1995
Directed by Ken Grantham
 Producer’s Perspective:
When we began the Marin Shakespeare Company, we shared
Forest Meadows with a World Music Festival which had
begun around 1984 and had established itself at the
Amphitheatre for the month of July. The World Music
Festival disbanded after its 1993 season, but there
had been talk the following year about a new producer
resurrecting the event. When, indeed, this did not
occur, Domincan College (as it was then) gave Marin
Shakespeare Company permission to expand our operations
to begin earlier in the summer. Therefore, in our
sixth season, we were finally able to become more
of a true ‘festival’ and present two plays for the
first time.
Richard III opened the season, and was a showcase
for a tremendous actor living in Mill Valley, Jarion
Monroe. Jarion and Bob Currier had been two of the
founders of the Ukiah Players Theatre, a thriving
community theatre in Mendocino County, where Bob had
spearheaded the construction of a lovely 133-seat
theatre which remains one of the town’s crowning cultural
jewels. In his many years performing lead roles at
Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Shakespeare
Festival and later California Shakespeare Festival,
A.C.T. and Orange County’s prestigious South Coast
Repertory Theatre, Jarion had never had the opportunity
to play one of his dream roles – Shakespeare’s bloody,
misshapen Machiavellian, Richard III.
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Cast
of Characters
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Richard, Duke
of Gloucester
Clarence
Brackenbury
Hastings
Mistress Shore
Lady Anne
Rivers
Grey
Dorset
Queen Elizabeth
Buckingham
Stanley
"Mad" Margaret, former Queen
Catesby
1 Murderer
2 Murderer
King Edward of York, the dying king
Ratcliff
Duchess of York
1 Citizen
2 Citizen
3 Citizen
Cardinal
Prince Edward
Lord Mayor of London
Duke of York
Executioner
Bishop of Ely
Norfolk
Scrivener
Tyrell
Richmond of Lancaster
Oxford
Blunt
Herbert |
Jarion
Monroe*
Danny Kovacs*
Jim Leland
John Lohr
Molly Tascone
Michelle Pelletier
Jack Halton
Ty T. Turner
Adam Gordon
Kimberly King*
Peter Meyers
Mark Hurty
Judi Quick
Todd Pickering
Zaide Langworthy
Michael Oakes
Robert Currier
Zaide Langworthy
Jane Hink
Molly Tascone
Francesca Myman
Stephen Winton-Henry
Lucas McClure
Matt White
Bud Sisson
Avia Bushyhead
Len Pettigrew
Jim Leland
Michael Oakes
Lucas McClure
Stephen Winton-Henry
Lucas McClure
Jim Leland
Jack Halton
Bud Sisson |
Revelers,
Standard Bearers, Guards, Monks, Citizens, Courtiers,
Pages, Messengers, Soldiers:
Sabrina
Barry, David Bolduke, Angela Conte,
Marcel Delgado, Max Kaufman, Sasha Garthwaite,
Helena Lebedeff, Jeanette Ellen Luhr, Elna
Miller, Gabriel Parulis, Nathan Robinson,
Bryan Steele, Justin White and the Company
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Artistic Director
- Robert Currier
Managing Director - Lesley Schisgall Currier
Fight Director / Richard Lane
Original Music / John Geist
Stage Manager / Robert Walter*
Set Design / Gene Angell & Ron Pratt
Costume Design / Callie Floor
Light Design / Harry Rubeck
Props Design - Cynthia Poulos
Choreographer - Tom Segal
Vocal Coach - Robert Parsons
Assistant Director - Britt Block
Poster Design - Curtis Design
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*Member
of Actor's Equity Association
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