[Capdist-announce] PRESS RELEASE: WAM Theatre Announces Spring 2017 Limited-Run Remount of “Emilie...”

[Gail Burns]

October 6, 2016

Contact: Gail Burns, Marketing and Publicity Associate

www.wamtheatre.com

pr at wamtheatre.com; 518.243.9627

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WAM Theatre Announces Spring 2017 Limited-Run Remount of “Emilie...”

Lenox, MA [October 6, 2016] - Following hard on the heels of the opening of
their critically acclaimed co-production of The Bakelite Masterpiece, WAM
Theatre’s  Artistic Director, Kristen van Ginhoven has announced plans for
the first event of the company’s eighth season in 2017. A special event - a
limited run remount of WAM’s very successful 2013 production of Emilie: La
Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, written by Lauren Gunderson
and directed by van Ginhoven, will run from March 30-April 9, 2017, and be
presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer Playhouse in Lenox.  This
announcement is made possible through the generous early support of
Greylock Federal Credit Union.

In celebration of this announcement, WAM is offering a special ‘Buy Now,
Choose Your Date Later’ ticket option that will be available only until the
end of November.  These special early purchase tickets go on sale on
Tuesday, October 11, 2016.

“We are very excited to announce that the entire original cast and the
majority of the creative team are able to reassemble for this remount,”
said van Ginhoven, “Giving another life to this audience favorite and
critically acclaimed production has been a dream since 2013. Thanks to some
early support from Greylock Federal Credit Union and others, this dream is
becoming a reality. I couldn’t be more  delighted to be making this
announcement and hope many others will come forward to support our efforts
by purchasing their tickets today with our special ‘Buy Now, Choose Your
Date Later’ option!”

With this early discount deal all tickets are just $30 each - a substantial
saving off the regular ticket prices of $35-$50 - and can be booked at
www.WAMTheatre.com <http://www.wamtheatre.com>. Just book your tickets
before the end of November and then, in February, a WAM representative will
call you to reserve the performance you’d like to attend between March 30-
April 9. There will be ten performances of this special limited-run remount
over the two week period.

The 2013 production was deemed “Highly Imaginative….Highly Theatrical….” by
The Berkshire Eagle, which also awarded it Honorable Mention for Best
Production and named  Kim Stauffer's performance as Emilie one of the
year’s best  in their Best of 2013 selection. Audience members were equally
enthusiastic, remarking: “Emilie... is everything I want in a theater
experience: a great play about an intriguing, powerful woman, riveting
acting, inspired directing, an artful set and engaging audience! ”,  and
“...one of the most provocative, intelligent, funny, well acted, directed,
written performances I've seen in a long time.”

Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749), best known for her 15-year-liaison with
Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher, was far
more than a great man’s mistress. She became a highly regarded interpreter
of modern physics and a master of mathematics and linguistics during the
Age of Enlightenment. In the play, Emilie searches for a formula that will
convince the world of her worth by tallying her achievements in love and
philosophy.

Kim Stauffer, whose credits include Mary Stuart and Macbeth at New York
Classical Theatre, Outside Mullingar at Capital Rep, Madagasgar and Crime
and Punishment at the Chester Theatre Company, and A Streetcar Named Desire
and The Crucible at Barrington Stage Company, will reprise the role of
Emilie. Voltaire will be portrayed again by Oliver Wadsworth, whose credits
include the National Tour of Chitty, Chitty Bang, Bang, The Well at The
Public Theatre and Fully Committed (Metroland Best Performance) at Capital
Repertory Theatre. Additional original cast members include Suzanne Ankrum
(Tennessee Shakespeare Company), Brendan Cataldo (Adirondack Theater
Festival), and Joan Coombs (Shakespeare & Company).

Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight had its world
premiere in 2009 at South Coast Repertory Theatre in Costa Mesa, Calif. The
play has been described as “fiercely inquisitive and joyfully sexy” (The
San Francisco Chronicle) and an “ambitious, highly theatrical romp that
literally crackles with electricity” (LA/OC Examiner). WAM first staged the
play in November of 2013 at the St. Germain Stage at Barrington Stage
Company.

In keeping with WAM’s double philanthropic mission, a portion of proceeds
from this production will be donated to an organization that benefits women
and girls.

AT A GLANCE

Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight

by Lauren Gunderson

Directed by Kristen van Ginhoven

Presented by WAM Theatre

March 30-April 9/17

at the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company

Kemble Street, Lenox, MA

Tickets: $30 “Buy Now, Choose Your Date Later”- special until end of
November

Starting December 1, tickets will range from $35-$50

For tickets visit www.WAMTheatre.com

Cast

Suzanne Ankrum as Soubrette

Brendan Cataldo as Gentleman

Joan Coombs as Madam

Kim Stauffer as Emilie

Oliver Wadsworth as Voltaire

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Lauren Gunderson is the most produced living playwright in America for
2016, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and the Steinberg/ATCA New
Play Award, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and John Gassner
Award for Playwriting, and a recipient of the Mellon Foundation’s 3-Year
Residency with Marin Theatre Co. She studied Southern Literature and Drama
at Emory University, and Dramatic Writing at NYU’s Tisch School where she
was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been
commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including
South Cost Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing mg
American Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!), The O’Neill, The Denver
Center, Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San
Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Synchronicity, Olney Theatre, Geva and
more. Her work is published at Playscripts (I and You, Exit, Pursued By A
Bear, and Toil And Trouble), Dramatists (Silent Sky, Bauer) and Samuel
French (Emilie). She is a Playwright in Residence at The Playwrights
Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild member. She is from Atlanta, GA
and lives in San Francisco. LaurenGunderson.com

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Kristen van Ginhoven WAM Theatre: In Darfur (New England Premiere),Emilie
(New England Premiere), The Old Mezzo(World Premiere), The Attic, The
Pearls and Three Fine Girls and Melancholy Play. Regional Theatre: The Whale
(Adirondack Theatre Festival), 10 Minute Play Festival (Barrington Stage
Company), Petticoats of Steel (Capital Repertory Theatre), Footloose
(Cohoes Music Hall), Children’s Hour (Siena College), Vendetta Chrome
(Emerson College). Selected assistant directing: They Physicists, 42nd
Street (Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada), Two Men of Florence
(Huntington Theatre), Sleuth, Absurd Person Singular (Barrington Stage
Company) Training: Dalhousie University (BA), Queen’s University (BEd),
Emerson College (MA). Et Cetera:Kristen is the Artistic Director of WAM
Theatre, an associate member of the Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers and a theatre artist for the International Schools Theatre
Association. She was a member of the 2013 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.
Website: www.wamtheatre.com

OUR SEASON SPONSORS

WAM Theatre is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support
from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities; and by the Massachusetts Cultural Council
Cultural. Our 2016 sponsors include the Adams Community Bank, Berkshire
Bank, Berkshire Magazine, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Blue Q, Brabson
Library & Educational Foundation, Canyon Ranch, Custom Business Solution,
Dylandale Foundation, Feigenbaum Foundation, Garden Gables, Greylock
Federal Credit Union, Guido's Fresh Marketplace, International Schools
Theatre Association, Interprint, Dr. Jay Wise, DDS & Dr. Casey Jones, DMD,
 Jon Gotterer DMD, Keator Group, LLC, Lee Bank, Lenox Education Enrichment
Fund, Massachusetts Cultural Council, MAXYMILLIAN Technologies, Michele’s
Salon + Day Spa, Nina Molin MD, No. Six Depot Roastery and Café, Petricca
Industries, Pittsfield Cooperative Bank, RB Design Co., The Rookwood Inn,
Rouge Restaurant & Bistro, Toole Insurance, A. von Schlegell & Co., The
Sherman Investment Group-RBC Wealth Management, and Zabian's Fine Jewelers.

WAM Theatre is also supported in part by grants from the Lenox,
Alford-Egremont, Pittsfield Cultural Council, Cultural Council of Northern
Berkshires , Washington Cultural Council, Monterey Cultural Council,
Stockbridge Cultural Council, West Stockbridge Cultural Council, Richmond
Cultural Council – local agencies that are supported by the Massachusetts
Cultural Council, a state agency.

ABOUT WAM THEATRE

Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre is Where Arts and
Activism Meet. The company was co-founded in 2010 by Canadian director,
actor, educator, and producer Kristen van Ginhoven. WAM’s vision is to
create opportunity for women and girls through the mission of theatre as
philanthropy.

Inspired by the book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for
Women Worldwide by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, WAM donates a
portion of the proceeds from its theatrical events to organizations that
benefit women and girls.

Over the past six years, WAM Theatre has donated more than $21,000 to eight
nonprofit organizations and provided paid work to more than 175 theatre
artists. In addition to the main stage productions and special events, WAM
Theatre’s activities include a comprehensive educational outreach program
and the Fresh Takes Play Reading Series. For more information, visit
www.WAMTheatre.com

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Gail M. Burns

*Marketing + Publicity Associate*
www.WAMTheatre.com <http://www.wamtheatre.com/>
413-274-8122

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