Las Chica de Miami: Sinopsis de la Trama

• Valentina y Proteo, las chicas de Miami, se separan. Valentina se marcha a Ibiza y deja en casa a su compañera Proteus para cortejar a Julian.
• Julian finge a su compañera, Lucetta, que no tiene ningún interés en Proteus aunque está locamente enamorado de ella.
• La jefa de Proteus, Antonia, decide que Proteus necesita algunas experiencias mundanas y la envía a reunirse con Valentina en Ibiza.
• Mientras tanto, Valentina se ha enamorado de Silvia, la hija del duque de Milán; sin embargo, el duque quiere que su hija se case con el rico Sir Thurio.
• Proteo y Julián intercambian anillos antes de que Proteo parta hacia Ibiza.
• La amiga de Proteo, Lance, agoniza por dejar atrás a su querido perro, Cangrejo.
• Proteus llega a Ibiza, donde se reencuentra con Valentina y conoce a Silvia. Valentina le cuenta a Proteo sus planes de fugarse con Silvia.
• De vuelta en Miami, Julián decide disfrazarse y seguir a Proteo a Ibiza.
• El padre de Silvia, el duque, se entera del plan secreto de Valentina de casarse con su hija. Destierra a Valentina, que huye al bosque con su amiga Speed.
• Julián llega a Ibiza, los forajidos se encuentran con Valentina en el Bosque, y Silvia huye al Bosque en busca de Valentina.
• Se produce una persecución, un mal comportamiento y una reconciliación.

Valentina	Samantha Curtis (she/her) is delighted to work with The Rude Mechanicals once again. She has appeared in previous Shakespeare in the Park productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Titania, and As You Like It as Rosalind. Some of her favorite roles include Claire in Proof (Princess Theatre); Clarice in Bertha, the Beautiful Typewriter Girl, Florence Unger in The Odd Couple (Female Version), Mollie Ralston in The Mousetrap (Richland Players); and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (MCMT). Samantha is a software developer who enjoys spending her free time gaming and is thankful for the support of her two cats.
Proteus	Esme Steinmeyer. This is Esme Steinmeyer’s first production with Rude Mechanicals and first Shakespeare play. Although Esme is no stranger to theater and has been acting since high school. She would like to thank everyone involved in the production of this show, the patrons, and especially her family.
Julian	Devin Simpson has been in theater since Middle School and has been involved in several productions in the Tri-Cities such as Columbia Basin College Theater, Richland Players, and of course Rude Mechanicals. He attends Washington State University Tri-Cities earning a post-baccalaureate in Digital Technology and Culture and is a Student Outreach Ambassador at WSU Gaining Early Awareness & Readiness for Undergraduates Program (GEAR UP). He has a lot of fun bringing the character of Julian to life in this adaptation of Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona. He is confident that the audience will enjoy watching this year’s Shakespeare in the Park.
Sylvia	Mary Gray is thrilled to return to Shakespeare in the Park with the Rude Mechanicals. She would like to thank everyone who put their time and talent into this production, as well as those coming to see it!
The Duke	James Callaghan
Speed	Moriarty Knox
Lance	Garrett Christian-Heiman has been doing community theater in the Tricities since 2018. Garrett graduated from WSU with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and was in the Rude Mechanicals production of Exit Pursued By A Bear and the MCMT shows Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Lucetta	Hailie O’Bryan is playing Lucetta in their first production with the Rude Mechanicals. They moved to the Tri-Cities from Northern California in January of this year and found a new family within the theater community here. They hope you enjoy the show as much as they enjoyed working on it!
Antonia	Heidi Dagle is playing Don Antonia in her very first production with The Rude Mechanicals! She is very involved with The Richland Players and Princess Theater, and is super happy to have yet another group to play with!! She thanks you for coming out to support the local theaters!!
Thurio	Nathan Blanco
Eglamour	J.E. Kimmel is pleased to return to a Rude Mechanicals production after 8 years. In 2016, they portrayed the dual roles of Dr. Pinch and the Messenger in Comedy of Errors. They have also been involved with Richland Players as an actor (Happy Birthday, Wanda June), sound designer (Woman in Black), producer, and director (A Doublewide Texas Christmas). J. is also a writer and director for film and is working towards making several short films with their production company JeT-13 Productions. They hope you enjoy the show.
The Dude	Kobe Daniels
DJ Outlaw	Samantha “Sam” Page is so glad to have gotten to work on this show. She would have loved to write more but is busy with her show responsibilities, being a full-time college student and a part-time worker. She hopes everyone enjoys!
Brandon	Arlo McGowan’s most recent credits include Godspell at the Princess Theatre, Richland Player’s Musical Comedy Murders (Roger), And Then There Were None (Marston), Toil and Trouble (Adam), and MCMT’s Pirates of Penzance (Kate), and Spelling Bee (Chip). Arlo has also performed frequently with the Mid-Columbia Mastersingers, and as a singer the virtual concert Brave Hearts for Broadway.
Jessica	Kayla Khristine Rodriguez
Emma	Emma Tyree is a Tri-Cities native who graduated from Central Washington University with a dance major and theater minor. She has been apart of several community theater shows such as MCMT’s production of Young Frankenstein as Igor, and recently choreographed a production of A Year with Frog and Toad at Prosser with the Princess Theatre. This is her first production with The Rude Mechanical’s and she’s most excited to dance on stage with her friends!
Krahb (the dog)	Sweetheart “Sweetie” Cutiepie Tyree is wagging her tail about making her onstage debut with The Rude Mechanicals. She is a 3-year-old shih tzu who has two other shih tzu sisters at home, who are very proud of her for putting herself out there. Her human sister, Emma, is her handler for the show and appreciates how the cast has welcomed her with open arms. To quote Sweetie about her time on the show, “bark bark woof woof!”

Director	Katie Clark (she/her) is a director, choreographer and actor. Her recent directing credits include MCMT’S 25th Annual…Bee and Richland Players’ And Then There Were None. She is passionate about educational theatre, working with schools and youth education programs throughout the Mid-Columbia and Seattle area. This is her SITP and Rude Mechanicals debut and is so grateful to them for taking a chance on this silly, bold, queer concept. Katie thanks her supportive family, friends and puppy for their endless support.
Adaptation by	Cyndi Kimmel and Jess Howard
Stage Manager and Props Designer	Jess Howard spends most of their “free time” working behind the scenes for various local theater groups, including Mid-Columbia Musical Theatre, The Richland Players, Princess Theatre, and others. They hold an extra special place in their heart for The Rude Mechanicals, their first community theatre home. They feel so blessed to have spent these past months working alongside many of their favorite people to bring to life The Girls of Miami and to be able to share it across the region in four cities!
Tech Director and Set Designer	James Callaghan
Costume Designers	Iris Lindley (she/her) is a professional hair & makeup artist based in Richland, WA. She grew up on stage in her home state of Texas, and started lending her talents to costuming for local theatrical productions this year. Her  recent wardrobing debut was for Richland Player’s production of The Musical Comedy Murders of The 1940’s. Tonight, Iris is pumped to get the party started and throw it back to 2001 Miami to bring these gurls (& the rest of the cast) to life.   Aubrey Gray
Assistant Stage Manager	Samantha “Sam” Page is so glad to have gotten to work on this show. She would have loved to write more but is busy with her show responsibilities, being a full-time college student and a part-time worker. She hopes everyone enjoys!
Intimacy Director	Kimberly Starr received her intimacy director (ID) training through Heartland Intimacy Design and Training under the tutelage of Dr. Kate Busselle. Kimberly is passionate about ensuring intimate staging takes place in safe, collaborative, and creative environments, that actors understand their right to body autonomy, and that cast members decide upon a production physical boundary standard before blocking begins. Recent productions she has IDed include Princess Theatre’s Proof, Hotbed Hotel, Boeing Boeing, Godspell, and The Face on the Barroom Floor, and Rude Mechanicals’ Equivocation. Her current projects include Richland Players’ Sylvia and Prosser High School’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace.
Microphone and Sound Board Technician and Operator	Clara Wyckoff

Inside the Text: Shakespeare’s Clues

Rhythm and Wordplay

Key Terms: 

• Rhythm: the poetic structure (iambic pentameter, unstressed and stressed syllables), the meter.
• Wordplay: Rhetorically speaking, how Shakespeare uses words to elicit a specific thought or response. Shakespeare’s use of rhetorical wordplay tells us about not only the play’s plot and story, but also the characters and their circumstances. 

Rhythm:

Scansion and Meter: What are they and how do they work?

Verse and Prose:

VERSE: Think of it as text’s metrical rhythm. Shakespeare wrote most of the verse in his plays in iambic pentameter, meaning there are 10 syllables per line – 5 metrical feet, each foot containing 1 unstressed and 1 stressed syllable. 

PROSE: Think of it as an everyday speaking/reading rhythm. In Shakespeare’s plays, prose may be more casual than verse, and its rhythms are more likely to be specific to a particular character’s way of speaking. 

Terms

• Foot: the basic unit of blank verse, usually two syllables.  
• Iamb: A heartbeat: a metrical foot containing an unstressed beat, then a stressed beat. 

Examples (the bolded syllable is the stressed syllable): 

expense, before, admit, compare, degree

• Trochee: A backwards heartbeat: a metrical foot containing a stressed beat, then an unstressed beat. 

Examples (the bolded syllable is the stressed syllable): 

beauty, error, vanish, double, trouble 

Shakespeare’s R.O.A.D.S to Rhetoric

What is rhetoric?

• The way in which words are structured to make a point or elicit a response.

The most common rhetorical devices broken down into five categories: 

Repetition, Omission, Addition, Direction, and Substitution. Below are examples of each of the 5 categories. Upon further study and listening, notice how connected each device is to one or more others. This is no accident. 

 

• REPETITION 

Repeated words, sounds, and sentence structure give speech a cadence, a rhythm, to follow and help set an aural mood.  Our brains are tuned to appreciate harmony and naturally pick up on patterns. Why would a character repeat themselves, or their vocal tone/inflection? What can repetition of words and/or sounds and structure communicate about relationship, location, thought, and feeling? 

• Repetition of Words and Sounds

 

• Repetition of Structure

 

• OMISSION 

Interrupts the normal flow of speech or ideas by leaving out a component of a sentence or a layer of meaning.  Omission requires the listener to fill in the gap. Two common types of omission are ellipsis and asyndeton. 

• • Ellipsis: Omission of a word, sentence, or idea. 

• Asyndeton: Omission of conjunctions. 

 

•  ADDITION 

Focuses on words that are extraneous or explanatory, hyperbole. 

• DIRECTION 

Addresses the order in which the words come. Think about ascending/descending importance (lists), contrast (antithesis), and emphasis/vocal-tone. 

• SUBSTITUTION 

One word or phrase stands in for something else.  May be purely grammatical, or it may be more conceptual and abstract (literal and/or figurative ideas).  Usually used as a form of observant and/or critical commentary.