henrik ibsen’s pillars of the...

NOVEMBER 23, 24, 25 & NOVEMBER 30 and

DECEMBER 1, 2, 2012

PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY. This version was first performed in the Lyttelton auditorium of the National Theatre, London on 1st November, 2005.

PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY is presented by special arrangement withThe Agency (London) Ltd, 24 Pottery Lane, London W11 4LZ

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PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY

DIRECTED BY DANIELLE DWYER, CJ

Henrik Ibsen’s

A new version by Samuel Adamson

2 S T O R Y I M A G I N A T I O N A U T H E N T I C I T Y

A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends,

I had the good fortune of seeing Pillars of the Community several years ago in London with Damian Lewis as Karsten Bernick. This tight knit world of characters Ibsen created captured me immediately. The fierce weapons of gossip and criticism; the protection of reputation bordering on obsession; and the lonely voices crying for a world without judgment and stigma. At the helm of this community, hiding the truth of his past on the catwalk of his empire, is Karsten Bernick. High above everyone, keeping secrets, making deals and planning great things for his community, Karsten is isolated and alone in his brilliance and lies. Only two people know the truth he hides and thankfully for him, they are in America far from the rocky shores of Norway.

But, Ibsen being the dramatist he is, has the “Americans” arrive midway through Act 1 and threaten to destroy Karsten’s world; “one anxious moment, one stray word, and you will lose everything,” these words haunt Karsten and now this pillar of the community must grapple with what he has hidden for years. Will he let his community know all of him?

To lead and to be human at the same time takes great character and strength. To lead from a place of humility requires acceptance and knowledge of your self. To live under this kind of pressure and scrutiny, tests the very fiber of a person’s character. It also asks of those of us in the community—what we require of our leaders, do we require of ourselves?

Ibsen, no stranger to scrutiny or secrets knows the burden these leave on the human psyche and soul. What kind of holes they can burn into a person, stealing their humanity and hope. Rippling through Ibsen’s text is the theme from Apollo’s Temple at Delphi – “Know Thyself.” It is with this perspective Ibsen pleads in his writing for honesty and equality in all relationships—providing hope for a future without secret or lies, no matter who you are in the community.

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Henrik Ibsen’s


THE CAST

Karsten Bernick, a shipbuilder Chris KanagaBetty Bernick, his wife Rachel McKendreeOlaf, their son Lily SchumanMarta Bernick, Bernick’s sister Kate ShannonJohan Tønnesen, Betty’s younger brother Peter HaigLona Hessel, Betty’s elder half-sister Sr. Danielle DwyerHilmar Tønnesen, Betty’s cousin Br. Stephen VelieRørlund, a school master Brad LussierDina Dorf, a young girl living in Bernick’s house Stephanie HaigKnap, Bernick’s clerk Kyle NormanAune, foreman of Bernick’s shipyard Brad LussierMrs. Rummel, a neighbor Lexa HaleMrs. Holt, wife of the local postmaster Ellen OrtolaniMrs. Lynge, wife of the local doctor Sr. Pheonix CatlinRummel, Vigeland, Sandstad, merchants Kyle Norman, Br. Matthew Gillis, Br. Anthony KanagaHilda, Netta, Townspeople, servants Ellen Ortolani, Sr. Pheonix Catlin, Lexa Hale, Br. Matthew Gillis, Br. Anthony Kanaga, Sr. Seana Shannon

THE PLACE: Three days in Karsten Bernick’s house in a small Norwegian seaport. THE TIME: 1870’s

There will be a 15 minute intermission between Acts I and II.

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In order to protect the professional integrity of Elements Theatre Company,

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STAFF FOR


Director Sr. Danielle Dwyer

Technical Director Chris Kanaga

Production Stage Manager Sr. Mercy Minor

Costume Designer Gail Gibson, Sharon Tingley

CostumeConstruction Michelle Rich, Anne Swidrak, Gail Gibson, Carol Showalter, Treva Whichard, Suzanne Inomata, Jackie Hempel, Jill Minster, Karlene Albro, Roberta VelieMakeup/Hair Sandy Spatzeck-Olsen, Amy Mitchell, Anna Mitchell, Sheryle Snure, Charity Spatzeck-Olsen, Blair Tingley

Properties Sr. Gabriella Guyer

Lighting Designer Steve Witter

Lighting Tech Ellen Ortolani, Br. Stephen Velie, Tom Lynch, Jeremy Haig, Sarah Hale, Lindsey Kanaga

Lighting Consultant Greg Norgeot

Sound Dan Pfeiffer, Br. Timothy Pehta

Set Design Hans Spatzeck-Olsen, Karlene Albro, Jennifer Lynch

Construction/Venue Consultant Rick Pugsley

Set Construction Steve Minster, Jesse Haig, Dave Bushnell, Peter Shannon, Br. Dan Parnell, Dick Cole, Peter Haig, Jeremy Haig, Matt Andre, Tom Lynch, Br. Samuel Pipher, Hans Spatzeck-Olsen, Kyle Norman

Set Painters Br. Mark Bushnell, Lexa Hale, Sr. Katherine Mary Hamilton, Dan Ford, Roger Snure, Br. Abraham Henderson, Stephanie Haig, Dick Cole, Barb Cole

Music Rick Pugsley, Dan Pfeiffer, Sr. Seana Shannon

Venue Master Br. Joel Sweet

Stage Crew Br. Matthew Gillis, Br. Anthony Kanaga Sr. Seana Shannon


ELEMENTS THEATRE COMPANY ADMINISTRATION

Artistic Director Sr. Danielle DwyerAssistant Director Chris KanagaDramaturg Brad LussierAdministration Sr. Seana ShannonBooking Agent Laura McKendree

We acknowledge musical excerpts from:

St. Paul’s Suite for Strings, Op. 29, No. 2 – Jig: Vivace, Gustav HolstThe Promise of Living, Aaron CoplandFour Symphonic Dances – Allegro moderato e marcato in G, Edvard GriegJupiter from The Planets, Op, 32, H. 125, Gustav HolstPrelude from The Markopoulos Case, JW 1/10, Leos JanacekSix Lyric Pieces (VIII), Op. 65 –Wedding-day at Troldhaugen, Edvard GriegSolveig’s Song from Peer Gynt, Edvard GriegFour Symphonic Dances – Allegretto grazioso in A, Edvard GriegBilly’s Death from Billy the Kid, Aaron CoplandSix Lyric Pieces (III), Op. 43 – Solitary Traveller, Edvard GriegJohn Henry, Aaron CoplandSerenade for Strings in E, Op. 22 – Tempo di valse, Antonin DvorakCello Sonata in A minor, Op. 36 – Andante molto tranquillo, Edvard Grieg3 Gymnopedies – Lent et grave, Erik SatieHolberg Suite, Op. 40 – Praeludium, Edvard GriegPiano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 – Adagio, Edvard GriegImprovisata on Norwegian Folk Tunes, Op. 29 – Andante, Edvard GriegSicilienne, for cello and piano, Op. 78, Gabriel FaureSerenade for strings, Op. 11 – Preludium, Dag Wiren

All excerpts used with permission from BMI and ASCAP.

We would like to thank the following companies for kindly donating items towards the set:

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ABOUT THE COMPANY

Elements Theatre CompanySince primitive man uttered his first “ugh,” humans have asked: who am I, how did I get here, and where am I going. Some have tried to answer or explore those questions through a particular brand of storytelling called “theatre.” We, at Elements Theatre Company explore those answers, and render the literature of the theatre with imagination and integrity. Elements is a resident ensemble dedicated to exploring the vitality of the word and the deepest truths present in the text. Through dramatic storytelling and imaginative stagecraft, Elements approaches both classic and modern works with honesty and authenticity. The transformative work to become the text—to inhabit another world and live another’s life—is both our pleasure and privilege. We believe in the vitality of the word, and the community born between playwright, actor and audience. We seek to be available to that divine moment when inspiration, faithfulness, hard work, and love merge, and transport us beyond the familiar into something new.

Members of Elements Theatre Company have trained with teachers from Shakespeare & Company, Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and London’s National Theatre. The company has studied with Patsy Rodenberg, Joanna Weir-Ouston, Glynn MacDonald and Sue Lefton, and their voice training holds specific emphasis in the Linklater method. The company spent February 2009 in New York City studying voice, improvisation, Shakespeare, and the Michael Chekhov technique with Louis Colaianni, Jane Nichols, Daniela Varon and Lenard Petit. In August of 2012, Elements traveled to Chicago to study stage combat, improvisation, voice, Feldenkrais and Henrik Ibsen with Christine Adaire, Patrice Eggleston, Kestutis Nakas, Nick Sandys-Pullin and Rachel Slavick.

Founded in 1992, Elements Theatre Company performs year-round at Paraclete House, and in the Church of the Transfiguration on Cape Cod in Orleans, Massachusetts. They tour regularly, presenting workshops and performing at conferences, schools and churches.

Danielle Dwyer, CJ • Artistic Director Co-Founder of Elements Theatre Co. Since 1992, Sr. Danielle Dwyer has been earning accolades from critics and audiences alike for her commanding presence and commitment as both an actor and director with Elements. She earned her Master of Arts Degree from England’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and the University of London. She trained in voice, acting, and writing with Joanna Weir at Central School of Speech and Drama (London, England), David Male of Cambridge University (Cambridge, England), and Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA). Sr. Danielle’s directing experience ranges from Neil Simon’s Rumors to Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windemere’s Fan, and Anton Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard. She has also co-directed the world premieres of A Quest for Honor: The Wind Opera, the opera Pilgrim’s Progress by Ralph Vaughan Williams (receiving excellent


review from The Boston Globe) and the Instrumental Theatre:in motion production, The Fall and Rise of the Phoenix in South Africa in September 2011.

She has authored several performance pieces, including short stories and plays, video scripts, poetic monologues, and narratives for worship and meditation. An actress of critical acclaim, recent roles have included: Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Madam Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Chris Gorman in Rumors, Mrs. Erlynne in Lady Windermere’s Fan, Eleanor in The Lion in Winter, Mephistopheles in Doctor Faustus, Queen Elizabeth in Richard III, the title role in Everyman, and Lettice Douffet in Lettice and Lovage. Christopher Kanaga • Assistant Director, Technical Director2012 marks Chris’s tenth year with Elements. In that time, his experiences as a performer and technical director have taken him from football fields across Massachusetts, to opera houses in South Korea and South Africa, to Elements Theatre Company’s own performance spaces in Paraclete House and the Church of the Transfiguration on Cape Cod. Highlights of his roles include Henry II in The Lion in Winter, Feste in Twelfth Night, Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard, and Lord Windermere in Lady Windermere’s Fan. In addition to acting, Chris has studied liturgical art and architecture throughout western Europe, and has managed and coordinated international artists and artisans in major architectural art installations of fresco, mosaic, and bronze and stone sculpture for the Church of the Transfiguration. Through his experience, Chris gained proficient skill in set design and construction for the performing arts. Chris was Set Director for the highly praised production of the opera Pilgrim’s Progress by Vaughan Williams. Since 2006, when he’s not on-stage, Chris serves as technical director for Spirit of America Band which has included the world-premiere of A Quest for Honor: The Wind Opera in S. Korea, Exploration! in the U.S. and South Africa; and the world-premiere of the Instrumental Theatre:in motion production, The Fall and Rise of the Phoenix in South Africa in September 2011. As Assistant Director for Elements, Chris brings his passion for text and experience in stagecraft to each new production, working alongside the director to shape an authentic performance of each playwright’s work.

Brad Lussier • DramaturgBrad made his Elements debut in 2001 and since then his energetic acting has been seen in roles such as Leonid Gayev in The Cherry Orchard, Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter, Faustus in The Tragical History of Dr.Faustus, and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night. Brad earned his AB in English and American Literature from Brown University. He also studied Creative Dramatics for Children at Roger Williams University, and made extensive studies of psychology, earning a Doctorate in Pastoral Counseling from Boston University. His knowledge and experience benefit the company in his role as Dramaturg: consideration of the integrity of the text, familiarity with various periods and styles, sensitivity to subtext, and attention to accuracy of detail.


ABOUT PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY

The Playwright

Although Henrik Ibsen is known as the foremost dramatist of Norway, it is doubtful whether he had any Norwegian blood in his veins. His great-great-grandfather, Peter Ibsen, was a Danish sea captain who settled at Bergen and married a German. Of the three succeeding Ibsens, one married a Scotch woman; two married Germans. Ibsen’s father married the daughter

of a wealthy German merchant. Nonetheless, Ibsen was always known to be intensely Norse in his writings and sympathies.

Ibsen’s tremendous impact on the course of western drama is considered second only to that of Shakespeare. The best of his plays portray the real-life problems of individuals through the genius he brings to the use of dialogue and symbols.

Ibsen was born on March 20, 1828, in Skien, Norway, a town of about 3,000. When Ibsen was eight, his father’s business failed and shattered his family’s hopes of properly preparing Ibsen for admission to medical school. Ibsen sailed from home at age fifteen to spend six years as a pharmacist’s assistant in Grimstad, Norway, where he wrote his first play. In 1850 he moved to Christiania (Oslo), Norway, to continue to prepare for the examinations which would permit him to pursue a career in medicine. In 1851 he became assistant stage manager of a new theater in Bergen, Norway, where he was required to write one new play a year. His early plays, written in verse, were mostly unsuccessful. Nonetheless, Ibsen’s time in Bergen gained him valuable theater experience.

Ibsen returned to Christiania in 1857, suffering through a period during which his plays failed or were rejected, causing him to fall into debt. He left Norway in 1864 and spent the next twenty-seven years in Italy and Germany. During this time he changed not only his appearance, but also his habits, and even his handwriting. Becoming distant and secretive, he seemed desperate to protect himself from the real and imagined hostility of others.

Responding to the demands of critics that literature should address current problems of the day, Ibsen developed a form in which social and philosophical matters could be addressed using stories about everyday life. While Ibsen did not invent the realistic or social reform play, he is credited with perfecting the form. As a result, most critics acclaim him as the most famous dramatist of the nineteenth century.


A man of intensely democratic ideas, Ibsen rebelled against the restraints of his bourgeois society. Although he was sometimes willing to behave, he refused to be required by society to do so. The pressure of public sentiment was another enemy that drew his ire. He felt that particular pressure was no less than tyranny.

Ibsen returned to Norway in 1891 as a literary hero. The man who left as a frustrated artist returned as an internationally known playwright. Although for much of his life Ibsen had lived an almost reclusive existence, he enjoyed the notoriety that the people in Christiania accorded him during his later years. Sadly, beginning in 1900 he suffered a number of strokes which left him partially paralyzed. He remained in Norway until his death in 1906.

H E N R I K I B S E N T I M E L I N E

1828—Born on March 20th to Knud and Marichen Ibsen in the small Norwegian trading town of Skien.

1834—Ibsen’s father, once a prosperous merchant, falls into financial ruin. The shame and misery of his family’s circumstances eventually cause Henrik to leave Skien.

1844—Becomes a pharmacist’s assistant in the town of Grimstad, thought by many to be the port setting for Pillars of the Community.

1846—An illegitimate son, Hans Jacob, is born to Ibsen and maid Else Sophie Jensdatter Birkedalen, who is ten years his senior. Ibsen pays child support for over fifteen years, but reportedly meets Hans Jacob only once in 1892.

1851—Contracts with Bergen’s Norwegian Theater, and writes several early plays. For six years, Ibsen works with actors, stage-manages, and designs sets and costumes.

1852—Received a travel grant and went abroad for the first time. Sees his first performances of Shakespeare in Copenhagen and Dresden.

1857—Appointed artistic director, Norwegian Theater of Christiana (Oslo). 1858—Marries Suzanne Daae Thoresen. 1859—First son, Sigurd, born.1864—Begins a twenty-seven-year period of self-imposed exile in Italy and

Germany.1880—A Doll’s House premieres in Stockholm. Later productions in Christiana

and Bergen receive controversial critical acclaim. 1891—Returns to Norway for a visit, but lives there for the rest of his life.1891—Ghosts opens in London.1893—The Master Builder premieres in Christiana.


1899—Writes his final play, When We Dead Awaken, which marks his return to verse drama after more than thirty years of writing plays in prose.

1900—Suffers a stroke, which leaves the right side of his body partially paralyzed. A second stroke, the next year, renders him almost unable to walk.

1906—Dies on May 23rd at the age of 78. Fiery and defiant to the end, Ibsen’s last word is the Norwegian tvertimod (“to the contrary”).

C H R O N O L O G Y O F I B S E N P L A Y S

1850 Catiline 1850 The Warrior’s Barrow (also known as The Burial Mound) 1851 Norma 1852 St. John’s Eve 1853 Lady Inger of Ostraat 1855 The Feast at Solhaug 1856 Olaf Liljekrans 1857 The Vikings at Helgeland 1862 Love’s Comedy 1863 The Pretenders 1866 Brand 1867 Peer Gynt 1869 The League of Youth 1873 Emperor and Galilean 1877 Pillars of the Community 1879 A Doll’s House1881 Ghosts 1882 An Enemy of the People 1884 The Wild Duck 1886 Rosmersholm 1888 The Lady from the Sea 1890 Hedda Gabler 1892 The Master Builder 1894 Little Eyolf 1896 John Gabriel Borkman 1899 When We Dead Awaken


Pillars of the Community—Synopsis

The young Karsten Bernick, saddled suddenly with the responsibility of saving the House of Bernick (and his town) from financial ruin, begins his career with a terrible lie. Leaving behind his love for Lona Hessel, he proposes to her half-sister Betty Tønnesen in order to secure her large dowry. Faced with the pressures of a failing shipyard and an impending marriage to a woman he does not love, Bernick enters into an affair with an actress of the town. When her drunken husband surprises them by pounding on her locked

door, young Bernick jumps out of the window, and quickly engages his willing friend, Johan Tønnesen, Betty’s brother, to take the blame.

Johan, together with his half-sister Lona, leaves to find his fortune in America. Unbeknownst to Johan, young Bernick acquiesces to the rumors circulating in the town that blame Johan for also robbing from the Bernick cashbox and stealing a large sum of money on his way out of town.

At the opening of the play, Bernick, the richest, most powerful and respected citizen of the community, is at the height of his career. He is held up as the model of an ideal father and husband, a man known for his devotion to public service, and in all ways, a pillar of the community. His wife, Betty, regularly entertains the most influential women in town at meetings of Society for the Morally Wounded, a charity that enjoys gossip as much as they enjoy the sewing that gives them a reason for meeting. From them we learn of the plight of Dina Dorf, the orphaned daughter of the actress, with whom Johan was supposedly involved. Dina has been raised in Bernick’s home by Marta, Bernick’s maiden sister. Presiding over each of the charity’s meetings is the town’s schoolmaster, Mr. Rørlund, a pious, serious-minded man, who has an exceptional suspicion and resistance to influences from America.

At the end of the first act, Lona Hessel arrives from America with Johan to disrupt this suffocating scenario of small-town parochialism, promising to introduce to the Bernick household, “great gusts of fresh air.” With Johan back in town after fifteen years, Bernick fears ruin if the lies of his past come to the surface. He is most concerned that his current machinations to bring a railway line to town, rife with secrets and hidden schemes for profit, will be exposed.

Under the pressure of the truth brought by the visitors from America, Bernick’s kingdom begins to crack. We begin to see his true colors, those of a man who nags and demeans his wife, bullies and beats their teenage son, and eventually goes so far as to jeopardize lives if his business interests are threatened or his lies are exposed. He sends the Indian Girl, an American ship known to be unseaworthy, on a voyage, even though he is warned by one of his most reliable workers that the ship is sure to go down. To make things worse, Johan announces


plans to marry Dina Dorf, and threatens to expose all if Bernick will not clear his name. When Bernick refuses, Johan tells him he is going back to America to settle his affairs there and will return to undo Bernick and marry Dina.

Lona is the only one who sees the moral abyss Bernick faces, but nothing she can do is able to dissuade him from the path that lie after lie has paved for him. With the whole town feting him at his door, complete with fireworks, gifts, speeches, and ovations, Bernick is not only under tremendous public pressure but also faces imminent personal loss—and the man must decide what he will reveal and who he will become.

The PlayIbsen the realist chose his characters, circumstances,

and issues from his real life experience. One need look no farther than his birthplace of Skien and the port of Grimstad where he worked for a time as a pharmacist’s assistant. In both places the values he observed and learned as a boy and a young man returned in the characters and drama of Pillars of the Community. For example, in Grimstad he knew Morten Smith-Petersen, a wealthy entrepreneur who foreclosed on a failing shipyard and later made it into a success. He often heard of “coffin ships” that sailed under

foreign flags, ships that were often highly insured, and thus, left un-maintained and un-repaired by their wealthy owners. He remembered well the pietistic sentiments present in the religion in which he was trained as a boy in Skien. He remembered the plans launched in Grimstad to build a railway line inland to the town of Rise, a railway that was proposed just a few years before Pillars of the Community was written.

But more than these, Ibsen also knew human nature and human society. He once said, “Our whole bourgeois society rests upon a soil teeming with the pestilence of lies.” Long before Freud began publishing his psychological case studies, Ibsen had been creating characters of intense realism whose behavior was directly connected not to the stories they told, but to the stories they withheld; stories whose revelation would unleash a power that would threaten to undo not only individual lives, but also the social structure of whole communities. Few since his time has exhibited a greater talent for creating such recognizable people and unleashing secrets so collectively held by his characters and audiences alike.

About the AdapterSamuel Adamson is a playwright and screenwriter from Australia who has

lived and worked in England since 1991. His debut play was Clocks and Whistles


performed at the Bush Theatre, London in 1996. This led him to becoming the Pearson Writer in Residence at the Bush Theatre from 1997-98. He has also taught Theatre Studies at Duke University, North Carolina. Amongst his numerous original plays and adaptations are two of Henrik Ibsen’s plays: A Doll’s House and Pillars of the Community. His adaptation of Pillars was written for the Royal National Theatre, London. The production was performed in 2005 under the direction of Marianne Elliott and starred Damian Lewis and Lesley Manville.

About the MusicThe goal of the music of this play is to have present in instrument and

sound the characters and countries that you are about to see portrayed on stage. In Pillars of the Community you see the juxtaposition of industry and home life; truth and lies; what is spoken and left unspoken by each character. Some of the music chosen represents the ambitious side of Bernick, the aggressive side of Johan and the feisty side of Lona as heard in Holst’s Jupiter, Janacek’s Overture to Vec Makropulos, and Grieg’s Wedding-day at Troldhaugen. Yet at the same time each of these characters has a more vulnerable face that is not so easily shown but may be heard in some of this music.

Our play takes place in a Norwegian coastal town and to capture the flavor and tunes of Norway we turn to one of the best known composers of that country, Edvard Grieg. As Ibsen was writing Pillars of the Community, Norway’s music was flourishing in what is known as the Golden Age of Norwegian Music—a time when nationalism was high and folk tunes and pride of country were being melded into the classical music that was being composed. As one of the most prominent composers of this time, Grieg drew his inspiration from Norwegian folk music and the spirit of the land and its people can be heard in his music. The vast, open and sometimes lonely landscapes of Norway can be seen depicted through the sounds of Grieg’s Solitary Traveller and the Adagio movement from his Piano Concerto in A minor. Grieg was also personally acquainted with Ibsen, having composed the incidental music to his play Peer Gynt, which premiered in Norway in 1876, and also wrote a set of songs using the text from some of Ibsen’s poetry. After much success, Ibsen’s story of Peer Gynt went on to be adapted as an opera by German composer Werner Egk and also a ballet with music composed by Alfred Schnittke. It is only fitting then, with the collaborative history of Edvard Grieg and Henrik Ibsen that we have selections of Grieg’s compositions present throughout this play.

Entering into this Norwegian scene on stage are those who have been living in a young America and who better than Aaron Copland could describe in music the spirit of the American frontier? His music brings to mind the pioneer courage of the American west, the rolling country and the “land of opportunity” that drew immigrants from all over the world. The harmonies of his music, however, also capture the simpler and more vulnerable side of the American people and


our American characters and such is the case with two of the selections we have chosen: The Promise of Living and Billy’s Death.

Throughout the play, you will also hear the sounds of boats, water, the waves, a ship’s bell tolling, and even the occasional seagull. These auditory elements represent the shipping industry—the lifeblood of the Bernick family shipyard. Ships play an integral role in this story, and almost every character interacts with them and their effect on the town’s economy and history.

Through the sounds that you hear we hope to paint the picture of these two countries and the characters that have become who they are by reason of their own choices and the societies or communities that surround them, and the importance of their backgrounds in the telling of this story. n

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LussierMr. and Mrs. Thomas LynchMr. and Mrs. J. B. MackeyMr. and Mrs. Kenneth MacNeilMcDonnell Mechanical Services, Inc.Ms. Kathleen McNeilMr. and Mrs. James S. MeyerMr. and Mrs. David MinsterMr. and Mrs. Stephen MinsterFr. and Mrs. Gordon MintzMr. Andrew MitchellMr. Alfred A. MooreMrs. Betty MurrayNew York Salisbury HotelMr. and Mrs. George D. NormanMr. and Mrs. Kyle NormanParaclete PressPlast-ProDr. and Mrs. Robert RichMr. and Mrs. Wayne D. SchumanMr. and Mrs. John H. ShackelfordSKB CorporationMrs. Dean SmithMr. and Mrs. Hans Spatzeck-OlsenMr. and Mrs. Soren Spatzeck-OlsenMr. and Mrs. Phil StambaughStop And Shop Supermarket Co.Mr. and Mrs. Todd Sutherland

Sumas Mountain PotteryThe Luzerne FoundationThomas Meloy FoundationMrs. Dee TingleyTurtle Hill VillasThe Rev. and Mrs. Paul V. VargaDr. and Mrs. William M. VelieVilla Le BaroneWorld Wood TradingMs. Joanne WuschkeZildjian

Sponsor - ($500.00 + )4imprintsMs. Rebecca AllenMr. Geoff AntoineAurora Textile FinishingMr. and Mrs. Harold T. Bartz, Jr.Mr. Richard CarpenterMs. Percilla A. L. ChappellMr. and Mrs. William K. ChristopherMr. and Mrs. David ClarendonCapt. Dick ClarkMrs. Bernadette CollinsMr. Logan W. CoxMrs. Homer E. DowdyMr. and Mrs. E. Bruce DunnMrs. Mary Lou EhrgottMr. Mike EscedyMr. and Mrs. Nelson FairbanksMr. Brian W. FarnsworthThe Rev. and Mrs. Charles

FarnsworthCapt. and Mrs. Donald S. FinlayFitness RevolutionMr. and Mrs. John FlemingFocalpoint Studio, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth FoxMrs. John D. FullertonH. H. Snow & Sons, Inc.Mr. Jeremy HaigMr. and Mrs. John E. HamersmaMr. and Mrs. Edward Harrow


The Rev. and Mrs. John HendersonHenry HangerMr. and Mrs. Yoshio InomataInternational Electric Supply StoreMr. and Mrs. Robert S. JamisonMr. and Mrs. Harlan JessupJoshua Bell, Inc.Miss Lindsey KanagaMr. J. A. LaFreniereLiving Water Retreat CenterMrs. Rebecca LussierMr. William P. MarshallThe Rev. and Mrs. Ronald MinorMs. Heather MurrayNauset Lantern ShopNomaco InsulationMs. Julie NormanMr. and Mrs. Daniel OrtolaniMr. and Mrs. David OrtolaniMrs. J. K. PattersonPlantasia InteriorsR & W EnterprisesCapt. John ShakliksMs. Kate ShannonMr. Mike SheedyMr. John A. StenMr. and Mrs. Noel StookeyThe Kent FoundationThe Wildflower InnMr. and Mrs. James TrainorVelcro, Inc.Capt. Don WalwerWendy’s Restaurants of Orleans/

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BrownMr. and Mrs. Mark L. AllenAmerican Cord & WebbingMr. and Mrs. John AmooreMs. Karen A. AndersonMs. Louise Archambault

Ms. Mary Helen ArmstrongMr. Joseph BabcockMr. and Mrs. John S. BainBand ShoppeBarley Neck and Joe’s Bar and GrilleMrs. Abby BehrMr. David BernstonBeth BishopMr. Truman BidwellMrs. Herbert H. BierkanMs. Carol BishopBNY Mellon Community

PartnershipMrs. Al BonugliMrs. Sharon BooneBoston PopsBrazilian GrillMr. and Mrs. Warren BreckenridgeMr. and Mrs. John E. BuckeyBuckhorn, Inc.Buffalo Concrete AccessoriesMr. John C. BurnhamCafe AlfrescoMr. John W. CallaghanCape Cod ExpressMr. Joseph CarditoMs. Louise Belknap CarterMr. and Mrs. Ray CatlinMs. Maureen CayleMr. and Mrs. Fred ClarkMs. Joan L. ClarksonMrs. Priscilla A. ClementMr. and Mrs. James ClewellCompany CDr. Mercedes ConcepcionCourtyard by MarriotMs. Susan B. CreykeMs. Lynne M. CrismanCrystal Motor ExpressCulinary Institute of AmericaDan’s Auto RestorationMr. and Mrs. Brian DavidsonMr. and Mrs. Donald DeLude


Design WareMrs. Nell C. DoveDrums on SaleMr. David DunfordMrs. Mary E. EmmonsMrs. Kathleen C. EntwisleMr. and Mrs. Donald FarnsworthMs. Anne S. FinleyMr. John and The Rev. Joan FittzMr. and Mrs. Tom FitzpatrickFrancis Malbone HouseFred J. Miller, Inc.Friends’ MarketplaceMr. and Mrs. Samuel M. FrohlichFuller’s Package StoreGIA Publications, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. William L. GladstoneMr. Peter GodfreyGoff Brothers ConstructionMr. and Mrs. Jack GoffMr. Howard Goldstein and Mrs.

Helen Reardon-GoldsteinGrossman’sSr. Brigid HaaseMs. Carol HackettMs. Joan HadlyMr. and Mrs. Michael J. HaleHandcraft HouseMr. and Mrs. John HartMr. and Mrs. Steven HertzHobgoblin - Stoney EndMr. and Mrs. John T. HodgkinsonMs. Barbara HoffmanHohmann & BarnardHolcimMr. and Mrs. Leon HoshowerHy-Line CruisesIBM CorporationIf The Shoe FitsMr. and Mrs. John IngwersenThe Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Anthony IsolaJavelina CantinaMr. Mike Jensen

KacesMr. Arjun KadamDr. Edith S. KaselisMr. Hamilton KeanMr. and Mrs. Matthew KellettThe Rev. and Mrs. Richard KellettKelley’s FlowersMr. and Mrs. David KnowlesMr. Matthew KulewiczLand Ho!Mrs. Josephine MahnkenMr. and Mrs. William J. MaloneyMr. and Mrs. Richard ManuelMr. and Mrs. Archie MarkMr. Steven R. MaskerMrs. Shirley McAuliffeMrs. Thomas P. McDermottMr. and Mrs. Tim McKendreeMr. and Mrs. Franklyn MenserMid State ManufacturingMrs. Gail MoloneyMr. Dunbar MoodyNarragansett Brewing CompanyNational Vinyl ProductsNatural Lawns of AmericaNew Penn MotorMr. and Mrs. Robert NordborgNY Hair Co. & SpaNYCEOakcreek Country ClubMr. and Mrs. Francis J. O’BrienMs. Mary Norris Preyer OglesbyOrleans Camera & VideoOrleans Cycle ShopOrleans Wine & SpiritsOverseas Best Buy, Inc.Packard Forest ProductsPapillon HelicoptorsMr. and Mrs. Raymond PartridgeDr. John PautienisPB BoulangerieMr. and Mrs. Richard PearsPizzotti Brothers


Ponderosa Landscaping and St. Aubin Nursery

Potted GeraniumMr. and Mrs. Leonard G. PukaitePuritan of Cape CodQuality FabricatorsRAB LightingMr. and Mrs. Y. B. RaoMr. William RawnMr. and Mrs. Peyton ReedMr. Gary RichardsMrs. Helen Roosevelt JonesMr. and Mrs. Joseph RugnettaSABIC Polymershapes, Inc.Ms. Nancy Belinda SchmittMs. Allison ScillaSears Hometown StoreMr. and Mrs. Peter ShannonMs. Christina SharpThe Rev. Dr. and Mrs. William

ShowalterMs. Rhona SiegalMr. and Mrs. Edward SinofskyMr. Mitchell SlamowitzSleevetownSmartwareThe Rev. and Mrs. Charles Smith, Jr.Ms. Phyllis F. SmithMr. Jeffrey B. SnyderMr. and Mrs. Manny SnydermanMr. William T. SorensenSouth Shore Generator Service, Inc.Spang Framing CenterStonewall Jackson Hotel &

Conference CenterSuvawear, Inc.Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sweeney

Mr. Charles SweetMrs. Joan C. SweetTaylor GuitarsTerri’s Hair AffairMs. Diane TerryThe Beacon Room RestaurantThe Frame Center, Inc.The Left Bank GalleryThe Lobster ClawThe Music DenThe Wild Goose TavernThe Wiley FoundationMr. and Mrs. William TherrienMs. Elaine G. ThompsonTo Dye For SalonMs. Lucy TownsendTravel OasisTrue Textiles, Inc.True Value HardwareUnderground Art GalleryUrsuline Sisters - Northeast ProvinceUSF HollandMr. and Mrs. Ramon Van SickleMs. Sharon Vecsey-MinorVilla VignamaggioVisiting AngelsVJ Rendano Wholesale Music Co.Voltage ValetMs. Susan WangermanMr. Thomas H. WellsMrs. Treva WhichardMs. Deborah E. WileyMs. Bonnie WilkesMrs. Mary June WilkinsonWindmill Liquor & Fine WinesYork Harbor Inn


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