October 31 to November 9, 2013 | University of Regina
BACK STORY
based on characters created by JOAN ACKERMANN
by JOAN ACKERMANN, COURTNEY BARON, NEENA BEBER, CONSTANCE CONGDON, JON KLEIN, SHIRLEY LAURO, CRAIG LUCAS, EDUARDO MACHUDO, DONALD MARGULIES, JANE MARTIN, SUSAN MILLER, JOHN OLIVE, TANYA PALMER, DAVID RAMBO, EDWIN SÁNCHEZ, ADELE EDLING SHANK, MAYO SIMON, and VAL SMITH.
cast JACQ BRASSEUR as Ethan CYDNEY FORBES as Ainsley EMMA HENLEY as Ainsley CONNOR MacNEIL as Ethan ADAM MILNE as Ethan JANE NEUMIER as Ainsley ROBYN SANDERSON as Ainsley HAYLEY TAYLOR as Ainsley CARSON WALLISER as Ethan with DREW LEIBEL as Father
creative KATHRYN BRACHT Director LANDON WALLISER Assistant Director WES D. PEARCE Set and Costume Designer ROSA LAVERDIERE Design Assistant ANDREW MANERA Production Manager JACEY FAHLMAN Stage Manager ALYSSA OBRIGEWITSCH Stage Manager
staff KATHRYN BRACHT Head of Theatre ANDREW MANERA Technical Coordinator CATHY MEARNS Head of Wardrobe MASON ROTH Head of Scenic Carpentry & Properties SHELBY LYN LOWE Drafting & Model Building LANDON WALLISER Publicity MARIE DMYTROW Production Secretary TYLER W. TOPPINGS & ROSA LAVERDIERE Front of House
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois.
“We're making a pie.”
Back Story follows siblings Ainsley and Ethan Belcher through two decades of loyalty, rivalry, reinvention, and love. Their story begins during the worst blizzard of the century, when two-year-old Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for her baby brother’s arrival. It is the first of many grand gestures, small betrayals, shared secrets, and private battles that will define their lives together.
As Ainsley and Ethan grow from childhood into adulthood, they push against one another, protect one another, and grapple with the lingering absence of the father who left them for the wilds of Alaska. By turns funny, tender, and painfully familiar, Back Story traces the complicated intimacy of growing up alongside the one person who remembers where you came from. Inspired by an original narrative by Joan Ackermann, Back Story is a poignant portrait of siblinghood and the shared history that can divide us, shape us, and bind us together.
