THANKSHoward & Roberta Mase, Carolyn Kitay, Doria Dallos, Lisa Kirsch & Hertzel Abraham, Mandy Bishop, Kaye Tuckerman, Bill Laswell, Strafe/Hard Soul Recordings, Susi Cahn & Mario Batali, Jim Pellow, Lisa Bousquet, La MaMa, Kaye Tuckerman, Paul Deboy, Perri Yaniv, Charles Ouda, Chris Campbell, Marina Chrys, Michelle Cristoso, Ali Binn

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Dedicated to my precious Lael!

The Pill

A family memoirconceived by Marla Mase

written by The Familydirected by Randolph Curtis Rand

original Score by TomÁs Doncker

Jan 25-Feb 4, 2018www.thepilltheplay.com

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Authors’ noteI’ve been lost in an art - of translation (which so happens to be an anagram of “lost in an art”), consumed by a book that aims to come up with a generalized vision of the art. It considers the compromises and the constraints — both those on form and content — involved in the process of not just translating between languages, but between the more general “linguistic media.” The main theme is a poem by the 16th century French Clement Marot, and the author enlists a multitude of friends in the task of translating it into English — what amounts is several dozen widely varied “takes” on the original. The ultimate question is: in what sense is each a faithful rendition of the original? Is it faithful to the literal meaning of each line? Is it faithful to the rhyming scheme, to the syllabic makeup, to the archaic style, to the sentiment, to the culture in which the piece was written, to the culture to which the meaning will be transplanted as a consequence of translation over time?

From this framework of generalized translation do I understand the essence of The Pill, and the exercise of its creation. The playwrights were all tasked with translating “the truth” of an incident and of a familial era into various artistic media — essay, television, interview, dialogue. These were later condensed and constrained further by the requirement that these separate pieces convolve into a single coherent whole of a play. The questions briefly listed above apply here as well, in addition to the the question underlying it all: “in what varied ways does this whole preserve “the truth,” and what compromises of some aspects of the truth had to be made in service to more primary aspects?”

The author of the book also stressed analogy as the heart of translation, even going so far as to call the two translates of one another. So I invite you, the audience members, to do what you inevitably will: to involve yourselves in this microcosmic family by way of analogy on multiple levels — the character level, the story level, and the thematic level, among others. In essence, I’m asking you to ingest The Pill and allow it to swim around in your own frame of reference. Such is how the ‘message’ of this play will be conveyed best, by the mechanisms of your analogous experience.

— YANAI FELDMAN

CAST & CREATIVEMARLA MASE (Playwright)- is a writer/performer/producer/singer/songwriter from New York City. Known for her gutsy, sexy, raw performance style and lyrics that “make you think”, Marla is regarded by her peers and fans as a true musical pioneer. Her songs, a mix of punk, funk, spoken word, power pop and classic rock-n-roll are infused with Global Soul, the signature sound of True Groove Records, the record label she founded with her partner/collaborator Tomás Doncker. Along with triumphant tours in China, Europe and the United States, Marla received a ‘Messenger of Peace’ Award from the Friends of the UN for her visionary work as a songwriter and performer. Her multi-media performance concert Speak premiered at NYC Summerstage 2013, and set the stage for her next release, Half-Life, which was heralded as “The first great album of 2014. It featured legendary Ikonoklast producer/bassist Bill Laswell playing bass on “The Heart Beats.” It was their second collaboration – Laswell also provided a dubmix of “AnnaRexia” from Mase’s Speak Deluxe collection. In 2017, Marla was a featured performer at SXSW as well as a featured performer (live recording session) on the taste-making music site Daytrotter.com. A long time creative force in groundbreaking NYC theatre as an actress, writer and producer, Marla is best known for her play The Canarsie Line, her rock opera A Brief Night Out, and Speak. Her most recent work Miracles~Lost & Found: A Rock-n-Roll Rumination (directed by Lisa Milinazzo) based on her 2016 album by the same name, weaves elements of psychedelia, power pop, modern opera, spoken word, film-noir vignettes into a prescient multi-dimensional performance piece about living and dying in our world today. www.MarlaMase.com

THE FAMILY (Contributing Writers - The Pill was conceived by Marla Mase, but incorporates retellings of the events that inspired the play written by Marla’s son Yanai Feldman, her late daughter Lael Summer, her father Howard Mase, and her mother Roberta Mase.

YANAI FELDMAN - Yanai Feldman is a student of mathematics at Pomona College in California and an alumnus of The Berkeley Carroll School in Park Slope, where he was valedictorian and winner of the Department Award for mathematics during his junior year. He first displayed a penchant for writing when he was in the fifth grade, when he wrote a story about two young children who fall in love and run away together: it was awarded the class prize in descriptive writing. Ever since, his work has tended more towards the intellectual, with essays on topics such as: the changing idea of self in an age of constant memory mediation, and the intersecting roles of utopia and exile in Mad Men. The latter was nominated for best essay written in the first-year seminar at Pomona College in 2014. Yanai’s interests range wide and deep: from philosophy, mathematics, and the sciences, to media studies, literature, and political/critical theory. Yanai has considered careers in journalism, television, and most recently, education, a domain in which he wants to experiment with the theories of empa-thetic learning he has developed over the past two years. Currently suffering from depression himself, Yanai hopes turn his struggle into wisdom – for that is his primary ambition in life: to be a wise old boy, who has lessons lurking at the end of every sentence. He also wrote half the play.

Marla Mase

Roger Rathburn*

Tomás Doncker / True Groove

Graham Stevens*

Winsome Brown*Randolph Curtis Rand

Marina Re*

Zoe Wilson*

Joshua Turchin*Adam Patterson*

Songs (in order of appearance) Performed by Written by

“Free Me” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marla Mase/Tomás Doncker

“DFWME/Lioness” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sylvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marla Mase/Tomás Doncker

“Free Me Reprise” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leni/Little Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Marla Mase/Tomás Doncker

“Acupuncture” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Little Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yanai Feldman/Doncker

“Lazy Moon” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roberta Mase

“Make Us Whole” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Lael Summer/Tomás Doncker

“Hold Fast Your Dreams” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louise Driscoll’s poem/Roberta Mase

Leni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .ZOE WILSON*

Sylvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WINSOME BROWN*

Big Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADAM PATTERSON*

Grandpa/The Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ROGER RATHBURN*

The Doctor’s Wife/Grandma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MARINA RE*

Simon/Aunt Sheila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .GRAHAM STEVENS*

Little Philip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JOSHUA TURCHIN*

MUSICAL NUMBERS

CAST OF CHARACTERS

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association

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LAEL SUMMER - Singer/songwriter Lael Summer has two albums, Burden to Bear and Life in Color. Her debut album Burden to Bear was critically acclaimed and she was cited to be the one to watch out for by Earmilk.com, AbsolutePunk, The Big Takeover, KingsofA&R, Soultracks, amongst other prominent music blogs. Her song “Dream Machine” was written by NYS Poet Laureate Yusef Komunyakaa. Lael was a graduate of USC’s elite Pop Music Program, 2014. She was a yoga teacher, a healer and an inspiration to all who knew her. We love and miss you Lael.

HOWARD MASE, PH.D - still working at 82 (executive coach, organizational psychologist) and a mentor to thousands, Dr. Howard Mase has a fan club of people who cannot make a move or take a step without his words of wisdom. The most loved man on the planet. Join The Cult of Howard today.

ROBERTA MASE - the most interesting person in the family and The Muse, Roberta is a songwriter, a parodist, and looks like a 1940’s movie star. She never leaves the couch and is happy that way.

TOMÁS DONCKER (Composer/Sound Design) cut his teeth as a guitarist with such genre-busting groups as James Chance & The Contortions; Defunkt; J. Walter Negro & The Loose Jointz; and many more, making him a prime mover on New York’s downtown “No Wave” scene in the early 1980s. Eventually he went international, touring and recording in Japan with jazz pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, and producing studio and songwriting sessions with Bootsy Collins, Yoko Ono, and Grammy-nominated Reg-gae vocal group The Itals, among others. Since then, Doncker has continued to work with such iconic artists as: Madonna, Ivan Neville; Bonnie Raitt; Meshell Ndegeocello; Corey Glover of Living Colour; former Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Amp Fiddler; 2013 Grammy award nominee Shamekia Copeland. His ongoing collaborations with NYS Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakaa (the critically acclaimed album Big Apple Blues and the highly anticipated 10 Anniversary release of The Mercy Suite are celebrated worldwide. His most recent theatre & film composition credits include: Dick & Jack a feature film by world renown artist John Ransom Philips plus Power of the Trinity, Diablo Love and Speak were all produced at NYC Summerstage; Miracles~Lost & Found, Bounce: The Basketball Opera (produced by Ardea Arts in conjunction with University of Kentucky) and Lambs to Slaughter by actor/director/writer Khalil Kain. Beyond that, he has produced hundreds of records and is the Founder and CEO of NYC’s fastest rising record label, True Groove Records. Tomásdoncker.net

TRUE GROOVE (Artistic Development & Production). Established in 2014, True Groove was initially an independent record label whose mission was to develop and produce artists whose music spoke about topics that matter to the masses. CNN cited True Groove’s “Global Soul” ethos as the beginning of a new genre in contemporary music. Since that time, True Groove has expand-ed into theatre and film. “So many artists that we work with do music, but they also write plays, act and make movies. In these days you have to do it all and we look for these modern day poets who are desperately trying to connect us back to something. In a world that seems focused on disconnecting, we hope to help people reconnect in whatever we can.” The Pill (La Mama, 2018), Miracles-Lost & Found : a rock-n-roll rumination (Dec 2017 debut), The Power of the Trinity ( Summerstage 2012), Diablo Love (Summerstage 2013), Speak (Summerstage 2013), Lambs to Slaughter (in development), The Mess We Made (2016-2017 tour) are all theatre projects that True Groove has produced and helped to create. True Groove also scored Dick & Jack, a film by renown artist John Ransom Philips and is the Executive Producer/Producer of the upcoming Dylan Mars Greenberg film Spirit Riser. www.TrueGroove.nyc

RANDOLPH CURTIS RAND (Director) is a theatre artist based in Brooklyn, NY, and Wash. DC. His work encompasses Directing, Performance, Design, Teaching, and Dramaturgy. Recent directing credits include an all-male The 2 Gentlemen Of Verona for Scranton Shakespeare Festival, and Chana Porter’s Phantasmagoria; or, Let Us Seek Death! at La Mama. As a performer, most recently he played the title role in Dracula at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Other theaters, companies, and artists he’s worked with include: Joseph Chaikin, Elevator Repair Service, Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk, New York Theatre Workshop, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre, The Public Theater, The Rude Mechs, and The Wooster Group, to name a few. He is an OBIE Award winner for performance.

ZOE WILSON* (Leni) is honored to reprise her role as Leni and once again work with her friends at True Groove! Select Professional Credits: Play Like a Winner @ Playwrights Horizons (NYMF 2017 Outstanding Individual Performance Award), White Effie in Orange is the New Black Season 5, Transport Group’s Peter Pan @ The Signature (Wendy), Three Days to See @ NYTW (Helen Keller), Diana and Navy @ 54 Below, The Pill (reading) and recently Agatha in Soman Chainani’s trailer for The NY Times Best Seller The School For Good and Evil. Zoe is a proud member of AEA/SAG, plays ukulele, writes music and is recording her first single. A heartfelt thank you to my manager, Lauren Singer, Innovative Artists, Badiene Magaziner, Joseph Olson, Marla Mase and Tomas’ Doncker. To Lael Summer, your life will never be forgotten.

WINSOME BROWN* (Sylvia) is a writer, director, and Obie-award winning performer. She was a 2016 visiting artist at The Performing Garage where she debuted Hit the Body Alarm. Recent theater includes Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Sound); This is Mary Brown (La MaMa/ Edinburgh), The Burial at Thebes (Irish Rep), Hillary Clinton in Women: The War Within (BAC); Irina Brook’s La Vie Matérielle; international tour of Jay Scheib’s World of Wires; André Gregory & Wallace Shawn’s The Master Builder. Film/ TV: Everything I Know About Love, Holy New York, Wetlands, A Master Builder (dir Jonathan Demme); Heights; Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Film directing: The Violinist (2011). Stage directing: The Lost Victrola Sessions (Hudson Opera House). Winsome’s essays have been featured in Salon.com.

ADAM PATTERSON* (Big Philip). NY Theatre: CasablancaBox (HERE Arts Center), Island (NYSX), Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Place), The Country Wife (Odyssey Prod.), Eurydice (360 RepCo). Regional: Three Man Tempest & To Kill a Mockingbird (Burning Coal), As You Like It & Hamlet (Plimoth Players), Lulu & Learning Russian (Hangar Theatre Lab), Charlotte’s Web (Hangar Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Bare Theatre), Elephants and Gold (Berkshire Fringe). Adam holds a BFA from Emerson College. Adam-Patterson.com.

ROGER RATHBURN* (Grandpa/The Doctor). Broadway: No, No, Nanette; Five O’Clock Girl. Off-Broadway: Children of Adam. Las Vegas: Mame; Your Own Thing tour. Regional theatre: Outgoing Tide, To Kill a Mockingbird, Elephant Man, etc. Shakespeare: The Tempest (Prospero) Bryant Park, Henry IV (Henry IV), The Tempest (Gonzalo), Hamlet (Marcellus). Chekhov’s The Seagull. Ten features and “indies,” including P.S. I Love You, Up Close and Personal. Sixteen TV productions including: Elementary, Gossip Girl, 22 performances on Late Show with David Letterman.

MARINA RE* (The Doctor’s Wife/Grandma) Film/TV: Woody Allen’s Irrational Man, Diane English’s The Women, Talking to God, Iris, Urban Relics, Mona Wonderstein, New Amsterdam, PrimeTime:What Would You Do?, Battery Park. Off- Broadway/OOB: LionTheatre, NY Classical Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, HB Playwrights Theatre, Bleecker Street, West End Theatre, The Kraine. Regional: Gulfshore Playhouse,Two River Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Huntington Theatre, CentreStage, Florida Studio,Charles Playhouse, Merrimack, National Theatre of Deaf, Lyric Stage, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, CT.Rep, Public Theatre Me.,Vineyard Playhouse, 5 years with Shear Madness, and 7 seasons at Gloucester Stage. Awards: Desert Star Award ( Maria Callasin Master Class); IRNE Award nom;10 years cited for “Best Performance of Year ”by Boston Globe / Herald /Phoenix; Sarasota Magazine’s “Best Actress” (Boleros for the Disenchanted, The Miamians). marinare.info

GRAHAM STEVENS* (Simon/Aunt Sheila) is a Drama Desk Award-winning actor and singer, based in New York City. Off-Broadway: The Robber Bridegroom, Peter and the Starcatcher, In Transit (Drama Desk Award - Outstanding Ensemble), The Lightning Thief, Skippyjon Jones. Regional: Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Sound), Up Here (La Jolla Playhouse), Found (Phil-adelphia Theatre Co.), Carmen (New York City Opera), The Scarlet Letter (Edinburgh Fringe). Television: Gotham, Search Party. Training: BA in Theater Studies, Yale University. www.GrahamStevens.com

JOSHUA TURCHIN* (Little Philip) is honored and thrilled to reprise his role as Young Philip, work with this incredible team, and help bring this important story to life! He is proud to have recently performed at TrevorLIVE LA as Trevor, from the Broadway bound musical, Trevor the Musical for numerous Broadway and Hollywood luminaries. Select professional credits include: Christmas in Hell (Davin/Urban Stages Winter Rhythms Festival, and featured on the Cast Album); A Christmas Carol (Tiny Tim / Century Club); Caroline or Change (Noah Gelman / Tantrum Theater); A Christmas Story the Musical Broadway National Tour (Randy Parker- 2016 Broadway World Phoenix Award for Best Actor in a Musical -Professional); XY the Musical (Christine / ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop); School of Rock Broadway Promo Team; Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant (Jack); Green Eggs and Hamadeus (Sam I Am / Cleveland Orchestra); Kris Kringle the Musical - Equity Reading (Boy Elf); English Egg animated series (recurring). He can also be heard on several cast albums and is a recurring voiceover actor with iHeart Radio. When he is not performing, Joshua, also a musician, is composing a new musical, which he hopes to bring to the stage soon! www.joshuaturchin.com & Instagram @joshuaturchin! Proud member of AEA. Thanks to True Groove/Marla, Tomas and The Pill family for this opportunity, and to Janine, Julia, Nancy, Sherry, Thatcher and my family! In memory of Mom Mom and Papa Jerry. For Lael

LISI STOESSEL (Set Designer) is a Baltimore-based hybrid theatre artist exploring the aesthetics and transformative potential of the moving body in space. She has performed and created sets and puppets for many companies along the east coast of the US and beyond. Recently Lisi was awarded a 2017 Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant for her immersive theatre production, H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum. She has also won a non-equity Jeff Award in Artistic Specialization for her robot design for Sideshow Theatre Company’s Heddatron (Chicago). Lisi is an Artistic Associate of Submersive Productions (Baltimore, MD) and Core Collaborator of feminist punk rock dance band Tia Nina (Washington, DC). She holds her MFA in Scene Design from the University of Virginia.

JOYCE LIAO (Lighting Designer) An award winning lighting designer, Joyce just completed the lighting for Party Face starring Hayley Mills. Recent Off-Broadway projects include: Dead Dog Park, The Glass Menagerie, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Breakfast with Mugabe, Final Analysis, The English Bride, Years of Sky and Ethel Sings. Her lighting design on Brothers from the Bottom was nominated for an Audelco Award. Joyce’s lighting work has been seen both across the US and internationally, including: Taiwan, Austria, Romania, Columbia and China. For more information please visit www.joyceliaodesign.com

KATE DUCEY (Projection Designer) is a Projection and Lighting Designer living in Brooklyn, NY. She designs theater, dance and circus performances including Regret & Time Travel (Dixon Place Puppet Blok), Nighthawks: A Circus Noir (Troupe Vertigo LA), Refugia (The Moving Company), and The Drowning Girls (Theatre en Bloc). Upcoming work includes projection designer on Where Earth Meets the Sky for Cara Mia Theatre in Dallas, TX. She received a B.A. in Theater from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL, and her M.F.A. in Theatre Design & Technology from the University of Texas.

BLAIR BAUER (Costumes/Props) Blair Wear likes to play arts and crafts. Her hobbies include tea parties with invisible friends. blairwear.com

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DYLAN MARS GREENBERG (Cinematographer/Video) is a visionary American film director and musician most notable for directing the 2017 “Re-Agitator: Revenge of the Parody” and 2015 Dark Prism. Dylan has also directed the films Glamarus, Wakers, and Amityville: Vanishing Point. Greenberg has also directed music videos for True Groove artists, Tomás Doncker, Marla Mase, Sam Huber, James Chance & The Contortions as well as for many other performing artists. Dylan is currently filming his 7th feature film, Spirit Riser.

DEREK BISHOP (Photography / Logo & Graphic Design) Derek is a musician, photgrapher and art director living in New York City. As an art director, he has over 20-years experience, designing over 30 Broadway cast albums, 500 romance novel covers, and spent 10 years at Soap Opera Digest making people and things look pretty. He has designed for Barnes and Noble, TV Guide, AMC Theatres, Carnegie Hall, and many more. His music is a seamless (and shameless) blend of retro-disco, 80s synth pop, and 70s funk. He dresses like Mad Max in a production of Oliver Twist. See and hear more at www.derekbishop.net

RUPERT REID (Additional Photograhy)

JACLYN BISKUP (Production Manager) is an Emmy and Peabody nominated producer for the digital series, The Secret Life Of Muslims. In the tv/film/digital space she has worked as an associate producer on projects for PBS NOVA, Delta Air Lines, CalTech, Harvard, and others. Her work in the theatre spans nearly two decades. As the founding artistic director of The Mill, she has directed and produced over 20 productions including the Chicago premieres of A Dream Play (Caryl Churchill), Venus (Suzan-Lori Parks) and The Private Of Lives Of Eskimos (Or 16 Words For Snow) (Ken Urban.) In NYC, she produced and directed Nicholas, Maeve, Marianne (Matthew Stephen Smith) one of Indie Theatre Now’s 20 Best of NYC Fringe. She has assisted on productions at Steppenwolf, The Public, and The American Musical Theatre Workshop and has a Bachelor’s degree in Theater from Northern Illinois University and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing and Theatrical Production from Northwestern University.

DANIEL FAY (Puppet Design)

MIMI BARCOMI (Stage Manager)

THOMAS RAYNOR (Press Agent)

RACHAEL SINGER/LINDSAY HOFFMAN (Social Media )

JAMES DELLATACOMA (Sound Design works with Bill Laswell, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock, Matisyahu, Angelique Kidjo

MARK HENRY (Sound Design) works with J-Lo, P-Diddy, Brand New Heavies, Snoop Dog, Toots & The Maytals, Natalie Cole, Chris Whitley

*Actors appearing courtesy of Actors Equity Association

Actors’ Equity Association (“Equity”), founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that represents more than 50,000 actors and stage managers. Equity seeks to foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organiza-tion of performing arts unions. #EquityWorks

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