LANTERN THEATER COMPANY AT ST. STEPHEN’S THEATER10th & Ludlow Streets, Philadelphia, PA 215.829.0395 www.lanterntheater.org

May 17 - June 10, 2012May 17 - June 10, 2012

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BY Athol Fugard, John Kani & Winston NtshonaDIRECTED BY Peter DeLaurier

FEATURING

U.R.* Frank X*

THE ISLAND is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

LANTERN THEATER COM P ANY Charles McMahon Anne Shuff ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR

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Gene & Joann Bissell Nancy Hogan DuttonASSOCIATE PRODUCERS

Nick Embree Natalia de la Torre Janet Embree SCENIC DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER

Daniel Perelstein Marla Burkholder Rebecca Smith* SOUND DESIGNER DIALECT COACH STAGE MANAGER

Sarah Mitteldorf Meghan Jones Kathryn MacMillan ASSISTANT DIRECTOR PRODUCTION MANAGER DRAMATURG

THE COMPANY

Box Offi ce Hours: Monday & Tuesday 10am-5pm, Wednesday - Friday 10am-showtime, and Saturday & Sunday noon-showtime. Please note: the Box Offi ce is not accessible by phone 30 minutes prior to showtime.Late Seating: Due to the intimacy of the Lantern’s Mainstage theater, we are unable to seat patrons in the orchestra once a performance has begun. If you arrive late or need to use the restroom during the show, our House Manager will escort you to the fi rst available seat in the balcony to avoid disturbing the performance. Balcony seating is extremely limited and subject to availability, so please arrive on time. Refunds will not be granted for latecomers.Use of Electronic Devices: Out of respect for the actors and your fellow audience members, please turn OFF all cell phones, pagers, watch alarms, and text messaging devices prior to entering the theater.Legal Warning: The use of cameras or recording devices, or the possession of such recording equipment, is strictly prohibited by law. Equipment will be confi scated, and violators are subject to immediate ejection from the theater with no refunds.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. AEA seeks to advance, promote, and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. AEA negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefi ts, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affi liated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. www.actorsequity.org

Lantern Theater Company proudly participates in The Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre, a program of the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia. www.theatrealliance.org

U.R.* WinstonFrank X* John

Setting: Robben Island, South AfricaThere will be no intermission

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

FROM THE DIRECTOR

Fatness and Happiness

In the 1960s in a “concert” put on by political prisoners on South Africa’s Robben Island, the role of Creon in Sophocles’ Antigone was played by the young prisoner, Nelson Mandela. This nyana we sizwe (Son of the Land) was probably ill at ease with an unfamiliar task, but keenly aware of the power of legend. He was also surely aware of what Jean Anouilh had done not long before with the same story to undermine the Nazi occupation of France.

From ancient times, theater has been blessed with the ability to “comfort the affl icted and affl ict the comfortable;” to shine a harsh light on injustice and inspire change.

In Antigone, the play within our play, Creon stands before his people and smiles. “For what does he see? Fatness and happiness! How else does one measure the success of the state?”

Fatness and happiness are easy for the state to secure for its people in rare eras of plenty. Most of the time, in most states, they are provided only to certain people at the expense of others.

Sophocles wrote Antigone in part as a warning against state hubris in the middle of Athens’ “Golden Age.” The city-state’s prosperity was increasingly based on exploitation of formerly allied peoples. Sophocles in fact would be appointed one of the generals to lead an expedition against Samos the year after the play was performed.

The fatness and happiness of white South Africa in the last century was based on exploitation and brutal control of the black majority. Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona, the three creators of The Island, are deeply appreciative of the power of theater. (And, considering the forceful offi cial reaction to their early collaborations, so was the apartheid government.) Kani’s character in the play urgently organizes a two-man presentation of Sophocles’ eloquent argument for the subjugation of the State’s unjust law to a natural law – one that honors “those things to which honor belongs.”

In the early days of this new century – when fatness and happiness are awarded in greater and greater abundance to fewer and fewer in our country – I’m honored to be working on this play in a theater that is willing to “comfort the affl icted and affl ict the comfortable.”

—Peter DeLaurier

FROM THE DRAMATURG

Robben IslandThe Island is Robben Island, in Table Bay, 7km from Cape Town on the South African coast. While the island has served many functions since the colonizing of South Africa in the seventeenth century, it is best known as the infamous prison for housing political dissidents during apartheid. Geographically unprotected, the island is buff eted by wind and storms, adding to the already harsh living conditions of inmates working in the quarries there. The cells were as spartan as you see them on our stage; prisoners were given only a thin mat on which to lay and buckets for water and waste.

Robben Island housed an estimated 3,000 political prisoners between 1961 and 1991. Nelson Mandela was Robben Island’s most famous inmate, here for 18 of his 27 years in prison; current South African president Jacob Zuma and former president Kgalema Motlanthe were also prisoners there. Post-apartheid, the prison was used briefl y for criminal prisoners. It opened as a museum in 1997 and was named a World Heritage Site in 1999.

John, Winston, and the Serpent PlayersJohn Kani and Winston Ntshona, the play’s original performers who along with playwright Athol Fugard devised The Island, were not themselves inmates of Robben Island. The play is inspired, however, by two real-life events involving their fellow actor-activists.

In The Island John recounts a performance of “Antigone. In New Brighton. St. Stephen’s Hall.” The Serpent Players, of which Fugard, Kani,

Prisoners, being received at the docks on Robben Island

FROM THE DRAMATURG (continued)

Join us for the following events during the run of The Island, presented as part of our Lantern Theater Company: In Conversation series. Events are FREE for all ticket holders.

DIRECTORS: IN CONVERSATIONFriday, May 25 at 7:00pm

Get a fi rst-hand look into the creative process in this moderated Q&A with The Island’s design team.

ARTISTS: IN CONVERSATIONSunday, May 27, after the 2:00pm performance

This post-show discussion off ers a unique opportunity to talk with the artists who created our production of The Island.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: IN CONVERSATIONFriday, June 8 at 7:00pm

Musician Sharon Katz of South Africa’s The Peace Train joins Artistic Director Charles McMahon for a discussion of the arts in South Africa today.

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and Ntshona were members, performed Antigone in New Brighton in 1965. John Kani appeared in a supporting role, his fi rst speaking role with the company, which was given to him when the original actor was arrested for political activities. Another supporting actor in the production, Norman Ntshinga, was also arrested for anti-apartheid activity and sent to Robben Island. Ntstinga performed the play for his cellmates on the island and shared his recollections of the experience with the playwrights. The Island is based on each of these performances.

A few signifi cant terms:The following are in the Xhosa language. A tonal language related to Zulu, it is one of the most widely spoken and written home languages in South Africa. The white guards on Robben Island may have spoken a little Xhosa but probably wouldn’t have understood full conversations, making Xhosa a ‘safe’ language for prisoners to speak without being overheard.

Nyana we Sizwe: “Son of the Land” or “Brother of the Land;” this Xhosa term of praise for heroes became a signifi cant patriotic rallying cry during the apartheid struggle.

Hodoshe: an infamous senior guard on Robben Island; Hodoshe was a nickname prisoners would have given him secretly. The name refers to a green carrion fl y that lays its eggs in the bodies of dead animals.

BEHIND THE SCENES: THE ISLAND

U.R. (Winston) Baconian characters include: Hotspur, Othello, Mercutio, Oberon, Petruchio, Puck, Macduff , Don John with various Shakespeare companies in CT and elsewhere. Regional: from Rhode Island to Atlanta to Boston to New York to etc, some works include, The 11th Year, American Buff alo, Highland Mist (playwright), The Piano Lesson (lead Barrymore nom), Blue Door (Barrymore nom), Spirit Porn (playwright). As director: Ivanov with Neptune Rep in CO, Othello at Forest Rep in CT. Television: Law and Order (Det. Haliston), Third Watch

(Smith), Hack (Jason). Last seen in Ruined as Jerome Kisimbe at PTC.

FRANK X (John) is delighted to be returning to the Lantern where he was just seen as Friar Laurence in Romeo and Juliet. Past Lantern productions include “Master Harold”...and the boys, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Beyond Therapy, Death and the King’s Horseman, and Othello. Originally trained as a dancer and playwright, he has worked with such institutions as Arden Theatre Co. (The History Boys), InterAct Theatre Co. (Permanent Collection), Folger Shakespeare Theatre (The Winter’s Tale), and Seattle Rep (Twelfth Night). Frank

appeared earlier this season in Microcrisis at InterAct.

ATHOL FUGARD (Playwright) is a South African playwright, actor, and director celebrating his 80th birthday this year. After dropping out of Cape Town University, Fugard worked for two years on a merchant ship in the Far East, the only white seaman aboard. Shortly after returning to South Africa, he began his fi rst work as an actor and playwright, collaborating with both black and white theater artists. The company’s attacks on apartheid brought censure from the South African government. Some of his works, such as Blood Knot (1960), the fi rst in his family trilogy, were initially banned in South Africa. Internationally acclaimed even as his work was banned at home, Fugard’s plays include Boesman and Lena (1969); Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (1972) and The Island (1973), co-written with John Kani and Winston Ntshona; A Lesson from Aloes (1978); the semi-autobiographical work “Master Harold”...and the boys (1982); The Road to Mecca (1985); and Playland (1993). His post-apartheid plays, including Valley Song (1995), The Captain’s Tiger (1998), Sorrows and Rejoicings (2001), and Exits and Entrances (2004), create a portrait of the new South Africa, as well as address more personal themes. Fugard has also written one novel, Tsotsi (1980). Adapted into an acclaimed fi lm, Tsotsi earned the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In 2011, Athol Fugard was honored with the Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

JOHN KANI (Playwright) is a South African actor, director, and playwright. He was born in 1943 in New Brighton, a township outside Port Elizabeth (P.E.). Kani joined The Serpent Players, a theater company in P.E. formed by

WHO’S WHO

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Fugard, in 1965 and helped to create many plays performed to acclaim by the troupe. Many of these plays went unpublished due to their dangerously anti-apartheid themes and integrated casts. Early plays were followed by the more famous Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island, co-written with Fugard and Winston Ntshona. Kani received an Olivier nomination (U.K.) for his role in My Children! My Africa! and a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play, along with Winston Ntshona, for Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island (1975). Kani made his debut as a solo playwright with Nothing but the Truth (2002), which takes place in post-apartheid South Africa and concerns the rift between blacks who stayed in South Africa to fi ght apartheid and those who emigrated. His extensive body of fi lm work includes the recent Coriolanus (2011). Kani has been awarded an Obie for his extraordinary contribution to theater in the U.S and holds a Lifetime Achievement Award from SAFTA. Kani is chairman of the National Arts Council of South Africa.

WINSTON NTSHONA (Playwright) is a South African actor and playwright. Born in 1941 in the Port Elizabeth area, Ntshona has performed onstage and in fi lm all over the world. In addition to Tony winning performances in his plays Sizwe Bansi Is Dead and The Island, which have had several major international performances over the last 35 years, Ntshona has appeared in recent fi lms Blood Diamond (2006), Malunde (2001), and I Dreamed of Africa (2000). Additional acting credits include the HBO television series The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (2008), The Wild Geese (1978), and Sir Richard Attenborough’s Academy Award-winning Gandhi (1982).

PETER DeLAURIER (Director) directed Lantern Theater Company’s Sizwe Bansi Is Dead two years ago and last season’s Vigil. He is an actor: Lantern-Uncle Vanya, Skylight, QED, Underneath the Lintel (Barrymore Award); People’s Light- a 20+ year ensemble member (Barrymore Award-King Lear; nominations-The Man From Nebraska, Six Characters in Search of an Author, In the Blood, et al); playwright (Barrymore nomination-Anne of Green Gables), et al, and director. He is an Artistic Associate at PLT and was Artistic Director of New Stage Theatre in Jackson, MS, where he directed one of numerous productions of his A Christmas Carol, among many other plays. With his wife, actress and director Ceal Phelan, and others, he co-founded the Delaware Theatre Company (where he directed ACC, Talley’s Folly, and others) and First Stage. For Ceal.

NICK EMBREE (Scenic Designer) is thrilled to work with this great production team again after working with them on Vigil. Nick is a freelance set designer with design credits at many Philadelphia and regional theaters. He is proud to have served as Lantern’s resident set designer, and he still manages to do about one set a year here (most recently, New Jerusalem). Nick is the head of the B.F.A. Theater Design and Technology Program in the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts, at the University of the Arts, in Philadelphia. Nick is married to The Island’s lighting designer (and UARTS production manager) Janet Embree, and they live in Germantown in an old house with a couple of cats.

NATALIA de la TORRE (Costume Designer) is the costume shop/wardrobe manager for Lantern Theater Company. Design credits include: Titus Andronicus (Philly Shakes); The Diary Of Anne Frank (Ego Po); Heavy Metal Dance Fag (Tribe of Fools); Vigil and A Skull In Connemara (Lantern Theater Company); Evie’s Waltz (Simpatico); The Rocky Horror Show (Fringe 2010); Purr, Pull, Reign (Johnny Showcase and the Lefty Lucy Cabaret). When not designing, she snips threads at Viv Pickle Custom Handbags in Old City. Thanks to Peter, Beckah, and the cast.

JANET EMBREE (Lighting Designer) has designed lights for many past Lantern productions, most recently Vigil. Some other favorites are The Hothouse, Richard III, and “Master Harold”…and the boys. She has designed lights for many area theaters including: 1812 Productions, Freedom Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, and University of the Arts, where she serves as Production Manager for the Brind School of Theater. She is pleased to have had the opportunity to collaborate with this outstanding group of artists. She especially enjoys collaborating with set designer Nick Embree on productions, a lifelong house renovation, and cat wrangling.

DANIEL PERELSTEIN (Sound Designer) is a freelance sound designer, composer, and musical director in Philadelphia. Previous designs and compositions at the Lantern include Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in addition to serving as the audio engineer for six of the last seven shows. Recent designs include: Wilma Theater, Arden Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Kimmel Center, PlayPenn, Live Arts Festival, Headlong Dance Theater, Flashpoint Theatre, Azuka Theatre, Theatre Horizon, Inis Nua Theatre, Berserker Residents, Nice People Theatre, Team Sunshine. Education: B.S. Engineering, B.A. Music, Swarthmore College. For Mom and Sarah. In loving memory of my daddy. Deep gratitude to my whole family and dear friends. Thanks Peter, Charles, Anne, Meg, Colooch, Beckah, Toby. Hear samples at www.danielperelstein.com.

MARLA BURKHOLDER (Dialect Coach) Credits include productions with The Wilma Theater, Theatre Exile, Delaware Theatre Company, People’s Light & Theatre Company, and Muhlenberg Theatres, among others. She previously coached the Lantern productions of Private Lives, The Hothouse, A Skull in Connemara, The Lonesome West, and Happy Days. Marla also works as an actor and teaching artist, and is the Artistic Director of Shakespeare in Clark Park. She holds an MFA in Acting from Temple University and is a Certifi ed Instructor of Fitzmaurice Voicework.

REBECCA SMITH (Stage Manager) is in her fourth season at the Lantern and is happy to be working with such a wonderful cast and crew. She is a graduate of Temple University with a BA in European History and a minor in Theater. She has worked as production manager at Theatre Exile, and as stage manager at Brat Productions, Kaibutsu, and Temple University Theater. Previous Lantern shows include The Hothouse, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, Hamlet, Happy Days, Scapin, The Breath of Life, Henry IV Part I, Uncle Vanya,

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A Skull in Connemara, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Vigil, New Jerusalem, Private Lives, and Romeo and Juliet.

SARAH MITTELDORF (Assistant Director) is glad to be back with her friends at the Lantern this year. She also spends time with groups including the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, Simpatico, and Philadelphia Young Playwrights. Most recently, she directed Nobody But Somebody for the Strawberry One-Act Festival. She is excited to be bringing Eurydice in Market East/Grand Central, her most recent Fringe project, to NYC with the collective Tactus Theatre Project this spring.

MEGHAN JONES (Production Manager) has collaborated in past seasons as technical director and resident scenic designer for Lantern Theater Company. This season she is delighted to join the staff as Production Manager. She holds an MFA in design from Temple University and also designs throughout the Philadelphia area. She would like to congratulate her fellow colleagues. Much appreciation to LTC staff , cast, and crew.

CHARLES McMAHON (Artistic Director) co-founded the Lantern in addition to acting and directing for the company. Previous roles include Heisenberg in Copenhagen, Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Edmund in King Lear, and Pete Seeger in Un-American. Lantern directing credits include Romeo and Juliet, New Jerusalem, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV Part I, Hamlet, Othello, La Ronde (also translator/adaptor), Richard III (Barrymore Award, Outstanding Production of a Play), The Comedy of Errors (Barrymore nomination), King Lear, A Doll’s House, and the upcoming Henry V. Charles is a graduate of NYU’s theater department, where he studied acting and directing before returning to Philadelphia in 1990.

ANNE SHUFF (Managing Director) is in her third season as Managing Director following seven years’ service on the Lantern’s Board of Directors, including four years as Treasurer and three years as Personnel Committee Chair. As Managing Partner of MindLabs, she has guided online marketing strategy for performing arts organizations across the country, and her work has been highlighted by WIRED magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia City Paper, and the design reference book Web Site Design Goodies. She previously served as Business Manager at The Wilma Theater and Assistant Controller & IS Manager at Walnut Street Theatre. XOM!

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WHO’S WHO

Sam Bellomo, Gene & Joann Bissell, Lee Cassanelli, Nancy Dutton, Stacy Dutton, Jay Goldberg, Glenn Holtzman, Sharon Katz, Sean Kelley and the staff of Eastern State Penitentiary, Helen McMahon, Herb Moskovitz, Andrew Nelson, David Pierson, Amy Scheidegger, and our community partners at St. Stephen’s Church (Dr. Charles Flood and Mark Yurkanin).

BOARD OF DIRECTORSStacy Maria Dutton, PresidentMichael H. Rosenthal, Vice PresidentGregory J. Kleiber, TreasurerBetsy Kalish, SecretaryMichael K. BrophyNicholas D. ConstanDavid S. ConwayAngela H. D’Amato

Frank A. DantePhilip Hawkins Kevin KleinschmidtCharles McMahonAnne Shuff Sarah F. WeinsteinRebecca Williams

SPECIAL THANKS

ARTISTIC & ADMINISTRATIVE STAFFArtistic Director Charles McMahonManaging Director Anne Shuff Associate Artistic Director KC MacMillanDevelopment Director Jennifer Pratt JohnsonEducation Director Joshua BrownsProduction Manager Meghan JonesAudience Services Manager Ali RoyHouse Managers Terry Brennan, Mike Dees, Katie Driscoll,

Colleen Hughes, Katherine FritzBox Offi ce Manager Jonathon WelshBox Offi ce Assistants Leila Ghaznavi, Jeanine Johnson,

Katherine Perry, Lauren Tuvell Press Representative Megan Wendell, Canary PromotionArtistic Associate Janet Embree

PRODUCTION STAFFStage Manager Rebecca SmithTechnical Director Lance KniskernCostume Shop Manager Natalia de la TorreMaster Electrician Georgia SchlessmanElectrician Melanie LeedsRun Crew Jonathon Welsh Carpenter M. Craig GettingScenic Charge Sung Eun KimProperties Master Meghan JonesAssistant Sound Designer Toby PettitAudio Technicians M. Craig Getting, Toby PettitProduction Interns Steve Chomistek, Radha VakhariaStage Management Intern Tara Bowler

AnonymousArt-Reach, Inc.Barra FoundationCanary PromotionCharlotte Cushman Foundation

Trustees in memory of their treasured colleague, Norma Testardi Egendorf Pomerantz

Delaware County Community Foundation

Elsie Lee Garthwaite Memorial Foundation

Energy PlusHassel FoundationHirsig Family Fund of the

Philadelphia FoundationIndependence FoundationLeo Model FoundationLida FoundationLincoln Financial FoundationNational Endowment for the ArtsPennsylvania Council on the Arts

Pennsylvania Humanities CouncilPhiladelphia Cultural FundPhiladelphia Foundation - Fund for

ChildrenRosenlund FoundationRosenthal Lurie LLPSamuel S. Fels FundSeybert FoundationShubert FoundationSuzanne F. Roberts Cultural

Development FundUnion Benevolent AssociationVirginia & Harvey Kimmel Arts

Education FundWilliam Penn FoundationWyncote Foundation

MATCHING GIFT PARTNERSIBMMerck Partnership for GivingSusquehanna International GroupWilliam Penn Foundation

We gratefully acknowledge those listed in the following pages whose generous contributions provide continuing support for our artistic and education programs. Please consider joining them by making a tax-deductible gift using the donor envelope included with this program!

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Peter & Fran CarnahanLee Casper & Maureen AbramsIrene Cherkassky & Jim BurkeJoan I. CoaleJames & Sandra CorryCharles Croce & Anne CallahanJoseph & Helen D’AngeloKen DerstineNancy Ely-RaphelFrances & John FleckensteinJoanne & Ken FordHazel ForsterElizabeth FoxTerry GillenLouis & Catherine GirifalcoDeborah Glass Judith Golding-BakerKathie GoodmanDr. Janice GordonSondra GreenbergAlan & Nancy GrossMichael Hairston & Dan RothermelJune HamentJohn & Susan Hansen-FlaschenKate Hovde & Ken KulakCarey HuntingtonDennis & Gail JackmanFred Johnson & Jennifer Pratt

JohnsonAnn KalbachMichael & Edda KatzGeraldine KindermanWilbur KipnesSandra Koffl erEric Kramer & Cheryl WilliamsSarah & William LongKC & Eric MacMillanDonald Maloney, M.D.Sandra & David MarshallTony McMahonKevin & Marian McPhillipsJoan MechlinDr. Mary Ann MeyersMJ MitchellRoss L. MitchellJane MooreRhonda & Jim MordyZofi a MularczykRalph Muller

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