“All’s Well fares far better if each of its elements is exploited rather than ignored … the ideal production will trust to Shakespeare: the serious scenes will be played with respect for the gravity of the issues; the comic scenes will give full play to both wit and farce; the suspense of the plot will swing the audience along the road of high romance, untroubled by the fabulous complications; most important, the human qualities of all the characters will be affectingly unfolded. For All’s Well That Ends Well is a very human play.” (Joseph Price)

Admitting the fictional nature of the comic society is manifest in the ironically titled All’s Well That Ends Well … realism collides painfully with romance. The world as it is submits at the end with a calculated artificiality, to the laws of comic form. In doing so, it belittles these laws. This resolution, such as it is, floats free and unattached above the comedy it supposedly crowns. As an admitted fairy tale ending it does not pretend to shadow reality. It is not even consonant with the previous development of the play, nor with the nature and personalities of the characters involved. It is hard not to see this ending as a confession of the inadequacy of comedy resolutions. (from Anne Barton)

Frederic Wood Theatre ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL Feb. 28 – March 10, 1979 The University of British Columbia

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CAST (In order of speaking)

COUNTESS of Rossillion, mother of Bertram – KAREN LEVINSON BERTRAM, Count of Rossillion – GARY BASARABA LAFEW, Councillor to the King – JOHN HEDGECOCK HELENA, orphan, ward of the Countess – PAM KOROPATNICK PAROLLES, follower of Bertram – SCOTT SWANSON * PAGE, to Bertram – CHRIS SMITH KING OF FRANCE – BARNEY O’SULLIVAN * CAPTAIN DUMAINE – JONATHAN HOBBS YOUNG DUMAINE –  PAUL PERSOFSKY FIRST LORD – MARTI KULICH SECOND LORD, Interpreter – KEITH GORDEY THIRD LORD – RAY BIANCHIN FOURTH LORD – BRAD QUENVILLE DUKE OF FLORENCE – RIC BEAIRSTO ITALIAN OFFICER, PRIEST, DOCTOR – JOE McCARTHY WIDOW CAPILET, mother of Diana – BRIDGET LUNN DIANA, a virgin . – COLLEEN O’NEIL MARIANA – MIRIAM SMITH VIOLENTA – KAREN FIRUS There will be one 15 minute intermission *Appearing by permission of Canadian Actor’s Equity Association

PRODUCTION STAFF

Technical Director & Production Stage Manager IAN PRATT Stage Managers MAUREEN MARTINIUK, JOHN PENHALL Assistant Stage Managers MARIETTA KOZAK, BEV SIVER Sound Execution TEDDY BABICHUK Costume Execution ROSEMARIE HESELTON, CAROL BOYCE Lighting Execution DON GRIFFITHS Set Construction . . . DON GRIFFITHS, BOB EBERLE, JAY HENRICKSON Properties SHERRY DARCUS Scene Design Assistant SANDRA DENT Scenic Artist. GEORGE YATES Assistant to Scenic Artist RICHARD VAN VORIS Wardrobe Mistress PEGGY KEENE Properties Assistant IAN S. LEE Stage Crew STUDENTS OF THEATRE 350 House Manager JEANNINE PREVOST Box Office …. CHRIS VERRINDER, YVONNE LEMON, TIM DAVISON Business Manager MARJORIE FORDHAM Production NORMAN YOUNG

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by William Shakespeare Directed by CHARLES SIEGEL Settings & Lighting by RICHARD KENT WILCOX Costumes by BRIGITTE SITTE Music Composed and Freely Arranged from Purcell by Dances by EUGENE WILSON SHARI GRAYDON