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a n ac tor fr iend of mine said once that all directors are either mechanics or gardeners. A mechanic solves problems so that the machine works; a gardener creates the conditions in which something can grow. Some of the most vital jobs at The Shaw require mechanics; but to direct our plays, I want gardeners.

What does this mean for the process or result of our work? It means a process in which rehearsals are playful and exploratory. It means that we don’t try to nail down the ‘right’ version of a scene; we play inside it and allow it to reveal itself – over the course of a whole season. And the result? Well, the thing about gardening is that there is no result. A beautiful tree may appear, but it will not be fin-ished. It will keep growing and, with love and care, it will simply get more and more beautiful with time.

This is the garden we will be creating, together with you. Your imagination and your passion will be the sun and rain without which there is no life. Thanks to you, our work will grow, and it will change. So you really need to see every show more than once.

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SANJAY TALWAR in

by MICHAEL HEALEY

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1979

JACKIE MAXWELL STUDIO THEATRE

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SANJAY TALWAR

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WITH KELLY

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BY ANDREW

ALEXANDER).

The Cast IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Actor B MARION DAY

Joe Clark SANJAY TALWAR

Actor A KELLY WONG

settinGThe office of the Prime Minister of Canada;

Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario.

Stage Manager ALLAN TEICHMAN Assistant Stage Manager KATHERINE DERMOTT (to May 21) Assistant Stage Manager THÉA PEL (from May 16) Production Stage Manager ALISON PEDDIE

GCTC Assistant Director BRONWYN STEINBERG (supported by Metcalf Foundation)

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Special thanks to John Delacourt, Jenn Jansen and Dalal Saikali.

Scenic Construction and Scenic Art for 1979 was created in the workshops of the Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa.

Running time is approximately 85 minutes. There will be no intermission.

CARTOON BY AISLIN SHOWING PIERRE TRUDEAU FENCING WITH JOHN TURNER, JOE CLARK AND

RENÉ LÉVESQUE, MONTREAL GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 25, 1976 (MCCORD MUSEUM, MONTRÉAL).

“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”

bernard shaw, major barbara

Director’s Notesby eric coates

Public service, on any level, is a bed of thorns, not of roses. The glory in it, if there be any at all, is small return for the constant responsibility, the exhausting work, the lost sleep, and ever-present complaints, for the public seldom shows gratitude to its leaders.

The passage above is from an editorial written by Joe Clark in 1960. He was 21, working as editor of Gateway, the University of Alberta’s student newspaper. His editorials reflect the lively mind of a student activist, mature beyond his years, but still in the thrall of a youthful idealism that, one could argue, he never really outgrew. This is not to suggest that youth-ful idealism has no place in politics, but in the rough and tumble of the House, it takes a

beating at the hands of opportunism. Throughout his career Joe Clark held fast to his ideals, and he continues to promote the notion of a compassion-ate society. In his 2013 book, How We Lead, he implores us to look at the erosion of Canada’s foreign policy, prompting one critic to call him “the conscience of a nation.” Despite the thorniness of it all, his idealism has earned him the affection and respect of Canadians across the political spec-trum, which is an increasingly rare achievement.

So why lampoon the man, you ask? Satire, like good visual carica-ture, is only worthwhile when the artist begins with an essential truth. Although Michael Healey’s version of conversations on the evening of December 12, 1979, is pure invention, it is built on the truth of the extraor-dinary pressures brought to bear on a young Prime Minister who believed that politics could, perhaps, be gov-

erned by the ideals of fair play. While this miscalculation ultimately cost him his job, he left office with his honour intact. Joe Clark in 1979 bears a remarkable resemblance to Joe Clark in 2017, “conscience of a nation,” who bears a remarkable resemblance to the earnest yet prescient Joe Clark of 1960 who wrote:

Especially in a democracy, where an informed public theoretically controls govern-ment, a society which won’t think about political questions is suicidal. And any demo-crat who refuses to consider both sides of a political question is contributing to the suicide.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: SANJAY TALWAR AS JOE CLARK AND MARION DAY AS FLORA MacDONALD; KELLY WONG AS

PIERRE TRUDEAU; SANJAY TALWAR AS CLARK AND KELLY WONG AS JOHN CROSBIE (PHOTOS BY ANDREW ALEXANDER).

THIS PAGE, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP

LEFT: 1991 CARTOON BY DUNCAN

MACPHERSON COMMENTING ON

JOE CLARK AND THE CONSTITU-

TION; 1983 CARTOON BY AISLIN

SHOWING PIERRE TRUDEAU

INCLUDED IN A GROUP OF

CLARK SUPPORTERS; 1976

CARTOON BY AISLIN SUG-

GESTING THAT CLARK

DOES NOT UNDERSTAND

THE POINT OF GOVERN-

MENT PROCEEDINGS.

OPPOSITE: 1982 CARTOON

BY AISLIN SHOWS CLARK

AS A LUMBERJACK TRYING

TO REGAIN HIS LEAD OVER

TRUDEAU. (ALL McCORD

MUSEUM, MONTRÉAL.)

Generous, Courageous and Proudby robert cushman

Back in 1999 I got lucky. As theatre critic of the new National Post, I attended Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto to see a new play called The Drawer Boy. The title was strange – I thought it might mean someone whose job was emptying filing cabinets – and the author’s name, Michael Healey, meant nothing to me. It turned out that the title referred to a young man who drew things, and that the author was an actor whom I had seen and liked in plays around town but whose identity had failed to register in my own mental filing system. What I now witnessed, to my surprise and excitement, was the best new Canadian play I had seen up to that date. The term “Canadian classic” is thrown about with unthinking abandon, but The Drawer Boy is one play that deserves the designation. It had instant impact, and it has stayed around.

It made Canadian theatrical history, and it also recalled and re-enacted it. The Drawer Boy tells of a young actor who gets taken on at an Ontario farm as part of his research for a collectively-created play, not unlike The Farm Show, the pioneering work of semi-documen-tary drama that had been created in 1972 by this very same Theatre Passe Muraille. (1837: The Farmers’ Revolt, revived at this year’s Shaw Festival, was part of the same movement.) Two middle-aged men work the farm, friends since the Second World War; one of them, Morgan, now looks after the other, Angus, a talented architect – hence the “drawer boy” – whom an air raid had left with brain damage that destroyed his memory. The actor who indelibly played Angus, David Fox, had been part of the original Farm Show; so had The Drawer Boy’s director, Miles Potter, and the young man in the new play was actually called Miles. So past and present, fiction and reality, interacted, as did com-edy and tragedy. Asked how it feels to breed animals destined for slaughter, Angus solemnly replies “Miles, it ’s an emotional roller-coaster,” a line that made me Healey’s fan for life. The deal was sealed by the long, heartbreaking speech in which Morgan, at Angus’s nightly request, retells the story of their wartime experi-ences and of their doomed romances with “the tall girl” and “the taller girl”.

Healey’s playwriting career thus got off to a roar-ing start; and it has continued to roar. The surprise is how atypical The Drawer Boy has turned out to be, at least in its subject matter. For all its historical roots and connections, it’s a private play. The others – the best of them, anyway – have been public. His follow-up, the aptly-named Plan B (2002), takes us into a still-conceivable future in which Quebec separa-tion has become a reality. The characters, moderate-ranking politicos from both sides, have gathered together to hammer out the details though, as they all know, the real decisions are being made elsewhere. One of them (francophone) is the Minister for Inter-Governmental Affairs and she’s actually having one, with the Finance Minister (anglophone). The finance guy, whose name just happens to be Michael, is immortally described as “a man of suc-cessive sincerities”. A notable feature of the play is its use of surtitles; all French words are visually translated into English and vice versa: a serio-comic device in itself. Healey said that he was using political relationships as a metaphor for personal ones. I wrote at the time

that it seemed to be the other way around, but theatrically it amounts to the same thing.Which is how it’s worked out in Healey’s subsequent plays. He embarked on a moral-

political trilogy, three plays with adjectival titles denoting ethical qualities: Generous (2006), Courageous (2010) and Proud (2012). Generous, living up to its name, tells four different stories, each of them claiming a scene of its own on either side of the intermission. In one thread a junior government minister, thinking she’s fulfilling her leader’s wishes, tries to assassinate a rival MP but only succeeds in stabbing herself; in another a female oil ex-ecutive, a person of iron impulse fuelled by a fear of approaching death, seduces an in-terviewing journalist, after refusing even to pretend to care about the environment; the rest similarly deal with issues of power, mortality and desire. Narratives converge as the evening progresses, and some of the characters display an apparently genuine desire to do good. Why, somebody asks, are politicians so despised? To which another character replies: Because we give them an impossible task. Govern us, we say, take our money and govern us, and we will hate you for it.… They become the nexus of our self-loathing.”

Courageous, similarly clear-eyed and similarly tolerant, tells two overlapping stories. It starts with a justice of the peace presiding over the marriage of a young man and woman who seem obviously ill-matched. He is then asked to perform the same office for a same-sex couple with, by the look of it, far better pros-pects of happiness. But he refuses, on religious grounds. He’s Catholic. The kicker is that he him-self is gay, openly so. The rest of the play explores, among other things, how he copes with his own principles: he won’t marry his own partner, even though he would love to do so. The cast also includes a poor but super-competent Somali refugee; politically, the play is an explicit plea for preserving the values that make characters like him want to move here. If anyone was writing plays for Canada, Healey was.

His play w right ’s sy mpathies take in Stephen Harper, the protagonist of Proud and the first real-life figure to appear in his plays. The best scene has the then-PM passionately listing all the things that he doesn’t feel passion-ate about, but that everybody thinks he does. (“I don’t care about Quebec. At all. I don’t care about hospital wait times. I don’t care about where the salmon went or why they came back.”) If he seems an attractive figure on stage, it’s partly because the author has endowed him with his own sense of comic timing; in the Toronto production he played the role himself. One beneficent side-effect of Healey’s writ-ing is that it has enhanced his visibility as an actor. His acting persona is that of a bumbler with a backbone of steel.

The previous year, the Shaw Festival had staged Healey’s adaptation of GBS’s On the Rocks, another play about a Prime Minister and his choices. The inf luence may be even clearer in 1979, which features a whole stageful of recent politicians. Its central figure is Joe Clark, beleaguered in his brief, well-meaning Conservative premiership. He’s visited by a parade of helpers and/or antagonists including one past PM and a couple of future

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ones. The past is Pierre Trudeau who tells him: “You may not have been listening closely when you were sworn in, but you’re now obliged to fuck, eat or kill to stay behind that desk.” The future includes, again, Stephen Harper who is less crude but no more encouraging. Clark laughs a lot; a stage direction says that his laugh “denotes wariness, not fun.” That sounds very Healey. His plays, however, are both wary and fun. It makes them very actor-friendly. That’s been true ever since The Drawer Boy, so maybe the later plays aren’t such a departure af-ter all. Their canvas is wider but their sensibility, both astringent and humane, is the same.

ROBERT CUSHMAN IS THEATRE CRITIC OF THE NATIONAL POST AND

A RECORD EIGHT-TIME WINNER OF THE NATHAN COHEN AWARD FOR

EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE CRITICISM.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: CARTOON BY DRAPER HILL IN THE DETROIT NEWS

(BASED ON SANDRO BOTTICELLI’S THE BIRTH OF VENUS) FOLLOWING

TRUDEAU’S RETURN TO POWER IN FEBRUARY 1980; 2005 CARTOON BY AISLIN DEPICTING STEPHEN HARPER AS

IMMOVABLE IN HIS POSITION WITH REGARD TO SAME-SEX MARRIAGE (McCORD MUSEUM); 1979 CARTOON BY AISLIN

SUGGESTING THAT JOE CLARK’S PALTRY KNOWLEDGE OF FRENCH MAKES HIM A LAUGHING-STOCK (McCORD MUSEUM).

1979, 2017

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: SANJAY TALWAR AS JOE CLARK AND KELLY WONG AS PIERRE TRUDEAU;

SANJAY TALWAR AS CLARK WITH MARION DAY AS MAUREEN McTEER; SANJAY TALWAR AS CLARK

(PHOTOS BY ANDREW ALEXANDER).

Canada’s Youngest Prime Minister

CHARLES JOSEPH CLARK (b. 1939) was born in High River, Alberta, the son of a local newspaper publisher. He took degrees in history and political science at the University of Alberta, where he was editor of the student newspaper and prominent in the debating so-ciety and the student Progressive Conservative (PC) club. After false starts at law school, he worked as a parliamentary assistant to such PC icons as Peter Lougheed (later premier of Alberta) and Robert Stanfield (federal Leader of the Opposition). Following two failed attempts to win a provincial seat, Clark was elected MP for High River in the 1972 federal election. The next year he married Maureen McTeer, an Ottawa law student and PC activist.

In 1976, at a leadership conven-tion to choose a successor to Stan-field, Joe Clark surprisingly emerged as a compromise candidate. His se-lection prompted a headline from Canada’s largest newspaper: “Joe Who?” The nickname stuck for years.

In the general election of May 1979, Clark was pitted against Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the celebrated Lib-eral Prime Minister. Trudeau’s eco-nomic policies had proven ineffec-tive in solving the “stagflation” of the 1970s, and one of Clark’s slogans was Let ’s get Canada working again.” While the Liberals narrowly won the popular vote, Clark’s PCs won the most seats and formed a minority government.

Though minority governments typically court smaller parties (in this case the NDP and Social Credit), Clark decided to govern as if he had a majority. His model was the 1957 minority of the previous PC Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker, who had won a record majority in 1958. The Liberals appeared to be in disarray, especially when Trudeau resigned as Liberal leader in November 1979. But Clark had miscalculated badly: Liberal and NDP members joined forces to defeat the gov-ernment, with Social Credit abstaining. Trudeau then retracted his resignation and led the Liberals to a majority win in February 1980.

Faced with continual sniping from within his own party, in 1983 Clark rejected a 67% endorsement from PC membership (“That’s not enough,” he famously declared) and called for a leadership convention to re-affirm his mandate. This time he lost to Brian Mulroney, who had finished third in 1976. In a move rare among former heads of state, Clark agreed

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to serve under Mulroney both in Opposition and in Government, becoming a highly re-spected international statesman in his Foreign Affairs portfolio. He chose not to run in the 1993 general election when, after nine years of Mulroney government, the PCs were reduced from 156 seats to two.

In the late 1980s, western alienation led to the rise of the Reform Party in Alberta, later renamed the Canadian Alliance, which gradually attained national significance. In 2003 it merged with the Progressive Conservatives to form the Conservative Party of Canada. Joe Clark, back in Parliament from 2000 to 2004, declined to sit with the new party as it was too right-wing for his beliefs. Under Stephen Harper, the Conservatives formed minority governments in 2006 and 2008, and a majority in 2011.

In the decades following his brief tenure as Prime Minister, Joe Clark’s stature grew steadily. His citation for the Order of Canada concludes: “He has earned the admiration of all Canadians as one of our country's most respected statesmen.”

The AuthorMICHAEL HEALEY (b. 1963) trained in the acting program at Toronto’s Ryerson Theatre School in the early 1980s. After ten years working as an actor on stages across Canada, his first play, a solo one-act called Kicked, was produced at the Toronto Fringe Festival in 1996. He subsequently toured the play across Canada and internationally, and in 1998 it won the Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto’s annual theatre prize) for best new play. The Drawer Boy, his first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999. It has been produced across North America and internationally, and translated into German, French, Hindi, Portuguese and Japanese. His other plays include The Road to Hell (co-authored with Kate Lynch), Plan B, Rune Arlidge, The Innocent Eye Test, The Nuttalls, Are You Okay?, Generous, Courageous and Proud. He has adapted Chekhov and Molnár for Toronto’s Soulpepper Theatre and, in 2011, he adapted GBS’s On the Rocks for the Shaw Festival. Mr Healey’s plays have won the Governor General’s Award, the Chalmers Playwriting Award, and five Dora Awards, as well as awards across Canada and internationally.

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ERIC COATES DirectorSHAW 2017: Director for 1979. (Selected Credits) ELSEWHERE: artistic director for Great Canadian Theatre Company, productions include 1979, Butcher, Generous, Best Brothers, The Boy in the Moon, This Is War; directed Dear Johnny Deere, Theatre Calgary; Dear Johnny Deere, The Devil We Know, Vimy, Against the Grain, Queen Milli of Galt, The Ballad of Stompin’ Tom, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, The Gingko Tree, Having Hope at Home, The Drawer Boy, Cruel Tears, When the Reaper Calls, Blyth Festival; other theatres include Thousand Islands Playhouse, Drayton Entertainment, Lighthouse Festival Theatre; appeared in 17 productions with Blyth Festival and 4 seasons with Stratford Festival; artistic director for Blyth Festival 2003-12.

STEVE LUCAS Set / Lighting / Projection DesignerSHAW 2017: Set/lighting/projection designer for 1979; lighting designer for 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt. (Selected Credits) ELSE-WHERE: more than 400 productions of theatre, opera, dance and performance art; toured to more than 24 countries; lighting, Bot-ticelli in the Fire/Sunday in Sodom (Dora award, best production), Canadian Stage; Echo, Toronto Dance Theatre; The Physicists, Stratford Festival; set/lighting, Passing Strange, Obsidian Theatre; The Winter’s Tale (Dora award, best production), Groundling Theatre Company; 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Talking Fingers; 7 Important Things, Sto Union; Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott, Blyth Festival; Rope Enough, Buddies in Bad Times; Breath[e], Theatre 2.0; The Drawer Boy, Theatre Passe Muraille. AWARDS: 4 Dora awards, 30 Dora nominations.

JENNIFER GOODMAN Costume DesignerSHAW 2017: Costume designer for 1979; designer for Wilde Tales. (Selected Credits) ELSEWHERE: set, costume and/or lighting design credits in- clude Elle, Theatre Passe Muraille (and tour); Stones in His Pockets, Neptune; Liber-ation Days, The Tempest (Merritt award for outstanding costume design), Two Planks and a Passion; Forever Plaid, Starvox; The Eve of St George, Trans-cenDance; The Mountaintop, Theatre Kingston; Generous, Gc tc; Vigilante (workshop production), Catalyst; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Globe; Billy Bishop Goes to War, Theatre North West; 7 Stories (mecc a for best set design), Tableau d’Hôte. TR AINING: mfa, Uni- versity of Alberta; bfa, Concordia Uni- versity; Banff Centre for the Arts. WEBSITE: jennifergoodman.ca. UP-COMING: Nothing Less!, Two Planks and a Passion.

KEITH THOMAS Composer / Sound DesignerSHAW 2017: Composer/sound designer for 1979. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: Born Yesterday. ELSEWHERE: You Will Remember Me, Butcher, Centaur; Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Les Passants, Butcher, Generous, Gctc; Rose, Harold Green Jewish Theatre; A Christmas Carol (2010-16), The Merchant of Venice, Three Sisters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015/2008/2000/1997),

ERIC COATES

KEITH THOMAS

STEVE LUCAS

Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cherry Orchard, Guthrie Theatre; 24 seasons at Stratford Festival; The Donnellys: Sticks and Stones, Innocence Lost, nac; Red, Same Time Next Year, Harvey, Tryst, Segal Centre; Joe Louis, Fatherland, Infinitheatre; Julius Caesar (Helen Hayes award), Shakespeare Theatre; A Midsummer

Night’s Dream , Gate Theatre (Dublin).

MARION DAY Actor BSHAW 2017: 1979 and Wilde Tales; 1st season. (Selected Credits) ELSEWHERE: 1979, Janet Wilson Meets the Queen, Generous, The Boy in the Moon, Gctc; The Birds and the Bees, Kitchen Radio, Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott, Beyond The Farm Show, Hometown, Rope’s End, The Book of Esther, Harvest, Blyth Festival; Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus Rex, Juno and the Paycock, The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, The Country Wife, Amadeus, The Molière Comedies, Cyrano de Ber-gerac, The Pirates of Penzance, Bacchae, The Importance of Being Earnest, Love’s Labour’s

Lost, Stratford; Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Touchmark; The Taming of the Shrew, ShakespeareWorks; Our Town, Douglas Campbell and Friends, Under Milk Wood, Mercury Theatre.

SANJAY TALWAR Joe ClarkSHAW 2017: 1979 and Wilde Tales; 3rd sea- son. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: Arcadia, Peace in Our Time, Helen’s Necklace, Come Back, Little Sheba. ELSEWHERE: The Men in White, Arts Club; As You Like It, Hamlet, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Peter Pan, Macbeth, Stratford; The Road to Paradise, Human Cargo; Around the World in 80 Days, at P; appeared in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure, Titus

Andronicus, director for The Merchant of Venice, 5 seasons as artistic director, Shakespeare in the Rough; The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Dream in High Park; Helen’s Necklace ( Jessie award), Tarragon, Pi Theatre. FILM/TELEVISION: Orphan Black , Puck Hogs, The Border, Flashpoint, Super-natural, Murder Unveiled/A Love Story. TRAINING: Dalhousie University.

KELLY WONG Actor ASHAW 2017: 1979 and Wilde Tales; 9th season. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: Sweeney Todd, Alice in Wonder-land, Light Up the Sky, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Sea, Cabaret, The Light in the Piazza, Guys and Dolls, His Girl

Friday, Ragtime, The Admirable Crichton, My Fair Lady, Serious Money, One Touch of Venus, Star Chamber, Sunday in the Park with George. ELSEWHERE: The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen, SummerWorks; Little Shop of Horrors, Stage West; Seussical, Silver Mist; Miss Saigon, Drayton; The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Vertigo; Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare in the Park; West Side Story, Theatre Sheridan. TRAINING: Sheridan College; Mount Royal University. WEBSITE: kellywongdesign.com.

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ALLAN TEICHMAN Stage ManagerSH AW 2017: Stage manager for 1979 and Wilde Tales; 31st season. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: scenic carpentry, running crew, technical direction, stage management for over 50 productions, including The Dance of Death, Our Town, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide, Sweet Charity, Juno and the Paycock, Cabaret, Arcadia (and Mirvish), Major Barbara, The Millionairess, French Without Tears, The Admirable Crichton, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Serious Money, The Devil’s Disciple, Born Yesterday, Saint Joan, The Heiress, The Magic Fire, Harlequinade, Diana of Dobson’s, The Petrified Forest, The Voysey Inheritance, The Lady’s Not for Burning. ELSEWHERE: stage management for theatre/opera across Canada. Current Council President, caea.

KATHERINE DERMOTT Assistant Stage ManagerSHAW 2017: Assistant stage manager for 1979; rehearsal assist-ant stage manager for Wilde Tales; 1st season. (Selected Credits) ELSEWHERE: 1979, This is War, Great Canadian Theatre Com-pany; The Audience, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre; Macbeth, The Hypochondriac, Festival Theatre production assistant, Stratford Festival; Anne & Gilbert: The Musical, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, The Sound of Music, Pacino One Night Only (presentation), National Arts Centre; Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Opera Lyra Ottawa; As You Like It, Hal & Falstaff, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Henry V, Company of Fools.

THÉA PEL Assistant Stage ManagerSHAW 2017: Assistant stage manager for 1979 and Wilde Tales; 3rd season. (Selected Credits) FOR THE SHAW: apprentice stage manager, Sweeney Todd, The Next Whisky Bar, Top Girls; rehearsal apprentice stage manager, Our Town, Peter and the Starcatcher. ELSEWHERE: stage manager, Agency, Yell Rebel; apprentice stage manager, Armide, Opera Atelier and Royal Opera House of Versailles; A Christmas Carol, Soulpepper; Educating Rita, She Loves Me, Thousand Islands Playhouse; Persée (and tour to Royal Opera House of Versailles), Abduction from the Seraglio, Opera Atelier; Blue/Orange, The Winter Wonderettes, Theatre Kingston. TRAINING: bah, b.ed. Queen’s University.

Most of the political cartoons reproduced throughout this programme are by AISLIN, the nom de plume of Terry Mosher (b. 1942), who has been ruffling the feathers of Canadian politicians for fifty years. Mosher started his career at the Montreal Star, but moved to Montreal’s English-language daily news-paper The Gazette in 1972. His career is being honoured in Montreal in a retro- spective exhibition Aislin: 50 Years of Cartoons at the McCord Museum (until August 13), and also in his newest book From Trudeau to Trudeau: Fifty Years of Aislin Cartoons. Mosher was inducted into the Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame in 2012, and he is President Emeritus of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2003.

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MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS

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$25,000 PRODUCERS CIRCLE Carol & David+ Appel • Lynn Bevan • Richard++ & Darleen Falconer • Suzanne Gouvernet • Martha+ & Tom++ Hyde • Dr & Mrs Chris Jennings • Mona+ & Harvey Levenstein • Marylee O’Neill++ • William++ & Meredith Saunderson • Shaw Festival Guild • 2 anonymous gifts

JACKIE MAXWELL STUDIO THEATRE

1 anonymous gift • Charles Balbach++ • Lorne++ & Rosemary Barclay • Robin Campbell & Peter Jewett++ • Truly Carmichael* & Tim Jennings* • Alberta G. Cefis++ • Michael Eagen & Michele Darling+ • Richard++ & Darleen Falconer • Wendy & Bruce Gitelman • Roe Green • Felda & Dena Hardymon • Nathan & Marilyn Hayward • Martha+ & Tom++ Hyde • Colleen Johnston++ • Diane & James King • Kingfisher Foundation • Mona+ & Harvey Levenstein • Janet+ & Bruce McKelvey • Barbara Palk+ & John Warwick+ • David & Daphne Pfaff • Andrew+ & Valerie Pringle • Margaret A. Riggin

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Hazel Claxton+ & Jude Robinson • Cynthia & Malcolm+ Macdonald • Petrina & Peter++ Nesbitt • The Slaight Family Foundation

GOVERNORS COUNCIL

HONORARY LIFE MEMBER Ada W. Slaight+

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LEADING PATRON ($3500+) Hy & Phyllis Ackerman • Mr & Mrs Richard Alonzo • Gail+ & Mark Appel • Lynne & Tony Ashworth • Mr & Mrs Gregory James+ Aziz • Peter & Marilyn Balan • Laurie Barrett • Lee & Barbara Bentley • Nani & Austin Beutel • Doug & Valerie Brenneman • Thomas Burrows • Robert & Susan Busby • Edward & Caryn Chatten • Jeffrey Chessum • Rosemary Chew • John+ & Lynn+ Clappison • Jane Dagg* & Peter Hartwell* • Margaret Davidson • Patricia G. Debrusk • Sandy+ & D’Arcy Delamere • Dr Claire Carver-Dias & Doug Dias • Marilyn Dickinson • Sydney Duder • Mr James Duhaime & Dr Heather Hannah • Mario Ferrara & Annabel Kennedy • George A. Fierheller, cm • Ron Folkes • John Geller • Robert H. Gibson & F.H. Gibson • Fred & Charleen Gorbet • Carol Hansell • Laurie & Douglas Harley • Donald Harrington • Sandra McKee Hind-Smith • Douglas+ & Colleen Hunter • Oliver Jakob & Bettina Buss • David & Joanne Jones • Ellen & Nick Kammer • Ursula Keller • Dr Gordon Kirke • Michael & Sonja+ Koerner • Lori Labatt • Joanne Lang • Naomi & Dave Lee • Janet & Sidney Lindsay • Richard & Dianne Lococo • Larry Lubin • James & Connie MacDougall • Joann R. MacLachlan • Robert+ & Margaret MacLellan • Rita & Charles Maimbourg • Dr & Mrs Mario Malizia • Jefferson & Sally Mappin • Sandra & Dennis McCarthy • Janet+ & Bruce McKelvey • Dr Donna McRitchie & Dr Shaf Keshavjee • Mr Lindsay G. Merrithew • Cindy* & Derek Mewhinney • Claudia & Gerry Morelli • Paul & Karen Munninghoff • Blake Murray & Nancy Riley • E. Oliana & A. Iu • Judy Patina • Larry & Nancy Peckham • Joyce & Roy* Reeves • Rick & Pegi Reininger • Sam & Robin++ Ridesic • Drs Jolie Ringash & Glen Bandiera • Joy Rogers • Prof Alan Miles Ruben & Judge Betty Willis Ruben • Rick & Jari Searns • Stuart & Wendy Smith • Wendy & Wayne Smith • Marc St-Onge+ & Kellie Saunders • Adele & Michael Swartz • Dr David Taylor • Elizabeth Terry • Paul Warun • Mr Justice David Watt • Thomas & Sasha Weisz • Bruce++ & Susan Winter • Joseph L. Wooden & Linda Girard • Bob & Joan Wright • Terry+ & Brenda Yates • 2 anonymous gifts

PATRON ($2000+) Judith M. Adam & Marc Zwelling • Elaine Anderson • Robert C. Anderson • Callie Archer & Al Wright • Dr Charles & Mrs Susanne Armitage • Ed & Connie Babcock • Ms Heather Bacon • Aubrey+ & Marsha Baillie • James C. Baillie • Dr & Mrs Thomas Baitz • Janet & Roy Baldwin • Richard J. Balfour • Mona Bandeen • Mr Bradford H. Banks • Michael Barnstijn & Louise MacCallum • Robert & Loretta Barone • Paul & Sue Baston • Roland H. & Mary Bauer • Bob & Marilyn Beach • Elizabeth Bedford-Jones • Dr Thomas H. Beechy • Michel & Doreen Bell • David & Faith Bell • Ken & Peggy Bell • Robert Berckmans & Joanne Heritz • Dr David H. Bergen & Deborah Kehler • Greg+ & Karen Berti • Elisabetta Bigsby • Stacey Lynn Bilotta • Colin & Sandy Black • Peter & Suzanne Bland • John & Nancy Bligh • David & Marion Bogert • Nancy Bongard+ • The Rev Dr Catherine G. Borchert • Joan & Larry Bourk • Walter M. Bowen & Lisa Balfour Bowen • Mr Peter Bracken & Ms Margaret Mitchell • Helen & Bob Bradfield • Ann-Louise Branscombe Fund at the Niagara Community Foundation • Bernard & Annette Braude • Nancy Brazeau • Mary & Tony Brebner • Rita & Charles Bronfman • Mr & Mrs Bruce R. Brown • Sheila Brown & Doug Guzman • Helen Burgers • Dr & Mrs Margot Burnell • Bob & Lynn Burt • Paul Butler & Chris Black • Dr & Mrs+ John L. Butsch • Mark Callan* & Marion Rawson* • Ellen & Brian Carr • Tim Carroll* & Alexis Milligan* • Rob & Arlene+ Carson • Karen & Howard Chapman • Simona & Jerome A. Chazen • Joan Chilcott & the late Ernest Chilcott • Jean & Joe Chorostecki • David & Valerie Christie • Kathie & Bill Clark • William+ & Elisabeth Clarkson • Hazel Claxton+ & Jude Robinson • Jim & Edna Claydon • Earlaine Collins • Cathy & Gary+ Comerford • Frank C. Comunale • William Constantine & Margaret Wellington • Drs Charlie & Diana Cook • Katherine Corlett • Catherine Cornell & Declan Lane • Dr Lesley S. Corrin • Cathy & Paul Cotton • Marion Cross • John & Ruth Crow • Al Cummings • Elizabeth T. Daly+ • B.H. Davidson, md • David & Linda Dayler • George & Kathy Dembroski • Amanda Demers & Brian Collins • Ken & Ginny Douglas • Vicky Downes • Peter & Suzanne Durant • Paula & Thomas Elsinghorst • Bill & Pam Estey • Donald G. Evans • Andy Filardo & Beth Profit • Russell C. & Carol N. Finch • Don Finlayson* • Michael & Judy Firestone • James R. Fleck & Dr Sandra Zakarow • David Matthew • Donald & Cathy Fogel • Patricia & Robert Forsythe • Carol & Burke Fossee • Michael I Frangoulis Family • Kenneth++ & Amy Friedman • Jim & Mary Lou Fullerton • Richard Furnstahl & Teresa Stankiewicz • Rev Ivars Gaide & Rev Dr Anita Gaide • Marian Galligan • Angeline Galotta • Nancy & Graham Garton • Dianne Gibbs* • Charles & Cindy Gibson • Judy & Peter+ Gill • Penny Gill & Christopher Pibus • Robert & Ann Gillespie • Susan Glass & Arni Thorsteinson • Dr Alexander Gluskin & Ms Shauna Sexsmith • John & Susan Goddard • David Gooding & William Martin Jean • Julia Gorman & Bill Wright • Jacques Thibault & Ruth M. Gover • Mr Anthony++ & Mrs Helen+ Graham • Ruth & Sarah Grandoni • David & Sharon Graper • Roe Green • Art Grierson • In memory of Charles J. ( Jack) Hahn: Perelandra Fund • Rob Haines, ue • Dr Susan E.H. Hall • Annette Hamm & Daniel Smith • Mike & Cindy Hansen • Chris & Michelle Hatch • Doris Hausser • Ms Maggie Hayes • Pamela+ & Robert Heilman • Hon Paul & Mrs Sandra Hellyer • Anne T. & Thomas C. Hilbert • Marion F. Hill • In memory of Pauline Hinch • April & Norbert Hoeller • Mary E. Hofstetter & R. David Riggs • Christopher Hoile & Howard Clarke • Richard & Susan Horner • Sheila Hosking & Carol Mae Maidens • Susan A. Howard • Dr Eileen & Mr John Hutton • Jacob & Inge Iliohan • Don & Gundy+ Jackson • Roberta Jacobs-Meadway & Jay Meadway • Susan Janke & Jeff Ford • George & Zoya Jenks • Dr David & Glenda Jones • Lorraine Kaake • Douglas Kahn • Barbara Keenan • Joel Keenleyside & Paula Donahue • Pat & Jim Kehoe • David Ker & Vivienne Salamon • Ed+ & Ann King • H. Rachel King • Mr John Koehler • Edward Koryl • Mira & Saul Koschitzky • Kelly & Bryce Kraeker • Ms Janet Kramer • Barry Kropf • Jane E. Laird • Jean Lam & Paul Ostrander • Diane & Earl Lande • David Lane & Grayson Sless • Victor C. Laughlin, md Memorial Foundation Trust • Esther Lee • Kay & Sheldon Lenahan • Laurence A. Levite++ • Marian Lips & Dr Kevin Smith • Daniel & Sharon Lowenstein • Ronald Luczak++ • Brian & Joanna MacDonald • Edward & Dorene MacDonald • jma Group • Mrs Hartland M. MacDougall • Sharmini Mahadevan & Diana Dimmer • James & Virginia Mainprize • Susan R. & P. Todd Makler • Prof Frederick Marker & Anne Dupre • M. & M. Marques • Dennis & Bernadette Martin • Ms Eileen Martin & Dr Hugh Gayler • Gail Martin • Arnold Massey & Carole Cole • Jackie Maxwell* • Nancy May • Elaine Mayo • hon Margaret McCain • Dr & Mrs James W. McClellan • Grace & Norman McCombs • Jim McDonald & Michelle Arsenault • I. McDorman • The John McKellar Charitable Foundation • Ian & Carol McLeod • John & Sandra McManus • Michael+ & Katie Militello • Peter Milne • Valerie & Jim Milostan • Gerry & Bonnie Miovski • Gerda Molson • Frank & Nancy Moore • Roger D. Moore • J. Thomas & Carol Mullen • The Kitchener & Waterloo Community Foundation-Ken Murray Fund • Sue & Wayne Murray • Mary Murty • Peter & Laurie Nixon • Robert & Susan Noseworthy • Kevan O’Connor & Lynn Masaro • Dr & Mrs Brian P. O’Malley • Jonathan F. Orser • Mr & Mrs Ernest T. Oskin • David Pakrul & Sandra Onufryk • Anne & Don Palmer • Janie Palmer • Brian & Paddy Parr, Honorary Members • Lynne Patterson • Ross Peebles & Judith Cole • Hon David+ & Mrs Shelley Peterson • Mr & Mrs George F.+ Phillips, Jr • Robin B. Pitcher

• Polk Family Charitable Trust • John & Norine Prim • Len & Vivian Racioppo • Julian++ & Alice K. Rance • Ms Elissa Rastegar • Pinky+ & Bill Regan • Carol Reid+ • BeaLo Katz • Shirley E. Roberts • Anita & Joe Robertson • Carolyn & Don Rosenthal • Mr & Mrs Paul Rowcliffe • Rubens Family Foundation • Lori Russell • Richard Russell & Thomas Ouellette • Larry J. Santon • Robert & Marlene Savlov • James & Marguerite Schellentrager • Terry Schoenick & Debra Reger • Mr & Mrs Michael S. Schwenger • Donna Scott, o.c. & Hugh Farrell • Harry & Lillian Seymour • Fred Sherratt • Britton Smith Foundation • William & Linda Smith • Dr & Mrs Robert J. Sokol • Diane Soubly • Martha Spears • Estate of Helen Allen Stacey • Mrs H. Stairs+ & Mr E. Mooney • Susan & Ron Starkman • Dr Jean Stevenson • Mr Lawrence+ & Mrs Pamela Stevenson • Ken Stowe & Nita Farmer • Styles Family Foundation • Gerald & Margaret Sutton • Doug & Lynda Swackhamer • Douglas Tallon • Dr & Mrs Maurice Tatelman • Tim R. Thornton • Dr Lynne Thurling • In memory of Dr John Treilhard • Gail & Doug Todgham • Brenda & Fritz Trauttmansdorff • Donald+ & Elaine+ Triggs • Mark & Bettie Tullis • United Way of Buffalo & Erie County • Ian & Margaret Waddell • Ian Waldron & Tim Redmann • Greg Virelli & Mario Vecchi • Mr & Mrs Jonathan T. Walton • Barbara+ & Colin Watson • Catherine Waugh • Ellen V. Weissman • Harriet ‘Sis’ Bunting Weld+ • Garry & Shirley West • Mark & Marilyn Wheaton • Dr & Mrs James J. White, Jr • Robert & Marina Whitman • Bret & Betty Williams • Robert G. Wilmers & Elisabeth Wilmers • Geraldine Wilson • Chris & Lorayne Winn • Elizabeth B. & Walter P. Work • Walter & Marie Zelasko • Jean A. (McManus) Zsolt • Carole & Dr Bernard Zucker • 11 anonymous gifts

FRIENDS (MEMBERS)

PREMIER ($1000+) Urve & Lewis Abbott • M. Ackerman • George & Jean Alpervitz • Jerome Andersen & June Hajjar • Roger & Elise Avis • Ted & Carol Aziz • Bob & Irene Bader • John Bailey • Harriet Berlin & Judy Miller • Michael Berlis & Ellen Cheslock • Barbara Bolton • Mr Michael Bradie • Brian Bucknall & Mary Jane Mossman • W. Peter Butler • Miriam M. Carr • Ms Renee Castagnola • Gerry & Carol Chrisman • Roger & Susan Christensen • Henry & Jeanne Ciok • J. Orange & F. Clayton • R. Wayne & Donella Clemens • Harry M. Core • Dr George Corella & James Frackenpohl • Constance & Ron Corrigan • Dr Lawrence & Mrs Teresa* Costello & Dr Edith Costello • Mr & Mrs William Crothers • Dr Roger I. Dacre • Prof K.G. Davey • Michael* & Honor de Pencier • The late David S. Howes & Susanne Di Lalla • Dr Delf Dodge & Mr Timothy Dodson • Andrew W. Dorn • Alan & Susan* Dyer • Eleanor L. Ellins • Mr & Mrs Sheldon Fainer • Graham Farquharson • David Fife & Ruth Ann Hagedorn • Ms Martina Filoromo • Mrs Julia Foster+ • Mr & Mrs Hugh R. Franks • Mr & Mrs Ian Fraser • Dr & Mrs Robert A. Gaines • Mr Currie Gardner • Howard & Joann Girsh • In memory of Bernice Graham • Alton B. Harris • Timothy M. & Rosalind Hayes • Mary & Arthur Heinmaa • Lauri & Jean Hiivala • Ms Ann Holcomb • George & Mac Hoover • Frederic & Marie Houston • John J. & Maureen O. Hurley • The Jaquith Family Foundation • Mike & Jody Jones • Elaine & Clarence Katz • Drs Helen & John Keller • Johanna Killam • Ms Gail E. Kohn • Mr Douglas Koschik • David & Sarena Koschitzky • Mr Mark Lachmann • Rai Lauge & Jo Holden • Richard & Lynne Liptrap • Helen & Ken Lister • Ms Linda MacDonald & Dr Thomas Gray • Bart MacDougall+ • Terry & Terry* Mactaggart • Fred W. Martin • Mr & Mrs John L. Mather • Dr & Mrs David M. McConnell, Jr • Francis & Viola McDowell • Dr Lisa Mikitch • Judy Miller • Mary Mogford & Tom Campbell • Frederick W. & Linda K. Moncrief • Robert & Geraldine Murray • M.L. Myers & W.P. Hayman • Rosemary Norman • Wanda & Jim Novinger • George Oleske & Carol Duncan • Mr & Mrs Albert Olszowka • Clarence & Mary Pace • Thomas & Susan Palmer • Janet & John Panabaker • Andrew & Claire Papierz • Jasmine & Kevin++ Patterson • Victor & Esther Peters • Wally Pieczonka • Mr Robert W. Plyler • Donald & Betty Richmond • Heather & David Ring • Dr Lyn Robinson • Nancy & Abby Robson • Michael C. Rockwell & David A. Wright • Dr Lynn Rosen & Bradley C. Rosen • Mrs & Mr Ross • Mrs Dinah Sanderson • Dilip Sarwate • Paul Gerard Schreiber • John & Barbara Schubert • Doug & Cheryl Seaver • Mary-Anne Seppala • Gerald A. Shea • Ivor & Renee Simmons • John Stanley & Helmut Reichenbacher • E. Stirling & T. Millward • Dagmar & Jan Stodola • Gloria & Henry Szylak • Jan & Ken Thompson • Catharina Tocchio • Harriet Tunmer • Mrs Barb Vanzante • Joan & Jean Waricha • Dr Mark & Mrs Mayra Watson • Dr Michael & Margaret Westwood • Barry Whiteland • Mr Donald E. Will • Wiley & Karen Wilson • Mark Wilton • Deborah & Derek Wolstenholme • 6 anonymous gifts

SUSTAINING ($600+) Dorothy A. Quann • Dr Julian Adams • Dr Lavonne Adams • Margaret Agar • Susan Aihoshi • Audrey Amo & Alan Bowers • Ronald Andersen • Mr Thomas & Dr Catherine Ansuini • Ms Fay Arnoldt • Gail Asper & Michael Paterson • The Attoe Foundation • Graham Bailey • Deborah Bannerman & Dennis Souder • Carol & Martin Barkin • S. Basmajian & K.J. Conway • John & Catherine Beatty • Ruthanne Beighley • Ronald D. Besse+ • Patricia Bigelow • Maurice S. & Linda G. Binkow • Roy & Ronna Birnboim • George & Helen Bishop • Steve & Helen Bittner • Ellen & Murray Blankstein • D. & L. Bogert-O’Brien • Ron W. Book • Pamela & Bruno Bragoli • Jeannette Briggs • Mel & Elaine Brothman • Desi Brownstone & Kandice McKee • Chris Bucko • Mr Glenn Cameron • Graham Campbell • Carol Canton • David & Donna Carpenter • Graham & Maureen Carpenter • Wayne Carswell • Francesco & Betty Catanzariti • Dean & Mary Jane Chamberlain • Karen Cheah • Briana Chen • Dixi Chorlton • Robert & Karen Christmann • Mr & Mrs James Clemens • Glenna & Derek Collins • Sheila Croft • Bob & Lorraine Crouse • Jeff Cummings* • Ms Ellaline Davies • Mrs Pauline Davies • James & Mary Frances Derby • Kathryn Derby & Robert Sexsmith • Ms Mary Desjardins • Judy & Mark Devaney • Thomas M. Devitt • Mr Michael Disney • Stafford & Susan Dobbin • Fr Michael W. Downey • Ms Kathy Draught • Reed Drews & Lisa Lezzoni • Robert F. Dunigan • Derek & Katharine Ellis • Karen Elting • Paul Epner & Janet Gans-Epner • Robert W. Esler & Silvia Marcus • Catherine & Peter Ferren • Larry & Wanda Finch • Barbara Fingerote • M. Fitzsimmons & R. Tansey • Ann & Bill Fleming • William & Joanne Forsyth • Trevor & Sandra Francis • D.J. Fraser • Elizabeth Frazer & Sylvain Louchez • Patricia & Martin Freeman • Robert & Beverley Galamaga • Bente & Tom Garner • Allen & Maida Gerskup • Thomas M. Gervasi • Robert Gibson • Carol & Ken Gideon • Virginia Gilbert • Mr John S. Gillespie • Steve Goldberger & Dorothy S. Karr • Judith & A.C. Goodson • Hedy Gotsche • Mr Robert Gouinlock • Dorothy Graham • Ms Cindy Grant • Alan Green • James & Myfanwy Hall • Joanne Hall • Ailsa Hanson & Larry Johnston • Timothy & Ann Hardy • Mrs Maura Harrington • Margaret Ann Harris • Edwin P. Hart • Phil & Dolores Haverstick • Mr Chuck Havill • Richard L. Hay • David M. & Joyce F. Hecht • Lawrence & Beatrice Herman • Robert A. Hetherington • Bill & Rosette Hillgrove • Mr & Mrs Lee Hirschey • Peter & Frances Hogg • Ms Sharon Holland • Robin & Charlotte Hoy • James Hughes • Roger Hughes & Susan Peacock • Raymond & Eileen Hurley • Tina Lee Isham • Dr Jann Istead • David & Diane James • Kelly & Janet James • Randy, Cyndi & Erika Janowicz • Joseph & Averil Jany • Doug Jerome & Sandra Hollingbery • J.K. Johnson • Don & Susan Johnston •

ONE NATION UNDER THE ARTS

We live in a country with a rich and deep appreciation for arts and culture, and we’re committed to fund programs that enable Canadians of all means and backgrounds to enjoy the very best.

Proud supporter of the Shaw Festival’s Theatre for All program and proudly Canadian.

A brilliant season of comedy, drama and classics – opening with Coward’s Design for Living September 15 to October 8.

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The work of Irish Classical Theatre Company is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Special thanks to the Cullen Foundation and the City of Buffalo.

ICTC gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the County of Erie.

Keith Jones • Mr & Mrs Lawrence Jones • Mrs Gail Julie • Graham & Kate Jullien • Peter & Marti Jurmain • Howard Kaplan • Jim & Jean Keenleyside • Prof Joseph Kelly, esq • Richard & Sally Kinsey • Nancy & Douglas Kirkpatrick • Mildred C. Kuner • Mr & Mrs Peter D. Kyle • Dr Yvonne L. Lalanne & Dr Mark M. Rubenstein, md • Kevin Lamotte* & Cynthia Kamin • Bruce & Judy Langstaff • Lon & Claudia Lanzendorfer • Diane Lapidus • Mr & Mrs M. Laubitz • Dr Renee S. Lerche • Dr & Mrs Joesph Levine • Craig & Abby Lewis • Judy Lewis • Ms Terry Lewis • Howard Lichtig & Kathleen O’Neil • Mr Colin Lindsay • Rita & Richard Lipsitz • Anthony Lisanti • Tom & Nancy Lofft • Donald C. Lubick • Heather Lundberg • Edward Lupa • Betty & David Macdonald • Mr David & Mrs Mary Mackey • Dr Ian B. Maclennan • James & Gladys MacPherson • Frank & Joan Mahabir • Dr Dan Malleck • D. Martel • Pauline Mateas • In memory of Lyle R. Nickle • Mr & Mrs Donald J. Mayer • Douglas T. McArthur • Ross & Fran McElroy • Donald McGerrigle & Christina Brouillette • Miss Elizabeth McGinley • Heather L. McKee • E. Peter McKinney • Daina & Heinz Meusel • Drs Midgley & Coon • Ms Fallon & Mr Miller • Lynda & Jim Miller • Judith Mills • William & Jane Milne • Elliott & Elyse Milstein • Gary & Linda Molinaro • Richard & Mary Ann Morse • John Mrowiec & Karen L. Granda Family • Mrs Dawn D. Mullinger • Doug & Mary Neal • Miriam & Ben Nelson • Carol & Jerry M. Nesker • Pamela & Richard Nowina • Carol & Victor Nunn • Linda & Peter Obourn • Ian & Yvonne Oldaker • Dr Elizabeth Oliver-Malone • Charles & Judy Overland • John Park & Sharon Tocher • Lee & Maria Parks • Irmgard Penner • David & Marjorie Perlman • Margaret Perschy • David C. Phillips • Lisa Rae Philpott • Brenda R. Piazza • Nina & Terry Picton • Mr & Mrs William Pigott • Mr & Mrs George R. Pilcher • Cecylia Podoski & Derwyn Sangster • Mr & Mrs John G. Polzin • Fiona Prabhu • Ms Felice Proctor • John & Shirley Rednall • Mr & Mrs John Rennie • Michael & Bonnie Retzik • Dr & Mrs E. Lee Robbins • Thomas R. Roese & William H. Franklin • Mary Anne Rokitka • Edwin & Harriett Rosenberg • Mr & Mrs G. Rosenberg • Neil Rudolph & Susan Cluff • P. & E. Ryan • Marti & Bob Sachs • O. Salamon • J. Douglas Sanderson • Mary & David Saunders • Catherine Saxberg • Tony & Jan Schmitt • John & Donna Schwartzburg • Marilyn & Wes Scott • Phyllis & Chuck Scott • Jack & Kathy Seedhouse • Linda Seppanen • Jason & Kate Shaw • Ruth E. Shillington • Mindel & Milton Shore • Mary Anne Silverthorn • Edward & Elizabeth Simmons • Mrs James R. Simpson • Dr Joyce Sirianni • Jim & Nancy Sissons • Ms Miriam Skey • Bryan Smale & Sherry Dupuis • John & Gayle Smallbridge • Mrs Doreen Smith • Sheila & Peter Smith • Alma Smitheringale & Ron Durand • Victor & Anne Solomatenko • Rex & Martha Mann Southgate • Linda & Mark Steinman • Donald Szydlo • Mrs Ann Throop • Mary Toll & William Heimann • Dr W. Tsuchida • Philip & Nanci Turk • Turnberry Fund of the Elgin-St Thomas Community Foundation • Lori L. & John R. Twombly • Gary & Marie Van Graafeiland • Ted & Ann Vaughan-Neil • Helen Vosu & Donald Milner • Charles Walden • Peter & Joyce Walker • Mr & Mrs D.P. Walter • Carolyn J. Warner • Ruth Watts-Gransden • Lyman & Deana Welch • Alan Wheable • Dr James White • Lois & Terry Wichman • Dr David & Mrs Shelagh Williams • Larry Willis & Robyn Ellis • Ms Jane Wilson • Donna & Barry Winnick • The Honourable & Mrs Theo Wolder • Rev Mark J. Wolski • Jane & Gord Wright • 20 anonymous gifts

BRIAN DOHERTY LEGACY SOCIETY

Robert G. Anderson & Charles William Tate • Callie Archer • Lil Aylesworth • Rob Ayling • Dr Brenda Birkin • Norman Bradshaw • James F. Brown • Thomas A. Caster • Anne Cattermole Levy • Dr Kathy Jane Chambery • William & Lacey Anne Collins • Douglas G. Crowe • Marilyn L. Dickinson • Dr L. Delf Dodge & Mr Timothy M. Dodson • Steven Endicott • Lorna & Walter C. Gates, Jr • John Geller • Mrs Priscilla Gerde • Alexander Gluskin & Shauna Sexsmith • Mr & Mrs David Graper • Pat Graves • Mike Grey • Maryann & Peter Grierson • Dr Marilyn J. Haring • Donald Harrington • Brian Harrison & Daryl Novak • Ellen L. Hawman • Suzanne Hébert+ • Lauri & Jean Hiivala • Susan A. Howard • Ron & Nancy Johnston • Steve Johnston & Ron Price-Jones • Douglas Kahn • Tom & Barb Kuby • Tammy Laber • Dr & Mrs Richard V. Lee • Larry Lubin • Joann Bean • Dennis & Bernadette Martin • Mary I. McLeod Foundation • Sylvia M. McPhee • Mrs Stephanie Meredith • Paul & Karen Munninghoff • Christopher Newton* • Robin Pitcher • Margaret A. Riggin • Patricia C. & Forrest H. Riordan • Thomas R. Roese & William H. Frank • Larry J. Santon • Manfred & Phyllis Schaefer • Wendy & Wayne Smith • Gordon & Joan Stevenson • Elizabeth A. Stirling • John & Patricia Stocker • Scott Sunderland • H. Allen & Valerie R. Swanson • Merilyn & Jim Thompson • Peter & Marie Van Der Gulik • Ian Waldron & Tim Redmann • Carolyn J. Warner • In memory of Sandra Louise Warun • Jim Whitehead • 53 anonymous gifts

TRIBUTES & IN MEMORIAM GIFTS

We gratefully received gifts made in honour or in memory of the following individuals:Robert Forney • Lawrence & Doralee Garfinkel • Glen May • Jean E. McPhee • Calvin Rand • Peggy Service

DONATIONS IN KIND ($1000+)

Christopher & Colleen Blake • Ms Stella Clark • Key Gordon Communications • Christopher Newton*

FOUNDATIONS

J.P. Bickell Foundation • Cullen Foundation • The Cowan Foundation • DeRoy Testamentary Foundation • Donner Canadian Foundation • Fleming Foundation • The Joan & Clifford Hatch Foundation • Jackman Foundation • The Henry White Kinnear Foundation • The Lawrason Foundation • The McLean Foundation • Mary I. McLeod Foundation • The Catherine & Maxwell Meighen Foundation • George Cedric Metcalf Foundation • Gordon Mollenhauer Family Foundation at Toronto Foundation • Jack & Anne Mollenhauer Family Foundation at Toronto Foundation • Philip & Berthe Morton Foundation • The Slaight Family Foundation • Judith Teller Foundation • 1 anonymous gift

SPECIAL APPEAL ($300+)

Doreen & Terry Carroll • Douglas & Nancy Court • Thomas M. Devitt • Thelma Hazzard • Mrs Mary Hesser • Bill & Rosette Hillgrove • John J. & Maureen O. Hurley • Mr Edwin M. Johnston, Jr • S. Laciak • John B. Lawson • Fred W. Martin • Mary I. McLeod • Richard & Nadine Osborn • Stewart Sherriff • Lynda & Stephen Tepperman • Peter Webb & Joan York • 2 anonymous gifts

CORPORATE

THEATRE SPONSOR Paradigm Capital Inc, Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre

PRODUCTION SPONSORS BMO Financial Group • CIBC • PricewaterhouseCoopers llP • TD Bank Group

PROGRAM SUPPORTERS Great-West Life, London Life and Canada Life, Education Partner • The Guarantee Company of North America, Tuesday Q&A Program • IBM, Volunteer Support • Lee Valley, Marquee Seating • Niagara Airbus, Education Partner • Niagara Falls Bridge Commission, US Marketing • Niagara Oast House Brewers, Secret Theatre • Outlet Collection at Niagara, Shaw in the Community • PPG Foundation, Wilde Tales Workshops • Pratt & Whitney Canada, Continue the Conversation • RBC Emerging Artists Project, Emerging Artists Program • Riverview Cellars Estate Winery, Continue the Conversation • Scotiabank, Stage Door Program • Sun Life Financial, Theatre for All Program • Trafalgar Tours, Travel Partner

MEDIA AND PRODUCT SPONSORS Inniskillin Wines • Jackson Triggs Niagara Estate Winery • Niagara Oast House Brewers • Peller Estates Winery & Restaurant • Riverview Cellars Estate Winery • Zoomer Radio • The New Classical FM • Toronto Star • Trius Winery & Restaurant • Wayne Gretzky Estates Winery & Distillery • Writers Tears Irish Whiskey, Walsh Whiskey Distillery

PERFORMANCE HOSTS ($10,000+) Power Corporation of Canada• The Woodbridge Company Limited

PATRON MEMBER ($2500+) Procor Limited

ASSOCIATE MEMBER (UP TO $2499) Aure Wines • Simpson’s Pharmacies

VOLUNTEER COMMITTEES

Thanks to all of our volunteers – without their support many of our programs and events would not be possible.

THE SHAW GUILD Julian Rance++, President • Arlene Carson+, Past President

The Shaw Guild is a large group of volunteers who support and promote the Shaw Festival. They assist the Members’ activities, fundraising, hosting, and providing financial support to the Shaw Festival Endowment Fund.

SHAW BOXING EVENING Robert C. Olsen, Chair

SHAW SHIVAREE Kim Elltoft, Chair

FESTIVAL FILM SERIES Stephen Levy • Carol Walker

In the Interest of All PatronsCELLULAR PHONES, CAMERAS AND RECORDING DEVICES During the performance, there is no photography or filming permitted and we ask that you turn off your cell phones. We do invite you to take photos pre-show, at intermission and post-show, but kindly tuck your camera away during the performance. Please ensure that wristwatch alarms and other noisemakers cannot sound during the performance. Alternatively, you can leave them with our staff at the Coat Check.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES for the hard of hearing are available at all three of our the-atres for a $2 fee. Please see the House Manager on duty.

IF YOU NEED TO LEAVE THE AUDITORIUM during the performance, we will reseat you in the most accessible location at the first suitable break. At the end of the performance, please remain at your seat until the curtain call is finished and the house lights have been turned on.

FOR FIRST AID please see the House Manager or the nearest usher. At least one staff member on duty is trained in First Aid and cPr.

FOR YOUR SAFETY all of our theatres have the requisite exits and have been inspected by the Fire Safety Office of Ontario. The theatres and exits to the buildings have emergency lighting in case of a power outage. In an emergency, our staff are trained to carry out an immediate and effective evacuation. You are requested to follow their instructions and remain calm. You will be directed to a marshalling area: please remain there until otherwise advised by our staff or emergency personnel. If you discover a fire you should activate the nearest alarm and, immediately following evacuation, identify yourself to a staff member and provide details of the alarm.

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