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THEATRE NETWORK PRESENTS

Cast – (in alphabetical order) Patti Patricia Cerda Brett Brett Dahl Dan Daniel Frederick Kent Fernandes Ben Ben Gorodetsky Sam Samantha Jeffery Marina Marina Mair-Sanchez Lianna Lianna Makuch Angie Angelique Panther Nacho Mat Simpson Ed Edmund Stapleton Cayley Cayley Thomas Matt Matthew Yipchuck

Creative Team Director Jan Selman Set, Lighting and Projection Designers LLARS Design Costume Designer Nicole Bach Sound Designer Dave Clarke Assistant to the Director Brooklyn Ritchie Dramaturgy Assistant Elissa Weinzimmer Vocal, Speech, Text Coach Thrasso Petras Movement Coach and Choreographer Lin Snelling

Stage Management Stage Manager Tanya Schwaerzle Assistant Stage Manager Erin Valentine

There will be one 15 minute intermission.

Contents4 Director’s Notes • 6 Playwright’s Notes • 8 Production Team

12 Photos • 14 Interview • 17 Lee Playwright in Residence20 Staff / Front of House • 22 Donors

by Greg MacArthur, Lee Playwright in Residence

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Director’s NotesThe University of Alberta Department of Drama is committed to fostering new Canadian theatre. Perhaps more than any art form, theatre can respond quickly, place current dilemmas in front of us, and engage with changing cultural references, as they transform. In this highly collaborative art form, bringing new work to the stage asks much of many artists. The art of producing ambitious new work in the theatre asks all departments – set, lights, costumes, props, projections, certainly the actors, and others – to keep to the program, yet also flex, change up on a dime, leave decisions and hard work behind and embrace a new path. Some things can’t be seen until the work leaves the page. Then, as the work gets into the mouths and bodies of actors, new insights are gleaned, and writer and other artists in turn revision, rewrite, redesign, re-rehearse, rebuild.

This team has taken up that challenge…

Creating a play is a huge undertaking, first for the playwright, later for all the other theatre collaborators. Many playwrights, from Ibsen onwards, find that at least two years is necessary – from the initial ideas to a premiere.

Here is a glimpse of The Missionary Position journey:

January 2011 Playwright residency starts

October 2011 Working Draft 1. Actors read for the playwright and future team members

April 2012 Working Draft 2. Actors briefly investigate each scene then read the play for the artistic team

Summer 2012 Designers develop a production design approach

September 2012 Working Draft 3. Actors, director and playwright quickly put play on its feet, to explore style and staging as well as text

Fall 2012 Designers rework the spatial approach, based on new draft

October 2012 Draft 4. One character’s story line is new

December 2012 Actors read the new draft for the playwright

December 2012 Draft 5. The Rehearsal Draft

January 2013 Rehearsals. The playwright revises and edits as actors bring the piece to life

Of course wound throughout this bare bones account are countless hours of research and writing and rewriting. It has been a joy to witness this remarkable playwright at work.

-Jan Selman

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Written & performed by Canadian Comedy Award winner Melody A. Johnson

Peggy Ann Douglas figures the best way to escape her life of chicory-pulling, stall-cleaning, hay-baling drudgery, is by picking up a baton and twirling her way out of town.

Sunday, April 7, 20138 pm • $30

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I arrived in Edmonton a little over two years ago to begin this Residency. I began working on this play almost immediately. Armed with a vague idea about what I wanted to write about - faith, belief, how and why we help one another - I began to explore the city, the University, the students. Gradually, after much research and thought, The Missionary Position began to take shape.A play is a diary. A play is a love letter. A play is a testament to a time and a place.This play, written specifically for the actors you will see onstage tonight, is a kind of chronicle of my time and my life here in this city. Of the people I met and the experiences I had. Like any play, The Missionary Position, although a fiction, is full of small truths and realities. It is an assortment of feelings, of experiences, of questions, of friends, of stories. Nothing is true. And everything is true.It has been a daunting, difficult, sometimes lonely task, working on this script. The opportunity to write and produce a play for twelve actors is not something one gets to do often in this country. As I sit in the rehearsal hall watching this extraordinary group of artists create this work, I truly do feel so proud.This work would not exist without these twelve actors and their generosity.They have infused and influenced the writing - and myself - in so many ways.Watching this play brings up many questions and emotions as I prepare to leave Edmonton and head back East. Whatever life this play has in the world over the coming years, it will always be tied to this city, to this University, to this company of artists and friends, and to the streets and pubs and cafes where, over the past two years, I have wandered and sat and thought about God, and missionaries and demons and magic fluorescent water and the small miracles and big hurdles that we all face as we make our way through this world.

Greg MacArthurFebruary 2013

Playwright’s Notes

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Written & performed by Canadian Comedy Award winner Melody A. Johnson

Peggy Ann Douglas figures the best way to escape her life of chicory-pulling, stall-cleaning, hay-baling drudgery, is by picking up a baton and twirling her way out of town.

Sunday, April 7, 20138 pm • $30

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Production Manager: Gerry van Hezewyk Technical Director: Larry Clark Assistant Production Manager: Audra Stevenson Assistant Technical Director: Finn McConnell Production Administrative Assistant: Jonathan Durynek Wardrobe Manager: Joanna Johnston Cutter: Ann Salmonson Head Scenic/Stage Carpenter: Darrell Cooksey Scenic Carpenters: Andre Lavoie Nick Shostak Properties Master: Jane Kline Lead Props: Laura Campbell Lighting Supervisors: Jeff Osterlin Mel Geary Heads of Lighting: Stephanie Bahniuk Alison Yanota Lighting Technicians: Joel Adria Laura Campbell Kim Creller Devin Lavigne Jon Reid Audra Stevenson Video/Cinematography Supervisor: Mel Geary Head of Video/Cinematography: Joel Adria Sound Supervisor: Matthew Skopyk Head of Sound: Devin Lavigne

Running Crew: Lighting Operator: Stephanie Bahniuk Alison Yanota Sound Operator: Devin Lavigne Stage Carpenter: Audra Stevenson Video Operator: Cheyenne Sykes

Production Team

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By Lucy Collingwood

“All the work that anyone writes comes from your experiences,” says Greg MacArthur, Lee Playwright-in-Residence, when asked about his inspirations as a writer. Having worked and travelled extensively across Canada and internationally, MacArthur brings a toolkit of these stories and life experiences to each new project.

He describes his plays as speculative and very personal, but hopefully universal.

“We come across a million experiences; there’s so much information that we have in the world and for some reason certain stories or instances or experiences stay with me. If I’m still thinking about it four or five months later then oftentimes I’ll realize that this is something that I could write a play about... It has to be something that I’m truly interested in exploring and thinking about and that I’m grappling with in my own life.”

As Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta, part of MacArthur’s two-year contract (2011-13) includes writing and work-shopping the commission of an original piece for the 2013 graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts Acting class.

MacArthur has held similar residency positions before. His residency contracts as both playwright and dramaturg have taken him across the country, and to destinations as far as Cape Town, South Africa.

“When you’re writing a commissioned play, you know exactly who it’s going to be for, so those are certain challenges and pluses. But when you’re writing a play on your own... there’s a bit more freedom in writing the play and you can find the right home for it.”

Both his collaborative and his solo work has found success nationally and internationally, and has led to a number of awards, including six Jesse Richardson awards for his play Recovery in 2006, three Betty Mitchell awards for Get Away in 2005, and a nomination in 2011 for the highly prestigious Canadian Siminovitch Award for Playwriting.

The Missionary Position, MacArthur’s most recent production, is the culmination of his two years at the University of Alberta. Like much of his work, the play was influenced by his own stories and experiences.

A Conversation with Greg MacArthur, Lee Playwright in Residence

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“I’ve done a fair bit of traveling just in Central America and Mexico and whatnot, and in those countries, especially in the poorer countries like Nicaragua [and] El Salvador, you come across a lot of missionaries who are down there building schools, and they were all there for different reasons... I just found them kind of fascinating and terrifying so that kind of interests me, and the idea of faith and religion interests me.”

MacArthur will continue to workshop the play throughout the rehearsal process as well as after the production has ended. His upcoming projects include a play called Horror Story, for production in Montreal, and another titled Kate Bowie for a company in Vancouver. MacArthur intends to return to Montreal to work on these projects once his time at the University of Alberta has come to a close.

A Conversation with Greg MacArthur, Continued

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The Lee Playwright-in-Residence Endowment is dedicated to the creation of new Canadian plays and to the development of emerging and established Canadian playwrights.This permanent playwright-in-residence program at the University of Alberta was established in 2005 and was the first of its kind among Canadian universities. The innovative residency offers a unique opportunity for a Canadian playwright to devote time to their writing and to make a significant contribution to new play development within the university and professional theatre community in Edmonton.The Lee Playwright-in-Residence position is made possible by a generous legacy Endowment created by the Clifford E. Lee Foundation. Under the auspices of the Department of Drama at the University of Alberta, this endowment funds a Residency on an annual basis, in perpetuity. The Residency is a resource for professional, community-based and emerging playwrights.In addition to the residency, the Lee Playwright may also accept a commission to write a new play for the Department of Drama’s main stage UofA Studio Theatre season, as was the case when the University of Alberta Department of Drama commissioned Lee Playwright-In-Residence, Greg MacArthur, to write The Missionary Position.The Residency is appointed and supported by the Chair of the Department of Drama, who is guided by an Advisory Board made up of community-based playwrights and other artists who are involved in new play development as well as members of the Department of Drama who have substantial new play development experience.

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