Mary's Wedding

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Biddeford Journal Tribune

“Mary’s Wedding” is a poetic evocation of
love and loss, of yearning and separation.

Romance, separation in WW1

'Mary's Wedding' is emotionally charged

Dreamworld adds to the tales told the night before 'Mary's Wedding'

About the Playwright

STEPHEN MASSICOTTE (b. 1969) was raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario. After receiving his MFA from the University of Calgary, Massicotte wrote several one-act plays produced in fringe theaters, including The Boy's Own Jedi Handbook, which was written in response his memories of the 1977 Star Wars frenzy. Massicotte also worked as an actor, and has performed in several of his own works, which has influenced his writing.  After five years of preparation and reworking, Massicotte completed Mary's Wedding in 2000, his most successful play to date. His fifth play and one of his latest works, The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion, premiered at the Tarragon Theater in Toronto in 2006 and follows the lives of Robert Graves and Lawrence of Arabia after WWI. As a writer, Massicotte's work is characterized by the expression of deep emotion and feeling, as exemplified in the touchingly personal scenes of Mary's Wedding.

About the Cast

TODD LAWSON (Charlie Edwards) is thrilled to be making his debut with Portland Stage. Credits include: Broadway: Summer and Smoke. Off-Broadway: Levittown, Only a Lad, Young Playwrights Festival. National Tour: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. New York: Stones In His Pockets, Flight (Talkin' Broadway Award), Unnatural Acts (OOBR Award), Alphabet City III & IV, The Grecian Formula, Barefoot in the Park. Regional: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (A Christmas Carol 05-09, Stone My Heart), The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (Secret Order, The Shape of Things) Vermont Stage Co. (King Lear, Three Days of Rain), Hudson Stage Co.(The Pursuit of Happiness), Delaware Theatre Co.(Our Town), Key West Theatre Festival (Earth to Bucky), Bay Street Theatre (Hair), The Wilma (Black Comedy, The Real Inspector Hound), The Human Race Theatre Co. (The Vertical Hour, Three Days of Rain, Prelude to a Kiss), Gateway Playhouse (South Pacific), Nomad Theatre Co. (The Body) and A Celtic Celebration with symphony orchestras around the country. Film and Television: Guiding Light (Multiple), As the World Turns, Everything is Ordinary, Cavemen with Coffee, Simon Manor and Suavecito.

ANNIE PURCELL (Mary Chalmers) Broadway: The Coast of Utopia: Voyage, Shipwreck, and Salvage (LTC) , Dividing the Estate, Awake and Sing! Off-Broadway: Cycling Past the Matterhorn. Regional: The House in Hydesville (Geva) Uncle Vanya (Cal Shakes.) Workshops: The Cherry Sister Revisited
(LSU/ATL) Six (Cape Cod Theater Project) This Bloody Mess (Lincoln Center Directors Lab).  In addition, numerous readings in NYC for LCT, the New Group and the Irish Rep. Film: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. TV: "Louie", "The Black Donnellys."   MFA, NYU; BA: Fordham University at Lincoln Center.  As a playwright: Book the Third (Studio Tisch).  

The Design Team

DANIEL BURSON  (Director) is tremendously happy to be directing this production on the mainstage of his theatrical home. Now in his fifth season as Portland Stage's Literary & Education Manager, Dan returned to his home state in 2005 after stints with the Guthrie Theater, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Huntington Theatre Company. Previously at PSC, he directed The Santaland Diaries in the Studio Series, many staged readings for From Away and Little Festival of the Unexpected, and two independent studio collaborations: The Apollo of Bellac and Bunnies Part 1. Other credits include Twelfth Night, Almost, Maine, and Indoor/Outdoor at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, and associate-directing The Lonesome West with AIRE. As a dramaturg, Dan is the Northeast regional vice president of Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas, and dramaturged the world premieres of Longfellow: A Life in Words and PSC's adaptation of Peer Gynt.

ANITA STEWART (Set Designer)  has worked as a set and costume designer at leading theatres across the country, including: the Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Canadian Opera Company, Minnesota Opera, A.R.T., Steppenwolf, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, Boise Contemporary Theater, New Jersey Shakespeare and Portland Stage Company. Anita's desire to play a meaningful role as an artist in a specific community brought her to Portland Stage Company in Maine as Artistic Director, a company for which she had previously done significant freelance design.

SUSAN THOMAS (Costume Designer)  Susan Thomas is now on her fourth season as the Costume Shop Manager at Portland Stage Company.  Some of Susan's design credits at Portland Stage Company are A Christmas Carol and The SantaLand Diaries, Fully Committed, and Longfellow: A Life in Words in previous seasons. Susan would like to thank the Theatre Department at USM for the wonderful opportunity to design Tea & Sympathy for their Fall Season.  Shows Susan has designed at various theaters include: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Indoor/ Outdoor, Almost Maine, As You Like It, The Tempest, Henry V, Two Gentlemen of Verona,  Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard III,  and  One for the Road. Susan has worked in the costume shops of a variety of regional theatres including:  Maine State Music Theater, Geva Theater Center, Shakespeare & Company, The Theater at Monmouth, Fenix Theatre Company, The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor, and Port Opera.

BRYON WINN (Lighting Designer)  is delighted to be returning to Portland Stage for his twelfth season.  He has designed 28 productions for Portland Stage, plus 12 seasons of A Christmas Carol. His design work has also been seen at Trinity Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Axis Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, Miranda Theatre Company, Utah Musical Theatre, Middlebury College, Cornell College, Riverside Theatre and Iowa Summer Rep. Bryon serves as the Director of Theatre at the University of Iowa and is a member of United Scenic Artist 829.

DAVID REMEDIOS (Sound Designer) Portland Stage: debut.  Regional: American Repertory Theatre (Resident Sound Designer, 2000-2009; over fifty productions), Contemporary American Theater Festival, CenterStage Baltimore, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Stoneham Theatre, Nora Theatre Company, New Repertory Theatre, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Vineyard Playhouse.  New York: Theatre for a New Audience, New York Theatre Workshop, New York Fringe Festival, 92^nd Street Y.  International: Festival d'Automne (Julius Caesar, Centre Dramatique National d' Orléans/Loiret/Centre, 2009), Hong Kong Arts Festival (Orpheus X, ART, 2008), Edinburgh International Festival (Orpheus X, ART, 2007; Three Sisters, ART, 2006).  Dance: Concord Academy Dance, Snappy Dance Theater Company, Lorraine Chapman.  Awards: Connecticut Critics' Circle Award (No Exit, Hartford Stage, 2007), Elliot Norton Award (Mother Courage and Her Children, ART, 2001).  Upcoming Projects:  The Blonde, the Brunette, and the Vengeful Redhead (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Hot Mikado (New Rep), Prelude to a Kiss (Huntington Theatre Company), Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company).  www.remediossound.com.

SHANE VAN VLIET (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working on her second season with Portland Stage. Prior to coming to Maine, she worked back to back tours with Jean Ann Ryan Productions and Two Beans Productions w/Theatreworks. Some of her other New York credits include working with The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, Chicago City Limits, Turtleshell Productions, T. Schreiber Studios and participating in The New York Fringe Festival. She has also previously stage managed at the Kavinoky Theatre and Sheas Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, New York; and she has been a Production Assistant with the Radio City Rockettes.