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Nell: Linda Grass
Marlene: Liana Shannon
Kevin: Jon Patterson
Director and Dramaturge: Michael Clark
Lighting & Costume Design: Daniela Masellis
Set Design: Victoria Zimzki & Guido Tondino
Sound Design: Dave Clark
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Thanks so much for joining us for the
premiere of DOUBLE DOUBLE!
There’s something so exciting about seeing
a play run in front of an audience for the
first time. It’s my favourite thing about our
work at Workshop West Theatre. It’s like
the first performance of a symphony, or
the unveiling of a sculpture, or the launch
of a new book (by Margaret Atwood or
someone) but yet, its not.
Theatre happens at that magic intersection
between the artists’ work and the
audience. We couldn’t do it without you.
Until you arrive, we can only rehearse.
The week we began rehearsing Ken’s
play, a play that we premiered in 2011
began the run of its second production in
front of audiences in Lethbridge. In fact,
since this time last year, four plays that
Workshop West has premiered have been
produced at other theatres. AN ALMOST
PERFECT THING played for audiences in
Lethbridge, TUMIT in Vancouver DRY THE
RAIN in Nanaimo, and THE MIGHTY CARLINS
had its third production in Saskatoon.
Workshop West’s full legal name is Workshop West
Playwright’s Theatre. This summer we rebranded our logo
with our full name to emphasize this fact. Premiering new
plays is risky business, so when other theatres choose to
produce “our” plays for their audiences, we consider it a real
success. It’s been a good year.
We couldn’t do this without a brave audience that is willing
take the risk on new plays with us.
I hope you enjoy Ken Brown’s new play.
Thanks again for coming!
Michael
Michael Clark
artistic director
,
s notes
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(1 page) with a photo of ken on a sail boat
There’s something deeply Canadian about grabbing a coffee at Tim’s.
It’s kind of modestly commercial. And so much important emotional
stuff seems to happen there. It’s where we go before weddings and
after funerals. It came from Canada, and it’s named after a hockey
player, even if the corporation is now international. We seem to prefer
its homey message to the more upscale corporate exterior of the two
competing coffee franchises. It’s ubiquitous and has consistent standards.
Having spent large parts of my professional career on the road, I can
vouch for my own gratitude at pulling up at all hours of the day and
night at the familiar yellow sign.
I’m not shilling for Timmy’s; I’m saying in a society as mobile as ours, and
in a world where fewer and fewer people eat home cooking, it’s a fact
of our lives. What is more important for me as the writer of this play is
that we’ve embraced what the franchise sells: consistency of product and
the monochromism of the environment. We lament for mom and pop
eateries even as we pull up to the drive-through window and roll up the
rim because it’s cheap and available, and chances are, our lives are taking
us somewhere early in the morning or late at night, and we need the
drug they’re selling.
The other important thing I want to address in this play is that we’re
NOT at home eating that home cooking. We are increasingly a society
of single people sitting in our cars, going to workout class, attending
theatre, or just staying at home, aging and alone. If you’ve lost your
mate to one thing or another, you don’t go to the church or temple, or
the political club, or the community league, to connect with another.
You go to Tim’s and do the crossword. There’s nothing wrong with going
to Tim’s and doing the crossword. I do so myself (and I face the Sunday
NY Times version with a shudder). Like Marlene, I like the coffee.
This play expresses the hope that we still need to connect with real
human beings, wherever we do it, because doing the crossword together
gives us more comfort than doing it alone. If Nell and Kevin are quirky
and a bit neurotic, if they have their conflicts, I’m pulling for them
because it’s an old-fashioned good thing for people to have that need. I
hope you find yourself pulling for them too.
-Kenneth Brown, March 2013
Playwright's notes
Kenneth Brown
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Kenneth Brown is one of Canada’s best playwrights and I’m
thrilled to get to premiere one of his plays.
Ken’s association with Workshop West dates back to its early
days. He acted in Gerry Potter’s production of BALCONVILLE
in WWT’s Season 3. His daughter, born a few years later, was
in two of our shows as a child actor. She was our General
Manager from 2008-2012. I know of four of Ken’s plays that
have plays on our stage. Many more have been worked in in
Springboards, our new play reading festival.
DOUBLE DOUBLE is part of our initiative to invest more
resources and more time into our productions of new plays.
We’ve been working on it for nearly 3 years. Ken first told
me he was working on a romantic comedy set in a Tim
Hortons in 2010. In 2011, when we read it in Springboards
for the first time. Liana Shannon has been closely involved
with the play’s development since that first reading. I
believe this was also when our production’s set designers
first encountered it. 5 other very fine actors also contributed
immeasurably to its development.
DOUBLE DOUBLE is deceptively simple. At first glance it
appears to just be two people talking. As we’ve worked
deeper and deeper through the layers of Ken’s carefully
constructed world we’ve had a lot of fun uncovering a
thoughtful, soulful, cheeky, puckish, ultimately hopeful
critique of the complicated world we inhabit. About half
way through the play one characters says “ like a lot of
jokes, it’s also true. This is what we found about DOUBLE
DOUBLE.
It’s been a pleasure to learn from all the artist who’ve
helped put this show together. Its been a delight to work
with a master playwright.
I hope you enjoy Ken Brown’s wry DOUBLE DOUBLE world
as much as we have.
Director's notes
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and a theatre for
comic judgement
and readjustment
(especially given
George Meredith’s
observation in his
“Essay on Comedy”
that we find people
and their actions
laughable when we
judge them lacking
in or failing to
demonstrate common
sense).
In dramatic terms, Marlene is a classic choral character, a “[p]erson
within the play itself who stands apart from the action and by his or
her comments provides the audience with a special perspective (often
an ironic perspective ) through which to view the other characters and
events” (M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms 37). She is a large
part of the answer to Kevin’s rather insulting question in scene 9, about
coffee shops: we go to them, at least in these situations, for the very
predictability he gets so irate about. We go because they are constants
and, in the right hands and under the right management, effectively
relationship neutral.
Marlene is a maintainer of that relative constancy--the go-between
who translates company policy into action, sometimes for her own
amusement, sometimes for the education of her customers, and
sometimes for both. She sets the “norms” or the common sense, the
boundaries to what Kevin and Nell can and cannot do at Tim’s and in
their coffee shop negotiations. This is where they come to reflect on and
rebalance from the offstage goings on we don’t see, but hear about.
How Aristotelian: some things you just do not show onstage, but
properly mediated talk serves to subject them to the purging judgement
of pitying laughter.
Cream and sugar with your catharsis,
anyone?
(Spoonfulls?)
Don Perkins, Ph.D.
Don is a Faculty Lecturer in the
department of English and Film
Studies at the University of Alberta
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13. The hapless pair in
Tom Wayman’s comic
poem “Wayman
in Love” brings so
much baggage to
bed with them,
they are joined by
Marx, who calculates
the economic
consequences of their
tryst, and by Freud,
who observes that
they “have problems.”
They should just do what
Kevin and Nell do: get up and go the nearest Tim Hortons, and work it
out over coffee.
Romantic relationships are, after all, unpredictable harlequinades,
patched together from past failures; fleeting successes; lonely
vulnerabilities; current opportunities; half-remembered nursery stories
and fairy tales; hegemonic expectations imposed or shattered; lies
undetected, lies detected, lies forgiven; sins committed, sins omitted,
sins relished in--repeatedly; cups of coffee ordered, consumed, spilled,
thrown, abandoned for more horizontal pleasures….
Coffee shops have not always been such places of romantic resort and
negotiation. In 15th-century Turkey, for example, the coffee shop was the
local divorce court, where a woman went to leave “a husband who did
not provide enough coffee.” So says “Penny Universities: The History
of the Coffee House.” I don’t think that “coffee” was necessarily a
euphemism for something else not provided, but it might have been.
Coffee shops have also long been institutions of public education,
or schools of social learning, as one history has it. As the “penny
universities” of 17th
and 18th
-century London, they were places where
men got away from the company of women (except, of course, for the
servers) to discourse on the issues of the day. Charles II even tried to
shut them down as dens of sedition, but popular opinion stopped that
initiative rather suddenly.
As wifi-equipped public spaces, they are maybe again regaining that
educative identity--especially if Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs)
become the mode of the future, as a generation of supernerds is
promoting.
But Kevin and Nell’s Tim’s has Marlene, who turns her Tim’s not into a
divorce court or a finishing school, but into a kind of relationship clinic
Lovin' Spoonsfull
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company bios
Kenneth Brown – Playwright
Kenneth Brown is an actor, director, musician,
producer, teacher and playwright. He is the author
or co-author of over thirty produced plays; his
writing has been produced in five countries in three
languages. Over the past five years, his SPIRAL
DIVE trilogy has garnered rave press and standing
ovations across Canada. He has been honoured with
several Sterling Awards, several AMPIA awards,
and an Edmonton Arts Excellence Award. He has
acted in dozens of cities and towns across Canada
and abroad, and has directed such hit shows as
BOY GROOVE, BE A MAN, SEXE-TETE, JOSEPH
ANDREWS, THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, DIAMOND
DOG, COWBOY GOTHIC, LETTERS IN WARTIME,
and SPIRAL DIVE. In addition to DOUBLE-DOUBLE,
his two new monologue plays hit the boards this
spring. GRUMPUS GETS REVENGE (with Ken in the
title role) tells a tale of geriatric terrorism and alien
abduction. ANATOLIA SPEAKS, performed by the
amazingly talented Candice Fiorentino, has as its
background the Bosnian war. He is deeply grateful
to have such excellent colleagues for this premiere
production of DOUBLE DOUBLE.
Linda Grass – Nell
MWF. Educated at University of Regina. In an
on-again-off-again relationship with Workshop
West Theatre (SPRINGBOARDS, LOUD N’ QUEER).
Previously in relationships with Northern Light
Theatre (SPEECH AND DEBATE; SOME GIRL(S); MISS
MARGARIDA’S WAY; THE BEARD; URBAN TALES),
The Maggie Tree (SHATTERED), Panties Productions
(DIAMOND DOG), Acme Theatre (THE HEADSHOT
OF DORIAN GREY; AFTER), Theatre Network
(GIRL IN THE GOLDFISH BOWL), Guys in Disguise
(THE NEO-NANCIES), The Citadel Theatre (NEW
CANADIAN KID) to name a few. She is not seeking
any long-term commitments; only short-term
engagements. She has received nominations for
outstanding performances from both The Elizabeth
Sterling Haynes Awards and AMPIA. If you like pina
coladas . . . oh, never mind.
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company bios
Jon Paterson – Kevin
Jon Paterson is a single white male playing the role of
Kevin. Jon has been on the dating scene for the past
20 years and is a founding member and co-artistic
producer of the hit dating site RibbitRePublic Theatre.
Jon has enjoyed many successful relationships,
including BOYGROOVE, GRIMMER THAN GRIMM,
HOUSE, WATER, DIAMOND DOG and LETTERS IN
WARTIME. In 2010 Jon started dating the National
Stiltwalkers of Canada and has recently studied clown
with Michael Kennard of MUMP AND SMOOT. Jon
has stilt-walked for NSC as well as Firefly Theatre and
Zero Gravity Circus. Jon is also a stage manager, poster
designer, and Winnipeg Jets fan.
Liana Shannon – Marlene
Liana Shannon is currently in a fabulously happy
relationship with Workshop West playing single
Maritime female Marlene in DOUBLE DOUBLE. Liana
was educated at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, the
Academy of Theatre Arts (Toronto), the University of
Guelph, (undergrad and MA in Drama), and various
acting workshops across Canada. Favorite past local
relationships include AFTERPLAY and ASHES TO
ASHES (both garnering her Sterling nominations),
“A KIND OF ALASKA”, METAMORPHOSES, HAMLET,
OTHELLO and FEAR ITSELF on NBC. These and many
other past relationships have brought her much more
joy than baggage. So if you like long walks and late
night talks about DOUBLE DOUBLE over a cool pinot
grigio, this is the lady for you.
Michael Clark – Director & Dramaturge
MWM Educated: University of Alberta, MFA (Directing)
BA (English), Master Classes (La Mama Spoletto,
World Stage, Tapestry New Opera Works, RSC @ BAM,
Lincoln Centre Theatre). Serial Monogamist. Currently
in an obsessive long-term relationship with Workshop
West, having jumped out a similar relationship with
Nakai Theatre in Whitehorse. Has had brief, torrid
affairs with Persephone Theatre (THE MIGHTY
CARLINS), Onion Theatre (FAITH HEALER), Tapestry
New Opera Works (LIBRETTO LAB), Station Arts Centre
(THE SEED SAVERS) and a rebound fling with Nakai
(THE MIGHTY CARLINS).
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company bios
Dave Clarke – Composer/Sound Designer
Balding, flatulent, middle-aged man seeks theatre
audience to entertain. Recent theatre relationships
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Light Theatre), EVIE’S WALTZ (Shadow Theatre),
JULIUS CAESAR (Free WIll) and THE MISSIONARY
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SWF looking for adventurous theatre types that will
appreciate her creativity. Currently in an unhealthily
obsessive relationship with the Good Women Dance
Collective. Recent booty calls include Cowardly Kiss
Theatre (NIGHT TIME), The Serca Festival (TRISTAN
AND ISOLDE) and has an ongoing adulterous
relationship with Surreal SoReal Theatre (BECKETT’S
SHORTS, THE SARTRE PROJECT and GENIUS CODE).
She is on her very first date with Workshop West
Theatre, and apart from being slightly awkward,
thinks it is going quite well.
Betty Hushlak – Stage Manager
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company bios
Victoria Zimski – Set Designer
James Robert Boudreau – Production Manager &
Chief Enabler
Nathan Huisman – General Manager:
Nathan Huisman is currently in an “It’s Complicated”
relationship with Workshop West Theatre. They’ve
been seeing each other for about nine-months,
and they’ve had their share of ups and downs, but
something keeps them coming back to each other.
Jealous exes include The Bailey Theatre, Cowgirl
Opera, and a year-long stint with Nausicaa of London,
in the UK. Nathan learned all of his best pickup lines
from The University of Alberta: Augustana Faculty
and Royal Holloway, University of London. There may
be rumours about Nathan’s passionate and lustful
nights with One Yellow Rabbit and Swallow-A-Bicycle
Theatre. They are all true.
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Natalia Knowlton – Assistant Director
Natalia Knowlton is a SMF. Struggling with monogamy,
Natalia has explored kinky relationships with
playwriting, directing, acting, and dramaturgy. Recent
flings include: assistant director for MAD FOREST
(Abbedam 2012), director/dramaturge/designer for
CARRION (Edmonton Fringe 2012), playwright for
MANHATTAN MEMORIES (Nextfest 2012), performer/
dramaturge for ARABIAN NIGHTS (University of Alberta
2012), dramaturge for SITTER (New Works Festival 2012).
Natalia recently ended a serious and soul sucking four
year relationship with the University of Alberta, where
she received a BA (Honors) in Drama. Due to this toxic
relationship, she lacked a lot of romance, something
that could have been avoided if there was a Tim Hortons
at HUB Mall.
Daniela Masellis – Light and Costume Designer
Daniela is an Edmonton based artist and theatre
designer. Her training includes a ’07 B.F.A. in Theatre
Design from the University of Alberta and a design
apprenticeship abroad at the ‘Teatro alla Scala’ in Milan,
Italy. She has designed sets, lights and costumes for
such companies as Alberta Opera, Workshop West, The
Green Fools, Shadow Theatre, RibittRepublic, Teatro
LaQuindicina, Mile Zero Dance, Red Deer College, and
The Maggie Tree.
Guido Tondino – Set Designer
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