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vol 29 • no 3
mar/apr 2022
By Audrey Dwyer
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MESSAGE FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Welcome back! Certainly, the last two years have
made us acutely aware of the value of theatre.
With the great intermission we all realized how
irreplaceable that feeling really is, to sit together
in the dark and watch a story play out, live in front
of our very eyes. That communal conference is
inspiring, and the deeper conversations it instigates
are always surprising, as theatre awakens new
perspectives on the world.
Audrey Dwyer’s Calpurnia is a smart, funny, and
provocative play that does just that. It takes us on a
journey to unforeseen and sometimes outrageous
Kelly Thornton
places. Like the filmmaker protagonist Julie,
Audrey has taken the so-called “beloved classic”, To Kill a Mockingbird and asked us
to reconsider its perspective by reframing the narrative to understand the experience
of Calpurnia, the Finch family maid. Through this simple construct, she has set her
characters on a comic collision course unpacking race, class, gender and more, all inside
the contemporary home of the Gordon family. It is lively and oh so pertinent!
With Christopher Morris’ The Runner, the playwright/performer takes us down the
rabbit hole and into an existential crisis where the Hippocratic Oath slams up against
the ethical question of saving the life of a perceived enemy. The Runner is an arresting
piece of theatre, with epic staging employed as metaphor. But its essence is simple, a
plea for humanity to heal our wounds and repair the divisions between us.
Both of these plays are salves for the world. Thank you so much for sharing them with us.
The Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre is proud to call Manitoba home. Royal MTC is located
in Winnipeg on Treaty 1 land, the traditional territory of the Ininew, Anishinaabe and Dakota
peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. We are thankful for the benefits sharing
this land has afforded us, and we are committed to the responsibilities of the Treaty. Hiy Hiy,
Miigwetch, Wopida and Maarsii.
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THEATRE ABBREVIATION LEGEND
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CALPURNIA
Calpurnia was originally produced in
Toronto in 2018. It was met with antici-
pation and excitement. Shows were sold
out and audiences lined up around the
block to attend. Audiences delighted
in the power dynamics that made them
uncomfortable. They raved about the
complicated layers of racial aware-
ness and social location at play. They
laughed, they covered their eyes, their
jaws dropped. Some returned to watch
Calpurnia two or three times.
Playwright’s We’re all aware of how much the world
has transformed since 2018. Privilege,
Notes BY AUDREY DWYER allyship and intersectionality are terms
heard in our homes, workplaces and in
the news. Over the past few years, I’ve
Welcome to Calpurnia.
made some changes to the script that
In 2011, back when I was an actor, I reflect how much we’ve learned.
embodied a maid who was silent during
Even if you haven’t read Lee’s novel,
a long and extreme verbal attack. When
you’re in for a treat. The theatre is a fun
I spoke about her silence, a co-actor
and fabulous place to laugh, examine
expressed that her silence displayed
ideas and witness dramatic action as
strength. Calpurnia came to be when
it plays out in real time. In these seats,
I took stock of the maids I portrayed
we’re able to ponder deep-rooted
throughout my 15-year acting career.
issues that are brewing in communities
If you attended school in Canada, you both here and abroad. Here, we create
most likely read Harper Lee’s classic memories together.
American novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
Julie Gordon and Lee’s protagonist
My piece isn’t aimed as a critique of
Scout Finch are similar. Both burst with
Ms. Lee’s text. She wrote a novel that is
vigor. Both are innocent, plucky and
honest. Her iconic characters inspired
want things their own way. Like us, they
me. The character of Calpurnia, the
have plenty to learn. In fact, all the
southern maid, is ubiquitous in that
characters do. I invite you to see if you
era. My play explores the mammy
recognize anyone through each charac-
stereotype, American history and the
ter’s behaviors and values. There may
Canadian experience.
be someone you recognize on this stage
As I distilled my ideas, I knew that I and they might be closer to you than
wanted to go directly into the home of a you think.
loving and wealthy Jamaican-Canadian
Thank you for joining us!
family. The Gordons benefit from high
levels of education and social standing
and are still judged by a relentless
respectability politic and racism.
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CALPURNIA
About the Novel
To Kill a
Mockingbird
y Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set in
Alabama during the Great Depression, and is both a
coming-of-age story, and a more complex narrative about
the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice.
y The novel was loosely based on an event that occurred when Lee was 10 years old,
when a white woman accused Walter Lett, a Black man, of rape. Lee’s father was
an editor, and his newspaper covered the trial and Lett’s eventual conviction. Lett’s
death sentence was commuted to life in prison when a series of letters appeared
claiming that he had been falsely accused.
y The novel was published in 1960 and was a literary and commercial success. It won
the Pulitzer Prize, was translated into 40 languages, and has never been out of
print. Lee’s novel is cited as a factor in the success of the civil rights movements of
the 1960s, but she had no direct involvement in them.
y To Kill a Mockingbird has long been a widely read novel in Canadian and American
schools. The novel was a source of controversy as a subject of classroom study
as early as 1963, due to the racial slurs, profanity and frank discussion of rape. A
shift in attitudes on race led to criticism that the overt racism in Maycomb was not
condemned harshly enough. Further, that the Black characters were stereotypes,
underwritten and marginalized in favour of a narrative that focuses on the white
characters’ experience.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a book for which a great many
people harbor reverence and nostalgia. I am not one of
those people … Perhaps I am ambivalent because I am
Black. I am not the target audience. I don’t need to read
about a young white girl understanding the pernicious-
ness of racism to actually understand the perniciousness
of racism. I have ample firsthand experience.”
— AMERICAN ESSAYIST & EDITOR ROXANNE GAY, NEW YORK TIMES, 2018
sources: wikipedia.org, britannica.com, time.com,
pbs.org, nytimes.com, study guide by hazel venzon
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CALPURNIA
Who is
Calpurnia?
y Calpurnia Aesera Coleman is the Finch family’s long-standing Black housekeeper,
a mother figure to Scout and Jem. Scout describes: “Our battles were epic and
one-sided. Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took her side.”
y Calpurnia is identified in the novel as one of the few Black people in town who is
literate, and has taught her own children, and Jem and Scout to read and write.
When Scout and Jem attend the local Black church with Calpurnia and hear her
speaking differently in her community, they realize that Calpurnia carefully balances
a double life. While Calpurnia’s positive influence is significant, she is an overly
simplified character, and largely silent on issues of race.
The Mammy in
Popular Culture
The mammy figure, according to psychologist Chanequal Walker-Barnes, “was a
largely mythical figure with little basis in the lived experiences of Black women.” It is a
racial caricature, constructed during slavery, popularized through minstrel shows, and
reinforced through novels, films and plays. The stereotype is of a “large, independent
woman with pitch-black skin and shining white teeth.” She does domestic work and
cares for the children of a white family; she is extremely devoted to them and “lived to
serve her master and mistress.” The notion or trope of the “happy slave” is at the core
of the mammy caricature and stereotype.
source: from mammy to miss america and beyond: cultural images
and the shaping of us social policy by k. sue jewell (1992).
RESOURCES
We hope you enjoyed the show! Wanting more? Check out Audrey
Dwyer’s list of suggested online reading, watching and listening
resources by scanning this QR code.
royalmtc.ca/pdf/calpurnia-resources.aspx
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Kelly Thornton, Artistic Director • Camilla Holland, Executive Director
PRESENTS
A CO-PRODUCTION WITH THE NAC ENGLISH THEATRE AND BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP
Calpurnia
By Audrey Dwyer†
March 24 – April 16, 2022
preview March 23
Director / Dramaturg.............................................Sarah Garton Stanley
Set Designer............................................................................Rachel Forbes
Costume Designer............................................................ Joseph Abetria†
Lighting Designer...............................................................Hugh Conacher
Sound Designer..........................................................................Chris Coyne
Cultural Consultant..............................................................Hazel Venzon†
Assistant Director...........................................................Nikki Shaffeeullah
Assistant Set Designer....................................................... Shauna Jones‡
Stage Manager...............................................................Michael Duggan†§
Assistant Stage Manager..................................................... Zahra Larche
Apprentice Stage Manager...................................... Ridge Romanishen
THE CAST (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
Mark Gordon......................................................................Kwaku Adu-Poku
Christine Charter..................................................................... Ellie Ellwand
Precy Cabigting.....................................................................Rochelle Kives
James Thompson........................................................... Arne MacPherson
Julie Gordon....................................................................... Emerjade Simms
Lawrence Gordon...................................................................Ray Strachan†
SETTING: The Gordon family home; Toronto; Present Day; Mother’s Day.
Calpurnia is performed with one intermission.
Calpurnia is produced by permission of the Playwright and Marquis Literary (Colin Rivers) www.mqlit.ca.
The world premiere of Calpurnia was co-produced by Nightwood Theatre and Sulong Theatre at
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (Toronto, ON) in January 2018.
Audrey Dwyer (the Playwright) is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada.
Calpurnia was developed in Obsidian Theatre’s Playwriting Unit.
Production photography by Dylan Hewlett.
PRODUCTION SPONSORS
*Position funded through the Jean Murray - Moray Sinclair Theatre Apprenticeship Program
†Past Jean Murray - Moray Sinclair Scholarship award recipient ‡Position funded through the Kingfisher Foundation
§Past Naomi Levin Theatre Scholarship award winner
10 Ovation march/april 2022CALPURNIA
Kwaku Adu-Poku Ellie Ellwand
Mark Gordon Christine Charter
ROYAL MTC First appearance. ROYAL MTC First appearance.
OTHER THEATRE Here are the Fragments OTHER THEATRE Edward II (Soulpepper
(Theatre Centre); Les Frères (UC Follies); – workshop production); What I Call
Canis Familiaris, My Friend’s Best Friend’s Her (Crow’s Theatre); King Lear @ the
Boyfriend (Alumnae Theatre). Baseball Diamond (Shakespeare in the
FILM/TV Murdoch Mysteries, Ruby and the Ruff); The Nails (SummerWorks); The
Well, Meet Me in New York, The Hot Zone: Queen’s Eulogy (Toronto Fringe); These
Anthrax, Jump Darling, Mayday! Air Crash Peaceable Kingdoms, Exit the King, King
Investigation, Rock and Roll Christmas, It’s Lear (NTS).
Nothing, Frankie Drake Mysteries. FILM/TV Homeschooled (CBC Gem); Slo
ET CETERA Upcoming: Death and the Pitch (OUTtv/Prime); First Person, Band
King’s Horseman (Stratford). Huge thanks Ladies (web series); The Comey Rule
to my family, friends, team, Royal MTC and (CBS); Busytown Mysteries (CBC); Repo
NAC. Men (Universal Pictures).
TRAINING Acting at the National Theatre
School of Canada.
ET CETERA Many thanks to Royal MTC and
NAC for bringing me on to this produc-
tion. Love to my family and the theatre
community. Sarah and Audrey, thank you.
SYNOPSIS – Julie, a Jamaican-Canadian screenwriter is battling writer’s block and an
array of distractions as her family prepares for an important dinner. More accurately,
Precy, the Gordon’s beloved housekeeper is preparing for this meal.
Julie has seven days to re-write her latest draft of her new screenplay, which is based
on Calpurnia, the Finch’s family maid in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Her family tries to help, but mostly ends up getting in the way and arguing about
Julie’s movie.
Julie’s brother Mark loves the book and the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird and
doesn’t believe she is doing the story justice. He doubts that she can even write it
from her place of privilege. Race, class and gender collide in this explosive comedy
that’s sure to provoke conversation in all the best ways.
For a complete list of theatre abbreviations, please refer to legend on page 4
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Osage County, Mrs. Warren’s Profession,
Rochelle Kives Shakespeare’s Dog (with NAC), The
Precy Cabigting Crucible, King Lear.
OTHER THEATRE Mamma Mia! (Rainbow);
Hamlet, Richard III, Othello and others
(SIR); I Dream of Diesel (One Trunk
Theatre/TPM); Encore (TPM); Tribes,
ROYAL MTC Where.Are.You.From. (Tiny Ivanov, Way to Heaven, Lenin’s Embalmers
Plays, Big Ideas). 2021/22 National (WJT). Arne also works as a director,
Mentorship Program. with credits at Royal MTC Tom Hendry
OTHER THEATRE Most recent: 25 Questions Warehouse, TPM, SIR, PTE, MTYP and
For A Jewish Mother, Precipice (WJT); with many independent producers.
Ma-Buhay Workshop, Miss Saigon, South FILM/TV Arne has appeared in over 25
Pacific, Little Shop of Horrors (Rainbow); shot-in-Winnipeg film and television
Elizabeth Rex (Bunbury Productions); productions.
A Year with Frog and Toad (MTYP); TRAINING Graduate of the BFA (Acting)
South Pacific (WSO); Kiss of the Spider program at the University of Alberta.
Woman (Dry Cold); South Pacific (Regina
ET CETERA Arne’s family, Deb, Gislina and
Symphony Orchestra); The Who’s Tommy
Solmund, are all artists.
(Platinum Theatre).
FILM/TV A Kiss Before Christmas
(Hallmark); Larry Saves The Canadian Emerjade Simms
Health Care System (Tripwire Media Julie Gordon
Group); Not Funny (Imaginary Productions).
TRAINING Graduate of Sheridan College’s
Musical Theatre Performance Program.
ET CETERA Rochelle spent 12 years
performing as the lead singer in the ROYAL MTC First appearance.
production casts onboard NCL, Azamara OTHER THEATRE Selected: The
and Celebrity Cruises. She is co-founder Mountaintop (Persephone); 1851: Spirit
and producer of the vocal group Unique3. & Voice (Soulpepper/Myseum); 21 Black
Huge thank you to Royal MTC and NAC Futures (Obsidian/CBC); Peter Pan (Bad
for this opportunity. Rochelle would like to Hats/Soulpepper); School Girls; Or, The
dedicate this performance to her mom and African Mean Girls Play (2019 Dora Award
grandma, her inspiration for Precy. Winner for Outstanding Production –
Obsidian/Nightwood); Wounded Soldiers
(4th Line); The Bird Killer (Let Me In).
Arne MacPherson
TV Forbidden, Fear Thy Neighbor, See No
James Thompson Evil, Paranormal 911.
TRAINING Graduated from the University
of Windsor – BFA Acting 2016; Factory
Theatre Mechanicals graduate – 2016/17.
ROYAL MTC Selected: A Christmas Carol, ET CETERA Emerjade thanks everyone on
Black Coffee, 23.5 Hours, Unnecessary this fantastic team for their support and
Farce, The Hound of the Baskervilles guidance. Always take a leap of Faith.
(tour), Alice Through the Looking-Glass,
A Few Good Men (with Citadel), August:
For a complete list of theatre abbreviations, please refer to legend on page 4
12 Ovation march/april 2022Proud to be production sponsors
for the Royal Manitoba Theatre
Centre’s production of Calpurnia.
“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art
forms, the most immediate way in which a
human being can share with another the sense
of what it is to be a human being.”
- Oscar Wilde -
www.asperfoundation.comCALPURNIA
Black Train Porters in Canada in the 1920s.
Ray Strachan Ray is also co-host of the Ray & Benny Talk
Lawrence Gordon Sports podcast. You can find it on YouTube
and on your preferred podcast platforms.
@raybennysports on Instagram, Facebook
and Twitter.
ROYAL MTC The Mountaintop, It’s Audrey Dwyer
a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play,
Shakespeare in Love (with Citadel), The Playwright
Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Romeo
and Juliet, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest (with TC).
OTHER THEATRE The Tempest (Citadel);
ROYAL MTC Director: The Mountaintop,
Deserter, Remember the Night (Moving
Women of the Fur Trade. Intimacy
Target); Hedda Noir (Theatre NorthWest);
Director: Orlando, Fun Home. Consulting
The Whipping Man (WJT); Romeo and
Director: Bang Bang (with Belfry). Actor:
Juliet (SIR); Dutchman (PlayOn Theatre);
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
(with Mirvish), Good People, Medea (with
(Black Hole Theatre Company).
Mirvish), The Crucible. Dramaturg: Tiny
TRAINING Black Hole Theatre Company; Plays, Big Ideas.
Banff Centre for The Arts.
OTHER THEATRE Director: Blink (U of W);
ET CETERA Look for Ray on The Porter, a Prairie Nurse (Lighthouse Theatre);
new CBC series focusing on the lives of Calpurnia (Nightwood Theatre/Sulong
Theatre); The Apology (Rabiayshna
Productions).
TRAINING National Theatre School of
Canada.
ET CETERA Audrey is Royal MTC’s
Associate Artistic Director. She has won
Ready for tomorrow. three Dora Mavor Moore Awards and the
Cayle Chernin Award for Theatre. She
Protect what matters most. was nominated for the Pauline McGibbon
When you work with HUB, Award for Direction twice. She wrote
you’re at the center of a the libretto for Backstage at Carnegie
vast network of experts Hall (Bradyworks), which will open in
dedicated to helping you Montreal in 2022. She was commissioned
prepare for the unexpected, to write The Legend of Daddy Hall for
with advice and solutions the Tarragon Theatre. It was part of their
tailored to protect your Acoustic Season (2020/2021). She has
family, your home and more. been commissioned by Nightswimming
Theatre to write The Generations. She was
a recipient of CBC’s Creative Relief Fund
Keith Jordan, President and CEO
for The Gordons.
204-988-4791
keith.jordan@hubinternational.com
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Fences (Grand). Set Design: School Girls
Sarah Garton (Obsidian Theatre); In The Abyss (Political
Stanley Movement).
Director / Dramaturg FILM Shorts: 21 Black Futures (Obsidian/
CBC); A Revolution of Love (THM/
Awakenings); Body So Fluorescent
(Madonnanera/lnside Out).
ROYAL MTC Fun Home, Kill Me Now (With TEACHING She has designed, mentored
NAC). 2021/22 National Mentorship and taught at Ryerson University and is
Program. currently serving on the board of directors
OTHER THEATRE Director: Everybody Just of the Associated Designers of Canada.
C@lm the F#ck Down (Artistic Fraud); ET CETERA Rachel received a Dora Mavor
carried away on the crest of a wave (Arts Moore Award for her costume design on
Club); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle The Brothers Size (Soulpepper 2019) and
Classes (Tarragon); The Big House a Merritt Award for her set design on The
(Toronto Fringe); We Keep Coming Back Bridge (2b/Neptune 2019).
(WJT, English Theatre Berlin, Factory
Theatre); Unsafe (Canadian Stage); Out
The Window (Luminato/Theatre Centre); Joseph Abetria
Bunny (Stratford/Tarragon). Costume Designer
ET CETERA Former Associate Artistic
Director, English Theatre at Canada’s
National Arts Centre where she creat-
ed The Cycles. Founder Emeritus
SpiderWebShow Performance and FOLDA. ROYAL MTC Costume Designer: Tiny Plays,
PhD Candidate in Cultural Studies at Big Ideas, Bang Bang (with Belfry), Last
Queen’s University. Sarah Co-Stewards Train to Nibroc (tour). Apprentice Costume
Birchdale – an off grid historic hunting and Designer: Billy Elliot the Musical. 2020/21
fishing lodge – with her partner Tracey Erin National Mentorship Program.
Smith and their dog, Matzo. OTHER THEATRE (selected) Costume
Designer: Voice (PTE), Plé (Plé Collective
presented by MTYP); Spelling 2-5-5
Rachel Forbes
(MTYP); Women of the Fur Trade (Vault
Set Designer Projects); Mary’s Wedding, Iceland
(TPM); Concord Floral, Vinegar Tom, The
Laramie Project (U of W). Set Designer:
Richard III (SIR). Production Designer: The
Game, Two Indians, The Seduction Theory
ROYAL MTC Costume Designer: The (Sarasvàti). Assistant Costume Designer:
Mountaintop. Othello, The Neverending Story, The Rocky
OTHER THEATRE Set and Costume Horror Show, Romeo and Juliet (Stratford).
Design: Serving Elizabeth (WCT); A TRAINING University of Winnipeg.
Million Billion Pieces, Risky Phil (YPT);
Victory, 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt (Shaw);
The Bridge (Neptune/2b Theatre); Choir
Boy (Centaur); Iterate (Mile Zero Dance).
Costume Design: A Streetcar Named
Desire, The Brothers Size (Soulpepper);
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march/april 2022 Ovation 15CALPURNIA
Hugh Conacher Chris Coyne
Lighting Designer Sound Designer
ROYAL MTC (select credits) Lighting ROYAL MTC The (Post) Mistress, The
& Video Designer: The Mountaintop, Mountaintop, Fun Home, Kill Me Now (with
Vietgone, Venus in Fur. Lighting Designer: NAC), The Hound of the Baskervilles 2016
Orlando, All is Bright, Women of the Fur (Tour).
Trade, Fun Home, The Color Purple (with OTHER THEATRE Chris has had the plea-
Citadel), Kill Me Now (with NAC), Seminar sure of working with many local and inter-
(with Mirvish), Dry Lips Oughta Move to national theatre groups. Credits include
Kapuskasing and many other productions Routes 2016/17 Tour (MTYP); The Hound
since the ‘80s. of the Baskervilles Mar. 2015, Little Thing
OTHER THEATRE Hugh has collaborated Big Thing Sept. 2015 (PTE); EDEN 2013
with choreographers, visual artists and (Sarasvàti); Bashir Lazhar Mar. 2013 (TPM);
dance and theatre companies worldwide. Angels in America 2012, Perestroika 2014
ET CETERA Hugh enjoys working beyond (WJT); Three Sisters 2011 (zone41).
the constraints of traditional lighting TRAINING Chris is a graduate of the
design using various forms of interactive Ontario Institute of Audio Recording
media, video and photography. His photo- Technology.
graphic work resides in private collections ET CETERA Chris has been involved in the
and has been published worldwide. Hugh theatre industry in Winnipeg for many
is a member of the Associated Designers years. Currently working as Royal MTC’s
of Canada and L’Association des profes- Technical Director at the John Hirsch
sionnels des arts de la scène du Québec. Mainstage.
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Glorious) (The AMY Project/SummerWorks); OTHER THEATRE Frozen River (MTYP);
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Theatre). Associate Director: Lilies, or, the TCM); Lawrence and Holloman, The 25th
Revival of a Romantic Drama (lemonTree Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
creations/Buddies in Bad Times Theatre/ (Guild Hall – Whitehorse, YT).
Why Not Theatre). TRAINING Banff Centre for Arts and
FILM Actor: The Lower Plateau (Depanneaur Creativity Practicum program (2019) in
Films). Director: Fly Away With Me (Maude Scenic Art.
Matton); Lemons (Undercurrent Creations). ET CETERA Shauna would like to extend
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of Alberta, McGill University. Teaching: thoughtful support of the Kingfisher
University of Alberta, University of Toronto Foundation, and to Royal MTC for giving
Scarborough. her this opportunity.
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work includes a residency with Why Not
Theatre developing her new play A Poem
for Rabia, curating an artistic research
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English Theatre, leading multiple sector
change projects through Undercurrent
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to God. Assistant Stage Manager: The Manager: Buying the Farm (tour), Roald
Mountaintop, The Color Purple (with Dahl’s Matilda The Musical, Vietgone (with
Citadel), A Christmas Carol, The Curious fu-GEN/Hope and Hell), The Humans.
Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (with Assistant Production Manager (2017/18,
Citadel), Chimerica, Clever Little Lies, The 2020/21, 2021/22 seasons).
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Apprentice Stage Manager: Mrs. Warren’s Drawer Boy (Hudson Village Theatre);
Profession, In the Next Room or the vibra- Ed & Ed – Trapped!, Outside Mullingar,
tor play, The Shunning, Brief Encounter, Neddy Norris Night, Fly Me to the Moon,
The Seafarer, Steel Magnolias. Props: Newfoundland Vinyl, The Out Vigil (Gros
Gone With the Wind. Morne Theatre Festival); Shape of a Girl
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Misérables (Rainbow); The War Being Manager: Seven Sopranos of Winnipeg
Waged, Ghost Light (PTE); The Winter’s (Manitoba Opera). Apprentice Stage
Tale / Le conte d’hiver (SIR/TCM); Hamlet Manager: Barber of Seville (Manitoba
(SIR); MTYP’s Midwinter Mosey, A Year Opera); The Halloween Tree (Geordie
with Frog and Toad (MTYP); Meet Me at Productions); The Amazing Adventures
Dawn (TBTR). of Pericles, Prince of Tyre (A Company of
TRAINING B.A. (Hons) in Theatre Fools).
Production and Stage Management at the TRAINING Graduate of the National
University of Winnipeg. Theatre School of Canada – Production
ET CETERA This is Michael’s first show as Program (2017).
the stage manager for the Mainstage and ET CETERA A very special thanks to my
he would like to thank his wife, Katelynn Royal MTC family, my parents, my family
first and foremost. Thank you also to and friends from Gatineau to Tasmania,
his parents and to the many teachers, Ilana Modulevsky, Patrick Michalishyn,
mentors, friends, co-workers and theatres my graduating class at NTS, and all the
who helped along the way. wonderful folks who made this show
possible!
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Playwright’s
Notes
BY CHRISTOPHER MORRIS
I want to create theatre that explores
the extremes of the human condition.
I’m interested in what happens to us
when we are pushed to our spiritual,
moral and emotional limits because it’s
at these times that we see the best, and
worst, of what we are.
The Runner focuses on the pushback a ZAKA member experiences when his devotion
to serve others – regardless of their race or creed – clashes with the divisive beliefs of
the community around him. As we slide further down the path of political and social
division, now more than ever, we need to champion those who put human decency
above division, while knowing full well the consequences they’ll face.
This play is dedicated to Jakoff Mueller, a ZAKA member in Israel who passed away
in February 2018. He first welcomed me into his home in 2010 and over the years we
spent many hours talking about the experiences he had working with ZAKA, from the
harrowing to the profound. He was my beacon of light as I navigated the murky currents
of this play. Jakoff was a beautiful soul, full of compassion and self-deprecating humor.
While passing away from cancer, he was surrounded by his loving family and friends,
and in death, was shown the same tenderness and care he offered to so many.
With love, Jakoff, thank you.
SYNOPSIS – Jacob is an Orthodox man in his 40s who lives with his mother in
Jerusalem. He is compassionate and principled, not afraid to speak his mind. As a
volunteer with ZAKA, a religious organization in Israel, he collects the remains of Jews
who are killed to ensure a proper burial as per religious law. Guided by the Hippocratic
Oath, he also provides life-saving triage to any who require his help. But when Jacob
makes the split-second decision to provide life-saving triage to an Arab teenager,
instead of focusing on the Israeli soldier she’s suspected of killing, his world comes
crashing down around him. Ostracized by his colleagues and the tight-knit community
around him, Jacob is forced on a journey of self-evaluation, questioning the merit of his
actions, the nature of humans, and the value of kindness in a divisive world.
24 Ovation march/april 2022THE RUNNER
in particular skills and for particular
situations; for example, the Jeep Unit
is responsible for search and rescue
missions in remote locations.
Today, ZAKA has approximately 3000
volunteers in Israel, and not all volun-
teers are Jewish. The organization
includes some units comprised of volun-
teers from other religious and cultural
groups such as Muslims, Bedouins and
Druze. These units are a partnership
between ZAKA and each community’s
What is ZAKA? religious and civic leaders, in order to
offer specialized assistance following
Founded by Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, ZAKA community-specific laws and customs
has operated since 1989 and became an for handling human remains.
official volunteer organization in 1995.
ZAKA has also expanded geographi-
ZAKA is a non-governmental search,
cally and now operates internationally,
rescue, and recovery group, entirely
responding to mass casualty incidents
comprised of volunteers. Working
such as natural disasters and terrorist
closely with paramedics and other first
attacks. The group’s participation in
responders, ZAKA volunteers are on
recovery work after such world events
call 24/7 to respond to emergencies
as Hurricane Katrina and following
such as terrorist attacks, disasters, and
the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004
accidents – their task in each instance is
led the United Nations to recognize
to assist any living victims by providing
ZAKA as an international humanitarian
first aid, and to ensure that all human
volunteer organization. This designation
remains are collected and identified in
allows ZAKA to offer assistance even
order to adhere to Jewish burial laws. In
if Israel has no diplomatic ties to the
the Jewish tradition, honouring the dead
country in need of help, or if Israel’s
is an act of Chesed Shel Emet, meaning
official delegation has not yet arrived,
“true virtue,” and it is considered
or if the country in need has not yet
the greatest good deed (or mitzvah)
reached out for help. ZAKA also trains
because this act of kindness cannot ever
local emergency response teams in
be reciprocated by the dead.
various communities around the world,
From the group’s original mandate – in order to ensure that their emergency
responding to scenes of terrorist acts in response time is as short as possible.
order to recover human remains – ZAKA
has since expanded its mission substan-
Written by Grand Theatre’s Education
tially. Now, ZAKA includes several
and Outreach Coordinator, Meghan
specialist units, such as a Canine Unit,
O’Hara. Reprinted with permission from
Rapid Rescue Unit, Divers Unit, a Jeep
Grand Theatre’s, The Runner, house
Unit, and others. Each specialization
program in Nov 2019.
includes volunteers who are trained
march/april 2022 Ovation 25Kelly Thornton, Artistic Director • Camilla Holland, Executive Director
PRESENTS
A HUMAN CARGO PRODUCTION
The Runner
Written and Performed by Christopher Morris
March 31 – April 16, 2022
preview March 30
Director......................................................................................Daniel Brooks
Associate Director......................................................... Severn Thompson
Set & Costume Designer.....................................................Gillian Gallow
Lighting Designer...............................................................Bonnie Beecher
Composer & Sound Designer............................Alexander MacSween
Production Manager, Associate Lighting Designer
& Technical Director........................................................................ Jeff Pybus
Stage Manager...........................................................................Sarah Miller
Assistant Stage Manager....................................................Katie Schmidt
The Runner is performed without an intermission.
Cover photo: Gord Rand in the premiere production of The Runner at
Theatre Passe Muraille in 2018. Photo by: Graham Isador.
Production photography by Dylan Hewlett.
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ET CETERA Christopher is the Artistic
Christopher Morris Director of Human Cargo. Awards: 2020
Playwright / Jacob Dora Award for The Runner, 2012 Canada
Council John Hirsh Prize for Directing,
2005 KM Hunter Award for Theatre,
playwright Dora nomination for Return:
The Sarajevo Project. Upcoming scripts in
ROYAL MTC First appearance/engagement. development: Éclatée, Annie Pootoogook:
Portrait of an Artist.
OTHER THEATRE (selected) Playwriting:
The Runner (premiere: Human Cargo,
Theatre Passe Muraille, tour: Socrates Daniel Brooks
Project/Hamilton, Grand Theatre/
Director
London, Tarragon Theatre); Our Beautiful
Sons (Blyth Festival – 2014 Playwright
in Residence); The Road to Paradise
(co-playwright with Jonathan Garfinkel –
Human Cargo, Crow’s Theatre, Buddies
ROYAL MTC Hardsell, Cul-de-sac, Bigger
in Bad Times); Night (commissioned by
than Jesus.
Human Cargo, premiered at the National
Arts Centre, toured nationally and inter- OTHER THEATRE (selected) Theory of
nationally); Return: The Sarajevo Project Relatives, Sessions, The Designated
(co-playwright – Theatrefront). Acting: Mourner, Faust, The Good Life, Half
Measure for Measure, Much Ado about Life (Tarragon); House, Here Lies Henry,
Nothing, Botticelli in the Fire, Hedda Monster, Let’s Run Away etc (all with Daniel
Gabler (CS); A Doll’s House, Noises Off, MacIvor); Insomnia and The Noam Chomsky
A Winter’s Tale, A Chorus for Disapproval Lectures (with Guillermo Verdecchia);
(Soulpepper); Oedipus Rex, Diary of Anne Red Tape, 86: An Autopsy etc. (with Don
Frank (Stratford); The Importance of Being Mckellar and Tracy Wright); Oedipus Rex
Earnest, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, (Stratford); Endgame, Waiting for Godot, A
Stuff Happens (NAC). Doll’s House, The Aleph (Soulpepper); The
Full Light of Day (the Electric Company);
FILM/TV (selected) Writing: Adapting The
Bigger Than Jesus, The Drowsy Chaperone.
Runner into a TV series with Sienna Films.
Upcoming: Other People (CS).
Acting: Frankie Drake, The Girlfriend
Experience, Orphan Black, Murdoch ET CETERA Awards: The Siminovitch Prize
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Associate Director Importance of Being Earnest, The Doctor’s
Dilemma (Shaw); Beautiful Renegades
(Peggy Baker Dance Projects).
ET CETERA Awards: Gillian is the recipient
of the 2021 Siminovitch Prize in Theatre,
ROYAL MTC First engagement. the 2018 Viriginia and Myrtle Cooper
OTHER THEATRE (selected) Directing: Award in Costume Design and she has
Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in been awarded four Doras.
High Park); Team on the Hill (Blyth); The
Pigeon King (Blyth/NAC); Peter Pan (Bad Bonnie Beecher
Hats Theatre/MTYP/Soulpepper); Madam
Mao (Azure River/SummerWorks). Acting: Lighting Designer
Elle (Theatre Passe Muraille/Firehall Arts
Centre/PTE); Breathing Corpses (Coal
Mine Theatre); Seeds (Blyth); More Fine
Girls, Rune Arlidge (Tarragon). Upcoming
directing: Just to Get Married (Shaw). ROYAL MTC First engagement.
FILM/TV (selected) Acting: Becoming OTHER THEATRE (selected) Sexual
Burlesque, Murdoch Mysteries, Helix. Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Small
Room at The Top of the Stairs, Vigil,
ET CETERA Awards: Dora for Outstanding
Blessings, Frida K, Gravity Calling, The
Direction (Peter Pan). Associate Artistic
Whirlpool, The Faraway Nearby, One-Eyed
Director at the Blyth Festival.
Kings, Sideman, Wide Awake Hearts
(Tarragon); The Crucible (Stratford); Sex
Gillian Gallow (Shaw); Was Ihr Wollt (Karlsruhe Ballet,
Set & Costume Germany); Hadrian (COC); Rigoletto
Designer (Edmonton Opera); ROOM (Grand);
Paradise Lost (Centaur); Nussknacker
(Ballet AM Rhein, Dusseldorf). Upcoming:
Light (Tarragon); Jane Eyre (Citadel);
Don Giovani (Pacific Opera); Swan Lake
ROYAL MTC Miss Bennet: Christmas at
(National Ballet of Canada); and Just to
Pemberley, A Christmas Carol, Hand to
Get Married (Shaw).
God, Million Dollar Quartet, Seminar
(with Mirvish), Hirsch, Venus in Fur, God ET CETERA Bonnie has designed over 350
of Carnage (with VP), One Flew Over the productions for theatre, opera and dance.
Cuckoo’s Nest (with TC). bonniebeecher.com
OTHER THEATRE Previous Human Cargo
credits include Night and The Road to
Paradise. Selected credits: Hadrian and
Louis Riel (COC); Long Day’s Journey Into
Night, The Physicists, Hirsch, The Three
Musketeers (Stratford); An Octoroon,
Stage Kiss, The Russian Play, The Devil’s
Disciple (Shaw); Art, August: Osage
County, Idomeneus, Orlando, Testament of
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Alexander Assistant Lighting Design). Jeff will be
MacSween returning to the Shaw Festival as an assis-
Composer & Sound tant lighting designer for the 2022 season.
Designer ET CETERA Awards: Nominee for the 2020
Pauline McGibbon Award. Jeff (he/him) is
a Lighting & Video Designer and Technical
ROYAL MTC First engagement. Director for theatres across Ontario. He is
OTHER THEATRE (selected) Bunny also an avid hobbyist astrophotographer
(Tarragon); The Darkness, Peepshow, and cat Dad. jeffpybus.ca
The Invisible, The Fury of my Thoughts,
Violence (Marie Brassard); What We Are Sarah Miller
Saying (Public Recordings); Christina -
The Girl King, The Last Wife, The Virgin Stage Manager
Trial, Oedipus Rex (Stratford); Hamlet
(Necessary Angel); Woyzeck (Brigitte
Haentjens); Zulu Time (Robert Lepage).
Upcoming: Kisses Deep (Centaur); Violence
ROYAL MTC First engagement.
by Marie Brassard on tour (NAC/Usine C).
OTHER THEATRE Monday Nights (6th Man
ET CETERA Awards: Shortlist for the 2018
Siminovitch Prize. Collective/Theatre Centre); I Send You
This Cadmium Red (Art of Time Ensemble);
Bang Bang, The Crackwalker, Morro and
Jeff Pybus Jasp: 9 to 5, Twisted (Factory); Of Mice and
Production Manager, Morro and Jasp, Where the Wild Things Are
Associate Lighting (MTYP); Trace (Red Sky Performance); Lil’
Designer & Technical Red Robin Hood (Ross Petty Productions);
Director The Women, John Bull’s Other Island
(Shaw); Sisters, Innocence Lost, Of Human
ROYAL MTC First engagement. Bondage, Spoon River, A Christmas Carol,
Hosanna, The Heidi Chronicles, Angels in
OTHER THEATRE Herringbone, The Yalta
America, The Aleph (Soulpepper); Orestes,
Game, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, The
Yaga (Tarragon); Miracle on 34th Street,
Judas Kiss (TiFT); Seagulls, The Killing,
Private Lives, It’s a Wonderful Life (TNB);
The Madness of Lady Bright (Shaw Festival
The De Chardin Project (Theatre Passe
Director’s Projects); The Importance of Being
Muraille); Freedom Singer, Towards Youth
Earnest (Capitol Theatre); Flush, Trouble
(Project Humanity).
in Mind, Desire Under the Elms, Assassin’s
in Concert, Sex, Victory, The Russian ET CETERA Sarah is a mentor and instructor
Play (Shaw; Assistant Lighting Design); of Stage Management at Humber College
Shout! The Mod Musical (Magnus); Come and X University. She is excited to return
Down From Upriver (Theatre Orangeville); to live performance with the fine folks at
Sunday in the Park with George (Theatre Human Cargo and Royal MTC and wishes
Sheridan); Between Riverside and Crazy The Runner company a wonderful run.
(The Coal Mine; Assoc. Lighting Design);
A Huron County Christmas Carol, The
Pigeon King (Blyth; Assoc. Lighting Design);
Vigilante (Catalyst/Grand; Assistant
Lighting Design); Silence (Grand; Assistant
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