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Mainstage
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Leslie Sands
Directed by Jack Phillips
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Cat's Cradle
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May
31, and
June 1, 2, 7, 8, 9 at 8pm
June 3, 9, 10 at 2:30pm
June 3 at 7:30pm
Twelve
years after the kidnapping and perhaps the murder of a baby,
the Inspector returns to the scene before his retirement.
This is the one case he never solved and he feels compelled
to reopen the case, but is met by a conspiracy of silence
in this modern psychological thriller.
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CAST:
Peggy Fletcher ...................... Mary
Pavia
Sam.................................. Bill
FitzGerald
Miss Merton.............. Dorothy Attermeyer
Sarah Fulton .................. Libby Hammack*
Pamela Fulton................... Janette
Quinn
Inspector Frost.................. Bill Hammack
Bob Mariott...................... Danny
Fogarty
Sir Charles Cresswell............. Denny
Wise
*new
to our stage
Director’s
Corner
By Jack Phillips
I love mysteries. Most of my leisure reading
is in that genre. I read one or two new
mysteries a week and then pass on the books
to my son and daughter-in-law. The best
mystery writers don’t cheat. They
let you in on facts in an orderly way and
don’t hide anything except the ultimate
solution until the end.
Lesley Sands is a fine writer. He has his
characters let us know what they know at
the probing of Inspector Frost. None of
them tell all the truth until Frost knows
what questions to ask. Since many people
have something to hide in this story, you
may jump to your own conclusions as you
interpret what they say; but Frost stays
with his questions until he finds the whole
truth. That’s all part of the fun
of participating in this play.
If you watch British television, you may
be familiar with Detective Inspector Frost.
He is a character in many stories. The author,
Leslie Sands, played him in several productions
and decided to write his own story about
Frost at the end of his career and about
a case he has never been able to solve.
Here we get to see a much more complicated
character.
Dramaturg’s Diary
By Janette Quinn
Cat’s Cradle is a story of past, present,
and pending relationships and one man’s
search for truth. It juxtaposes a joyous wedding
with a long-standing family mystery. Our production
may call to mind some of your own secrets
and cause you to ponder their weight.
After Mark Felt revealed himself as Watergate’s
“Deep Throat,” you may have wondered
how keeping a 30-year secret changed his quality
of life. According to Anita Kelly, professor
of psychology at the University of Notre Dame
and author of the book “Psychology of
Secrets,” there is no direct evidence
that keeping secrets causes illness. Indeed,
the ninety-one-year-old Felt’s quiet
identity seems to have promoted his health
and longevity!
In a study she conducted in 1998, Kelly found
that psychotherapy patients who harbored secrets
generally felt no stress as a result. She
concluded that some secrets may not only be
successfully kept, but that disclosing a secret
could cause more problems than it solves.
She wrote, "The essence of the problem
is that revealers may come to see themselves
in undesirable ways if others know their stigmatizing
secrets."
John Caughlin, a professor of communication
at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana,
has studied secrets. His 2005 article in the
journal Personal Relationships suggests that
people have a poor ability to forecast how
they will feel after revealing a secret and
how another person will respond to hearing
it. "People are so accustomed to saying
an open relationship is a good one that if
they have secrets they feel something's wrong,"
he said recently. "I'm not touting that
people should keep a lot of secrets,"
he said, "but I don't think people should
assume it's bad.”
We all know of benign secrets, such as the
one suggested when President Clinton said
he “didn’t inhale.” Cat’s
Cradle describes a more serious kind. It illustrates
how tragic actions and choices became secrets
to avoid embarrassment, reprisal, and social
upheaval in a small community. The story reminds
us that if secrets are revealed in ways beyond
our control, as people of conscience, we must
ultimately answer, “Why?”
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PRODUCTION
CREDITS:
Director, Jack Phillips
Technical Director, Thad Hallstein
Stage Manager, Darla Goudeau
Assistant Stage Manager, Rich Kropp
Costume Designers,
Eileen Crowe, Darla Goudeau
Costume Crew,
Dorothy Attermeyer, Peggy Carlson, Lora Craven,
Mary Dempsey, Mary Ellen Druyan, Nell Fisher-Agnew,
Dennis Hudson
Dramaturg, Janette Quinn
Hospitality Chair, Carol Clarke
Hospitality Crew,
Vicki Blair, Carole Borg, Ruth Cekal, Tom
Frohnapfel, Stacie Heintze, Bonnie Hilton,
Karen Holbert, Karla Hudson, Ann Marie and
Harry Hultgren, Andrea Imes, Dick and Peggy
Jacoby, Jim and Kelli Kopp, Bruce and Lynn
Larson, Bill and Joyce Love, Bridget Murray,
Diane Oppenheim, Arlene Page, Janel Palm,
Katie Pecis, Pat Raffety, Joan Roeder, Pat
Rotz, Donna Sauers, Kevin Slattery, Mary Smith,
Liz Steele, Catey Sullivan, Merrilyn Tomchaney,
Sarah Vanikiotis, Susan Waldschmidt, Virginia
Welch
Lighting Designer, Linda Bugielski
Lighting Crew,
Pat Dean, Tom Gess, Paul Roach, Betsy Stiles,
Cal Turner, Cathy Van Horne
Sound Designer, Peggy Solick
Sound Crew,
Jack Calvert, Betsy Stiles
Makeup Designers, Julie Knoch, Nancy Nicholson
Makeup Crew,
Lori D'Asta, Susan Mauer, Lauren Peck, Wendy
Summers
Properties Designer, Patricia Huth
Properties Crew,
Nancy and Ed Belda, Bridget Bittman, Mark
Cunningham, Mike Huth, Stacey Mazzulla McCargo,
Martha Niles
Set Construction Chair, Joe Delaloye
Set Construction Crew,
Grace Abrahamson, Bob Baker, Ann Cahill, Mark
Favoino, Tom Frohnapfel, Harry Hultgren, Mike
Huth George Letten, Rich Ptacek, Paul Roach,
Fred Sauers, Terry Smartz, Peter Sonnenberg
Set Designer, Thad Hallstein
Set Dressers, Angelee Johns Favoino, Jan Mahlstedt
Set Painting Chairs, Jim and Kelli Kopp
Set Painting Crew,
Carol Clarke, Cassandra Johnson Locke, John
Mueller, Rob Nardini, Carol Suda, Cathy Van
Horne
Dialect Coach, Susan Murray Miller
Box Office Chair, Mary Ellen Schutt
Box Office Crew,
Ed Barrow, Kelli Kopp, Lori B. Proksa, Patti
Roeder, Marilyn Wilson
House Manager Chair, Bill Wilson
House Managers,
Dave Bremer, Susan Cardamone, Carol Clarke,
Karla Hudson, Andrea Imes, Roland Imes, Mike
Janke, Donna Kanak, Katie Pecis, Bill Rotz
Front Row Center Flyer, Joe Petrolis
Group Sales Chair, Betsy Stiles
Poster Distribution, Kathleen Kusper
Production Coordinator, Jon Mills
Program Advertising, Peggy Carlson
Publicity Chair, Bridget Bittman
Program Editors, Ed Barrow, Marion J. Reis
Program Production, Stephanie Williams
Actives Website, Judy DiVita
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