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A FIREHALL ARTS CENTRE PRODUCTION

November 10 - December 1

THE ENEMY

From the Artistic Producer and Director

Welcome to the Firehall Arts Centre and this premiere production of The Enemy. Drawing on many translations of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and in particular, Arthur Miller’s 1950’s version, I have chosen to set the play, The

Enemy, in a mid-sized town in the upper interior of British Columbia. I am very grateful to both of these amazing playwrights for providing such a powerful tool and as we face so many challenges in this increasingly polarized world, I am hopeful that individual citizens will recognize that we all have a role in increasing understanding between those who have different life experiences and beliefs.

As truth is challenged, scientific research questioned and freedom of speech

denied, apathy is not a choice. Each of us can engage and work with others to ensure that the world becomes more democratic not less. n 2003, we did a

production of An Enemy of the People in which the wonderful David Petersen

performed as Martin Kell. Mr Petersen recently passed, leaving us to play on a much larger stage and I would like to dedicate this production to him.

Thank you so much for coming. I hope you enjoy our production and that it stimu-lates much discussion after the play. We are hoping that you will pass the word along to others through whatever means of communication you use. Enjoy,

debate, consider! And ask yourself, who is the real enemy?

Donna Spencer

Playwright Notes

It has been a wonderful challenge to adapt and create a new play, The

Enemy, from Henrik Ibsen’s iconic An Enemy of the People. Written in 1882 and first produced at the Christiania Theatre on January 13, 1883, the play has been produced around the world countless times through translations and

adaptations. Called the Father of Modern Drama, Ibsen questioned viewpoints of the time, classism, female emancipation and many subjects not broached on the stages of the late 19

th and early 20

th century.

Following Ibsen’s death in 1906 the first translation of his collected works was undertaken by William Archer. In developing The Enemy, I worked from a

number of translations and the late Arthur Miller’s adaption written in 1950 during the time of McCarthyism in the United States. My goal was to create a play that would stay true to Ibsen’s original themes but would connect with audiences

today. In this process, I have had tremendous assistance from the actors in this current cast, Wesley Eccleston and the students at TRU ( who produced my

earlier adaptation in 2014) and the cast of the Firehall’s production in 2003.

Thank you to them , Mr. Miller and, of course, Mr. Ibsen for without him The

Enemy would not exist.

Staff

Artistic Producer Donna Spencer

General Manager Susan Shank

Box Office and Facility Coordinator Michael Lang

Technical Director Alistair Wallace

Marketing Coordinator Fabio de Miranda Graphic Designer James Glen

Board of Directors

Elizabeth Snow - President

Jonathan Hanvelt -Past President Iva Pargova

Adrian Wilczek Kristen Elkow Irina Zyuzina

Brian Paterson Behzad Homaie Donna Spencer - Ex-Officio

The Firehall is located on the unceded traditional territories

of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm

(Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and

Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Producing and present-

ing theatre, dance, inter-disciplinary and the visual arts, the

Firehall opens doors through the arts in celebration of the

Canadian experience. The Firehall Arts Centre is a member

of the Greater Vancouver Professional Theatre Alliance, the

B.C. Alliance for Arts and Culture, the CanDance Network and the Professional Asso-

ciation of Canadian Theatre and engages members of the Canadian Actors Equity As-

sociation through the Canadian Theatre Agreement.

About The Firehall Arts Centre

The Firehall warmly thanks our generous season sponsors:

Directed & Adapted by | Donna Spencer

Featuring | Jenn Griffin, Paul Herbert, Peter

Anderson, Daniel Arnold, Sharon Crandall, Braiden Houle, Michael Scholar Jr., Donna Soares, Agnes

Tong

Lighting Designer | Kyla Gardiner

Assistant Lighting Designer | Celeste English

Costume Designer | Stacie Steadman

Video Designer | Pedro Augusto Meza

Sound Designer | Alistair Wallace

Artistic Director & Producer | Donna Spencer

Stage Managers | Dorothy Jenkins and

Susan Currie

The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices is strictly prohibited. Patrons are requested to turn off all cell phones and other

electronic devices before entering the theatre. Communication devices may be left with the Front of House Manager and notification of

messages will be given at the first convenient opportunity.

THE ENEMY

CAST & CREATIVE TEAM DONNA SPENCER | Director Donna Spencer is currently the Artistic Producer of the Firehall Arts Centre and the Producer of the Dancing on the Edge Festival. She is an advocate for inclusivity in the performing arts and created one of Canada’s first culturally diverse theatre production programs at the Firehall in 1985. She is the winner of the Jessie Richardson Outstanding Direction Award for Urinetown, the Musical and for Reading Hebron. In 2012 she was honored to receive the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for Theatre, and the British Columbia Community Achievement Award for her work in dance and theatre. Her many theatre directorial credits include SH*T, Social Studies, VIMY, Urinetown, Einstein’s Gift, Golden Child, An Enemy of the People, Menopositive!, The Yoko Ono

Project, Wawatay, Unnatural and Accidental Women, and many others. Spencer has collaboratively created three plays – Walking the Tightrope, Mainstream and Opening Doors. She co-founded the Dancing on the Edge Festival of contempo-rary dance in 1988 and has programmed 30 successful annual festivals since then as well as programming thirty-six seasons of presentations and productions for the Firehall Arts Centre.

JENN GRIFFIN | Dr. Stockman Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Jenn is a Vancouver based actor and playwright. Jenn made her Vancouver theatrical debut at The Firehall in 1989 and she is thrilled to be back where it all began in Donna Spencer’s “The Enemy.” Recent acting credits include: the role of “Jean” in The Arts Club production of “Good People,” and the role of “Jess” in Neil Labute’s “A Second of Pleasure,” for “Take 5” at The Cultch and most recently appeared in the ensemble cast of Theatre Conspiracy’s “Victim Impact,” by Tim Carlson, also at The Cultch. Jenn has been honored with several Jessie Richardson Theatre nominations/wins for writing and

performing. She has also works as an actor in film and television and was recently nominated for a Leo award as “Maeve,” in Marshall Axani’s feature, “The Cannon.” Jenn dedicates her performance to her late mother, Hilda and to environmental activists everywhere.

PAUL HERBERT | Mayor Stockman This is Paul’s first production with The Firehall Arts Centre. Other theatre credits include: “The Day Before Christmas” (The Arts Club); "The Dark Road” (Ensemble Theatre Company); "City of Angels” (The Pit Collective); “The Train Driver” (United Players); "Flare Path” (Slamming Door Collective); "The Last of The Red Hot Lovers” (The Red Hot Collective); "The North Plan” (Up in the Air Theatre) Jessie nomination best supporting actor; “The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MaCrimmon” (Theatre Northwest)

ALISTAIR WALLACE | Sound Designer

Alistair is an Actor, Producer, Comedian, Sound Designer, Technician, Technical Director, and Australian. Alistair moved to Canada in February 2018 and within 3 weeks he was work-ing full time at the Firehall Arts Centre. He is so pleased and honoured (and relieved) to be working with the creative teams at the Firehall to create some truly excellent and important works. Alistair graduated from Actors Centre Australia in 2010 and is an artistic associate and technical director of pants-guys Productions, producing theatre in Sydney including On the Shore of the Wide World, Mr Kolpert, and Punk Rock (winner, Best Independent Production, Sydney Theatre Awards 2012). Alistair’s sound design credits include: No End of Blame (Sport For Jove), The Mystery of Love and Sex,

Ride/Fourplay (Darlinghurst Theatre Co), Odd Man Out, Barefoot in the Park, A History of Falling Things, Jack of Hearts, Blood Bank (Ensemble) and Jerusalem –nominated Best Independent Sound Design, Sydney Theatre Awards 2013.

SUSAN D. CURRIE | Substitute Stage Manager

Welcome to the Show! For the Firehall Arts Centre: SHIT, Ref-uge, The Nether, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout; The Ecstasy of Rita Joe. Select credits: Million Dollar Quarter (Chemainus Theatre); Happy Place (Touchstone/Ruby Slippers); Hippolyta’s Wedding, Mary’s Wedding (Festival Players-Ontario); Krapp’s Last Tape, A Steady Rain, Ebenezer, Mozart & Salieri, Beggar’s Opera, Judge Dee, The China Tea Deal (Seven Tyrants); From Broadway with Love (Circle Bright Productions). Select produc-tions: The Light in the Piazza; The 39 Steps, Lion in Winter, Dancing at Lughnasa, How I Learned to Drive, Anne of Green Gables, Footloose, Angels in America-Millennium Approaches, Angels in America-Perestroika, Hamlet, King Lear, Coriolanus.

Upcoming: The Troll Grandfather (Axis Theatre)

DOROTHY JENKINS | Stage Manager

Stage Manager - Dorothy has been stage managing for many years in Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg and London, UK. Touring has taken her across the country from coast to coast. She is delighted to be working with this amazing cast and great team at the Firehall.

CELESTE ENGLISH | Assistant Lighting Designer

Celeste English is a lighting designer and theatre

professional born and raised in Vancouver, BC. As a recent graduate of SFU’s theatre production and design program she has had the unique opportunity to design and

collaborate on over 35 productions during her time there. Since, she has worked with such organizations as Electric Company Theatre, The Arts Club, Inverso Productions, Mascall Dance and more as a designer, assistant designer and collaborator. All the while she has worked as a

freelance stage manager, technical director and production manager on indie theatre productions. Celeste has also works as an Arts Instructor for various arts studios +

organizations across BC in instructing children in scenic and lighting elements of theatre; she finds immense joy in

sharing a love of theatre design with children and young people.

STACIE STEADMAN | Costume Designer

Stacie is an actor, a designer and a full-time parent from Van-couver. Last seen at the Firehall on stage in Ubuntu-The Cape Town Project and also as theassociate costume de-signer for the Saskatoon run of Circle Game. Stacie's acting work includes three seasons at the Stratford Festival and her design work is just beginning with thanks to Donna Spencer. Her assistants, Cluny, 3, and Bryony, 6 months, are now well on their way to a career in the arts with special thanks to Jesse, Nana, Sara and Paw Patrol.

PEDRO AUGUSTO MEZA | Video Designer

Born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, and based in Tijuana, Baja California Pedro Augusto is a 23 year old photographer, ac-tor, director and visual artist, who focuses his work on the questioning of human's role with art, beauty, nature and pur-pose, mixing his animal activism and his interdisciplinary art, having the honor to work with film and stage artists from Can-ada, The United States, Ukraine, Argentina and Mex-ico. Pedro Augusto is truly grateful to be taking part in this production of The Enemy, taking upon himself the joy of bringing Donna Spencer's visions to life, as well as helping to tell a story that seems so necessary nowadays.

Film and TV credits include: “Valley of the Boom,” “Supergirl,” “DC Legends of Tomor-row,” "Hit The Road,” “Hiccups,” “The Interview,” “The Killing,” “Supernatural.”

PETER ANDERSON | Martin Kell A graduate of the University of Michigan and the Dell’Arte School of Physical theatre, Peter’s delighted to be back at the Firehall after many years. Recent credits include The Society for the Destitute Presents Titus Bouffonius (Jessie award for ensemble), Butcher (Jessie nomination Best Actor) both at the Cultch, and his farce Law of the Land at the Caravan Farm Theatre last summer. Other favorite credits include The Overcoat and The Number 14. Upcoming: The Coyotes, his 1978 dystopian comedy about a world-wide water shortage, will be produced at the Caravan Farm Theatre in August 2019.

Peter would like to dedicate his performance to his friend, the late great David Petersen.

DANIEL ARNOLD | Howie Hockstead Previously at the Firehall: Little One (Alley Theatre) and Einstein’s Gift. Other performances: Venus in Fur (Golden Apple), High Society, Beauty & the Beast and Poster Boys (Jessie nomination, Arts Club); The Romeo Initiative and Influence (Touchstone Theatre), Tideline (Jessie nomination, Touchstone/Neworld), How to Write a New Book for the Bible (Pacific Theatre); Sylvia and Summer of my Amazing Luck (Gateway); Betrayal, A Christmas Carol and Mary’s Wedding (Western Canada Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Vancouver Playhouse); Triumph of Love

(Blackbird), and numerous shows in Edmonton and Calgary. Daniel is also a co-producer with Alley Theatre, for which he has performed in The Ridiculous Darkness, Little One, Mrs. Warren’s Profession and TAPE (Jessie nomination). He co-wrote and performed Tuesdays & Sundays and Any Night with Medina Hahn, both of which were published and toured nationally and internationally, locally garnering three Jessie nominations each. Daniel also does film and television and co-wrote and starred in the feature film version of Lawrence & Holloman. He is a graduate of the UofA’s BFA Acting program.

SHARON CRANDALL | Kate Kell Sharon is excited to be back at The Firehall after appearing in last season’s Shit as Bob. Recently you may have seen her in As You Like It and Lysistrata (Bard on the Beach) and Satel-lite(s) (Solo Collective). You can catch her next in Matilda the Musical (Royal Winnipeg, Citadel, Arts Club) as well as in your living rooms in The Package (Netflix) and Christmas on Holly Lane (on demand). Thank you to Donna for this opportunity and lots of love to Lucas and Sam. Enjoy the show. sharoncrandall.com

BRAIDEN HOULE | William Billings

Braiden is excited and honoured to be apart of this production of The Enemy. He is Dakota and Anishinaabe from Treaty 1 Territory of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Selected credits include: Kill Me Now (Touchstone Theatre), Kill Me Now (Manitoba Theatre Centre/National Arts Centre), Only Drunks and Children Tell The Truth (Firehall Arts Centre), Camera Obscura (the frank theatre company), The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (Manitoba Theatre for Young People), TH’OWXIYA: The Hungry Feast Dish (Axis Theatre), Redpatch (Hardline Productions), Romeo & Juliet (Studio 58), Angels In America Part 1: Millennium Approaches (Studio 58), Madame Bovary (Studio 58/ Animal Parts Theatre), The

Classroom (Studio 58), Jumping Mouse (Urban Indigenous Theatre Company), Little Red Riding Hood (Urban Indigenous Theatre Company), Wings of Darkness (Urban Indigenous Theatre Company). He is a graduate of Studio 58.

MICHAEL SCHOLAR JR. | David Horseman

Michael is an award winning actor, director, writer and producer who recently moved back to Vancouver after getting his MFA in directing from Columbia University in NY, under visionary director Anne Bogart. He is the Artistic Director of November Theatre, who toured The Black Rider across North America for a decade (including a Jessie Award winning run presented by the PuSh Festival and the Arts Club Theatre). Favourite BC acting credits include: Th’owxiya (Axis Theatre); Alice Munro Stories (Belfry Theatre); Green Lake (Solo Collective); Macbeth (Theatre Conspiracy); Little Mercy’s First Murder (Touchstone Theatre); Tideline (Neworld Theatre /

Touchstone / Jessie Nomination); Taming of the Shrew (Jessie Nomination), Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (Bard on the Beach); Cloud Tectonics (Vancouver Playhouse / Pi Theatre); and Hard Core Logo: LIVE (November Theatre / PuSh Festival). Michael would like to thank his wife Carrie and daughter Alice who both know the truth about our water. www.novembertheatre.com

DONNA SOARES | Alexis Allen

While delving into this show about our waters, Donna has been grateful to work on the ancestral and traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples. Some of her recent credits include: King of the Yees (Gateway, NAC), The Drowning Girls (Vertigo), Green Lake (Solo Collective), Cock (Rumble), Benefit (Downstage), and Cinderella: An East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement). A long-ago credit includes Firehall's Urinetown. Donna is happy to be back on the Firehall stage. Next up, she returns to the waters with Raven Spirit Dance’s Salmon Girl, presented by Carousel Theatre. Donna is a graduate of Studio 58 and holds a double major in Theatre and French from UBC

AGNES TONG | Petra Kell Agnes Tong is an actress and dancer based in Vancouver. A graduate of Studio 58, some recent theatre credits include: The Ones We Leave Behind (The Cultch), Les Belles-Soeurs (Gateway Theatre), Kim’s Convenience (Chemainus Theatre), I lost my husband (Gateway Theatre), King Charles III (Arts Club Theatre), And Bella Sang with Us (Firehall Arts Center), 4000 Miles (Arts Club Theatre), and Sleeping Beauty (Globe Theatre). Film/TV credits: The Romeo Section, Abducted Love, Garage Sale Mystery, Untold Stories of the ER, Shuttlecock, Skin to Skin, and Final Wishes. You can next catch Agnes in The Shoplifters, The Great Leap (Arts Club

Theatre), and the indie-feature Miss HK.

KYLA GARDINER | Lighting Designer Kyla Gardiner is a designer and performance creator based in Vancouver BC. Recent shows include: SHIT (Firehall Arts Centre); The Piano Teacher (Arts Club Theatre); Spooky Action (Inverso/Lesley Telford); For as Long as I Can Remember (Meredith Kalaman); Real Time Composition Study (Rob Kitsos, Yves Candau & Martin Gotfrit); Pathways (Vision Impure); The Elbow Room Cafe (Zee Zee Theatre); Sonic Elder (The Chop Theatre); This Score Is (Emmalena Fredriksson); Klasika! (Barbara Adler & Ten Thousand Wolves); OK Object (THE PARTY); The River Clyde Pageant (RCP); Lone Wolf (MOVE: The Company); Between Two Rocks (Robert Leveroos). Kyla

teaches at the School for the Contemporary Arts at SFU.