Special Boston Event – April 27– Limited Seats
Arlekin Players Theatre & (zero-G) Lab present
Just Tell No One
A multi-media staged reading
Directed by Igor Golyak
Visual Dramaturg, Irina Kruzhilina
Video & Effects Design, Eric Dunlap
Sound Bed Design, Eric D Clark
Properties, Irina Vilenchik with Julia Shikh
Assistant Director, Darya Denisova
Stage Manager, Cassie Seinuk
Camera Operator & Studio Assistant, Denis Denisov
Production Support, Justin Lahue
Produced by Sara Stackhouse
April 27, 7:30 pm ET
In Person | Hosted by The Huntington
The Maso Studio | Huntington Theatre
Benefitting Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings
Featuring material from Ukrainian Playwrights:
Bad Roads
by Natal’ya Vorozhbit, translated by Sasha Dugsdale
Three Rendezvous
by Natal’ya Vorozhbit, translated by John Freedman with Natalia Bratus
Just Tell No One
from the full-length play Night Devours Morning
by Oksana Savchenko, translated by John Freedman
Just Tell No One reveals the human consequences of war. This multimedia reading immerses the audience in these human stories and images of conflict so exquisitely painful they can no longer be perceived as real. It’s intimate, tender, brutal and darkly funny, illuminating a part of the world where an incomprehensible set of rules is at play, and people struggle to make sense of the complexity of one another with life and death consequences.
FREE | DONATIONS REQUESTED | SEATS LIMITED
JUST TELL NO ONE CONTAINS MATERIAL FOR ADULT AUDIENCES INCLUDING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT LANGUAGE, VIOLENT LANGUAGE & GRAPHIC IMAGES.
DISCRETION REQUIRED | RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 16+
Donate: If you attend (or even if you don’t), please consider a gift to Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings, a project of the Center for International Theatre Development. Their work is extraordinary, and Arlekin is collecting donations and Arlekin is collecting donations to support them.
Special thanks to: Philip Arnoult, George & Liz Krupp, Lincoln Center, The Huntington, Sean Baird, Loretta Greco, Charles Haughland, Kat Herzig, Michael Maso & Katelyn Paddock
In order of appearance
Gigi Watson Regional: Fairview, Small Mouth Sounds, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (SpeakEasy Stage), The Merchant of Venice (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Hamlet (Gloucester Stage), Rhinoceros, Lenin’s Embalmers (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater), Brawler (Boston Playwrights Theatre), Café Variations (ArtsEmerson/SITI Company). BFA Musical Theatre, Emerson College. Grateful to be collaborating with Arlekin Players + The Huntington on this meaningful event.
Gene Ravvin (He) is a founding member of Arlekin Players Theatre where highlights include Dead Man’s Diary, The Bear, The Ghost, Memorial Prayer, Warsaw Melody, and The Adventures of Edward Tulane, among others. He was recently in the film About Faith, and his numerous television appearances include Limitless, The Americans, Madame Secretary, and Brotherhood. He played the Passerby in Groundswell Theatricals/Arlekin Players production of The Orchard with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Jessica Hecht at ArtsEmerson in Fall 2022. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Moscow Art Theater School, Cambridge.
Adrianne Krstansky (Vasya’s Wife) Off Broadway: Atlantic Theater Company, Luck, Pluck and Virtue, Public Theater, 365 Days/365 Plays. Regional: Hartford Stage Company: The Art of Burning, Huntington Theater: The Art of Burning, Doll’s House, Come Back Little Sheba. American Repertory Theater: Paradise Lost, Britannicus, Ubu Rock, Steppenwolf Theater: A Clockwork Orange, Twelfth Night, The Kitchen Theater: Tribes. Boston credits include performances at Boston Playwrights Theater, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Speakeasy Stage Company, Lyric Theater Company, New Repertory Theater and Gloucester Stage Company. Film/TV credits include Invitation to a Bonfire, Little Women, American Woman, Olive Kitteridge and Company Men. She is a Professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis University.
Allyn Burrows (Vasya/Teacher) is the Artistic Director of Shakespeare and Co, and has many acting and directing credits over many years with the company. This season he starred in A Walk in the Woods, with previous roles in God of Carnage, Or, King John, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry IV, Part I among others. Previously he was the Artistic Director of Actors’ Shakespeare Project and likewise directed and acted in several productions there. He has worked extensively in the Boston area (Huntington Theatre, Underground Railway Theatre, Lyric Stage Merrimack Rep, Speakeasy Stage) and is an Eliot Norton and IRNE Award winner. Off-Broadway credits include Bug, Killer Joe, Louis Slotin Sonata, and Closetland. Regional credits include Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theatre, Long Wharf, Denver Center, Walnut St. Television credits include: Julia, The Broad Squad, Law and Order, Law and Order, Criminal Intent, Against the Law. Films include: The Company Men, Julie and Julia, Manchester by the Sea, and Don’t Look Up.
Garrett Sands (Soldier) is a New York based actor and musician. With a background in classical piano and composition, he began to appear in short films as a teenager. Recent credits include Everybody (Boston Conservatory), Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play (Boston Conservatory), and Gabriel (dir. Enrico Pau). He was accepted into The Link Program as a member of Class 5, where he performed at Theatre Row under the TV/Film track. Training: Boston Conservatory (BFA, Contemporary Theater ‘22) www.garrettsands.com
Eliott Purcell (Commander) has previously worked with Arlekin both onstage and behind the scenes, appearing in The Seagull as Konstantin. Recent Local Credits: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (IRNE Nomination Outstanding Actor), Hand to God (Elliot Norton Nomination Outstanding Actor) appropriate [SpeakEasy Stage Company]; Our Town [Huntington Theatre Company]; Old Money, King Lear, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Romeo and Juliet [Commonwealth Shakespeare Company]; Laura and Meet Me in St. Louis [Greater Boston Stage Company]; A Measure of Normalcy [Gloucester Stage]; The Weird [Off the Grid]. NYC credit: Jews on First [Piece of Tish Productions] Education: Boston College Class of ’14.
Dennis Trainor Jr. (Man) is an actor, writer, and director. Next up: Dennis will star in his original solo play, Manifest Destiny’s Child, directed by David Esbjornson, in a world premiere at the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival this August. Recent acting credits include The Inheritance (Speakeasy Stage), Let The Right One In, and The Merchant of Venice (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Additionally has appeared at New Rep, Gloucester Stage, Company One, Lyric Stage, Soho Rep, The Flea, The Kraine, and others. As a playwright, his plays include Manifest Destiny’s Child (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), Plug, and I Coulda Been a Kennedy (Rude Mechanicals). Directing in credits include Antigone or And Still She Must Rise Up (Boston Conservatory), The Trojan Women: A Love Story (Stonehill College), Plug, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Rude Mechanicals). He Produced and Directed the documentaries American Autumn and Legalize Democracy. Dennis was the founding co-Artistic director of the NYC-based Rude Mechanicals Theater Company. He is an Associate Professor of Theater at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
Just Tell No One
Creative & Production Team
Igor Golyak, Director
Sara Stackhouse, Producer
Irina Kruzhilina, Visual Dramaturg
Eric Dunlap, Video & Effects Design
Eric D Clark, Sound Bed Design
Irina Vilenchik with Julia Shikh, Properties
Cassie Seinuk, Stage Manager
Darya Denisova, Assistant Director
Justin Lahue, Production Support
Denis Denisov, Camera Operator & Studio Assistant
Igor Golyak (director) is the founder and producing artistic director of Arlekin Players Theatre & Zero Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab. He recently directed The Orchard featuring Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov Off-Broadway in New York and in Boston. A global leader in the virtual theater movement, he directed WITNESS, chekhovOS /an experimental game/ and State vs. Natasha Banina during the pandemic, which became international virtual theater sensations, receiving multiple New York Times Critic’s Picks. His work has received numerous Elliot Norton Awards for The Seagull, The Stone, and Dead Man’s Diary, including a Best Director Award, This Week In New York Pandemic Awards (WITNESS and chekhovOS), and Broadway World’s Best Director of a Streamed Production Award (chekhovOS). He directed a critically acclaimed The Merchant of Venice for Actors’ Shakespeare Project, productions at Northeastern University and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and has taught for HB Studios, Boston Conservatory, Harvard University and abroad. Golyak is from Ukraine and leads Arlekin, a company of immigrants, which has performed all over the world, including festivals in Ukraine, Yerevan, Armenia, New York City, Chicago, Lviv, Monaco, the US, Canada and UK, as well as the Moscow Art Theatre. www.igorgolyakstudio.com
Eric D Clark (sound designer)
is a Music Composer, Sound Designer, Producer, Songwriter, and DJ. He creates and produces music, from piano to electro & more. He started his career 40 years ago. From Sunday church performances in California at the age of 10 as a classical & gospel piano prodigy to disco and electronica keyboard mastering, Eric trained his ears and hands until 1981 when he finally claimed his place behind turntables and took up residencies in San Francisco’s most famous clubs.
His Whirlpool Productions took the music scene by storm, especially in Europe and US, with hits such as “The Cold Song” and “From Disco to Disco,” his hit from the late 90s, which hit number 1 in several countries. Eric has solo releases and has worked with many excellent and iconic musicians known worldwide, including Amanda Lear, Mouse on Mars, Mark Stewart, Peaches Chaka Kahn, Giorgio Moroder, Sterior Total, Gloria Gaynor, and The Aikiu. He also composed the music for films and advertising campaigns.
Eric is one of the essential producers in the music business. At the moment, he is releasing music non-stop and producing music for films, for advertising campaigns, and for his own projects and collaborations with other artists. He also plays his music in the Monaverse where you can attend with your avatar! He also lends his vocal expertise and remixes scores of dance tracks and designs EP covers. Winner of the “Holger Czukay Award” for Pop Music 2022, he is a master worldwide.
Eric Dunlap (video & effects designer) has created video designs for dance and theater, interactive video installations for museums, and live mix video performances for concerts and special events. A former dancer, choreographer, producer from New York, he currently he lives in Berlin where he pursues his work as a video artist. A thirty year veteran of the performing arts, he spent his formative years as a principal dancer with the Alwin Nikolais / Murray Louis Dance Company, and has danced with various modern dance and opera companies. He was co-founder and Executive Director of Forward Motion Theater from 1995 – 2012. Pursuing a mission to explore movement and technology, the company created works combining physical performance and digital media, produced VJs and audiovisual artists, and curated collaborations in multi-media performance. Since moving to Berlin in 2011, he works as a video designer and technician, and continues to build works combining dance and video. Two of his new video art works have been acquired by the Leo Kuelbs Collection as a part of their “Digital Fairytales” series, and he was recently awarded him a research grant to explore dance and interactivity as a part of Berlin’s Neustart Kultur Fund. Recent video designs include the world premiere of “Die Machine Steht Nicht Still” with Caroline Peters and LEDWALD, produced by the Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), “Sich waffnend gegen eine See von Plagen” produced by the Schaubühne in Berlin, and Arlekin’s The Orchard in Boston.
Irina Kruzhilina (visual dramaturg) is a New York-based theatre artist, scenographer, director, visual dramaturg, and educator, creating work at the intersection of visual art, live performance, and civic engagement. Her creative endeavors range from interdisciplinary downtown theatre to large scale parades, from opera to site responsive installations. Her work has been shown at Times Square, Tokyo Disney, BAM, Prague National Theatre, NY Philharmonic, and Barbican Center. Recent highlights include designing sets and costumes for Dimitry Krymov’s Cherry Orchard at the Wilma in Philadelphia, creating A Dozen Dreams, a large-scale immersive installation developed in partnership with EnGarde arts, and directing the site-specific performance NoPlace in collaboration with the New School of Drama. Irina’s work embraces collaborative artistic exchange among theatre makers from different backgrounds, fostering generous creative and educational environments that value a diversity of approaches and ideas. Irina is the founder of Visual Echo, a New York-based performance organization dedicated to facilitating generative dialogues among people from diverse backgrounds. Irina is a faculty member at the New School of Drama and a Chashama resident.
Sara Stackhouse (producer) is Managing Producer at Arlekin Players Theatre & Zero-Gravity (zero-G) Virtual Theater Lab where she Executive Produced The Orchard Off-Broadway and in Boston, featuring Jessica Hecht and Mikhail Baryshnikov, produced WITNESS, and co-produced chekhovOS /an experimental game/ and the international tour for State vs Natasha Banina. She is Founder and Creative Director of The Mama Project, a arts-based project for women in townships in South Africa. Sara was Founding Executive Producer of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, producing 48 productions, during which time the company received multiple Elliot Norton, IRNE, and Best of Boston Awards, and an Innovative Theater Company award from American Theater Wing. She was Chair of Theater at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Supervising Producer of INSIDE This Old House on A&E/Time Warner, Executive Producer of Toy Symphony at the MIT Media Lab, and Project Manager for cellist Yo-Yo Ma in her twenties, where she managed collaborations, recordings, and was on the producing team for numerous films, including the award-winning series Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach. Sara is the recipient of the “Inspiration Award” from Boston’s Social Innovation Forum.
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Just Tell No One
Staged Reading Showcasing Ukrainian Playwrights To Be Streamed Free By Lincoln Center
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March 6, 2023
BEST BETS March 6th – March 12th
“The high cost of war is depicted in this translation of works by Ukrainian playwrights Natal’ya Vorozhbit (Bad Roads and Three Rendezvous) and Oksana Savchenko (Just Tell No One).”
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