BECKETT
Not I / Pas Moi
That Time / Cette fois
Ohio Impromptu / L'impromptu d'Ohio
by Samuel Beckett
Director/Metteur en scéne Xerxes Mehta
Baltimore Strasbourg
March 22,23,25,26, 1996, 8 p.m. 1,2,3 avril, 1996
March 24, 3 p.m. Thèatre Jeune Public
UMBC Theatre (Grande Scéne)
Performance in English/ Reprèsentation en anglais
THE MARYLAND STAGE COMPANY
NOT I
MOUTH: Wendy Salkind
AUDITOR: Michael Stebbins
INTERMISSION / INTERVALLE
THAT TIME
LISTENER & VOICES: Sam McCready
INTERMISSION / INTERVALLE
OHIO IMPROMPTU
LISTENER: Michael Stebbins
READER: Sam McCready
Designers: SET, LIGHT, SOUND: Terry Cobb
COSTUMES, MAKE-UP: Elena Zlotescu
This is my life. No stories but mine.
No more figures. HOW IT IS
Then hobble, babble, words, like the solitary child who
turns himself into children, two, three, so as to be
together, and whisper together, in the dark. ENDGAME
...flayed alive by memory, his mind crawling with
cobras, not darlng to dream or think and
powerless not to.... MALONE DIES
Estragon: All the dead voices.
Vladimir: They make a noise like wings.
Estragon: Like leaves.
Vladimir: Like sand.
Estragon: Like leaves.
SILENCE.
Vladimir: They all speak at once.
Estragon: Each one to itself.
SILENCE.
Vladimir: Rather they whisper
Estragon: They rustle.
Vladimir: They murmur
Estragon: They rustle.
SILENCE,
Vladimir: What do they say?
Estragon: They talk about their lives.
Vladimir: To have lived is not enough for them.
Estragon: They have to talk about It.
Vladimir: To be dead is not enough for them.
Estragon: It is not sufficient.
SILENCE.
Vladimir: They make a noise like
feathers.
Estragon: Like leaves.
Vladimir: Like ashes.
Estragon: Like leaves.
WAITING FOR GODOT
BIOGRAPHIES
Sam McCready has been acting professionally since
he was 12 years old. The former head of Drama at
Stranmillis College, Queens University, Belfast, he
has become an established, internationally known
actor/director. In his native Ireland, he played in
over 100 productions with the Lyric Theatre, Belfast,
in addition to frequent appearances on BBC radio
and television. He made his Off-Broadway debut in
A Fantastic Voyage, at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, and
has also played at Off-Broadway's Quaigh Theatre,
at the White Barn, Connecticut, and Philadelphia's
Painted Bride. He has been a member of The
Maryland Stage Company since its inception. Recent
roles include Vershinin in Three Sisters, Bosola in The
Duchess of Malfi, Sade in Marat/Sade, King Lear,
and Alceste in The Misanthrope.
Wendy Salkind began her acting career in experi-
mental theatre in San Francisco. She has been a resi-
dent member ot The Maryland Stage Company since
its inception in 1987, when she played Hermione in
The Winter's Tale. Also with the MSC, she has been
seen in the roles of the Duchess in The Duchess of
Malfi, Masha in Three Sisters, Irma in The Balcony,
Goneril in King Lear, Anna in Old Times, and Arsinoe
in The Misanthrope. Her performance as MOUTH in
Not I in the MSC's Tribute to Samuel Beckett in 1990
generated intense interest in the Baltimore area. In
recent years she has written a two-woman play, Air
for One, in which she performed as guest artist at the
Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, and which has had
productions mounted in Washington, D.C., New York
City, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Michael Stebbens has appeared with The Maryland
Stage Company as Edgar in King Lear, Antonio in
The Duchess of Malfi and Philinte in The Misanthrope.
Off-Broadway: Don Zalmar in The Zalmar Boys,
Edgar/Friend in The Fall of the House of Usher.
Regional Theater: Lynnwood Pharmacy (World
Premiere, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Washington,
D.C.), Charlie's Aunt (Monomoy Theatre, Chatham,
Mass.), 84 Charing Cross Road (Milwaukee Chamber
Theatre) and Mnrco Polo Sings a Solo (Bowman
Ensemble, Baltimore). Mr. Stebbins will next be seen
as Trissotin in The Sisterhood (R.R. Bolt's adaptation
of Les Femmes Savantes) at the Roundhouse Theatre
in Maryland.
BIOGRAPHIES
Terry Cobb (Set/Light/Sound Designer) has designed
lighting, sound, sets and/or costumes for over 150
productions in dance and theatre, including most
of The Maryland Stage Company's productions.
His lighting and sound designs have won awards
at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and
have frequently been praised in the press. Mr. Cobb
is an expert in computer-assisted drafting and design
and has held offices with the United States Institute
for Theatre Technology.
Elena Zlotescu (Costume/Make-up Designer) received
her training in fine and decorative arts from the
University of Bucharest in Romania. She designed
costumes for the National Theatre in Bucharest, and
created award-winning paintings on glass which are
still on display in Romania and in public and private
collections in Europe, The Maryland Stage
Company's resident costume designer, she has
designed all but one of its productions. Ms. Zlotescu
has also created costumes for George Mason
University and Catholic University.
Julianne Franz (Production Manager) is pleased to
return to work with the Maryland Stage Company
where she stage-managed The Balcony, The Way of
the World and the Tribute to Samuel Beckett. She has
recently stage-managed The Grapes of Wrath at
Catholic University. For the past few years she has
worked at Center Stage with directors Irene Lewis,
Marion McClinton, Tim Vasen, Idris Ackamoor,
David Schechter and Tina Landau. She has stage-
managed Anna Deavere Smith in Fires in the Mirror,
Eric Bogosian in Pounding Nails into the Floor with
My Forehead and Spalding Gray in Gray's Anatomy.
A Baltimore native, she has worked locally with
Impossible Industrial Action at the Baltimore
Theatre Project, The Bowman Ensemble and
Motherlode Productions.
Xerxes Mehta (Director) is Artistic Director of The
Maryland Stage Company, which he founded in
1987. His production, Five by Beckett (Play, Act
Without Words II, Not I, Footfalls, Breath) won three
awards at the Kennedy Center in 1979, and his essay,
"Ghosts," appeared in Lois Oppenheim's collection of
interviews with and essays by Beckett directors,
Directing Beckett, in 1994. In 1990, he directed the
MSC in A Tribute to Samuel Beckett (Not I, Ohio
Impromptu, Rockaby), He has directed over 70 produc-
tions at professional and university theatres, and his
offerings have three times been voted "Best of the
Year" by the Maryland media. Mr. Mehta also has an
active life as a writer, having published on contempo-
rary theatre in many periodicals and journals. He is
currently writing a stage adaptation of Charlotte
Delbo's Holocaust memoir, Auschwitz and After.
CREDITS
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Terry Cobb
PRODUCTION MANAGER. Julianne Franz
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER: Wayne Leek
SCENE SHOP SUPERVISOR: Nancy Ann Arnold
COSTUME SHOP SUPERVISOR: Shelley Steffens Joyce
SOUND/LIGHT OPERATOR. Julianne Franz
WIGS: Nan Flanagan
HOUSE MANAGER. Beverly Conner
BOX OFFICE: Joy Cook
PHOTOGRAPHY: Terry Cobb
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Deb Branner
COMPANY MANAGER: Thomas Moore
PUBLICITY: Eleanor Cunningham
FRIENDS OF THE MARYLAND STAGE COMPANY
The Maryland Stage Company thanks all of its supporters.
To become an MSC supporter, please call Thomas Moore,
Director of Arts Management, at 410-455-3370.
Angels Friends
Kathryn Deering Stanley D. Cox
Sandra K. Dalsheimer
Sponsors Mary E. Hearn
Drs. Martin and Barbara Wasserman Dr. Gilbert R. Kahn
Elaine Lacey
Associates Carol and Robert Manfredi
Thomas Moore Waiter W. Pharr
Marilyn K. Powel Constance D. Robinson
Ana Maria and Ron Schwartz
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Maryland Stage Company gratefully acknowledges the generous
support of the University of Maryland Baltimore County:
the Office of the President, Dr. Freeman A. Hrabowski, III;
the Office of the Provost, Dr. Jo Ann E. Argersinger; the Office
of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Robert Burchard, Interim
Dean; the Office of Institutional Advancement (Arts Management,
Creative Services, Media Relations); and the Department of
Theatre (Professor Wendy Salkind, Chair).
Performances are made possible in part by grants
from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County
Executive, the Baltimore County Council, and the
Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences.
The Maryland Stage Company is also grateful to the
following individuals for their professional contributions
to this production: Professor Martha Fehsenfeld, Professor
Tom Bishop, Professor Katherine Worth, Robert
Gordon, Professor Emmanuel Jacquart, Joy Cook, Thomas Fehr,
Robert Scanlan, Margaret MacDuffie, and
especially, Marek Kedzierski.
Official Media Sponsor: 91.5FM/WBJC
That Time / Cette fois
Ohio Impromptu / L'impromptu d'Ohio