JUNE 19 - AUGUST 3www.dellarte.com

Carlo Mazzone-Clementi1920 — 1999

PIERSON BUILDING CENTER

25! 25 years!! TWENTY FIVE YEARS!!! That was dark hair, several pounds, and almost half a lifetime ago. Many of our Dell’Arte students have yet to reach the ripe age of 25. And yet, here we are. The 25th year of the Mad River Festival. When I look back on this rich river of work that has flowed through Dell’Arte each summer, I see events, companies, pageants, music, and things that literally, have never been seen before anywhere. And all them are part of our aspiration to bring work from “around the world and down the block”. In the second year of the festival the community officially christened us. We had some companies sleeping the in amphitheatre as part of the festival. At 6am, one of our neighbors cranked up his music loud, put his speakers to the windows and shouted, “Wake up, you puppet makers!” Do we make puppets? No. But we’ll take the recognition that we were here to stay.

I recently read this by Gabrielle Roth:

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: “When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?

In creating the festival we try to listen most of all to the voices and sounds and people and life of this place and explore how our stories, our dancing, our music plays out in the life of where we live. Is it unique? Definitely. Is it alive? It must be. Does it matter? Absolutely. I look in the mirror and always expect to see the then 36-year old, when we started this festival. Now twenty-five years later, I think all of us have the same heart and joy in making, seeing, creating, and living this work. I find an absolute joy in being in the back yard amphitheatre with 300 people in the “sunshine and sea air” of Blue Lake. But more than celebrating where we are, this summer also looks forward to where we can go.

So the journey continues this summer with Mary Jane III (and the making of the Mary Jane film), Mad Lab, a Big Top Family Series, new works, a week of international performances from Dell’Arte alumni as we celebrate our 40th year in Blue Lake, and the ever-popular Folk Life Festival. We want to thank all of the amazing people and businesses who generously support us, especially Pierson Building Center for their support in making the festival possible. You can find the names of festival sponsors in this program and we encourage you to support them as well. And thank you for coming to this work. Without you it would not be possible. Enjoy.

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Founders: CARLO MAZZONE-CLEMENTI & JANE HILLFounding Artistic Director: JOAN SCHIRLEProducing Artistic Director: MICHAEL FIELDSDirector of The School: RONLIN FOREMANAssociate Artistic Director: LAUREN WILSONManaging Director: FRAN BEATTYChief Financial Officer: STEPHANIE WITZELMarketing Director/ Staff Photographer:JANESSA JOHNSRUDEDirector of Admissions: MATT CHAPMANRegistrar/School Administrator: SARAH PETERSProduction Stage Manager: CAITLIN VOLZBox Office / Housing Coordinator: LYNNE OWENSBookkeeper: LEZLEY TROXELLCostumer: LYDIA FOREMANResident Lighting Designer: MICHAEL FOSTERTechnical Director: JAMES HILDEBRANDTResident Musical Director: TIM GRAYArchival Video Recording: GENE BRUNDINHSU Intern: JENI DRAKE2014-2015 Faculty: Ronlin Foreman, Joan Schirle, Michael Fields, Lauren Wilson, James Peck, Laura Muñoz, , Leira Satlof, Zuzka Sabata, Janessa Johnsrude, Donlin ForemanFor the 2015 Festival:Technical Director / Master Carpenter / Facilities: JAMES HILDEBRANDTTechnical Assistants: GARRET DOSTAL, TREVOR RODMANHouse Manager / Volunteer Coordinator: EMILY MILLMANConcessions/Housing Assistant: REBECCA FINNEYRehearsal Stage Manager: EMILY STRATMANBox Office Assistant: SARAH MCKINNEYMarketing Assistant: NINA YASICK40th Anniversary Coordinator: TYLER OLSEN

DELL’ARTE INTERNATIONAL2015 Staff

Special Thanks To:Mark Whitman,

Bill Witzel, Gene Brundin,

Ron Brunson and the Mad River Grange,

Glen Nagy, Ferndale Repertory

Theatre, Chris Justesen

Dell’Arte is funded by: California Arts Council,

The James Irvine Foundation, Bertha Russ

Lytel Foundation, The Jane Hill Fund, Ben. B Cheney Foundation, Mclean Foundation,

the Nancy Jacobs Lafrenz Memorial

Scholarship, Theatre Communications

Group, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.

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Welcome to the 25th annual Mad River Festival. As Dell’Arte’s Board President, I am honored to be a part of this dynamic, international organization. And to be part of this very special year for Mad River Festival! Pierson Building Center is a generous sponsor of the Festival and with other great supporters helps us bring unique theatre, music and family events to our community.

Founded in 1971 in Berkeley, Dell’Arte moved to Blue Lake in 1974, as its founders believed artists should immerse themselves in rural communities to be inspired by and grounded in the natural living world. Since then, Dell’Arte has been an international trailblazer in Theatre of Place, which are works of performance inspired by (and for) the communities in which they are created. What put this company on the national map was original works about the issues, the people, and the other living creatures of our unique part of the planet. Performances at a world-class level made our local stories accessible and appealing from L.A. to Baltimore and beyond. Works like the Korbel series, The Scar Tissue Mysteries, Wild Card, and Mary Jane: The Musical built a loyal regional following and international recognition. Mary Jane is one of the most popular and politically current productions in Dell’Arte’s history.

MARY JANE: THE MUSICAL III is also becoming a film in partnership with 25-year BBC veteran and Emmy-nominated filmmaker John Howarth. Dell’Arte is merging its highest-grossing live show, Mary Jane: the Musical with footage of real-life issues surrounding the marijuana growing industry in Humboldt County, perspectives of local artists, and our residents. The musical documentary will feature 15 original songs, composed and performed by professional actors and musicians. MARY JANE-THE MUSICAL III includes new music and additional scenes. The arts are essential to our civic life and the unique quality at the heart of Humboldt.

Also, this year the School turns 40. And to celebrate, alumni will be coming to Blue Lake from across the U.S., Europe and Japan for “Around the World Week.” Take a look at the schedule for their public performances. Indoors in the Carlo, outdoors at the Rooney Amphitheatre, and gatherings in our Big Top Tent, we’ve got the spot and a show for you.

Comedy, drama, satire, music--this year’s Mad River Festival truly has something for everyone. Come often!

Welcome from Board President Bonnie Neely

2015 Dell’Arte Board of DirectorsBonnie Neely, President · Charis Bowman . Gene Brundin · Maureen Burke · Michael Fields ·

Ralph Faust · Stephany Joy · Dan Johnson · Lew Litzky · Frank Onstine . John Bartholomew · Elissa Rosado · Joan Schirle · Lauren Wilson · Peter Pennekamp

Bonnie Neely

Bonnie NeelyPresident, Board of Directors, Dell’Arte

PLEASE — No smoking of any kind in the Amphitheatre.

— No photography or video taping without prior

Dell’Arte approval.

— Put recyclables in appropriate container,

including unwanted programs.

— Arrive early to get tickets, as lines get long.

— Box office opens 1 hour before each show &

the backyard 1/2 hour before each show.

— Don’t park in front of the Blue Lake Post Office and

observe all ‘No Parking’ signs.

— Make note of all exits in case of an emergency.

— You must be 21 or over to drink alcohol. Please keep

all alcoholic beverages within Dell’Arte boundaries.

Enjoy the show!

Turn off all Noisemakers cell phones and the like!

— No dogs.— Leave room for all patrons, love your neighbors

and squeeze in!

— Bring sunscreen and a hat for daytime shows and

warm clothes for potentially chilly evenings.

— To avoid blocking sightlines, put chairs along the

back.— Blankets can be rented at concessions. Your

Driver’s License will be held until the blanket is

returned.

Turn off all Noisemakers cell phones and the like! La Famiglia

Patricia Daniels Rozanne ZuberPat BittonGeorge FaustRalph Faust Jr.David TaftDana PerssonMelinda GroomKash BoodjahNeil & Cindy WatterLew LitzkyMartha HaynesFred NeighborJoan LevyDavid HitchcockHalimah CollingwoodErich SchimpsJulie JonteChristopher UrsichBarbara BarrattGeorge & Mary SchmidbauerRobert YarberJon & Cynthia ForsythHugh AtkinsStephen DuschWande Lee GravesDebbie HarrisonChuck VerhaeghJohn & Barbara BrimlowLaurence EitzenJaphy’sKen MillerTiffany RittenhouseMariel MorisonLinda MortensenRon & Nancy BrunsonJaffa WahlbergMary BiehnIngrid KosekLauri RoseJames Kiniery

Felicia OldfatherFrank OnstineBarbara PennyMel & Holly KrebJacqueline PreusseFlora JoyceWillie & Vicki KnappMichael Olaf CompanyMelinda Groom Ann LindsayJanice & Larry HandStan WilsonAmerican HydroponicsJeff DeMarkFrank & Monica BumbHenry LappenKenneth HoardKathy LaytonPeter Reimuller Leslie LindborgGurudarshan Khalsa Earl and Victoria KingThomas and Loenida TteePhyllis HelligasNorman and Sally ChristensenJohn AchornMark Hapgood Claudia Nelson-HugginsJulie FulkersonDennis RaelKit MannSarah KilburnClaudia SiegelLois Adele NipkauDavid CallowMarla JoySteven LevineDorothy LinvilleFred & Joan Tempas

Dianne RosserPhilip PeschDavid HolzmanStacy HoudekPeter PennekampEvamarii JohnsonHoward & Rebecca StaufferBelva VukovichEdward ClarkNed ShapiroRonald LeviloffHannah KramerMilton WaxmanJoseph & Dolores Sipos

DELL’ARTE THANKS THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUAL DONORS FOR SUPPORTING OUR WORK THIS YEAR

Tax-deductible gifts can be sent to Dell’Arte at P.O.Box 816, Blue Lake, CA

95525.

For more information about making a

donation, please call (707)668-5663

Mary Jane: The Musical IIIDeveloped and directed by Michael Fields with the Ensemble

Additional material by Joan Schirle & Zuzka Sabata

Songs by Eldin Green, Joyce Hough, Scott Menzies, Lila Nelson, Tim Randles, Tim Gray, Joani

Rose, Zuzka Sabata, and Joan Schirle

Choreography: Laura MuñozSound Design / Music Director: Tim Gray

Musical Arrangements: Tim RandlesLighting Design: Michael FosterCostume Design: Lydia ForemanScenic Design: Daniel Spencer

CASTMary Jane.................................................Joan Schirle*Dharma.....................................................Zuzka SabataDaphney.....................................................Leira SatlofKev Bissel…............................................David PowellManny Miller Fixit....................................Ryan Musil

Ravi...........................................................Pratik MotwaniChanterelle...............................................Janessa Johnsrude

Crazy Jeannie...........................................Meridith Anne BaldwinBarry Jane.................................................Mark Teeter

*Member, Actors Equity Association

BandMarla Joy, Mike La Bolle, Tim Randles, Jeff Kelley

ProductionProduction Stage Manager: Caitlin Volz

Technical Director/Scenic Construction & Painting: James HildebrandtAudio Engineer: Tim Gray

Musical Direction: Zuzka SabataProp Construction: Ronlin Foreman

Technical Assistants: Garret Dostal, Trevor RodmanProduction Assistant: Emily Stratman

June 18 - July 5 in Dell’Arte’s Rooney Amphitheatre

THE PRIMA DONNA OF GANJA IS BACK! Dell’Arte International focuses on ‘theatre of place,’ with a scope that is

both local and global. DAI is a world-travelled theatre company, yet the organization maintains a commitment to bring

accessible theatre to Humboldt County.

The legalization of marijuana in the United States, including new enterprises in Colorado and Washington and the widespread legal use of

medical cannabis in California and beyond, is raising questions about the future of the national pot industry. California’s

marijuana market is the largest in the country and Humboldt County has garnered a global reputation as the nation’s cannabis hotbed – both in

production and through its often-quirky cannabis culture.

In 2011, Dell’Arte International staged the world premiere of Mary Jane: the Musical at its Mad River Festival. Partnering with twelve local song-writers, the show brought topics to the stage that profoundly resonated

with local audiences, some claiming this was the first time they had seen the spectrum of these “pot” issues illuminated in a public forum. Mary

Jane quickly gained notoriety, sold out all its performances, and became the highest-grossing show in Dell’Arte’s 35-year production history. ‘MJM’

won the hearts of local followers who demanded Dell’Arte bring it back for a second year, which they did in Mary Jane the Musical II: The Diva

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With potential corporatization and federal regulation around the corner, widespread environmen-

tal damage from irresponsible grow-operations, generational

change-over, and the uncertain future of Humboldt County’s

place in marijuana production, the discussion is more impor-

tant than ever. Mary Jane: The Musical III seeks to continue

this dialogue, ‘proud and stinking out loud’ looking at the good, the bad, the funny and the sad; our hopes, dreams and fears about

the herb.

Joan Schirleas Mary Jane

Photo: Bob Doran

This film will reflect our community’s perspective and knowledge at a critical moment in history. In November 2016, it is anticipated that many Americans will

have the opportunity to cast their vote on the legal future of cannabis. We are seeking investment to ensure production of this film, so that together we can

make it be a part of the debate leading up to that ballot, as well as having signifi-cance beyond then.

This is an exciting opportunity, and if you think you would like to be a part of this project, with a chance of a return on your investment, please contact Dell’Arte at

info@dellarte.com. For more information, visit maryjanemovie.com.

Dell’Arte thanks the following for their support and generosity:

Executive Producers: Sam Clauder & Kathleen BrysonSponsor: Royal Gold

Those that donated to our crowdsourcing campaign:Logger Bar Inc.

Mad River Old Crows. Blue Lake Chamber of

Commerce Lynne WellsDavid Callow

Northcoast Horticulture Carissa ClarkJoyce Hough

Elisa Forgelman Pavel Matustik

(Con)temporaryWorks Exchange

Pamela BullenKim Young

Keith MorisonStephanie Thompson

Claire PerricelliAnn Warner

Ken MillerStephany Joy

Gale McNeeleyIrene Lindholm

Elaine BenjaminLibby Maynard

Evelyn CaseCalire ReynoldsPatricia French

Leonard JobGura Lashlee

Artemis PebdaniJohn Bartholomew

Elissa Rosado Susanne Sabata

Bonnie NeelyElizabeth Henry

Susan AbbottGarret Spring

Stephanie WitzelChristine Garcia

Penny Whitehead

Keri Raphael Barbara Stach

David Young Nicholas SlieFinigan Ford

Robert DoranFrank Onstine

Pat BittonAlie and Hal Grotke

Amber ClineMariel MorisonScott Menzies

Adina ValeroAnn Alter

Alcina HorstmanTamar Asedo Sherman

BBQ Man Travis Turner

Sara FelderIan Blanchard

Nancy Stephenson Rachel BrownMichael Welch

Sarah PetersJanet Czarnecki

Steve SpainAri Lane

Susan AndersonWisteria LoefflerLaura McAlister

Barbara BrowningLindsey B. Jones

Jane HillDonna Eitel

Vaclav Sabata Tyler Olsen

Judith AuberjonoisAlexandra Stillman

Dharla CurryUS Bank

Mary Jane...THE MOVIE!In partnership with Emmy-nominated filmmaker, John Howarth, Dell’Arte is trans-

forming MJ the Musical into a film exploring different facets of the marijuana industry in Humboldt County. The film aims to fuse the staged production and its artistic perspectives with documentary footage of the marijuana-growing world,

illustrating the reality behind the fiction and bringing Mary Jane ‘out of the shadows and into the light’.

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Sizzling hot acts and cool, potent drinks - The Mad River

Festival offers up a saucy, late-night cabaret that will tickle

your fancy and your funny bone.

Comedians, music, and sexy

chorus girls were the historical formula for burlesque, which

comes from “burla,” the Italian word for ‘prank.’ Completely

unpredictable and always entertaining, this cutting-edge

cabaret is not for the faint of heart. Drinks from our full

bar are served at your seat. Sponsored by Good Relations

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RED LIGHT IN BLUE LAKEADULT CABARET

June 26 & 27 at 10:30 pm in the Carlo Theatre

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MAD LAB

MAD LAB

A mad mad evening

of works in progress

by deLL'arte

alumni and faculty

July 1 at 8pm

The Saga of Spantsa: a herstorical comedy!: created and performed by Dell’Arte Company member and faculty member Zuzka Sabata, is a character and story-telling piece about the life of Olive Oatman, the first white tattoed woman in the Americas. Olive wit-nessed the murder of her family at the age of fourteen while travelling through the southern Arizona desert in search of the Mormon mythical paradise, the Land of Bashan, in 1851.

Goloconda: Created by and featuring Dell’Arte alumni Pratik Mot-wani, faculty member James Peck and staff member Sarah Peters. Three clowns wake up on a boat stranded in a dried up ocean bed, finding themselves the sole survivors out of thousands that once were, directionless and lost in the center of the Great Drought.

Chipoltle.........................................Pratik MotwaniScout..............................................Sarah PetersManny.............................................James Peck

Photo: James Peck

In the Carlo Theatre

Art Grows Here!

Nancy Jacobs LaFrenz

1974-2005

The Nancy Lafrenz Memorial Scholarship funds an original work created by alumni of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical

Theatre to be performed during the annual Mad River Festival. Nancy’s classmates, the Dell’Arte graduating class of 2002, set up the scholarship to keep her memory alive forever. Donations to Nancy’s scholarship enable young theatre artists to begin their professional careers. Tax-deductible donations can be made through the Humboldt Area Foundation. For more information, call 442-2993.

The Nancy Lafrenz Memorial Scholarship

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Blue Lake’s Dell’Arte International has been called “The artistic gem of Hum-boldt County,” bringing original entertainment to local, national and international audiences for 40 years. As one of a handful of rural, professional ensemble the-atres in the USA, we are internationally recognized for our unique contribution to American theatre and DAI is proud to call Humboldt home! 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of DAI’s annual summer Mad River Festival. It began as a festival of local, community-made plays. Over time the MRF grew to include international companies like Brazil’s Lume Teatro, wildly popular favorites Los Payasos Mendigos and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, music, puppetry, and the Dell’Arte Company’s signature ‘theatre of place’ original pro-ductions.

EARLY YEARS

The Mad River Festival was hatched as the brainchild of DAI co-founder Jane Hill, who in 1989 staged Barry Manilow’s The Drunkard, based on the world-famous melodrama by W.H.S. Smith. This rollicking musical version was performed on our new outdoor stage, constructed by the actors and technicians of the Dell’Arte Company under the direction of actor Donald Forrest. (Luckily he was a concrete foundation expert!) We all poured piers, nailed planks, and re-graded the backyard with recycled concrete to give our audience an optimal view of the stage.

History of the Mad River Festival:Then ‘til Now

by Founding Artistic Director Joan Schirle

Rudi Galindo from Los Payasos MendigosPhoto: Brandi Easter at the 1990 Mad River Festival

In 1991 Jane figured that if one melodrama was popular, maybe more would be merrier. So she proposed a festival of original melodramas based on regional history, to be created by local communities with assistance from Dell’Arte artists via acting and writing workshops. Our neighbors in Willow Creek developed The Poison Oak Club, about the failed attempts of the FBI to infiltrate a supposed lo-cal ‘communist cell.’ SoHum’s Redway contributed a melodrama by local author/historian Ray Raphael, about California’s founder: Floundering Father—and Mother Too! An Evening with John and Jessie Fremont. It was acted by Red-way’s Pure Schmint Players, directed by Jane Hill.

THEATRE OF PLACE In 1992 the Dell’Arte Company conceived Korbel, its first Humboldt soap opera, about a fictional small town in redwood country. The decline of the timber industry brought hard times to the town and to the Dugans of Korbel— broth-ers Tommy and Terry (Michael Fields and Donald Forrest), and their mother, Dorothy (me). The family’s downturns echoed the region’s economic decline–from jobs lost through mill closings to their inability to pay the electric bill—so familiar to local audiences that they both laughed at the comic Dugans and totally empathized with their plight. At the 1994 MRF, Korbel: The Funeral was an instant hit. The iconic Dugans lived on through another five episodes over 20 years—The Wedding (‘95), The Birth (‘96), and Shotgun Wedding, (‘00) an up-dated Moliere adaptation that I set in Korbel, with Tommy Dugan stuck in a nest of local politicians and rural con-artists. The Dugans emerged again in ‘08, with Korbel: The Accident and finally, last year’s The Secret by Lauren Wilson. The Korbel series typifies our pioneering approach to ‘Theatre of Place’: plays about and for the community where you live. The Festival became the primary spot for the Company to develop its original local plays like Wild Card (‘02 &’03) by Producing Artistic Director Michael Fields, imagining the potential impacts of the tribal casino then under construction on Blue Lake Rancheria. Or Blue Lake: The Opera, a genuine opera with libretto by Lauren Wilson and music by Tim Gray. Early festival guest artists included the Karuk Storytellers, Jeff De-Mark, and dozens of local bands, which led to a partnership with the Humboldt Folklife Festival that continues to this day. The MRF evolved to become a place where we can hold up a mirror to our own community and our own lives here, as well as create plays with bigger casts and a more local bent than our touring work.

INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR

It was the Dell’Arte Company’s international touring work that brought our attention to sister ensembles we thought might delight Humboldt audiences. In 2000 the MRF presented the American debut of Brazil’s Lume Teatro, in a lively street show plus a virtuoso clown show, Carnations, Lilies & Roses. Russian

circus stars and theatre ensembles from Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, Can-ada, and Australia have also enlivened the MRF, as well as repeat performances by those ‘Spaniards in Spandex,’ the hilarious Los Payasos Mendigos. Members of this comic acro quartet, all of them Americans, began as local favorites (three were graduates of Dell’Arte School) and parlayed their popularity into two international tours. At the ‘93 MRF they gave us Don Quixote de la Mancha, and in subsequent years delighted us with fiery hoops, an onstage swimming pool, bullwhips and stunt babies. Never afraid of danger, they nearly lost ‘Guapo, The Handsome One’ when ‘El Excremente’ whacked his machete too forcefully into a watermelon on Guapo’s head. Ouch! Mad River Festival audiences do love comedy and it’s never been in short sup-ply. Through 25 years the popularity of clown and vaudeville has produced sev-eral zany revues, including appearances by the Flying Karamazov Brothers, plus wild treatments of great classics like Goldoni’s The Coffee House (01), Moliere’s Tartuffe (’07), Peer Gynt (’06) and Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors (’13). In 2008 we were invited to partner the Danish Institute for Popular Theatre in presenting The Prize of Hope, an international award originated in 1989, “given to a person or theatre who has worked for human hope—in a daring, loving, vulgar, serious, poetic way, with sparkling energy….” Film star Tim Robbins and The Actors’ Gang received the award with Hollywood glow on our MRF stage in 2008. We’ve since presented to actors Geoff and Dan Hoyle, to our Petrolia neighbors Human Nature Theatre, and in 2014 to Clowns Without Borders. This year I traveled to Denmark to join in presenting the prize to Ariane Mnouchkine and Le Théâtre du Soleil, one of the world great companies celebrating its 50th year.

INDOORS AND OUT

The initial seasons of the MRF comprised mainly outdoor work. Audiences loved the open space of Rooney Amphitheatre, spreading their blankets or camp chairs on the ground, enjoying picnics or DAI’s food concession and full bar. The original plan by architects Bill and Colette Van Fleet called for Greek theatre-style benches. But audiences overwhelmingly said “keep the grass seating!” so we did. With the addition of a dressing room wing to our Odd Fellows Hall in 1995, we gained additional playing space on the decks and porches above our stage. You are likely to see actors running around a second level, or singing to you from the roof. You never know where they’ll make an entrance—possibly rappelling down the side of the building, or diving off the second floor balcony. Last year the addition of a ‘Big Top’ or gospel tent gave us yet another space for shows, workshops, and summer atmosphere.

In partnership with the City of Blue Lake’s Annie & Mary Day celebration from ’97 – ‘07, the MRF staged many “Blue Lake Pageants” including a street parade from Perigot Park to the front of our Odd Fellows building, where audi-ences were treated to a spectacle culminating in the raising of a 30-foot high puppet of ‘the spirit of the lake.’ Our ‘Mobile Mask Unit’ annually made over 500 masks, distributed to the public as they joined those extravagant parades that included a samba band, stilt walkers, and even Bigfoot. Indoor shows in the Carlo Theatre also became part of the MRF, which allowed for dramatic, more intimate productions, as well as the annual sold-out Red Light in Blue Lake late-night adult cabaret, featuring local musicians, Dell’Arte Company actors, alumni, and local burlesque troupes. World pre-mieres like Giulio Cesare Perrone’s Paradise Lost, have been presented in the Carlo as well as exciting solo shows from artists like Sara Felder, Jeff Raz, Mooky Cornish, Colin Gee, Dan Hoyle, Jim Donlon, and Joe Dieffenbacher.

The Mad River Festival would never have been possible without the Blue Lake community, plus generous support from local businesses and media, but most of all from you, our audi-

ences. For 25 years we’ve enjoyed playing for you!

“Spirit of Blue Lake” puppet flying high at the Blue Lake Pageant.Mad River Festival, 2000. Photo: Joan Schirle

Around the World Week:International Performances

July 6 - 12In addition to 2015 marking the 25th anniversary of the Mad River

Festival, it also marks the 40th anniversary of Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. As part of a grand

reunion, Dell’Arte welcomes back alumni artists from Japan to San Francisco in a 7-day performance extravaganza featuring

family shows, cabarets and dramatic works.

Dell’Arte will be releasing a limited number of tickets to the public for Around the World Week so get your tickets soon!

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BILINGUAL KYOGEN MUSICAL: MONKEY!July 7 at 7:30 p.m. This new show combines the kyogen play “Utsubo-Zaru” (The

Monkey-Skin Quiver) and the Japanese folk tale “Momo Taro” (Peach Boy) in fun and fast-paced Japanese and English. A

travelling organ grinder and his monkey encounter a lord and servant out hunting, and trouble begins.

Direct from Japan! Osugi Musical

Theatre presents stories from traditional comic theater and folk-lore are mixed to pro-vide an evening of fun for the whole family!

In the Carlo Theatre

Kyogen is 600-year-old Japanese comic theatre. Most plays are 20-40 minutes long, feature few actors (2 or 3 in many plays), and rely on voice and gesture to convey the story on a setless stage with very few props. “Momo Taro” is probably the best known of all Japanese folk tales, in which the hero, born out of a peach, goes on a quest to fight the ogres.

Osugi Musical Theatre (OMT) was founded in 1995 by Dell’Arte PTP ’91 graduate Gart T. Westerhout to present original musicals in the community and beyond. Osugi’s cast size ranges from 5 to 30, with a core staff of 10. All of cast and staff are volunteers. As of March 2015 they have done 348 performances.osugimusicaltheatre.com

BILINGUAL KYOGEN MUSICAL: MONKEY!

We welcome to the stage characters, acts and excerpts from the following:

“Ferdinand the MagniFIcent” by Circo de Nada (Nick Trotter)“Terrifying Shrubbery” by Nomadic Theatre Company (Sarah Foster)

“Sister Dominiqee-niqee-nique” by Gale McNeeley“Three Trees” by Joe Krienke, Stephanie Thompson and Lauren Wilson

“A Visit With Emperor Norton” with Jerry Lee Wallace.

Alumni CabaretBig Hammer Tent

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PANSYby Evan JohnsonJuly 8 at 7:30 p.m.in the Carlo TheatreSet in modern day San Francisco, Pansy begins with Michael Darling’s discovery of a time capsule in his basement. As Michael looks through the capsule’s contents of VHS tapes, audio cassettes and worn party fliers, parallels begin to emerge between his life and that of 90’s gay club kid; Peter Pansy. As the twin narra-tives unfold, the audience is transported back and forth across a 20 year span of time; forging a bridge between today’s queer twentysome-things and the “Lost Boys” of the AIDS crisis years. Writer and Performer Evan Johnson uses physical theatre, shadowplay and performance art night club aesthetics to heighten his historical drama.

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EVAN JOHNSON is a Bay Area based actor/creator. He graduated from Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre in 2006. His previous solo work includes “Don’t Feel: The Death of Dahmer” (11.11 Art Group) at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory (San Francisco, CA), singled out by the SF Bay Guardian as one of the best small theatre productions of 2010. More at evanjohnsonperformance.com.

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Terra Incognitaby Uplift Physical Theatre

Featuring an international cast of actors, acrobats, clowns, aeri-alists, circus artists, and athletes, Terra Incognita explores the dynamic physical forces that exist in our everyday human relationships and interactions.

Founded in 2014, UpLift Physical Theatre is comprised of a group of actor-acrobats trained in ensemble-based physical theatre at Dell’Arte International in Blue Lake, California. UpLift’s unique style pushes the edge of human ability by weaving hand-balanc-ing, tumbling, and equilibrium into original, ensemble-devised works of theatre that tell dramatic and comic stories of human interaction. uplifttheatre.com

July 9 at 9:30 p.m.at Dell’Arte’s River Campus

Ensemble Cast : Juliana Frick, Hannah Gaff, Alyssa Hughlett, Audrey Leclair, Andrea Martinez, Moses Norton, Nicholette Routhier and special guest artist Jared Mongeau.

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I Dreamed of RatsJuly 10 at 2 p.m. in the Carlo TheatreWritten and performed by Terence Cranendonk.Adapted from Nikolai Gogol’s Inspector GeneralI Dreamed of Rats is actor Terence Cranendonk’s intimate, electri-fying, and visceral one-man show. This solo work reimagines the 25-plus character Russian classic, The Inspector General, as the paranoid fantasy of one of its supporting characters, the Mayor, as he sits in his study one evening. The performance is both an actor’s personal exploration and a comedy of universal appeal, highlight-ing the precision and craft of the performer’s body and voice as the channel for an audience’s laughter and fears. With a few simple objects and an overcoat, Mr. Cranendonk invites the public in to his house for a night of hilarious, preposterous, side-splitting terror.

Terence Cranendonk received his B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale University and his M.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Akron. He studied acting with the Polish Laboratory Theatre’s Ryszard Cieslak, as well as at the Michael Chekhov Studio, and is a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. From 1992 to 1999, Terence was a member of the New World Performance Laboratory, whose work has been featured in The Drama Review, as well as in the books Grotowski’s Objective Drama Research and The Grotowski Sourcebook. Terence has performed at the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Plays and Players The-atre, New York’s Public Theatre, Home for Contemporary Theatre, and with Target Margin Theatre, among others, as well as in France, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Brazil, and Colombia. Terence is a Guild Certi-fied Feldenkrais Practitioner, and teaches classes and workshops in the application of Feldenkrais Method to the performing arts.

www.TerenceCranendonk.comPhoto: Miriam Bennet

A reading of new work by the Dell’Arte Company, adapt-ed from Carlo Goldoni by Jane Hill and Joan Schirle.

Carlo Goldoni’s 1750 comedy features a clever and resourceful maid working for a wealthy widower with two unmarried daughters. This practical and creative

woman, one of Goldoni’s most delightful creations, could land her employer as a husband if only she could

get the girls married off. The original play satirized the Venetian nobles whose fortunes declined as the rise of

the merchant class moved wealth into the hands of non-aristocrats.

Dell’Arte’s co-founder Jane Hill, who with her late hus-band Carlo Mazzone-Clementi, translated The

Ingenious Chambermaid in 1967, has now partnered with DAI Founding Artistic Director Joan Schirle to adapt the play with California’s water woes in mind. Instead of

money, water is the motivating factor in forming so-cial alliances, arranging marriages, and avoiding ruin. Tapped Out retains all the charm of Goldoni’s original

but reflects our increasing concern with water shortage and rights to its ownership.

All Night Cabaret

Talent abounds in this endless night of stage delight!

Expect the weird, the inventive, the surprising, the funny and the moon!

July 10 at 10:00 p.m. in the Carlo Theatre

Frankenstein

“Beware, my heart glows with the hell inside it.” Inspired by Mary Shelley’s horror masterpiece, Frankenstein Is a visceral and

terrifying performance centered around the terrors of piecing life back together. Presented by one of the country’s pre-eminent pro-ducers of horror theater, whose productions have been called ”a

rollercoaster”, “a mindf**k”, and “horror done right”.

DO NOT BRING CHILDREN. DO NOT COME ALONE.

by Dangerous ProductionsJuly 11 at 8 p.m.July 12 at 4 p.m. In the Carlo Theatre

Dangerous Productions is a Saint Paul, MN-based arts organization dedicated to improving life with tomorrow’s art. With productions and events ranging from horror theater to ice cream socials to raucous farces to cabarets, they continue to push the boundaries of what is

possible in live performance. Most recently, they co-produced Crime and Punishment, an immersive adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s master-piece (alongside Live Action Set, another Dell’Arte alumni company) and Jungle2Jungle, a project that mixed the stories of refugees from Thailand with parkour for a high-octane performance. We aspire to

make all of our work imaginative, fearless, engaging, and accountable. dangerousproductions.org.

How well do you know Dell’Arte?

SERVICE -- With the help of local business sponsors, Dell’Arte has brought free professional touring holiday shows to the entire Northcoast region. Local food banks are the beneficiaries, as audiences bring a canned food item as their admission ‘ticket.’

-- We’re one of the only art schools we know that requires community service hours (12 hours for PTP and MFA 1 students, 6 hours for

MFA2 and MFA3 students). Serving pancakes at the local Grange breakfast, clowning for children at a fundraiser, planting native flora in a marsh restoration project -- students contribute community service in many ways.

--Students in the one-year Professional Training Program culminate their year with a Rural Residency. Two isolated communities are chosen each year

While Dell’Arte is an internationally recognized institution that has presented great theatre in Blue Lake and around the world since 1977, we’ve also been offering arts engagement and community service to our regional communities from Garberville to Forks of Salmon, Petrolia to Cave Junction. We’d love to introduce you to all the work we do offstage and on, throughout our region!

Blue Lake Elementary School mask flash mob, 2013

- Joan Schirle,Founding Artistic Director

For nearly 40 years DAI has joined with other local groups to share resources, offer assistance, and create joint projects to enhance life and the arts on the North coast.

--DAI has partnered with the Humboldt Folklife Society, Blue Lake Union Elementary School, The Ink People, Ah-Pah Village, Blue Lake Chamber of Commerce, KEET TV, KHSU, Food For People, Mad River Alliance, and Arcata Playhouse. With new grant support from ArtPlace America, we partnered with Blue Lake Industrial Park to develop an expanded cultural destination on the Mad River.

Free Community Celebrations: Harvest Days is a two-day celebration of artisanal production in our Industrial Park; Steelhead Days is a celebration of our rivers and its bounty, in partnership with the Mad River Alliance.

Blue Lake Rising Grants: In partnership with the City of Blue Lake and the Mad River Brewery, over the last two years Dell’Arte awarded 11 art-based mini-grants to groups and individuals for the improvement of Blue Lake.

Rural residency Orleans, 2013

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to host a group of about 15 DAI students for a 10 day residency. The students camp, offer workshops and create a special show for the community. Bridgeville, Petrolia, Forks of Salmon, Orleans, Orick, Whale Gulch (Mendocino County) Spring Valley (Lake County) and Takilma, OR have benefited from this innovative and unique program. Special thanks to the California Arts Council for its support. This year students travelled to Orleans and Bridgeville.

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The Community-Based MFA Projects:

Since 2007, MFA students spend seven weeks of their 3rd year serving local non-profit organizations by developing theatre projects in non-traditional venues. Their service may take the form of workshops, performances, story collection, street interaction, and more, all with the goal of assisting our non-profits serve their constituents. Among the groups who have benefited from our MFA’s participation are:• The Silvercrest Senior Residence• The Brainstormers: Making Headway (brain injured adults) • Pelican Bay Speaks/KHSU, from writings of inmates of Pelican Bay State Prison• The Emma Center, women’s center for survivors of trauma and abuse• Timber Ridge Senior home, “The Body Remembers”--a play with oral histories• HCAR (Humboldt Community Access & Resources)• “Rails to Trails” Project• CAFF (Community Alliance with Family Farmers)• HSU Student Health Center• RCAA (Redwood Community Action Agency)• Humboldt County Youth Services Bureau• “Launchpad,” temporary shelter for homeless youth• MARZ Project, an after-school youth program hosted by Ink People• Humboldt Childcare Alliance, Healthy Families• Hospice of Humboldt• Humboldt Coalition for Compassionate Care• Food For People• The Blue Lake Museum• The Girl Scouts• The Mad River Alliance• California Conservation Corps• The Raven Project, Eureka

New WorkBetween our professional company, our festival and our students, there is something on our stages almost every weekend of the year. Most of it is new work.

Some are evenings of short, original plays. Some are like nothing you’ve ever seen. From comedy to tragedy to experimental work, from acro-theatre to genre-bending dramas, the variety will surprise you. And all student performances—over a dozen each season—are pay-what-you-can.

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