SET DESIGNERRICHARD CROWELL

TALLEY’S FOLLY is presented by special arrangement withDramatists Play Service, Inc., New York

This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Associa-tion that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists.

The Fred & Jean Allegretti Foundation • Bruce & Janet Bunch • Cheryl & David CophamGholi & Georgia Darehshori • John & Marjorie Madden • Arthur Zupko

HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • fORT myERS RIvER DISTRICTROBERT CACIOPPO, PRODuCInG ARTIsTIC DIRECTOR

P R E S E N T S

STARRINGCOMPAnY MEMBERs

RACHEL BURTTRAm* & CHRIS CLAvELLI*

DIRECTED BYJACKSON PHIPPIN**

COsTuME DEsIGnERROBERTA mALCOLm

LIGHTING DESIGNERmATTHEW mcCARTHy***

DIALECT COACHLOUIS COLAIANNI

PRODuCTIOn sTAGE MAnAGERJANINE WOCHNA*

sOunD DEsIGnERKATE SmITH

AssT. sTAGE MAnAGERGRACE vARLAND

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SPONSORED BYmADELEINE TAENI and ‘TWEEN WATERS INN ISLAND RESORT

By LANfORD WILSON

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Matt Friedman.....................................................................................CHRIs CLAVELLI*Sally Talley....................................................................................RACHEL BuRTTRAM*

TImE & PLACEJuly 4, 1944. Early Evening.

An old boathouse on the Talley place, a farm near Lebanon, Missouri.

TALLEY’S FOLLY will be performed without an intermission.

The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

*The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

LANfORD WILSON received the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Talley’s Folly. He was a founding member of Circle Repertory Company and one of twenty-one resident playwrights for the company. His work at Circle Rep includes: The Family Continues (1972); The Hot L Baltimore (1973); The Mound Builders (1975); Serenading Louie (1976); 5th of July (1978); Talley’s Folly (1980); A Tale Told (1981); and Angels Fall (1982), all directed by Marshall Mason; and the one-act plays Brontosaurus (1977) and Thymus Vulgaris (1982). His other plays include: Balm in Gilead (1965); The Gingham Dog (1966); The Rimers of Eldritch (1967); Lemon Sky (1969), and some twenty produced one-acts. He also wrote the libretto for Lee Hoiby’s opera of Tennessee Williams’ Summer And Smoke and two television plays, “Taxi!” and “The Migrants” (based on a short story by Tennessee Williams). Other awards include the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, and an Obie for The Hot L Baltimore, an Obie for The Mound Builders, a Drama-Logue Award for 5th of July and Talley’s Folly, the Vernon Rice Award for The Rimers of Eldritch, and Tony Award nominations for Talley’s Folly, 5th of July, and Angels Fall. He was the recipient of the Brandeis University Creative Arts Award in Theatre Arts and the Institute of Arts and Letter Award. Mr. Wilson completed an entirely new translation of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, which was commissioned and produced by the Hartford Stage Company. His play Talley And Son (the third play in the Talley Trilogy) opened in New York City in September 1985. His play Burn This opened at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in January 1987 starring John Malkovich and Joan Allen and opened on Broadway in October 1987 with the same cast. Burn This was also done in London in 1990, again starring Mr. Malkovich. His play Redwood Curtain opened in Seattle in January 1992 and in Philadelphia in March, and at the Old Globe in San Diego, California, in January 1993. It opened at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway on March 30, 1993.

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RACHEL BURTTRAm* (Sally Talley) is thrilled to be back on the boards at Florida Repertory Theatre! Her relationship with the company started 10 years ago in 2002 in Mousetrap and as Company Manager. Other

work at Florida Rep includes: August Osage County, Gaslight, Trying, Art of Murder, Dancing at Lughnasa, Amy’s View (with Carol Lawrence), Rabbit Hole, Proof, Opus, The Glass Menagerie and Doubt as well as wearing the hats of Director of Audience Development and Associate Director. In September, Rachel played Frankie in the Kitchen Theatre’s production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune in Ithaca, NY where she created the Next Steps job creation program with funding from Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency. Selected Regional work includes: Hair, Christmas Carol, Backstory (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville & the Humana New Play Festival), Private Lives, Oleanna, Noises Off!, The Foreigner (13th Street Ensemble), The Cripple of Innishman (City Equity Theatre), Almost, Maine (Barnstormer’s Theatre) and Inconsolable (Gloucester Stage). NYC Credits include: Pushkin: A Tragedy in Verse (Actors’ Studio with Daniel Sunjata), Falling (Vital Theatre Company), Young, Sexy & Talented? (NYC International Fringe Festival). TV & Film: Burn Notice, World Traveler. National commercials. Rachel is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and is eligible for the Screen Actors’ Guild. Thank you to Bob, John, Carrie and the gang. Proud to call Florida Rep our Theatre Home! www.rachelburttram.com

CHRIS CLAvELLI* (Matt Friedman) is the Associate Artistic Director of Florida Repertory Theatre, and is a faculty member in The Summer Conservatory at The New York Academy of Dramatic

Arts. He was honored with an Alan Schneider Directing Award nomination through Theater Communications Group. He was a founding member and co-artistic director of The Neighborhood Theatre for Kids in Brooklyn. Directing credits: At Florida Rep: Lend Me a Tenor, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Black Tie, Sideman, Trying, Rounding Third, Alone

Together, The Foreigner, The Glass Menagerie, The Santaland Diaries and The Lady with All the Answers. The Virginia Stage Company: Irma Vep, Vaudeville and Rough Crossing; Off Square Theatre: All in the Timing, Stones in His Pockets; Two River Theatre Company: House of Blue Leaves and 16 productions for The Depot Theatre, most recently The Drawer Boy starring John Christopher Jones. Other theatres: Theatre South Carolina, the New York Fringe Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, (Solo Mio), the Southwest Florida Symphony, Symphony Space, York Theatre, 78th Street Theatre, Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Chenango River Theatre, Riverside Theatre, Neighborhood Theatre for Kids, and the famed Actors Studio. As an actor he has worked here at Florida Rep in 14 productions and all over the country. In 2012 he was named Florida Weekly’s Best Actor of the Year, and has been the recipient of both the Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) and the South Florida Carbonell for best actor. His one-man play, A Little More Than You Wanted to Spend, recently played Theatre South Carolina and is slated for a New York production.

JACKSON PHIPPIN (Director) has directed plays from coast to coast. He was chosen by the Arts America Agency to go to Shanghai, PRC., to participate in the celebration of Eugene O’Neill’s 100th birthday and to direct O’Neill’s Marco Millions with the Shanghai Peoples’ Art Theatre. He was the first American to direct in Shanghai since WW II. He served as Associate Artistic Director at Center Stage in Baltimore where he helped develop and premiere many new plays. He also developed and ran the MFA directing program at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. for a time. He is happy to be working with the company at Florida Rep and getting to know the Fort Myers community. Directing credits include the world premiere of Eric Overmyer’s On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning, as well as A Doll’s House, The Taming of the Shrew, The Film Society, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, A Lesson from Aloes, Our Town, and Inherit the Wind – all at Center Stage in Baltimore, MD; Lady from the Sea at Cleveland Playhouse; Roosters at The Public Theatre/Intar in New York City; The Misanthrope at Dallas Theatre Center; Long Day’s Journey into Night at Berkeley Rep in Berkeley, CA; Buried Child at The Virginia Stage Company; Happy Days at Portland Stage; The Rainmaker at St. Louis Rep; and Children and A Moon for the Misbegotten at Hartford Stage in Hartford, CT.

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nOTEs FROM THE DIRECTORI AM DELIGHTED to be part of the team introducing the words of Lanford Wilson to the audiences of Florida Rep. Talley’s Folly is a beautiful, funny, and lyrically poetic American play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. The echoes of themes long mined by another great American playwright, Tennessee Williams - isolation, loneliness and need for intimacy - infuse the play. These themes, combined with the two painful stories of Matt and Sally, carried by Wilson’s lyrical realism, take us on a journey of personal revelations, leading to unexpected vulnerabilities. Did I mention it’s a love story?

Following is a little timeline leading up to this evening of July 4, 1944.

1807 – First Jew settles in Missouri; Joseph Phillipson, a merchant, arrives in St. Louis. 1821 – Missouri becomes a state.1830 – German communities appear in Missouri.1859 – Thorstein Veblen born in Cato, Wisconsin.1861 – Missouri sends 30,000 German-Americans to fight in the Civil War.1869 – Emma Goldman born in Kovno, Russia; present day Kaunas, Lithuania.1870 – Everett Talley Builds a boathouse near Lebanon, Missouri.1891 – Fanny Brice born in New York City1899 – Thorstein Veblen writes The Theory of the Leisure Class.1900 – Theodore Roosevelt elected president. 1901 – Queen Victoria dies in London.1902 – Matt Friedman born in Lithuania.1904 – Russo-Japanese War.1906 – Emma Goldman imprisoned for ‘inciting to riot’ and illegally distributing information about birth control.1911 – Turkish-Italian War.1912 – The First Balkan War.1912 – The Second Balkan War.1912 – Woodrow Wilson Elected1913 – Sally Talley Born.1914 – WWI begins.1918 – WWI ends.1918 – Severe depression in Europe.1929 – Stock Market Crash.1932 – F.D.R. elected President.

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WHAT IT MEAns & WHO THEY ARE

fUNICULAR: An inclined plane or a cable railway.

RATIOCINATION: The process of exact thinking.

‘GOTTENyU’: ‘Dear God’

‘ALTEmOID’: ‘Old maid’

‘SHIKSA’: ‘American gentile girl’

‘vILDACHAyA’: ‘Crazy Woman’

COmmUNISm: A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, with the actual ownership ascribed to the community or the state.

SOCIALISm: A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of most property held in common with actual ownership ascribed to the workers.

THORSTEN vEBLEN: An American economist and sociologist.

fIBBER mcGEE: The main character in a popular American radio comedy series, Fibber McGee and Molly.

fANNy BRICE: A famous singer/actress and creator of The Baby Snooks Show

ST. AUGUSTINE (354-430 A.D.): Considered one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all time.

1933 – Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.1939 – Germany invades Poland.1940 – France Falls.1940 – Battle of Britain.1941 – Pearl Harbor; America declares War on Japan.1942 – Battle in the Pacific.1943 – The week of July 4, Matt meets Sally for the first time.1944 – Thousands of Jews murdered in Kaunas, Lithuania.1944 – Communist Party dissolved.1944 – Beloved American musical, Meet Me in St. Louis, is released.1944 – March 31st: Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie premieres on Broadway.1944 – June 6th: D Day.1944 – July 4th: Matt meets Sally for the second time.1944 – August 4th: Ann Frank and her family discovered in Amsterdam.1944 – August 19th: Liberation of Paris begins.1944 – November 7th: F.D.R. elected to record 4th term.

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LOUIS COLAIANNI (Dialect Coach) Voice, speech dialect, text coach for Broadway: Will Ferrell, You’re Welcome America. Off-Broadway: LAByrinth Theatre, The Little Flower of East Orange. Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Utah Shakespearean Festival; Milwaukee Rep; Kansas City Rep; Seattle Rep; McCarter Theatre; Westport Country Playhouse; Williamstown. Film: Bill Murray as FDR in Hyde Park on Hudson. Books: The Joy of Phonetics and Accents; How to Speak Shakespeare.

RICHARD CROWELL (Set Designer) is thrilled to return to Florida Repertory Theatre to be a part of this wonderful production and to work once again with the extraordinary staff at Florida Rep. Richard has been a part of various Florida Repertory productions since the inaugural season in The Arcade and has been designing scenery and lighting for the stage for over 30 years. He received his MFA from the Stage Design Training Program at Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University and a BFA from Memphis State University.

mATTHEW mcCARTHy*** (Lighting Designer) Previous productions at Florida Rep include: The Mystery of Irma Vep, Sylvia, Born Yesterday, Dancing At Lughnasa and Opus. Design credits include: Blue Man Group in New York, Boston and Chicago; Lost In Yonkers, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound at The Old Globe; Dracula at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Engaging Shaw, Rum & Coke, Texas Homos and many other plays for Abingdon Theatre Co.; over 60 musicals for Stages St. Louis; New Harmony Theatre Co.; Collected Stories starring Lynn Redgrave for Contemporary Stage Co. Opera credits include: Arizona Opera, Connecticut Opera, Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard Opera Co., Houston Grand Opera and Tanglewood Opera. Member United Scenic Artists Local 829. www.mccarthylighting.com

ROBERTA mALCOLm (Costume Designer) is pleased to be returning for her ninth season at the Florida Rep after 25 years traveling the country as a costumer/designer for everyone from community theatre performers to Florence Henderson, John Ritter, LeVar Burton, Tony Bennett, Patti LaBelle, Margaret O’Brien, Dean Jones and Cloris Leachman. Favorite

productions include: Gaslight, Boeing-Boeing, You Can’t Take It with You, My Three Angels, Lucky Stiff, Florida Follies starring Florence Henderson, Too Big to be a Waitress, Show Boat (Dean Jones and Cloris Leachman national tour), Little Shop of Horrors, Curly McDimple starring Margaret O’Brien, Blithe Spirit, Annie Get Your Gun, A Funny Thing…Forum, Death of a Salesman and Cinderelle – a Rock Fairy Tale. Thanks to Sean, Becca, John, Bob – family always; and to the Florida Rep and its board for the opportunity to showcase the best theatre around.

KATE SmITH (Sound Designer) is happy to return for her fourth season at Florida Rep. She is a native of Pennsylvania and a graduate from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Kate has worked in many aspects of theater. She most recently served as the Art Director and Lighting Designer for Florida Rep’s summer camp program. Sound Design credits include Tru, Sylvia, August Osage County, Trying and You Can’t Take It with You. Lighting design credits include Black Tie, It’s a Wonderful Life, King o’ the Moon, The Santaland Diaries and The Year of Magical Thinking in Florida Rep’s Studio Theatre. Kate has also worked for Brevard Music Center, Flat Rock Playhouse, IUP’s Keystone Rep and Footlight Players.

GRACE vARLAND (Assistant Stage Manager) was born and raised in Spring Arbor, Michigan. She recently received her bachelors at Belhaven University, where she stage managed for directors John Maxwell and McNair Wilson. Stage appearances include Murder in the Cathedral, The Importance of Being Earnest and Sister Calling My Name. Grace has also spent the last two summers with Horn in the West, the nation’s longest running (and best) outdoor drama. When not in rehearsal, Grace enjoys dancing, coffee houses, climbing trees and plenty of reading time. She loves what she does, loves her parents and three brothers and loves The Lord, whom she calls ‘Teacher.’

JANINE WOCHNA* (Production Stage Manager) is delighted to return to the Florida Rep having previously stage managed The Mystery of Irma Vep, Red, King o’ the Moon, The Lady with All the Answers, The Rainmaker, Rounding Third, Tuesdays with Morrie, Broadway Bound, Sherlock Holmes and the West End Horror, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Middle Ages,

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My Three Angels and A Dash of Rosemary. Regional theatre credits include Geva Theatre: Two Trains Running, Almost Maine, The Clean House, Evie’s Waltz, ROOMS: a rock romance, The Piano Lesson, Bad Dates, Doubt, The Underpants, Ella, Sweeney Todd, A Christmas Story, Menopause the Musical, The House in Hydesville, Pride and Prejudice, Cabaret and A Christmas Carol; Cleveland Playhouse: Tea at Five, Leading Ladies, Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Kiss for Cinderella and Two Trains Running. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

ACTORS’ EqUITy ASSOCIATION (AEA) was founded in 1913 as the first of the American Actor unions. Equity’s mission is to advance, promote and foster the art of theatre as an essential component of our society. Today,

Equity represents more than 40,000 actors, singers, dancers and stage managers working in hundreds of theatres across the United States. Equity members are dedicated to working in the theatre as a profession, upholding the highest artistic standards. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions and provides a wide range

of benefits including health and pension plans for its members. Through its agreement with Equity, this theatre has committed to the fair treatment of the actors and stage managers employed in this production. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. For more information, visit www.actorsequity.org.

fLORIDA PROfESSIONAL THEATRE’S ASSOCIATION (FPTA) is a statewide organization of professional theatre companies

and theatre professionals interested in the development and promotion of professional theatre throughout Florida. Florida Repertory Theatre is a proud FPTA member theatre.

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