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UNCLE VANYA

CastMarina .............................................................................................Shirley Sarlin*Astrov ......................................................................................Jason D. Johnson*Vanya ............................................................................................... Will RaglandThe Professor ...................................................................................Ronn Carroll*Waffles .......................................................................................Aaron BrakefieldSonya .........................................................................................Angelina MussroYelena ..................................................................................... Jessica Crandall*Maria ........................................................................................... Rachel JeffreysYefim .................................................................................................... Ryan Barry

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Production CrewDirector ............................................................................................Roy S. FluhrerStage Manager ............................................................................Emily Lathrop*Scenic Designer .................................................................................. Dick BlockLighting Designer ...............................................................................Tony PennaCostume Designer ......................................................................Jessica SnyderSound Designer ................................................................................Marc GwinnComposer ...........................................................................................David SimsTechnical Director ........................................................................Mat PellegrinoProduction Manager ....................................................................Edie WeichertProps Master ........................................................................Talmadge SwansonAssistant Stage Managers ....................Robert Fuson, Chris Smith, Ryan BarryCharge Artist ................................................................................ Genesis GarzaMaster Carpenter........................................................................... Stevie GriffithCostume Assistants ...............................................Cheri Whitley, Blythe WhitleyDramaturg ..................................................................................Elisa M. GoldenElectricians ................................................................. Jason Lord, Lauren LewisPaint Crew ............................................................ Chris Smith, Katy Besancon,

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NOTES FROM THE DIRECTORApprehensive? Many entered the theatre this evening believing that something akin to a root canal awaited them, after all it would be Chekhov and the common expectation is an evening of dour, angst ridden characters plodding lugubriously through waist-high emotional wet cement. Even Stanislavski, the great Russian director, this play’s first director (along with his co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre, Nemirovich-Danchenko) who changed the way that actors approach their craft, was criticized by Chekhov himself for some of his choices--as an actor (he played Astrov) and director in this great play.

Those of us of a certain age may even recall the lyrics to the George and Ira Gershwin tune, “But Not for Me” whose lyric “With love to lead the way I’ve found more clouds of gray/Than any Russian play could guarantee.”, captures the common impression of Russia: bleak, cold, locked in a landscape of unforgiving vastness.

While there is certainly drama in tonight’s play there is also comedy, even farce, as Chekhov parodies himself in one scene that those who saw his The Seagull three years before would say, “Oh, no! Not again!” Chekhov, a great short story writer, often being confined to tell his story with a mere 750 words, crafts his plays with that same economy and asks the actors to bring “real life” to the stage. Yes, we were slowly shedding our melodrama skin, Ibsen started it all with A Doll’s House in 1879 but, surely, Chekhov’s The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard altered forever the concept of what constitues life upon the stage, and influenced the likes of O’Neill, Williams, and Inge.

Vanya, which means Jack in Russian--but Vanya for us sounds romantic, doesn’t it--while Jack flies in the face of plays about important people living important lives struggling with important decisions. Jack, though, is different, isn’t it? We have different notions of what we will see. Doesn’t mean that Chekhov doesn’t strike important concerns, all of which we still experience today, but it does mean that something written by a great playwright in 1899 limns those common concerns we understand even today.

The Setting: The action takes place on the Professor’s Estate, 1900

There will be one 15 minute intermission.

SPECIAL THANKSLaura Blume

Wylder Cooper

Vanya Street Team:Annette Garver

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The Warehouse Theatre StaffExecutive & Artistic Director .............................................................. Paul SavasDirector of Development ....................................................Katie LeckenbuschDirector of Education ............................................................Mallory PellegrinoTechnical Director ........................................................................Mat PellegrinoOperations & Front of House Manager ...................................... Andy CrostonDirector of Marketing ..............................................................Jason D. Johnson

Ryan Barry (Yefim) This is Ryan’s first work with a professional theatre. He is a member of the inaugural class of The Warehouse Theatre Conservatory for Actors. He is a graduate of USC Upstate with a BA in Theatre. He has performed with the USC Upstate Shoestring Players, The Spartanburg Little Theatre and the Spartanburg Repertory Company. Ryan has also performed at the Rose Theatre in London and earned a commendation from Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for his performance in Memigery. His favorite roles include Hysterium in Forum, Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross, and Major Robbie Ross in Our Country’s Good.

Aaron Brakefield (Waffles) After rocking and literally rolling around Frankenstein’s place as Eddie and Dr. Scott in this season’s The Rocky Horror Show, Aaron is glad to return to The Warehouse in a much calmer (or is it?) provincial Russia. Previous Greenville appearances include Clarence in Richard III (The Warehouse Theatre); Jake Brigance in A Time to Kill (Centre Stage); Don Carlos in A Flea In Her Ear (Centre Stage). Other regional credits include: Next to Normal (Clinton Area Showboat); Tennessee Playboy (Triad Stage); Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (Taylor Theatre). Education: BA Music and Theatre (Concord University) MFA Acting (UNCG). www.aaronbrakefield.com

Ronn Carroll* (The Professor) is delighted to return to The Warehouse. He has appeared in some 20 Broadway shows in a professional career that spans over 50 years. His Broadway credits include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (with Matthew Broderick), Promises Promises, The Rink (with Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera), Annie Get Your Gun (with Ethel Merman and 30 years later with Bernadette Peters), Man of La Mancha, Bad Habits, On Golden Pond, Crazy for You, Oklahoma, Gypsy, The Front Page, and Peter Pan. Other New York credits include Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Knife at the Public Theatre, and Greater Tuna. Ronn has been featured in numerous television productions, some 500 commercials and feature films including 84 Charing Cross Road and The Producers (musical).

Jessica Crandall* (Yelena) is overjoyed to be back at The Warehouse Theatre. When Jessica first performed here, as a Warehouse Journeyman, she played the bride in Blood Wedding and Alais in The Lion in Winter, both directed by Roy Fluhrer, Isabella in Measure for Measure, Portia in Julius Caesar, and Smeraldina in Servant of Two Masters. Jessica’s NYC and regional roles include, among many others, Antigone in Burial at Thebes and Kassandra in Agamemnon (IT Award nomination for outstanding featured actress), both at La MaMa in NYC, and Rose of Sharon in The Grapes of Wrath at Trinity Rep, in Providence, Rhode Island. She has an MFA from Brown/Trinity. Also a singer, Jessica will release her first solo album, in collaboration with NYC composer Ellen Mandel, later this year.

Rachel Jeffreys (Maria) has acted in New York City, Washington, DC, and the Charlotte area in roles ranging from a belly-dancing Sheherazade to a singing Queen Victoria and from Shakespeare’s Cassius to Ebenezer Scrooge. She recently co-starred in the short film “My Luchador,” a love story now online at Vimeo. She and her husband have written several plays together. Rachel has been a producer with NPR stations, winning national awards for her interviews. She also read books on the radio for years.

Jason D. Johnson* (Astrov) was last seen on our stage as Richard in Richard III. Other Warehouse credits include Strange Snow, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Eurydice, Metamorphoses, Catfish Moon, The Lion in Winter, Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and Blood Wedding. Selected credits include National Audio Theatre (Hamlet), Virginia Shakespeare Festival (Much Ado About Nothing, Titus Andronicus), Highland Repertory Theatre (Catfish Moon), ACT (Death of a Salesman), Southern Arena Theatre (Arms and the Man, Come Blow Your Horn, When We Are Married). Film and TV credits include House of the Righteous, Small Beginnings, Old Henry, Visitation and Good Night. Jason thanks his gorgeous wife Jen, Roy and Paul for another wonderful opportunity, and Robby Davis for the road.

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Angelina Mussro (Sonya) last appeared at The Warehouse Theatre in Romeo and Juliet, and has been eager to come back since. She recently graduated from Anderson University with a BA in Musical Theatre. She has performed with the South Carolina Children’s Theatre as well as the Upstate Shakespeare Festival. Currently, Angelina is a teaching artist with The Warehouse Theatre’s education program, as well as an assistant teacher with SCCT. Credits include: Joan in Saint Joan (AU), Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors (USF), Peter in Peter Pan (SCCT), Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Anderson Shakespeare), and Snow White in Snow White and the Prince (SCCT).

Will Ragland (Vanya) is delighted to be working with The Warehouse Theatre again. Past productions include The Rocky Horror Show (Frank-n-Furter), Cabaret (Emcee), and Macbeth (Malcolm). Will has worked in Upstate theaters for the past 20 years and currently serves as the Executive Artistic Director of Mill Town Players, teaches theater at Palmetto High, and serves on the Pelzer Town Council. He holds an MA in Theatre Production from Central Washington University and is a board member of the SC Theatre Association. He is grateful for the opportunity to work with and learn from such a talented group of theater artists in this production.

Shirley Sarlin* (Marina) is delighted to return to The Warehouse Theatre for her 32nd production here and also to have the privilege of working with Roy again. A member of Equity for over 26 years, some of her favorite roles include Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Annie in Foxfire, Ruth in Collected Stories, Linda in Death of a Salesman, Daisy in Driving Miss Daisy, Grandma in Lost in Yonkers, Grace in Grace and Glory, Vera in 4000 Miles, and Golda the one woman show, The Other Side of Golda - at Home with Golda Meir. She just returned from Florida where she appeared in the world premiere of Never Stop Moving - Lughi’s Legacy at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. Special thanks to Roy and Paul and applause to this most talented cast.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States._______________________________________________________________________________

Roy S. Fluhrer (Director) Director of Greenville County School District’s Fine Arts Center since 1989, received his BA degree from Northwestern University and his Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He served as Managing/Artistic Director of The Toledo Repertoire Theatre from 1966 to 1978. From 1978 to 1988 he was on the faculty at the University of Idaho, serving as Chair of Theatre, president of Faculty Senate, founder of Idaho Repertoire Theatre and, from 1985 to 1988, as assistant to the University President. In 1988, he was named Vice Chancellor for Arts and Academics at North Carolina School of the Arts. In 1989, he became Director of The Fine Arts Center, South Carolina’s first school for the gifted and talented in the literary, visual and performing arts. He has served as president of the South Carolina Arts Alliance, where he continues as an emeritus board member. Dr. Fluhrer was awarded the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award in 2008, South Carolina’s highest arts award, the 2006 Winthrop University Medal of Honor in the Arts, the 2006 South Carolina Dance Association Advocacy Award, the 2004 Metropolitan Arts Council Visionary Award, and the Arts Advocate of the Year by South Carolina Art Education Association in 2000. A board member and past president of Arts Schools NETWORK, the national organization for specialized arts schools, he received the Jeffrey Lawrence Award, their highest award given for an arts administrator. He is pleased to return to The Warehouse where he’s directed August: Osage County, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Lion in Winter among others.

Emily Lathrop* (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working with The Warehouse Theatre again. Recent theatre credits include: The Rocky Horror Show, Coriolanus, Boeing Boeing, Richard III, and The Whipping Man. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English from the

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Dick Block (Scenic Designer) is thrilled to be working at The Warehouse Theatre on this production. Dick’s work has been seen at the The Human Race in Ohio, Virginia Stage Company, Starlight Productions in Pittsburgh, the Weston Playhouse in Vermont, the Pittsburgh Public Theatre and the McCarter Theatre in New Jersey. New York credits include Conrack for AMAS (nominated for an AUDELCO Award), Fascinatin’ Rhythms, a tour for Columbia Artists and a new play, Wilson. He is co-author of Scene Design and Stage Lighting soon to be in its 10th edition. He currently serves as the Associate Head of the School of Drama at Carnegie Mellon University and is a member of United Scenic Artists. He received his MFA from Northwestern University.

Tony Penna (Lighting Designer) Credits at The Warehouse Theatre include Richard III, Angels In America: Millenium Approaches and Perestroika, 4000 Miles, The Rocky Horror Show, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Amadeus, Metamorphoses, The Diary of Anne Frank, Tru, and Topdog/Underdog. Other regional theatre credits include Centre Stage SC, Cincinnati Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and four seasons as resident lighting designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mr. Penna is a member of United Scenic Artists and serves as Director of Theatre at Clemson University, where his courses include stage lighting, stage management, and computer drafting. Mr. Penna earned his BA in theatre from Hanover College and his MFA in theatre lighting design from Boston University.

Jessica Snyder (Costume Designer) is an Atlanta native, who now calls Greenville home, and she is thrilled to make her costume design debut with The Warehouse Theatre. Jessica holds her MFA in Costume Design from Western Illinois University and works as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the South Carolina School of the Arts at Anderson University. Some of Jessica’s favorite costume past times include The Miser, Urinetown, Pippin, The Importance of Being Earnest, and…oh, that time she costumed Tony Award Winner, Jessie Mueller in Merrily We Roll Along (blatant and unabashed name-dropping). Much love to the cast and crew!

David Sims (Composer) is thrilled to be working on another show at The Warehouse Theatre, where he learned the ropes from Jack Young as part of the first Journeyman class. Since then Mr. Sims received a BFA in Directing from the North Carolina School of the Arts and has directed many shows for The Warehouse, including Evil Dead : The Musical, Frozen, Amadeus, and The Book of Liz. David is no stranger to composing for the occasional show here, most recently Angels in America: Parts I & II, November, August: Osage County, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Mr. Sims currently serves as Director of the Arts at Christ Church Episcopal School. A huge thanks to his lovely wife, Christian, and daughters Dylan and Ellison.

Mat Pellegrino (Technical Director) graduated from the Southern Connecticut State University with a BA in Theatre with concentrations in Set Design and Construction. Mat has worked at The Shubert Theatre, The Toyota Oakdale Theatre, The Whitney Players, Elm Shakespeare Company, and ESPN while studying at Circle in the Square Theatre in NYC. After opening his own theatre company, becoming part-marketing for Long Wharf Theatre, he became a United States Marine. While working at Long Wharf, he met his beautiful and talented wife Mallory Pellegrino before he was deployed to Afghanistan. His claim to fame is he is believed to know more Disney trivia than anyone.

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Robert Fuson (Assistant Stage Manager) is a recent graduate of Furman University’s theatre program and a member of the inaugural class of The Warehouse Theatre’s conservatory program. He is very excited to be working on his first professional show and is honored to have worked with such a talented cast and crew. He thanks The Warehouse Theatre for giving him such a wonderful opportunity and his friends and family for supporting him in his journey through the theatre world. Robert will also be working on Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike and Les Liaisons Dangereuses to finish out the season.

Chris Smith (Assistant Stage Manager) is from Goose Creek, SC and recently graduated from USC Upstate with a BA in Theatre (Performance) where he performed in such plays as The Cripple of Inishmaan, Othello, Our Country’s Good, and A Midsummer Nights Dream. He is now taking part in the Conservatory Program here at The Warehouse Theatre. This marks his first show working with the company. He is very excited and eager to continue working with The Warehouse Theatre. He would like to thank all his friends and family that have supported him thus far.

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PatronsMarilyn and Paul JonesAlice and Jerry LenzHelen B. Maish

PartnersPat and David BorensteinAlice and John ClaggettHarry and Judy CurtisValerie and Timothy EstesSusan Cyr and Mark JohnstonRebecca and Thomas FaulknerPamela FjeldLucy FoxworthAnne GarrettJackie HighleyCarol and Walter HintonJohn and Elinor MioduskiKathy and Greg NielsenPaul SavasDiane Perlmutter

The purpose of the endowment fund is to provide financial support, in perpetuity, to WHT in its ongoing mission to provide Greenville, The Upstate and South Carolina the highest quality professionally produced theatre art possible. This fund helps finance efforts to maintain and continually augment the level of professional artistry on The WHT’s main stage.

The Harriet Wyche Endowment was established in August 2013 with a generous gift from Mimi Wyche in honor of her mother. The endowment is managed by The Community Foundation of Greenville.

In December 2013 The Graham Foundation awarded the theatre a $50,000 challenge grant to support the endowment. The foundation matched, dollar for dollar, gifts given to the endowment. The campaign was completed in November and we cannot say thank you enough to all who have supported the endowment, enabling WHT to excite, amaze, and challenge generations to come!

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THE MASTER GARDENERIn Act I of Uncle Vanya, Astrov notes that “Man has been blessed with reason and creativ-ity, but instead of progressing, he only knows how to ruin. There are fewer and fewer forests, rivers are drying up, wildlife is being displaced, the climate is changing, and every day the land becomes less fertile and more disgraceful.” Anton Chekhov could easily be speaking through his prophetic character who appears to have been created in the playwright’s image (the name, Astrov, even seems to be a run on of Anton Chekhov). Chekhov, like Astrov, was a physician and avid gardener with a love for the environment. Coincidentally, Chekhov subtitled his play “Scenes From Country Life” partly to emphasize the impact of in-dustrialization on rural communities in 19th century Russia. As James N. Loehlin points out in his book, The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov, “The spoliation of the countryside, and the thoughtless destructiveness of human beings, is a central theme of Uncle Vanya.”

Young Anton Chekhov would spend summers at Count Platov’s country estate where Chek-hov’s grandfather worked as a groundskeeper. It was here in Knyazhaya that young Anton learned to fish and plant a garden. Later, while practicing medicine in the remote penal colony on Sakhalin Island, Chekhov was mesmerized by the lavish beauty of the taiga---vast coniferous forests replete with spruce, larch, and pine---where the steppe meets the tundra. In Ivanov, his first full length play, the landowner laments that “forests are groaning under the axe." He again admonishes nature’s destruction when Astrov reprimands those who are too lazy pick up the peat off the ground to use for fuel instead of chopping down trees for firewood. Chekhov’s love of nature and the outdoors is voiced throughout Uncle Vanya. In her book, Reading Chekhov, Janet Malcolm notes that Chekhov, through his character, Astrov, shows he’s an environmentalist through “his concern [for] the destruction of the Rus-sian forests and for his remarkable grasp of the principles of ecology, decades before the term came into use.” Chekhov would later purchase a country estate in Melikhovo where he could cultivate his private garden as richly as he sowed the seeds of perpetual beauty in his nurtured plays. Finally, Chekhov’s personal communion with nature can best be voiced through his character Borkin (Ivanov, Act I) who observes that, “This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up...no more flower.”

Playwright Biography:Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860, in the old Black Sea port of Tagan-rog. Chekhov’s father, Pavel, was a religious zealot and family tyrant who terrorized Anton and his two older brothers. Chekhov’s mother, Yevgeniya, was an excellent storyteller, and Chekhov is supposed to have acquired his own gift for narrative from her. His grandfather managed an estate near Taganrog, in the wild steppe country, where young Anton spent his summers fishing and roving about the countryside. Chekhov began writing short stories during his days as a medical student at the University of Moscow. After graduating in 1884 with a degree in medicine, he began to freelance as a journalist and writer of comic sketches. Early in his career, he mastered the form of the one-act and produced several masterpieces of this genre including The Bear (1888) and The Wedding (1889).

Ivanov (1887), Chekhov’s first full-length play examines the suicide of a young man very similar to Chekhov himself in many ways. His next play, The Wood Demon (1888) was also fairly unsuccessful. In fact, it was not until the Moscow Art Theater production of The Seagull (1897) that Chekhov enjoyed his first overwhelming success. The same play had been performed two years earlier at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg and had been so badly received that Chekhov had actually left the auditorium during the second act and vowed never to write for the theatre again. But in the hands of the Moscow Art Theatre, the play was transformed into a critical success, and Chekhov soon realized that the earlier production had failed because the actors had not understood their roles.

In 1899, Chekhov gave the Moscow Art Theatre a revised version of The Wood Demon, now titled Uncle Vanya (1899). Along with The Three Sisters (1901) and The Cherry Orchard (1904), this play would go on to become one of the masterpieces of the modern theatre.

During Chekhov’s final years, he was forced to live in exile from the intellectuals of Moscow. In March of 1897, he had suffered a lung hemorrhage, and although he still made occa-sional trips to Moscow to participate in the productions of his plays, he was forced to spend most of his time in the Crimea where he had gone for his health. In 1901, Chekhov married stage actress, Olga Knipper. The couple had no children. He died of tuberculosis in 1904, at the age of forty-four, in a German health resort and was buried in Moscow.

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Midlands, TD Bank Diane Perlmutter ........... Non-Profit Organization Management Professional Meghan Riordan ........... Associate, Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. Ken Rogers ..................... Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Greenville

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Health SystemGreta Somerville ............ Community VolunteerTrish Springfield ............... Executive Vice President Retail Banking, Southern

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ALL IS CALMThe Christmas Truce of 1914by Peter RothsteinMusical Arrangements: Erick Lichte and Timothy C. Takach

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DEC 9 - DEC 27 • 2015

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MAY 11- JUNE 5 • 2016

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