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The Beaux Stratagem

University of Virginia Department of Drama

February 2011

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Department of Drama

University of Virginia

Thornton Wilder and Ken Ludwig’s

adaptation of

The Beaux' Stratagem

By George Farquhar

Directed by Betsy Tucker

Scenic & Costume Design by Bill Clarke

Lighting Design by Mickie Marie

Sound Design by Max Krembs

Vocal Direction by Kate Burke

Choreography and Fight Direction by Marianne Kubik

Technical Direction by Alan Perez

Production Stage Management by Tyler Forrest

The scenic and costume designer of this production is represented by

United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE.

This production uses the Contract Management Program of the

University/Resident Theatre Association, Inc. (212) 221-1130.

World Premiere Produced by

Shakespeare Theatre Company

Michael Kahn Nicholas T. Goldborough

Artistic Director Managing Director

SCENE OF THE ACTION

Lichfield, England, 1707

There will be one 15-minute intermission.

CAST

in order of appearance

Boniface ............................................................................James Scales

Cherry ...............................................................................Sylvia Kates

Daniel ...........................................................................Doug Dunphy

A Lady ...........................................................................Maya Allicock

Jack Archer........................................................................Justin Smith

Tom Aimwell .............................................................Daniel Prillaman

Gloss .......................................................................Jeremy O. Caplin*

Mrs. Kate Sullen .............................................................Taylor Gaines

Dorinda ..............................................................................Claire Hart

Lady Bountiful ...........................................................Catherine White

Scrub................................................................A. A. “Corbin” Puryear

A Country Woman...............................................................Kate Woff

Sullen.........................................................................Tom Christensen

Servant...........................................................................Allison Abbott

Hounslow......................................................................Ahmad Helmy

Bagshot.......................................................................Sam McClelland

Sir Charles Freeman.......................................................Kennan Grant

Foigard ........................................................................Jason Carpenter

*Appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

Farquhar, like his fellow comic playwrights Sheridan, Goldsmith, Shaw,

Wilde, and Beckett, was born in Ireland. One of seven children of a clergyman

of modest means, Farquhar entered Trinity College, Dublin at seventeen,

perhaps intending to follow his father into the church. He soon left however,

perhaps because his patron died, perhaps because he was expelled for a profane

joke. He then acted on the Dublin stage, but during a fencing scene in

Dryden’s Indian Emperor he nearly fatally stabbed a fellow actor and soon left

Dublin to find his fortune in London.

The little we know of Farquhar’s short life is echoed in bits and pieces of

his several plays, most particularly The Recruiting Officer and The Beaux’

Stratagem. He spent his twenties in London working both as a playwright and

a recruiting officer—for Wellington’s army, the church, or marrying a rich

woman, were the secure options for gentlemen of little means. At twenty-five

he married a rich widow with several daughters. She turned out to be not

wealthy at all, though he, apparently, never complained about the bargain.

In his twenty-ninth year with rapidly failing health, Farquhar wrote the

The Beaux’ Stratagem in six weeks, encouraged by his friend the actor John

Wilks.Wilks got the play on stage and played Archer for its long and very successful

run, but Farquhar lived for less than a month after it opened.

In 1939 Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) started an

adaptation of Farquhar’s comedy. His affinity for Farquhar does not seem

unusual to me, for both playwrights seem to have generous comic spirits—to

really like people. They both also have a good deal of wit and take delight in

theatrical forms that admit the audience into the world of the play.

Wilder abandoned his adaptation when it was halfway done, and the project

was evidently forgotten thereafter. But the completed half was discovered

among Yale’s collection of Wilder’s papers by his nephew, and in 2004 the

Wilder Estate commissioned Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon over

Buffalo) to complete and adapt the adaptation. This Farquhar/Wilder/Ludwig

Beaux’ Stratagem premiered at the Shakespeare Theatre in D.C. in 2006, and

it is this script that we are performing tonight.

Betsy Rudelich Tucker and Devon Dawson

WHO’S WHO IN THE BEAUX’ STRATAGEM

Allison Abbott (2nd Year English, Psychology): Twelfth Night, Cyrano de Bergerac (SotL).

Maya Allicock (2nd Year Drama): Things Fall Apart (Paul Robeson Players).

Kate Burke (Associate Professor, Voice, Acting)

Jeremy O. Caplin (GSAS ‘80) She Stoops to Conquer, Edward II, Love for Love, A Man for

All Seasons (U.Va. Drama); The School for Wives (Wayside Theatre); The Country Wife

(Sweet Briar Theatre)

Jason Carpenter (3rd Year Drama) The Imaginary Invalid (U.Va. Drama); Persephone

(Playwright’s Society); Sweeney Todd, Footloose (FYP).

Tom Christensen (3rd Year Drama, American Studies): Dead Man’s Cell Phone (U.Va.

Drama); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Live Arts); The Tempest (FCP); The Nerd (FCCT).

Bill Clarke (College ‘80): A Streetcar Named Desire, Private Lives (U.Va. Drama); Walk

in theWoods (Broadway). Yale School of Drama,’87.

Doug Dunphy (1st Year Undeclared): By the Bog of Cats (U.Va. Drama).

Tyler Forrest (2nd Year Drama): Act V (SotL)

Taylor Gaines (2nd Year Drama/French): By the Bog of Cats (U.Va. Drama); Urinetown,

West Side Story (FYP); Act V (SotL).

Kennan Grant (1st Year Spanish)

Claire Hart (4th Year Drama, History): Oklahoma! (U.Va Drama); Damn Yankees,

Thoroughly Modern Millie (First Year Players).

Ahmad Helmy (2nd Year Undeclared): Act V, Cyrano De Bergerac, Twelfth Night (SotL);

The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (QuAA).

Sylvia Kates (3rd Year English): Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Pippin (UVA Drama); Spelling

Bee, Sound of Music (Heritage); Sweeney Todd (FYP).

Max Krembs (3rd Year Drama): Pippin, Language of Angels, The Love Song of J. Robert

Oppenheimer (U.Va. Drama); TheWizard of Oz (The Lost Colony).

Marianne Kubik (Associate Professor, Movement)

Mickie Marie (3rd Year MFA, Lighting Design): A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pippin,

The Imaginary Invalid (U.Va. Drama); Red,White, and Tuna (Heritage).

Sam McClelland (2nd Year Religious Studies, Linguistics) Cyrano de Bergerac, Act V

(SotL).

Alan Perez (3rd Year MFA, Technical Direction): By the Bog of Cats, Pippin, The Love

Song […], Day of Absence (U.Va. Drama).

Daniel Prillaman (2nd Year Drama): Urinetown: The Musical,West Side Story, (FYP); 13:

The Musical (Live Arts), Hamlet (Four County Players).

A. A. “Corbin” Puryear (4th Year American Studies): Bog of Cats, The Love Song […],

Oklahoma! (U.Va. Drama); The Online Musical (PopClash Productions); 13, Henry IV

(LiveArts)

James Scales (Business Manager, Department of Drama)

Justin Smith (3rd Year MFA, Technical Direction)

Betsy Rudelich Tucker (Associate Professor, Performance)

Catherine White (3rd Year Biology): A Midsummer Nights Dream (U.Va

Drama); Macbeth, The Crucible (Edinburgh University); The Oresteia (Theatre Paradok).

KateWoff (1st Year Drama)

PRODUCTION STAFF FOR THE BEAUX’ STRATAGEM

Assistant Director.........................................................................Devon Dawson

Assistant Stage Managers .............................................Mark Ambrose, Mia Joshi

Production Assistant....................................................................Austin Fitzhugh

Fight Direction Assistant ..............................................................Jacquie Walters

Assistant Technical Director ...............................................Jessica Cloutier-Plasse

Technical Direction Faculty Advisor ..............................................Steven Warner

Department Chair.............................................................................Tom Bloom

Assistant Scenic Designer.........................................................Katie Springmann

Scene Shop Manager ..........................................................................David Hale

Master Carpenter..............................................................................Justin Smith

Carpenters .............................Jason Benn, Patrick Derdall, Christopher Dickens,

Robert Eshleman, Alex Kaplan, Cathy Nakalyowa, Rachel Zucker

Paint Shop................Virginia Berg, Miriam Hancock, Garett Majdic, Izzy Sazak

Prop Master .........................................................................................Jeff Kmiec

Properties Shop......................Karen Bozicevich, Olivia Morgan, Katharine Woff

Assistant Costume Designer........................................................Caroline Varney

Costume Shop Manager.......................................................................Josh Bond

Costume Design Faculty Advisor ..................................................Gweneth West

Costume Technology Faculty Advisor.............................................Marcy Linton

Master Electrician .........................................................................C. J. Whitaker

Electricians ...................................Andrea Yun, Joshua Chowdury, Paul Pershied,

Kelly Crosswell, Students of Drama 2130

Lighting Design Faculty Advisor......................................................Lee Kennedy

Sound Crew .................................................................Students of DRAM 2630

Sound Design Faculty Advisor ...................................................Michael Rasbury

Business Manager..............................................................................James Scales

Assistant Business Manager ................................................................Jenny Mays

Arts Box Office Manager ............................................................Andrew Burnett

Arts Box Office Staff ..................Anna Ferrara, Ashleigh White, Danny Navarro,

Jessica Lasebikan, Nalini Agrawal, Sarah Edwards,

Stephanie Harvey, Timothy Morris, Zach Hoffman

House Manager ................................................................................Betsy Graves

Concessions Manager......................................................................Ashley Henry

Front of House Staff ..................................................Alicia Moore, Megan Tiller

Production Assistant ............................................................................Paul Truitt

Publicity Manager.......................................................................Matt Minnicino

Publicity Assistant................................................................Terence Fells-Danzer

Interim Stage Manager/Production Coordinator ...............................Will Rucker

Production Coordinator ..............................................................Caitlin McLeod

The Kennedy Center American College Theater FestivalTM

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival is sponsored by the

U.S. Department of Education; Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation;

The Honorable Stuart Bernstein andWilma E. Bernstein; the Kennedy Center

Corporate Fund; and the National Committee for the Performing Arts.

This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College

Theater Festival (KCACTF). The aims of this national theater education program

are to identify and promote quality in college-level theater production.

To this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional

KCACTF representative, and selected students and faculty are invited to participate

in KCACTF programs involving scholarships, internships, grants and

awards for actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage managers

and critics at both the regional and national levels.

Last year more than 1,300 productions were entered in the KCACTF

involving more than 200,000 students nationwide. By entering this production,

our theater department is sharing in the KCACTF goals to recognize,

reward, and celebrate the exemplary work produced in college and university

theaters across the nation.

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