by Federico García Lorca translated by Nahuel Telleriadirected by Csaba Horváth

BLOOD WEDDING

OCT 25 – NOV 19

OPENING NIGHT SPONSORS

THE WILMA THEATER IS GRATEFUL FOR SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT PROVIDED BY:

The Horace W. Goldsmith

Foundation

Wyncote Foundation

SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT FOR OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMMING PROVIDED BY:

The Zeldin Family Foundation

Blood Wedding is made possible in part through the generous support of David Haas.

Additional support provided by the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

SEASON SPONSORS

The Dolfinger-McMahon

Foundation

Virginia and Harvey Kimmel

Caroline Fredricka Holdship Charitable Trust through the PNC Charitable Trust

Grant Review Committee

Jered McLenigan, Campbell O’Hare, and Lindsay Smiling. Photo by Dave Sarrafian and Plate 3 Photography.

The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.

This theater operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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

under the direction of

Blanka Zizka ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

James Haskins MANAGING DIRECTOR

PRESENTS

FEATURINGRoss Beschler*, Taysha Marie Canales*, Sarah Gliko*, Justin Jain*,

Jered McLenigan*, Campbell O’Hare, Jaylene Clark Owens*, Brett Robinson*, Matteo Scammell*, Lindsay Smiling*, Ed Swidey*

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DIRECTOR AND CHOREOGRAPHER Csaba HorváthCOMPOSER Csaba Ökrös

SET AND LIGHTING DESIGNER Thom WeaverCOSTUME DESIGNER Oana Botez

SOUND DESIGNER Larry D. Fowler, Jr.DRAMATURG Walter Bilderback

PRODUCTION MANAGER Clayton TejadaRESIDENT STAGE MANAGER Patreshettarlini Adams*

by Federico García Lorcatranslated by Nahuel Telleria

THE WILMA THEATER IS GRATEFUL FOR SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT PROVIDED BY:

SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT FOR OUR EDUCATION PROGRAMMING PROVIDED BY:

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE LORCA ESTATE

Telleria’s translation first performed at Yale School of Drama in 2016 as part of Kevin Hourigan’s third-year directing thesis.

The Wilma Theater is a member of the following organizations: Avenue of the Arts, Inc., Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, League of Resident Theatres Inc., Midtown Village Merchants Association, Theatre Communications Group, Inc.

Please notePhotography or sound recording inside the theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be asked to leave the theater and may be liable for financial charges.

Children PolicyThe Wilma Theater’s productions contain strong language and adult themes that may be unsuitable for patrons 12 and younger.

Distracting Noise and LightThe noise of cellular phones and candy wrappers, and the light from electronic devices, are distracting to both audiences and actors. Please turn off all cellular phones and electronic devices.

Smoking, eating, and drinking are prohibited inside the theater.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

This production will be performed without an intermission.

Thank you to all the additional actors who took part in the Blood Wedding workshop in May 2016: Krista Apple,

Josh Campbell, Keith Conallen, Kate Czajkowski, Melanye Finister, Jennifer Kidwell, Anthony Martinez-Briggs, Kevin Meehan,

Steven Rishard, Mary Tuomanen, Hannah Van Sciver.

Ensemble roles performed by the company.

Ross Beschler............................................................Woodsman/The MoonTaysha Marie Canales....................................The Mother-in-Law/The MaidSarah Gliko......................................................................Leonardo’s WifeJustin Jain................................................................................WoodsmanJered McLenigan......................................................................The GroomCampbell O’Hare.......................................................................The BrideJaylene Clark Owens...............................................................The MotherBrett Robinson.........................The Neighbor/ The Young Woman/ The BeggarMatteo Scammell......................................................................WoodsmanLindsay Smiling...........................................................................LeonardoEd Swidey......................................................................The Bride’s Father

FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA (PLAYWRIGHT) (1898-1936) was perhaps the most important Spanish-language writer of the first half of the 20th century, renowned for both his poetry and his plays. During his short life, he wrote thirteen plays; the best-known of which are Blood Wedding (1932), Yerma (1934), and The House of Bernarda Alba (1936). In the early 1930s, Lorca became the director of La Barraca, a theater company that toured the provinces performing Spanish classical plays in peasant villages. Between tours, he wrote Blood Wedding, which brought him international attention.

When the Spanish Civil War broke out, Lorca was targeted by the fascist Falangist forces, both as a gay man and as an artist prominently allied with the Republican government. He was arrested on August 16, 1936 and murdered the night of August 18. His burial site has never been found.

CSABA HORVÁTH (DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER) began his career as the Artistic Director of the Közép-Európa Táncszínház (Central Europe Dance Theater) in Budapest from 1999-2006. In 2001, he created the choreography for American Repertory Theater’s Mother Courage and Her Children, and in 2002 acted as the choreographer and assistant director of Marat/Sade. In 2005, Horváth founded the Forte Company in Budapest. As the Artistic Director, he worked with his resident company of actors to create a unique theatrical language through use of bodies, voices, dance,

music and text. Recent Forte Company productions include Crime and Punishment, The Notebook, Rats, Concerto/String Quartet No. 5, and Your Kingdom. He has served as Artistic Director of the Dance Department at Csokonai Theatre in Debrecen (2006-2008); and Artistic Director of CAFé Budapest Contemporary Art Festival (2011). He also currently serves as the Artistic Director of the Dance Department at Vörösmarty Theatre, Székesfehérvár, and is the Leader of Physical Theatre Courses at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. Horváth directed the film Tavasz ébredése (Spring Awakening) and acted in such films as Ópium: Egy elmebeteg nó naplója (Opium: Diary of a Madwoman), A fény ösvényei (Paths of Light), and Kút (Well). Horváth has won the following awards for his work: Harangozó Gyula Award (2001); Best Choreographer - Dancers’ Association (2003); Imre Zoltán Award (2004); Gundel Award (2004); Hevesi Sándor Award (2006); Lábán Rudolf Award (2006, 2007 and 2017); Best Dancer, Dance Festival, Veszprém (2007); Best Performance - Waiting for Godot, Dance Festival, Veszprém (2011); Sík Ferenc Award - Troilus and Cressida (2011); POSZT Best Director Award - Your Kingdom (2016). Learn more about Csaba Horváth and the Forte Company at www.fortecompany.hu.

NAHUEL TELLERIA (TRANSLATOR) is a doctoral candidate at Yale School of Drama researching contemporary Argentine theater. He recently co-dramaturged Happy Days at Theatre for a New Audience, previously at Yale Repertory Theatre; he also has worked for the Dwight/Edgewood Project in New Haven. He has a BA in English and Theater from Columbia University, and an MA in humanities from the University of Chicago.

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ROSS BESCHLER WOODSMAN/THE MOON Ross Beschler is a Wilma HotHouse Company Member. Previously at the Wilma: Our Class, Under the Whaleback, Bootycandy, Hamlet, R&G Are Dead,

Antigone, The Hard Problem, and Adapt! Other shows include The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane (Interact); Machinal, Delirium, and Hell (EgoPo); Knives in Hens (Theatre Exile); He Who Gets Slapped (PAC); Maple & Vine (City Theatre); The Lonesome West (Lantern); Kate Crackernuts (The Flea); End Days (People’s Light & Theatre); Romeo Castellucci’s Julius Caesar; and Spared Parts at the 2016 FringeArts and Crossing the Line festivals. MFA: Temple. Film: Flight of the Cardinal. www.rossbeschler.com.

TAYSHA MARIE CANALES THE MOTHER-IN-LAW/THE MAID Wilma credits: Younger Gabrielle York in When the Rain Stops Falling, Dido in An Octoroon, Julia in The Hard Problem. Philadelphia

credits: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Bête, The Jungle Book, Wayside Stories From Wayside School (Arden Theatre); All My Sons (People’s Light); Moon Cave (Azuka Theatre); The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, Slip/Shot (Flashpoint Theatre). She is a Wilma HotHouse company member. BFA in Acting from Arcadia University.

SARAH GLIKO LEONARDO’S WIFE Wilma productions include: Adapt!, Constellations, When The Rain Stops Falling, The Hard Problem, Antigone, Hamlet/Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, and Paula Vogel’s

world premiere Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq. Other credits include: The Arsonists (Azuka Theatre); The Secret Garden, Parade, Charlotte’s Web (Arden Theatre Co.); My Dinner With Dito (Bearded Ladies Cabaret); The Screwtape Letters, The Liar (Lantern Theater Co.); Around the World in 80 Days, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, The

Ugly One (Walnut St. Theatre); Pumpgirl (Inis Nua Theatre); and John & Jen (Act II Playhouse). Sarah is a proud member of the Wilma HotHouse.

JUSTIN JAIN WOODSMAN is a HotHouse Company member here at the Wilma, where he last appeared in An Octoroon and Antigone. Recent stage credits include WHITE (Theatre Horizon), You For Me

For You (InterAct), Informed Consent (Lantern), and These Terrible Things with his Barrymore nominated alt-comedy theatre company, The Berserker Residents (www.berserkerresidents.com). Additionally, Mr. Jain has performed Off-Broadway and with many regional theaters including: Arden Theatre Company, 1812 Productions, Azuka, People’s Light, FringeArts, Shakespeare in Clark Park, McCarter Theatre, Passage Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, The Assembly in Edinburgh, ASU Gammage, and Ars Nova NYC, among others. Justin is a proud alumni and Theatre professor at The University of the Arts. For my students.

JERED MCLENIGAN THE GROOM is a Wilma HotHouse company member whose most recent Wilma appearances include Blanka Zizka’s Adapt! and Nick Payne’s Constellations (Barrymore Nominee,

Outstanding Leading Actor/Play). He’s appeared locally with InterAct, Lantern, Theatre Exile, Act II, Walnut Street Theatre, Inis Nua, Delaware Theatre Co., 1812 Productions, Bristol Riverside Theatre and Iron Age Theatre, among others. Jered is a multiple Barrymore Award nominee and has received the Supporting Actor/Play award twice. Up next he returns to the Walnut Street Theatre in Baskerville. Thank you for your support!

CAMPBELL O’HARE THE BRIDE is a proud Wilma HotHouse company member. Wilma credits: Adapt!; An Octoroon; Rapture, Blister, Burn (Barrymore Award, Outstanding Supporting Actress). Philadelphia

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credits: Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth Classic Theatre Co.), Mauritius (Act II Playhouse), The Whale (Theater Exile), Equivocation (Arden Theater Co.), The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (Inis Nua Theatre Co.), Spookfish, Birdie’s Pit Stop, The Bride’s a C%@$... (On the Rocks). Endless gratitude. www.campbellohare.com.

JAYLENE CLARK OWENS THE MOTHER is a HotHouse Company member and a Philly resident from Harlem, NY. She is an AUDELCO and Barrymore Award-winning actress, as well as

a highly acclaimed poet. Owens is a first place Apollo Theater Amateur Night winner for her poetry. Education: BFA Ithaca College. Recent credits: WHITE (Theatre Horizon), An Octoroon (The Wilma Theater), Moon Man Walk (Orbiter 3), Red Speedo (Theatre Exile). “Special thanks and love to my husband, Laurencio, my extremely supportive family & friends, Blanka for making The Wilma Theater my theatre home, Csaba, the Wilma crew, and my exceptional HotHouse fam!”JayleneClarkOwens.com.

BRETT ASHLEY ROBINSON THE NEIGHBOR/ THE YOUNG WOMAN/ THE BEGGAR Brett is a Resident Artist of the Wilma HotHouse and is thrilled to make Blood Wedding her first show

on the Wilma stage. Philadelphia credits: The Light Princess (Arden Theatre), #TheRevolution (Interact), Unformed Consent (Lightning Rod Special) and Feed (Applied Mechanics). Regional Credits: Clybourne Park (Premiere Stages), Book Club Play (Geva Theatre) and She Kills Monsters (The Flea with Vampire Cowboys). Brett is a graduate of the Pig Iron School of Advanced Performance Training and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

MATTEO SCAMMELL Woodsman is a theatre-artist and musician. He is a Company Member of OBIE Award-Winning theatre company, New Paradise Laboratories.

NPL credits: 27, The Adults, O Monsters, Hello Blackout! Matteo is a multi-instrumentalist with Red 40 & The Last Groovement and an Resident of the Wilma HotHouse. Mr. Scammell’s work has premiered at Ice Factory (NYC), The New Ohio Theater (NYC), Ant Fest (Ars Nova, NYC), Philadelphia’s Live Arts Festival/FringeArts. Regional Credits: Wilma, Arden, Exile, Pig Iron, 11th Hour, Walnut, PTC, Theatre Horizon, EgoPo, among others. This marks his 2nd production with the Wilma, including Our Class. Love to my Family!

LINDSAY SMILING LEONARDO is thrilled to be back on the Wilma stage where he most recently appeared in When the Rain Stops Falling. Mr. Smiling has performed Off-Broadway and at many regional

theaters including: InterAct, Arden Theatre Co., Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Exile, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Milwaukee Rep., Syracuse Stage, Walnut Street Theatre, People’s Light and Theatre Co., Pittsburgh Public, Two River Theatre, Victory Gardens, ACT, Dorset Theater Festival, Human Race Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Mixed Blood Theater, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theater, Lantern Theater Co, and Shakespeare on the Sound. He is a proud Wilma HotHouse Company member. For more info: www.lindsaysmiling.net.

ED SWIDEY THE BRIDE’S FATHER Wilma: An Octoroon, Antigone, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Barrymore nomination), Hamlet, Under The Whaleback, Curse Of The Starving Class, Our Class,

Macbeth. Mark Taper Forum: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, directed by Phylicia Rashad (LADCC Awards - Best Ensemble, Revival). EgoPo Classic Theater: The Seagull (Barrymore nomination), Death Of A Salesman, GINT!, The Lady From The Sea, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, A Dybbuk, Endgame. Other: The Hostage, She Stoops To Conquer (Resident Ensemble Players); Bathtub Moby Dick (Renegade Company); Waiting For Godot (WHAT); IL, CO, TX Shakespeare Festivals. MFA: University Of Delaware. Awards: 2015 Lunt-Fontanne Acting Fellow. www.edswidey.com.

CSABA ÖKRÖS (COMPOSER) is a professional musician and composer, specializing in traditional Hungarian and regional folk string music. He has worked extensively with director and choreographer Csaba Horváth in Hungary and across Europe, particularly as the Composer and Music Director for many of the plays performed by the Forte Company. Notable productions include Kristof’s The Notebook (in 2013), Edmundson’s The Clearing (in 2014), Hungarian Elektra (in 2014 at Csíky Gergely Theatre), Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (in 2015), Tarr’s Your Country (in 2016), and Hauptmann’s Rats (in 2017). Ökrös studied at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest where he then became a teacher of violin in 2009. In 1986, he created the Ökrös Esemble. The group has performed with the Symphonic Orchestras of Brooklyn, Miami, Philadelphia and Oregon. Collaborating with Horváth since at least 2013, Ökrös has established himself as a critical member of this distinguished director’s creative team for productions in their home country of Hungary and beyond.

THOM WEAVER (SET/LIGHTING DESIGNER) is an Associate Artist of the Wilma, where he has designed 14 productions including Adapt!, An Octoroon, and The Christians. His work has been seen at NYSF/Public Theatre, Roundabout Theatre, Primary Stages, Signature Theatre (NY), Arden, PTC, Lantern, Theatre Exile, New Paradise Laboratories, Walnut, Center Stage, Huntington Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, Syracuse Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Shakespeare Theatre, Asolo, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Folger Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, RoundHouse Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Hangar, Spoleto Festival, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep, among others. 3 Barrymore Awards (25 nominations), 4 Helen Hayes nominations, Jeff Award, and 2 AUDELCO Awards. Co-Founder of Die-Cast with Brenna Geffers. Education: Carnegie-Mellon and Yale.

OANA BOTEZ (COSTUME DESIGNER) is an international set/costume designer for film, theater, opera, and dance. She is a Princess Grace recipient, NEA/TCG Career Development Program recipient, and has received a Barrymore Award, a Drammy Award, and was nominated for the Henry Hewes Design Award. Her designs have raised critical acclaim in New York: BAM Next Wave, Bard SummerScape/Richard B. Fisher Center, Baryshnikov Arts Center, The David H. Koch Theater/Lincoln Center, Big Apple Circus/

Lincoln Center, MCC, Classic Stage Company. Regionally: The Wilma Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Hartford Stage Company, Long Wharf, Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Berkeley Rep, ArtsEmerson, Broad Stage, MCA (Chicago, IL), The Shakespeare Theatre Company, ODC, The Walker Arts Center, Peak Performances, ADI, Academy of Music, Old Globe, Curtis Institute of Music, Cutler Majestic Theater. Internationally, Oana has worked in Romania (Bucharest National Theater, Arad National Theatre), France (Theatre National de Chaillot, Les Subsistence, Le Quartz), Turkey (International Festival of Contemporary Theater), Peru, Germany, Italy, Singapore and United Kingdom. She has been teaching costume design at MIT. www.oanabotez.com.

LARRY D. FOWLER, JR. (SOUND DESIGNER) Larry is honored to be working alongside a great team at the Wilma once again. He has been sound designing in Philadelphia and neighboring counties for a number of years. Previous work includes Informed Consent (Lantern Theater), Shitheads (Azuka Theatre), WHITE (Theatre Horizon), Buzzer (Theatre Exile) and How To Use a Knife (InterAct Theatre). Larry is currently the Sound Design Lecturer at The University of the Arts. Thanks to the entire cast, crew, and production team, and his ladies Maureen, Olivia, and Lupita.

PATRESHETTARLINI ADAMS (RESIDENT STAGE MANAGER/AEA) has been the stage manager at The Wilma Theater since the theater made its home on the Avenue of the Arts in 1996. “Pat” is celebrating season #22 at the fabulous Wilma! Her career has included 7 seasons as stage manager at the Tony Award-winning Crossroads Theatre in New Brunswick, NJ; and, in past years, Pat has worked the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, GA and the National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, NC. She has also found herself traveling the world with critically-acclaimed dance company Noche Flamenca! Most recently, she is using all her free time to spoil her grandsons, Isaiah and Elijah. God Is Good!

WALTER BILDERBACK (DRAMATURG/LITERARY MANAGER) has been at the Wilma since the production of Tom Stoppard’s Night and Day, opening the 2004-5 season. During that time he’s helped select seasons and has worked on the vast majority of the plays produced in that time. Particular favorites include Our Class, Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq, Hamlet and When the

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Rain Stops Falling. Before coming to Philadelphia, Walter worked for numerous theaters across the country, including CenterStage, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, and on Broadway. He’s been a playreader and sat on selection committees for many organizations, most recently the O’Neill and the Playwrights Center in Minnesota.

CLAYTON TEJADA (PRODUCTION MANAGER) is celebrating his 14th season at the Wilma, serving the first seven as Technical Director. Clayton started his professional career as an Apprentice at Arden Theatre, and then worked there for several years as Stage Supervisor. Before coming to the Wilma, he worked as a freelance Technical Director or Production Manager for 1812 Productions, Mum Puppettheatre, Lantern Theater, and Azuka Theatre. Clayton is a graduate of the Theater Arts program at The University of Puget Sound. He is proud to make Philadelphia his professional and artistic home. Thanks and love to his sweet Kate, and their boys Alex and Gabriel.

JAMES HASKINS (MANAGING DIRECTOR) is now in his twelfth season in partnership with Blanka Zizka, the Board of Directors, and staff to advance the mission of The Wilma Theater. James began his work in theater administration at Circle

Repertory Company, where he learned early on the value and resonance of an artist-centered approach to running a theater company. He went on to work with a variety of theaters in New York and Seattle as an actor, director, and administrator. Upon moving to Philadelphia, James worked as Managing Director of InterAct Theatre Company and then Executive Director of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia before coming to the Wilma. As a theater artist, he is most proud of his directorial and dramaturgical work on the plays of his husband Michael Whistler. James holds an MFA from the University of Washington and a BA from The College of Wooster (Ohio), where he currently serves as President of his alumni class.

BLANKA ZIZKA (ARTISTIC DIRECTOR) has been Artistic Director of The Wilma Theater since 1981. In 2011 Blanka refocused the Wilma’s energy on developing practices and programs for local theater artists to create working conditions that support

creativity through continuity and experimentation and two seasons ago she founded the Wilma HotHouse Company. At the Wilma she has directed over 70 plays and musicals. Most recently, Blanka directed her play Adapt!, Andrew Bovell’s When The Rain Stops Falling, Tom Stoppard’s U.S. premiere of The Hard Problem, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Hamlet, Paula Vogel’s world premiere Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq, Richard Bean’s Under the Whaleback, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, Tadeusz Słobodzianek’s Our Class, Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, and Macbeth, which included an original score by Czech composer and percussionist Pavel Fajt. Her other favorite productions are Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched, Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love and Rock ’n’ Roll, Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice (which featured an original score by composer Toby Twining, now available from Cantaloupe Records), Brecht’s The Life of Galileo, Athol Fugard’s Coming Home and My Children! My Africa!, and Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9. She collaborated closely with Dael Orlandersmith on her plays Raw Boys and Yellowman, which was co-produced by McCarter Theatre and the Wilma and performed at ACT Seattle, Long Wharf, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Blanka was honored to be selected into the 2017 Class of the Innovators Walk of Fame by the University Science Center, which spotlights local innovators. She is a recipient of the 2016 Vilcek Prize, which is awarded annually to immigrants who have made lasting contributions to American society through their extraordinary achievements in biomedical research and the arts and humanities. She received the Zelda Fichandler Award from the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation in 2011, which recognizes individuals who are transforming the national arts landscape with their unique and creative work in the American regional theatre; and she was a Fellow at the 2015 Sundance Institute/LUMA Foundation Theatre Directors Retreat.

Philadelphia’s Premier Contemporary Ballet

www.BalletX.orgat The Wilma Theater 215-546-7824265 S. Broad St.

Christine CoxFounder, Artistic & Executive Director

Matthew NeenanFounder

Tara KeatingAssociate Artistic Director

“The emotional impact (is) undeniable” THE PHIL ADELPHIA INQUIRER

BalletX Fall Series Nov. 29 - Dec. 10

Beautiful DecayA full evening length ballet

by Nicolo Fonte

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

STAFFArtistic Director: Blanka ZizkaManaging Director: James Haskins

ARTISTICDramaturg/Literary Manager: Walter BilderbackProducing Artistic Associate: Kellie MeclearyLiterary Interns: Angela Antoinette Bey, Zachary Flick EDUCATIONEducation Director: Anne K. Holmes Education Assistant: Rachel Beecher Teaching Artists: Anthony Mustafa Adair, Jake Blouch, Jess Conda, Jaylene Clark Owens, Kate Czajkowski, Mike Dees, John Jarboe, Anthony Martinez-Briggs, Jarrett McCreary, Lee Minora, K. O’Rourke, Justin Rose, Jenny Ruymann, Scott Sheppard, Josh Totora, Stephanie Walters

PORTABLE STUDIOPortable Studio Program Director: Lee Ann EtzoldPortable Studio Artists: Patreshettarlini Adams, Josh Campbell, Jess Conda, Melanie Cotton, Kate Czajkowski, Jan Jeffries, Campbell O’Hare, Lillian Ransijn, Sara Vanasse

DEVELOPMENT and MARKETINGCommunity Relations and Marketing Director: Alison EhrenreichVisual Communications Manager: Kristin FingerDevelopment and Special Events Manager: Debby LauWriting and Research Specialist: Patrick RossDevelopment and Marketing Interns: Yaritxza Figueroa, Heather Goodman

FRONT OF HOUSEBox Office Manager: James SpechtAssistant Box Office Manager: Sarah Blask Box Office Staff: Allison Mudd, Eunice Akinola, Onya Russell House Manager: Javier Mojica BUSINESSGeneral Manager: Maggie ArbogastAssistant General Manager: Andrea SotzingTessitura Consortium Manager: Elizabeth Dietzler

Tessitura Application Systems Analyst: Catherine Lachance-Duffy Tessitura Training & Support Specialist: Andy Wertner Tessitura Services & Support Specialist: Matthew Lazorwitz PRODUCTIONProduction Manager: Clayton Tejada Assistant Production Manager/Operations Manager: Ashley W. MillsTechnical Director: Ethan M. MimmResident Stage Manager: Patreshettarlini AdamsSound and Video Engineer: Joe Samala Costume Supervisor: Becca AustinProduction Fellow: Chelsea CylinderStage Management Fellow: Samantha Dugan Custodian: Fetteroff F. Colen

PRODUCTION CREWAssistant Director: Elise D’AvellaAssistant Set Designer: Colin McIlvaineAssistant Costume Designer: Caity MulkearnsAssistant Sound Designer: Brad PouliotProperties Master: Kimitha Cashin Master Electrician: Michael HamletLightboard Programmer & Operator: Alyssa ColeSound and Video Engineer: Joe SamalaCostume Supervisor: Becca AustinRunning Crew: Chelsea Cylinder, Samantha DuganCarpenters: Ben Henry, Elliot Greer, Ivan Dellinger, Jon Stone, Bobby Graham, George SpencerElectricians: Michael Hamlet, Erick Alfisi, Alyssa Cole, Heather Knoll, Stephanie Rubeo, George Spencer, Anastassia Vertjanova, Craig Wolfgang, Evelyn Swift ShukerSound Technicians: Aziz Naouai Costume Construction: Karen BoyerScenery Construction: Flannel and Hammer, Philadelphia, PA

YOUNG FRIENDS COMMITTEEMiljenka Sakic, Ashley Kim, Theonie Anastassiadis, Emily Knitter

SPECIAL THANKSSzonja Oroszlan, Matthew Totora, Philip Arnoult, Mara Isaacs, Lorca Estate

OFFICERSDavid E. Loder, ChairJane Hollingsworth, Vice ChairJohn D. Rollins, Vice Chair, Former ChairClare D’Agostino, Esq., SecretaryLewis H. Johnston, Treasurer, Former Chair

BOARD MEMBERSPaula M. BediDaniel Berger, Esq. Mark S. Dichter, Esq., Former ChairKathryn DoyleHerman C. Fala, Esq., Former Chair

Linda GlicksteinJerry GoldbergPeggy Greenawalt, Former ChairJeff Harbison, Former ChairRobert E. LinckThomas MahoneyJames F. McGillin Donald F. ParmanTim SabolEllen B. SolmsDavid U’Prichard, PhD, Former ChairA.E. (Ted) Wolf, Former ChairFlorence Zeller

EX-OFFICIOJames HaskinsBlanka Zizka EMERITUSHarvey Kimmel Sissie LiptonDianne SemingsonEvelyn G. SpritzDr. R. J. WallnerJeanne P. Wrobleski, Esq.

Philadelphia’s Premier Contemporary Ballet

www.BalletX.orgat The Wilma Theater 215-546-7824265 S. Broad St.

Christine CoxFounder, Artistic & Executive Director

Matthew NeenanFounder

Tara KeatingAssociate Artistic Director

“The emotional impact (is) undeniable” THE PHIL ADELPHIA INQUIRER

BalletX Fall Series Nov. 29 - Dec. 10

Beautiful DecayA full evening length ballet

by Nicolo Fonte

EX-OFFICIOJames HaskinsBlanka Zizka EMERITUSHarvey Kimmel Sissie LiptonDianne SemingsonEvelyn G. SpritzDr. R. J. WallnerJeanne P. Wrobleski, Esq.

LORCA ON FILM AT THE PRINCE THEATERPresented by the Philadelphia Film Society in collaboration with the Wilma, this film series explores the work and history of celebrated poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca.

DEATH IN GRANADA | DIRECTED BY MARCOS ZURINAGA

NOVEMBER 6 AT 7:30PM

A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of Federico García Lorca, who vanished in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930’s. Andy Garcia stars as Lorca.

Tickets for each of the screenings are FREE! For reservations call 267-239-2941 or go online at filmadelphia.org.

LITTLE ASHES | DIRECTED BY PAUL MORRISON

NOVEMBER 13 AT 7:30PM

Explores the relationships of young artists Federico García Lorca, Salvador Dalí, and Luis Buñuel in 1922 Madrid. Javier Beltrán, Robert Pattinson, and Matthew McNulty star as Lorca, Dalí, and Buñuel, respectively.

BLOOD WEDDINGAlthough Lorca began writing plays at a young age, Blood Wedding was his first theatrical success. His biographer Leslie Stainton describes the play as essentially “a long poem, in which passages of verse and prose combine to produce a lyrical portrait of Spain and its people... Characters throughout the play recall the cycles of nature: the planting and harvesting of crops, the earth’s rotation from day to night, and from birth to death. Had his most distant childhood memories not borne the ‘flavor of the earth,’ Lorca reflected, ‘I could not have written Blood Wedding.’ The play allowed him to capture the details of the Andalusian countryside ‘with the same spirit I felt in my boyhood years.’”

Lorca essentially directed the first production. According to Stainton, “He brought to the task a painter’s sense of composition and a musician’s understanding of timing. Rhythm—the tempo of the performance—was crucial.”

THE THEATER OF CSABA HORVÁTH Director Csaba Horváth began his career as a dancer, performing Hungarian folk dance before moving on to contemporary styles. He later became a choreographer, and finally a theater director, developing a unique style. “The folk dance, especially when you encounter it as young as I did, when one is susceptible to all things, lives for a lifetime,” he says. “It gives you ammunition from which you can move and transform everywhere movement, choreography, dance, and some kind of way of thinking.” This background also carries on in his long collaboration with composer Csaba Ökrös, who (following inspiration of Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály) draws upon Hungarian folk music as inspiration for his melodies.

As a director, Horváth says “the most exciting thing in this game is to handle the proportion of language and motion.” He begins his preparations with some general ideas for a gestural system inspired by his reading of the

piece. “I’m looking for solutions, decodings, which bring forth the essence of the work, the essence inherent in the piece.” But the performance is shaped in rehearsal, through working with the specific actors he has in the room with him. “I’m always looking for the physical toolbox and trying to use it in the most exciting way. But it all depends on how much the material needs. Getting to know this is like stepping on a minefield. But that makes me excited, perhaps because working with the body is more subtle than the traditional acting actor, and requires theatricality. It’s harder to lie with your body.”

In shaping this production, Horváth remarks that “Lorca’s Blood Wedding takes place in a closed and strict environment, where traditions define the life. The story is a sweeping love story that turns against these traditions, and culminates in death. The passionate poetry that characterizes Lorca’s drama is very close to the theater language I like to do. This language builds on a physical presence and the music of the actors outside the text. In my work, I always strive to make the gestural system that I compose bring the audience close to the poetic depths of the text.”

DUENDEIn 1933, while in Buenos Aires to oversee the Argentine premiere of Blood Wedding, Lorca delivered a lecture entitled “Play and Theory of the Duende.” This is generally considered the best expression of Lorca’s aesthetic vision. “Duende” is difficult to explain in words. In Lorca’s native Andalusia, it referred to a quality that certain inspired bullfighters, flamenco musicians and flamenco dancers can sometimes achieve. “The duende is a momentary burst of inspiration, the blush of all that is truly alive, all that the performer is creating at a certain moment,” Lorca said. “It manifests itself principally among musicians and poets of the spoken word . . . for it needs the trembling of the moment and then a long silence.”

Lorca scholar and translator Christopher Maurer identifies four elements that make up Lorca’s vision of duende: “irrationality, earthiness, a heightened awareness of death, and a dash of the diabolical,” - all of which permeate Blood Wedding.

Csaba Horváth says that “duende is present in all my work. Sometimes it is central to a piece I’m working on, like Blood Wedding; at other times it will instinctively come out in my work.

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All that is important to me in performance, character, music, and movement is grounded in duende.”

LORCA ON THEATERLeslie Stainton writes that Lorca “relished the impermanence of the stage. Plays ‘last as long as the performance lasts, and nothing more,’ he said. The beauty of the theater is that, ‘scarcely created, it vanishes. It is the art of the moment. It is built upon sand.’”

Lorca once said: “A people that does not cherish and support its theater is either dead or dying, just as a theater that does not use

laughter and tears to take the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people and the genuine color of its landscape and spirit, has no right to call itself a theater, but should be thought of instead as a game hall or a place for doing that dreadful thing known as ‘killing time.’” He finished with “I know that it is not those people who say, ‘Now, now, now,’ with their eyes fixed on the small jaws of the box office, who are right, but rather those who say, ‘Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow,’ and feel the approach of the new life which is hovering over the world.”

For a deeper look at Lorca’s life, Blood Wedding, Csaba Horváth and other elements of this production, go to blog.wilmatheater.org.

1.Production of Blood Wedding, directed by Anthony Clark, at the Contact Theatre, Manchester, 1987: the wedding guests.

2. Lorca in Granada 1919, aged twenty-one.

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“I always strive to make the gestural system that I compose bring the audience close to the poetic depths of the text. In my experience, actors are much more credible if they shape their role through their bodies. Wilma’s actors are very capable of doing so.”

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Csaba Horváth with Wilma HotHouse after the Blood Wedding workshop in June 2017.

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