Title, Premiere and Location
PIER GYNT
Written By
Adapted from PEER GYNT by Henrik Ibsen as translated by Rolf Fjelde
With original music by David Reiffel
Synopsis
Ibsen's epic adapted with music for Eastport, Maine (population: 1,982), the easternmost U.S. town and unfolding between 1930 and 1990. Performed in a Masonic lodge by a cast including residents of the local Passamaquoddy reservation.
Staff
Director - Bill Rauch
Producer - James Bundy
Set Designer - Benajah Cobb
Lighting Designer - Mary-Ann Greanier
Composer and Sound Designer - David Reiffel
Costume and Poster Designer - Lynn Jeffries
Choreographer - Anne Tofflemore
Stage Manager - Alice Lyobs Huctchins
Techinical Director - Jay Skriletz
Box Office and House Manager - Patti Payette
Assistant Director - Mary Bassett
Assistant Stage Manager - Helen Martin
Assistant Technical Director - John Sullivan
Assistant to Assistant Technical Director - Michael Sullivan
Assistant Lighting Designer - Karen Strellrecht
Assistant Poster Designer - Kenneth Ouellette
Sound Constructions - Tom McLaughlin, Paul Shockley, Chris Wright
Dialect Coach - Beverly McInnis
Costume Crew - Karen Theriault, Joyce Weber
Cast
| Esther | Deanna Francis |
| Pier Gynt, her son | Christopher Moore |
| Esther's Friends | Deborah Kinney, Judy McGarvey |
| Cloonan, a shipwright | Doug Robinson |
| The Singer at the Wedding (and others) | Ashby Semple |
| The Three Back-up Singers at the Wedding (and others) | Douglas Casement, Carmen Perkins, Maynard Stanley |
| The People of the Eastport Area | Eva Altvater, Liam Casement, David Chicoine, Kathy Chicoine, Fred Engel, Jeffrey Frankland, Jim Glasser, Gerry Kinney, Janet Phelps, Leslie Standlin, Karen Theriault, Seana Tomah, Joyce Weber |
| Solveig's Father | Peter Metcalf |
| Solveig's Mother | Ann Pike |
| Solveig | Amy Brenneman |
| Helga, Solveig's sister | Alayna Wilson |
| Mike Moon, the Groom | Lou Esposito |
| Mike's Father | Wes Moncrief |
| Mike's Mother | Valerie Maggiani |
| The Father of the Bride (and others) | Peter Howard |
| Ingrid, the bride (and others) | Alison Carey |
| The Lighthouse Keepers | Eileen Curtis, Rebecca Day, Beverly McInnis |
| The Sea Kids | Pquites Dana, Alan Stanley, J.R. Stanley, J.R. Stanley, Ivy Toney |
| Mary, Esther's friend | Emma Nichols |
| The Sea Brat | David Claroni |
| The Airline Passenger | Brenda Vonville |
| The Airline Navigator | Anthony Liss |
| The Sardine Packer | Kerry Tobias |
| A Man at a Pulpit | Ed Jordan |
| Musicians | Bruce Kyle (Bass), Barbara Smith (Guitar and Vocals), David Reiffel (Piano) |
| Waders | Robert Burke, Jeffrey Frankland, Amy Metcalf, Ann Sanders, John Sullivan, Liam Casement, Sandy Haddock, Kenneth Oulette, Paul Shockley, Kerry Tobias |
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