Switzerland Programme by Auckland Theatre Company

BY JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH

He pou atua, he pou whenua, he pou tangata.

Ko Waitematā te moana

Ko Waikōkota te whenua.

Ko Te Pou Whakamaharatanga mō

Māui Tikitiki a Tāranga te tohu o te kaha, o te kōrero, o te whakapapa o tēnei wāhi, o tēnei whare.

Nau mai e te tī, e te tā ki te whare kōrero, ki te whare whakaari o ASB ki te tahatika o te moana.

Mauri tau, mauri ora!

Pouwhakamaumāharatanga mō Māui Tikitiki a Tāranga

The Memorial Post of Māui the Topknot of Tāranga

Robert Jahnke ONZM (Ngāi Taharoa, Te Whānau a Iritekura, Te Whānau a Rākairo o Ngāti Porou) 2016

Laminated tōtara and Corten steel

Proudly commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company for ASB Waterfront Theatre

The symbols of support, of strength and of guardianship stand fast and proud.

The waters of Waitematā ebb and flow against the shores here at Waikōkota, the land upon which we stand.

The pou of remembrance to Māui Tikitiki a Tāranga stands tall as a beacon of courage, of stories passed down and of the history that connects us all to this place and to this space.

We welcome you all from near and far to this house of stories, to the ASB Waterfront Theatre.

Mauri tau, mauri ora!

BY JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH

SEP – 7 OCT 2023

CAST

Jarred Blakiston — Edward

Sarah Peirse — Patricia Highsmith

CREATIVE

Writer — Joanna Murray-Smith

Director — Sarah Goodes

Set & Costume Designer —

Michael Scott-Mitchell

Lighting Designer — Nick Schlieper

Composer & Sound Designer —

Steve Francis

Assistant Director — Samuel Phillips

Props & Costumes Manager —

Emma Aubin

PRODUCTION

Production Managers (Pilot Productions)

— Jamie Blackburn, Sam Clavis

Stage Manager — Catherine Grealish

Deputy Stage Manager — Maddy Powell

Head of Lighting — Ella Madsen Brough

Technical Operator — Stephen Paul

Head of Sound — Andrew Furness

Audio Mix Engineer — Chris Armitstead

Head Mechanist — Patrick Minto

Set Construction — Tāwhiri Workshop

Project Lead — Allan Rockell

Senior Carpenters — Duncan Perratt, Geoff Goss, Alejandro Ariza Hernandez

Junior Carpenter — Giovanni Maule

Scenic Painter — Mika Turnbull

Dialect Coach — Jacque Drew

Graphic Designer — India Rose Kohika

Publicity — Bridget de Launay

International Institute of Modern Letters

(IIML) Placement — Dominique Chapla

Photographer — Anna Benhak

Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith was commissioned by the Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles, and received its world premiere in a production by the Sydney Theatre Company at the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House, on Friday 7 November 2014. Switzerland received its New Zealand premiere at Circa Theatre on Saturday 17 March 2018.

The play is the sixth and final production in Auckland Theatre Company's 2023 season. Switzerland began previews on Tuesday 19 September and premiered on Thursday 21 September at the ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland. Switzerland is 1 hour 35 minutes long with no interval. The production contains strong language and offensive views, including racism and antisemitism, and smoking. Please switch off all noise-emitting devices.

Haere Mai. Welcome.

There are days when I slump into a theatre seat and what happens is so electrifying that I can remember what I was wearing, years later. Such was the case when I saw Sarah Peirse as Patricia Highsmith at the Sydney Opera House in 2014. It was an astonishing turn by one of New Zealand’s most accomplished actors, rightly celebrated far and wide. So I am immensely proud to finish our 30th anniversary season with Sarah and her original collaborators returning to Joanna Murray-Smith’s brilliant thriller Switzerland, this time for her hometown audience.

Chief among those OG’s is Sarah Goodes, an acclaimed director in her native Australia, making her debut with our company. Sarah is a generous artist who has been a joyous colleague. Also an educator, while in Auckland Sarah will conduct a directing masterclass. Joining Sarah is a fabulous creative team of Michael Scott-Mitchell, Steve Francis, Nick Schlieper and our own Samuel Phillips, and we welcome back actor Jarred Blakiston, who was last on our stage in The Haka Party Incident.

As our year draws to a close, I ask you to consider a tax deductible gift to The Theatre Foundation, to secure our next 30 years of theatre making for Auckland. On page 16 you will see details of how you can support our work. We really do need your help so that we may continue to serve our city.

Our gratitude to those organisations and people who support our work, particularly the generous people of Auckland who invest in us through Auckland Council and the arts council, Creative New Zealand.

Soon we will reveal our 31st season. The Auckland Theatre Company we are shepherding into its next era will continue to strive for artistic excellence and ever-greater relevance for the many communities who make up Tāmaki Makaurau. Our next season is created with those twin objectives in mind and I cannot wait to share it with you.

We conclude this anniversary year with Aucklanders coming to their theatre company in droves. It is gratifying for all involved in our company for our work to be connecting so powerfully with audiences. I salute our staff, boards, the crews, artists, playwrights and actors who have made the 30th season a success.

Tonight we raise a glass in tribute to the three decades of people who have built and nurtured this company, the profession it champions and the audiences it entertains and inspires.

Jonathan Bielski Artistic Director & CEO

Note from the Director

Revisiting a play like Switzerland

by Joanna Murray-Smith

is like revisiting the work of Patricia Highsmith – there are always more layers to uncover, details previously overlooked – it is an endlessly fascinating world to re-enter. Why? Because the writing and the characters hold a secret – secrets just out of our reach. The essential mystery inside it is fluid, always flapping its wings against its cage. Our job is to breathe life into the secret lives of these characters. Our work involves asking how can we make one thing hold several possibilities? How do we open up the space to explore the possibilities of what humans are capable of? How do we activate worlds from the written word? How do we get deep under the skin of characters like these?

It’s hard to get tired of a mystery. The true highlight of this production is to see the brilliant Sarah Peirse on stage in her hometown of Auckland in a role she originated to great critical acclaim. To see her embody Patricia once more is both terrifying and delightful.

The first time Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith was ever produced was back in 2014 at the Sydney Theatre Company. Along with Sarah Peirse and Eamon Farren and the creative team of Nick Schlieper, Michael ScottMitchell and Steve Francis and myself this production was a huge success and later toured to Melbourne in 2016. Theatre is one the most collaborative of the art forms and work grows and flourishes through these long-term working relationships, but it also grows through the injection of the new, and we have been joined by the incredibly talented Jarred Blakiston in the role of Edward. The new team also includes Samuel Phillips as the Assistant Director, and the incredible stage management team of Catherine Grealish and Maddy Powell, Props & Costumes Manger Emma Aubin, and Production Managers Sam Clavis and Jamie Blackburn.

Also, a huge thank you to Jonathan Bielski and Anna Cameron and everyone at Auckland Theatre Company for inviting us and working so hard to bring Switzerland to New Zealand.

Sarah Goodes

Synopsis

It’s 1995. Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, Patricia Highsmith, renowned master crime novelist – now aging and ailing – hides away in her study, finding solace in her seclusion, her cats and her cigarettes.

Until, one day, she receives an unexpected knock on the door by a polished young man, sent by her publisher to convince her to write

one final instalment of her bestselling series, featuring the master manipulator, Tom Ripley.

It soon becomes clear that the charming stranger is set on a far more sinister mission, and the calculated game of cat and mouse turns into a breathtaking battle of wits as Highsmith and her visitor interrogate identity and the art of creation.

Playwright

JOANNA MURRAY-SMITH

Joanna Murray-Smith is, along with Daniel Keene, the author of more than half of all Australian plays produced overseas (Australia Council for the Arts). According to Variety USA, Joanna is “the foremost female Australian playwright”.

Produced and translated around the world in over two dozen languages, her plays have been staged throughout Europe, North America, the UK and Asia, on Broadway, on the West End and at the Royal National Theatre in London. They have been

read or performed by many of the world’s leading companies and actors, including Meryl Streep, Annette Bening, Laura Linney, Dame Eileen Atkins, Dame Diana Rigg and many others.

They include Julia, Berlin, Dark River, L'Appartement, American Song, Three Little Words, True Minds, Songs for Nobodies, The Gift, Bombshells, Honour, The Female of the Species and many others.

Photo credit: Prudence Upton

Director

SARAH GOODES

This year, Sarah directed Joanna Murray-Smith’s critically acclaimed new play Julia, which sold out its Sydney and Canberra seasons. For Melbourne Theatre Company, she directed a sell-out production of Sunday by Anthony Weigh and recently opened The Weekend by Sue Smith at Belvoir St Theatre.

From 2012 to 2016, Sarah was the Resident Director at Sydney Theatre Company and, from 2016 to 2020, she was the Associate Artistic Director at Melbourne Theatre Company.

Sarah directed the world premiere of Switzerland by Joanna MurraySmith for Sydney Theatre Company in 2014, which was nominated for many awards, including a Helpmann

for Best Direction. In 2018, her production of The Children won three Helpmann Awards, including Best Director, Best Actor and Best Production.

At Melbourne Theatre Company, Sarah’s work includes: Sunday; Cyrano; The Sound Inside; Home, I’m Darling; Cosi; Golden Shield; Arbus & West; Astroman; A Doll’s House: Part 2; The Children (with Sydney Theatre Company); Three Little Words; and John. As Resident Director at Sydney Theatre Company, Sarah directed: The Hanging; Disgraced; Orlando; Battle of Waterloo; Switzerland; The Effect; Vere (Faith); The Splinter and Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness.

Cast

JARRED BLAKISTON

Edward

Jarred Blakiston is a 2016 graduate of The Actors' Program, but began his professional career many years earlier, aged 12, with a role on New Zealand’s long-running soap opera Shortland Street. Since then, he has appeared on screen internationally in shows such as Power Rangers, The New Legends of Monkey, The Shannara Chronicles and, most recently, Amazon Prime’s The Wilds. Closer to home, he has appeared in My Life Is Murder, Ablaze, The Gulf, and When We Go To War. He made his Auckland Theatre Company debut in 2021 in Katie Wolfe's The Haka Party Incident.

SARAH PEIRSE

Patricia Highsmith

Sarah Peirse is one of Australia and New Zealand’s most respected and awarded actresses. Her notable TV roles include: on Netflix, Sweet Tooth, Stateless, The Letdown and Offspring; on Foxtel/ Binge, Love Me; on Neon, Seven Types of Ambiguity; and, on TVNZ, Under the Vines. Film credits include: yet-to-bereleased Went up The Hill, A Mistake and Addition, as well as Nude Tuesday, Mortal Engines, The Hobbit trilogy, Rain, Heavenly Creatures, The Navigator and Unconditional Love. Sarah has performed most recently for Melbourne and Sydney Theatre Companies, and Belvoir St Theatre. Onstage work includes: Women of Troy, The Children, A Cheery Soul, The Golden Age (Helpmann Award Best Supporting Actress), Endgame, Switzerland (Sydney Theatre Award Best Actress), Poor Boy, Fury, Tribes, Dead Funny, Enlightenment, Molly Sweeney (Green Room Award Best Actress), The Heidi Chronicles, Mark Colvin’s Kidney, The Business and Gethsemane, and, in New Zealand, Other Desert Cities and The Gift for Auckland Theatre Company.

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Creative

MICHAEL SCOTTMITCHELL Set & Costume Designer

Michael Scott-Mitchell is a formidable force within the arts, in Australia and internationally. He has designed highly acclaimed productions for stage and screen, events and exhibitions, as well as restaurants and hotels. Amongst Michael’s careerdefining triumphs were: his designs for Wagner’s , State Opera of South Australia; 2004, 2000 Olympic Games Cauldron – Opening and Closing Ceremonies; Asian Games Doha 2006, Opening Ceremony; and UAW 48 National Day celebrations, Abu Dhabi, 2029. Many of these were seen by billions

NICK SCHLIEPER Lighting Designer

Nick Schlieper designs for all the major theatre companies in Australia and, regularly, works internationally. He’s received seven Sydney Critic’s Awards (two for set design and five for lighting design), six Green Room awards and five national Helpmann Awards. His numerous productions for Sydney Theatre Company include: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and The War of the ; and set and lighting designs for Endgame, Face to and Baal. Hedda Gabler, A Streetcar Named Desire, Uncle Vanya and The Maids also travelled to New York. He has lit many productions for Melbourne Theatre Company, Opera Australia and Bangarra Dance Theatre. Internationally, Nick’s work has been seen at the Salzburg Festival, Hamburg State Opera, Royal Shakespeare Company and the Barbican, and in Munich, Berlin, Vienna and Oslo.

Photo credit: Lisa Tomasetti

As composer and/or sound designer for theatre, Steve has worked for Australia’s leading theatre companies. Recently, he worked on the productions of Julia (Sydney Theatre Company) and The Weekend (Belvoir St Theatre). He has won two Sydney Theatre Awards for Best Music or Sound. For dance, Steve is best known for his work with Australia’s leading national indigenous company, Bangarra Dance Theatre. He has scored 13 productions for the company over the last 20 years, most recently Wudjang: Not the Past and SandSong. His work with Bangarra has won two Helpmann Awards for Best Original Score. Steve has scored music for a number of films, including the recent feature films

The Moogai and Firestarter

- The Story of Bangarra

As a director, Samuel's work includes Losing Face by Nathan Joe (Q Matchbox), The Comedy of Errors (Summer Shakespeare Wellington) and Punk Rock by Simon Stephens (Whitireia Drama School). As an assistant director, Sam has worked with Auckland Theatre Company and at Shakespeare’s Globe. Sam looks after the Creative Learning programme at Auckland Theatre Company and is a coleader of the Auckland Theatre Company's Youth Company. He has taught at Capital E and Centrepoint Theatre and sat on the BATS Theatre Board. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre (First-class Honours) from Victoria University of Wellington and trained with Long Cloud Youth Theatre.

Emma Aubin fell in love with theatre at the age of 10 when her dad took her to a production of Macbeth. She went on to study at NIDA, graduating with a Bachelor of Theatre Design degree. She has worked as a Costume Designer, Buyer and Stylist across film and television, documentary, music videos, TV commercials and print media for more than 30 years. Costume design highlights include: being nominated for a New Zealand film award for her work on I’ll Make You Happy; dressing Mick Jagger in a custom gold lamé tracksuit for MTV’s The Knights of Prosperity; and avoiding being hit by coconuts in the Fijian jungle while working on Tontine Massacre. Emma is delighted to be returning to the theatre.

SAMUEL PHILLIPS Assistant Director STEVE FRANCIS Composer & Sound Designer EMMA AUBIN Props & Costumes Manager

Accessibility

Audio-Described Performance and Pre-show Touch Tour

Switzerland

Sun 1 Oct 4:00pm

The audio-described performance is open to all and includes a live audio commentary relayed to blind and low-vision patrons in the audience via earpieces. Patrons with accessibility tickets can also attend a touch tour 90 minutes before the performance.

NZSL-Interpreted Performance

Switzerland

Sat 30 Sep 8:00pm

The NZSL-interpreted performance is open to all and features an interpreter on stage, signing the show for Deaf and hard-of-hearing patrons in the audience.

How to Book

Deaf/Hard-of-hearing and blind/ low vision patrons can buy tickets for NZSL-interpreted and audio-described performances for $20. One companion ticket per theatre-goer is also available for $20. Please contact the box office to book accessible performance tickets or if you have any special requirements.

Wheelchair Access

ASB Waterfront Theatre has eight seats and three wheelchair spaces in the auditorium, reserved for customers with special access requirements. There is step-free, level access to all tiers of the building and to seating in the stalls. Wheelchair-accessible toilets are located on the ground floor; accessible parking is available on Madden Street.

Hearing Assistance

The theatre has a T-Loop radio frequency system to amplify the sound of the performance. If you don’t use a hearing aid or your hearing aid does not have a T setting, there is a listener unit available on request from the box office

Assistance Dogs

Assistance dogs are welcome. We can find a seat that’s comfortable for you and your dog or arrange for the theatre staff to look after your dog during the show.

NZSL Interpreting and Signing — Platform Interpreting NZ

Audio Description —

Audio Described Aotearoa Ltd

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Acknowledgments

Auckland Theatre Company would like to thank the following for their help with this production:

Chris Henry: 818 Publicity, Sydney Theatre Company, Cameron Gregan

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