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FORWARD THEATER COMPANY

presents

In the Next Room or the vibrator playby

Sarah Ruhl

Directed byJennifer Uphoff Gray

Scenic DesignerFrank Schneeberger

Lighting DesignerJohn Frautschy

Stage ManagerJacqueline Singleton*

Assistant Stage ManagerKim Patch

ComposerJoe Cerqua

Costume DesignerScott A. Rött

Properties DesignerCharles J. Trieloff II

Assistant DirectorCatie O’Donnell

In the Next Room or the vibrator play is generously sponsored by:

Season sponsors:

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers

Original Broadway production by Lincoln Center TheaterNew York City, 2009

In the Next Room or the vibrator play was originally commissioned and produced by Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA

Tony Taccone, Artistic Director/Susan Medak, Managing Director

In the Next Room or the vibrator play was developed at New Dramatists


FORWARD THEATER COMPANY STAFF

ARTISTICArtistic Director ......................................................................................... Jennifer Uphoff Gray

ADMINISTRATIVEGeneral Manager ........................................................................................................Sarah MartyCommunications Director .............................................................................. Gwendolyn Rice

PRODUCTIONAssistant Director ............................................................................................... Catie O’DonnellDramaturg .....................................................................................................................Frank HontsProduction Manager .................................................................................................Sarah MartyStage Manager ..........................................................................................Jacqueline SingletonAssistant Stage Manager .............................................................................................Kim PatchTechnical Director ............................................................................................................Ric LantzCarpenter ..................................................................................................................Kevin ZimmerScenic Painter ................................................................................................................Tiffany FierScenic Painter ................................................................................................................. Liz RathkeStitcher/Costume Assistant .............................................................................Hannah MurrayProduction Assistant ....................................................................................... Amy McChesneyDeck Crew ............................................................................................................ Benjamin SchollWardrobe .................................................................................................................Brittany Kugler

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FORWARD THEATER COMPANY BOARD OF D IRECTORS

Chad Bartell, Springs Window FashionsBecky Baumbach, formerly of Madison Area Technical College

Jane Elder, Jane Elder StrategiesDr. Charles Ford, UW Division of Otolaryngology

Marta Gialamas, The Gialamas CompanyGail Kohl, GMK Associates, LLC

Kathie Nichols, First United Methodist ChurchKaren Saunders, Commercial Casework Supply

Joseph Shumow, Foley & LardnerScott Thornton, State of Wisconsin Budget Office

Erin Wenzel, Overture Center for the Arts

FORWARD THEATER ADVISORY COMPANY

Colleen BurnsJim BuskeSarah Day

John FrautschyRichard Ganoung

Michael HeroldCelia Klehr

Frank SchneebergerSam White

Jack Forbes WilsonKimberly Yarnall


FROM THE STAFF

Welcome to Forward Theater’s first full season in Overture Center! We are honored by the support we’ve had from this community in the 20 months since our founding – support that has allowed us to expand our offerings this year to include full productions of three magnificent plays never before seen in Madison. We start the year off with a ravishing new play from one of the country’s most important contemporary playwrights, Sarah Ruhl. Nominated for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in drama and the Tony Award for Best Play, In the Next Room or the vibrator play is a lyrical, romantic and witty look at the age-old difficulties between men and women. It is a thrill for all of us at FTC to once again be able to bring a regional premiere of an important play to the Playhouse.

Forward’s advisory company and staff read In the Next Room… last winter and we were all very eager to produce it. It looks at an unbelievable story from our collective past and does so with compassion, insight, and affection. Before encountering this play, many of us were unaware that hysteria (an umbrella diagnosis for women covering depression, anxiety, and any number of other behavioral and physical anomalies) was routinely treated by physicians – from ancient Greece through the late nineteenth century – with manual massage to induce orgasm. The advent of the electrical age brought with it the vibrator, and the opportunity for doctors to treat their patients more . . . efficiently.

Writing a sex comedy on the topic of vibrators would be easy. Writing a character–driven piece that examines the medical profession’s misguided treatment of women’s health issues is a greater challenge. Fortunately Ruhl rises to it with grace and humor. I know you’ll enjoy seeing this “electric” story unfold.

Thank you for coming tonight, and thanks – as always – for your support of local, professional theater, created by Wisconsin artists. Please join us for the rest of our 2010 – 2011 season: The Love That Changed My Life, a festival of original monologues; Going To St. Ives, a compelling drama about mothers, sons, and morality in the face of a political crisis; and Moonlight and Magnolias, a screwball comedy about 1930s Hollywood and the making of Gone With The Wind. Join us as we continue on our journey onward and upward…and Forward!

More details about our company can be found on our website, www.forwardtheater.com.


FROM THE BOARD OF D IRECTORS

Welcome to Forward Theater Company’s second season. We’re excited to be on the stage again as we continue to build a regional Equity theater to entertain, challenge, and delight audiences in southern Wisconsin. We’re committed to striving for excellence in our work and relationships, with integrity in both art and management. We’re also committed to making bold creative decisions and to fostering an inclusive theater community. From our artists to our audiences, we want FTC not only to be our theater, but your theater. Thank you for being part of our endeavor.

FROM THE ADVISORY COMPANY

As you may know, Forward Theater’s advisory company is made up of actors, directors, playwrights, and designers who live and work in southern Wisconsin. We have an enviable job; we meet once a month with the artistic director and staff to talk about – what else? – theater. As a group we have the pleasure of reading and discussing plays – many, many plays – and considering how these scripts could fit into a future FTC season. It’s a fascinating process.

We come from different disciplines, we possess a wide variety of experience in the performing arts, and we all have strong opinions about what’s important to put on stage. About what audiences in Madison want to see, what they need to see. About the kinds of plays that excite us as artists. About drama, comedy, musicals, Broadway hits, and original work. We don’t always agree, and truthfully, that’s half the fun.

I am happy to say that the advisory company is extremely excited about the plays Forward is producing this year. Over the course of this season you’ll see some of us on stage, some of us leading talk-backs after the shows, some of us in the lobby chatting about the productions, and some of us will be seated next to you – applauding. Feel free to introduce yourself and more importantly, tell us what you think of the play. We’ll remember what you had to say when we start planning for next year. . .


FROM THE DR A M ATURG - MEDITATIONS ON A WORLD IN TR ANSITION

Sarah Ruhl has a knack for pulling together disparate elements of time and place to create a world that lives somewhere between the poetic landscape of her imagination and the terrain of historical happenstance. Three particular “moments” from the late nineteenth century inspired In the Next Room or the vibrator play: the advent of widespread electrification, the reliance on wet nurses by wealthy families, and the use of vibrators to cure women who were allegedly afflicted with “hysteria.” Taken together, these elements suggest a world in transition, restrained by Victorian convention but anticipating – with no small degree of anxiety – the rapidly approaching modern world.

In 1879, Thomas Edison created the first electric light. As Edison imagined how to electrify not only people’s homes but also entire cities, he documented his experiments (often done on animals) with diligence and precision. In one such endeavor, Topsy, an unruly, aging circus elephant, was electrocuted in front of a crowd of 1,500 spectators at Coney Island. Electrocuting an Elephant, the short film that documented Topsy’s execution, revealed the potential of technology as both a force of progress and a tool for peril and destruction.

During the Victorian era, well-to-do families frequently enlisted wet nurses to provide milk to infants, citing the “confining” and “coarse” nature of breastfeeding as detrimental to women’s health. Researchers from the mid-1880s estimated that as many as 80 to 95 percent of all wealthy mothers did not breastfeed their children. Soon after, advances in public health reduced the real and perceived health risks to nursing mothers, and the practice of wet nursing, viewed with increasing ambivalence, was soon replaced by processed “scientific” baby formula, among other innovations.

The diagnosis of hysteria – a broad category for nervousness, insomnia, loss of appetite, muscle spasms, and a variety of other symptoms – had been applied to women since ancient Greece. Over time, physicians attempted a variety of remedies for hysteria, and in the United States, the vibrator became a widespread instrument for treating the malady (as much on commercial grounds as on medical proof ) during the 1880s. As historian Hallie Lieberman has noted, by the early 1900s, Racine, Wisconsin became home to half a dozen companies that produced vibrators.

One can almost hear the hushed tones of the lower case v and p in the vibrator play of Ruhl’s title, a nod toward Victorian society’s discomfort with discussing what goes on behind closed doors – then and now – especially in reference to female sexual behavior. But in this play, we also confront directly what is going


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on In the Next Room, coming face to face with the duality of pain and pleasure, restraint and sensation, and convention and progress. In doing so, the characters recognize their own connections to one another, discovering in the process that human relationships transcend the power of the technology of any age, from the constrained corsets of the Victorian era to the release provided by a Chattanooga vibrator.

Further Reading:

• Rachel P. Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria,” the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999)

• Tom McNichol, AC/DC: The Savage Tale of the First Standards War (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006)

• Janet Golden, A Social History of Wet Nursing in America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)

Special thanks to Hallie Lieberman.

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THE CAST

Dr. Givings ....................................................................................................................Mark Ulrich*Catherine Givings ....................................................................................... Jessica Bess Lanius*Sabrina Daldry ........................................................................................................Karen MoellerAnnie ..................................................................................................................... Leia EspericuetaLeo Irving .............................................................................................................. Ryan Schabach*Elizabeth ........................................................................................................................Marti GobelMr. Daldry .........................................................................................................Richard Ganoung** member, Actors’ Equity Association

SET TING

PlaceA prosperous spa town outside of New York City, perhaps Saratoga Springs.

TimeThe dawn of the age of electricity and after the Civil War; circa 1880s.

Please NoteThere will be one 15-minute intermission.

The audience is asked to silence cell phones during the performance. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means

whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

In the Next Room or the vibrator play is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.

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CAST B IOGR APHIES

LEIA ESPERICUETA (Annie) is proud to be returning to the FTC stage with another Midwest premiere. This summer she had the

wonderful opportunity to portray Lady Anne alongside John Douglas Thompson in Shakespeare & Company’s Richard III in Lenox, Massachusetts. Regional credits include: Helen of Troy and Briseis in The Greeks at Madison Repertory Theatre; Cathleen in Long Day’s Journey Into Night at American Players Theatre; Felicity in Christopher Durang’s Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them with Forward Theater; and Ella in the professional premiere of Stuck at In Tandem Theatre. Born and raised in California, Leia received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is in the process of moving to Chicago.

RICHARD GANOUNG (Mr. Daldry) is a founding member of Forward Theater Company and serves on the advisory

company. He is proud to be part of this production, which reunites him with many dear theatrical friends. Last season he appeared with Forward as

Bill in All About Eve and Reverend Mike in the Midwest premiere of Why Torture Is Wrong, And The People Who Love Them. Richard is a member of Actors’ Equity and the Screen Actors Guild of America. Please visit his website at richardganoung.com for a complete resume. He thanks each and every one of you for your kind support of the arts in Madison!

MARTI GOBEL (Elizabeth) received her BA in theater from the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, in 2008, and immediately

began a career as a professional actor in Milwaukee. She has had the honor of working with Milwaukee Shakespeare, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theatreworks, First Stage Children’s Theater, and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater. She is also the co-founder of UPROOTED Theatre, Milwaukee’s newest African-American theater company. Marti performs in an ongoing role as the civil rights suffragist Ida B. Wells for the Kenosha Civil War Museum. This is Marti’s first role with Forward Theater and she couldn’t be more thrilled to practice her craft under the FTC umbrella. Marti hopes that you enjoy the show and leave with a pleasant tingle.


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JESSICA BESS LANIUS (Catherine Givings) is very happy to be back in her home state of Wisconsin! Her favorite New York

theater roles include: Edgar in The Leer Project at Harwich Theatre Company; Clytemnesta in Wrecked and Julie in Miss Julie with Theatre Lila; Jill in The Big Funk with The Drove Theatre Company; Helen of Troy in Faust with JOS Co.; Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Women: Under the Corset produced by The Wake Up Artists; and Nina in The Nina Variations at Primary Stages. Jessica has also appeared in UPN’s sitcom Girlfriends, Midway Films’ Mulligan in the role of Angel, and numerous national network commercials, including Claritin, Toyota, Tylenol, Babybell, and V-8. Jessica graduated with an MFA in acting from Rutgers University. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity Association. She would like to thank “Ama & Papa” for their unwavering support, and Brad and Nate for the inspiration.

KAREN MOELLER (Sabrina Daldry) is overjoyed to be working with Forward Theater again after appearing in last season’s

production of All About Eve. She has previously appeared on the Playhouse stage in Madison Repertory Theatre’s Permanent Collection and The Nerd, and was seen this spring in Laundry & Bourbon with The Bricks Theatre. She has performed in many productions in Madison with Strollers Theatre and Mercury Players Theatre, and her voice can frequently be heard in local commercials for both radio and TV. Karen is a big fan of Sarah Ruhl and is thrilled to be able to perform this play with such a great group of people. Thanks and kisses to Tony.

RYAN SCHABACH (Leo Irving) is overjoyed to be back in Madison performing with Forward Theater Company. In 2003

Ryan graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with an MFA in acting. While in the program he studied new play development with Norma Saldivar and Wisconsin playwright Richard Kalinoski. Favorite performances include: the King in The Underpants at Milwaukee Rep; Romantic Fools with In Tandem; Costard in Love’s Labor’s Lost at the Utah Shakespearean Festival; Ears on a Beatle at Next Act; and soon to be a favorite, Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), with Door Shakespeare. A special thank you to those supporters of FTC who have made this production such a magical experience.

MARK ULRICH (Dr. Givings) is very happy to be making his first appearance with Forward Theater Company. Previous Madison credits

include Gross Indecency, Noises Off, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Private Lives, and What Corbin Knew at the Madison Rep. Milwaukee area credits include The Pavilion, Seven Stories, and Lombardi at Next Act Theatre, and K2 at the Milwaukee Theatre Festival. Mark resides in Chicago, where he has appeared with the Goodman, Northlight, and Writers’ Theatre, among others. He is a proud member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble and Chicago Dramatists.


TECHNICAL ARTISTS

JOE CERQUA (Composer) is a freelance composer, producer, vocalist, and sound designer. He is thrilled to be working with Forward Theater again this season. Joe was the resident composer at Madison Rep, where he wrote original music for The Diary of Anne Frank, Death of a Salesman, The Greeks, Bus Stop, The Nerd, The Price, Talley’s Folly, Home, Anna Christie, Bad Dates, Having Our Say, Our Town, Rembrandt’s Gift, Moon For The Misbegotten, Copenhagen, and The Drawer Boy. Joe is also the artistic director/composer-in-residence for the Cerqua Rivera Art Experience, a critically acclaimed 13-piece jazz orchestra and 10-member dance company. As the supervising producer of Columbia College’s music department he has contributed original music to many of the college’s theater productions. Other recent projects include concerts with Cerqua Rivera, and original music and sound design for Bus Stop at the Kansas City Rep, Emma at the Cleveland Playhouse, and The Circle at APT.

JOHN G. FRAUTSCHY (Lighting Designer) is a freelance lighting designer and production manager based in Madison, and a member of Forward Theater’s advisory company. Local designs include: Dames at Sea for University Theatre; Romeo et Juliette, Il Travatore and Don Giovanni for Madison Opera; Fully Committed, Proof, and Dirty Blonde, Madison Repertory Theatre. Other design credits include: Children of War, Ping Chong & Co.; The Marvelous Wonderettes at Milwaukee Repertory Theater; HMS Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance for Skylight Opera Theatre. John is an associate designer with Hase & Associate. Their most recent collaborations included Pelleas et Melisande at Canadian Opera Company, and the co-production of The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead, at both Cincinnati Playhouse and Dallas Theater Center.

JENNIFER UPHOFF GRAY (Director) most recently directed All About Eve and Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them for Forward Theater’s inaugural season. She also directed A Thousand Words for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Love’s Labour’s Lost for Milwaukee Shakespeare, and The Diary of Anne Frank for Madison Repertory Theatre. Other credits include: the national tour of Copenhagen, associate director of Copenhagen, Cabaret, The Blue Room (starring Nicole Kidman) and The Life on Broadway. Off-Broadway, she directed the world premiere of the musical Suburb. Her work has also been seen at Second Stage, Musical Theater Works, Ensemble Studio Theater, HERE, (all in New York City) and the Chunchon International Theater Festival in South Korea. She holds a degree in dramatic literature and stage history from Harvard College. Jen grew up in the Madison area and she and her husband Peter are raising their three children on the near west side.

RIC LANTZ (MAPC Technical Direction Services) received a BA in theater from Colorado State University. He then worked as a scenic craftsman at Pittsburgh Public Theater. His freelance projects include PBS’s This Land is Your Land and the motion picture Wonderboys. Ric earned an MFA in production technology and management from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. Upon graduation Ric served as the technical director for Madison Repertory Theatre until it closed in 2009. In addition to his current role as technical director at the Children’s Theater of Madison, Ric is also a co-founder of The Bricks Theatre.

KIM PATCH (Assistant Stage Manager) received her BFA in stage management from the University of Southern California. This is her second production with Forward Theater Company. She recently completed her first season at American Players


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Theatre as an assistant stage manager. In Los Angeles she stage managed the world premiere of Oliver Mayer’s Laws of Sympathy for Playwrights’ Arena. She also assisted the production manager for the USC School of Theatre.

SCOTT A. RÖTT (Costume Designer) is happy to work with Forward Theater again, having designed last season’s Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. Other local credits include Pearl Bailey…by Request, Blue Rose, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Carolin’ Carolyn’s Comin’ to Town, and Hula Hoop Sha-Boop for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater; as well as designing for Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Madison campuses; the Madison Rep; Renaissance Theaterworks; New American Theater; Center Theatre; and Stage One Productions. Highlights have been designing the world premiere production of Jane Eyre, The Musical and working with Rudolf Nureyev on his farewell tour. Scott is currently the costume director and on the core technical staff for American Players Theatre.

SARAH RUHL (Playwright) has written numerous award-winning plays, including The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2004, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Pen Award), Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Late: a cowboy song, Orlando, Demeter in the City (NAACP Image Award nomination) and Passion Play: a cycle in three parts (Fourth Forum Freedom Award, Kennedy Center). Originally from Chicago, Sarah Ruhl received her MFA from Brown University, where she studied under Paula Vogel. Her plays have been performed at Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Wilma Theater, Cornerstone Theater, Madison Repertory Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, and the Piven Theatre

Workshop, among other theaters across the country. Internationally, her plays have been produced in England, Canada, Germany, Latvia, and Poland. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill award, Whiting Writers’ Award and a MacArthur Fellowship.

Charles Isherwood of the New York Times wrote, “Ms. Ruhl’s theatrical vision is an idiosyncratic one. She is not a journalist of domestic life, as so many playwrights today seem to be, but an adventurer who is not afraid to blend the quotidian and the fantastic, deep feeling and airy whimsy.”

FRANK SCHNEEBERGER (Scenic Designer) is currently a theater technician for the Overture Center for the Performing Arts. From 1978-2002, he was the resident designer/technical director for Madison Repertory Theatre, helping it to grow from a small community theater to a nationally-recognized, professional, regional company. Between 1974-1978, he was the resident designer/technical director for the Children’s Theater of Madison. In addition, Frank’s designs have been seen at American Players Theatre, Cider Mill Playhouse (Binghamton, NY), Theatre X (Milwaukee), Racine Theatre Guild, New American Theater (Rockford, IL), University of Wisconsin Opera, Strollers Theatre, Mercury Players Theatre, Madison Theatre Guild, Madison Savoyards, Edgewood College, and Wisconsin Youth Theater. Frank is a founding member of Forward Theater Company and serves on the advisory company.

JACQUELINE SINGLETON (Stage Manager) is happy to be returning to Forward Theater after stage managing Why Torture is Wrong... last year. Her Wisconsin credits include nine seasons with American Players Theatre and seven seasons with the Madison Repertory Theatre. Some favorite shows include Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale,


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Timon of Athens, The Merchant of Venice, Hay Fever, Lobby Hero, Topdog/Underdog, I Am My Own Wife, and Anna Christie. Originally from Chicago, she worked for the Goodman Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Lifeline Theatre, Next Theatre Company, and Stage Left Theatre, among many others. She now lives in Spring Green (with A. Bulldog), and operates a small personal chef business, Bananas on Fire (www.bananasonfire.com). CHARLES J. TRIELOFF II (Properties Designer) received his MFA in set design from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. In Madison he was the prop master at Madison Repertory Theatre for nine years. He has also done props for Children’s Theater of Madison, Madison Ballet, and Madison Opera. He is currently the prop master for American Players Theatre. For University Theatre he has designed Antigone, The Passion of Dracula, A Little Night Music, Man of La Mancha, The Water Station, Smash, Steel Magnolias, True West, and Stop Kiss. Charles has also been a visiting artist at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, where he designed A Lie Of The Mind, Hay Fever, Guys and Dolls, and Antigone. Outside of the theater world Charles has designed the themed reception areas for Children’s Dental Health’s Fitchburg and Old Sauk Road locations.


DONORS TO FORWARD THEATER COMPANY

Your gift plays an important role in the success of Forward Theater Company. Ticket revenue covers only a percentage of the full cost of presenting live theater. Annual fund donors bridge the gap and enable Forward Theater to fulfill its mission – to provide exceptional theater experiences for area audiences and give professional actors, designers, writers, and directors an artistic home.

The following list reflects donations received by October 10, 2010. To make a tax-deductible donation to Forward Theater or learn about

donor benefits, please visit our website at forwardtheater.com.

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*Given in memory of David Schanker

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Fair Trade Coffee HouseMichelangelo’s Coffee House

Vicki Heymann and the Governor’s Executive ResidenceChris Gauthier and the local chapter of IATSE

Amy KramerJulia NicholasGreg Lawless

the staff of the Overture CenterZane Williams

Paul Simon HeckelShinji Muramoto

Edwin ArreolaJohn and Julie Gadau

Susan CroftonGina Gomez

the Milwaukee Repthe Madison Bach Musicians

Derek AimonettoPeter Gray

and Joe Rice

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