[Capdist-announce] PRESS RELEASE: WAM Remount of "Emilie..." Starts March 30

[Gail Burns]

*Press folks! Our official opening night/press night performance is at 7:30
pm on Saturday, April 1. Please RSVP* and let me know if you are coming.
This wonderful play should be spectacular in the Tina Packer Playhouse - a
great reason to get out during Mud Season.


March 8, 2017

Contact: Gail Burns, Marketing and Publicity Associate

www.wamtheatre.com

pr at wamtheatre.com; 518.243.9627

Press Photos can be found at:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wamtheatre/albums/72157637843978575


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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

Lenox, MA [March 8, 2017] - WAM Theatre’s eighth season continues with the
limited run remount of the company’s very successful 2013 production of Emilie:
La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, written by Lauren
Gunderson and directed by WAM Artistic Director Kristen van Ginhoven,
featuring the entire original cast. The production will run from March
30-April 9, 2017, and be presented at Shakespeare & Company’s Tina Packer
Playhouse in Lenox.

“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'm not only honored to have WAM re-mount Emilie..., I'm inspired,”
Gunderson wrote.  “WAM's commitment to powerful stories combined with their
artistic excellence and their civic impact makes me want to write more
plays like Emilie... about complex women changing the world. WAM truly
manifests my belief that theatre actively and intentionally changes hearts,
minds, and the future of a thoughtful and empathetic nation.”

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). For additional
information on the cast and creative team, visit:
http://www.wamtheatre.com/emilie-remount-2017/

In keeping with WAM’s double philanthropic mission, a portion of proceeds
will be donated to this production’s beneficiary: Flying Cloud Institute.
WAM’s donation will support scholarships for public school girls who attend
Flying Cloud's after school Girls Science Clubs, so girls who show promise
and interest in science can join the Young Women in Science summer programs
where they conduct experiments with women scientists and engineers working
in laboratories at Bard College at Simon’s Rock.

WAM and Flying Cloud Institute also have support from Mass Humanities to
engage 25 girls who attend Reid Middle School in Pittsfield and are part of
Flying Cloud’s after school STEAM Team. These girls will conduct science
experiments and participate in theater activities that will heighten their
appreciation when they attend a matinee of Emilie….. on April 6th, that
features a panel of women scientists after the show.

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.

AT A GLANCE

Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight

by Lauren Gunderson

Directed by Kristen van Ginhoven

Beneficiary: Flying Cloud Institute

Presented by WAM Theatre

March 30-April 9, 2017

at the Tina Packer Playhouse at Shakespeare & Company

Kemble Street, Lenox, MA

Tickets: $10-$40

For tickets visit www.WAMTheatre.com

Or call the Shakespeare & Company box office at 413-637-3353

Performances

March 30 & 31, April 1, 7 & 8 at 7:30 pm

April 1, 2, 8 & 9 at 2 pm

April 6 at 3 pm

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

WAM Theatre: Emilie, The Revolutionists (Reading with Chester Theatre).
Elsewhere: Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at
companies across the US including South Coast 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. Lauren 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. Online:LaurenGunderson.com
<http://www.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 2017 sponsors include Adams Community Bank, Berkshire
Magazine, Berkshire Sterile Manufacturing, Blue Q, Brabson Library &
Educational Foundation, Canyon Ranch, Custom Business Solutions, The
Dylandale Foundation, The Feigenbaum Foundation, Futures Education, the
Garden Gables Inn, Greylock Federal Credit Union, Guido’s Fresh
Marketplace, In Touch Printing, International Schools Theatre Association,
Interprint, Dr. Jay Wise, DDS & Dr. Casey Jones, DMD,  Lee Bank,
Massachusetts Cultural Council, MAXYMILLIAN Technologies, Methuselah Bar
and Lounge, No. Six Depot Roastery and Café, RB Design Co., Redfin, The
Rookwood Inn, Rouge Restaurant & Bistro, The Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn
Foundation, T Square Design Studio, Toole Insurance, and a. von schlegell &
co.

WAM Theatre is also supported in part by grants from the Alford-Egremont
Cultural Council, Dalton Cultural Council, Lenox Cultural Council, New
Marlborough Cultural Council, Pittsfield Cultural Council, Cultural Council
of Northern Berkshires , Otis Cultural Council, Richmond Cultural Council,
Sandisfield Cultural Council, Stockbridge Cultural Council, Washington
Cultural Council, and West Stockbridge 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


-- 
Gail M. Burns

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

*Our 8th Season:*  <http://www.wamtheatre.com/special/>
Fresh Takes <http://www.wamtheatre.com/fresh-takes-2017/> | Emilie
<http://www.wamtheatre.com/emilie-remount-2017/>| Stars in the Orchard
<http://www.wamtheatre.com/stars-in-the-orchard-2017> | The Last Wife
<http://www.wamtheatre.com/the-last-wife/> | Leadership Summit
<http://www.wamtheatre.com/berkshire-leadership-summit-2017/>


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