Wild Swans Program [pdf] - American Repertory Theater

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Contents FEBRUARY 20124 Artistic Director’s Welcome 27 Donors7 Wild Swans Program 31 General Information25 About the A.R.T. 34 Staff and Emergency Exits26 A.R.T./MXAT InstitutePLUS:36 Guide to Local Theater 42 Guide to Cambridge DiningtheatrebillSTAFFPresident/Publisher: Tim MontgomeryArt Director: Scott RobertoAssociate Art Director: John Herron GendreauAssistant Editor: Paul AdlerVice President Publishing: Rita A. FucilloVice President Advertising: Jacolyn Ann FirestoneSenior Account Executive: Robert LeyVice President Operations: Tyler J. MontgomeryBusiness Manager: Melissa J. O’ReillyInformationTechnology Manager: Mike HippsPublishing services are provided by Theatrebill, a publicationof New Venture Media Group LLC, publisher ofPanorama: The Official Guide to Boston, 332 CongressStreet, Boston, MA 02210, 617-423-3400.WARNING: The photographing or sound recording ofany performance or the possession of any device forsuch photographing or sound recording inside this theatre,without the written permission of the management,is prohibited by law. Violators may be punishedby ejection and violations may render the offender liablefor money damages.EMERGENCIES: In case of emergency, contact theHouse Manager or nearest usher.FIRE NOTICE: Please take a moment to locate the nearestemergency exit. In the event of a fire or other emergency,remain calm and listen for directions frommanagement and/or via our public address system.To advertise in Theatrebill, call 617-423-3400.WILD SWANS 3

Artistic Director’s WelcomePhoto: Dario AcostaWelcome to Wild Swans! I am so glad you’re here toexperience this world premiere stage adaptation of JungChang’s best-selling memoir. A co-production withLondon’s Young Vic Theatre and the Actors TouringCompany, Wild Swans will play in London following theA.R.T. performances, where it will participate in a citywidecultural festival organized around the 2012 OlympicGames. We’re thrilled to be participating in thisinternational collaboration.Since its publication in 1991, Jung Chang’s astonishing family chronicle hassold over 13 million copies in 36 different languages. These days, as a rapidlychanging China seems to dominate the headlines, Chang’s story holds evengreater resonance. Through the lens of one family’s struggle, we see how theearly, hopeful days of the Communist Revolution unfolded into an oppressiveregime and how that era, in turn, gave way to a period of unprecedented growthand prosperity.The epic scale of this visually invigorating production melds the personal storywith the political one. I hope that Wild Swans will inspire a larger conversationabout China, about memoir, and about the intersection of history and psychology.We’ve collaborated with Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies tocurate a Wild Swans discussion series featuring some of the most exciting scholars,artists and authors from our community. Please see further in your programfor dates and details.As always, thank you for joining the experience at the A.R.T., and enjoy theshow!4 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

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THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER,YOUNG VIC and ACTORS TOURING COMPANY PRESENTBYJUNG CHANGADAPTED BYALEXANDRA WOODDIRECTED BYSACHA WARESSCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGNMIRIAM BUETHER TOM RAND D M WOOD GARETH FRYVIDEO DESIGN MOVEMENT DIRECTION PROJECTION DESIGN MUSIC DIRECTIONWANG GONGXIN LEON BAUGH TIM REID JOANNAZENGHUI QIUPUPPET DESIGN ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR US CASTING UK CASTINGMICHAEL FOWKES RAMIN GRAY ZOE ROTTER JULIA HORAN CDGHAIR AND WIGS SOUND ASSOCIATE MOVEMENT ASSOCIATECAMPBELL YOUNG DOMINIC BILKEY JOANNE FONGASSOCIATESRESEARCH AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR STAGE MANAGERSPRODUCTION ASSISTANT KATE HEWITT VICKY BERRYHONG YANE WANGCHRIS DE CAMILLISFirst performance at the Loeb Drama Center on February 11, 2012First Performance at the Young Vic on April 13, 2012Production Sponsors:Ann and Graham Gund Lis Tarlow and Stephen Kay Don and Susan WareWild Swans is a recipient of an “Edgerton Foundation New American Plays” Award.Presented with the support of the British CouncilAdditional support provided by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Truste President and Fellowsof Harvard CollegeWILD SWANS 7

Cast(in order of speaking)Yu-Fang ................................................................................JULYANA SOELISTYODe-Hong ..................................................................................KA-LING CHEUNGShou-Yu ................................................................................................ORION LEETing ..................................................................................................CELESTE DENBolin ....................................................................................................JON KIT LEEHeng ....................................................................................................VICTOR CHIZhen ................................................................................JOANNA ZENGHUI QIUHuifen ............................................................................................JOANNE FONGDr. Wan ................................................................................................ERIC CHANGovernor Lin ..............................................................................RON NAKAHARATeam Leader Chi ................................................................................LES J.N. MAUTeacher Shu ..............................................................................JENNIFER LIM (UK)Er-Hong (child) ....................................................................EMME FUZHEN RICCINiu ....................................................................................NEKHEBET KUM JUCHDai ..................................................................................................ANNIE CHANGWeimin ..............................................................................................OLIVER BILESEr-Hong..............................................................................................KATIE LEUNGAll other named and ensemble roles are played by members of the company.COMMUNITY CHORUS MEMBERS:Kevin Lin (Chorus Leader), Christine An, Christina Chan,LinAnn Ching, DeAnna Choi, HyoJeong Choi, Kenneth Chung,Lily Hong, Mariko Kanto, Lester Kim, Steven Lee, Michelle Merry,Roxanne Morse, Katherine Sao, Jeff Song, Yi-Jun Tan, Michael Tow,Andrew Tung, Giselle Ty, Paul Sung Ventresca, Jie WangAnnie Chang, Eric Chan, Ka-Ling Cheung, Victor Chi, Chris De Camillis,Celeste Den, Jon Kit Lee, Les J.N. Mau, Ron Nakahara, Terri K. Kohler, andJulyana Soelistyo are members of Actors’ Equity Association.Tamara Albachari, Vicky Berry, Oliver Biles, Joanne Fong, Orion Lee,Katie Leung, and Jennifer Lim (UK) are appearing with the permission of Actors’Equity Association pursuant to an exchange program between American Equityand UK Equity.The Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors’ Equity Association andUK Equity for their assistance on this production.Kate Hewitt is supported through the Young Vic/Jerwood Assistant DirectorProgramme.8 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

Deputy Stage Manager..................................................................................Tamara AlbachariAssistant Stage Manager ....................................................................................Terri K. KohlerProduction Supervisor ....................................................................................Diane WillmottDeputy Production Supervisor ..........................................................................Lloyd ThomasAssistant Production Supervisor ..............................................................................Mike AgerDialect Coach ....................................................................................................Majella HurleyCostume Supervisor ..................................................................................................Fizz JonesChinese Costume Advisor ....................................................................................Dai GuijiangAssistant Costume Supervisor ..................................................................................Rose LoveAssistant Set Designer..............................................................................................Lucy SierraProps Buyer (China) ..........................................................................................Chen FengyanWang Gongxin’s video team ......................Zhou Chen, Zhijun, Yao Yu, Yuguang, Young Fu,Shaun Wang, Guoer Lin, Alice and Yao WangFOR THE A.R.T.Chorus Coordinator ........................................................................................Allegra LibonatiProduction Intern......................................................................................................Kevin LinProps Craftsperson ................................................................................................Chris FieldsCostume Crafts ..............................................................................Eric Propp, Jeffrey BurrowsDressers ................................................................................Brian Choinski, Robin RittenourWigs Runner......................................................................................................Emily DamronSwing Dresser ......................................................................................................Amber VonerLight Board Operator ..............................................................................................Kirk MillerVideo Operator..............................................................................................Matthew HoustleCarpenters ..............................Nathaniel Drake, Dan Lincoln, Paul Mayer, Garrett McEntee,Heather Morris, Jon Seiler, Matthew Sebastian, Bartley Stevens, Ben St. LouisPaint Intern ......................................................................................................Benji BoudreauStage Crew ..........................................................................................................Brian MelcherHarvard Office of Career Services Art Fellows........................................Bryan Kauder, Jiayi LiFOR THE YOUNG VICProps Construction Supervisor ......................................................................Emma HaywardProps Buyers ..................................................................................Nafeesah Butt, Ian AndlawProps Makers ..........................Anna Bruder, Penny Spedding, Bella Lagnado, Natasha Piper,Ed Wirtz, Bob Weatherhead, Fiona Ryan, Nick Benjamin, Anna TangPuppet Makers............................................................Jan Zalud, Julia Jeulin, Michael FowkesPuppet Workshop Assistants........................Amber Donovan, Fiona Gourlay, Elizabeth PeckRehearsal Carpenter ..............................................................................................Dario FuscoRehearsal Crew ............................................................................Jack Harding, Stuart FarnellStage Management Assistant ....................................................................Tamykha PattersonProduction Assistant ..............................................................................................Ben BrownDyeing ..................................................................................................Nicola Killeen TextilesBound feet shoes ....................................................................................................Lewis JonesTrainee Directors supported by the Boris Karloff Foundation....Meline Danielewicz, Ola InceWild Swans plays at the Young Vic in April 2012 as part of World Stages London,a season of exceptional new shows celebrating the cosmopolitan diversity ofLondon. It is a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between 8 leading London theatresand 12 UK and international co-producers, including the A.R.T. and the Young Vic.Wild Swans is part of the Young Vic’s International Programme and is supported byWith special thanks to Jon & NoraLee Sedmak and American Airlinesfor their generous support of this production.WILD SWANS 9

The A.R.T., Young Vic and Actors Touring Company would like to thank:Katie Chapman, Ed Cooper at XL Video, Philip Dodd, Frankie Fathers, Charlotte Hone atHitachi Europe Ltd, Jackie Jupp Project Management, Lara Mattinson, Jo Maund, MeredithOakes, Matt Padden at National Theatre of Scotland, Simon and Midge Palley, BettinaPatel, Georgina Rae at Mark Rubinstein Ltd, prompt side, Rock at War Productions,Tealwood Printing Services, Peque Varela.For UK filmed sequences:Director of Photography ..................................................................................David SchwartzHair and make-up ........................................................................................Jenny HammondExtras ..............................................................................Hong Cameron, Lannah Carbonilla,Christopher Chan, Jade Chau, Tse-Yan Choi, Sharon Chou, Richard Chow,Ricki Chow, Naomi Christie, Olivia Chung, Meline Danielewicz, Cindy Huang, SophieHung, Richard Lam, Hsiang-Ju Lin, Lin Yan Liu, Yan-Ping Mew,Vivian Ng, Linh Nguyen, Luke Rabbito, Victoria So, Angie Teh, Rosaline Ting, ChinhTruong, Hong Yane Wang, Annie Wong, Ian Wong, Marion Yau,Michael Yim, Lucy ZhangWe would also like to thank all the participantsin the production’s development workshops:Anoushka Athique, Charlotte Austin, Fraser Ayres, Rachel Bagshaw, Henriette Baker,Amy Ball, Emma Baggott, Pun Bandhu, Sarah Bedi, Russell Bender, Polly Bennett, DavidBetz-Heinemann, Noah Birksted-Breen, Nick Borsack, Alex Brown, Cecily Boys, NinaBrazier, Brid Brennan, Daniel Burgess, Francesca Camozzi, Cecilia Carey, Danny Cerqueira,Valentina Cecshi, Raymond Chu, Chipo Chung, Cathal Cleary, Meline Danielwicz, SashaMilavic Davies, Bill Davis, Selma Dimitrijevic, William Drew, William Edelsten, JessicaEdwards, Tilly Edwards, Emma Faulkner, Tamsin Fessey, Adrian Figueroa, RebeccaFrecknall, Karina Garnett, Sophie Gilpin, Burn Gorman, Polly Graham, Heidi Griffiths,Rikki Henry, Melanie Hillyard, Petra Hjortsberg, Ola Ince, Bettina John, Jackie Kane,Ninaz Khodaiji, Julienne Hanzelka Kim, Erin Koster, Chryssanthi Kouri, Wendy Kweh,Nina Kwok, Klas Lagerlund, Sophie Larsmon, Hoon Lee, Rachel Leonard, Katherine Leung,Siu Hun Li, Bronwyn Lim, Effie Loy, Jonathan Man, Lyndsey Marshal, Nadine Marshall,Sandra Maturana, Julia Maxfield, Tim McMullan, Will Measham, Clive Mendus, RemiMerchant, Jo Mei, Erica Miller, Melissa Miller, Clare McKenna, Remi Merchant, AnnaMorrissey, Amy Mulholland, Diana Mumbi, Georgia Murphy, Ron Nakahara, AyaNakamura, Mez Ndukwe, Alison Newman, Pui Shan Ng, Mohsen Nouri, Kady HoweyNunn, Olivia Oguma, Tanja Pagnuco, Martin Parr, Natasha Pipper, Anna Privitera, LukeRabbito, John Ramm, Paul Ready, Richard Rees, Helena Rice, Hannah Rowlands, JamesSaito, Sarah Scharf, Jon Norman Schneider, Rajha Shakiry, Bright Sheng, David Shih,Sophia Skiles, Eleanor Slade, Natasa Stamatari, Chloe Stephens, Mark Stevenson, AlexSutton, Tim Sutton, Emily Swains, Jordan Thaler, Moi Tran, Joanna Turner, ChingValdes-Aran, Ben Vardy, Nora Wardell, Reuben Webb, Roy Weise, Benedict Wong,Tom Wu, Zoe Zak, Shane Zaza.Oskar Eustis, Maria Goyanes, Eric Louie, Heidi Griffiths, Jordan Thaler, and all at ThePublic Theater.10 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

Adapting Wild SwansAssistant Director Kate Hewitt interviews director Sacha Wares,scenic designer Miriam Buether, and playwright Alexandra WoodKate Hewitt: How did this projectcome about?Sacha Wares: In 2006 David Lan [theArtistic Director of the Young Vic]approached me to ask if I’d be interested inadapting Wild Swans for the stage. Iinitially began exploring the idea withMiriam, who I’ve worked with as a designerfor the past eleven years. Together we spenttwo years workshopping and developingideas until Alex came on board as a writerin 2008. Jung Chang [the author of WildSwans] has been very supportive andinvolved in the process from the outset.KH: Why did you decide to join theproject, Alex?Alexandra Wood: A couple of things appealedto me about the project. I didn’tknow all that much about Communism orChina, and it was something I wanted tounderstand better. But the main appeal wasthe opportunity to tell such an epic story.This didn’t necessarily mean writing a fourhour play or for a cast of hundreds! But totell the story of a family living through andplaying a part in the huge societal changesthat happened in twentieth century Chinafelt like an exciting challenge.KH: Can you tell me a bit about yourcollaborative process?SW: What has been especially exciting forme is the way that the design and scriptingprocesses have informed one another. Inmy experience, normally the play isfinished and then the design comes afterthat, but in this case the visual concept forthe play came first out of the early workshopexplorations. Then, over the lastfifteen months a huge creative energy hascome from the fact that as Miriam has beendesigning, Alex has been writing and rewriting,and the two processes have reallyinfluenced the development of the other.It’s been very creative and organic.AW: The design has informed the writing,and vice versa. When I’ve been stuck, it’sbeen really useful to take a step back andthink more generally about how aparticular act will look or what the feel is.KH: How did the production conceptemerge?SW: Before we had a script, we knew wewanted to capture a sense of the enormousupheaval that Jung Chang’s family andChina as a whole experienced over thetwentieth-century. These are characters thatgo through massive, unprecedentedchange. We wanted to find a way to putthat on stage, to give expression to the ideaof a people trying to remould the worldaround them, despite that being aseemingly impossible task. I rememberreaching the end of the book andwondering how it was possible that afamily could have lived through all thathappened. We wanted the audience to goout with that same feeling.Miriam Buether: Very early on we had avery strong sense of a five-act narrative. Weestablished five spaces that we felt shouldbe significantly different; in mood, feel andlook.SW: A key moment in the development ofthe concept was when Miriam and I were atan exhibition of contemporary Chinesevideo art at the ICA and discovered WangGongxin’s [Video Artist] work. We cameacross a fantastic piece of his called “MySun,” which captured something strikinglyclose to our vision for Act Four, both interms of place and feeling.MB: It felt very internal. We wanted tofocus on the state of the father’s mind,rather than a real location.SW: Much later we made contact withGongxin and he came on board to createthe video design for Acts Four and Five. HisWILD SWANS 11

ada pting wild swans (continued)influence has been far reaching because likeJung he also lived through the CulturalRevolution and so had many insights tooffer the production.KH: Where did the idea of using puppetrycome from?SW: It came out of the very first workshopexplorations into different ways of tellingthe story.MB: One of these was puppetry, whichseemed a big part of Chinese performingart.SW: Yes, and there was a practical need fora backstory. In the book, there’s a lot ofstory before you get into the Revolution, bywhich point the reader is aware of theproblems in China’s society and becomesinvested in the idea of the need for change.In theatre we don’t have the luxury of somuch time for a backstory. With a puppetyou can very quickly say, “this is my fatherand here’s what happened to him.” Alsothere’s something about the charm of apuppet which can sidestep the cynicismthat the audience might come in withabout Communism. And puppets aremeaningful thematically. The centralcharacters, who are the puppeteers at thebeginning, think they are the oneschanging the world. But by the end of theplay they have discovered they didn’t haveanything like the agency they initiallybelieved. They didn’t have the control.AW: There was only one puppet master.SW: Also there is something in therelationship between puppetry and video asopposites in a century. The naivety of thesimple rod puppets verses the complexityof modern technology that helps give thearc of a century of change.KH: How did you choose which partof the book to focus on? Why thestory of Jung Chang’s parents?AW: I think we agreed where the heart ofthe story was and that most of the dramalay in the parents’ relationship.SW: There is, of course, a version of thisstory that could start right back with thegrandmother’s story and the concubines asin the book, but something about that feltto me to be filmic in its scope. Much of thedrama in what the grandmother goesthrough lies in the tension between innerthought and outer action. Whereas themiddle part of the original book; the storyof the husband and wife and the conflictbetween them, felt like it had much morepotential for stage action.KH: What has it been like writing aplay inspired by such a well-knownbook?AW: I tried to focus on how to tell thisstory on stage, rather than the dauntingnumber of copies of the book that havebeen sold!SW: The script has been on a long andcomplex journey. There have been manydrafts. With each, we worked hard to find away to stay true to the spirit and scale ofthe original book while looking for thestrongest dramatic line. Jung herself hasbeen a tremendous help in this process andhas been a very inspiring collaborator. Ithas been a real privilege to work so closelywith her, although often strange toremember that what we are discussing isnot just the stuff of drama, but her life, herfamily. Amongst the most memorablemoments in the process for me have beentimes when mid conversation about theplay Jung has picked up the telephone toher mother in China to clarify a detail. Atmoments like that I was reminded just howrecent and fresh this history is.KH: Why are you interested in tellingthis story?MB: Having grown up in East Germany,I have personally lived throughCommunism, and I find the story of thefather very interesting. He totally believesin Communism. Of course Marx’s ideas arebeautiful, but in practice they don’t work.12 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

ada pting wild swans (continued)His journey from enthusiasm for theseideologies to disillusionment is reallyinteresting to me.SW: At the beginning of the book there’ssuch belief and hope, and it goes so horriblywrong for the family. It left me with thequestion: what is the legacy of that? It iscurious that when you talk to a lot ofyoung people today, they don’t know thevocabulary, philosophy, or history ofCommunism. There’s a whole generationcoming through who haven’t experienced aworld in which Communism is widespread,and who don’t know much about this veryrecent period of history. I feel this story isnot to be so quickly forgotten.AW: I’m interested in exploring theindividual's place in society, and this storyis very much about that. Yes, it’s set inChina, and certain details are unique to itstime and place, but the story is aboutpeople wanting to change things for thebetter and discovering whether that’spossible, or not, and the costs you pay fortrying. I think that has universal relevance.KH: What has been the biggestchallenge so far?SW: The scale of the production is enormous,because of the ambitious designconcept. It’s like doing five completelydifferent shows.MB: And it’s a great challenge to design aplay which starts in 1946 and ends inmodern times.SW: And on top of that we’re producing intwo different countries, UK and the US.MB: And costumes and props are bought inChina.SW: The lighting designer is in the States,and the video designer is in China. Theinternational dialogue aspect of it has beenhighly challenging (especially with thelanguage and time differences), but at thesame time exhilarating.MAKE A SMART MOVEVISITTHE GAMES PEOPLE PLAYForeign and Domestic Board Gamesand Table GamesChess Sets, Clocks, BooksMathematical Puzzles and ToysJig Saw Puzzles from 35 to 32,000 PiecesSince 1974“We’re A.R.T. fans!”watertownsavings.comNot your average bank.Member FDIC Member DIFWILD SWANS 13

The Art of the MemoirFrom the introduction toWild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung ChangWild Swans was first published in 1991. The event changed my life,because I finally became a writer.I had always dreamed of being a writer. But when I was growing upin China, the idea of writing for publication seemed out of the question.In those years, the country was under Mao’s tyranny, and mostwriters suffered appallingly in endless political persecutions. Manywere denounced, some sent to labor camps, and some driven to suicide.In 1966 through 1967, during Mao’s Great Purge misnamed theCultural Revolution, the majority of books in people’s homes were burned. My father, whohad been a Communist official but had fallen victim, was forced to burn his beloved collection,and this was one of the main things that drove him to insanity. Even writing foroneself was extremely dangerous. I had to tear up the first poem I ever wrote, which wason my sixteenth birthday on 25 March 1968, and flush it down the toilet because my father’spersecutors had come to raid our apartment.But I had an urge to write, and kept on writing with an imaginary pen. In the next fewyears, I worked as a peasant and an electrician. While I was spreading manure in the paddyfields and checking power distribution at the top of electricity poles, I would polish longpassages in my mind, or commit short poems to memory.I came to Britain in September 1978. Mao had died two years earlier, and China was beginningto emerge from the stifling isolation he had imposed on the country. For the firsttime since the founding of Communist China, scholarships for studying abroad wereawarded on academic, not political, grounds. I was able to leave the country after takingthese exams, and was perhaps the first person from the landlocked province of Sichuan,which then had a population of about 90 million, to study in the West since 1949. Withincredible good fortune, at last I had the freedom to write, and to write what I wanted. […]But it was years before I wrote Wild Swans. Subconsciously, I resisted the idea of writing.I was unable to dig deep into my memory. In the violent Cultural Revolution between1966 and 1976, my family suffered atrociously. Both my father and my grandmother diedpainful deaths. I did not want to relive my grandmother’s years of untreated illness, my father’simprisonment, and my mother’s kneeling on broken glass. The few lines I producedwere superficial and lifeless. I was not happy with them.Then, in 1988, my mother came to London to stay with me. This was her first tripabroad. I wanted her to enjoy herself thoroughly, and spent much time taking her out.After a short while, I noticed she was not having the time of her life. Something was onher mind; she was restless. One day, she declined a shopping trip, and settled at my blackdining table on which a bouquet of golden daffodils shone. Cupping a mug of jasmine teain her hands, she told me that what she most wanted to do was talk to me.My mother talked every day for months. For the first time in our lives, she told meabout herself and about my grandmother. My grandmother, I learned, had been the concubineof a warlord general, and my mother had joined the Communist underground atthe age of fifteen. Both of them had eventful lives in a China that was tossed about bywars, foreign invasions, revolutions, and then a totalitarian tyranny. In the general maelstromthey were involved in poignant romances. I learned about my mother’s ordeals, herclose shaves with death, and her love for my father and emotional conflicts with him. Ialso came to know the agonizing details of my grandmother’s footbinding: how her feet14 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

ChronologyFrom Wild Swans, by Jung Chang1911: Manchu empire overthrown; republic; warlords.1927: Kuomintang under Chiang Kai-shek unifies most of China.1931: Japan invades Manchuria.1934–35: Long March.1937: Japan attacks deep into China.Communist-Kuomintang alliance.1945: Japanese surrender.Chiang Kai-shek1946–1949/50: Kuomintang-Communist Civil War.1949: People’s Republic proclaimed.1950: Land reform. China enters Korean War (to 1953).1951: Campaign to suppress “counter-revolutionaries.”1955: Campaign to “uncover hidden counterrevolutionaries.”1957: Anti-Rightist Campaign.1958: Great Leap Forward.Mao Zedong1959: Great Famine (to 1961). Campaign to catch “rightist opportunists.”1963: Cult of Mao escalates.1966: Cultural Revolution starts.1972: Nixon visit.1973: Deng Xiaoping reappears.1976: Zhou Enlai dies; Deng ousted.Demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Mao dies.1977: Deng back to power.Richard Nixon and Mao Zedong16 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

The Cultural Revolutionand Its Impact on ChinaTo read more about the series please visit our website at:americanrepertorytheater.org/culturalrevolutionseriesTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14Following the 7:30 p.m. performance: Post-performance discussion with A.R.T. Artistic Director DianePaulus, Young Vic Artistic Director David Lan, and Wild Swans author Jung ChangTHURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16Following the 7:30 p.m. performance: Post-performance discussion with Wild Swansauthor Jung ChangSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18Following the 2 p.m. matinee: “Literary and Visual Representations of the Cultural Revolution”Eugene Wang,Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard UniversityDavid Der-wei Wang,Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center forSinological Studies, Harvard UniversityJie Li,College Fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard UniversityWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22Following the 7:30 p.m. performance: “The Psychological Impact of the Cultural Revolution”Dr. Arthur Kleinman,Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of MedicalAnthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Victor andWilliam Fung Director of Harvard University’s Asia Center.THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23Following the 7:30 p.m. performance: “The Art of Memoir”Claire Conceison,Professor of Theater Studies and Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke UniversityXueping Zhong,Professor of Chinese and Director of Chinese Program, Tufts UniversityTUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28Following the 7:30 p.m. performance: “What the Cultural Revolution Means for China Today”Elizabeth Perry,Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard UniversityWEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29Following the 7:30 p.m. performance: “Collecting Oral Histories of Chinese-Born Seniors in Boston”Nicole Newendorp,Lecturer and Assistant Director of Studies at Harvard University’s Committee on Degrees in Social StudiesTHURSDAY, MARCH 1Following the 7:30 p.m. performance: “Being Foreign in the Cultural Revolution”Anthony Saich,Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs,Harvard UniversityWILD SWANS 17

OLIVER BILESWeiminA.R.T.: Debut. Theater:Why the Lion Danced?,Yellow Earth Theatre;Much Ado About Nothing,Three Sisters, The Man ofMode, A MidsummerNight’s Dream, The Pillowman, MountviewAcademy of Theatre Arts. Television: “Houseof Anubis,” Nickelodeon. Graduate ofMountview Academy of Theatre Arts.ERIC CHANDr. WanA.R.T.: Debut. OriginalBroadway companies:Flower Drum Song (Mr. Lee,Broadway revival company),Miss Saigon(Assistant Comissar),SHOGUN The Musical (Omi-san), Anything Goes(Louie), revival, Lincoln Center. New York:Take Me America (Winner Best Actor 2006,Midtown International Theatre Festival).Film/Television: New York I Love You; 3 A.M.,Showtime; “Life On Mars,” ABC; “Fringe,”FOX; “Lipstick Jungle,” NBC; “As The WorldTurns,” CBS.ANNIE CHANGDaiA.R.T.: Debut. New York:Decade, La Mama, HaroldClurman Festival of theArts; The Burkinis,Abingdon Theatre; AName Without a Game,Looking Glass Theatre; T.A.B., ManhattanTheatre Repertory; Equity Fights AIDSShakespeare Benefit, The Connelly Theatre.Regional: The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet,Camino Real Playhouse; Miss Saigon, StarlightBowl. Film/Television: “One Life to Live,”“Girlhattan.” B.F.A. from NYU Tisch School ofthe Arts, Stella Adler Studio.KA-LING CHEUNGDe-HongA.R.T.: Debut. NationalTour: The King and I,Theater Under the Stars.Regional: 25th AnnualPutnam County SpellingBee, Weston Playhouse,CastPortland Center Stage; Metamorphoses,Pittsburgh Public Theater, Artists RepertoryTheater; A Midsummer Night’s Dream,Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; AnIntelligent Design of Jenny Chow, PortlandCenter Stage, San Jose Repertory; A ChristmasCarol, American Conservatory Theatre; Romeoand Juliet, American Conservatory Theatre—Zeum; The Tempest, L.A. Women’s ShakespeareCo.; Once on this Island, Flower Drum Song, TheWestern Stage; It’s a Bird, it’s a plane, it’sSuperman, 42nd St. Moon. New York: Othello,Twelfth Night, Leviathan Lab; The Tempest,Theater1010; 7.11 Convenience Theater,Desipina & Co. Film/Television: “Law andOrder: SVU,” “One Life to Live,” China Dolls.Graduate of American Conservatory Theatre.Proud member of Leviathan Lab andHomunculus Mask Theater.VICTOR CHIHengA.R.T.: Debut. Regional:Angel Street, LizardTheater; Layover in L.A.,Alexandria Hotel BlackBox; Making It Big, RavenPlayhouse; Persimmons inWinter, MACLA San Jose; The Waiting Room,The Visit, Studio Theater, Riverside.Film/Television: Heartburn, My Name is CharlieWong, Internal Behaviors, “Tim and EricAwesome Show.” Graduate of the Universityof California, Riverside.CELESTE DENTingA.R.T.: Debut. Regional:Laws of Sympathy,Playwrights’ Arena; TheJoy Luck Club, East WestPlayers; Othello, TheBoston Court; BetweenTwo Friends, Island, Actors’ Theatre ofLouisville; The Merchant of Venice, L.A.Women’s Shakespeare. Film/Television: LarryCrowne; “The Doctor,” Warner Brothers;“Criminal Minds,” CBS. Graduate of theCalifornia Institute of the Arts.18 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

cast (continued)JOANNE FONGMovement Associate/HuifenA.R.T.: Debut. RambertDance Company; Rosas,Belgium; Royal ExchangeTheatre Company;National Theatre,London; Quarantine Theatre; National DanceCompany Wales; Robin DingemanProductions; DV8 Physical Theatre; Bock andVincenzi; Jeremy James and Company; MarkBruce Company; Arc Dance Company; Reflex,Holland; Ricochet. Winner of Best FemaleAward by the Critic’s Dance Circle for the roleof Nastasya Flippovna in Elegy. Choreographerand co-director for Snag Project; Independentchoreographer Welsh Independent Dance;Wales Millenium Centre; Arnolfini, Bristol;Opera production of Nabucco, Japan; NationalDance Company Wales. Joanne is an AssociateChoreographer for Welsh Dance Productions.NEKHEBETKUM JUCHNiuA.R.T.: Debut. Regional:The King And I, Gypsy,North Shore MusicTheatre. Community:Winter on Broadway,Wakefield Repertory Theatre; Footloose, MillisTheatre Group; A Christmas Carol, AttleboroCommunity Theatre; The Nutcracker Suite,Terpsichore. Television/Film: I Hate YouDad. 6th grade student at Beverly’s BriscoeMiddle School.JON KIT LEEBolinA.R.T.: Debut. Film/Television: Shanghai Hotel,A Crime, Romeo Must Die,The Corrupter.ORION LEEShou-YuA.R.T.: Debut. U.K. credits:The Wheel (winner ofFringe First and AmnestyInternational Awards),National Theatre ofScotland; Enron (winner ofTMA Best New Play Award), Headlong; ThePeddler’s Tale, In Extremis. Appeared in multipleproductions at LAMDA, including ThePrisoner’s Dilemma, Twelfth Night, The CherryOrchard, Our Boys. Film/Television: Macbeth(title role), The Shorthouse Organization;Creeping Zero, Dan Films; The Skyfall, MGM;“The Jury,” “Silent Witness,” BBC.KATIE LEUNGEr-HongA.R.T.: Debut. Films: HarryPotter and the Goblet ofFire, Harry Potter and theOrder of the Phoenix, HarryPotter and the Half-BloodPrince, Harry Potter and theDeathly Hallows (Cho Chang). Television:“Agatha Christie’s Poirot—Cat Amongst thePigeons.”JENNIFERLIM (UK)Teacher ShuA.R.T.: Debut. London:The Good Person ofSetzuan, Royal NationalTheatre; Daughter of theRiver, Mu-lan TheatreCompany; Pork Bellies, Theatre Centre. Othertheater: Speaking to Him, BirminghamRepertory Theatre; Hecuba, Foursight Theatre.Film/Television: Piercing Brightness; Womb; Actof Grace; When Evil Calls; Hostel (Kana); Code46; Rogue Trader; Red; Happy McGee; “SpiritWarriors,” “Holby City,” “The League ofGentlemen,” BBC; “Waves of Courage,” “TheBroadcaster,” TCS. Radio: “The Story of theStone,” BBC World Service; “And the Rain myDrink,” “The Flower Room,” BBC Radio 4.LES J.N. MAUTeam Leader ChiA.R.T.: Debut. New York:Tibet Does Not Exist,Theatre for HumanRights; Rashomon, The JoyLuck Club, Forbidden CityBlues, Wilderness, Eat aBowl of Tea, Empress of China, Teahouse, PanAsian Repertory; Pacific Overtures, YorkTheatre Company; Dragonwings, LincolnCenter Institute; The Cherry Orchard, AMidsummer Night’s Dream, Purgatory, NationalAsian American Theatre. Regional: The KingStag, Yale Repertory; No Foreigners Beyond ThisPoint, Baltimore Center Stage; Dragonwings,WILD SWANS 19

cast (continued)Syracuse Stage, Children’s Theatre Company,Fulton Opera House; Legacy Codes, HangerTheatre; Twelve Angry Men, MerrimackRepertory; Offshore, San Francisco MimeTroupe; Annie Get Your Gun, Depot Theatre;Where It Came From, O’Neill Theatre Center.Film/Television/Animation: Too Big To Fail, AuPair III, Corn, Martin & Orloff, Face, A BrightShining Lie, Deadline, “Gideon Oliver,” “TheOnion News Network,” “Law & Order,” “Law& Order: SVU,” “Law & Order: CriminalIntent, “Naked Brothers Band,” “MadiganMen,” “As the World Turns,” “Macy’s ‘LittleSpirit’,” “Grand Theft Auto III,” “Grand TheftAuto IV.”RON NAKAHARAGovernor LinA.R.T.: Debut. New York:Rashomon, Pan AsianRepertory Theatre; Earthand Sky, Second Stage; TheThree Sisters, Pan Asian;Romeo and Juliet, NYSF/Public Theatre; As You Like It, NYSF/PublicTheatre; Danton’s Death, LaMama E.T.C.; TheSchool for Wives, NATCO; A Midsummer Night’sDream, Pan Asian. Regional: The Merchant ofVenice, Hartford Stage Co.; Comedy of Errors,The Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.; The Screens,The Guthrie Theatre; Othello, Alliance TheatreAtlanta; The Empress of China, CincinnatiPlayhouse; Cyrano, ACT, San Francisco; Tamingof the Shrew, ACT; Diary of a Scoundrel, HawaiiPublic Theatre. Film/Television: College RoadTrip, I Think I Love My Wife, Sleepwalk With Me(upcoming), The 22, “The Good Wife,”“Fringe,” “3 LBS.,” “Whoopi,” “CosbyMysteries,” “Law & Order,” “Law & OrderSVU,” “One Life to Live,” “As the WorldTurns,” “All My Children,” “Pearl, TheMiniseries,” “Hawaii 5-O” (the original).Studied acting at University of Hawaii.Trained with Kristen Linklater (Voice),Kikunobu Onoe (Kabuki acting and dance),and National Treasure of Japan in Kyogen,Nomura Mansaku.JOANNAZENGHUI QIUMusic Direction/ZhenA.R.T.: Debut. Principalmusician for Mei LanfangBeijing Opera Companyand London Jing KunOpera Association.Performed in concerts at the Royal OperaHouse, Queen Elizabeth Hall, BirminghamSymphony Hall, and WOMEX & WOMADworld music festivals. Music director/performerin stage productions including GoldenDragon, ATC; Why the Lion Danced, YellowEarth; Slippery Mountain, Not So Loud; contributorto Monkey: Journey to the West. Graduateof Tianjin Opera School and the ChinaNational Beijing Opera College. Plays thirteendifferent instruments.EMME FUZHENRICCIEr-Hong (child)A.R.T.: Debut. Theater:Rudolph the Red NoseReindeer (Baby Rudolph),Taylor School; WillyWonka (Matilda, Oompa-Loompa), Foxboro Recreational. Print: Disney’sFamily Fun Magazine (February 2012, April2011), Disney’s Family Fun KID’s Magazine(Back Cover, November/December 2011),Vantel Pearl Catalog (2011, 2009). Arts andSpecial Skills: Boston Ballet School(2006–2009), Foxboro Classical BalletAcademy (2011–Current), Sharon ChineseSchool (2007–Current), U.S. Figure SkatingBasic Skills Member (2006–Current), DynastyModels & Talent, Boston, MA. Loves her familyand dogs.JULYANASOELISTYOYu-FangA.R.T: Children ofHeracles directed by PeterSellars. New York: TheGlorious Ones (Armanda),Lincoln Center; On TheTown, City Center; Pericles (Marina), BAM;Golden Child (Tony nomination, DramaLeague, Clarence Derwent Award), Broadway.Regional: Iphigenia At Aulis (Yale RepertoryTheatre), Macbeth (Center Stage), Cymbeline(Intiman), Naomi's Road (SCT). More recently,Julyana played Ariel in The Tempest withChristopher Plummer at the StratfordShakespeare Festival. Film: The Tempest, EarthlyPossessions, Bringing Out The Dead. Julyana receivedher M.F.A. from the AmericanConservatory Theater. She lives in New Yorkwith her husband and their children, Cocoand Leon.20 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

JUNG CHANGAuthorJung Chang was born in Sichuan Province,China in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution(1966–1976) she worked as a peasant, a barefootdoctor, a steelworker and an electrician beforebecoming an English-language student. In 1978she moved to Britain and in 1982 became thefirst person from the People’s Republic of Chinato earn a PhD from a British university. WildSwans and her other best-selling book, Mao: TheUnknown Story (with Jon Halliday), have beentranslated into more than 40 languages.ALEXANDRA WOODAdapterAlexandra’s play, The Eleventh Capital, was producedby the Royal Court as part of their YoungWriters’ Festival in 2007, for which she wonthe George Devine Award for Most PromisingPlaywright. She was one of the writers to contributeto Decade, directed by Rupert Goold,which explored the legacy of 9/11 ten years on.Other plays include: The Andes (a finalist forthe Susan Smith Blackburn Award); Thirty TwoYears Is Nothing and Expecting, BAC; Unbroken,Gate Theatre; Miles To Go, Latitude Festival; TheLion’s Mouth, Rough Cuts at the Royal Court;and the radio play Twelve Years, BBC 4.Creative TeamAward for Theatre in Scotland), Way to Heaven,Cock, Royal Court Theatre; Judgement Day (2009Evening Standard Award nomination), Whenthe Rain Stops Falling, Almeida Theatre;Everybody Loves a Winner, ManchesterInternational Festival; Government Inspector, Inthe Red and Brown Water (2008 EveningStandard Award Nomination), The Good Soul ofSzechuan, generations, The Bee, Red Demon,Young Vic; Six Characters in Search of an Author,Chichester, WE, Sidney; The Bacchae, Realism,National Theatre of Scotland, EIF; Guantanamo:Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, TricycleTheatre, WE, New York and San Francisco; RedDemon, The Bee, written/directed Hideki Noda,Japan; Long Time Dead, pool (no water), TheatreRoyal Plymouth; Trade, RSC at Soho Theatre.Dance: Body of Poetry, Komische Oper Berlin;Hartstocht, Introdans, Neatherland; Possibly Six,Tenderhooks, Canadian National Ballet; Opera:Anna Nicole, ROH; Trittico/Suor Angelica, ROH;Turandot, ENO; The Sacrifice, WNO. Additionalawards: 2008 Hospital Club Creative Award forTheatre; Overall winner of The Linbury Prizefor Stage Design in 1999. Born in Germany,Miriam trained in theatre design at CentralSaint Martin’s College of Art and Design,London and in costume design at theAkademie für Kostüm Design, Hamburg.SACHA WARESDirectorA.R.T.: Debut. Sacha is an Associate Director ofboth the Royal Court and Young Vic Theatres inLondon. Her recent work includes Roy Williams’Sucker Punch, debbie tucker green’s random, andMike Bartlett’s My Child (all at Royal Court).Other work includes debbie tucker green’s generations(Young Vic) and trade (Royal ShakespeareCompany), Michel Houllebecq’s Platform (ICA),Caryl Churchill’s A Number at Theatre ProjectTokyo. She was also co-director of Guantanamo:“Honor Bound to Defend Freedom” at the TricycleTheatre in 2004, which transferred to London’sWest End and New York.MIRIAM BUETHERScenic DesignerA.R.T.: Debut. Theater: King Lear, PublicTheater; Decade, St Katherine’s Dock, Headlong;Earthquakes in London (2011 Olivier Awardnomination, 2010 Evening Standard Award),National Theatre; Sucker Punch (2010 EveningStandard Award), Get Santa, Relocated, My Child,The Wonderful World of Dissocia (2004/5 CriticsTOM RANDCostume DesignerA.R.T: Debut. Costume credits: West End: ThePhiladelphia Story; Boston Marriage, DonmarWarehouse; Medea; Twelve Angry Men; Ashes toAshes—world premiere; The Hothouse; What TheButler Saw; Three Tall Women; A Letter ofResignation; Taking Sides; Burn This; and Holiday.Regional: Quartermaine’s Terms, Tour. Set andCostume credits: Off Broadway: Beau Brummelland Cooking For Kings, The Ideas Foundry/59E59.West End: The Birthday Party; Relative Values; AKind of Alaska, The Lover, The Collection, DonmarWarehouse. Regional: An Ideal Husband,Moonstone, The Importance of Being Ernest, RoyalExchange Theatre, Manchester. Over thirty featurefilm costume credits including: The Count of MonteCristo; Un Pont Entre Deux Rives, directed by GerardDepardieu; A Business Affair; The Power of One;Young Toscanini, directed by Franco Zeffirelli; Eleni,directed by Peter Yates; The Pirates of Penzance; TheShooting Party; The French Lieutenant’s Woman(nominated for a BAFTA and Oscar), directed byKarel Reisz and The Duellists (nominated for aBAFTA), directed by Ridley Scott. First Prize at theWILD SWANS 21

crea tive team (continued)Bandiero D’Argento Festival in Italy for contributionto the art of costume design.D M WOODLighting DesignerA.R.T.: Romance, Romeo and Juliet. Recent credits:Werther, Minnesota Opera; Die Liebe DerDanae, Bard Summerscape; Il Trittico, Anna Nicole(world premiere Co-Design), Royal Opera House.Ms. Wood has also designed productions forVirginia Opera, Long Beach Opera, Opéra deMontréal, Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Colorado,Houston Grand Opera, Canadian OperaCompany, Opern-Haus Graz (Austria), and theSavonlinna Opera (Finland). Her work in theatreincludes designs for Contemporary AmericanTheater Festival (CATF), Primary Stages—NYC,NYSF—The Public Theater, Children’s TheatreCompany (Minneapolis), Alabama ShakespeareFestival, Baltimore Centerstage, Trinity RepertoryCompany, and Philadelphia Theatre Company.GARETH FRYSound DesignerA.R.T.: Debut. United States: Black Watch, NationalTheatre of Scotland, U.S. tour; Richard III, BAM;The Overwhelming, Roundabout Theatre Co.; OneEvening, Lincoln Centre; Waves, Duke on 42nd,NY; The Noise of Time, Complicite/Emerson StringQuartet, U.S. tour; Strange Poetry, Walt DisneyConcert Hall. United Kingdom: The Master &Margarita, Shun-kin, Endgame, Complicite; Dancingat Lughnasa, The Old Vic; The Prisoner of SecondAvenue, The Old Vic/West End; Hamlet, Joe Turner’sCome and Gone, Sweet Nothings, Young Vic;Wastwater, Chicken Soup with Barley, The City,Harvest, Under the Whaleback, Mountain Language,Royal Court; Five Stages of Truth, V&A; Babel, StanWon’t Dance; No Idea, Improbable; Theatre ofBlood, Improbable/National Theatre; Beauty andthe Beast, The Cat in the Hat, Pains of Youth, SomeTrace of Her, Attempts on Her Life, Waves, TheOverwhelming, National Theatre; A Matter of Lifeand Death, Kneehigh/National Theatre; LivingCosts, DV8; Macbeth, Out of Joint; Othello, FranticAssembly; The Fahrenheit Twins, Told by an Idiot;Fräulein Julie, Schaubühne Berlin; Die Wellen,Schauspiel Cologne. Gareth is the recipient of twoOlivier Awards, Best Sound Design, for BlackWatch and Waves.WANG GONGXINVideo DesignerA.R.T.: Debut. Wang Gongxin is one of China’smost respected and influential contemporaryartists. His work Here? Or There? (created with LinTianmiao)is considered to be among the most importantworks in recent years. His piece The Sky ofBrooklyn: Digging a Hole in Beijing was one of thefirst site-specific installations in China. His workon video includes The Old Bench, Baby Talk, PublicHallway, and Shepard. His work has been exhibitedwidely all over the world. In the UK he has beenpresented at the V&A, the ICA and Tate Liverpool.LEON BAUGHMovement DirectorA.R.T.: Debut. Dancer: In Your Rooms, Uprising,Political Mother, Hofesh Shechter; Lullaby, Park,Jasmin Vardimo; Masurca Fogo (Walrus), PinaBausch. Leon has also worked with with Stan WontDance and Frantic Assembly. Choreographer:Sucker Punch (2010 Olivier Award for Best TheatreChoreography), Royal Court Theatre. He is also asports injury therapist and training Osteopath.TIM REIDProjection DesignerA.R.T.: Debut. Tim has designed video effects andplayback systems for shows that range from experimentalsmall-scale works to full-scale opera, balletand theater productions. He has designed videofor Vox Motus, National Theatre of Scotland, TheRoyal Ballet, The Edinburgh International Festival,DV8 Physical Theatre, Wee Stories, David Leddy,Dogstar, Theatre By The Lake, The Arches,Random Accomplice, Dancebase and TAG. He hasworked as Head of Video for the National Theatreof Scotland and toured internationally as a videotechnician with DV8 Physical Theatre. More informationand images of his work can be found atwww.timreid.info.MICHAEL FOWKESPuppet DesignerA.R.T.: Debut. Puppetry credits include London:Mojo, Lighten Up, Theatre-rites; Arabian Nights,The Winter’s Tale, Royal Shakespeare Company;Masque of the Red Death, Punchdrunk; Stuff andNonsense, Alice In Wonderland (performer), TheGiraffe, The Pelly and Me (performer), Little AngelTheatre. Film/Television: “Burp,” ITV; “HarryHill’s Little Internet Show;” “The Mighty Boosh,”BBC; “Penelope Princess of Pets,” “The Insiders,”Channel 4; Sometimes the Moon is Velvet.RAMIN GRAYAssociate DirectorA.R.T.: Debut. Ramin is currently Artistic Directorof Actors Touring Company for whom he has recentlydirected the English-language premiere ofThe Golden Dragon by Roland Schimmelpfennig.22 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

crea tive team (continued)Previously, he was International Associate(2000–05), then Associate Director (2005–09) atthe Royal Court Theatre where he directed manyworld or British premieres including: Motortown(also at Wiener Festwochen), The Ugly One, TheStone, Over There (also at Schaubuehne, Berlin),Terrorism, Ladybird, Way to Heaven, Just a Bloke,Woman With Scarecrow, Push Up. Other credits include:The American Pilot, I’ll Be The Devil, RoyalShakespeare Company; King Of Hearts, Out ofJoint/Hampstead; The Child, Gate Theatre. Raminhas extensive experience of directing in Germanat major theatres in Vienna, Salzburg andHamburg. Opera credits include: Bliss, Hamburg’sStaatsoper; Death in Venice, Theater an der Wien.ZOE ROTTERUS CastingCasting Director credits include: Seven HomelessMammoths Wander New England, Two RiverTheater Company; Breakfast At Tiffany’s (co-castwith Ilene Starger); upcoming remount of Einsteinon the Beach; and BEARCITY. She is also castingher second season of Selected Shorts at SymphonySpace. She has worked on films such as X-Men:First Class, Cold Souls, Kickass, Notorious, MusicLyrics, Night at the Museum, and School of Rock.JULIA HORAN CDGUK CastingA.R.T.: Debut. Theater: Absent Friends, HaroldPinter Theatre; Backbeat, Duke of York’s; SouthDowns/The Browning Version, Chichester FestivalTheatre; After Miss Julie, Government Inspector, MyDad’s A Birdman, Joe Turner’s Come And Gone, GlassMenagerie, Annie Get Your Gun, In The Red & BrownWater, The Good Soul Of Szechuan, Young Vic;Wastwater, The Heretic, Get Santa, Kin, Red Bud,Tribes, Wanderlust, Spur Of The Moment, SuckerPunch, Ingredient X, Royal Court; Clybourne Park,Royal Court/Wyndhams; The Golden Dragon,Actors Touring Company; The Knot Of The Heart;Through A Glass Darkly; Measure For Measure; WhenThe Rain Stops Falling; In A Dark Dark House; AChain Play; The Homecoming, Almeida; Death Of ASalesman and The Hounding Of David Oluwale,Bedroom Farce, The Grouch, WYP; Six Characters InSearch Of An Author, Headlong/Tour; The House OfSpecial Purpose, Chichester/Neal St; Arcadia, Dukeof Yorks; Horse Marines, Plymouth; Edward Gant’sAmazing Feats Of Loneliness, Headlong; Harvest,Tour; Drowning On Dry Land, Salisbury Playhouse;Six Characters In Search Of An Author, Chichesterand West End; Nocturne, Almeida and Edinburgh.Opera: Lost Highway, ENO/Young Vic; Gaddafi—ALiving Myth, ENO.CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATESHair and WigsA.R.T.: Debut. Broadway: Ghost the Musical,Private Lives, Spider-Man, La Bête, Mary Stuart,Rock ’n’ Roll. Touring USA: Les Misérables. Forthe Young Vic: Hamlet, Government Inspector,Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan,Vernon God Little, Six Characters Looking for anAuthor. London: Sweeney Todd, Ghost, Betrayal,Million Dollar Quartet, The Children’s Hour, LaBête, Love Never Dies, Breakfast at Tiffany’s,Priscilla, Oliver, Billy Elliot, An Inspector Calls.Opera: Prima Donna, NYC and MIF; DieMeistersinger von Nürnberg, WNO; Der Freischütz,Baden-Baden; Tristan und Isolde, La Scala; Fromthe House of the Dead, Vienna Festival.DOMINIC BILKEYSound AssociateA.R.T.: Debut. Sound Design credits include: DrMarigold and Mr Chops, Masterclass, Bath TheatreRoyal; Twelfth Night, See How They Run, DancingAt Lughnasa, Original Theatre; Pandora,Standing on the Shoulder of Giants; After Troy,Lifeblood Theatre; Journey’s End, Icarus/OriginalTheatre; In The Solitude of Cotton Fields, YoungVic; The Space Between My Head and My Body,Gin in the Tea; The Only Girl in the World,Fractured Venus; The Railway Children,Sevenoaks Playhouse; Wagstaffe the Wind-upBoy, Rapunzel, Kneehigh Theatre; Souterrain,Cornwall, WildWorks. Associate Credits include:The Government Inspector, Young Vic; The Houndof The Baskervilles, Ian Fricker; Voyage Round MyFather, Donmar Warehouse.HONG YANE WANGResearch and Production AssistantA.R.T.: Debut. Film: Red Cliff (Assistant to LineProducer, directed by John Woo); The Warriorand the Wolf (Interpreter, directed by TianZhuangzhuang); The Blue Bone (AD, directed byCui Jian); The Monkey King (VFX Assistant, directedby Cheang Pou-soi. Hong Yane Wangwas born in Beijing and now lives and works inLondon. She has an M.A. in Film Studies,Beijing Normal University and an M.A.Filmmaking, Goldsmiths College.KATE HEWITTAssistant DirectorCurrently one of the Jerwood Assistant directorsat the Young Vic, Artistic Associate Electra (GateTheatre 2011 & Latitude festival 2011),Assistant Director on the following productions:Clybourne Park, Wyndhams Theatre West EndWILD SWANS 23

crea tive team (continued)2011 and Royal Court 2010; Through a GlassDarkly, The Almeida 2010; Breathing Irregular,The Gate, 2010. Co-creator with You Need Metheatre company: How it Ended, Arcola 2009and Edinburgh fringe; Certain Dark Things, 2010Tabacco Factory and The Underbelly,Edinburgh; two years Lecoq physical theatretraining at L.I.S.P.A, B.A. Hons in Drama andTheatre Arts, Goldsmiths University London.VICKY BERRYStage ManagerThe Glass Menagerie, I am Yusuf and This is MyBrother, Amazonia, You Can See the Hills, ARespectable Wedding, The Enchanted Pig, Tobiasand the Angel, The Knight of the Burning Pestle,Sleeping Beauty, Cruel and Tender, Young Vic; TheComedy of Errors, The God of Soho, Doctor Faustus,The Bible, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII, Love’s LaboursLost, Helen, Romeo and Juliet, The Frontline, KingLear, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre; MajorBarbara, Women of Troy, National Theatre.CHRIS DE CAMILLISStage ManagerA.R.T.: Thirty-three productions including JohnnyBaseball; The Seagull; Cardenio; Oliver Twist;Wings of Desire; Island of Slaves; Romeo andJuliet; Three Sisters; Desire Under the Elms; Dido,Queen of Carthage; Oedipus; A MidsummerNight’s Dream; Lady with a Lapdog; UncleVanya; Lysistrata; Marat/Sade; Richard II;Mother Courage and Her Children; The Winter’sTale; Full Circle; Ivanov; The Merchant of Venice.Off-Broadway: Pride’s Crossing, Lincoln CenterTheater; The Boys in the Band, Lucille Lortel Theatre;Slavs!, New York Theatre Workshop; Raised inCaptivity, Vineyard Theatre; ’Til the Rapture Comes,W.P.A.; Oliver Twist, Theatre for a New Audience.Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The GuthrieTheater, Berkshire Theatre Festival (three seasons),George Street Playhouse, Shakespeare & Company,San Antonio Festival, Old Globe Theatre in SanDiego, The Acting Company.TAMARA ALBACHARIDeputy Stage ManagerA.R.T: Debut. West End: Calendar Girls. London:Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Coram Boy, Southwark Fair,The Overwhelming, The Life of Galileo,Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship, Henry IV Part 2,National Theatre; Sucker Punch, Rhinoceros, MyChild, Food Chain, Royal Court Theatre; Crave,Royal Court Theatre Bonn Germany;Comedians, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith;Aladdin, New Wimbledon Theatre; Mercy, SohoTheatre; The Browning Version, South Downs, AMonth in the Country, Calendar Girls, ChichesterFestival Theatre; Beautiful Thing, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Roots, Pretend You Have Big Buildings,Harvey, Rutherford & Son, Volpone, Six Degrees ofSeparation, The Seagull, Secret Heart, Habitat, OnMy Birthday, American Buffalo, Royal ExchangeTheatre Manchester; Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell,Theatre Royal Bath & UK Tour; The King and I,Curve, Leicester; The English Game, HeadlongTheatre/UK Tour; Romeo & Juliet, ETT/UKTour/Hong Kong; Johnny Vegas: And AnotherThing, Manchester International Festival 2011.TERRI K. KOHLERAssistant Stage MangerA.R.T.: Oedipus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, LaDispute, The Sound of a Voice. New York: AngelReapers, The Joyce Theater; The School for Lies, CSC;In the Footprint, Brooklyn at Eye Level, The Civilians;Tell the Way, St. Ann’s Warehouse; Orange, Hat &Grace, Soho Rep; The Forest, CSC; Orpheus X, Tfana;Killers and Other Family, Rattlestick; Garden ofEarthly Delights, 2 Step Productions; The CiviliansParis Commune, In Darfur, Public LAB; The BlackEyed, NYTW; Milk-n-Honey, Lightbox; When theMessenger is Hot, 59E59; Broadway Bares 2007–11,BC/EFA; Don Juan in Prague, BAM; Hell, the opera,PS 122. Regional: Angel Reapers, ADF; Quixote,Stillpoint Productions; Carmen, Madison Opera; IJust Stopped By to See the Man, God’s Man in Texas,Geffen Playhouse; Moscow: Cherry Tree Towers, TheTenderland, Offenbach!!!, Bard Summerscape; TheTales of Hoffman, New Orleans Opera. Ms. Kohleris a graduate of the UCLA School of Theater, Film,and Television.Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, representsmore than 49,000 actors and stage managers in theUnited States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and fosterthe art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing awide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA isa member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an internationalorganization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblemis our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.orgThe scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers inLORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic ArtistsLocal USA-829 IATSE.Wild Swans was first performed in English onFebruary 11, 2012 at the American RepertoryTheater, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138,USA, with the first UK performance on April 13,2012 at the Young Vic, 66 The Cut, London SE18LZ, UK. The copyright agent is Alan BrodieRepresentation Ltd, www.alanbrodie.com24 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

About the A.R.T.The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), at Harvard University, is one of the country’s mostcelebrated theaters and the winner of numerous awards, including the Tony Award, thePulitzer Prize and Elliot Norton and I.R.N.E. Awards. In May of 2003 it was named one of thetop three regional theaters in the country by Time magazine. The A.R.T. was founded byRobert Brustein in 1980, who served as Artistic Director until 2002, when he was succeededby Robert Woodruff. In 2008, Diane Paulus became the A.R.T.’s Artistic Director.During its 31-year history, the A.R.T. has welcomed many major American and internationaltheater artists, presenting a diverse repertoire that includes premieres of American plays, boldreinterpretations of classical texts and provocative new music theater productions. The A.R.T. hasperformed throughout the U.S. and worldwide in 21 cities in 16 countries on four continents.The A.R.T. is also a training ground for young artists. The Theater’s artistic staff teachesundergraduate classes in acting, directing, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, voice, and designat Harvard University. In 1987, the A.R.T. founded the Institute for Advanced TheaterTraining at Harvard University. A two-year, five-semester graduate program that operatesin conjunction with the Moscow Art Theater School, the Institute provides world-classprofessional training in acting, dramaturgy and voice.Since becoming Artistic Director, Diane Paulus has programmed innovative work that hasenhanced the A.R.T.’s core mission to expand the boundaries of theater. Productions suchas Sleep No More, The Donkey Show, Gatz, The Blue Flower, Prometheus Bound, Deathand the Powers: The Robots’ Opera and The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess have immersedaudiences in original theatrical experiences. The A.R.T.’s club theater, OBERON, whichPaulus calls a “second stage for the 21st century,” has become an incubator for local artistsand has also attracted national attention for its groundbreaking model for programming.Through all of its work, the A.R.T. is committed to building a community of artists, technicians,educators, staff and audience, all of whom are integral to the A.R.T.’s mission to expandthe boundaries of theater.A.R.T. Board of TrusteesDonald Ware, ChairmanLaurie BurtPaul ButtenwieserKevin Cole CostinMike DreeseMichael FeinsteinProvost Alan M. GarberLori GrossAnn GundSarah HancockFumi MatsumotoRebecca MilikowskyWard MooneyDiane PaulusJames RheeDiana SorensenLisbeth TarlowFounding DirectorRobert BrusteinA.R.T. Board of AdvisorsKathleen Connor, Co-ChairRachael Goldfarb, Co-ChairFrances Shtull AdamsJoseph Auerbach*Philip Burling*Greg CarrAntonia Handler Chayes*Bernard ChiuLizabeth CohenRohit DeshpandeSusan Edgman-LevitanErin GilliganCandy GoldBarbara GrossmanHorace H. Irvine IIDan MathieuTravis McCreadyEllen Gordon ReevesLinda U. SangerMaggie SeeligJohn A. ShaneMichael ShinagelSam WeismanAlfred WojciechowskiYuriko Jane Young*EmeritiWILD SWANS 25

A.R.T./MXAT InstituteFor Advanced Theater TrainingScott Zigler, Director Julia Smeliansky, Administrative DirectorMarcus Stern, Associate DirectorNancy Houfek, Head of Voice and Speech Andrei Droznin, Head of MovementAnatoly Smeliansky, Co-Head of Dramaturgy Ryan McKittrick, Co-Head of DramaturgyAmerican Repertory TheaterDiane Paulus, Artistic Director/CEOMoscow Art Theater SchoolAnatoly Smeliansky, HeadThe Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University was established in 1987 bythe American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) as a training ground for the professional American theater.Its programs are fully integrated with the activities of the A.R.T. In the summer of 1998, theInstitute commenced a historic joint program with the Moscow Art Theater (MXAT) School.Students engage with two invaluable resources: the work of the A.R.T. and that of the MXAT, aswell as their affiliated schools. Together, this exclusive partnership offers students opportunities fortraining and growth unmatched by any program in the country.The core program features a rigorous two-year, five-semester period of training in acting,dramaturgy, or voice pedagogy, during which students work closely with the professionals atthe A.R.T. and the MXAT as well as with the best master teachers from the United States andRussia. At the end of the program, students receive a Certificate of Achievement from HarvardUniversity and an M.F.A. degree from the Moscow Art Theater School.Further information about this program can be obtained by calling the Institute for a free catalogat (617) 495-2668 or going to our web site at www.harvardtheatertraining.org.FacultyDonna AmesSingingRobert Brustein Criticism and DramaturgyErin CooneyYogaThomas DerrahActingAndrei DrozninMovementJane Guyer FujitaVoiceTatyana Gassel Russian Language and CultureJeremy GeidtActingDavid HammondActing, ShakespeareArthur Holmberg Theater History, DramaturgyNancy HoufekVoice and SpeechRobert LadaAlexander TechniqueJodi Leigh AllenCoordinator ofMovement TrainingWill LebowVoice-overRyan McKittrick Dramaturgy, Dramatic LiteraturePamela MurraySingingRobert NajarianCombatDiane PaulusTheater PracticeAnatoly Smeliansky Theater History, DramaturgyJulia Smeliansky History of Set Design, TranslationMarcus SternActingTommy Thompson Alexander TechniqueMarina Van WinkleBalletRobert WalshCombatSam WeismanDirector of ProfessionalDevelopmentScott ZiglerActing, DramaturgyStaffJanie Rangel Student Financial Aid AdministratorChelsea KeatingInstitute AssociateChristopher Viklund Production ManagerSkip CurtissTechnical DirectorActingDavid AbramsMilia AyacheElizabeth BatesKristen Alyson BrowneMatthew ChristianLiza DickinsonSamantha EggersMarisa FrattoTeri GambleAshruf GhanimahAlison GregoryDustyn GulledgeElijah GuoRose HoganMegan HoppAmen IgbinosunCarl JamesMichael KaneRushi KotaLuke LehnerLindsey LiberatoreLisa MaleyScotty RaySarah Beth RobertsAdeola RoleLanise ShelleyHenry Austin ShikongoDereks ThomasRobert TorresKatherine VosRolland WalshLuke WoodruffAlexandra WrightJing XuDara YazdaniDramaturgyAnnie DiMarioJenna Clark EmbreyChristina FarrisKenneth MolloyLiana StillmanTyler MonroeVoiceRonald CarlosSarah Jessop26 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

Partner: $5,000–$9,999AnonymousJohn W. Alden TrustJoel and Lisa AlvordBernard ChiuClarke and Ethel D. CoggeshallSusan and Gerald CohenMarc George Gershwin andAndrea GershwinErin Gilligan and Hoil KimRachael GoldfarbSponsor: $2,500–$4,999AnonymousFrances Shtull AdamsDr. Millicent BellDavid and Nancy BermanLinda Cabot Black FoundationLaurie Burt and Thomas EngelmanPatron: $1,000–$2,499Anonymous (2)Elizabeth AdamsSheldon AppelBarbara E. Bierer andSteven E. HymanSheldon and Dorothea BucklerEastern BankWalter Fey and Jan BergstromM. Dozier GardnerKiki and David GindlerCandy Kosow GoldSeth Goldman and Julie FarkasAnnual Fund DonorsThe American Repertory Theater is deeply grateful for the generous Annual Fund support fromindividuals, foundations, corporations and government agencies, whose contributions make our workpossible. The following gifts were received between September 1, 2010 and January 17, 2012.Patron CircleVisionary: $100,000 and aboveIra and Lenore Gershwin Philanthropic FundSarah HancockThe President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeAndrew W. Mellon FoundationBenefactor: $50,000–$99,999The Carr FoundationThe Dana FoundationDoris Duke Charitable FoundationArtistic Committee: $25,000–$49,999Bank of AmericaPaul and Katie ButtenwieserMichael and Laura DreeseEdgerton FoundationHershey Family FoundationLisbeth Tarlow and Stephen KayMassachusetts Cultural CouncilThe E.H.A. Foundation, Inc.Ann and Graham GundKarmaloopLizbeth and George KruppProducer: $10,000–$24,999Anonymous (2)Frances Gershwin Godowsky TrustLeo L. Beranek Foundation Marcia HeadPhilip and Hilary Burling DuBose and Dorothy HeywardCambridge Trust Company Memorial FundKevin Cole CostinBarbara W. HostetterRoAnn Costin and Jim Bailey Horace H. Irvine IITed and Joan† CutlerSteve and Rosemarie JohnsonBernadette Mannix Feeney Heni KoenigsbergMichael Feinstein and Denise Waldron Judi and Douglas KruppBarbara Wallace Grossman andSteve GrossmanJoseph W. HammerThe Roy A. Hunt FoundationPaul and Wladzia McCarthyDavid G. MugarJill Goldweitz and Morris LevitzNicholas and Marjorie GrevilleCharles and Joan GrossLori E. Gross andRobert Douglas CampbellGardner Hendrie and Karen JohansenJerome and Sheridan KassirerLawrence KotinLars FoundationMr. and Mrs. Richard LevitanJohn D.C. LittleNick and Jennifer LittlefieldRebecca and Nathan MilikowskyThe Shubert FoundationThe Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable TrustDon and Susan WareWard K. and Lucy MooneyNational Corporate Theatre FundNational Endowment for the ArtsFumi and Kako MatsumotoBob and Alison MurchisonJames RheeGreg and Dina SelkoeTrust for Mutual UnderstandingWelch and ForbesYuriko Jane YoungJohn Hancock FinancialThe Shane FoundationDan Mathieu and Neal Balkowitsch/ Swissnex BostonMAX Ultimate FoodBeth WeirBessie Pappas CharitableBarry WeisslerFoundation, Inc.Ted and Mary WendellDiane Paulus and Randy Weiner Alfred Wojciechowski andCokie and Lee PerryTammerah MartinJanet and Irv PlotkinValerie Beth Schwartz FoundationMaggie and John SeeligShelly and Ofer NemirovskyRobert and Janine PenfieldJulia Pershan and Jonathan CohenCynthia SamuelsonRick and Christine SheaGregory MaguireJames and Marie MarlasAlan MuraokaFinley and Patricia PerryCarol and Steve PieperGerald PierWilliam and Lia PoorvuDr. Lawrence PrattEllen Gordon ReevesMr. and Mrs. Andres RodriguezPatricia Romeo-Gilbert andPaul B. GilbertWILD SWANS 27

annual fund donors (continued)Patron: $1,000–$2,499 (cont.)The Schneer FoundationJohn Snow, Inc.Wendy Shattuck and Sam Plimpton Dr. Clive StandleyMichael Shinagel and Marjorie North Deborah Sweet and Steven LazarMarshall SirvetzThe Joseph W. and Faith K. TiberioMason and Jeannie SmithCharitable FoundationFriends of the A.R.T.Paul TraubSusan WhiteheadFrancis H. WilliamsZipcarContributor: $500–$999Howard and Leslie ApplebyJim and Chris BarkerWilliam M. BazzyLeonard and Jane BernsteinDiane BorgerHerrick Chapman andLizabeth Anne CohenAntonia H. ChayesBrian and Eleanor ChuLiz Coxe and David ForneyHoward GardnerGrayson Family FoundationDena and Felda HardymonLarry HirschhornHurlbut Family CharitableLead TrustMr. and Mrs. James JoslinCarol and Jonah KaninSusan B. KaplanJane Katims and Dan PerlmanEllen Kulik and Bill BarryKatherine LappLiberty Mutual Give withLiberty ProgramBarbara ManocherianErica and Bob MasonMark NataleNSTAR FoundationJeryl and Stephen OristaglioVincent Piccirilli andAnita MeiklejohnSkip Pile and Mary Jane PatroneThomas and Jennifer PincinceSally C. Reid and John D. SigelCharles and Patty RibakoffJane Brooks RobbinsJoan Arbetter RosenbergJanice SaragoniMark SlovenkaiJohn TravisMindee Wasserman, Esq.Ms. Kelsey Wirth andDr. Samuel MyersPeter and Dyann WirthSupporter: $250–$499Anonymous (2)Robert HarringtonKaren AllenMargaret and Timothy HeitzRichard R. BeatyAlison M. Hodges andClark and Susana BernardThomas F. ClarkeRonnie BretholtzDr. Joseph KahanPaul and Cris CarterTosh KawakamiJudith Chernoff, in honor of CC King and Tom TarpeyAudra McDonaldLynn KodamaMichael and Linda Frieze Bill and Lisa LaskinRobert and Kathleen Garner Mary Pfeifer Lentz and Tom LentzTiffani GavinGreg and Mary Beth LesherMark GlasserCynthia LivingstonMarie and Daniel GlennLorraine LymanDr. Jeffrey and Laurie Goldbarg Barbara A. ManzolilloProfessors Byron and Mary-Jo Good Steven and Kelly MiglieroSilvia GosnellMichael and Annette MillerGarth and Lindsay Greimann Evelyn MusserHomer HagedornSuzanne Ogden and Peter RogersIn-Kind Supporters90+ CellarsBoston Beer CompanyCambridge 1The Catered AffairThe Charles HotelEvent IlluminationsGoogle Inc.Grafton StreetHenrietta’s TableThe Kendall HotelIlex DesignsLatitude BeverageCompanyOMRutland NurseriesSandrine’sThe D.L. SaundersCompaniesRobert StolzbergTory RowTrader Joe’sDrs. Hilda and Max PerlitshMarita RiveroEmily RooneyBelinda and Evan SchapiroMary ShannonSheldon Simon andRuth MoormanEllen SimonsMr. and Mrs. Andrew SniderDiana SorensenMichele StecklerStephen StulckWendell SykesArnold and Gloria TofiasRyan WestChristopher WhiteKirk and Glynis WoodWilliam Zinn and Nancy Bridges† deceasedThe A.R.T. thanks the following individual and corporate supporters for their invaluable in-kind donations.MAX Ultimate Food/Dan Mathieu & Neal BalkowitschThe Weekly DigThe Urban GrapeUpstairs on the SquareThe Hotel VeritasZipcarEvery effort has been made to ensure that all donor information is accurate, but if you have anyquestions or concerns, please contact the Development Department: 617.496.2000 x8847.28 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

annual fund donors (continued)National Corporate Theatre FundNational Corporate Theatre Fund is a not-for-profit corporation created to increase and strengthensupport from the business community for ten of this country's most distinguished professionaltheatres. The following foundations, individuals and corporations support these theatres throughtheir contributions of $10,000 or more to National Corporate Theatre Fund:Bank of America #BloombergBNY MellonWealth Management *Steven BunsonChristopher Campbell/Palace ProductionCenter *Cisco Systems, Inc. *Citi Foundation #Datacert, Inc.Dorsey and WhitneyFoundationErnst & YoungGoldman, Sachs & Co.Howard KaganMarsh & McLennanCompaniesThe McGraw-HillCompanies #MetLifeMorgan StanleyPfizer, Inc.Wilkie Farr & GallagherRBC Wealth Management LLP *RVM/Vincent Brunettisalesforce.com ** NCTF/BNY Mellon FundSharp Electronics ^for New AmericanGeorge S. Smith, Jr.TheatreJames S. Turley^ Includes In-kind supportUBS# NCTF Fund for TheatreUSA Today * ^EducationVernalis Systems ^Wells Fargo #As of December 2011Our 2011/12 season is generously supported by:FUTURITY:A MUSICAL BY THE LISPSON SALE NOWTICKETS FROM $25CALL: 617.547.8300VISIT: americanrepertorytheater.orgat OBERON | MARCH 2012WILD SWANS 29

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Actors TouringCompanyby Euripidestranslated by Robin Robertsondirected by David R. GammonsFebruary 8 – March 4, 2012Multicultural Arts CenterCambridgeTickets: 866-811-4111 oractorsshakespeareproject.orgActors Touring Company was founded byJohn Retallack in 1979 to presentinternational work on tour. Over its 33 yearhistory, the company has presented work byinternational writers, contemporaryreworkings of classic texts, and new playsby living authors such as Simon Stephens,Mark Ravenhill, Roland Schimmelpfennig,Tarrell Alvin McCraney, Sarah Rhul, andBernard Koltes.Under the leadership of Ramin Gray, thecompany has further developed itsapproach. As well as continuing to presentthe most exciting international texts, it ispursuing a programme of collaborativecreation between theatre makers fromdifferent countries and developing arepertory approach to production. Formore information click www.atctheatre.comor follow us on twitter @atctheatre.Absorbing...the boston globea National New Play NetworkRolling World Premiere by Stephen Sachsdirected by Jeff Zinnfeaturing Ken Cheeseman and Paula LangtonArtistic Director....................................Ramin GrayExecutive Director ............................Nick WilliamsAdministrator ...............................Charelle GriffithDevelopment and Marketing Associate..Jo CottrellCollaborative Doctoral Student......Christine TwiteBoard of Directors .............Maria Delgardo (Chair),Nelson Fernandez (Vice-Chair), Ben Assefa-Folivi,Caroline Bailey, Chris Barnes,Caroline Firstbrook,Michael Quine, Hetty ShandFebruary 26 – March 18, 2012black box theater321 ARSENAL ST. WATERTOWN MAsupported byfree parking!tickets $35Jack Tarlton, in The Golden Dragon By RolandSchimmelpfennig, directed by Ramin Gray, 2011IN RESIDENCE AT THEARSENAL CENTER FOR THE ARTSnewrep.org617-923-848732 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

Young VicArtistic Director ....................................................David LanExecutive Director..........................................Lucy WoollattAssociate Artistic Director ..................................Sue EmmasProducers...........................................................Daisy HeathDespina Tsatsas for Mark Rubinstein LtdTouring Producer ...............................................Ben CooperAssociate Producer(World Stages London)...Nicola ThoroldASSOCIATESAssociate Directors.....................................Carrie Cracknell,Joe Hill-Gibbins,Daniel Kramer,Sacha WaresAssociate Designer ........................................Jeremy HerbertInternational Associates......................................Luc Bondy,Gísli Örn Garðarsson,Paul Heritage,Amir Nizar ZuabiAssociate Artists .......................................Matthew Dunster,Ian MacNeil,Walter Meierjohann,Rufus NorrisADMINISTRATION & FINANCEGeneral Manager ........................................Frederica NotleyPA to Artistic Director ..........................................Liza FrankAdministrator to the Producers.........................Sarah GreenFinance Manager ..............................................Sophie WellsFinance Assistant .............................................Janine CarterDEVELOPMENTDevelopment Director .....................................Anna SilmanHead of Corporate Development .................Caroline CareyHead of Trusts ......................................Gabbie Filmer-PascoIndividual GivingExecutive .....................................Charlotte ChristensenCorporate Development Executive........Francesca HaywardPRODUCTIONTechnical Director................................................Chris ClayProduction Manager.........................................Al ParkinsonCompany Manager ................................................Ros TerryHead of Sound .............................................Dominic BilkeyHead of Lighting...............................................Nicki BrownHead of Stage.........................................................Dave TuffHead of Workshop ......................................Emma HaywardHead of Costume ....................................Catherine KodicekSenior Sound Technician ....................................Sally EvansSenior Lighting Technician......................Nadene WheatleySenior Stage Technician ...................................Simon EvansSound Technician ...............................................Emily LeggLighting Technician .........................................Jamie SpiritoProduction Administrator .............................Sarah McEwenMARKETING & PRESSDirector of Marketing, Press & Sales ..................Alan StaceyMarketing Managers ........................................Anca Chung,Stacy CoynePress Manager....................................................Laura MyersMarketing & Press Assistant ..............................Katie MarshTAKING PARTHead of Taking Part (maternity cover) ......Marcella HughesTaking Part Administrator...............................Kirsten AdamWILD SWANS 33

A.R.T. StaffARTISTICArtistic Director/CEO.......................................Diane PaulusProducer/Interim Managing Director..............Diane BorgerArtistic Coordinator .................................Chris De CamillisDirector of Special Projects ........................Ariane BarbanellDramaturg...................................................Ryan McKittrickSpecial Assistant to theArtistic Director/CEO...................................Lauren AntlerArtistic Associate .........................................Allegra LibonatiCompany Manager .......................................Mark LunsfordArtistic Director Fellow .............................Shira MilikowskyDramaturgy Intern ................................................Eli KeehnINSTITUTEDirector ...............................................................Scott ZiglerAdministrative Director..............................Julia SmelianskyAssociate Director ............................................Marcus SternCo-head of Dramaturgy ........................Anatoly SmelianskyCo-head of Dramaturgy..............................Ryan McKittrickResident Literary Advisor..........................Arthur HolmbergHead of Voice and Speech .............................Nancy HoufekInstitute Associate .......................................Chelsea KeatingProduction Manager............................Christopher ViklundTechnical Director..............................................Skip CurtissProduction Coordinator................................Taylor AdamikEXTERNAL AFFAIRSDEVELOPMENTDeputy Director of Development...............Megan HinckleyInstitutional Giving Officer .....................Meghan ColemanDonor Information Coordinator .....................Emily O’NeilMARKETINGDirector of Marketing and Communications...Anna FitzloffDirector of Press and Public Relations........Katalin MitchellMarketing and Communications Manager ..........Jared FineGraphic Design Associate .....................................Joel ZayacOutreach and Education Associate.................Brendan SheaMarketing and Communications Associate......Grace GellerDonkey Show Intern .............................................Jake EganMarketing Interns ...........Olamide Babatunde, Vanessa KooBOX OFFICEHead of Patron Systems .................................Derek MuellerBox Office Manager ...........................................Ryan WalshBox Office and Group Sales Coordinator .........Alicia CurtisBox Office Representative ...............................Karen SnyderBox Office Staff......................................Nathaniel Beliveau,Heather Conroe, Cassandra Long,Amelia Mason, Emma Putnam, Alyssa Van ThoenTHEATER AND FACILITIESTheater and Facilities Manager .........................Tracy KeeneFront of House Manager ........................Stephen WuycheckReceptionists ............................Sarah Leon, Maria MedeirosDuty House Managers .....................................Kevin Cloud,Gretjen Hargesheimer, Michael Haviland,Heather Quick, Courtney Smith,Matthew Spano, Matt WoodVolunteer Usher Coordinator .................Barbara LindstromFINANCEComptroller................................................Barbara AddisonSenior Finance Accountant........................Stephen NishinoFinancial Administrator ....................................Stacie HurstPayroll Administrator ..................................Floyd PattersonFinancial Assistant..............................................Nira TejadaStudent Financial Aid Administrator ...............Janie RangelPRODUCTIONProduction Manager...................................Patricia QuinlanAssociate ProductionManagers .....................Christopher Viklund, Skip CurtissLoeb Technical Director ............................J. Michael GriggsCOSTUMESCostume Shop Manager ...........................Jeannette HawleyAssistant Costume Shop Manager ..................Mary R. HurdCrafts Artisan ......................................David Israel ReynosoCostume Artisan ..........................................Caitlin MenottiWardrobe Supervisor ...................................Stephen DruekeCostume/Props Stock Manager.....................Suzanne KadiffLIGHTSMaster Electrician ..........................................Derek L. WilesLight Board Operator ................................Matthew HoustlePROPERTIESProperties Manager ............................ Cynthia Lee-SullivanAssistant Properties Master ......................Rebecca HelgesonProperties Carpenter............................Stacey Horne-HarperProperties Intern........................................Samantha SewellSCENERYTechnical Director ....................................Stephen SetterlunAssistant Technical Directors.............................Nick Fouch,Chris SwetckyScenic Charge Artist..............................................Jerry VogtScene Shop Supervisor .....................................Dave BucklerMaster Carpenter...........................................Peter DoucetteScenic Carpenters ............York-Andreas Paris, Jason Bryant,Kristin KnutsonSOUNDResident Sound Designer/Engineer ..............Clive GoodwinProduction Sound Engineer.......................Katrina McGuireSound Console Operator.................................Brian WaltersSTAGEStage Supervisor .............................................Jeremie LozierAssistant Stage Supervisor ............Christopher EschenbachProduction Assistants ..........Kevin Klein, Matthew SebastianOBERONProducer .........................................................Randy WeinerAssociate Producer .....................................Ariane BarbanellProduction Manager ..........................................Skip CurtissVenue Manager....................................................Erin WoodProgramming Manager....................................James WetzelFRONTLOBBYWESTLOBBYNearest exit routeFire extinguishersDesignatedMeeting SiteCross Brattle St.to Radcliffe Yard34 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

GUIDE toLOCALTHEATERFebruary/March 2012DOWNTOWN/THEATRE DISTRICTTHE ADDAMS FAMILY, Citi Performing Arts Center, The ShubertTheatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Feb 7–19. This magnificentlymacabre new musical comedy is definitely not thesame old song and dance. It’s every parent’s nightmare—yourlittle girl has fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man froma respectable family. Yes, Wednesday Addams, the ultimateprincess of darkness, has a “normal” boyfriend. For parentsGomez and Morticia, this shocking development turns theAddams house downside up.AMERIVILLE, Universes, Paramount Theatre, 559 WashingtonSt., 617-824-8400. Mar 13–18. The state of the Union is putunder the microscope and into the microphone as energeticand diverse young performers spin exquisite harmonies andbeatboxing around themes of race, poverty, politics, history andgovernment, examining our country through the lens ofHurricane Katrina and its aftermath.THE ANDERSEN PROJECT, Ex Machina, Cutler MajesticTheatre at Emerson College, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8400.Mar 24–Apr 1. In this off-the-wall masterpiece by theater visionaryRobert Lepage, a Canadian rock ’n’ roll writer is commissionedto draft a libretto for a children’s opera in Paris.Inspired by the timeless fables of Hans Christian Andersen andanecdotes from the author’s personal diaries, this play exploresunraveling relationships, personal demons, the thirst for recognitionand the compromise that comes too late.BLUE MAN GROUP, Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton St., 617-931-2787 or 617-426-6912. Ongoing. This giddily subversiveoff-Broadway hit serves up outrageous and inventive theaterwhere three muted, blue-painted performers spoof both contemporaryart and modern technology. Wry commentary andbemusing antics are matched only by the ingenious ways inwhich music and sound are created. The show has recentlybeen updated with new performance pieces and music.CIRCA, Paramount Theatre, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Feb 29–Mar 4. With no elaborate sets, gymnastics contraptionsor animal acts, the virtuosic tumblers of Circa, aseven-performer troupe from Brisbane, Australia, use their ownbodies and mesmerizing skills to conjure an air of classic circusshowmanship with a touch of Vaudeville.LES MISÉRABLES, Boston Opera House, 539 WashingtonSt., 866-523-7469. Mar 13–Apr 1. This 25th anniversary productionof Boublil and Schönberg’s legendary musical basedVIVE LA FRANCE: The blockbuster musical LesMisérables returns to Boston with a new 25thanniversary production, beginning March 13 atthe Boston Opera House.on Victor Hugo’s classic novel set during the French Revolutionfeatures glorious new staging and dazzlingly re-imaginedscenery inspired by Hugo’s paintings.SHEAR MADNESS, Charles Playhouse Stage II, 74 WarrentonSt., 617-426-5225. Ongoing. This hilarious Boston-set whodunit,where the clues change every night and the laughscome fast and furious, is a worldwide phenomenon filled withup-to-the-minute spontaneous humor and quicksilver improvisationwhere the audience becomes part of the action and getsto solve the crime.69˚ S. (THE SHACKLETON PROJECT), Phantom Limb,Paramount Theatre, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Feb7–12. Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition isreignited through theater, dance, puppetry, photography andfilm in an evocative series of tableaux, taking the audience onan emotional journey that explores the symbiotic relationshipbetween man and the environment.TOMÁŠ KUBÍNEK: CERTIFIED LUNATIC & MASTER OF THEIMPOSSIBLE, Paramount Theatre, 559 Washington St., 617-824-8400. Mar 29–Apr 1. A collision of theatre and musichall,this exuberant spectacle is equal parts comic brilliance,virtuosic vaudeville and irresistible charm. Czech-born TomášKubínek is a self-proclaimed physical poet and verbal acrobat,needless risk-taker, professor of fantastically useless inventionsand arduous advocate of commonplace miracles.LOCAL/REGIONAL THEATERABSURD PERSON SINGULAR, The Footlight Club, Eliot Hall, 7AEliot St., Jamaica Plain, 617-524-3200. Feb 3–18. This AlanAyckbourn play portrays three couples in their three kitchensWILD SWANS 35

guide to local thea ter (continued)on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. Running likea dark thread through the wild comedy of behind-the-scenesdisasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance ofone lower-class couple to material prosperity alongside the declineof the others.AN AMERICAN JOURNEY, Revels Repertory Company, CharlesMosesian Theater, Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St.,Watertown, 617-972-8300 x31. Mar 4. In the early 1900s, alarge number of immigrants came to Boston through EllisIsland. This story imagines a voyage where Irish, Italians andEastern European Jews share their stories, songs and dances.BAKERSFIELD MIST, New Repertory Theatre, Black BoxTheater, Arsenal Center for the Arts, 321 Arsenal St.,Watertown, 617-923-8487. Feb 26–Mar 18. After MaudeGutman buys a possibly undiscovered Jackson Pollock paintingat a thrift store and a renowned art expert arrives at her trailerto investigate, the two embark on a fiery debate over class,truth and what we perceive as valuable.CIRCUMCISE ME, Leventhal-Sidman Jewish CommunityCenter, 333 Nahanton St., Newton, 617-965-5226. Mar 17 &18. This poignant, provocative and powerfully witty one-manshow by comic actor Yisrael Campbell tells of his spiritual journeystretching across four decades, two continents and threecircumcisions.DADDY LONG LEGS, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E.Merrimack St., Lowell, 978-654-4678. Feb 9–Mar 4. In thisnew musical from the co-director of Les Misérables and thecreators of Jane Eyre set in 1912 New England, a youngwoman is given the opportunity to escape the orphanage shegrew up in when an anonymous benefactor spots her potentialand pays her way to attend university, as long as his identityremains a secret.DEPORTED, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre and Suffolk University,Modern Theatre at Suffolk University, 525 Washington St., 617-557-6537. Mar 8–Apr 1. Memories and dreams, music anddance interweave in this riveting story of the Armenian genocidethat celebrates playwright Joyce Van Dyke’s own familyhistory and that of many Armenian families forever changed.THE DONKEY SHOW, American Repertory Theater, Oberon,2 Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Ongoing. Bringing theultimate disco experience to Boston, this crazy circus of mirrorballs, feathered divas, roller skaters and hustle queens tells thestory of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through great ’70s anthemsyou know by heart.ELECTION DAY, Happy Medium Theatre, Factory Theatre, ThePiano Factory, 791 Tremont St., 617-549-9854. Feb 9–18. Thiswitty comedy takes the audience through the day of a mayoralelection with an type-A lawyer/activist, her graphic designerboyfriend, his slacker sister, a violent (sort of) political activistand mayoral candidate as our guides.THE FULL MONTY, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Mar 1–4. Seeing how much 36 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

guide to local thea ter (continued)their wives enjoy watching male strippers during their “Girls’Night Out,” unemployed steelworkers in Buffalo, New Yorkcome up with a bold way to make some quick cash. In theprocess, they discover renewed self-esteem, the importance offriendship and the ability to have fun.FUTURITY: A MUSICAL BY THE LISPS, American RepertoryTheater, Oberon, 2 Arrow St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Mar16–Apr 15. In this Civil War sci-fi musical, Union soldier JulianMunro and the brilliant Ada Lovelace transcend time to inventan omnipotent steam-powered brain. Blending American indiefolkmusic with dreams of invention, this musical explores aworld where utopia seems within reach.GREEN EYES, Company One, The Ames Hotel, One Court St.,800-838-3006. Through Feb 12. Travis Chamberlain’s highlyacclaimed, site-specific production of Tennessee Williams’“lost” erotic thriller reveals the impact of war through the sexualfantasies of a newlywed couple on their honeymoon. He’s asoldier, traumatized by his participation in the war; she’s a ravenouswoman determined to satisfy the darkest recesses ofher most deviant desires.THE LITTLE PRICKS, Gold Dust Orphans, Theater Machine,1254 Boylston St., 800-838-3006. Feb 17–Mar 11. TheOrphans’ drag spoof of Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes tellsthe story of peaceful, post-Civil War Southern town that is disruptedby the greedy machinations of a feuding, double-dealingclan and their unscrupulous business affairs.THE LUCK OF THE IRISH, Huntington Theatre Company,Wimberly Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Centerfor the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Mar 30–Apr 29.When an upwardly mobile African American family buys ahouse in an all-white neighborhood, they pay a struggling Irishfamily to act as their front. Fifty years later, the Irish familyasks for “their” house back in this intimate new play by Bostonarea native Kirsten Greenidge.MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM, Huntington Theatre Company,Boston University Theatre, 264 Huntington Ave., 617-266-0800. Mar 9–Apr 8. Legendary 1920s blues singer Ma Raineyand her musicians gather in a run-down Chicago studio torecord new sides of old favorites when generational and racialtensions suddenly explode in Tony Award-winner AugustWilson’s first Broadway hit.MEDEA, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Multicultural Arts Centerof Cambridge, Cambridge, 866-811-4111. Feb 8–Mar 4. Inthis searing look at what we can do to each other when ourlives are turned upside down, Euripides reveals the depths towhich wounds push people as a betrayed woman enacts herbloody revenge.THE MIKADO, Riverside Theatre Works, 45 Fairmount Ave.,Hyde Park, 617-361-5269. Mar 9–Apr 1. This contemporaryproduction frames Gilbert and Sullivan’s farcical collision of19th century Japanese culture and Western theatrical conventionin the context of pop culture, manga and anime.MONSTERS: A MIDLIFE MUSICAL MELTDOWN!, RegentTheatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington, 781-646-4849. Feb 25–Mar9. Samantha thinks turning 40 is the scariest thing to happento her. See what occurs when a mysterious package arrives inthis hilarious look at a full-blown midlife crisis.38 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

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guide to local thea ter (continued)MRS. WHITNEY, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, 50 E.Merrimack St., Lowell, 978-654-4678. Mar 15–Apr 8. Mrs.Whitney seeks a cure for loneliness by tracking down herne’er-do-well ex-husband, an irresponsible mess she kickedout more than 20 years ago, sending her on an odyssey of surprisingand sharply funny encounters.NEXT TO NORMAL, SpeakEasy Stage Company, RobertsStudio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center forthe Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Mar 9–Apr 7.Featuring a compelling and surging pop rock score, this 2010Pulitzer Prize-winning musical makes a direct grab for theheart with its story of a suburban family dealing with the directand indirect effects of mental illness.PHOTOGRAPH 51, The Nora Theatre Company, Central SquareTheater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 866-811-4111.Feb 9–Mar 4. In 1951, British biophysicist Rosalind Franklinrevealed DNA’s double helix structure, leading to the 1953Nobel Prize—but not for Franklin. Told with wit and urgency,the play tells the story of the fiercely independent spirit of ayoung, ambitious scientist and her unsung, trailblazingachievements.THE PLAY ABOUT THE BABY, Exquisite Corps Theatre, PlazaBlack Box Theatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St.,617-933-8600. Mar 9–Apr 1. Edward Albee’s disturbinglyfunny exploration of the bonds between parents and childrenconcerns a young couple who have just had a baby, and thestrange turn of events that transpire when they are visited byan older man and woman.PRIDE & PREJUDICE, Theatre@First, Somerville Theatre, 55Davis Square, Somerville, 888-874-7554. Mar 23–31. Thisnew adaptation of Jane Austen’s beloved tale brings the delightfulstory of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy finding love inearly 19th century England—despite differences of class andtemperament—to the stage.RECENT TRAGIC EVENTS, Whistler in the Dark, FactoryTheatre, The Piano Factory, 791 Tremont St., 866-811-4111.Mar 9–24. In the wake of September 11, 2011, Waverly, ayoung advertising executive in Minneapolis nervously awaitingnews of her New York-based sister, invites the neighbors overfor a drink and a freewheeling debate about the interconnectednessof everyone’s lives in Craig Wright’s 2002 thought-provokingtragi-comedy.ROMEO & JULIET, Stoneham Theatre, 395 Main St., Stoneham,781-279-2200. Mar 1–18. When children act on their parents’grievances and teens flame with the passion of first love, unintendedconsequences can devastate. Ten professional actorsteam up with ten members of Stoneham’s young company toexplore Shakespeare’s timeless story of love and conflict.SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE IN IOWA, Another CountryProductions, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Odyssey Theatre,949 Commonwealth Ave., 866-811-4111. Mar 2–18.Addressing the most relevant and current issues of family, howwe define it and whether we can truly learn to love each otherin spite of our differences, this play reveals the love a motherhas for her daughter and all she is willing to lose in order tokeep her.SAVAGE/LOVE, Continuity Theatre and Dance Company, TheJulie Ince Thompson Theatre at The Dance Complex, 536Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, continuitytheatreanddanceco@hotmail.com. Feb 12 & 13. Sam Shepard and JoesphChaikin’s intense glimpse into the truth of a relationship exploresthe first meeting, the hardships and the process of lovethrough monologues.SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS, Brown Box Theatre Project,Roberts Studio Theatre, Calderwood Pavilion at the BostonCenter for the Arts, 527 Tremont St., 617-424-6634 x222. Feb17–26. This fast-paced look at the lives of six people dealingwith the harsh realities of politics, sex, drugs and violence exploresthe world of apathetic urbanites through the perspectivesof an abused stripper, a disenchanted politician and anex-convict.TIME OF MY LIFE, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Plaza Black BoxTheatre, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont St., 617-933-8600. Feb 10–Mar 3. Revolving around a dinner at his family’sfavorite restaurant organized by successful businessman GerryStratton to celebrate his wife Laura’s 54th birthday, Sir AlanAyckbourn’s play jumps around in time to reveal the separatedirections in the relationships and lives of the family members.TIME STANDS STILL, Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St.,617-585-5678. Feb 17–Mar 17. This acclaimed new play byDonald Margulies tells the story of Sarah and James, a photojournalistand foreign correspondent, who are reeling aftertheir recent brush with death while on an assignment. Will theirrelationship of nearly a decade be more threatened by a traditionalgo at domesticity than the roadside bombs of Baghdad?THE TEMPERAMENTALS, Lyric Stage Company, 140Clarendon St., 617-585-5678. Mar 30–Apr 28. This hit off-Broadway play tells the story of two men—the communistHarry Hay and the Viennese refugee and fashion designer RudiGernreich—as they fall in love while forming the first gayrightsorganization in the pre-Stonewall United States.WEST SIDE STORY, Turtle Lane Playhouse, 283 Melrose St.,Newton, 866-811-4111. Mar 9–Apr 1. In 1950s New York City,two young lovers find themselves caught between two teenagestreet gangs of different ethnic backgrounds. This classic musicalfeatures such timeless songs as “I Feel Pretty,” “Maria”and “America.”THE WILD PARTY, The Footlight Club, Eliot Hall, 7A Eliot St.,Jamaica Plain, 617-524-3200. Mar 30–Apr 14. AndrewLippa’s award-winning, 1920s-set musical about passions outof control tells the story of one wild evening in the Manhattanapartment shared by vaudeville performers Queenie and Burrs.Amidst a relationship marked by vicious behavior and recklessness,they decide to throw a party to end all parties.WILD SWANS, American Repertory Theater, Loeb DramaCenter, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge, 617-547-8300. Feb 11–Mar11. Through the eyes of one fiercely courageous family, thisplay takes audiences on a journey from the early days ofCommunist China, through the chaos and confusion of Mao’sCultural Revolution to the birth of a superpower.THE WIZARD OF OZ, Wheelock Family Theatre, 200 TheRiverway, 617-879-2300. Through Feb 26. Based on thebeloved film, this endearing classic celebrates the heart’s journeyto friendship, inner strength and the true meaning of homethrough the adventures of farm girl Dorothy after she iswhisked away to a magical land.40 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2010$5.95 US$7.00 Canadaguide to local thea ter (continued)DANCEBALLET HISPANICO, Cutler Majestic Theatre at EmersonCollege, 219 Tremont St., 617-824-8000. Mar 9–11. Theacclaimed dance troupe continues along the trail they haveblazed for more than 40 years, exploring the Latino voice indance, from the smart and spicy to the elegant and lyrical. Theprogram includes Boston premieres of Mad’moiselle byAnnabelle Lopez Ochoa and a new work by Ronald K. Brown.PLAY WITH FIRE, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539Washington St., 617-931-2787. Mar 1–11. The best of thenew comes to the stage in this rule-breaking, spell-bindingcontemporary program: Jiří Kylián’s Bella Figura, Jorma Elo’sSharp Side of Dark and Christopher Bruce’s acclaimedRooster, set to the music of the Rolling Stones.SIMPLY SUBLIME, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera House, 539Washington St., 617-931-2787. Feb 9–19. This program presentsthree ballets: The world premiere production of LesSylphides by Florence Clerc; Christopher Wheeldon’s finestmasterpiece, Polyphonia; and George Balanchine’s stunningSymphony in Three Movements.TRIPLE PLAY, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31 HemenwaySt., 617-912-9222. Feb 16–19. Three choreographers, threecomposers and three different dance genres are highlighted inthis eclectic concert, featuring a premiere by Daniel Pelzig set toTchaikovsky’s Trio in A Minor for Violin, Piano and Cello; ZeroCool, a jazz dance work by Cathy Young set to music by DukeEllington; and iconic choreographer Doug Varone’s The ConstantShift of Pulse set to John Adams’ “Hallelujah Junction.”OPERATHE BARBER OF SEVILLE, Boston Lyric Opera, Citi PerformingArts Center, The Shubert Theatre, 265 Tremont St., 866-348-9738. Mar 9–18. Rossini’s comic masterpiece boasts hisunique and irresistible mixture of manic madness and soaringlyricism. Patter songs, love duets, serenades, a foiled elopement,a happy ending and even a thunderstorm—this operahas it all and more.DON GIOVANNI, The Boston Conservatory Theater, 31Hemenway St., 617-912-9222. Mar 29–Apr 1. The legendarylibertine Don Juan unbuttons the yearnings and contradictionsof polite society in Mozart’s darkly comic masterpiece in whichseduction, betrayal and retribution combine with soaringmelody, brilliant ensembles and a flaming finale.THE LIGHTHOUSE, Boston Lyric Opera, John F. KennedyPresidential Library and Museum, One Columbia Point, 617-542-6772. Feb 8–12. A dark storm rages. An inquiry is openedinto the unnatural disappearance of three lighthouse keepers.In the mysterious, deserted lighthouse nothing is amiss excepta chair lying on its back and a broken teacup. Verdict: death bymisadventure. Where lies the truth? Maxwell Davies’ opera isan unforgettably gripping and overwhelming portrait of madnessand possession.To make sure your art looksboffo, bring it to:30% off custom framingUnconditional Lifetime Guarantee3 LOCATIONS:Harvard Square1100 Mass. Ave.617.864.4487Belmont Porter Square493-B Trapelo Rd. 2044 Mass. Ave.617.484.5900 617.491.0011BigPictureFraming.comclick on “locations” ore-mail michael@bigpictureframing.comArt New EnglandC ONTEMPORARY A RT AND C ULTURESummer Destinations: Provincetown, Cape Ann, Nantucket • Seven Sculptors to WatchSubscribe toART NEW ENGLANDRead, learn, and inspire your life withArt New England, the region’s premiercontemporary art and culture magazine.ONE YEAR—SIX ISSUES: $28(20% OFF THE COVER PRICE)Call (800) 783-4903 or visitwww.artnewengland.comWILD SWANS 41

GUIDE toCAMBRIDGEDININGL–Lunch • D–Dinner • B–BreakfastC–Cocktails • VP–Valet ParkingSB–Sunday Brunch • LS–Late SupperTHE ASGARD IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, 350 MassachusettsAve., 617-577-9100. The Asgard was designed in Ireland, withlocal artists putting the finishing touches on a truly one-of-akindbar. Communal tables and a variety of cool, comfortableplaces to sit—along with an extensive menu, a large craft beerselection, outdoor patio, live music, trivia nights, DJs and nocover charge—make the Asgard a perfect spot for a pint and ameal. L, D, Sat & SB, LS, C.BONDIR, 279A Broadway, 617-661-0009. This cozy, farmhousestylerestaurant showcases the pastoral and marine bounty ofRAISING THE BAR: Enjoy modern, seasonal cuisinepre- or post-theater at Nubar, the recentlyrenovated restaurant at the landmark SheratonCommander Hotel in Harvard Square.New England, and offers a finely curated selection of Americanand European wines and beers. Following a simple philosophy ofquality and care, Chef Jason Bond uses vegetables picked thesame day, fish hours out of the ocean and pasture-raised meatson his daily-changing menu. D Wed–Mon 5–10 p.m.Our Treat*Applies to food items only.Enjoy 10% off* any meal or dessert, pre orpost theatre during the ART 2011 season.at the commander · 16 garden street cambridge, ma617.234.1365 · www.nubarcambridge.com · dining until 11pm42 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

guide to cambridge dining (continued)BORDER CAFE, 32 Church St., 617-864-6100. Sizzling fajitas,overstuffed quesadillas and giant margaritas are the highlightsat this Tex-Mex hotspot in Harvard Square. Other specialties includeCajun and Creole dishes, all served in a bustling, livelyand fun atmosphere. L, D, C, LS.CHEZ HENRI, 1 Shepard St., 617-354-8980. Chef/owner PaulO’Connell offers up delicious French cuisine with a Cuban twistin a classy and comfortable settting, located between Harvardand Porter Squares. Be sure to sample signature dishes likethe camarones rellenos de yuca (baked stuffed shrimp) and theblanquette de lapin (braised rabbit with creme fraiche), andpair them with one of Chez Henri’s standout tropical cocktails.D Mon–Thu 6–10 p.m., Fri & Sat 5:30–10:30 p.m., Sun5:30–9:30 p.m.CAMBRIDGE, 1., 27 Church St., Harvard Square, 617-576-1111. City dwellers looking for refined, sophisticated pizzascan find comfort in Cambridge, 1. Its Best of Boston awardwinning,thin crust, charcoal-grilled pies include such toppingsas grilled chicken, potato, arugula and even lobster. The menualso offers salads in addition to beer and wine. L, D, C, LS.DANTE, Royal Sonesta, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., 617-497-4200. Chef Dante de Magistris dishes out playful, rich fare withItalian, French and Spanish influences. The sophisticatedeatery boasts a seasonal patio and gorgeous views of theCharles River and the Boston skyline. B Mon–Fri 6:30–10:30a.m., Sat & Sun 7–11 a.m.; L Mon–Fri 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.;D Mon–Thu 5:30–10 p.m., Fri & Sat ’til 11 p.m.; Sat & SB11 a.m.–2 p.m.DOLPHIN SEAFOOD, 1105 Massachusetts Ave., 617-661-2937. If you’re in the mood for quality seafood, then this longtimeneighborhood favorite is not to be missed. From friedseafood platters to healthier options like swordfish to all varietiesof shellfish, if it comes from the sea, Dolphin serves it updeliciously and fresh off the boat. L, D.EAST COAST GRILL, 1271 Cambridge St., 617-491-6568. Thiseatery from chef Chris Schlesinger offers fresh seafood andgrilled fish as well as hot and spicy barbecue options, allserved with traditional sides like cole slaw, beans, cornbreadand watermelon. An oyster bar, cabana-like cocktails and afunky atmosphere prove fine dining can be fun. D, SB.FINALE, 30 Dunster St., Harvard Sq., 617-441-9797; OneColumbus Ave., Boston, 617-423-3184. A trendsetter amongdessert-focused restaurants, Finale offers a wide array of timehonored favorites and specialty desserts, savory fare for lunchand dinner, and an impressive selection of Illy coffee drinks,wine and cocktails. Sample award-winning creations like thegooey Molten Chocolate Cake and enjoy carry-out options fromthe Finale Bakery including freshly baked cookies, cakes, minipastriesand tarts. Dunster St.: Mon 11 a.m.–11 p.m.; Tue–Thu’til 11:30 p.m.; Fri ’til 12:30 a.m.; Sat noon–12:30 a.m.; Sun’til–11 p.m. Columbus Ave.: Mon 11:30 a.m.–11 p.m.; Tue–Thu’til 11:30 p.m., Fri ’til midnight; Sat 5 p.m.–midnight; Sun 4–11p.m. www.finaledesserts.com.GRAFTON STREET, 1230 Massachusetts Ave., 617-497-0400.This neighborhood hotspot is named after the spiritedcobblestone-lined shopping district in Dublin’s famed Temple“Serving The Best Since 1975”TWIN LOBSTERS $22.95special price for Theatrebill readersmust present ad for discount617-661-2937EVERYWEDNESDAY–SATURDAY$1 RAWBARLATE NIGHTDININGEVERY FRIDAY& SATURDAYNIGHT1105 MASSACHUSETTS SACHUSETTSAVENUE CAMBRIDGE, HARVARD RD SQUAREwww.dolphinseafood.comwod.comWILD SWANS 43

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guide to cambridge dining (continued)surrounding neighborhood: smart, seasonal and approachable.Nubar serves elegant comfort food with a modern approachapplied to classic dishes. Private dining & reservations available.B, L, D daily ’til 11 p.m. C Sun–Thu ’til midnight, Fri & Sat’til 1 a.m. www.nubarcambridge.com.OM, 92 Winthrop St., 617-576-2800. OM Restaurant & Loungein Harvard Square offers globally-influenced modern Americancuisine, drawing in foodies and neighborhood patrons alike. Apopular nightlife destination, OM’s lounge boasts sleek leathersofas, a hypnotic water wall and signature cocktails. D, C.P.F. CHANG’S, CambridgeSide Galleria, 100 CambridgeSidePlace, 617-250-9965. Enjoy unforgettable Chinese cuisine, attentiveservice and delicious desserts all served in a stylishbistro setting. Featuring an award-winning wine list, P.F.Chang’s offers an extensive wine-by-the-glass program aswell as original cocktails like the Lucky Cat Martini. L, D & LS.Reservations accepted. Sun–Thu 11 a.m.–11 p.m., Fri & Sat’til midnight. www.pfchangs.com.RIALTO, The Charles Hotel, One Bennett St., 617-661-5050.One of Greater Boston’s top restaurants, Rialto specializes infine wines and delectable Italian cuisine. Chef Jody Adamsshowcases her creative talents on a menu exploding with flavorand imbued with craftmanship. Reservations recommended. D.RENDEZVOUS, 502 Massachusetts Ave., Central Square, 617-576-1900. Acclaimed Boston chef Steve Johnson uses regionalproducts and the spices of Northern Africa, Italy, France andSpain to create his own twist on seasonal cuisine. Rotating entreescan include grilled Portuguese sardines with roasted peppers,fennel and capers or Moroccan style kofte with mintedyogurt. D.RUSSELL HOUSE TAVERN, 14 JFK St., 617-500-3055.Combining Executive Chef Michael Scelfo’s seasonally inspiredmenu of modern interpretations of American classics with abar serving all-American wines, a locally driven craft beer selectionand classic as well as modern hand-crafted cocktails,this Harvard Square restaurant is a comfortable gathering spotfor every occasion. L, D, SB, LS, C.SANDRINE’S BISTRO, 8 Holyoke St., 617-497-5300. This sophisticatedbistro has been serving fine French food and winefor 15 years. Located on a quiet side street just five minutes’walk from both A.R.T. theaters, it’s the ideal beginning to anevening of culture. Smooth service, crisp cocktails and decadentdesserts complement a menu that includes oysters, foiegras, steaks, game, vegetarian options and a poisson du jour. LMon–Sat 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m., D daily from 5:30 p.m.SHAYS PUB & WINE BAR, 58 JFK St., 617-864-9161. AHarvard Square fixture since 1984, this casual and comfortabletavern boasts an excellent beer and wine selection along withmade-from-scratch appetizers, burgers, sandwiches andMexican specialities, all at reasonable prices. L & D Mon–Sat11 a.m. –1 a.m., Sun noon–1 a.m.TORY ROW, 3 Brattle St., Harvard Square, 617-876-TROW.Located at the heart of Harvard Square, Tory Row takes itsname from the 1770s term for Brattle Street, once populated by WILD SWANS 45

guide to cambridge dining (continued)Sustainable, fresh,local ingredients daily.279A Broadway | Cambridge, MA021395–10 p.m. | Closed on TuesdayCall now for reservations: 617-661-00091-0009www.bondircambridge.commSETTING THE STAGE: The dramatic interior andaward-winning cuisine at Upstairs on theSquare makes it the perfect setting for diningbefore or after the theater.British loyalists. Serving up an eclectic mix of Euro-Americandishes at affordable prices, this neighborhood bar and restauranthas shed the conservative roots of its name and replacedthem with a diverse and creative culinary aesthetic. L, D.58 JFK St.,Cambridge617.864.9161There’s something for everyone!• Greek specialties • Breakfast is served all day!MONDAY THRU SATURDAY 7:30 AM TO 10:00 PMSUNDAY 8:00 AM TO 9:00 PM1105 Massachusetts Ave.Cambridge • 617-495-0055UPSTAIRS ON THE SQUARE, 91 Winthrop St., 617-864-1933.Boasting an eclectic decor, this lush urban oasis featureseverything from poached Atlantic salmon to fire-roastedMeadow Farms lamb chops. A charming blend of eccentricityand culinary luxury. L, D, C, LS.WAGAMAMA, 57 JFK St., 617-499-0930; Faneuil HallMarketplace, Quincy Market, Boston, 617-742-9242; ThePrudential Center, 800 Boylston St., Boston, 617-778-2344.This international chain, modeled on the classic Japaneseramen noodle bar, has three locations in the Boston area.Offering affordable prices, speedy service and authentic food,Wagamama is a hip rendition of an old favorite, perfect for themodern globe-trotting food enthusiast. L, D.ZOE’S, 1105 Massachusetts Ave., 617-495-0055. Offering amenu of delicious homemade Greek and American food in afun atmosphere, this retro establishment serves breakfast allday, and take-out and catering are available. A popular destinationfor the weekend brunch crowd, Zoe’s is also a greatplace for dinner, boasting an affordable selection of beer andwine. For dessert, try the delicious cheesecake frappe or thefamous frozen hot chocolate. B, L, D, SB. Mon–Wed 7:30a.m.–9 p.m., Thu–Sat ’til 10 p.m., Sun 8 a.m.–9 p.m.46 AN AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER/YOUNG VIC/ACTORS TOURING COMPANY CO-PRODUCTION

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