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Antony and Cleopatra
By William Shakespeare
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Running Time: 163 minutes (plus 15 minute intermission)
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IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ANTONI CIMOLINO
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS BARRY AVRICH. ANITA GAFFNEY, MICHAEL A. LEVINE
PRESENT A BARRY AVRICH PRODUCTION
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
STARRING GERAINT WYN DAVIES, YANNA McINTOSH,
BEN CARLSON, TOM McCAMUS
DESIGNER CHARLOTTE DEAN
LIGHTING DESIGNER MICHAEL WALTON
SOUND DESIGNER PETER McBOYLE
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS SUSAN EDWARDS ALANA KALIL
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY JOE INTERISANO
EDITOR GEORGE ROULSTON
DIRECTED FOR THE STAGE BY GARY GRIFFIN
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED FOR FILM BY BARRY AVRICH
SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS
Stratford Festival HD is sponsored by Sun Life Financial as part of their Making the Arts
More Accessible® program, with generous support from Laura Dinner & Richard Rooney,
the Jenkins Family Foundation, Ophelia & Mike Lazaridis, Sandra & Jim Pitblado, and
Robert & Jacqueline Sperandio.
DISTRIBUTION
Canadian distribution is through Cineplex Entertainment’s Front Row Centre Events, which
specializes in bringing world-class events and performances to the big screen. Cinema screenings
will be followed by a broadcast window on CBC-TV, Canada’s national public broadcaster.
Digital and on-demand release will follow.
U.S. and international distribution is through SpectiCast, the fastest growing event cinema
marketing and distribution company in the world.
OVERVIEW
Antony and Cleopatra
The steamy story of a midlife affair that shook the foundations of the ancient world comes to
vivid life in the Stratford Festival production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, starring
Geraint Wyn Davies and Yanna McIntosh as the powerful rulers whose insatiable love leads to
the greatest of tragedies. Director Gary Griffin paints an unforgettable landscape depicting the
devastation wrought by the heart’s transgressions.
The Story
Since the assassination of Julius Caesar, the Roman republic has been ruled by the triumvirate of
Octavius, Lepidus and Antony. Antony, however, has been neglecting his political and military
responsibilities – and his wife in Rome – as he dallies in Alexandria with Cleopatra, queen of
Egypt. After his wife dies, Antony returns to Rome to help Octavius deal with a challenge from
the rebel Pompey – and also agrees to marry Octavius’s sister. But as Cleopatra’s lure proves too
powerful for Antony to resist, the ancient world is engulfed in a war that will cost many lives and
spell the doom of the republic itself.
Synopsis
After the assassination of Julius Caesar, the Roman world is ruled by a triumvirate consisting of
Octavius Caesar, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus and Mark Antony. Much to Caesar’s disgust,
however, Antony is neglecting his political and military responsibilities – and his wife in Rome –
as he dallies in Alexandria with Cleopatra, the voluptuous queen of Egypt.
Upon his wife’s death, Antony at last returns to Rome to help Caesar crush a rebellion led by
Pompey. To patch things up between them, Antony agrees to marry Caesar’s sister, Octavia –
news of which enrages Cleopatra. Pompey and the triumvirate declare a temporary truce, during
which Pompey passes up the opportunity to kill all three of the Roman leaders at a shipboard
banquet.
When Antony, unable to endure his separation from Cleopatra, returns to Egypt, Caesar attacks
and defeats Pompey, imprisons Lepidus and challenges Antony to a battle at sea. Antony’s side
loses the fight when Cleopatra’s ships retreat, and in a subsequent engagement the Egyptian fleet
surrenders altogether.
Antony accuses Cleopatra of betraying him, whereupon she sends him word that she has killed
herself. Hearing this, Antony falls on his sword and is mortally wounded. He is taken to
Cleopatra, and they pledge again their undying love before Cleopatra sends for a poisonous asp
with which to end her own life.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
DIRECTOR’S NOTES
A Play of Infinite Variety
By Gary Griffin
Antony and Cleopatra has always fascinated me – in part because it’s a challenging play to
categorize. It’s so many things: it’s history and it’s comedy and it’s tragedy and it’s romantic.
I’m drawn to plays about the controllable and the uncontrollable. Antony and Cleopatra explores
that dichotomy. It’s about duality and the struggle to embrace it. It’s about struggling with your
whole self when the world is demanding that you be just one part of yourself.
One of my designers compared it to The West Wing. That might sound reductive, but what we
loved about The West Wing was that it was about what goes on behind the politics and the power
and the running of the world. So is this play. We don’t see many large public scenes. We hear
what went on in public, people describe what went on – but what we see, what we’re privy to, is
what’s behind all that. Shakespeare was quite brilliant about knowing what we don’t need to see.
There’s something very adult about Antony and Cleopatra. I’m sure young people will
appreciate it in quite a different way, but to me, at almost fifty-four years old, I see its characters
wrestling with the issues of middle age, when you realize your life may have arrived. You still
learn, you still grow, you still get better, but the life you planned is here, and you make what you
can of it.
The play also explores the nature of suicide. For most of us, the questions are “Why?” and
“Could I have done something?” Shakespeare gives very specific answers here: the reasons for
suicide are clear in terms of why – and in each case it’s also clear that it could not have been
prevented.
Because this play is so vast it’s so hard to define, in directing it I’ve been trying to uncover its
large canvas. We’ve tried to approach it in a spirit of humility and simplicity, allowing us to
recognize ourselves as we newly discover this great story.
NOTES ON CAPTURING THE LIVE PRODUCTION
Antony and Cleopatra was captured live on stage with a full audience at the Stratford Festival’s
Tom Patterson Theatre on September 25, 2014, using 10 high definition cameras and 128 tracks
of sound to create a lush, surround-sound experience. Additional “pick-up” shots of key
performance elements were captured on stage immediately following the performance.
The film version is faithful to the stage version of the production, but adds the intimacy of film
and a myriad of camera positions to bring the audience even closer to the action than in the
intimate Tom Patterson Theatre.
Involving the audience was a priority in the filmmaking process as the interplay between actor
and audience is critical in this production. It was essential to have an audience remain for the
pick-up shots that followed the full performance.
ABOUT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL
The Stratford Festival has been setting the standard for classical theatre in North America for
more than 60 years. With the works of Shakespeare at its core, this acclaimed repertory theatre
presents a seven-month season of a dozen or more plays in four venues, along with a Forum of
events to enrich the play-going experience. Since its revolutionary first season in 1953, it has
welcomed more than 26 million theatregoers from around the world, people who flock to this
small Canadian town for one reason: an unparalleled quality of performance. Beginning in 2015,
under the leadership of Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino and Executive Director Anita Gaffney,
the Stratford Festival will make a select number of its Shakespearean masterpieces available
each year in spectacular HD, capturing the entire Shakespeare canon over the next 10 years and
bringing the work of this renowned company to audiences around the world.
“Stratford, where fans of classic drama come in large numbers to worship at its leading,
four-stage, North American shrine.” Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
“If you have been longing to encounter greatness in the theatre, it’s waiting for you at the
Stratford Festival.” Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star
“I can’t think of another theatre company in the world currently offering such variety
stylistically – and all of it at the highest standard, too.… The company is feeling like an
international mecca for Shakespeare.” J. Kelly Nestruck, The Globe and Mail
“The depth of casting allows for revelatory performances even in minor roles.”
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
“The Stratford Festival is like nirvana for theater fans.” Amy Alipio, National Geographic
Traveler
ABOUT STRATFORD FESTIVAL HD
In March 2014, the Stratford Festival’s Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino and Executive
Director Anita Gaffney announced an exciting and ambitious film and digital media project,
committing to produce films of three productions each season with the ultimate goal of filming
all of Shakespeare’s plays over the next decade.
“We’re forging new territory here in Canada by filming a series of productions and expanding
our digital footprint,” said Ms Gaffney. “In addition to distributing the films through cinemas,
TV and online, we also plan to use components from the films to inspire a suite of digital
products including applications, games and audio books. We hope that this expanded digital
presence will ultimately entice even more people to visit Stratford and take in the full Festival
experience.”
This massive initiative began in February 2015 with the release of King Lear, a production that
“unquestionably catapults Colm Feore into the ranks of the world’s greatest living actors”
(Toronto Star). The Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed productions of King John and
Antony and Cleopatra will round out the first instalment of the Stratford Festival HD series that
will ultimately bring the complete works of William Shakespeare to audiences around the world.
“With these first three productions, we launch a project dear to my heart,” says Mr. Cimolino:
“to create a Canadian collection of the entire Shakespeare canon, which allows us to preserve the
performances of our greatest actors and share them with an audience far beyond our borders.
“This is a tremendous opportunity for the Festival to conquer not only geography but also time.
Over the years, Canada’s greatest theatre artists have done some of their finest work on our
stages, only to have that work vanish into thin air. It is shocking to me that William Hutt’s final
Prospero, for instance, lives on only as a distant, static archival recording that can barely even
hint at the magnificent power of that performance.”
Stratford Festival HD will extend the Festival’s reach and heighten its profile around the world.
It will also serve as a valuable educational resource, allowing students to see Canadian
productions of all of Shakespeare’s works, supplemented by online study guides that the Festival
will create for each production.
“Students need to see that Shakespeare doesn’t live in the daunting pages of a great thick book,”
says Mr. Cimolino, “but in the very same media they use to navigate and explore the world
around them.”
ABOUT THE CAST
Geraint Wyn Davies (Antony)
Stratford Festival 2015 (12th season): Claudius, The Ghost in Hamlet and Johann Wilhelm
Möbius in The Physicists.
Previous Stratford (selected): Cook (Mother Courage), Antony, Duke Vincentio, Leicester,
Cymbeline, Malachi Stack, King Arthur, Falstaff, Stephano, Dylan Thomas, Julius Caesar,
Bottom, Polonius, Henry Higgins, Henry V, Bassanio, Tom Fashion, D’Artagnan, Richmond,
Edward IV, Hortensio, Antipholus of Syracuse, Pericles.
Elsewhere: New York: King Lear (Lincoln Center); Poetic License (The Directors Company);
Do Not Go Gentle (Clurman Theatre); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theater). Canadian
Stage’s The Elephant Man; Shaw Festival, five seasons; Prospero, Richard III, Cyrano
(Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, D.C.); Love’s Labour’s Lost (RSC); Hamlet,
Henry VIII (Chichester Festival); An Enemy of the People (Lyric Hammersmith, London); two
seasons as Theatr Clwyd’s artistic associate (Welsh National Company).
Film/TV (selected): ReGenesis, Murdoch Mysteries, 24, Slings and Arrows, Black Harbour,
Airwolf, Forever Knight, American Psycho II, Hypercube, One of the Hollywood Ten,
Conspiracy of Fear.
Yanna McIntosh (Cleopatra)
Stratford Festival 2015 (10th season): Mrs. van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank and Jocasta in
Oedipus Rex.
Previous Stratford: Cleopatra, Elektra, Cymbeline (Queen), Richard III, The Little Years, The
Winter’s Tale, Dangerous Liaisons, Lady Macbeth, Dream (Titania), The Trojan Women
(Helen), Palmer Park, The Illusion.
Elsewhere: The Seagull (Crow’s Theatre); Remedy (Global); Speaking in Tongues (Company
Theatre); This, Syringa Tree, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew (Canadian
Stage); Ruined (Obsidian/Nightwood – Dora Award); Cloud 9 (Mirvish); Stuff Happens (Studio
180); Mary Stuart, Phèdre (Soulpepper); The Monument (Obsidian); Hedda Gabler (Volcano);
Belle (Factory/NAC); Generous, Skylight (Tarragon – Dora); Valley Song (New Globe – Dora);
Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Bear (NAC); Lambton Kent (Volcano/Edinburgh Festival); Tartuffe
(ART); Trace (co-writer/performer); guest teacher/director (NTS; Humber College).
Film/TV: Working the Engels, This Is Wonderland, Riverdale (CBC); Hemlock Grove (Netflix);
Suits (USA); Listener, Doomstown – Gemini Award (CTV); The Line (TMN); The Sentinel,
Finn’s Girl, A Raisin in the Sun.
Ben Carlson (Octavius)
Stratford Festival 2015 (8th season): Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music and Petruchio in
The Taming of the Shrew.
Previous Stratford: Hamlet, Benedick, Leontes, Brutus, Octavius, Fluellen, Feste, Touchstone,
Tranio, Charles (Blithe Spirit), Alceste (The Misanthrope), Jack (The Importance of Being
Earnest), Chaplain (Mother Courage and Her Children), Burleigh (Mary Stuart).
Elsewhere: Credits throughout North America: Shaw Festival: Tanner in Man and Superman,
among over 25 productions. Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Hamlet, Macbeth, Frank in The
School for Lies and Pericles. Various favourites: London Road, Canadian Stage; Cloud 9,
Mirvish Productions; Our Town, Soulpepper Theatre; Berowne, NAC; Biff, Death of a
Salesman, Neptune Theatre; Marchbanks, Candida, Theatre Calgary; Private Gar, Philadelphia
Here I Come!, Walnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia).
Film/TV: The Anniversary, Saving Hope, The Firm, Rookie Blue, Warehouse 13, Grey Gardens,
Angela’s Eyes, Slings and Arrows, The 11th Hour.
Awards: Joseph Jefferson, Hamlet; Dora Mavor Moore, Torvald, The Doll’s House.
Tom McCamus (Enobarbus)
Stratford Festival 2014 (14th season): King John in King John, March Hare in Alice Through
the Looking-Glass and Enobarbus in Antony and Cleopatra.
Previous Stratford (selected): Friar Laurence/Romeo and Juliet, Antonio/The Merchant of
Venice, Vandergelder/The Matchmaker, Iachimo/Cymbeline, Casey/The Grapes of Wrath,
Hook/Peter Pan, Valmont/Dangerous Liaisons, Vershinin/Three Sisters, Apemantus/Timon of
Athens, Richard III, Macheath/The Threepenny Opera, Vladimir/Waiting for Godot, Coriolanus,
King Arthur/Camelot, Edmund/Long Day’s Journey Into Night.
Elsewhere: Rhett Butler/Gone with the Wind (MTC); Hamlet, Divisadero (Necessary Angel);
Thom Pain (Tarragon).
Film: Cairo Time (Ruba Nada), The Sweet Hereafter (Atom Egoyan), Long Day’s Journey
(David Wellington), Possible Worlds (Robert Lepage).
Awards: Dora, best actor: Abundance (Theatre Plus); Genie, best actor: I Love a Man in
Uniform (David Wellington); Gemini and ACTRA, best actor: Waking Up Wally (Dean Bennett).
Et cetera: Tom lives on a farm in Warkworth with his wife, actress Chick Reid, and their three
dogs.
DIRECTORS AND PRODUCERS
Antoni Cimolino
Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival
Born in Sudbury, Ontario, Antoni Cimolino graduated in 1984 from the University of Windsor’s School
of Dramatic Art. He began his Stratford career in 1988 as an actor, playing such roles as Flute in A
Midsummer Night’s Dream (1989), Claudio in Measure for Measure (1992), Romeo in Romeo and Juliet
(1992) and Laertes in Hamlet (1994).
He began to direct for Stratford in the mid-1990s, winning acclaim for such productions as The Night of
the Iguana, with Seana McKenna (1998); Twelfth Night, with William Hutt (2001); Love’s Labour’s Lost,
with Brian Bedford (2003); King John, with Stephen Ouimette (2004); As You Like It, featuring original
music by Barenaked Ladies (2005); Coriolanus, with Colm Feore and Martha Henry (2006);
Bartholomew Fair, with Tom McCamus (2009); The Grapes of Wrath, with Janet Wright (2011); and
Cymbeline, with Geraint Wyn Davies (2012).
In 2013, his first season as Artistic Director, Mr. Cimolino introduced the Stratford Festival Forum, a
series of about 150 insightful events designed to enhance the play-going experience by illuminating the
themes of the plays and illustrating their relevance in today’s world. That same season he directed
Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, with Tom McCamus and Scott Wentworth, and Friedrich
Schiller’s Mary Stuart, with Lucy Peacock and Seana McKenna, a production that captured the public’s
imagination and was extended an unprecedented four times. His 2014 productions, both featuring Colm
Feore, were George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem and Shakespeare’s King Lear, which became one
of the top-selling Shakespeares in the Festival’s history. In 2015 he will direct the Festival’s productions
of Hamlet and The Alchemist.
Among many other accomplishments in his previous roles as the Festival’s General Manager, General
Director and Executive Director, Mr. Cimolino oversaw the successful launch of a stability fund and a
$50-million endowment foundation, and also significantly improved the Festival’s infrastructure by
leading the design, consultation and funding process for four major construction projects between 2002
and 2008, including the extensive renovation of the Avon Theatre and the creation of the Studio Theatre.
In 2014, he and Executive Director Anita Gaffney announced an ambitious 10-year project to film
Festival productions of all Shakespeare’s plays, with the first three – King Lear, King John and Antony
and Cleopatra – to be released in early 2015.
A champion of the arts and culture, Mr. Cimolino also serves as the National Chair of Culture Days, a
nationwide celebration of arts and culture in Canada. He has initiated collaborations with several
prestigious theatre companies, including Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde, Ottawa’s National Arts
Centre, New York’s Lincoln Center and City Center, and the Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Examples
include the Festival’s 2006 production of Molière’s Don Juan, a co-production with Théâtre du Nouveau
Monde that was presented in both French and English during its Stratford season and later transferred to
Montreal, and 2004’s King Lear, which later transferred to New York, where it garnered two Tony
nominations.
Mr. Cimolino is passionate about enriching the lives of others through the education and practice of the
arts. His dedication to this cause led him to spearhead the Festival’s involvement in a joint project with
CUSO, Canada’s international volunteer co-operation agency, to establish a performing arts and
educational centre in the city of Suchitoto, El Salvador.
Now in his 28th season at the Festival, Mr. Cimolino is a respected artist and an influential leader in the
global theatrical community.
Anita Gaffney
Executive Director, Stratford Festival
Executive Producer
Anita Gaffney is Executive Director of the Stratford Festival, working alongside the Artistic
Director in setting the Festival’s strategic and operational direction. Ms Gaffney joined the
Festival in 1991 and over the past 21 years has held a variety of positions, including Director of
Marketing during the theatre’s years of peak attendance. She designed the Festival’s customer
relationship marketing system, which remains in use today and has been emulated by arts
organizations around the world.
Ms Gaffney is highly regarded for her skills in government relations, finance, change
management and strategic planning, honed during her years as the Festival’s Administrative
Director. Her efforts to expand the reach of the Festival into the digital world include
spearheading the Stratford Festival HD project as well as supporting the production of previous
films, Caesar and Cleopatra, The Tempest and Twelfth Night and the launch of several mobile
applications.
She has an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University and has
continued her executive education through Harvard Business School.
Gary Griffin
Director of the stage production of Antony and Cleopatra
Stratford Festival: Director: Antony and Cleopatra, 42nd Street, Camelot, Evita, West Side
Story.
Elsewhere: Broadway: Honeymoon in Vegas, The Color Purple and The Apple Tree. London:
Pacific Overtures at the Donmar Warehouse (Olivier Award, outstanding musical production).
Off-Broadway: The Sound of Music (Carnegie Hall); Lost in the Stars, Music in the Air, A Tree
Grows in Brooklyn, Pardon My English, The New Moon (City Center Encores!); Saved
(Playwrights Horizons); Beautiful Thing (Cherry Lane). Associate artistic director of Chicago
Shakespeare Theatre: Passion, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Follies, Amadeus, Passion, A Flea
in Her Ear, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George and Pacific Overtures.
Regional credits: Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Old Globe, Theatre 20, McCarter Theatre,
Alliance Theatre, Signature Theatre, Hartford Stage.
Awards: Eight Joseph Jefferson Awards for direction.
Barry Avrich
Film Director/Producer/Executive Producer
Barry Avrich is a veteran director and producer of many critically acclaimed documentary films,
television specials and filmed theatrical adaptations. Avrich’s high-profile films have included
The Last Mogul (HB0), Showstopper (TMN), Filthy Gorgeous (EPIX), Quality Balls (Showtime)
and The Tempest (eone). In 2015, the Avrich productions of King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra,
King John and a television special for HBO called Women Who Act will be released. Avrich has
served as a director for high-profile arts organizations such as TIFF, Hot Docs, Stratford Festival
and The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. In 2007, Avrich built The Hollywood
Theatre, the world's first movie theatre in a hospital for sick children. In 2015, Avrich will
publish his memoir Moguls, Monsters and Madmen.
Michael A. Levine
Executive Producer
Michael A. Levine, a former partner of Goodmans LLP, is Chairman of Westwood Creative
Artists (Canada’s largest literary agency, representing over 400 authors), Chairman of
Bravo!FACT, a Director of the National Screen Institute and Executive Producer of various
fiction and non-fiction films and television properties, many of which tell Canadian stories,
including: The Book of Negroes, The Terry Fox Story, Republic of Doyle, Sir John A Macdonald,
The Land That Devours Ships, The Struggle for Democracy, The Danger Tree, The Heritage
Minutes for The CRB Foundation and Historica, A Soldier’s Peace with Major-General Lewis
MacKenzie, Peter C. Newman’s Canadian Revolution, Canadians: Biographies of a Nation, Sir
Wilfred Laurier, Titans, Mordecai Richler: A Celebration, Mordecai Richler’s St. Urbain’s
Horseman, and various Stratford Festival productions.
TAIL CREDITS
Antony and Cleopatra
By William Shakespeare
CAST
Mark Antony ..........................................................................Geraint Wyn Davies
Cleopatra ................................................................................Yanna McIntosh
Octavius Caesar ......................................................................Ben Carlson
Enobarbus ..............................................................................Tom McCamus
Mecenas .................................................................................Sean Arbuckle
Eros ........................................................................................Daniel Briere
Man from Sicyon ....................................................................Ryan Field
Cleopatra Attendant ..............................................................Ijeoma Emesowum
Octavia Attendant ..................................................................Deidre Gillard-Rowlings
Octavia ...................................................................................Carmen Grant
Lepidus ...................................................................................Randy Hughson
Agrippa ...................................................................................Peter Hutt
Diomedes ...............................................................................Andrew Lawrie
Towrus....................................................................................Jamie Mac
Dolabella, Thidias ...................................................................Anthony Malarky
Iras..........................................................................................Jennifer Mogbock
Varrius ....................................................................................André Morin
Scarrus....................................................................................Karack Osborn
Cleopatra Attendant ..............................................................Sarena Parmar
Ventidius ................................................................................Andrew Robinson
Menas, Camidius ....................................................................Brad Rudy
Soothsayer .............................................................................Stephen Russell
Alexas, Proculeius ..................................................................E.B. Smith
Pompey, Clown ......................................................................Brian Tree
Charmian ................................................................................Sophia Walker
Mardian ..................................................................................Antoine Yared
Messengers, Soldiers, Guards, Servants ................................Ryan Field, Andrew Lawrie, Jamie
Mac, Anthony Malarky, André
Morin, Andrew Robinson
Stratford Festival Artistic Credits
Designer .................................................................................Charlotte Dean
Lighting Designer ...................................................................Michael Walton
Sound Designer ......................................................................Peter McBoyle
Fight Director .........................................................................John Stead
Associate Fight Director .........................................................Geoff Scovell
Assistant Director ...................................................................Rona Waddington
Assistant Set and Costume Designer .....................................Kimberly Catton
Assistant Lighting Designer ....................................................George Quan
Fight Captain ..........................................................................Daniel Briere
Wigs and Makeup for HD .......................................................Gerald Altenburg
Stage Manager .......................................................................Ann Stuart
Assistant Stage Managers ......................................................Katherine Arcus, Bona Duncan,
Jessica Stinson
Production Assistant ..............................................................Ian Michael Costello
Production Stage Managers...................................................Margaret Palmer, Janine Ralph
Technical Director ..................................................................Sean Hirtle
Assistant Technical Director……………………………………………….David Campbell
Stage Carpenter .....................................................................Paul Gorman
Master Electrician ..................................................................Timothy Hanson
Property Master .....................................................................Alan Hughes
Alternate ................................................................................Melba Bingeman
Head of Sound ........................................................................Jim Stewart
Crew…………………………………………………………………………………..Rory Feore, Gary Geiger, Anthony
Gentile, William Gosling, Trevor
Gould, Keith Handegord, Scott King,
Allan Laidman, William Malmo,
Andrew Mawdsley, Greg Morris,
Kathleen Orlando, John Roth, B.J.
Shaver, Cliff Tipping, Joe Tracey
Wardrobe Mistress ................................................................Luci Pottle
Wardrobe Attendants ............................................................Heather Diamond, Sheila Filshie,
Tracy Houston-McIntyre, Inez Khan,
Jane Mallory, Debra Yundt
Swing ......................................................................................Laurie Krempien-Hall
Wigs and Makeup Show Head ...............................................Angela Moncur
Wigs and Makeup Crew .........................................................Lorna Henderson, Mallory Reeves,
Alana Scheel
Editor ......................................................................................George Roulston
Producers ...............................................................................Mike Reid, Susan Edwards
Assistant to the Producer ......................................................Kadie Balfour
Associate Producer ................................................................Alana Kalil
Director of Photography ........................................................Joseph Interisano
Assistant Director ...................................................................Kim Murton
Production Manager ..............................................................Tony Phibbs
Drivers ....................................................................................Mati Kuld, Dave Arthur
Makeup ..................................................................................Sue Upton
Technical Producer ................................................................Shawn Hughes
LiveWire .................................................................................Doug McClement, Gary Tompkins,
Andrew Low
Audio ......................................................................................Kent Ford
Cinedeck Operator .................................................................Andy Ford
Video ......................................................................................Charlie Goldman
Cameras .................................................................................Paul Mills, Rob Burling, Darren
Kenmir, Steven Leech, Stacy
Noordover
TVA .........................................................................................Kam Martin, Chris Noordover
DOME Productions.................................................................Craig Moorman, Will Morrison, Zeke
Yovanovich
Post Production Supervisor ...................................................Mike Reid
Video Post-Production Facility ...............................................Creative Post Inc.
Executive Vice President, Creative Post Inc. .........................Howard Gold
On-Line Editor and Colourist ..................................................Jozef Karoly
Audio Facility ..........................................................................Spence-Thomas Audio Post
Dialogue and Sound Editor ....................................................Gary Vaughan
Sound Re-Recording Mixer ....................................................Richard Spence-Thomas
Opening Titles Creative Supervisor ........................................Andre Fournier
Design/Animation ..................................................................Mike Blonde
Stratford Festival Production Team
Directors of Production..........................................................John Tiggeloven, Douglas Lemcke
Technical Director – Scenic Construction ..............................Andrew Mestern
Wardrobe Manager ...............................................................Anne Moore
Production Administrator ......................................................Cheryl Bender
Design Coordinator ................................................................Alix Dolgoy
Scene Shop Manager .............................................................Robbin Cheesman
Technical Management Assistant ..........................................Michael Besworth
Administrative Assistant ........................................................Cindy Jordan
Electronics Technologist ........................................................Chris Wheeler
Transportation .......................................................................Charlie Fox, Ian A. Fraser,
Michael Taylor, James Thistle
Head of Properties .................................................................Dona Hrabluk
Lead Builder ...........................................................................Jennifer Macdonald
Assisted by .............................................................................Eric Ball, Ken Dubblestyne,
Ksenia Ivanova, Michelle Jamieson,
Kathryn Kerr, Shirley Lee,
Brian McLeod, Dylan Mundy,
Lisa Summers
Properties Apprentice ............................................................Matt Leckie
Properties Buyer ....................................................................Tracy Fulton
Assistant Properties Buyer .....................................................Jaclyn Zaltz
Head Scenic Artist ..................................................................Christopher Klein
Assistant Head Scenic Artist...................................................Daniel McManus
Assisted by .............................................................................Kevin Kemp, Janet Shearn,
Amparo Villalobos,
Michael Wharran, Blair Yeomans
Head Carpenters ....................................................................Neil R. Cheney, Ryan Flanagan
Head of Automation ..............................................................Ian Phillips
Lead Hand ..............................................................................Mark Smith
Assisted by .............................................................................Simon Aldridge, David Bedford,
Mark Card, Ryan Flanagan,
Gary Geiger, William Malmo,
Stephen Morgan, Wayne Nero,
John Roth, Joseph Saunders,
Geoff Taylor, Cliff Tipping,
Joe Tracey
Head of Wardrobe .................................................................Bradley Dalcourt
Assistant Head of Wardrobe ..................................................Elizabeth Copeman
Seasonal Wardrobe Supervisor..............................................Linda Sparks
Cutters ....................................................................................Johanna Billings, Terri Dans,
Carol A. Miller, Luci Pottle,
Jennie Wonnacott
First Hands .............................................................................Wendy Bendle, Joanne Davies,
Krista Nauman
Sewers ....................................................................................Susy Arnold, Denise Bott,
Caroline Broadley, Cindy Brown,
Diana Brown, Marlee Bygate,
Susan E. Dick, Evelyn Gascho,
Patricia Hawkins-Russell,
Kiyomi Hidaka, Alanna Kitson,
Anna Lach, Paulette Laporte,
Karen Merriam, Magdalene Raycraft,
Joan Scheerer, Georgina Schinkel,
Laura Snowden, Silvia Widmer,
Lindsey Winter, Joanne Zegers,
Rebecca Zimmerman
Bijoux/Decoration ..................................................................Liane Guttadauria
Assisted by .............................................................................Rebecca Dillow, Tami MacDonald,
Kathi Posliff
Boots and Shoes .....................................................................Sarah Cook
Assisted by .............................................................................Karen Beames, Michael Karn,
Chantelle Laliberte, Connie Puetz
Costume Painting ...................................................................Lisa Hughes
Dyeing ....................................................................................Linda Pinhay
Assisted by .............................................................................Sylvia Minarcin
Millinery .................................................................................Helen Flower
Assisted by .............................................................................Isabel Bloor, Katarzyna Maxine,
Monica Viani
Wardrobe Buyer.....................................................................Michelle Barnier
Interim Wardrobe Buyer ........................................................Caitlin Luxford
Assistant Wardrobe Buyer .....................................................Penelope Schledewitz
Wardrobe Apprentice ............................................................Grace Kessel
Warehouse Supervisor ...........................................................Madonna Decker
Warehouse Assistant .............................................................Valerie Lariviere
Head of Wigs and Makeup…………………………………………………Gerald Altenburg
Wigs and Makeup Department..............................................Teddi Barrett, Erica Croft-Fraser,
Tory Eckstein, Jessica Elsbrie,
Lena G. Festoso, Tracy Frayne,
Lorna Henderson, Angela Moncur,
Sherri Neeb, Alana Scheel,
Barb Newbery, Mallory Reeves,
Christine Vaughan, Stanley Wickens
This recording was made possible with the generous support of Canadian Actors’ Equity
Association.
Stratford Festival artists are members of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and ACTRA – the
Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists.
Stratford Festival stage crew, scenic carpenters, drivers, wigs and makeup attendants, facilities
staff and audience development representatives are members of Local 357 of the International
Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE). Wardrobe attendants are members of IATSE
Local 924. Scenic artists are members of IATSE Local 828.
The musicians, musical directors, conductors and orchestra contractors engaged by the
Stratford Festival are members of the Toronto Musicians’ Association, Local 149, of the
American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. Produced with the
cooperation of the Canadian Federation of Musicians.
Special thanks to Arden R. Ryshpan, Alistair Hepburn, Sue Milling, Mimi Wolch, Jim Biros, Larry
Miller and all of the Stratford Festival’s 2014 season artists, artisans, crew and staff for making
this production possible.
Stratford Festival Directors’ Office
Artistic Director ......................................................................Antoni Cimolino
Executive Director ..................................................................Anita Gaffney
Producer .................................................................................David Auster
Creative Planning Director .....................................................Jason Miller
Casting Director .....................................................................Beth Russell
Director of New Plays ............................................................Bob White
Associate Producer ................................................................Bonnie Green
Company Manager.................................................................Rosie Driscoll
Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director ...........................Joy Wishart
Executive Assistant to the Executive Director .......................Marion Burr
Assistant to the Producer ......................................................Susan Lemenchick
Casting Assistant ....................................................................Jennifer Emery
Special Projects Coordinator..................................................Elizabeth Sheffield
Head of Voice & Coaching......................................................Janine Pearson
Director of Advancement.......................................................Rachel Smith-Spencer
Archives Director....................................................................Liza Giffen
Director of Audience Development .......................................Sarah Hamza
Director of Communications ..................................................David Prosser
Director of Education .............................................................Andrea Gammon
Director of Finance, Facilities, Technology & Analytics .........Darryl Huras
Director of Human Resources ................................................Shelley Stevenson
Director of Marketing & Digital Media ..................................Calvin Wood
Publicity Director ...................................................................Ann Swerdfager
Legal Counsel .........................................................................Dentons LLP, Duncan Morrin LLP,
Goodmans LLP
Accounting .............................................................................PricewaterhouseCoopers
Production Accountant ..........................................................Raluca Alexe
Banking...................................................................................National Bank – Frank Manzo
Insurance................................................................................The CG&B Group
Produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Produced with the assistance of CAVCO and OMDC
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