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artistic teamDIRECTOR John Miller-StephanyVOCAL COACH Mira KehoeDRAMATURG Jo HolcombSCENERY/PROPERTIES DESIGNER Rob Jensen*COSTUME DESIGNER Annie Cady*HAIR & MAKEUP CONSULTANT Tessie BundickLIGHTING DESIGNER Mark Larson*SOUND DESIGNER Anita KellingSTAGE MANAGER Courtney SheffieldASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Laura Topham, James Meyers

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ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTORS Collin O’Brien, Chris SikSCENIC CHARGE Jonathon OffuttPROPS MASTER Katherine ClantonPROPERTIES / SET CONSTRUCTION Mollie O’Meara, Maria Gagnon, LeeJohnson, Peter Baker, Emily Jannusch, Kate Vojtko, Jade Cook, MatthewFitzgerald, Chris Sik, Majid Mokhtari, Jan Thomas, David Pitchford, Jeffrey Shockley, James Person, Sarah Mauritz, July Vang, Alissa Gold, Kevin Klein, Joey Senkyr, Michael Phommasak, Laura Abend, Drew Rosenow, Amanda Pyfferonen, Aaron Choi, Justin Hollatz, Nicole RodriguezASSISTANT LIGHTING DESIGNER Mary MontgomeryLIGHTING CONSOLE PROGRAMMER Jesse CogswellLIGHTING Cory Enriquez, Majid Mokhtari, Carrie Ann Bishop, PedroFonseca, Jakyoung Kim, Alex Erdman, Aaron Newman, Garrett Vollmer,Mollie O’MearaCOSTUME CONSTRUCTION Katrina Daby, Gretchen Schrieber, JakyoungKim, Kristen Martin, Anthony Wong, Rosimar Rios, Victoria Igbavboa, Ann Nelson, Melanie Day, Margaret Williams, Heather Johnson, Elizabeth Shea, Christina Wan, Jennifer Snider, Chris Kim, Teresa Phung, Erika GotcherWARDROBE CREW Abbie Hannam, Aeysha Kinnonen, Laura Peterson,Jared ZeiglerRUNNING CREW Chase Broderick, Anna Petrovskis, Jennifer Snider,Wooyeon Jang, Vivian Ngo, Alexander OyenLIGHT BOARD OPERATOR Stuart WiebergDECK ELECTRICIAN Nike KadriSOUND BOARD OPERATOR Jerry HsiaoCOSTUME CREW Lauriel Friedman, Chloe Armao, Joy Jones, Emily Ehlert, Minqi GaoSET-UP / STRIKE Alissa Gold, Sasha Gibbs, Sarah Keller, Jen RosenbergHOUSE MANAGEMENT Kristie Gaalswyk, Cody Baldwin, Peter Rusk,Jenna Frankenfield, Michael Fell, Ann EricksonMARKETING & AUDIENCE SERVICES Sarah Keller, Maria Gagnon, Helena Osswald, July Vang, Jessica Lowry, Michelle Hernick, Kate Weegman, Katrina Swalby, Yeonah Nam, Zachary Margolis, Pauline Johnson, Catherine Noble, Jacob Wellington, Brooke Kilgarriff, Whitney Clemens, Kiya Edwards, Rita Wachtler, Addy Salami

acknowledgementsASL interpreters Jules Lehto, Cheryl FlelitzAudio describer Rick Jacobson

BFA PROGRAM BENEFACTORSCleo VanCamp & Frederick G. Bordwell,Tom Paul Drake, Ruth Easton‡, Burt & Nan Galaway, Arle & Billy HaeberleEtta Halpern, Terence E. Kilburn, Dorothy LambertonBenjamin & Helen Cheng Liu, Peltier Hein FamilyCarolyn Sorensen & David Kelm, Emily Anne TuttleWalter Stremel, Robert A. Turner, BFA Alumni, Friends & Family Fund, Guthrie Theater Board of Directors

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‡Ruth Easton was born Ruth Edelstein in North Branch, MN. At the age of 16, she left North Branch and moved to St. Paul, where she attended Macalester College and the University of Minnesota before moving to Los Angeles, where she earned her degree from the Cumnock School with a strong background in expression and literature. After graduation, with the idea that she would pursue a career in dramatic readings and perhaps take in pupils for private theater training, Easton moved to New York City. In 1923, a friend introduced Easton to Oliver Morosco, a noted producer of the era. After hearing Easton read part

of a play, Morosco encouraged her to pursue stage acting and began casting her—first as an understudy then in regular roles—in some of his productions. Regular stage work followed, with Easton appearing in stock roles all over New England. In 1928, Easton starred in the Broadway play Exceedingly Small, establishing her reputation as a versatile professional stage actress. After five years on Broadway, Easton appeared in radio dramas on the Rudy Vallee Hour and the Fleischmann’s Yeast hour opposite many notable actors of the time, including Lionel Barrymore. Before her retirement in the 1930s, she also appeared with Clark Gable, Eddie Cantor, Edward G. Robinson, and Al Jolson. A commitment to philanthropy characterized her retirement. Ms. Easton made many generous contributions to the theater and literature programs of her Minnesota alma maters, including the creation of the David E. Edelstein & Thomas A. Keller, Jr. Endowment in Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.

MARKETING AND AUDIENCE SERVICESPRODUCING DIRECTOR Thomas ProehlCOMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Jennie GermainMARKETING LEAD Ann EricksonMARKETING ASSOCIATES Jenna Frankenfield, Kristie Gaalswyk, Peter Rusk, Michael FellGRAPHIC DESIGN Cody Baldwin

COSTUMESRESIDENT COSTUME DESIGNER Mathew J. LeFebvreCOSTUME SHOP MANAGER Susan Binder-PettigrewCUTTERS/DRAPERS Kathleen McCarron, Amanda McGee, Taylar Kuzniar, Jonathan Singer, Cole BylanderFIRST HANDS Molly Corkins, Zeina Khalife, Alissa Gold, Katie Doroschak, Lucie Biros, Kia Grovender, Katrina Zahradka, Peter Cairns, Sara Huebschen

SOUND & MEDIARESIDENT SOUND/MEDIA DESIGNER Martin B. GwinupSOUND/MEDIA SUPERVISOR Montana JohnsonAUDIO ENGINEERS Josh Adrian, Aaron Newman

SCENERY & PROPERTIESRESIDENT SCENIC DESIGNER C. Lance BrockmanRESIDENT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Martin B. GwinupSCENE SHOP SUPERVISORS Jonathan Offut, Amanda WambachCARPENTERS/TECHNICIANS Megan Koester, Collin O’Brien, Chris Sik, Samantha StephensPROP SHOP SUPERVISORS Rob Jensen, Meg KisselPROPS ARTISANS Kathrine Clanton, Sean Creegan

STAGE MANAGEMENTPRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Christine M. SwartwoutPRODUCTION ASSISTANT Brianna Lopez

LIGHTINGRESIDENT LIGHTING DESIGNER Marcus DilliardLIGHTING SUPERVISOR Bill HealeySTAFF ELECTRICIANS Mark Larson, Jesse Cogswell, Mary Montgomery, Audrey Donohue, Alex Strnad, Monica Rojas, Samantha Stephens

department faculty & staffDEAN, COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS James ParenteCHAIR Carl FlinkFACULTY AND STAFF Ginni Arons, Judy Bartl, Lou Bellamy, David Bernstein, Lance Brockman, Steve Cardamone, Lisa Channer, Ananya Chatterjea, Jessica Crary, Marcus Dilliard, Rochelle Emmel, Carl Flink, Cindy Garcia, Jennie Germain, Martin Gwinup, Bill Healey, Lucinda Holshue, Nora Jenneman, Montana Johnson, Michal Kobialka, Sonja Arsham Kuftinec, Diyah Larasati, Matthew LeFebvre, Megan Lewis, Marcella Lorca, Marge Maddux, Elizabeth Nash, Deb Pearson, Susan Pettigrew, Thomas Proehl, Bruce Roach, Toni Pierce-Sands, Luverne Seifert, Jeffery Sherman, Joanie Smith, Michael Sommers,Christine M. Swartwout, Dominic Taylor, Margaret Werry, Katie WillerBFA program BFA PROGRAM DIRECTOR Judy BartlGUTHRIE THEATER DIRECTOR OF COMPANY DEVELOPMENT Kenneth WashingtonGUTHRIE COMPANY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Jeremy Jones CORE FACULTY Steve Cardamone, Lucinda Holshue, Marcela Lorca, Deb Pearson, Bruce RoachBFA AFFILIATE FACULTY Tina Anderson, Andrew Cooke, Meg Emery, Sean Emery, Karla Grotting, Jo Holcomb, Morris Johnson, Mira Kehoe, Peter Moore, Michelle O’Neill, Randy Reyes, Brian Sostek, Margie Weaver

university theatre staffthe castGENIA HOFREITERKATHIMRS. WAHLERNA WAHLOTTO VON AIGNERDR. FRANZ MAUERFRIEDRICH HOFREITERPAUL KREINDLADELE NATTERDEMETER STANZIDESMR. NATTERMRS. MEINHOLD VON AIGNERROSENSTOCKBELLBOYITALIAN GIRL FIRST HIKERSECOND HIKERMR. SERKNITZDR. VON AIGNERSPANISH GIRLALBERTUS RHONPENNGUSTL WAHLMRS. RHONFRENCH GIRL

Ashley Rose MontondoChristian BardinMaura Clement

Breana JarvisErnest Bentley

Ben GanskyBrendan FrostJacob PerkinsClaire Coppi

Aayush ChandanZachary Soules Anna Reichert

Joshua AllenGweir Glewwe§Christian BardinGrant Sorenson§

Jack Dhein§Robert Bruce Hope IV

Caleb CarlsonClaire Coppi

H. Adam HarrisAndrew Embry

Miles DuffeyJennifer McGraw

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notes on Undiscovered Country“Haven’t you ever thought about what a strange uncharted country is human behavior? So many contradictions find room in us — love and deceit … loyalty and betrayal … worshipping one woman, yet longing for another, or several others. We try to bring order into our lives as best we can but that very order has something unnatural about it. The natural condition is chaos. Yes, Hofreiter, the soul is an undiscovered country …” “Dr. Von Aigner” in Act Three of

Undiscovered Country

“There is no general rule. Undiscovered Country is pretty faithful. I thought of Schnitzler’s play as a modern classic, not to be monkeyed about with. But you’re not doing an author a favor if the adaptation is not vibrant. So, in the end, I started ‘helping’ — not because Schnitzler was defective but because he was writing in 1905 in Vienna. When you are writing a play you use cultural references by the thousands and they all interconnect like a nervous system.”

Playwright Tom Stoppard on adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s Das Weite Land into Undiscovered Country:

Undiscovered County/Das Weite Land is a kaleidoscopic study of an upper-middle-class Austrian clique at the beginning of the 20th century. Vienna in the years immediately preceding World War I was a hotbed of scientific and artistic experimentation. Some of the great minds and artists working in the Austrian capital around the turn of the century were Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Adolf Loos, Ludwig Boltzmann, Hugo von Hofmannst-hal, Egon Schiele, Arnold Schoenberg, Otto Wagner and Arthur Schnitzler. It is extremely fitting then that Schnitzler’s tragi-comedy tells a sophisticated and uncompromising story — a psychologically complex one concerning his favorite subjects (fidelity and betrayal, passion and indifference, youthful vitality and inevitable mortality). None of the major relationships portrayed in the play are simple or healthy. In fact, a good many of the characters, includ-ing Genia and Friedrich Hofreiter (the married couple at the epicenter of the plot), might have benefitted from time spent on Freud’s couch! (Freud once described Schnitzler as his dramaturgical “doppelganger.”) Mention Schnit-zler today and most modern theater-goers think of Reigen (or La Ronde), his cleverly constructed and often-revived roundelay of sexual encounters. But Schnitzler, who, like Anton Chekhov, was a physician as well as a writer, was hardly a one-play wonder. Playwriting was Schnitzler’s means for dissecting social and sexual mores and for surveying the vast domain of the soul. His recurring themes and astonishing insights into human behavior make Schnit-zler’s best works remarkably relevant, even 100 years later.

The Paris Review1988

§Denotes student in BA Program

*Denotes thesis work for the MFA Design/Tech program

TIME Summer, just a few years before World War I

PLACE The Hofreiter Villa in Baden, Austria (16 miles from Vienna) & The Lake Vols Hotel in the Dolomites (part of the eastern Alps)

(In order of appearance)

THERE WILL BE 2 TEN MINUTE INTERMISSIONS