Presents 
The
Hollow
by
Agatha Christie
Director Norman
Blumensaadt
Set
Design Paul
Davis
Lighting
Design Laura
Sandberg
Costume
Design Jannette
Driscoll
Sound Frank
Benge
Stage
Manager Jessica
Cohen
CHARACTERS
AND CAST
Henrietta
Angkatell Nicole Marosis
Sir Henry
Angkatell, K.C.B. M. Phillip
Weisman
Lady Angkatell Sharon Elmore
Midge Harvey Julianna Wright
Gudegon T.J. Moreno
Edward
Angkatell Tyler
Jones
Doris Amy Lewis
Gerda Christow Sarah
Seaton
John Cristow,
..M.D., F.R.C.P. Charles P. Stites
Veronica Craye Jessica
Medina
Inspector
Colquhoun, C.I.D. Don
Owen
Detective
Sergeant Penny Andy
Smith
The
action of the play passes in the garden
room of Sir Henry
Ankatell’s
house, The Hollow, about eighteen miles from London.
ACT
I A Friday afternoon in early
September
ACT
II Scene 1 Saturday morning
Scene 2 Later the same day
ACT
3 The Following Monday morning
There
will be two intermissions.
“The Hollow” is produced
by special arrangement
with Samuel French, Inc.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SPECIAL THANKS
Russ Wiseman
& Dougherty Arts Center, Austin
Circle of Theaters, Sharon Elmore for providing
her house to rehearse, Scott Schroeder for the
theatrical guns, Jennifer Underwood & Karen Jambon,
Nikki Zook for accent
coaching, Mike Mesko, Douglas Kelley,
Zach Scott for rehearsal
space, Bonnie Cullum and the staff of The Vortex
Different Stages, Inc. has
been a community-based organization since its inception in 1981 and incorporation
in 1984. It produces works by
playwrights whom we believe to be defining forces in theatre. We seek to entertain with performances that
reveal life in all its comedy, tragedy and intensity; and we hope to educate by
choosing plays that provide exceptional insight into the human condition. By challenging ourselves as artists and our
audiences as participants, we endeavor to provide the community with vigorous
and exciting live theatre.
Board of Directors: Karen Jambon T.J. Moreno. and Norman
Blumensaadt. Operating Board: Sarah
Seaton, Royce Gehrels, and Paula Ruth Gilbert.
DONATIONS
Director Level $5000+
The City of Austin
Actor Level $1000 - $5000
Karen Jambon & Jennifer Underwood
Stage Manager Level $500-$999
Tera Quest Metrics, Inc. Norman S.
Blumensaadt
Designer Level $250-$499
Royce
Gehrels, Bruce McCann, Emily Erington, Don Howell
Stage Hand
Level $100-$249
Connie
McMillan, Kathleen Lawson, Ann Blumensaadt, Janie Hayes & Jimmy Bisese,
Karen Kuykendall, Irene Dubberley, Suzanne Winkelman, Mary Margaret Farabee,
Richard A. Muscat, Tom White, David Smith, Harvey Guion, Karen Sneed, Ann Bower
Audience Level
$20-$99
Carl Anderson & Peyton Hayslip, Paul
G. Minor & Erin Ochel, Rodolfo R. Alamia, M.D., Helen M. Mrasek, Rebecca
Robinson, Courtney Dial, Reba Gillman, Patricia Bennett,
Charles Ramirez Berg, William L. Cohagan,
Ronald Seeliger,
Bobbie & Larry Oliver, Bill Johnson
& Elota Patton,
Marvela Pritchett-Paschall, Richard &
Marcia Kinsey, Andrea Smith
IN-KIND DONATIONS
Mary Alice Carnes, Sarah Seaton
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT
AGATHA
CHRISTIE (1890-1976) was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller in Devonshire,
England, the youngest of three children.
Frederick Miller, her father, was an easy-going American and her mother
a devoted parent. Agatha grew up in a
very comfortable Victorian household in the seaside resort community of
Torquay. As a child she was educated at
home by a governess and tutors, and as a teenager she attended a private school
in Paris, where she studied music but was too shy to pursue it as a
career.
In 1914 at the
age of 24 she married Archie Christie, a World War I fighter pilot. While he was off at war, she worked as a
nurse. It was during this time, in
1915, that she wrote her first murder mystery novel “The Mysterious Affair at
Styles,” although it was not publish until 1920. It introduced her detective Hercule Poirot.
In 1926 her mother
died and her husband left her for a younger woman. In 1927 she travelled to the Near East; and in Iraq she met a
dashing young archeologist by the name of Max Mallowan, who was the son of an
Austrian-Czech father and a French mother but who had been educated in
England. Her divorce was finalized in
1928 and in 1930, when Agatha was 40 and Max was only 26, they married—a
marriage that was to last for 45 years.
In 1930 Agatha also introduced her detective Miss Jane Marple in “Murder
at the Vicarage.” Especially in the
Thirties and later in the Fifties, Agatha and Max travelled almost yearly to
Syria and Iraq, particularly around Mosul, with its mix of Arabs, Kurds,
Armenians, Syrians, and Yezidis—he to excavate and she to write. Max acquired fame for his excavations at
Chagar Bazar, Nimrud, and Tell Brak; published numerous learned papers; and
eventually was knighted. She absorbed
the local culture; found the lack of telephones a blessing; and eventually wrote
over 100 novels, 16 plays (the longest running being “The Mousetrap,” opening
in 1952), and numerous short stories and screenplays. Many of her stories have been adapted for stage, television, and
film, her most famous being perhaps “Murder on the Orient Express” (1974). Her works have been translated into over a
hundred different languages. In 1971
Queen Elizabeth made her a Dame of the British Empire.
Agatha
Christie spoke of herself as “A comfortable, sensible ordinary person.” She started one of her books with the words
“To be alive is a grand thing” and closed with “It is good to remember that
there were such days and such places.”
She found adventure in the ordinary and humor in the everyday but was
not adverse to including a bit of the exotic and a dash of danger.
THE PRODUCTION COMPANY
NORMAN
BLUMENSAADT (Director) is the
Producing Artistic Director for Different Stages. Among the numerous shows that he has directed, a selection of
just some of the more recent are Summer
and Smoke, The Cripple of Inishmaan,
The House of Bernarda Alba, Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Beard of Avon. Roles that he has
portrayed include Aunt Augusta/Henry Pulling in Travels with my Aunt and Old Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World. In celebration of his long and outstanding
work in the Austin theater scene, the Austin Circle of Theaters bestowed upon
Norman the 1998 Deacon Crain/John Bustin Award.
PAUL DAVIS (Set Designer) most recently designed Your
No One, Nothing Special, The Glory of Living, The Water Principle and The Drawer Boy at Hyde Park
Theatre. Other designs include, Bent, Perdita, Quake, Coyote—A Fence, Marion Bridge, Vigil, Art Stripped Naked,
Little FootSteps, Corpus Christi, Angels in America at Connecticut Rep, The Knight in Finborough,
England. Scenic Artist for Connecticut
Rep, Portland Stage, and Dallas Theatre Center, he now teaches theatre at
Leander High School. For Different
Stages Paul has designed The House of
Bernarda Alba, Two Gentlemen of
Verona, and An Ideal Husband and
Molly Sweeney.
JEANNETTE
DRISCOLL (COSTUME DESIGN) has a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from UT
El Paso. She has been working in the area of costuming for 8 years, mainly on
touring shows. She has been in Austin for 2 years and this is her sixth
Different Stages production. She also works regularly with Austin Lyric Opera.
SHARON ELMORE (LADY
ANGKATELL) Sharon's
run the gamut from Lady Macbeth to Sister Mary Ignatius. Her favorite roles include Amanda in Glass Menagerie, Queen Eleanor in The Lion in Winter, Dotty in Noises Off, Sister in Wallpaper Psalms, Mrs. Beckoff in Torch Song Trilogy, the Stage Manager in Our Town (yea I know it's a man's role, but I got to play it as a
shaman), Halie in Buried Child, and Siri Strindberg in The Night of the Tribades . Sharon has had the privilege & joy
of working with the Dallas Theatre Center, Theatre Three, Stage West, and most
of Austin's theatre companies. Going
back years and years and years!
TYLER JONES
(EDWARD ANGKATELL). Tyler is happy to be in his 2nd Different Stages show after
appearing in The Beard of Avon. Some NY
credits include Rosencranz and
Guildenstern are Dead, Swing Out
Bernadette, In My Dreams, A Midsummer Nights Dream and Winter's Tale
(both at ShakespeareNYC). Other credits include Sweeney Todd (Tobias), Assassins
(Balladeer/Oswald), Die!Mommy!Die!
(Lance), A Funny Thing Happened...(Hero),
The World Goes Round (Principal), and Forever Plaid (Frankie).
Thanks to all involved for a bloody good time.
AMY LEWIS (DORIS) Amy is very excited to be in her second
Different Stages Production. She was previously seen as Nellie in The Playboy of the Western Word. Amy
holds a B.F.A. from McMurry University in acting and directing. She has
previously been seen in the Austin area, as Lucy in Dracula and a series of staged radio plays at the Bastrop Opera
House. Other favorite roles include
Leslie in The House of Yes The
Younger Woman in Romulus Linney's Gint,
and most notably Aunt Ola in The Cover of
Life.
NICOLE MAROSIS (HENRIETTA ANGKATELL) was a Vocal Performance Major at
California Institute of the Arts and studied classical voice while living in
Switzerland and Italy. She was in the acting conservatory program at PCPA Theaterfest where she was in
many main stage musicals and plays. Recent past performances include the role of
Fraulein Kost in Cabaret with Zachary
Scott Theater, Agnes in Dancing at
Lughnasa at SBCT, Miss Pryce in Appointment With Death and
Mariella/Alba/Pepita in Marriage is
Forever with Different Stages. She frequently performs in musical Cabaret's
around Austin including a Cabaret for Zachary Scott Theater's Z! Cabaret series
and a benefit Cabaret for the victims of Katrina at the Blue Theater. Nicole is
currently working on a new solo Cabaret that she hopes to premiere this Fall.
She would like to thank her family for their love and support. Nicole dedicates
this performance to her AWD peeps and Ann Ciccolella and fellow Artist Way
classmates.
JESSICA MEDINA (VERONICA CRAYE) is addicted to
lipstick. Her most recent role was that
of Anita Merendino in Wrong turn at Lungfish for Paradox players. "The Hollow" marks her sixth
appearance with Different Stages. She
is very glad to be here and thanks the cast and Norman for being just super. And also thanks her adorable, loveable
boyfriend Adam for enduring her lunacy.
Enjoy the show, everybody.
T.J. MORENO (GUDGEON) T.J. Moreno takes the role of
Gudgeon with pleasure, especially after the fun he had last summer in Agatha
Christie’s Appointment with Death.
This marks his fifth production with Different Stages, having previously
preformed and stage managed. He would like to thank all of the folks involved
with Different Stages who consistently bring quality theater to life for eager
audiences across Austin.
DON OWEN (INSPECTOR COLQUHOUN, C.I.D.) Don moved to Austin in June of last year from Paradise, CA where he had
been very active in Community Theatre.
Since arriving here he has appeared in Bent (Uncle Freddy) at the Blue Theatre and in Bus Stop (Carl) with the Paradox Players. This is his debut with Different Stages.
LAURA SANDBERG (LIGHT DESIGN) LAURA SANDBERG (Light Designer) has been designing scenery and lighting for a little
longer than she cares to admit these days, but takes solace in the knowledge
that theatre helps keep her young at heart.
She grew up in Texas, but trekked north to study theatre design at
Northwestern University. Afterwards, she worked at the Norton Center for the
Arts in Kentucky, designing local shows and serving as a technician/stage
manager for touring performers like Marcel Marceau, Leontyne Price and Rudolf
Nureyev. She returned to Texas to get her MFA at UT Austin, and works on
theatre around Austin, as her day job as a computer geek permits. Favorite design credits include: The Snow Queen, A Doll House, Our Country's
Good, Etta Jenks, Mad Forest, King Stag,
A Perfect Ganesh, Liu The Dragon King,
and The Hobbit.
SARAH SEATON (GERDA CRISTOW) is a native Texan, raised right here in Austin. She is proud to be making her third
appearance with Different Stages, and would like to thank Norman for his
confidence and encouragement. Her most
recent role was the Widow Quin in last fall's Playboy of the Western World.
She dedicates her performance to her wayward friend, Shelley, in
celebration of her return home, and thanks her husband, David (a man worthy of
blind devotion!) for his love and support
ANDY SMITH (DETECTIVE SERGEANT PENNY) Andy is a UT-Austin alum. He is a graduate
of The College of Communications in Radio-Television-Film. You may have seen
Andy as Rudy in Bent at the Blue
Theatre in October of 2005. The Hollow is the second Different Stages
production in which he has been involved.
He played opposite the award winning, Nikki Zook, as Raymond Boynton
in Agatha Christie’s Appointment with
Death last summer. Andy will be performing in Rubber Repertory’s Red Cans
at the Off Center in August
CHARLES P. STITES (JOHN CRISTOE, M.D.) Charles is a graduate of the University of Texas and
the veteran of numerous productions in Austin. Over the years he has been seen
in productions with Capitol City Playhouse, Hyde Park Theatre, Sam Bass
Theatre, and Onstage Theatre Company. For three years Charles was also a member
of the Improv Troupe at the Velveeta Room on 6th Street. A three-time B. Iden
Payne nominee, he won the award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Comedy in
2002 for his performance in Fools.
This production marks his fourth show with Different Stages.
M.PHILIP WEISMAN (SIR HENRY ANGKATELL) Philip grew up in and around Philadelphia, PA. On the heels of the East
Coast blizzard of 1996, by Memorial Day weekend Philip was in Dallas, Tx. Appearing as Gonzalo in The Tempest, and Paravicini in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap led to three appearances
at Pocket Sandwich Theatre : Judge Gaffney in Harvey, Dr. Watson in Sherlock
Holmes, The Melodrama, and as
Alfred Hitchcock in Notorious Psycho Birds in the North by Northwest Rear
Window. Having moved to Austin last June, The Hollow marks Philip's Capitol City and Vortex Theater premiere performances
as well as his debut with Different Stages.
The second most important "things" in Philip's life are two Chinese
Pugs : Melody, and Cinnamon.
JULIANNA WRIGHT (MIDGE HARVEY) This is Julie's first production with Different Stages
and, hopefully, not her last. She has
been involved in theatre for over 10 years now and has enjoyed every second of
it. She received her A.A. in Theatre
from San Antonio College before receiving her B.A. in Theatre Studies from the
University of Texas at Austin. When
Julie is not writing, producing, or directing, you can see her on stage. You may have recently seen her portrayal of
Susannah in The Violet Crown Players musical production Tintypes. If
you have young ones, you may have seen her on stage with Second Youth
Family Theatre, the children's theatre for which she wears the hat of
co-artistic director. Some of her
favorite roles with SY include:
Sojourner Truth in A Woman Called
Truth, Melissa B. Little in Gary Grinkle's Battle With Wrinkles, and
Donkey in The Bremen Town Musicians
for which she received a B. Iden Payne Nomination. Julie would like to thank her family, friends, and the wonderful
cast and crew of The Hollow for all
the support and good times.
PRODUCTION
STAFF
Rehearsal Assistant Carol Ginn
Assistant Stage Manager
Telana
Martinez
Set Construction Chris
Cogswell, Kelly Bland
Set Movers Down Owen,
Steve Fay, Andy Smith,
Amy Lewis, Carol Ginn, Charlles Stites, Cindy
Pollard
Graphic Artist Sarah Seaton
Photographer Brett
Brookshire
Program Norman
Blumensaadt
Properties Norman Blumensaadt
Publicity Carol
Ginn, Karen Jambo
DIFFERENT STAGES’ REPERTORY
Begun as Small Potatoes Theatrical Company
1981:
August Strindberg’s Creditors and The Stronger. 1982: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 1983:
George Bernard Shaw’s Candida; Anton Chekhov’s The Brute, Swan
Song, and Celebration. 1984:
Luigi Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You Think You Are); Jane
Martin’s Talking With… 1985:
Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9; William Shakespeare’s As You Like
It; Carl Sternheim’s The Underpants; Michael Weller’s Moonchildren. 1986: Amlin Gray’s How I Got That Story;
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale; Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the
Horizon. 1987: Michael Weller’s Loose
Ends; Aristophanes’ The Wasps; Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart;
Arthur Schnitzler’s Anatol. 1988:
Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon; Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk
Wood; Moss Hart’s Light Up the Sky; Jean Racine’s Phaedra;
Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Misanthrope. 1989: Caryl Churchill’s Fen; Charles
Ludlam’s The Artificial Jungle; William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of
Venice. 1990: Eric Overmeyer’s On
the Verge; Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Milan
Kundera’s Jacques and His Master; Tom White’s The Trouble with Tofu;
William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus.
1991: George Kelly’s The Show-Off; George
Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Keith Reddin’s Life and Limb;
Mozart/Lorenzo da Ponte’s Così fan Tutte; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The
Learnèd Ladies. 1992:
Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind; Carlo Gozzi’s The Raven;
Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck; Charles MacArthur’s Johnny on a Spot;
George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer. 1993: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s
Good; Charles Ludlam’s The Secret Lives of the Sexists; Tennessee
Williams’ Orpheus Descending. 1994:
Constance Congdon’s Tales of the Lost Formicans; William
Shakespeare’s Cymbeline; George M. Cohan’s The Tavern; Marlayne
Meyer’s Etta Jenks. 1995: Pierre Marivaux’s
The Triumph of Love; Tom Stoppard’s Travesties; Larry Kramer’s The
Destiny of Me; Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Diary of a Scoundrel. 1996: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest; Agatha
Christie’s Black Coffee; William Congreve’s The Way of the World. 1997:
Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh; Dorothy Parker’s Here We
Are; Alan Ayckbourn’s Drinking Companion; Terrence McNally’s Noon;
George M. Cohan’s Seven Keys to Baldpate; Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the
Paycock. 1998: Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia;
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Giles Havergal’s Travels with my Aunt;
Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. 1999:
Edit Villareal’s My Visits with MGM; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The
Hypochondriac (tr. Martin Sorrel); Edward
Percy and Reginald Denham’s Ladies in Retirement; Anton Chekhov’s Uncle
Vanya. 2000: Peter Parnell’s The
Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket; Ann
Ciccolella’s Fruits and Vegetables; George S. Kaufman and Marc
Connelly’s Merton of the Movies; Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of
Inishmaan. 2001: Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s Roosters; George Bernard Shaw’s
The Devil’s Disciple; J. B. Priestly’s Dangerous Corner;
Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke.
2002: Ann Ciccolella’s Madame X; David Linsay-Abaire’s Fuddy
Meers; Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest; Federico Garcia
Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba.
2003: Christopher Durang’s Betty’s
Summer Vacation; Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady, William Shakespeare’s
Two Gentlemen of Verona; Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. 2004:
John Patrick’s The Hasty Heart; Tom White’s The Misses Overbeck;
Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney, George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man. 2005:
William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Edit Villareal’s Marriage
is Forever; Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death; John Millington
Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World. 2006: Two into War (The Gifts of War and The Retreating
World); Amy Freed’s The Beard of Avon; Agatha Christie’s The
Hollow.
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