The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Written by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Lionel Basney
In the Gezon Auditorium
On Nov. 10-12, 17-19
Overview
In this dramatized folk-tale of a golden age which appears amidst war and social collapse, Grusha adopts an abandoned aristocratic child and protects him during their flight to the mountains. After she has reared him as her own, he may b taken from her, except the case is tried by Azdak, a drunken trickster who by accident has become judge of the high court. He determines the ‘true’mother by the test of the chalk circle, demonstrating that the world and its people ought to be entrusted to those who will nurture them.
The Cast
- First Peasant Woman
- Cindy Kellis
- First Old Man
- Mike Noorman
- Girl Tractorist
- Terri Doezema
- Delegate
- Michael Leugs
- Wounded Soldier
- Kiff Vanden Heuvel
- Second Old Man
- Leo Huisman
- Second Peasant Woman
- Kristen Pasma
- Kato Wachtang
- Beth Kromminga
- Young Worker
- Shelli DeWindt
- The Singer
- Carin Hoekstra
- Petitioner
- David Grevengoed
- Fat Prince
- Dan Booz
- Natella Abashwili
- Debbie Kirby
- First Doctor
- Mark O’Brien
- Second Doctor
- Mark Vander Meer
- Adjutant
- Michael Leugs
- Georgi Abashwili
- Dan Holtrop
- Simon Shashava
- Michael Huisman
- Grusha Vashnadze
- Susan Bernbaum
- Rider
- Jef Hansen
- First Servant
- Marla Ehlers
- Second Servant
- Jeanne Leep
- Asja
- Shelli DeWindt
- Maro
- Terri Doezema
- Cook
- Kristen Pasma
- Grandfather
- Leo Huisman
- Corporal
- Kiff Vanden Heuvel
- First Ironshirt
- Chris DeJong
- Second Ironshirt
- Shawn Bultsma
- Peasant Woman
- Julie Bolt
- Peasant
- David Groen
- Merchant
- Mark O’Brien
- Merchant Woman
- Marla Ehlers
- Lavrenti
- Jef Hansen
- Servant
- Ark Verbruggen
- Aniko
- Beth Kromminga
- Mother-in-Law
- Jeanne Leep
- Monk
- Mark Vander Meer
- First Woman at Wedding
- Shelli DeWindt
- Drunken Peasant
- David Grevengoed
- Sick Peasant
- Kerry VanderGriend
- Big Boy
- Thomas Vanden Berg
- Michael
- Aaron Petersen
- Little Girl
- Christina Dykstra
- Azdak
- Jeffrey Doornbos
- Grand Duke
- Leo Huisman
- Shauwa
- Paul Lantinga
- Nephew
- David Grevengoed
- Invalid
- Mike Noorman
- Limping Man
- Dan Holtrop
- Doctor
- Kerry VanderGriend
- Blackmailer
- Mark Verbruggen
- Innkeeper
- Dan Holtrop
- Ludovica
- Terri Doezema
- Stableman
- Mark Verbruggen
- First Farmer
- Kerry VanderGriend
- Second Farmer
- Dan Holtrop
- Third Farmer
- Mark Verbruggen
- Granny
- Cindy Kellis
- Bandit Irakli
- Mike Noorman
- First Lawyer
- Mark O’Brien
- Second Lawyer
- Mark Vander Meer
- Old Woman
- Julie Bolt
- Old Man
- David Groen
- Chairman
- Randall Bytwerk
- Costume Design
- Elain Van Kley
- Light Design
- David Leugs
- Set Design
- Ed Kruis
- Technical Director
- David Leugs
- Wardrobe
- Lois Mulder
- Publicity
- Jan Hennink
- Photographer
- James Korf
- Stage Manager
- Shelley Douma
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Jeff Donat
- Costume Construction
- Anne Vander Zee, Naomi Vander Laan, Karen Polley, Mary Vaalburg, Elizabeth Mihevk
- Set Construction
- Shawn Bultsma, Paul Dirkse, Jeffrey Doornbos, Shelley Douma, Ralph Hoffman, Philip Klapwyk, Cameron Van Dyke, Tim Veenstra
- Sound Running
- Phil Klapwyk
- Children Crew
- Anne Smith, Jon Verhey
- House Manager
- David Baker
- Make-up Running
- Danae Kokx, Michelle Vander Hoek, Karen Fitz, Colleen Nash, Doc Nykamp
- Publicity
- Tonia Burger, Karen Koole
- Sound Prep
- Keith Wyma
- Props Prep
- Amy DeVries, Ardell Persenaire
- Costume Construction
- Lisa DeWyn, Erica Cochran, Aimiee Vannier
- Stage Running
- Paul Rauner, Tracy S. Kooy
- Make-up Design
- Carol Bremer
- Costume Running
- Amy Scheuermann, Jennifer Van Hulzen, Amy Voetberg, Laurel Tjapkes, Todd Yonkman, Catherine Dewitt
- Lights Prep
- Anjel Flax, Scot Leonard, Jon Van Eek
- Stage Construction
- Tim Palaske, Larry Monsma, Karen Kukla, Marc Evan Jackson, Jennifer Williams, Allison DeBoer, Karen Fitz
- Smorg
- Tanya Hillier, Franklyn Cater, Lisa Jarrett, Dean Basman, Chris Meyer, Krisanna Woods
Production Personnel
Technical Staff
Crews