QUOTIDIAN THEATRE COMPANY

August 6 - 29, 2021All performances at 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda

Resident Theatre of The Writer’s Center

Horton Foote’s

The Day Emily Married

About the PlayIn 1954, during an incredibly productive period of his career, Horton Foote wrote a three-act play titled The Indian Fighters, the story of the Davis family. At the time, Foote was enjoying wide acclaim not only for his television dramas, but also for Broadway productions of The Chase, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Traveling Lady. The future for The Indian Fighters surely seemed bright when it was optioned for a two-year period by the famed Broadway producer Kermit Bloomgarden. All the reasons why this play never reached the stage may never be known, but a look at Mr. Bloomgarden’s activities during this two-year period suggests the producer was simply overextended. During this time span, Mr. Bloomgarden staged The Lark, A View from the Bridge, The Music Man, The Most Happy Fella, and Look Homeward Angel. I assume when the option expired, Mr. Foote had moved on to other projects, and The Indian Fighters simply “fell through the cracks.”

In the early 1990s, while researching Foote’s work, I began a correspondence with the playwright, who proved to be very helpful and encouraging as I continued directing his plays. Mr. Foote granted me access to 14 of his unpublished plays at the Library of Congress; while I found them all wonderful, it was The Indian Fighters which drew me back for a second, third, and countless more readings of this play, which, I later learned, carried the alternate title of The Day Emily Married, which Foote preferred. I eventually built up the courage to ask permission to direct the play, Mr. Foote agreed, and Silver Spring Stage’s Board of Directors quickly accepted this honor. In June of 1997, The Day Emily Married was finally brought to life for the first time at Silver Spring Stage, 43 years after it was written. Pleased with Silver Spring Stage’s production of the play, Foote decided to revise it, and, in August 2004, The Day Emily Married finally made it to New York City, where it opened Primary Stages 20th an-niversary season with Estelle Parsons as Lyd and Foote’s daughter, Hallie, as Emily.

– QTC Artistic Director Jack Sbarbori

Horton Foote’sTHE DAY EMILY MARRIED

SETTINGThe Davis home in Harrison, Texas, early summer 1954

Act I, Scene 1 – Back bedroom and living room of the Davis homeAct I, Scene 2 – Same, a month after the wedding

Act I, Scene 3 – Same, three weeks laterAct II, Scene 1 – Same, 15 minutes later

Act II, Scene 2 – Same, later that evening

CASTAddie, Davis family housekeeper .......................................................................Star BobatoonEmily Davis, only child of Lyd and Lee Davis ..................................Roxanne Fournier StoneLyd Davis, Emily’s mother ...........................................................................Jane Squier BrunsRichard Murray, Emily’s fiancé/husband .................................................. Andrew GreenleafLee Davis, Emily’s father ...................................................................................... John DeckerAlma Nash, Emily’s cousin ..............................................................................Elizabeth DarbyMaud Cleveland, Davis family friend/tenant farmer ........................................ Laura Russell

CREATIVE TEAMDirector .............................................................................................................. Jack SbarboriStage Manager .............................................................................................. Douglas MaryottSet Design .......................................................................................................... Jack SbarboriCostume Design ..................................................................................... Stephanie MumfordLighting Design ...................................................................................................... Don SlaterLighting/Sound Technician .......................................................................Matthew DatcherMaster Carpenter ...................................................................................... Andrew GreenleafSet Construction .............................................Nancy Davis, John Decker, Steve LaRocque........................................................................................ Jack Sbarbori, Bill Strein, Joy WyneGraphic Design ...........................................................................................Virtually DetailedWebsite Design ...................................................................................................David DubovPublicity/Marketing ............................... David Dubov, Stephanie Mumford, Dylan BerryPhotography ..................................................................................................Steve LaRocqueReservations ..................................................................................................Steve LaRocqueBox Office Volunteers ...................... Kathie Mack (Manager), Ann Foster, Amy Reynolds

Special thanks to Edra and Gerald C. Wood, Gabriella Brotherton and The Writer’s Center.

QTC Board Members: Jane Squier Bruns, John Decker, David Dubov, Steve LaRocque, Richard Ley, Stephanie Mumford, Michele Osherow, Amy Reynolds, Alyssa Sanders, Jack Sbarbori, Don Slater

Honorary Board Members/Advisers: Sharon Dodd, Kathie Mack, Laura Russell, Ger-ald C. Wood

The PlayersStar Bobatoon (Addie) is an accomplished attorney, dynamic trainer, award-winning speaker, and author. Her acting career includes several film and television roles, as well as theatrical roles in Los Angeles and New York productions, including For Colored Girls, In Command of the Children, and The Wiz. In the DC area, Star played Eve in Rewiring Eden and Reina in Lazarus in the Capital Fringe Festival. Most recently, she garnered rave reviews for her multiple roles in Dark Horse Theatre Company’s regional premiere of The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later. https://

www.starbobatoon.com

Jane Squier Bruns (Lyd “Belle” Davis), a long time QTC acting company and board member, has been seen in numerous QTC productions. Some of her favorites are Lettice and Lovage (Lettice), The Musical of James Joyce’s The Dead (Aunt Julia), The Cherry Orchard (Lyubov), A Coffin in Egypt (Myrtle Bledsoe), and The Trip to Bountiful (Carrie Watts). Over the years at various venues, she has portrayed a wide range of roles from Shakespeare (Kate in The Taming of the Shrew) to Tennessee Williams (Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie) to Rogers

& Hammerstein (Anna in The King and I) to Stephen Sondheim (Desiree Armfeldt in A Little Night Music). Congratulations and love to Jack and Stephanie on the wonderful success that QTC has been. Jane feels so honored to have a part of it.

Elizabeth Darby (Alma) has been performing in the DC Area since 2003, most recently in The Comedy of Venice with Best Medicine Rep and in Mr. Wolf with Single Carrot Theatre. At QTC, she was seen in Night Seasons and Lettice and Lovage. Check out elizabethdarby.net for more, including original songs!

John Decker (Lee Davis) is a QTC board/acting company member who was previously seen in QTC’s An Irish Twist on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Night Seasons, Lettice and Lovage, The Veil, The Iceman Cometh, Shining City, The Cherry Orchard, The Seafarer, The Trip to Bountiful, Dublin Carol, The Mollusc, Pygmalion, Tomorrow, The Roads to Home, Valentine’s Day, The Weir, and A Doll’s House. Favorite roles elsewhere have included Bohr in Copenhagen at Perisphere Theater, as well as Dysart in Equus and Freddie in Noises Off. John has designed and built

scenery for innumerable local theatre productions.

Andrew Greenleaf (Richard Murray) returns to QTC having appeared in A Trip to Bountiful, While We Have the Light, and The Rocking Chair. He has acted in over 50 shows in the DMV including The Death of Meyerhold (M9) and Take Me Out (Toddy u/s) at Studio Theatre. Other favorite roles comprise Hamlet in Hamlet, Richard in Richard III, Antipholus of Syracuse in The Comedy of Errors, Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire, Lee in True West, Alan in God of Carnage, Andy in Complete Works of W. Shakespeare, Tom in Dinner with Friends, John in Coyote on a

Fence, Gordon in Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Starbuck in The Rainmaker, Chief Bromden in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Peter in The Pavilion, and Howie in Rabbit Hole.As a director, he has led five Shakespeare productions including Silver Spring Stage’s Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo & Juliet as well as several award-winning one-act plays. A noted set designer and master carpenter, he has received 36 WATCH nominations and 6 awards for set design and construction including Other Desert Cities, Bedroom Farce, The Mousetrap, On the Razzle, Coyote on a Fence, and Rabbit Hole. He is a proud graduate of the Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory and enjoys entertaining his wife and four children at home (although they may not always agree with his antics). He is thankful for this opportunity to share in QTC’s final show and to work with such an exceptional cast. Love to AFJAMSEFAG.

Laura Russell (Maud Cleveland) was last seen at QTC in dual roles, playing Faery Queen Uema and Lady Montbrook in QTC’s An Irish Twist on A Midsummer Night’s Dream. At QTC, Laura has also appeared in leading or featured roles in Night Seasons, A Lesson from Aloes, Hedda Gabler, Faith Healer, Dancing at Lughnasa, Shining City, The Cherry Orchard, The Trip to Bountiful, Dublin Carol, and The Mollusc. Other favorite roles include Alice More in A Man for All Seasons at NextStop Theatre Company, Maggie in Red Herring at Silver Spring Stage, and Mrs. Frank in

The Diary of Anne Frank at Reston Community Players.

Roxanne Fournier Stone (Emily Davis) makes her QTC debut with Emily. She hails from New Orleans and is an actor, director, and theatre educator. Favorite roles include Margie Walsh in Good People, Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Kate in Taming of the Shrew, and Billie in Born Yesterday. Her focus in the last two decades has been on directing, including award-winning productions of Deathtrap, Stones in His Pockets, Proof, and The Shawl among many others. She has created two theatre companies, including the musical theatre program at Mary of

Nazareth School, soon to enter its pandemic-delayed third season. Roxanne holds an MFA degree from the LSU Professional Actor Training Program.

Jack Sbarbori (Director/Set Designer) returns to The Day Emily Married almost 25 years after having directed and designed the set for the DC-area premiere of the play in 1997. Since that time, Jack has served as QTC’s artistic director after co-founding the theatre with his wife, Stephanie Mumford. Ardent fans of Horton Foote’s work, Jack and Steph made it one of QTC’s missions to stage as many of Foote’s plays as possible. To date, Jack has directed Foote’s A Coffin in Egypt, Blind Date, Midnight Caller, Night Seasons, Talking Pictures, The Beginning of Summer,

The Carpetbagger’s Children (twice), The Last of the Thorntons, The Roads to Home, The Trip to Bountiful, Valentine’s Day, Young Man from Atlanta, and Foote’s adaptation of William Faulkner’s Tomorrow. While working on The Weir in 2004, Jack and Steph became enchanted by Conor McPherson’s plays, as well, and have sought to produce the canon of his work along side that of Foote’s and Anton Chekhov’s at QTC ever since. Jack has directed and designed sets for McPherson’s The Weir, The Seafarer, Port Authority (twice), Dublin Carol, Shining City, The Birds, This Lime Tree Bower, The Veil, The Night Alive, and St Nicholas. DC Theatre Scene (DCTS) has recognized Jack as one of the best interpreters of McPherson plays in the DC area. DCTS’s Roy Maurer in his 2014 review of The Veil wrote “…distinction is due the modest playhouse on Walsh Street for arranging the U.S. premiere of The Veil right in our own Bethesda. Quotidian has now presented seven of Conor McPherson’s works, including three area premieres, a tremendous credit to the local theater scene.”

Don Slater (QTC Resident Lighting Designer) studied technical theatre with a concentration in lighting at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been QTC’s resident lighting designer for over 20 years. Some notable productions with QTC include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, The Iceman Cometh, Doubt, The Lady with the Little Dog, and Port Authority. He has worked with a number of other companies in the DMV and in venues ranging from DCAC to Wolf Trap. Away from the stage, Don and his wife, Tina, are community activists, art supporters,

and residents of Silver Spring. Among their activism issues are transit, walkability, land use, and mental health. By day, Tina is an art teacher and Don is an aerospace engineer.

Professor Gerald Wood (Moderator) is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of English from Carson-Newman University. He has written four books on Horton Foote, including Horton Foote and the Theater of Intimacy, which was nominated for the George Jean Nathan and C. Hugh Holman Awards. His Conor McPherson: Imagining Mischief was published by the Liffey Press (Dublin, Ireland, 2003). Professor Wood also edited a casebook on Neil LaBute for Routledge Press. His biography Smoky Joe Wood: The Biography of a Baseball Legend (Nebraska, 2013) won the

Seymour Medal as the best baseball history book of 2014. QTC is extremely grateful to Jerry and his lovely wife, Edra, for making the trek to D.C. several times over the years to grace QTC’s stage with Jerry’s wealth of expertise on two of QTC’s cornerstone playwrights, Foote and McPherson.

Quotidian Theatre is forever grateful to its many donors at every level!

QTC’s production of The Day Emily Married is made possible due to generous financial gifts from Linda Bartash & Bitco Corporation, Bobbie & Ralph Crafts, Meg & John Hauge, and by the Hekimian family’s The Phase Foundation.

The Day Emily Married is dedicated with love to Linda Bartash, with whom Quotidian company members worked closely at Silver Spring Stage (SSS) before QTC was founded. Linda even assisted with lights for the original 1997 staging of The Day Emily Married at SSS. Prior to her June 30, 2020 death from covid-19, Linda arranged for her former employer, Bitco Corporation, to match her $500 donation to QTC. Per her husband and fellow actor,

Cecil Thompson, Linda grew up as a musician in a musical family. Cecil said Linda’s love of music was kindled by her own mother and seven aunts, who played in the Schmitz Sisters Family Orchestra in the 1930s and ’40s. Bartash’s own theatrical career included stints as an actor, a stage director, a set designer and a lighting designer. She worked with and donated to local theaters including Quotidian Theater Company, Washington Stage Guild, Synetic Theater, Silver Spring Stage, Laurel Mill Playhouse, Rockville Community Theater, and Greenbelt Arts Center. In the early 1980s, she was also co-owner of a costume shop, the Theater Depot, which once made 1,000 hog noses for the team then known as the Washington Redskins. Linda possessed a distinctive, full-bodied laugh always making an actor feel they had an appreciative friend when she was in the audience. Here’s to you, Linda! We miss you greatly.

Bobbie and Ralph Crafts have invested generously and deeply in QTC since Bobbie’s days as a board/company member in the early 2000s. Bobbie recalls her performances at QTC with pride and fondness. She played Aunt Kate in the musical of James Joyce’s The Dead, but has a special place in her heart for the roles she performed in Horton Foote’s Valentine’s Day and The Carpetbagger’s Children. Bobbie and Ralph currently live in Marshall,

Virginia, where Ralph, a former Marine jet pilot, has a woodworking shop, and maintains their seventy-three acres that include a working greenhouse. Having “retired” from the world of theatre, Bobbie has realized her dream of running a horse rescue farm/sanctuary, Horse Power Helps.

The Phase Foundation run by the Hekimian family has made significant financial grants to QTC over the last several years making productions like The Lady with the Little Dog, Night Seasons, An Irish Twist on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Mollusc possible. The Phase Foundation was founded in 1989 by the late Dr. Norris Hekimian and his wife, Betty, who have been enthusiastic supporters and benefactors of theatres in the D.C. area for decades. Norris established a successful telecommunications instrumentation company in his home basement, which has been awarded over 20 patents. QTC has enjoyed marking Betty’s August birthday with her in recent years.

Global LPG Partnership CFO John Hauge and his wife, THE Artist Agency model Meg Hauge, are well known for their philanthropy to DC-area theatres large and small. In addition to QTC, they have invested generously in the Shakespeare Theatre Company--where they co-produced Man of La Mancha in 2016--Round House Theatre, Studio Theatre, Synetic Theatre, and numerous others. John has also raised

funding for, and served as president of the board of, the Russian Chamber Art Society, dedicated to Russian chamber vocal music rarely performed in the U.S.

(Donations from January 2019 through late May 2021. Due to limited space, we were unable to list all the 2019-20 subscribers who donated the value of their Ghosts tickets to QTC during the pandemic lockdown. We are, however, most

thankful for those donations which helped sustain QTC during that time.)

Corporate and Foundation Grants up to $10,000 Bitco Corporation • Greater Washington Community Foundation

CF Consulting Group, Inc. • The Phase Foundation • Your Fund

Angel, gift of $15,000 or moreBobbie Scheide & Ralph Crafts in honor of Horse Power Helps Farm

Stephanie Mumford & Jack Sbarbori in memory of Lois Hempel

Producer, gift of $1,000 or more Anonymous • Steven Daniel • Meg & John Hauge • Richard Ley • Dorothy Rogers

Tina & Don Slater • Marsha Swiss & Ronald Costell • Margot Zimmerman

Director, gift of $500 or more Donald Adams & Ellen Maland • John Decker • David Dubov • Michael & Regine Feuer

Joan Hekimian • Evelyn & Bernard O’Brien • Alyssa Sanders • Kathleen Smith

Star, gift of $250 or more Richard M. Cooper & Judy Areen • Dr. Rose Julian & Edward Berk • Wendy Clark & Kim Bruno

• Dr. Maria Dufau Catt • Coralie Farlee • Carole & Robert Fontenrose • Dianne Madden & Ed Harrington • Joseph Inbar • Evelyn & John Jemionek • Deanna & Thomas Marcum •

Leah Mazade • Michele Osherow • Anita & Darrel Parke • Heather & Anton Pierce • Kathryn Polansky • Kathleen Esposito & Myrlon Pressly • William Puppa • Dian & Stephen Seidel • Bill Strein • Amy Snyder • Jeanette & Robert Sutherland • Terry Michael Wight • Carole &

Robert Winter • Edra & Gerald Wood • Mary Ann Wren • Dan & Scott Zimmerman

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