulligan-Smith, Camille Nattans, Louise Neidle, William Neville, Virginia New, Roy Nilson & Towner
Smith, Katie Norman, Eric Norton, Matthew Opatrny, Emily Ottman, Meg Palmeri, Thom Pasculli, Clare Pearson & David Specht,Katharine Pearson
Criss, Audrey Barker Plotkin, Joel Plotkin, Maryclare Powell & VT Walker, Geoffrey & Kathryn Precourt, Kevin Purinton, Jesus Quintero, Camilo QuirozVazquez, Amrita Ramanan, Gopal Ramanan, Elliott Rauh, Chris & Dre Rawlings, Cornelia Reid, Wallis & Mella Reid, Barbara Reily, Alan D Rice & Holly
Wescott, Flavio Risech, Julia Riseman & Nicholas Horton, Judith Roberts, Donald & Molly Robinson, Petronella Roelofs, Daniel Rosenberg, Charles &
Mary Rubens, Kirby Russell, Sarah Ryan, Raphael Sacks, Norbert Salz, Samuel Samuels, Whit Sanford & Tom Miner, Wendy Sawyer & James Evans,
Naomi Schafer, Katherine Schaffer, Barbara Schaffer Bacon, Dietrich & Julie Schlobohm, Eric and Jennifer Schmitt, Pamela Scholtz, Lauren Schwartz,
Francis & Kathleen Schweigert, Walken Schweigert, Betty Scott, Laurence Philip Senelick, Sid & Rebecca Shaw, Megan Shea, Tamara Sloan, Janice
Sorensen, Elizabeth Spreen, Diane Spurgin, Katie Spurgin, Sarah Ellen Steinitz, Linda Stevenson, Megan Stewart, Martin & Joan Taubman, Benjamin
Teitelbaum, Sandy Timmerman, Ben Tobin, Todd Trebour, Briana Trevithick, Ellpetha Tsivicos, Eugenio Uriona, Mark Valdez, Richard van Schouwen,
V.K. & Selvi Viswanathan, Ann Walsh-Sullivan, Andy Weyenberg, Lillian White, Marc White, Andrew Whitelaw, Dyan Wiley, Shaaroni Wong, Hayley
Wood, Barbara Wurtzel, Paul Yandoli & Michelle Macinnes, Phui Yi Kon, Barbara Young
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