Three Women of Swatow - Written by Chloé Hung April 19 - May 15 - Tarragon Theatre

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Three Women of Swatow - Written by Chloé Hung April 19 - May 15 - Tarragon Theatre
Three Women of Swatow   April 19 – May 15
                        2022
Written by Chloé Hung
Three Women of Swatow - Written by Chloé Hung April 19 - May 15 - Tarragon Theatre
written by
Three Women of Swatow                                              Chloé Hung

creative team                                                      cast

Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster*                                          Carolyn Fe
Director                                                           Grandmother

Karthy Chin**                                                      Diana Luong
Assistant Director                                                 Daughter

Jareth Li                                                          Chantria Tram
Set and Lighting Design***                                         Mother

Gavin McDonald
Associate Lighting Design

Shannon Lea Doyle
Costume Design

Sim Suzer
Associate Costume Design                                           sponsored by:

Deanna H. Choi
Composition and Sound Design

Olivia Wheeler                                                      and:

Associate Sound Design

Daniel Oulton
Stage Manager

Kayla Thomas
Apprentice Stage Manager

Jennifer Dzialoszynski
Fight Director

Guillermo Verdecchia
Tai Chi Consultant
*supported by The Rose Directing Fund, in recognition of Courtney’s commitment to bolstering new
voices and her meaningful contribution to Tarragon’s artistic community

**Made possible through the generous support of The Shen Family Charitable Foundation.

***Made possible through the Lighting Designer Project, in memory of John Reginald Stammers:
former lighting designer for Tarragon Theatre and Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet, teacher and
friend. The Lighting Designer Project is generously supported by J. Sergei Sawchyn.
Three Women of Swatow - Written by Chloé Hung April 19 - May 15 - Tarragon Theatre
a message from the artistic director and managing director

Welcome back! We have been so grateful for the encouragement we have received
from you, our incredible patrons and community, as we re-open our doors to live
gathering and the experience of sharing new Canadian stories. Thank you!

It’s no secret that we have endured so much during this long intermission, and while
we are beginning to see light through and at the end of the tunnel, we also
acknowledge the incredible sacrifices this time has brought. Our disconnection from
family and the inability to play and imagine with each other has certainly been a
weight on us all. With that in mind, and after a two-year delay in our offering of this
exceptional new work and dark comedy by Chloé Hung, we are pleased to invite you to
enter the world and family of the Three Women of Swatow.

This story celebrates strong women and their connection across generations – women
who take control of their lives in trying circumstances. We revel in the strength these
three women have to change their own (mis)fortunes under the guidance of their
matriarch, Grandmother, and the opportunities they give us to laugh in the
darkness. How we have all been craving humour in the dark moments of these last two
years! While it missed its opening in March 2020, Three Women of Swatow perhaps
resonates even more today, given the impacts we know the pandemic has had on many
women and families facing domestic abuse; its comedic lens offers a lighter entry point
to consider an important subject.

Thank you for re-discovering your home at Tarragon, and from our family to yours, we
are thrilled to have you continue this season with us, one that challenges us to look
ahead and to imagine so many possibilities. Thank you for being the foundation on
which we can walk this journey forward.

Enjoy the show and bon spectacle!

Mike Payette -Artistic Director
& Andrea Vagianos - Managing Director

l and acknowledgement

       As we gather on the sacred land upon which Tarragon is built, Tarragon
   acknowledges that we all are a part of a larger ecosystem within our community,
   Tkaronto, where Tarragon Theatre lives and operates - and that we also commit
ourselves and in turn energize our audiences to continually reflect on and respond to
our relationship to the land around us. This country has been cared for by generations
 of First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nations, and the land on which Tarragon rests and
 is able to share this story has been cherished and protected by, the Anishnabeg, the
   Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit.

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playwright’s note

Three Women of Swatow started its Tarragon journey in the Playwrights Unit six years
ago.I’m so grateful to Richard Rose, Mike Payette, the three Andreas:
Donaldson, Romaldi, Vagianos, Joanna Falck, the playwrights from the Playwrights
Unit, all the actors, directors, designers, and production team who have helped shape
Three Women into the play you’re seeing tonight.

In the arts, playwrights of colour often have to contend with the word “universality.” I
have never seen a play by a white playwright heralded as “universal,” because it’s an
assumption that our default is whiteness. So much so that when a BIPOC playwright
has a hit, they are praised for writing a play that white people can relate to. I present to
you a play that is not meant to be universal: it deals with issues of homicide, domestic
abuse, butchery, and blood. While I hope you relate to the emotional life of the
characters, I do not intend for the story itself to be universal, in fact, I hope it is not.
This is a specific play, about specific people, dealing with a specific and unique
circumstance.

I want to thank again the Tarragon team. Thank you to our fierce director Courtney,
our actors Chantria, Carolyn, and Diana. Karthy, Daniel, our creative team of
incredible technical magicians, and all the babies (yes there have been several
amongst this team) who have been born throughout this process. We’ve waited two
years to bring this play to you and we thank you for coming back to the theatre!

We hope you enjoy Three Women of Swatow.

With immense gratitude, Chloé - April 2022

director ’s note

Legacy, inheritance, skill, technique, artistry, trauma, addiction. Can we control what
we pass on to our children? Can we select certain parts of ourselves and wall up
others? What are we willing to do to survive?

It has been an honour to live with Chloé Hung’s dark comedy, for longer than
expected. It is due to the patience, generosity and faith of many people that we are
here today - Chloé, for trusting me with her creation, Richard Rose for believing in me,
Andrea Vagianos, Mike Payette, and the entire staff at the Tarragon for keeping the
faith despite many bumps along the way, and our remarkable cast and creative team,
for sticking with it. Thank you.

I became a mother shortly before beginning rehearsals on Three Women of Swatow in
the winter of 2020. My own mother was present at the birth of my child and provided
enormous, mountain-moving support to me as I balanced new parenthood with
preparing to direct this show. On the first day of rehearsal, I received a message from
my uncle, and I had to let mum know that my Ah Mah, her mother, had passed away
peacefully in her sleep on the other side of the world. She was just shy of a century old,
and in her lifetime had been witness to remarkable change. Through it all, she fiercely
cared for her children as my mother cares for me. She shared a little over a week on
this earth with my child, but I know he has inherited that strength from her - and as
we finally, finally prepare to open this play about fierce women, I am thinking of her

Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster - April 2022
PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
        KARTHY CHIN - Assistant Director
        For Tarragon: Debut
        Selected Credits: Director - Trafalgar 24 (Driftwood); The
        Shimmering Verge (Prairie Fire, Please/ Art Thing); One Song Glory
        (Musical Stage Company); Bluebird Encounters (Campbell House
        Museum); Asst Director - Director’s Workshop Presentation (Stratford
        Festival), Hadestown (Citadel Theatre), The Enchanted Loom (Cahoots/
        Factory)
        Upcoming: Ghost Seamstress (Peterborough Art Gallery)
        Other: Karthy Chin is the Dramaturgy and Accessibility Intern at The-
        atre Passe Muraille and a member of Factory Theatre’s Foundry new
        work creation group. She has produced around Toronto for different
        arts festivals and produced Chloé Hung’s latest short, Gem and Shaz, in
        association with the Harold Greenberg Fund and Bell Media.
        DEANNA H. CHOI – Composition and Sound Designer
        For Tarragon: Light; Shape of a Girl; The Realistic Joneses (assistant
        sound designer)
        Selected Credits: Controlled Damage (Neptune/bcurrent), Between
        Riverside and Crazy (Coal Mine), Honour Beat (Theatre Calgary), Voice
        (Prairie Theatre Exchange), Let’s Run Away (Canadian Stage/ReWork),
        The Wolves (Howland/Crow’s Theatre), Towards Youth (Project
        Humanity/Crow’s Theatre), The Horse and His Boy (Shaw), Paradise
        Lost (Stratford), August Osage County (Soulpepper)
        Selected Film and Television: Last of the Right Whales (CBC/
        Hitplay), He Murdered Sleep (Boxenworks)
        Upcoming: Bad Parent (Soulpepper), Indecent (Studio 180/Mirvish),
        Awards: 2020 Pauline McGibbon Award for Theatre Design.
        Other: Very happy to finally share this show. Current artist-in-
        residence for Necessary Angel, associate artist at the National Theatre
        School of Canada; proud member of IATSE ADC 659, SCGC, SOCAN.
        www.splitbrainsound.com @deanna.h.choi
        SHANNON LEA DOYLE – Costume Designer
        For Tarragon: The Jungle, Girls Like That
        Selected Credits: Getting Married (Shaw Festival); Audible Songs
        From Rockwood (SummerWorks); Maada’ookii Songlines (Luminato);
        Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train, Fool For Love, Little Menace: The Pinter
        Plays, La Bête, Vimy, The Just, The Heidi Chronicles, The Anger of
        Ernest and Ernestine, The Dybbuk (Soulpepper Theatre); Boy In The
        Moon, Breath In Between (Crows Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Canadian
        Stage); This Is How We Got Here (Native Earth); Trout Stanley (Factory
        Theatre); John (Company Theatre); Violet, Merrily We Roll Along (YES
        Theatre).
        Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award for Set Design, Nominated for the
        2020 Virginia and Myrtle Cooper Award in Costume Design.
        Other: Shannon holds a BFA in Sculpture and Installation from OCAD
        University and is a graduate of the Soulpepper Academy. She is a
        Co-founder of Triga Creative: a design collective working to create
        extraordinary live experiences through collaborative models that
        value people, planet and profit.
PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
        JENNIFER DZIALOSZYNSKI - Fight Director
        For Tarragon: Theory, Girls Like That
        Selected Credits: The Nether (Coal Mine/Studio 180), Poison (Coal
        Mine), Hello Bertha, Talk To Me Like The Rain And Let Me Listen,
        Rococo, Lithuania (Shaw Festival), Boeing, Boeing, Perfect Wedding
        (Magnus Theatre) Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Taming of the Shrew
        (Shakespeare Bash’d), The Duchess of Malfi, The Revenger’s Tragedy
        (Ryerson School of Performance)
        Selected Film and Television: SkyMed (CBC), Let It Snow (Netflix),
        Shut Up (Short), The Strain (TV Series), Dark Matter (TV Series), Rogue
        (TV Series), XIII The Series (TV Series)
        Upcoming: Is God Is – Canadian Stage/Obsidian Theatre/Necessary
        Angel Theatre Fairview (Actor) - Canadian Stage/Obsidian Theatre
        Awards: My Entertainment World Winner – Hamlet, Dora Award
        Nomination - Kindertransport
        Other: Jennifer is delighted to be back at Tarragon with another
        fantastic team of artists. Shout out to all the fierce women, from
        Swatow and everywhere.
        CAROLYN FE - Grandmother
        For Tarragon: Debut
        Selected Credits: Calpurnia (Nightwood/Sulong Theatre); Through
        The Bamboo (Uwi Collective); Hilot (Cahoots); Believe Your Eyes
        (Punchdrunk); Life, Death & The Blues (Theatre Passe Muraille); Miss
        Orient(ed) (Teesri Duniya)
        Selected Film and Television: Blues Clues and You (Television/
        Nickelodeon); Pinecone and Pony (Television/DreamWorks); Abroad
        (Television/OMNI); Two Sentence Horror Stories (Television/CW
        Network/Netflix USA); The Saver (Film/Prospector); Mother (Film/
        Protozoa)
        Other: When Carolyn is not on the theatre’s stage or front of the
        camera, she is performing songs from her albums or collaborating
        with musicians around the globe. Her continuous pursuit of artistic
        evolution adds new instruments to her creative toolbox as a published
        Writer and emerging Playwright. She is currently in two playwright
        residencies: Montreal’s Teesri Duniya Theatre’s Fireworks Playwrights’
        Program and Toronto’s Factory Theatre’s The Foundry new work
        creation group.
        More about Carolyn: https://linktr.ee/TheCarolynFe
PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
        CHLOÉ HUNG - Playwright
        For Tarragon: Debut
        Selected Credits: All Our Yesterdays (AnOther Theatre Company –
        Toronto Fringe Festival, Next Stage Festival); Issei, He Say (or the Myth
        of the First) (New Jersey Repertory Company, The Kennedy Center/
        NNPN MFA workshop); Model Minority (AyeDefy Reading Series, Banff
        Playwrights Lab), Alien of Extraordinary Ability (Geffen Theatre’s
        Writers Room)
        As Screenwriter: Cherish the Day (OWN), Queen Sugar (OWN/W
        Network), and currently writes for The Greybourne (Freeform).
        Awards: RBC Emerging Playwrights Award; My Entertainment World
        – Outstanding New Work; Patron’s Pick Toronto Fringe Festival;
        Other: Born and raised in Toronto, Chloé Hung is a Chinese-Canadian
        playwright, TV Writer, and screenwriter. Chloé has developed for
        Netflix. In film, Chloé has been a Black List screenwriters lab fellow
        and Women In Film Production program fellow for Signal. Her latest
        short film, Gem & Shaz, was produced in association with the Harold
        Greenberg Fund and Bell Media.
        COURTNEY CH’NG LANCASTER – Director
        For Tarragon: Three Women of Swatow, The Message
        Selected Credits: Director, The Wolves (Crow’s Theatre/Howland
        Company); 52 Pick-Up (Howland Company); Cannibal (Scrap Paper
        Theatre); Gray (Theatre Inamorata); appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac
        and Man and Superman (Shaw Festival) I Call myself Princess
        (Cahoots/Native Earth/Paper Canoe); Innocence Lost: A Play about
        Steven Truscott, Idomeneus, Incident at Vichy, Marat/Sade, Eurydice,
        Blood Wedding, Spoon River, Alligator Pie, Of Human Bondage, Idiot’s
        Delight, The Barber of Seville, The Royal Comedians, The Crucible
        (Soulpepper); Other Jesus (Public Recordings); The Flood Thereafter
        (Canadian Stage), The Tin Drum (UnSpun Theatre); Pride and Prejudice
        (Citadel Theatre); Anywhere (One Four One Collective); Macbeth: Nach
        Shakespeare (Theatre Conspiracy).
        Other: Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster is a theatre maker from Antigonish,
        Nova Scotia. She is a co-founder and artistic leader of The Howland
        Company, was recently the Assistant Artistic Director at Tarragon
        Theatre in Toronto, and is a former resident artist with Soulpepper
        Theatre. During these strange pandemic times she has directed radio
        play versions of 7 Stories, Shape of a Girl and Democracy (Expect
        Theatre/Tarragon), and Ins Choi’s Casting, part of You Can’t Get There
        From Here at Factory Theatre.
PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
        Jareth Li - Set and Lighting Designer
        For Tarragon: Orphan Song, Copy That;
        Select design credits: The Hours That Remain (Theatre Aquarius);
        The Home Project, Casimir and Caroline, (The Howland Company); The
        Wolves (Howland & Crows Theatre); Ring of Fire (Citadel Theatre);
        Serving Elizabeth (WCT); Iphigenia and The Furies (Saga Collectif,
        Dora nomination).
        Other: Jareth is thrilled to invite audiences back to live theatre.
        Born in Singapore, Jareth is a stage designer now based in Toronto
        by way of Calgary. He has a love for new work that examines identity
        politics, culture, and heritage. In addition to his artistic practice, he is
        a member of The Howland Company, as well as a stagecraft instructor
        at York University. He believes strongly in mentorship, and creating
        opportunity for upcoming generations of designers.
        DIANA LUONG - Daughter
        For Tarragon: Debut
        Selected Credits: Fearless (fu-Gen); Twelfth Night (Dauntless City
        Theatre); Orpheus & Eurydice (Theatre TOnight); The Good Story
        (SummerWorks); Cleave (New Words Festival); Scorched (NTS)
        Selected Film and Television: Bellwoods (Web Series), It’s Not You (TIFF
        Shortcuts/Sundance)
        Other: Diana is a self-represented Toronto based artist and a graduate of
        The National Theatre School of Canada. She would like to give thanks to
        her people, the Asian Ancestral Nose and the Asian Squat.

        DANIEL OULTON - Stage Manager
        For Tarragon: Light, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
        Selected Credits: SM -Let’s Try This Standing, Constellations (Keep
        Good); Under the Stairs, One Thing Leads to Another (YPT); The Dream
        Catchers (Charlottetown Festival); two tours of When it Rains (2b);
        ASM - Cakewalk, Wing Night at the Boot (Blyth Festival); Projections -
        A Million Billion Pieces (YPT); Creative Technologist - The Tape Escape
        (Outside the March);
        Other: Daniel is a Toronto based, Nova Scotia raised Stage Manager,
        Designer, and Creative Technologist. danieloulton.ca

        SIM SUZER - Associate Costume Design
        For Tarragon: Debut
        Selected Credits: Recent Design Work: Costume Design and
        Associate Set Design - Everybody (Shaw Festival), Costume Design -
        Per Gint (George Brown College), Set and Costume Design - Untamed
        (XU) Assistant Set and Costume Design - Romeo and Juliet (Stratford
        Festival). Assistant Costume Design - Gypsy (Shaw Festival), Assistant
        Set Design - Devil’s Disciple. (Shaw Festival) Assistant Set and
        Costume Design - Horse and His Boy, The Ladykillers, Victory, Holiday
        Inn. Design Work 2019: Costume Designer - Water Wonder (Carousel
        Players), Set and Costume Designer - Play House (Shaw Festival)
        Cont.
PERFORMERS AND CREATIVE
        SIM SUZER - Cont.
        Set and Costume Designer - The Subjection of Kezia and Poof! (Shaw
        Festival), Set and Costume Designer Journey to the Greatest Gift
        (L’Arche Daybreak), Costume Designer - Good Morning, Viet Mom
        (Cahoots Theatre).
        KAYLA THOMAS – Apprentice Stage Manager
        For Tarragon: Debut
        Other: Toronto based, recent graduate from York University’s Theatre
        Production BFA Program. Grateful for the opportunity to work with
        Tarragon on this beautiful production as her debut and looking
        forward to continuing her professional career in Stage Management in
        the upcoming years!
        CHANTRIA TRAM - Mother
        For Tarragon: Debut
        Selected Credits: Someone Between (Factory Theatre, Young
        Centre for the Performing Arts, Hamilton Theatre, Centaur Theatre,
        Concordia University); Hot Hot Gossip (Edgy Women Theatre); Shifting
        Grounds (Black Theatre Workshop); At The Crossroads (Concordia
        University)
        Selected Film and Television: Titans, Workin’ Moms, The Expanse,
        The Coroner, 12 Monkeys, Private Eyes, Falling Waters
        Awards: BFA with honours in Theatre - Concordia University; Best
        Actress in a Dramedy - L.A Webseries Festival
        Other: Chantria is a Khmer-Krom Canadian performer and storyteller
        with a passion for bringing more diversity to the screen and stage. She
        is currently co-creating a television series called ‘Tiger Child’, adapted
        from her theatrical solo show.
        @chantriat (Instagram) / www.chantriatram.com
        GUILLERMO VERDECCHIA – Tai Chi Consultant
        For Tarragon: The Jungle, The Good Life; A Line in the Sand; Fronteras
        Americanas; Amigo’s Blue Guitar
        Other: Guillermo is a playwright, director and dramaturge. He
        directed the acclaimed production of The Jungle at the Tarragon BP
        (Before the Pandemic). He has practised taiji for some time, studying
        most recently with Sifu Dylan Kirk of Spiritwind Internal Arts in
        Toronto.
        OLIVIA WHEELER – Associate Sound Designer
        For Tarragon: Debut
        Selected Credits: Sound Designer - It’ll Come to Me (Theatre SKAM),
        Antigones (Victoria Fringe Festival), 7 Stories (University of Victoria);
        Music Direction and Composition – Othello (University of Victoria),
        Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar (Greater Victoria Shakespeare
        Festival); Assistant to the Sound and Video Designer – The Wedding
        Party (Alberta Theatre Projects); Production Designer – The Fates,
        Backliners (Theatre SKAM).
        Upcoming: Assistant Sound Designer - Every Little Nookie,
        Hamlet-911, 1939 (Stratford Festival)
        Other: Associate member of the Associate Designers of Canada.
        oliviagwheeler.com.
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