PIER GYNT
Adapted from PEER GYNT by Henrik Ibsen as translated by Rolf Fjelde
With original music by David Reiffel
Location-Eastport, Maine
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.
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
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 |
Program:
Theater Week Article:
Review by BDN Maine:
http://archive.bangordailynews.com/1990/05/29/energy-of-pier-gynt-keeps-audience-enthralled/
Program:
1990 Pier Gynt program copy.pdf