Department of Theatre @ UVic
Phoenix Theatre 2005 – 2006 Season
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
By Dario Fo
Adapted by Ned Vukovic
October 6 – 22, 2005
Previews: October 4 & 5 at 8pm
Opens: October 6 at 8pm
Evening Performances: October 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22 at 8pm
Matinee: Saturday October 22 at 2pm
Pre-Show Lecture: Friday October 7, at 7pm
Director: Ned Vukovic (Faculty)
Set and Costume Designer: Carla Orosz (MFA design)
Lighting Designer: Tim Herron (Graduate Student--Education)
Stage Manager: Jonathan Chen (Undergraduate Student)
Assistant Director: Yasmine Kandil (MFA Directing)
Assistant Set and Costume Designer: Jordan Meyer (Undergraduate Student)
When Dario Fo’s hilarious satire about police brutality and political corruption first
premiered in Italy in 1970, it captured the disillusionment of Italian and world politics of
the day. Fo based the farce on a true incident that occurred in 1969 when an anarchist
railway worker “accidentally” fell to his death from a police headquarters’ window. The
play was seen by over one million people in for years and quickly became a classic in the
genre. Fo has written over 70 plays and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1997.
Cast: Cameron Anderson, Sebastien Archibald, Patrick McCloy, James Philip Kot,
Bryce Makkinga, Jason Moldowan, Colby Wilson, Anne-Marie de la Giroday, and Eva
Markvoort.
Metamorphoses
Based on the Myths of Ovid
Written and originally directed by Mary Zimmerman
November 10 – 26, 2005
Previews: November 8 & 9, 2005
Opens: November 10 at 8pm
Evening Performances: November 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26 at 8pm
Matinee: Saturday November 26 at 2pm
Pre-Show Lecture: Friday November 11, at 7pm
Director: Jennifer H. Capraru (Guest Director)
Set Designer: Karyn McCallum (MFA Design)
Costume Designer: Tamara Marie Kucheran (Guest Designer)
Lighting Designer: Michael J. Whitfield (Guest Designer)
Sound Designer: Gord Heal (Undergraduate Student)
Musical Director: Victor Dolhai (Undergraduate Student)
Stage Manager: Heather Rycraft (Undergraduate Student)
Assistant Director: Chelsea Haberlin (Undergraduate Student)
Observing Director: Yasmine Kandil (MFA Directing)
Set Design Assistant: Ashley Rees (Undergraduate Student)
Costume Design Assistant: Calli Burr and Laurin Kelsey (Undergraduate Students)
Lighting Design Assistant: Nicole Lamb (Undergraduate Assistant)
This piece of theatrical magic was first developed by performance studies professor Mary
Zimmerman at Northwestern University in 1998 and, by 2002, was a smash hit on
Broadway. Based on The Metamorphoses of Ovid, the Roman poet, Zimmerman’s play
combines the myths’ ancient lyrical poetry with modern translations (Bacchus says to
Midas, on hearing of his wish for the golden touch, “That’s a really, really bad idea”).
Jennifer Capruro’s innovative directing style was seen in Victoria last winter with the
tour of The Trials of John Demjanjuk: A Holocaust Cabaret. She is the artistic
director of Theatre Asylum and associate artist at Factory Theatre.
Cast: Celine Richmond, Tonye Aganaba, Ming Hudson, Trevor Hinton, Jamaine
Campbell, Jade Chang, Ingrid Hansen, John Ellingson, Kholby Wardell, Kate Richard,
Victor Dolhai, Devon Taylor, and Kaitlyn Regehr.
SPOTLIGHT ON ALUMNI
Famous Puppet Death Scenes
Presented by The Old Trout Puppet Workshop
January 31 – February 4, 2006
Previews: January 28 & 30, 2006
Opens: January 31 at 8pm
Evening Performances: January 31, February 1, 2, 3, and 4 at 8pm
Matinee: Saturday February 4 at 2pm
Pre-Show Lecture: Friday February 3, 2006
Created by: Peter Balkwill, Don Brinsmead, Bobby Hall, Pityu Kenderes, Judd Palmer,
and Stephen Pearce
Starring: Peter Balkwill, Don Brinsmead, Pityu Kenderes and Judd Palmer
Directed by: Tim Sutherland
Technical Direction by: Bobby Hall
Costumes by: Jen Gareau and Sarah Malik
Lighting Design by: Cimmeron Meyer
Sound Design by: Mike Rinaldi
Trout Administrator: Donna Kwan
Additional Production by: Marilyn Palmer, Dawn Bryan, Georgia Houston, Jimmy
Davidge, and Karen Walker
Produced by: Grant Burns
One of the “Old Trouts”, as they are known, is a graduate of the Department of Theatre—
company member and co-founder Peter Balkwill. He and his fellow trouts will be
featured in the department’s annual “Spotlight on Alumni.” Victoria audiences have seen
the Alberta based company and inventive wildly visual puppet theatre most recently with
The Unlikely Birth of Istvan and, last season, The Last Supper of Antonin Carême for the
Phoenix Theatre, they will create a new world premiere production.
The show is a collection of short pieces which represent the collected death scenes from a
(fictional) canon of famous puppet shows through history; each one is presented as if it is
a scene from a real show, radically expurgated, so that we are seeing only the last
moment of a main or sub-character. The broader plot of the shows from which they have
been derived is left up to the imagination of the audience; the effect, we hope, is like
viewing a painting in a gallery, finding an old photograph, or being parachuted into a four
hour long opera, just at the climactic bit.
FIND 2006: Festival of Innovative and New Drama
Top Girls
By Caryl Churchill
February 9 – 18, 2006
Previews: February 7 & 8 at 8pm
Opens: February 9 at 8pm
Evening Performances: February 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 at 8pm
Matinee: Saturday February 18 at 2pm
Pre-Show Lecture: Friday February 10, at 7pm
Director: Yasmine Kandil (MFA Directing)
Set Designer: Carla Orosz (MFA Design)
Costume Designer: Matt Jackson (Undergraduate Student)
Lighting Designer: Tim Herron (Graduate Student—Education)
Sound Designer: Nicole Lamb (Undergraduate Student)
Dialect Coach: Ned Vukovic (Faculty)
Musical Director: Victor Dolhai (Undergraduate Student)
Stage Manager: Meredith Grantier (Undergraduate Student)
Assistant to Set Designer: Jordan Meyer (Undergraduate Student)
Assistant to the Costume Designer: Sabrina Miller (Undergraduate Student)
Assistant to the Lighting Designer: Ashley Rees (Undergraduate Student)
Faculty Supervisor (Directing): Linda Hardy
Faculty Supervisors (Design): Mary Kerr and Allan Stichbury
Director Yasmine Kandil, who recently directed Churchill’s Fen at the Phoenix, will
continue her exploration of the feminist playwright’s writings as her Master of Fine Arts
thesis project. Joining her again will be designer Carla Orosz, who designed the
costumes for Fen, This is also Orosz’s MFA thesis project.
Churchill examines the feminist climb up the corporate ladder and the price of success
during ‘Thatcher-Era’ England.
Cast: Kate Richard, Ingrid Hansen, Laura Harris, Ming Hudson, Devon Taylor, AnneMarie de la Giroday, and Danielle Janess.
Studio Series
March 2 – 4, 2006
Previews: February 28 & March 1, 2006
FIND 2006 will again feature a play reading “Studio Series” of short one-act plays
written by emerging playwrights from the Department of Writing and directed and acted
by Theatre Students, presented in association with the Department of Writing.
Play Selection Committee: Joan MacLeod (Faculty) and David Brock (Guest Writer)
Playwrights’ Advisor: Joan MacLeod (Faculty)
Directors’ Advisor: Brian Richmond (Chair)
Dramaturge: Don Hannah
Production Stage Manager: Kelly Savage
Assistant Production Manager: Mark Hovey
Lighting Designers: Theatre 349 Class
Stage Manager: Nicole Lamb
Assistant Stage Managers: Jane Dunlop and Virgina Lo
Bildungsroman by Duncan Paterson and directed by Chelsea Haberlin
A bildungsroman (German: “novel of education” or “novel of formation”) is a novel that
traces the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of Cole, the
hard-edged cop O’Toole, and Clark Kent.
Cast: Chris Wilson, Colby Wilson, James Philip Kot, Jason Moldowan
Maria and the Design of the New Angels by Alejandro Valbuena and directed by Jen
Quinn
This surreal story of angels, lost virginities, dancers and seagulls is set in the middle of
the Atacama Desert—the driest place on earth. Thanks to Marietta’s culinary abilities,
this scorched land will soon be lubricated by divine rain in a carnivalesque quest for
pleasure and grace.
Cast: Jade Chang
In Seed Time Learn by Katie-Ellen Humphries and directed by Stacey Gaetz
In a throng of folks looking for only to shake it like non-dairy creamer, adorably
awkward Then envisions more. As he flounders with pick-up line and pop-culture, Thel
can’t help but wonder if the chance to connect with someone is really worth forfeiting his
imagined ideal.
Cast: Amitai Marmorstein, Julia Cameron, Chris Wilson, and Kassia Warshawski
The Monkey War of Fire by Russell Reilander and directed by Stacey Gaetz
This play is dedicated to the real Kai Kai, an actual smoking monkey that lives in a zoo in
China; who, after ten years, has recently been forced to quit cold turkey. Follow Art’s
war with addiction as he fights the same plight as this somewhat misunderstood smoking
monkey.
Cast: Graham Newmarch, Jason Moldowan and Melanie Moore
Wounds by Max Forrester and directed by Stacey Gaetz
Sandra is a seventeen year-old girl with dyslexia who believes she can no longer handle
the pressures of school and family. When she runs away from home and shows up at the
door of Colin, her older sister’s ex-boyfriend, she recounts to him her story and looks for
understanding.
Cast: Nicole Fraissinet
Calvin by Leah Esau and directed by Chelsea Haberlin
Calvin is a gold and silver medal-winning Olympic swimmer. He lives with his friends
and has an attractive girlfriend. He teaches swimming and walks dogs. He also has
autism and this is his story.
Cast: Reid Sparling
Small Town Graduation by Jasmine O’Brien and directed by Jen Quinn
Every small town has a Rachel and a Jenny. We meet the girls on an evening before a
major life transition, on the cusp of a different phase of life, full of wants and
expectations. But a simple act on Jenny’s part puts in motion a challenge to their own
sexual definitions, and what they have come to expect in their relationship with each
other, with men and with themselves.
Cast: Kaitlyn Regehr, Kassia Warshawski, and James Philip Kot.
Swimming Lesson by Brie Wittman and directed by Jen Quinn
Seven year-old Robbie and his father are alone at a bus station with a man who collapses.
Robbie wants to help the man but is confronted by his father’s prejudices. As Robbie
discovers the truth about his father he must choose between their relationship or saving
the life of a stranger.
Cast: Patrick McCloy, Jesse Collin, and Amitai Marmorstein.
Dinner Party by Cassie Beecham and directed by Chelsea Haberlin
Having recently found out that her daughter, Zenia, has contracted the HIV virus, Barbara
sets up a dinner party with friends to help get Zenia a job. It is a dinner party filled with
chaos, laughter and the unveiling of some very important truths.
Cast: Kaitlyn Regehr, Julia Cameron, Sam Mullins, Lee Cookson, Jade Chang.
Tyrants
By Paul Ledoux and Jacob Richmond
March 16 – April 1, 2006
Previews: March 14 & 15 at 8pm
Opens: March 16 at 8pm
Evening Performances: March 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, and 31 at 8pm
Matinee: Saturday April 1 at 2pm
Pre-Show Lecture: Friday March 17 at 7pm
Director/Dramaturge: Brian Richmond (Chair)
Set and Projection Designer: Karyn McCallum (MFA Design)
Costume Designer: Mary Kerr (Faculty)
Guest Lighting Designer: Stephan Droege
Guest Sound Designer: John Mills-Cockell
Dialect Coach: Ned Vukovic (Faculty)
Stage Fight Director: K. Scott Malcolm (Faculty)
Stage Manager: Jordan Meyer (Undergraduate Student)
Set Design Assistant: Elizabeth Thomson (Undergraduate Student)
Projection Design Assistant: Eugene Mendelev (Undergraduate Student)
Costume Design Assistant: Shawna Picken (Undergraduate Student)
Historical Dramaturge: Dr. Tony Vickery (Faculty)
Faculty Supervisor (Design): Mary Kerr
A backstage look at America’s most famous theatrical family, the “Mad Booths of
Maryland”, in the fateful 1864 production of Julius Caesar.
Cast: Trevor Hinton, Victor Dolhai, Lindsey Vukovic (Guest Actor), Éva Markvoort,
Carey Wass, Jamaine Campbell, John Krich (Guest Actor), Sarah Pelzer, and Kassia
Warshawski.