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CAST
Bill Livingston.................................................................MATT COUCH
Olive Allison.......................................................................JAMIE BOLLER
Woman 1.....................................................................ELIZABETH HOUCK
Woman 2.............................................................................BROOKE SMITH
Maddie Livingston......................................................KELSEA WOODS
George Jones..........................................................................JOHN FLOYD
Hattie..............................................................................ABIGAIL MCNEELY
CREW
Stage Manager...................................................COURTNEY BICKLEY
Lighting Design.....................................................MEGAN BRANHAM
Technical Assistant.................................................SALLIE SARGENT
SPECIAL THANKS
David Britt, Andy Mills, The USC Costume Shop,
Robert Richmond, Erica Tobolski, Kathy Tedeschi,
Aaron Isgett and Abigail McNeely for their work as Lab Theatre
Assistants, Marybeth Gorman, Kevin and Alyson Roberts
The Women of Lockerbie is presented by special arrangement with
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.
The Women of Lockerbie was originally produced in New York City
by the
New Group and Women’s Project & Productions with the assistance of
the
Fund for New American Plays, a project of the John F. Kennedy Center
for the
Performing Arts with the support of Countrywide Home Loans
and
the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation in cooperation
with the President’s
Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
The play was developed at New
Dramatists, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center,
Shenandoah International
Playwright’s Retreat, Geva Theatre,
Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the
Bay Area Playwright’s Festival. It was the Silver Medal recipient in the
Onassis International Playwriting Competition.
SETTING
December 21, 1995, seven years after the crash of
Pan Am Flight 103, Lockerbie, Scotland
There will be no intermission.
The show will run for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
FROM THE DIRECTOR
This August, I had the privilege of meeting Deborah Brevoort, the
playwright of The Women of Lockerbie. I was thrilled to have been
awarded such a rare opportunity, especially with this being my
inaugural venture into directing. Our conversation ventured from
her experiences in grad school to the play itself and everywhere in
between. However there is one thing Mrs. Brevoort said that has
remained particularly salient since then – “Terrorism is our Trojan War.”
Somedays, it feels as if the wars we’ve chosen to wage are everlasting. It’s
on the radio when we drive to work in the morning and on the television
when we come home at night. It very nearly consumes our culture,
much like the Trojan War did the Greeks and the Trojans. It is easy to
drown in the weight of an international situation we may not even fully
understand, to lose hope altogether. But it is vital to our existence, both
as individuals and as a global community, to reignite that hope again.
The Women of Lockerbie is the story of finding light in darkness, the journey
of rediscovering love in a circumstance where it seems impossible to find. In
any situation where the rhythm of sorrow overtakes us, it is always possible to
restore that rhythm to one of promise. Regardless of your personal connection
with events around the world, past and present, the message of hope restored
is one we always need, and one we are proud to share with you tonight.
Thank
you
for
Grace Ann Roberts
joining
us
this
evening.
Enjoy
the
show!
A BRIEF HISTORY
At 7:02pm on December 21st, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103
was bombed shortly after its departure from London’s
Heathrow International Airport en route to New York’s
JFK International Airport. Of the 259 individuals on
board the flight, there were no survivors. The ultimate
figure of 270 lives lost includes 11 individuals who
resided in the town of Lockerbie, Scotland, where much
of the plane’s wreckage landed following the attack.
The bombing of Pan Am 103 is widely regarded
at the first terrorist incident at altitude.
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