DESDEMONA/RAMONA	Sam Madore
OTHELLO/PROFESSOR NIGHT/MERCUTIO	Matthew Dudka
JULIET/JILL	Shannon Power
ROMEO/IAGO	Patrick Daigle
CONSTANCE LEDBELLY	Charity Bryant
CHORUS/GHOST	Heather Mayne
SOLDIER OF CYPRUS	Kelly Seymour
TYBALT/NURSE	Robert Watt
SERVANT	Randi Livingstone
and	featuring:

Assistant Director.......................................... Ann Foster        Props...................................Kim Hill
Lights, Lighting and Sound Design..................Lenny Langton   Costumes............................Laura Legere
Fight Choreographer.......................................Robert Seale      Stage Manager.....................Kariann Wellington
Technical Director & Sound.............................Adam Wheeler

Set Crew:    Charity Bryant, Matthew Dudka, Ann Foster, Jarvis Googoo, Mike Greencorn, Kim Hill, Wade Kelly, Lenny Langton, Randi Livingstone, Katie MacLean, Heather Mayne, Sara McKeon, Shannon Power, Kelly Seymour, Kariann Wellington, Adam Wheeler

Set Painting: Randi Livingstone

Front of House: Jarvis Googoo, Corey Janes, Shauna Power, Lisa Rockwell, Darrell Yates

Poster Design: Colleen Johansen

PR: Ann Foster, Jarvis Googoo, Colleen Johansen

Hair/Makeup: Yuri Kinoshita

Program: Ann Foster, Darrell Yates

SPECIAL THANKS!!!

Vicky Bowe (Breakfast Television), Saint Mary's University Conference Services, Dartmouth Players, Facilities Management, Christina Glidden, Keith Hotchkiss (Student Services), Corey Janes, The Journal, Luke Malone, Sean & Music Stop, Pam (SMUSA), Hildi, Doug & the gang at Trading Spaces, Stacey Willick (CKDU), Darrell Yates

"Imagine a collaboration among Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and Woody Allen, and you have the essence of Goodnight Desdemona.."

    Ann-Marie MacDonald's love of theatre translates into this production. Giant wastebaskets ascend and descend, turtles are ripped apart, ghosts walk the earth, and people magically disappear. These visions are by no means intended as filmic; quite the contrary, they come from an understanding of theatricality as it was practiced a century ago. "The theatre can conjure anything," says MacDonald, "It doesn't need the cinema to help it along."

    At the heart of the play is someone who could easily be mistaken for a rather ordinary woman. She thinks she's
a weakling, and perhaps she is in some ways. But she has strong ideas and a strong sense of right and wrong, and she will not rest until her questions are answered and her quest fulfilled. As with all good comedies, the seriousness of her purpose stays with you long after the laughter is forgotten.

Ann-Marie MacDonald is a Toronto-based writer and actor. Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), her first play, won the Governor General's Award for Drama, the Chalmers Award for Outstanding Play and the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Drama. She won a Gemini Award for her role in the film Where the Spirit Lives and was nominated for a Genie for her role in I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. Her novel Fall On Your Knees was published in 1997, and won numerous literary prizes, including the Giller Prize.
 

1) Montagues and Capulets hate each other
2) Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love and get secretly married.
3) When Romeo tries to explain to Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, Romeo's friend Mercutio gets accidentally killed. Romeo is so mad that he kills Tybalt.
4) Romeo is sent out of town. Juliet's parents want her to marry someone else, so she pretends to be dead. She sends a message to Romeo telling him all that.
5) Romeo doesn't get the message and, thinking that Juliet is dead, he kills himself.
6) Juliet sees Romeo's dead body, and kills herself.
7) Montagues and Capulets hate each other a little less.

1) General Othello gives a promotion to a soldier named Cassio. Iago, another soldier, is mad because he wanted that job.
2) Iago makes Othello believe that Cassio is having an affair with Othello's wife, Desdemona.
3) Iago steals one of Desdemona's handkerchiefs, and plants it on Cassio.
4) Othello sees the handkerchief there, and is so mad that he kills Desdemona.
5) Othello finds out that Desdemona and Cassio didn’t really have an affair, and that Iago planned the whole scheme.

Journal Pics (Courtesy of Peter Horne, The Journal, Saint Mary's University)
 

Constance Ledbelly (Charity Bryant) pins Iago (Patrick                             Daigle to the floor)	Down but not out, Iago (...still Patrick Daigle) engages in a                             little meleé with Desdemona (Sam Madore)

“Charity Bryant as Constance, along with Sam Madore as Desdemona, and Shannon Power as Juliet bring Ann-Marie MacDonald’s feminist comedy to life…”
                                                                                Elissa Bernard, The Mail Star

“The whole play from beginning to end was well done and entertaining."
                                                                                Ken Nicholson, The Journal