Cast

Scott Xander Scribante*
March 24 - Nicholas Porrelli
Amundsen Ian Kimpton*
Kathleen Molly Chartier
March 31 - Meeka Fast
Bowers Jonathan MacPherson
Wilson Ashton Turner
Oates Piper Nordell
Evans James Miller
Understudies/Swings Meeka Fast
Nicholas Porrelli
Forrest Heibert
*In fulfillment of DRAM 419

Creative Team

Director Dwayne Brenna
Set Design Carla Orosz
Assistant Set Design Rory Jewiss
Costume Design Beverley Kobelsky
Lighting and Projection Design Ken MacKenzie
Sound Design Nicole Kidder
Prop Design Taegan O'Bertos
Fight Choreography Iain Rose
Poster Design Ken MacKenzie

Crew

Stage Manager Cody Brayshaw
Assistant Stage Manager Lauren Summers
Assistant Director Forrest Heibert
Production Manager Ken MacKenzie
Head of Wardrobe Beverley Kobelsky
Head Carpenter Iain Rose
Fight Captains Molly Chartier
Ian Kimpton
Backstage Crew DRAM 113 class:
Corbin Basso Parnell
Jack Bell
Sofia Chapman
Amanda Hanson
Jessica Lewis
Nathaniel Morin
Korben Murray
Jordan Sherling
McKaylla Wildeman
Antonia Witbraad
Costume Running Crew Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye
Taylor Brown
Leo Conquergood
Aldeneil Espanola
Bengee Smith
Lighting Operator Jessie Bruce
Sound Operator Nicole Kidder
Box Office Manager Amy Gerein
Box Office Staff Lorena Arias
Kaeleigh Folk
Ava Johnson
Paulina Salisbury

Director's Notes

After Robert Falcon Scott’s frozen body was discovered, halfway out of his sleeping bag and with one arm slung over the corpse of his friend Edgar Wilson, eleven miles from his base camp in Antarctica, news of his disastrous trek spread rapidly around the world. Almost immediately, he was celebrated as a British national hero. When his ship, the Terra Nova, steamed into harbour on the Thames, months later, it was greeted with a procession of citizens and dignitaries. King Edward presented Scott’s widow Kathleen with posthumous medals of honour.

In the last one hundred years, Scott’s reputation has been tarnished with accusations of foolhardy poor planning, mismanagement of food and supplies, and his refusal to heed the best advice of his more knowledgeable comrades. It has been easy for modern historians to underestimate the challenges he faced in 1911-12 in an unexplored continent that “wants so much for you to be dead.” Scott did not have the luxuries of airplanes, freeze-dried food, GPS, or modern cold-weather apparel. You be the judge of how he met his challenges and how he sought to overcome them.

It's been an honour and a pleasure to work on this play, of such historical significance, and an honour to have spent the better part of a lifetime teaching in the first degree-granting drama department in the British Commonwealth. I hope you enjoy the play.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to Butch Amundson and Beverley Brenna.

Thank you also to the DRAM 221 students (Jessie Bruce, Molly Chartier, Raven Dallman, Ian Kimpton, Julia Kowalski, and Michael Kruger) for all their support.

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