UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA OTHE FREDERIC WOOD THEATR MAN =MAN BRECHT 'A man isn't a man at all. Somebody has to call him something." NOVEMBER EIGHTH TO SIXTEENTH NINETEEN SIXTY-EIGHT THE FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE PRESENTS BERTOLT BRECHT'S MAN IS MAN Translated by Eric Bentley 'Man stands at the center of the universe. But only relatively." THE CAST LEOCADIA BEGBICK, A "widow" PAULINE NEWSTONE SOLDIERS LES AMES, ED ASTLEY, ALAN CARTWRIGHT, RICHARD DAY, ALLAN LYSELL, JAY SANDHU, JERRY WOSK and BOB VOWLES, KEN CRAIG. GALY GAY, a porter PETER JAENICKE* MRS. GAY, his wife GLADYS MclNTOSH POLLY BAKER 1 / CRAIG DAVIDSON JESSE MAHONEY ) the machine ( GREGORY REID* URIA SHELLEY \ Bun unit ) DERMOT HENNELLY JERAIAH JIP / \ JOHN GRAY WANG, owner of a religious establishment GORDON CAVERS SGT. CHAS. FAIRCHILD, known as "Bloody Five"... ALAN SCARFE* JOBIA, who also plays the clarinet JUDI SOMMER AGATHA, who also plays the piano l?de|„^^s» / CAROL LYSELL JENNY, who also plays the drums ( ) VALERIE ZUKER MAHSING, Mr. Wang's sexton TERRY SHAW WORSHIPPERS in Wang's establishment CHERYL CLARKE, MARY LYNN GATIEN, CATHERINE MORRISON, RAE MOSTER. VIBEKE OHM There will be one intermission of fifteen minutes 'The life of a soldier is very nice.' Appearing by permission of Actors' Equity Association Directed by DONALD SOULE. Designed by RICHARD KENT WILCOX. Music by JOHN CHAPPELL. July, 1926 Reporter: What are you working on? Brecht: On a comedy, MAN IS MAN. It's about the rebuilding of a man into another man for a particular purpose. Reporter: Who does the rebuilding? Brecht: Some emotional engineers. Reporter: Does the experiment succeed? Brecht: Oh yes. And everybody's very relieved. Reporter*. Does the ideal man perhaps come out of it? Brecht". No, not particularly. PRODUCTION STAFF Production Stage Manager & Technical Director MATT YOUNG Associate Technical Director IAN PRATT Assistant Technical Director SIMON HARGRAVE Lighting Execution ROGER FAHLHABER Costume Execution GERALDINE RICHARDSON Properties ROSEMARY VALE Stage Carpenter RICHARD SPENCER Stage Manager DIANA BELSHAW Stage Crew STUDENTS OF THEATRE 350 Costume Assistants SHERRY DARCUS, MARGE GORDON Assistants to tfce Ditector RENATA KURZ, DONNA MUMFORD, SARAH WARREN House Management JOAN SUKAVA Publicity Assistant ; LAURENCE SIEGEL Box Office MARJORIE FORDHAM, VICKI BRUNO, GORDON CAVERS Production JOHN BROCKINGTON "And then, the way I see it, the difference Between yes and no isn*t so great." ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Frederic Wood Theatre wishes to express its appreciation to the many friends of theatre at the University who have generously assisted in the presentation of "MAN IS MAN". We are especially grateful to , . . Department of Music UBC Audio Visual Services Canadian Forces Film Library, Jericho Base Mr. Stan Fox Celesta Hosiery Shop, 4475 W. 10th Ave. Williams Piano House Ltd. Fort Langley National Historical Park Harkley & Haywood Sporting Goods Ltd. Vancouver Parks Board Vancouver Police Department Mr. Scheetz Mr. George Ross Jackson Scaffolding Ltd. Music for the Song of the Scum by KURT WEILL The army has a cure for all diseases, you know — even cholera. Diseases that can't be cured by castor oil a soldi! doesn't get." Are you aware, sir, that we live in heroic times?' One man isn't a man at all. There's nothing worth saying about less than two hundred of them." 'I think you are used to regarding a man who can't say no as a weakling. But this Galy Gay is no weakling — on the contrary, he is the strongest one of all. Of course, he is strong only after he has stopped being a private person .... You might also think that for a man to be played with like this and forced to give up his precious individual identity—more or less the only thing he can call his own—is a pitiful thing. But it's not: it's an amusing thing. For this Galy Gay suffers no harm. He wins. Any man who takes such a stand, must win. But then, perhaps you will reach an entirely different conclusion - against which I make not the slightest protest." Brecht, 1927 'When the money is gone, what good is justice?' 'Personality is to a certain extent a raw material that can be developed or exploited like any other raw material .... In die eyes of technicians, man is part of a machine performing functions for a machine that has not — yet — been invented." Geoffrey Gorer "Yon see, my friends, they can — oh yes — if yon don't watch them right, Make you a man who's no longer a man. Overnight." "The world is full of danger." COMING EVENTS November 20 - 23 NO TRIFLING WITH LOVE by Alfred De Musset An M.A. Thesis Production Directed by Adrienne Wintermans in THE SOMERSET STUDIO December 9 & 10 ALUMNI ONE-ACT PLAY FESTIVAL 3 original one—act plays January 17 — 25 LOOT by Joe Orton Directed by Klaus Strassmann 'The ancient Assyrians represented the human personality as a tree which slowly unfolded. You see? Unfolded. If it can unfold, then it can be folded up again."