Norton Clapp Theatre, Jones HallOct. 27, 28 and Nov. 1*, 2, 3, and 4 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 4 at 1 p.m. *ASL interpreted performance

University of Puget Sound Department of Theatre Arts 2006-07 Season

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dreamby William Shakespeare

Director .............................................................................................Geoff Proehl

Scenic Designer .....................................................................................Kurt Walls

Costume Designer ........................................................................Mishka Navarre

Lighting Designer ...............................................................................Jeff Robbins

Dramaturg ..................................................................................... Haviva Avirom

Assistant Director ...........................................................................Devon LaBelle

Choreographer ........................................................................... Stephanie Kriege

Stage Manager ................................................................................Holly Coombs

Norton Clapp, chairman of the Laird Norton Company and president and chairman of Weyerhaeuser Company, served as a trustee for more than half of the University of Puget Sound’s first century–from 1933 until 1995. This 62–year term included work with four university presidents (Todd, Thompson, Phibbs, and Pierce). Mr. Clapp served as chairman of the board for 19 years and later was named chairman emeritus, and then honorary chairman of the board, for a term that runs “forever.” The board reported that “no other trustee in the history of the University of Puget Sound has contributed for as many years or more significantly than Mr. Clapp in advancing the institution’s national academic standing, nor has any trustee been more admired or appreciated by so many students, alumni, faculty, staff, and trustees.” The board of trustees named the Inside Theatre the Norton Clapp Theatre in 1998 to commemorate his committed service to the University of Puget Sound.

Upcoming Productions

Directing Class One-ActsMonday, December 4

After You by Steven Dietz, directed by Kat SorensonAttack of the Moral Fuzzies by Nancy Beverly, directed by John RudeDancing with a Devil by Brook Burman, directed by Molly PetersenSlaying Bob Marley and the Minion of Babylon by Jimmy Brunelle, directed by Heather Johnson

Tuesday, December 5Loyalties by Murphy Guyer, directed by Mary Ann ValentinePatter for a Floating Lady by Steve Martin, directed by Holly CoombsMaking the Call by Jane Martin, directed by Taryn Ridley

Wednesday, December 6The B File by Deborah Levy, directed by Tim StrauhalScruples by Jon Jory, directed by Katie ConditPillow Talk by John Pielmeier, directed by Evan TuckerPhilip Glass Buys a Loaf of Bread by David Ives, directed by Chris Dewar

Arcadia by Tom StoppardFeb. 23–24, Feb. 28–March 3Directed by Jac Royce

Senior Theatre FestivalFour shows/four weekends in April, announced in December

PLEASE TURN OFF ALL PAGERS, CELL PHONES, AND ANY OTHERNOISE/LIGHT-MAKING DEVICES DURING THE PERFORMANCE.

Technical Support Scholarships2006–2007

Acting (Survey) .......................................................................................Heather Johnson Katelyn Bruhn

Megan KnottinghamTimothy Strauhal

Devon LaBelleActing (Pedagogue) ....................................................................................Alyssa Libonati

Nell ShamrellClayton WellerHannah Fulop

Mary Ann ValentineChris Dewar

Alyssa LibonatiTom Dewey

Assistant Director ........................................................................................Devon LaBelleDramaturgy ................................................................................................Haviva Avirom

Hannah FulopCommunity Relations ................................................................................... Rachel Wolfe

Haviva AviromResearch ........................................................................................................ Carolyn Ham

Jenny MetcalfTimothy Strauhal

Lighting .................................................................................................. Miranda SellmanTom Dewey

Akemi OkamuraMiranda SellmanAreta MacKelvie

Clayton WellerJenny Metcalf

Janine RoddeyProps .......................................................................................................Marcos Goldstein

Chris DewarPhoebe Keleman

Heather StoreySound .............................................................................................................. Maddy RyenStage Manager .............................................................................................Holly Coombs

Teka EnglandTara Horn

Wardrobe ................................................................................................. Phoebe KelemanTara Horn

Mary Ann ValentineNatalie Whitlock

Norton Clapp Theatre

Cast

THESEUS, Duke of Athens, and King of the Prom .........................Evan Tucker

HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, and the Prom .............. Akemi Okamura

EGEUS, Father to Hermia .............................................................Bryan Sullivan

LYSANDER, in love with Hermia .............................................. Parakram Singh

DEMETRIUS, in love with Hermia...................................................Adam Davis

HERMIA, daughter to Egeus, in love with Lysander ..................... Megan Noyce

HELENA, in love with Demetrius ...........................................Ann Marie Meiers

PENNY QUINCE, also PROLOGUE ........................................... Molly Petersen

NICK BOTTOM, also PYRAMUS (Pres., Drama Club) .................. Jeff Schmitz

FRANCIS FLUTE, also THISBE ........................................................ Tom Dewey

TAMMY SNOUT, also WALL ............................................. Megan Knottingham

ROBIN STARVELING, also MOONSHINE ............................... Kawika Huston

WILLIAM (BILL) SNUGGS, also Lion ...........................................Adam Colton

THEODORE (TED) SNUGGS, also Lion ...................................Grant Freeman

OBERON, King of the Goth Fairies ............................................... Chad Barasch

TITANIA, Queen of the Goth Fairies ....................................Sophie Lowenstein

PUCK or ROBIN GOODFELLOW, a Fairy .............................Timothy Strauhal

PEASEBLOSSOM, Fairy ...................................................................... Kate Stone

COBWEB, Fairy ..........................................................................Shannon Woods

MOTH, Fairy .......................................................................... Alisha Edmundson

MUSTARDSEED, Fairy .................................................................Katelyn Bruhn

There will be a 10 minute intermission.

Strobe lights, gun shots, and fog are used in this performance.

Dreaming On

If we shadows have offended,Think but this (and all is mended)That you have but slumbered here, . . .

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (V. ii. 54–56)

The last time I directed a play by Shakespeare, it was a production of Twelfth Night, done here in the fall of 1995, my second year at Puget Sound. I had meant to come back to Shakespeare sooner, but have not returned until now. Each production we create becomes filled with memories. Central to my memories of Twelfth Night is standing at the back of the theatre with Scott Weldin as students brought that play to life. I remember vividly the set Scott designed. Its central element was a huge reproduction—it filled the prosceni-um—of a lush Renaissance still life. The image that the design was taken from is pinned to my office door: grapes, a cantaloupe, a pear, peaches, plums. It was an audacious idea to have actors enter through a door cut into the middle of a huge slice of cantaloupe, but that was one of Scott’s gifts: the creation of a big idea that provided a launching pad for a play.

Our work on Dream reminds me of Scott with its own big ideas: a stage that—with its stand mics, speakers, and fog machines—is more like a concert hall than a set for a play; a forest of metal poles, not a “real” tree to be seen, except in the imagination; 80s music and fairies that look like they would be more at home at a Goth costume party than in an Elizabethan forest. I think, . . . I know, Scott would approve. Sadly he will not see this show. It was not long after last fall’s production of Romeo and Juliet, which he had come to see, that we learned of the illness that in just a few months would take his life.

Behind the scenes of this stage, where Scott worked his magic, there are now a few words, etched in metal, that we pass every day:

Scott WeldinDesigner, Teacher, Friend

They recall a presence that those of us who know and love Scott feel every time we work in this theatre. We do not need them to remember him, but they, like the plays Scott designed, give form and substance, however inad-equately, to our memories of his time with us.Each production leaves its makers, and we hope, its audiences, with thoughts,

Department of Theatre Arts

Chair, Theatre History and Dramaturgy .........................................Geoff ProehlDirector of Theatre Production, Design ..............................................Kurt WallsActing and Directing ...........................................................................John RindoTheatre History, Playwriting, Classical Rep. ......................................... Jac RoyceDirector of Public Events .......................................................Margaret ThorndillScene Shop Supervisor .............................................................. Robin MacartneyCostume Shop Supervisor ...........................................................Mishka NavarreTheatre Arts Office Coordinator ....................................................Kay ComptonOffice Student Assistant .....................................................................Alana Eakin

www.ups.edu/theatrearts253.879.3330 • theatre@ups.edu

Kay Compton, Theatre Arts contact person

Theatre Arts Season

The Theatre Arts Season offers a significant range of dramatic performances annually. A faculty-directed production is mounted each semester, along with Directing Class One-Acts in the fall and spring, the Senior Theatre Festival in the spring, and other, less formal productions initiated by faculty and students. Recent faculty-directed plays include Henry V, Into the Woods, The Three Sisters, Tartuffe, Iphigenia at Aulis, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Wild Goose Circus, and Angels in America, Part I. Students have directed and designed such plays as Cabaret, Much Ado About Nothing, Marisol, and Polaroid Stories as part of the Senior Theatre Festival. Endowments, including the Norton Clapp Visit-ing Artist Series and Voices of the American Theater, bring outstanding con-temporary theater makers to campus for workshops and presentations. Recent visitors have included Bill T. Jones, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Godfrey Hamilton and Mark Pinkosh, Holly Hughes, and Steven Dietz, as well as Pulitzer Prize winners Edward Albee and Robert Schenkkan. Performances are staged in the 250-seat Norton Clapp Theatre. Theatre Arts encourages all university stu-dents, regardless of major, to participate in all aspects of theatrical production, both onstage and behind the scenes.

Theatre Arts

Special Thanks

Avirom FamilyPhoebe Keleman

Marilyn Bennett, Annie Wright SchoolCarolyn Proehl, Grant Center for the Expressive Arts

Jac RoyceClaire Staloch, Tacoma Schools

Robin Strong, Mason Middle SchoolCharlotte Tiencken, Tacoma Actors Guild

Suzy Wilhoft, Stadium High SchoolNancy Wilkinson, Bellarmine Preparatory School

Office of Information Services, University of Puget Sound, in particular,the work of Randy Thornton, Michael Nanfito, Paul Wicks,

and Gordon Gilbert (project facilitator) Denise Despres, English DepartmentPeter Greenfield, English Department

Production Website

oberon.ups.eduHaviva Avirom, editor

with dreams—some light, some dark—of the effort to, as Theseus says, give to “airy nothing, a local habitation.” That’s what Scott did so brilliantly. That is what we are trying to do with this production as well: to make a memory, however audacious, however fleeting, that in good times and in times not so good, we can carry with us.

And so, here we are again.

Geoff Proehl, director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fall 2006

Dreaming Again

As imagination bodies forth the forms of things Unknown; the poet’s pen turns them to shapes, And gives to airy nothing, a local habitation, And a name.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (V. i. 14–17)

If you work in theater, chances are you’ll encounter A Midsummer Night’s Dream many, many times over, in a number of different contexts. As one of the most popular and performed of Shakespeare’s plays, Midsummer is everywhere, on film, on stage, and in classrooms. Despite the proliferation of productions of the play, there is something magical about the text that never wears out. This is my third time working on Midsummer, and I’m still se-duced every time I hear it by the richness of the imagery and the sheer beauty of the language. Working on it over and over is a blessing.

This time around, I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to spend 17 months on the production, including three months this summer working intensively on the text alone. I was able to teach workshops at Grant Elementary School, Mason Middle School, and in a couple of university classes, which really al-lowed me to share my love for this amazing play.

I’m honored to have been involved in so much of this amazing show. From researching Gothic subculture to finding pictures of David Bowie to compil-ing a glossary of terms from the play, I’ve had a fantastic time, and I hope you have a fantastic time watching it, as well. Haviva Avirom, dramaturg, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fall 2006

Production Credits

Assistant Light Designer ........................................................... Miranda SellmanAssistant Stage Manager ..................................................................Teka EnglandTechnical Director. .................................................................... Robin MacartneySound Designer. ................................................................................ Maddy RyenProps Master ...................................................................................... Chris Dewar

Marcos GoldsteinFight Consultant. .............................................................................. Deb FialkowResearch Specialist ........................................................................ Lori RiciglianoSound Board Operator ........................................................................ Magan DoLight Board Operator ......................................................................... Ben AhlvinHouse Manager/Community Liaison. ..............................................Rachel WolfCostume Construction .............................................................Timothy Strauhal

Ricky GermanSkylar WillsonSara Montone

Felicia FlandersDressers ....................................................................................... Phoebe Keleman

Nicole MarshallJordan Conley

Tara HornScenic Construction ......................................................................Wilson L. Cecil

Alana EakinMarcos Goldstein

Justin HarveyDevon LaBelle Jenny Metcalf

Janine Roddey Julia H. Welch

Backstage Crew .................................................................................Teka EnglandLighting Crew ............................................................................ Miranda Sellman

Tom DeweyJustin Harvey

Phoebe KelemanAkemi Okamura

Paint Crew ................................................................. Betsey Kersey, Lead PainterRachel Wolfe

Kelly HowardMegan Dill-McFarland

Matthew JacksonSign Language Interpreter ..................................................................Jane Brazell