BRACE UP!
from Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters
Director: Elizabeth LeCompte

Narrator: Kate Valk
Olga, Andrei’s sister: Sheena See
Masha, Andrei’s sister: Kate Valk
Irina, Andrei’s sister: Beatrice Roth
Andrei Sergeyevich Prozorov: Ari Fliakos
Natalya Ivanovna, Andrei’s fiancée, later his wife: Anna Köhler
Bobik, Andrei’s son: Jack Frank (on video)
Anfisa, the Prozorov’s old nurse: Josephine Buscemi (on video)
Fyodor Ilyich Kulygin, Masha’s husband: Paul Lazar
Colonel Alexander Ignatyevich Vershinin: Willem Dafoe
Baron Nikolai Lvovich Tusenbach: Scott Shepherd
Doctor Ivan Romanovich Chebutykin: Joel Bassin
Vassily Vassilievich Solyony: Gary Wilmes
Rohde, Second Lieutenant: Dave Shelley
Fedotik, Second Lieutenant: Steve Cuiffo
Street Musician: Michael Stumm (on video)
Stage Manager / Servant: Dominique Bousquet

Translation of Three Sisters: Paul Schmidt
Set: Jim Clayburgh
Video and First Camera: Christopher Kondek, Reid Farrington
Sound: James “J.J.” Johnson, John Collins, Geoff Abbas
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton
Costumes: Elizabeth Jenyon
Choreography: The Wooster Group
Assistant Director / Dramaturg: Clay Hapaz
Production Manager: Iver Findlay
Master Rigger: Ruud van den Akker
Master Electrician: Gabe Maxson
Costume / Video Assistant: Tara Webb
Doctor’s Camera: Iver Findlay
Original music: John Lurie, Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Suzzy and Terre Roche
Additional music: Evan Lurie
Dance Director: Kate Valk
Dance Consultant: Jo Andres

Special thanks to the following people for their contributions to the piece:

Steve Buscemi, Bill Ballou, Scott Breindel, Bob Cardelli, Linda Chapman, Eric Dyer, John Erskine, Roy Faudree, Paula Gordon, Joan Jonas, Michael Kirby, Karen Lashinsky, David Linton, Ruth Maleczech, Michael Nishball, Scott Renderer, Clay Shirky, Peyton Smith, Ellen Spiro, Elion Sacker, Leslie Thornton, Ken Watt, Jeff Webster, Marianne Weems, Bob Wisdom, Ron Vawter, Tad Yenawine

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This video presentation was directed by Elizabeth LeCompte
Director of Photography/Editor Ken Kobland
Post-Production Sound Design Geoff Abbas
Video Processing/Matting Reid Farrington and Geoff Abbas
Cameras Paula Court, Clay Hapaz, Carrie Kim, and Ken Kobland
Filmed at St. Ann’s Warehouse in 2003.

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