BY TONY KUSHNER (freely adapted from Pierre Corneille’s L’ILLUSION COMIQUE)directed by Andrew McGinn production sponsored by Joan and Howard Voorheis

JONES PLAYHOUSE 45th Season 236th ProductionApril 25-May 6, 2012

University of Washington School of Drama

THE ILLUSION

Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc. The script to this play may be purchased from B P P I at BroadwayPlayPubl.com. The Illusion was first presented by New York Theater Workshop in October, 1988.

Technical Director Alex Danilchik

Assistant DirectorMalcolm Badewitz Assistant Stage ManagersJessica Jones Veronica Pelayo Running CrewHeather CoitSam GroseCarlo ValentinElizabeth Kai Wu

House ManagerGenesis Leal

Prop MasterAndrea Bush

Assistant Costume DesignerDesiree Jones

Assistant Scenic DesignerJennifer Sipila

Follow Spot OperatorsEvangeline MurrayYiji ZhaoLaura Webber

Construction CrewJennifer SipilaAngie Harrison

Light Board OperatorTomaz Ybarra

Sound Board OperatorAshley Allen

Light Board ProgrammerConner Rich

Electrics CrewPaul ArnoldRyn Flyn Jessica JonesAlasdair SwarnerShawna Sease

Costume DesignLinnaea Boone Wilson*+

Scenic DesignChristopher J. Mumaw*+

Lighting DesignEmily Van Winkle*

Sound DesignAlex Potter Veronica Gomes

Fight ChoreographerGeoffrey Alm

Stage ManagerAshley Rolph

THE ILLUSION

CASTPankaj K. Jha Brianne A. HillAmanda HilsonChristian Telesmar Yesenia Iglesias Kimberly Nicole Wood Jonathan Shue Darius Mousavi

Costume CrewHarley AlexanderMiranda BossertSonya SaepoffJennifer Wu

Costume Construction Crew Ali PanzarellaMichaela PetrovichAnya Savranskaya

Pridamant of Avignon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alcandre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Amanuensis/Geronte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Calisto/Clindor/Theogenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Melibea/Isabelle/Hippolyta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Elicia/Lyse/Clarina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pleribo/Adraste/Prince Florilame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Matamore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

in order of appearance, members of the Professional Actor Training Program (PATP)

by Tony Kushner f(freely adapted from Pierre Corneille’s L’ILLUSION COMIQUE

directed by Andrew McGinn

* Member of the Master of Fine Arts Program in design

+ Role in production satisfies thesis requirements for an MFA

production sponsored by Joan and Howard Voorheis

ABOUT THE PLAYThe Illusion runs 2 hours 30 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission. PLACE: underground somewhere in the French countryside and elsewhere. TIME: the present.

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Therese Barnette, Chair Randy Everett, Vice Chair Adina Angle Kimberly Brangwin Martha BrockenbroughPaula ButziBrad EdwardsJoanne EusterKathy Page FeekMark GibsonJoan GoldblattLinda GouldEllen B. Hazzard Maryann HuhsRobert JenkinsRon Leamon

Mark Levine Andrew McMastersScott MertelNadine Murray Kerry RichardsPatti RosendahlHarvey Sadis Richard SlonikerAndrew Tsao, faculty memberHoward VoorheisJoan VoorheisKyoko Matsumoto Wright Linnaea Boone Wilson, Student Member

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AcknowledgementsSpecial thanks to Judith Shahn, Stefka Mihaylova and Abigail Fine.

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DIRECTOR’S NOTE

ABOUT TONY KUSHNERPlaywright Tony Kushner was born in Manhattan and grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University and did postgraduate work at New York University. Kushner began producing his own works in New York in the 1970s while he was still in college. He subsequently scored a monster hit with the epic, seven-hour, two-part Broadway blockbuster Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, earned Kushner the Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, and two Drama Desk Awards—and was later adapted into the Emmy and Golden Globe awards-winning HBO film directed by Mike Nichols. Kushner has also written A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs!.

(SPOILER ALERT!): Oh, love and conflict how you draw us endlessly to the theatre, to marriage, religion, war, and out of bed every morning. Here today, for example, we’re all here because we love the theatre — we love doing it, seeing it, supporting it — and yet all of us tonight are expecting conflict because, of course, if there’s no conflict there’s no play. Love drawing us to conflict is one of those things we’ll always be contending with, be it in our own lives, wars for a homeland, or the pursuit of art (to site a few examples). Kushner wrote this play at the time he wrote Angels in America. In it, and in what you’re going to see tonight, complicated ideas come into conflict in the human realm of the heart and imagination, or, fantasia. Of course, anything complicated is uncomfortable at times, and at others, blissful, joyous, immersive, alienating, confusing . . . how anything that complicated can actually be clarified in the heart is going to depend, I suppose, on the strength of the heart in question.

ABOUT THE DIRECTORAndrew McGinn, director, was producer/director at The Infinite Theatre in NYC where he presented A Doll’s House, Seascape with Sharks and Dancer, and The Hotel Plays at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theatre Festival, bringing together a company of 35 to do Williams’ one-acts in actual hotel rooms. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School in acting.

“Reading Corneille with Brecht: ‘The Comedy of Illusion’ and the Illusions of Citizenship” by Stefka Mihaylova, published in Tony Kushner: new essays on art and politics of the plays McFarland & Co., 2006 Save Your Democratic Citizen Soul!: Rants, Screeds and Other Public Utterances for Midnight in the Republic by Tony KushnerNew Press, 2004

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