* * Concordia University Department of Theatre Faculty of Fine Arts presents THE SUICIDE by Nikolai Erdman translated by Peter Tegel Co-:directed by Ralph Allison & Gregory Ziskin D.B. Clarke Theatre, February 1995 TIIE SUICIDE by Nikolai Erdman translated by Peter Tegel Co-Directors: Ralph Allison & Gregory Zisk.in Assistant Director: Wolfgang Vachon CAST Costume Designer: Sarah Nixon Costume Assistant: Marie-France Labbe Quincy Armorer Father Elpidi Set & Lights Designer: David Guttman Lynn Bartholomew Gypsy Assistant Set & Lights Designer: Emmet Henchey Michelle Bradshaw Zinka Padespan Stage Manager: Genevi~ve E. Anthony Jeff Douglas Aristarch Dominilwvich Golashcapov Assistant Stage Manager: Bridget Gillen Natalie Fraser Margarita Ivanovna Peryesvetova Richard Gelinas Deacon Assistant Stage Manager: Julie M09re Patrick Goddard Niki/or Arsenyevich Pugachov Poster & Program Designer: David Guttman Sheri Hastings Maria Lukianovna Light Board Operator Sound Board Operator Ryan Hollyman Oleg Leonidovitch/Cojjin Carrier/1st Individual Sophie Lasnier Mylme Pelletier Kelly Hong Serajima llinichna Costume Running Crew Bernadette Houde Raissa Filipovna Lilith Clark Nicolina Servello David Leblanc Ivan Peryesvetova Christina 11wmpson Mike Mainguy Semyon Semyonovich Podsekalnilwv Lighting Crew Robert Newton Kostya/Coffin Carrier/2nd Individual Sera Anthe~nis Sophie Lasnier Robert Ross Parker Egor 1imovyeyvich Angela Bright Mylene Pelletier Nathalie Stechysin Groonya Alanna Brown Karen Taillard Stephen Spreekmeester Viktor Vlktorovich Julie Sullivan Cleopatra Maximovna THE SUICIDE Robert Van der Linden Alexander Petrovich Kalabushkin I do not have a very high opinion of the play •THE SUICIDE•. My clo~est MUSICIANS comrades consider it empty and even harmful. -Joseph Stalin Violinist Marie-Soleil Belanger (THE SUICIDE) is •a splendid play•. - K. Stanislavski Guitarist Alexander St. John Guitarist Martin Tsai Nikolai Erdman's play The Suicide was never produced in Soviet Russia. Written around 1928 by a young man in his twenties whose only other play, The Mandate, was hailed as "the best comedy of the year", The Suicide was ACTI: A room of the Podsekalnikov's - night banned before its opening by Stalin in 1932. Soviet Russia was rapidly becoming a country in which (to quote a ACT II: The same - the next day charac.ter from the play)" ... nowadays only the dead may say what the living think." 15 MINUTE INTERMISSION ACT ill: An outdoor restaurant - the following day SPECIAL THANKS ACT IV: A room of the Podsekalnikov's - late the same day ACTV: A cemetery - three days later Kevin Austin Chris Cocchio LOUD GUNSHOT SOUNDS WILL BE HEARD DURING THE PERFORMANCE. Cornell Gabara Nick Titcombe ~ Dr. Valentin Boss, Professor of History, McGill University ·Concordia University is a smoke free environment. Please cooperate. This production is one of a number produced this year at Concordia University. The primary purpose of this project was to provide an opportunity for our students to experience the acting process from reading the script through to the public performance. DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE Mark Bye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Asst. Technical Director Anne Clark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Production Coordinator Maggie Ewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costumiere Pierre-Rene Goupil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Technical Director Tina Kournikakis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PIT. Asst. to the Chair Mairi MacEachern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Costume I Prop Rental Eric Mongerson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ·. . . . . . Department Chair Robert Paquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Properties Master Gilles Paquette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Props Assistant Christine Petrakos ......... . ... ·. ...... D.B. Clarke Theatre Manager Joanne Rankin .......................... ~ ... Asst. to the Chair Philip Spensley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Anistic Director COMING SOON The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway directed by Elise Menard March 31, April 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 - 8:00 p.m. D.B. Clarke Theatre The .Tourney of the Dra&on Boy by Tannis Kowalchuk & Lora Schroeder directed by Kit Brennan April 7 & 8 - 7:00 p.m., April 8 & 9 - 2:00 p.m. F. C. Smith Auditorium