1985-1986

K On K

Director: Marlene Mancini

Angel Designer: Kathe Berl

Lighting: Greg Macpherson

Costumes: Lydia Hamza

Design Assistant: Tony Mancini

Design Consultant: Lester Polakov

Stage Managers: Mitzi Leone, Heidi Hemingway Bendrat

Assistant Stage Managers: Michelle Payne, Celeste Anderson

Production Electricians: Mary Cary, Rebecca Nestor, Leila Mansury

Sound Technician: Peter Coston

Poster Designer: Robert Fleri

K on K was performed August 22nd – 30th

Villa Capri

Playwright: Daisy Foote

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: Jeanne Kaplan, Marie Spafford, Edith Meeks, Ed Kershen, Cecilia Peck, Jason Zimbler, Patricia McGuigan

Set Designers: Stuart Wurtzel, Patrizia von Brandenstein Lightning Design: Charles G. Stone II Costume Design: Bruce Catt Assistant Stage Manager: Celeste Anderson Assistants to Mr.Stone: Julia Rubin, Zack Zanolli, Kimberly von Brandenstein Production Electricians: Mary Carey, Jon Farber Production Assistants: Mara Riekstins, Gina Devries House Managers: Janet Cassin, Sally Burtenshaw Poster: Louisa R. Tine

Villa Capri was performed July 23rd – August 2nd

The White Pony

An HB Studio Production

Playwright: Donna de Matteo

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: John David Cullum, Nicholas Strouse, Jerry O’ Connell, Karl Taylor, Daniel Jordano, Patrick Dempsey, Jack Gwaltney, Emma Sonnenberg

Set Design: Hal Tine Lightning: Dennis Parichy Costume Design: Anna Hill Johnstone Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Robert Fleri Stage Manager: Mitzi Leone Assistant Stage Manager: Heidi Hemingway Bendrat Production Assistant: Mike Kelley Production Electricians: Abbe Leigh Anderson, Constance Hearn House Managers: Janet Cassin, Sally Burtenshaw Poster: Louisa R. Tine

The White Pony was performed June 15th – 25th

Junior Prom

An HB Studio Production

Playwright: Edward Napier

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: Alexandra Gittes, Corey Parker

Set Designer: Lester Polakov Lighting Designer: Greg Macpherson Costume Designer: Lydia Hamza Dramaturg: Donna De Matteo Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Stage Manager: Mitzi Leone Assistant Stage Managers: Heidi Brennan, Janet Cassin, Heidi Hemingway Bendrat Poster: Robert Fleri Sound: Thomas Moffatt Production Electricians: Matthew Conlon, Leila Mansury, Susan Fowles Sound Technicians: Rebecca Nestor, Vicki Hartshorn

Junior Prom was performed March 1st – 9th

Dead: A Love Story

An HB Ensemble Production

Playwrights: William Styron and John Phillips

Director: Herbert Berghof

Cast: Madeleine Potter, Maggie Pisacane, Lois Wheeler, Kris Andersen, Alexandra Cittes, Edith Meeks, Lisa Sinclair, Kelly Wolf, Jeanne Kaplan, Carol Rosenfeld, Sheryl White, Trudy Steibl, Nancy Reed, Alexander Bernstein, Gareth Williams, Frank Latimore, Al Belfiglio, Frank Geraci, Jayce Bartok, David Louden, Robert Gunarc, Carsch Miles, Brett Fadem, Craig Bacon, Michael Garr, Chuck Presar, Mark Tenore, Mike Devincent, Greg Houston, Carl Hansen, Roger Rignack, James Carruthers, Ed Kershen, Robert Fass, James Lemonedes.

Set Designer: Mina Albergo Costume Designer: Anna Hill Johnstone Lighting Designer: Terry Wuthrich Design Assistants: John Boyt, Lydia Hamz Production Manager: Marlene Mancini Technical Director: Thomas Honeck Stage Managers: Heidi Brennan, Timothy M. Gallagher Assistant Stage Managers: Kimberly Ryan, Pamela Shamir Production Electrician: Scott Kurchak Sound Technician: Dan Wesson Assistant Lighting Designer: Stephen Cowles Slide Operator: Susan M. Fowles Production Assistants: Tanya Viger, Katherine Kullerson

Dead: A Love Story was performed December 7th – 20th of the year 1985.

The Second Shepherd’s Play

Playwright: John Gassner

Director: Marlene Mancini

Cast: Program #1 Mathilda DeDios, Ruomi Lee Hampel, Liz Newman, Matthew Tischler, Eva DePaola, Aurora Kaschner, Cirkl Piper, Monique Ellis, Rachel Kavish, Sara Rice, Heather Haggerty, Jamie Marsh, Jasmine Savio, Daniel B. Wooten JR Program #2 Alexa Angel, Vanessa Flores, Tara La Dore, Jethro Redstone, May Talman, Antonia Cucciara, Yvonnne Flores, Abby Lester, Ghana Smith, Matthew Tishcler, Mathilda Dedios, Sasha Graff, Shelly McCoy, Christopher Sturge, Dana Wright, Judy Zimbler, Monique Ellis, Sarah Krupnick, Makesha Oucre, Maude Sutherland and Jason Zimbler

Program #1 Director: Marlene Mancini Set & Costumes: Kathe Berl Lighting: Rick Butler Technical Director: Steven Cook Musical Director:Hope Albrecht Original Music:Carol Hall Stage Manager: Ann Day Production Electricians: Anton Graham, Kenji Larsen Program#2 Director: Marlene Mancini Set and Costumes: Kathe Berl Lighting: Rick Butler Musical Director: Michelle Grace Assistant Musical Director: Hope Albrecht Costume Assistant: Lydia Hamza Original Music: Carol Hall Production Manager: Brad Waller Technical Director: Steven Cook Stage Manager: Ann Day

The Second Shepherd’s Play was performed December 19th – 30th of the year 1968.

Synopsis:

The play’s first speaker is Coll, who begins his soliloquy complaining of the cold weather. He is “ill happed” (badly covered) no matter the weather, since whether “in storms and tempest” he must still tend to his flock. He also complains about his poverty, which he blames on the rich landowners, “these gentlery-men,” who keep him “so hammed, / Fortaxed, and rammed” (hamstrung or confined, overtaxed, and beaten down) that he cannot escape poverty. Coll continues his list of complaints, which he then directs to the rich landowner’s overseer, who interferes with the work on the farm. Coll uses the word “husbands” at line 33, not to mean a spouse, but in the archaic use of the word, as one who takes care of the land. Coll does not own the land on which he shepherds the sheep, and he feels himself oppressed by the wealthy. He is brought near to “miscarry” or ruin and thus will never be in a position to work his own land. Coll continues to lament his lack of power and that he dare not complain to anyone about how he is treated, since the landowner’s servant has too much power. Coll concludes his soliloquy with the more cheerful expectation that he will soon meet with other shepherds who also share his lonely life.

Gib soon enters the stage. He does not initially see Coll and begins to grumble about the terrible weather. It is so cold and the wind so fierce that his eyes water from the misery. Between the snow and sleet, his shoes have frozen to his feet, and he laments that life “is not all easy.” Gib also whines that his wife nags him. According to Gib, “she cackles” and thus “Woe is him” since “he is in the shackles,” imprisoned in marriage. The rest of Gib’s soliloquy continues to articulate his argument that men would be better off forgoing marriage. Men have no will after marriage, says Gib, because their wives control them, whether “in bower nor in bed.” Gil has learned his lesson about marrying, but he does note that some men marry a second time, some even a third time. At this point, Gil offers a warning and tells young men that there is little point in later saying, “Had I wist” (wished), since that serves no purpose. It is best for young men to “be well ware of wedding.” Gil describes his wife as one who has brows like a pig’s bristle and a bitter look on her face. She also has a loud voice and is as “great as a whale.” Had he known that she has so much “gall” he would have run until “I lost her” before marrying. At this point in Gib’s complaining, Coll finally speaks up and asks that God watch over the audience, who have had to endure Gib’s increasingly vicious harangue about his wife and marriage, in general. When Gib realizes that he is not alone he asks if Coll has seen the third shepherd, Daw.

Daw enters and does not see Coll and Gib. Like the others, he begins his soliloquy with a complaint about the miserable weather. The rain and wind is so fierce that Daw compares it to Noah’s flood. Daw, though, has faith that God will “turn all to good!” The floods afflict everyone, those in town and those who watch over the sheep and cattle in the fields. The weather creates equality among all men. When Daw greets Coll and Gib they tell him that they have already eaten and since he is late, he has missed the evening meal. His reply is that he will work as little as he is paid. This section of the play ends with Coll, Gib, and Daw singing together to cheer themselves.