Word for Word Performing Arts Company presents:
Friend of My Youth
By Alice Munro
August 12-September 5, 1999
at Magic Theatre
Directed by Margo Hall
Word for Word's 6th Anniversary Festival—our first foray into the world of Alice Munro! "Friend of My Youth" is a memory story, a mother-daughter story, and in Munro's inimitable style, a story of disappointed love, surprise turnings, and the slights and grievances that lead along a path of time to an unimagined future. "Friend of My Youth" was first published in The New Yorker in 1990, and was also the title story of a short story collection published in 1990. In 2000, the company brought "Friend of My Youth" on a tour of France: Paris, Montpellier, Angers, Nancy, and Nice.
Photo by Jaime Kibben. L-R Jeri Lynn Cohen, JoAnne Winter
Directed by Margo Hall
Cast
Jeri Lynn Cohen*
Susan Harloe*
Stephanie Hunt*
Delia MacDougall*
Nancy Shelby*
Patricia Silver*
Simon Vance*
JoAnne Winter*
Cast and Director of "Friend of My Youth," Angers France
L-R Simon Vance, Patricia Silver, Stephanie Hunt, Margo Hall, Susan Harloe, Delia MacDougall, Jeri Lynn Cohen (with daughter Julia), JoAnne Winter, Nancy Shelby, David A. Young
Designers and Crew
James Faerron - Set Design
Cassandra Carpenter - Costume Design
David A. Young* - Stage Manager
*Member, Actors' Equity Association
"It's an exquisite theatrical gesture..."
Steven Winn in the SF Chronicle
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alice Munro has won many awards for her short stories, culminating in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature (for "mastery of the contemporary short story"). She has been described as having "revolutionized the architecture of short stories" (Canadian Encyclopedia). Her works include Dance of the Happy Shades, Lives of Girls and Women, Who Do You Think You Are (also published as The Beggar Maid), The Moons of Jupiter, The Progress of Love, Friend of My Youth, Open Secrets, The Love of a Good Woman; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; The View from Castle Rock; Too Much Happiness; Dear Life, and her stories have been featured in several films, most notably "Away From Her" starring Julie Christie, based on Munro's short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain."
