DRACULA: The Bloody Truth By LE NAVET BETE and JOHN NICHOLSON

October 10 to 19, 2019 | SAGEBRUSH THEATRE

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WELCOME!As a kid growing up, my late-night television was dominated by B-movie versions of vampire and zombie movies, peppered with Monty Python and TV sketch comedy shows. So it is no surprise that Dracula: The Bloody Truth tickled both my love of horror and my funny bone.

We can be filled with glee to see spins on our favourite stories. Dracula has found his way into a number of genres since Bram Stoker first laid out the story of the count in the late 1800s: he’s been suave, silly, sexy, spooky, vicious, and mysterious. He’s been onstage, on screen, and in our imaginations as the ultimate night-dwelling spectre. He’s even been spoofed in a children’s television series (ONE rubber ducky...ah, ah, ah!).

There’s also great fun to be had in spoofing the classics, and the monster genre is the best of all. Maybe this is based in our primal need to turn our greatest fear into something we can mock. Or maybe the supernatural outrageousness of the plots is just something that is ripe for parody.

Dracula lives in our imaginations like no other supernatural villain. There is no other being who inspires our fear, fascination, and obsession like the Count. There is much about the Dracula story that fires our imagination: the midnight bloodsucking, the charm, the mysterious voyages, the gothic castle in Transylvania.

I’ve often wondered why we have such fascination with the vampire fantasy, and Count Dracula in particular. Is it our ancient fear of the dark? The terror at the idea of being sapped of our life-giving blood? His mysteriously tongue-twisting accent?

The most successful parodies are those that can also take themselves seriously and stay close to the source material. The success of Dracula: The Bloody Truth lies in actually telling the story of Bram Stoker’s novel, albeit in an off-beat way. Tremendous entertainment, and some solid education to boot – isn’t that why we come to the theatre?

Enjoy, and don’t leave your garlic at home when you go out at night this Hallowe’en…

James MacDonald, Artistic Director of WCT

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DRACULA: The Bloody Truth By LE NAVET BETE and JOHN NICHOLSON

FEATURINGCHRISTY BRUCE Actor

NATASCHA GIRGIS Actor

CHRISTOPHER HUNT Professor van Helsing

KIRK SMITH Actor

CREATIVE TEAMCRAIG HALL Director

SCOTT REID Set Designer

DEITRA KALYN Costume Designer

ANTON DE GROOT Lighting Designer

ANDREW BLIZZARD Sound Designer/Composer

KARL SINE Original Fight Director

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There are things in this life that we do out of obligation, and there are things that we do just for a laugh. This play counts as the latter. We hope you have half as much fun watching it as we had making it.

Thanks to Vertigo Theatre for producing this bit of wackiness in 2018, and to Western Canada Theatre for allowing us to revisit it. And remember, what you are about to witness tonight should in no way be described as theatre.

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LE NAVET BETE has been based in Exeter, Devon, UK since 2008. Their mission is to create and tour hilarious, physical and totally accessible comedy theatre using creative and engaging storytelling for absolutely everyone.

There are five who make up the core team of the company: four performers (Dan Bianchi, Nick Bunt, Al Dunn and Matt Freeman) and their technical and production wizard (Alex Best). They first met whilst studying on the Theatre and Performance course at the University of Plymouth in 2003 and, since graduating, have produced twelve indoor and three outdoor shows.

Their first two shows, Serendipity and Zemblanity, heavily influenced by bouffon and non-narrative-based structures, were performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 and 2009 respectively, to multiple five-star reviews. As they developed over the following years, their inimitable style of performance became much more storytelling / narrative-driven with hit shows such as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dick Tracy and Robin Hood and His Merry Men placing physical theatre, fooling and slapstick at the heart of it. Dracula: The Bloody Truth has been published and licensed worldwide. 2019 sees them take on Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers. Making accessible work has been at the centre of their ethos right from the very beginning. This saw them diversify into outdoor performance in 2010, performing to hundreds of thousands from the circus fields at Glastonbury Festival and the beautiful gardens of the Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover, Germany, to the picturesque Plaza de Armas in Morelia, Mexico, and high up on the side of the Rock of Gibraltar.

As well as performing, they have a widely renowned education program – specialising in physical comedy, performer-audience relationships and play – that they have taught across the world, from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London to the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.

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CAST & CREATIVE TEAMANDREW BLIZZARDSound Designer/ComposerAt WCT: DebutElsewhere: Andrew is incredibly excited to be working with such an incredible group of people on this production. Selected credits include Iceland, Blow Wind High Water (Theatre Calgary); Hamlet (Shakespeare by the Bow); Dracula: The Bloody Truth, Sherlock Holmes and the American Problem, Nine Dragons, Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Jersey Lily, The Haunting, The Game’s Afoot, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Travels with My Aunt, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Woman in Black, Noirville (Vertigo); Macbeth (The Shakespeare Company/Hit & Myth/Vertigo); In On It, The Surrogate (Lunchbox); The After, aWay (ANCHOR|RED Theatre); Shakespeare’s Dog (Alberta Theatre Projects); Lieutenant of Inishmore (GZT/Hit & Myth); Blood: A Scientific Romance (Sage); Le Gros Spectacle (The Wind-up Dames/ATP); and PARANOiA (The Wind-up Dames/GZT). He has received three Betty Mitchell awards and was a nominee for an AMPIA award for the short film The Money Tree. Other: Andrew wishes to thank his darling wife Brieanna, his boys Sebastian and Rowan, and little Ruby for their enduring love and support.

CHRISTY BRUCEActorAt WCT: Blind DateElsewhere: Select theatre: Blind Date (across Canada and in London’s West End); The Canadian (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Undercover (The Tarragon, Vertigo Theatre, Citadel Theatre); Murder in the Cottonwoods (Toronto Fringe); Legend Has It (Alberta Theatre Projects, Brooklyn Academy of Music), DINK! (The Factory Theatre); This is Cancer (Halifax); The Forum (Stratford Festival); and Private Lives (New York). She is also an alumna of The Second City (Toronto). Select TV: Schitt’s Creek, The Handmaid’s Tale, New Eden, Designated Survivor, Suits, Reign, Newborn Moms, The Strain, Orphan Black, and Odd Squad. Other: Christy can also be found improvising all over Toronto, including in the hit improv show Hookup at The Bad Dog Theatre. Love and endless thanks as always to PB and BBB for their never-ending support.

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ANTON DEGROOTLighting DesignerAt WCT: DebutElsewhere: Anton is a set, light, and sound designer, and an architectural lighting consultant, based in Calgary. Select credits include Brontë: The World Without, HMS Pinafore, Treasure Island (Stratford Festival); The Hollow, The Thin Man (Vertigo); Noises Off, Mary Poppins, The Shoplifters (Theatre Calgary); GIANT, Reverie (Ghost River); A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Baskerville!, Jersey Boys (Stage West); Smoke, Sequence, In the Wake, Good Fences (Downstage); The Circle, Cockroach, Charlotte’s Web, Waiting for the Parade (Alberta Theatre Projects); Macbeth, King Lear, and All’s Well That Ends Well (The Shakespeare Company). Anton received the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Light Design for Macbeth (TSC – 2016), All’s Well That Ends Well (TSC – 2017) and Nine Dragons (Vertigo – 2018), and Outstanding Set Design for Travels With My Aunt (Vertigo – 2014) and Crime Does Not Pay (Downstage – 2017). In 2017, Anton was named Top 40 Under 40 by Avenue Magazine. Up next: Mamma Mia! at Stage West, then Whispers in the Dark and Clue at Vertigo. Other: Anton is very glad to bring this bloody tale to Kamloops for his WCT debut! See more at adegroot.ca.

CASSIDY GALLANTAssistant Stage ManagerAt WCT: DebutElsewhere: Stage Management credits: Ed’s Garage (Port Stanley Festival Theatre). Apprentice Stage Management credits: Sunshine Express, Buying the Farm, Midnight Madness, Birds of a Feather, Hilda’s Yard (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Private Lives (Stratford Festival); The Monument (Factory Theatre); Gift of the Magi, Stag and Doe, and Mending Fences (Theatre Orangeville). Other: Cassidy is thrilled to be visiting British Columbia for the first time and to be doing it on such a fun show! Cassidy would like to thank her wonderful London family and, as always, Alexander.

NATASCHA GIRGISAt WCT: DebutElsewhere: Select Theatre: 9 Dragons (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Gateway, Vertigo); Dracula: The Bloody Truth, Sherlock Holmes, The Ends of the Earth, The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Vertigo); A Thousand Splendid Suns (Grand); Titus Andronicus, Richard III (The Shakespeare Company); What You're Missing (Chutzpah Festival); The Drowning Girls (Cross Canada Tour); Communion, Palace of the End, Life Skills (Network); Heroine, Love (Northern Light); Humble Boy (Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Speaking in Tongues (Shadow); Trespassers (Belfry, Vancouver Playhouse); Around the World in 80 Days, Blue Light, Oliver Twist, Oleanna, The Stone

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Angel (Alberta Theatre Projects); Lion in the Streets (Sage); The Coyotes, Abundance, The Beggar’s Opera, The Crimson Veil (Caravan Farm); Counsellor-At-Law (Theatre Calgary); Blues in the Night, The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) (Lunchbox Theatre); Suite Surrender, Unnecessary Farce, Fiddler on the Roof, The 39 Steps (Stage West); Amadeus, Macbeth, The Constant Wife (ATFestival); Speak (Globe); The Barber of Seville (Persephone); and Lend Me a Tenor (Arts Club).

CRAIG HALLDirectorAt WCT: DebutElsewhere: Craig has worked across Canada as a director, designer and dramaturg for companies such as Vertigo Theatre, Lunchbox Theatre, The Shaw Festival, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Gateway Theatre, Rumble Productions, Arts Club Theatre, Greenthumb Theatre, Theatre Replacement, The Electric Company, Studio 58, Theatre SKAM, Radix Theatre, Nightswimming and Section 8 Productions. He is now in his eighth season as Artistic Director of Vertigo Theatre. Craig has received several awards for his work, including trophies for Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Set Design and Innovation. Other: Craig is a graduate of Studio 58. He would like to thank his wife, Anna, his daughter, Olive, and his son, Aubrey, for their love and support.

CHRISTOPHER HUNTVan HelsingAt WCT: Still Desire You, Cornflower Blue, The Idler, and Village Of Idiots.Elsewhere: Last season, Christopher was seen in 1979 (Berkeley Street Theatre, Toronto); Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (The Shakespeare Company/ATP); The Scarlet Letter (Theatre Calgary); and Waiting for Godot (Black Radish Theatre). In 2018, Christopher won one of Calgary’s Betty Mitchell awards for his performance in Theatre Calgary’s Twelfth Night. He also occasionally works as a director, adjudicator and writer, and enjoys playing a bit of guitar, mandolin and clawhammer banjo. Upcoming for Christopher: The Land, The Animals (One Yellow Rabbit), Mesa (Black Radish Theatre) and Clue (Vertigo Theatre). Other: Christopher is happy to come to Kamloops with the talented team of Dracula: The Bloody Truth. He lives in Calgary with his family – better half Elizabeth, and offspring Grady and Arden (and their partners and pets).

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DEITRA KALYNCostume DesignerAt WCT: DebutElsewhere: Deitra resides in Calgary and has been designing theatre, dance, film, and TV across the prairies for well over a decade. She is an awarded designer who was educated both at Grant MacEwan University and ACAD, where she holds a B.F.A. Her career in design has allowed her to work with some of the best companies in the country with notable selected credits including Noises Off, Shakespeare by the Bow (2012-2018), Blow Wind High Water, The Crucible, One Man, Two Guvnors, King Lear (Theatre Calgary); Dracula: the Bloody Truth, Calamity Town, Sherlock Holmes, Sweeney Todd, The 39 Steps (Vertigo); Intimate Apparel, Legend Has It, playRites 2013 (Alberta Theatre Projects); Evil Dead: The Musical: ’09, ’10, ‘12 (GZT/H&M); Farewell My Lovely, The Penelopiad (Arts Club).

LANI MARTELStage ManagerAt WCT: DebutElsewhere: Favourite past credits include The Mountaintop, Intimate Apparel, Elf, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Grand Theatre); Five Alarm, This One, The Drawer Boy, Stag and Doe, Having Hope at Home (Port Stanley Festival Theatre); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Rick Kish Prod.); Hometown (Blyth Festival); and Altar Boyz (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia). Lani has also worked on various productions for Opera Lyra Ottawa, The National Ballet of Canada, Dasein Dance Theatre, FLUX London Dance Festival, Kaeja d’Dance, CCDT, and TILT sound+motion.

SCOTT REIDSet DesignerAt WCT: DebutElsewhere: Scott Reid has been designing for theatre, opera and dance for over 25 years. He is a set, lighting and projection designer. Although based in Calgary, Scott’s designs have been seen across North America. Selected credits: The Drowning Girls, The Big Sleep, Turn of The Screw (Vertigo Theatre); The Last Wife, 1979 (set and projection), Venus In Fur (set and lighting), 16 playRites Festivals (Alberta Theatre Projects); Billy Elliot The Musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A Raisin in the Sun (Theatre Calgary); Die Tote Stadt, The Flying Dutchman (set and projections), Othello, The Inventor (projections), Little Women, Faust, Dead Man Walking (Calgary Opera); The Cunning Little Vixen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Banff Centre); Our Canada, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Songs Of A Wayfarer, Requiem (Alberta Ballet); Modern Vaudevillians, Juliet and Romeo, New Universe, The Wilds, and Spontaneous Combustion (Decidedly Jazz Danceworks). scottreiddesign.com

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KARL SINEOriginal Fight DirectorAt WCT: The Cure for Death by Lightning, Liberation Days Elsewhere: Karl works as a certified Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada. Selected Fight Directing credits: Noises Off, Billy Elliot The Musical, One Man Two Guvnors, The Scarlet Letter, A Christmas Carol (2016-18) (Theatre Calgary); As You Like It, Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare by the Bow); King Lear (Bard on the Beach co-pro), Might as Well be Dead, Nine Dragons, Wait Until Dark, Sherlock Holmes & The Case Of The Jersey Lily, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, The Game’s Afoot, The Huron Bride (Vertigo Theatre); Carmen, Silent Night (Calgary Opera); Hamlet, The Three Musketeers, Macbeth, Romeo And Juliet, Equivocation, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Land of the Dead (The Shakespeare Company); Zorro: Family Code, Butcher, The Motherf***Er with the Hat (Alberta Theatre Project); The Boy’s Own Jedi Handbook, and Moneyshot (GZT/Hit & Myth). Awards: Karl has won multiple Betty Mitchell Awards for his work as a fight director and actor. Other: Karl wishes to thank his wife, Lindsey, and his three beautiful children: Olivia, Charlie and Zachary.

KIRK SMITHActorAt WCT: Buddy in Elf – The Musical, Fred in A Christmas Carol, Robert in Don’t Dress For Dinner, Clown in The 39 Steps, Robert in Boeing Boeing, Combeferre/Bamatabois in Les Misérables, Perchik in Fiddler on the Roof, Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest, Garry/Roger in Noises Off, Ensemble in Wit, Topper/Laurie in A Christmas Carol, Freddy in My Fair Lady, and The Cat in the Hat in Seussical. Elsewhere: Some other recent projects include Pride and Prejudice (Persephone Theatre); The Foreigner, Jeeves Takes A Bow (Chemainus Theatre Festival); Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, Billy Elliott The Musical (Arts Club); The Rivals (Blackbird Theatre); The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged), James and The Giant Peach, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Rocky Horror Show (Project X). Kirk co-produced and performed in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, with Dancing Monkey Presents, both in Kamloops and Vancouver. Other: Kirk is – as always – grateful to his family, the WCT family, and his wife, Robyn. He is eager to sink his teeth into this show...

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PROGRAM NOTESDRACULA, NOVEL AND PLAY: IT ALL BEGAN AT THE THEATRE

Although Dracula is best remembered today as a literary masterpiece, the story, and its author share theatrical origin stories. Bram Stoker began his career as a theatre critic for The Dublin Evening Mail and, after moving to London, became the business manager for the Lyceum Theatre, a position he held from 1878 to 1898. By 1878, the Lyceum had established a long history of staging gothic melodramas: comical performances that combined music, merriment, mystery, and the macabre in thrilling ways. For example, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein received its first theatrical adaptation at the Lyceum in 1823, turning the novel into a gothic melodrama that saw Frankenstein’s Creature muted and painted blue.

Inspired by this theatrical tradition and elements of Eastern European folklore, Stoker composed what would soon become the quintessential modern vampire novel: Dracula. But before it became a literary sensation, Dracula was first introduced to theatre audiences as a gothic melodrama. Two weeks prior to the novel’s 1897 publication, Dracula was performed at Stoker’s Lyceum Theatre. Demonstrating a flair for the theatrical, and a desire to keep his story’s production rights, Stoker personally adapted his unpublished novel for the stage, which debuted on May 13th, 1897 as a performance entitled Dracula, or the Undead. Like Frankenstein before it, Dracula was presented as a gothic melodrama, emphasizing its humour, action, horror, and iconic characters.

From the top: Bram Stoker (photo credit: English Portrait Gallery, London); poster; Lyceum Theatre

Today, although it has been more than a century since that first performance and the novel’s publication, Dracula has enjoyed a long theatrical history, and the story has been adapted innumerable times since its 1897 debut.

In their script for Dracula: The Bloody Truth, Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson reconnect this canonical literary work to its theatrical origins and resurrect the spirit of gothic melodrama that first animated it. As an English theatre company specializing in physical comedy, La Navet Bete are especially skilled at highlighting the kinetic and comical elements of this famous story. Through their irreverent treatment of Dracula, they clear the cobwebs off these familiar plots and characters to reveal their persisting vitality, theatricality, and oft-unrealized humour.

Based on their performance text, this production offers a highly physical take on a literary classic that reanimates Stoker’s words through a dynamic combination of humour and haunting, the fresh and the familiar. In this take on the classic monster story, elements of farce, wordplay, and a massive cast of characters are brought together to create a distinctly modern Dracula that reflects the story’s persisting creative potential. By exploding traditional assumptions about this nineteenth-century novel, the artists who brought today’s performance to life have revealed Dracula’s inherent theatricality and shown us why the infamous Count continues to haunt the stage in the twenty-first century.

Dr. Brittany ReidLecturer, Department of English and Modern LanguagesThompson Rivers University

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SNEAK A PEEKTHE SOUND OF MUSIC:SHOWCASING OUR REGION’S TALENTED YOUNG PEOPLE

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One of our favourite parts of putting on the holiday shows is that we get to showcase the region’s amazing young talent! From the five young actors who touched our hearts in A Christmas Carol to the eleven young people who wowed us in the Children’s Chorus of Elf – The Musical, we’ve been so impressed by the abilities of our local children and youth.

The holiday show also gives us the welcome opportunity to identify emerging talent, such as Mandisa Volo, who played the central role of Michaela in Elf.

And again this year, our holiday show, The Sound of Music, has a stellar young cast, including Mandisa, who is back – a year older, but still just 13 years old – as Louisa. Also returning from Elf is Anna Hahn, 9 years old, who was in the Children’s Chorus. Anna, who loves dancing and singing, trains in tap, jazz, musical theatre, and ballet.

Cassius Ford, aged 10, is coming all the way from Williams Lake to draw on his years of musical and dance training to play Kurt. Another 10 year old with plenty of performance experience in choir, music and performance is Seren Williams, who will play Brigitta. Only 8 years old, Everleigh Rife has been taking dance classes for five years already. She also enjoys oratory performances and performing short plays.

You may have seen the elder of this youthful group, Ivan Vutev, playing the fiddle with his father and brother at the Kamloops Farmers Market; you may not know he plays both the violin and piano to Level 10 of the Royal Conservatory of Music, dances, sings in many choirs, and has acted in school plays, musicals and five (!) Pantos. In The Sound of Music, he will play Friedrich.

One thing that several of these performers have in common is experience in WCT’s Stage One Theatre School. We are so proud to have helped them grow as individuals and performers to a place where they can share the stage with professional actors and shine!

VW TURTLE RIVER RACETHE WINNERS & THE THANK YOU’S

RACE 1 (1:00pm):First - Mark LabossiereSecond - Lance LogginThird - Doug Giles

As one of Western Canada Theatre’s longest running fundraisers, the VW Turtle River Race was once again a great success this summer! We heartily thank TERRY LOWE and his team at VOLKSWAGEN KAMLOOPS for sponsoring the race and for all their support in the fundraising efforts.

Proceeds raised will support Western Canada Theatre youth programs. Together, we help young people ignite their imaginations and build confidence – through WCT’s Stage One Theatre School, school matinees (which will be seen by over 5,000 children and teenagers this season!) and family shows for all ages.

Thanks to everyone who participated – as ticket purchaser, sponsor, corporate challenger or volunteer – we raised $18,000 for WCT youth arts programs!

RACE 2 (2:00pm):First - Diane StangelandSecond - Brent ShabenThird - Jenn Ruemper

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR WINNERS!!

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THANK YOU to the following companies and volunteers and to you, our Turtle Ticket Buyers!

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VOLUNTEERS: Special thanks to our incredible group of volunteers for their help and dedication: Marilyn, Betty, Debbie, Joan & Linda!

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