The Will (1913)
by J. M. Barrie
Performed by Deven Anderson, Rainard Rachele, Brian Wallace, I.B. White, Justin Blanchard and Emily Young. Recorded October 16, 2009.
The Play
Commentary
Outtakes
About J. M. Barrie
Sir J.M. (James Matthew) Barrie (1860-1937) was born in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the 'Thrums' which he made famous in his early writing. Both in the short sketches of Auld Licht Idylls (1888) and A Window in Thrums (1889), and in his two most popular novels, The Little Minister (1891) and Sentimental Tommy (1896), he treated the quaint humors of his fellow villagers in a manner which blends authentic regionalism with romantic sentimentality. With these stories he earned his title as the father of the Kailyard (or Kitchen garden) School of Scottish fiction.
In the [20th] century he confined his attention largely to the drama. Among his successes are: The Admirable Crichton (1902), a comedy of manners in a romantic setting [and NOT a romance, as Brian erroneously stated in the commentary - although we are certain that a romantic setting can lead to romance]; Peter Pan (1904), the dramatization of his sentimental fantasy about 'the boy who wouldn't grow up;' What Every Woman Knows (1908), a spirited comedy about life in Scotland; The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (1917), a sentimental piece of war propaganda; and Dear Brutus (1917), a moral fantasy.
In his insistence on the reality of the world of day-dreams, Barrie was a literary descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson, but, unlike this friend of his youth, he was more at home in the airy region of sentimental whimsy than in the land of robust, red-blooded romance. It is highly probable that Peter Pan will outlive all his more substantial creations."
- from A Dictionary of English Literature, by Watt & Watt
The Company, In Order of Appearance
Deven Anderson hails from Downers Grove, IL. Regional Credits include the Indiana University productions of Macbeth (Lennox), Romeo and Juliet (Escalus), Lobby Hero (Jeff), The Foreigner (Brown County), Tweaked (Phoenix Theatre), Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged (Big Theatre prod.) New York: Reflections from Reality (SVA Theatre NYC), The Hard Lull (Discovery Hill prod.), America: A Problem play (Planet Connections Festival), Ghosts of Provincetown (New World Stages) and a reverse-gender cast of Measure for Measure (Isabella). Education: B.A., Indiana University School of Theatre/Arts, Circle in the Square School, Second City (Chicago). 
Rainard Rachele is a member of American Globe Theatre in NYC where he has performed such roles as Shylock in Merchant of Venice, Friar Lawrence in Romeo & Juliet, Kulyigin in Three Sisters, Autolicus in Winters Tale, Algernon in Earnest, Tartuffe in Tartuffe, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Howard in Picnic, Stanislavski in To Moscow, Oliver/Amiens in As You Like It, Theseus in Midsummer, and many others. Off-Bway: The Seagull dir. by Austin Pendelton, William Shakespeare in Dammit Shakespeare. Regional Theatre: American Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Hangar Theatre, and the Orlando, NJ, CO, Utah and Kings County Shakespeare Festivals. Internationally: Edgar in King Lear and Nick in Virginia Woolf. Rainard is a member of AEA. He received his M.F.A. from Cornell and studied Shakespeare with John Basil at AGT. He currently studies Voice with John Capes at The Singers Forum and is Director of Finance of New World Stages, NYC's premier Off-Broadway Theatre destination. 
Brian Wallace recently portrayed Gooper in the sold-out run of Cat on A Hot Tin Roof at Arkansas Rep, and was part of the original cast of the Pulitzer-nominated hit The Good Negro at the Public Theater and Dallas Theater Center, as well as Jonathan Leaf's The Caterers, a part for which he was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award. Regional credits include productions at Capital Repertory Theater, the Berkshire Theater Festival, Lake George Dinner Theater, Stamford Center for the Arts, Verse Theater Manhattan, and Trinity Rep. A generous tipper, attentive lover, and frequent litterbug, Brian is also the co-creator of LostPlays.com along with I.B. White. Website: www.bri-curious.com 
I.B. White appears occasionally in the long-running off-Broadway show My First Time. He was recently seen in the award-winning short film "Numskull", featured during the series premiere of NBC's Knight Rider. Ian played Tim in the West Coast leg of the Old Globe/Roundabout coproduction of Greg Kotis' Pig Farm, and has performed in readings and workshops at the Public Theater, the Huntington Theater, Soho Rep, New Georges, and the Lark Play Development Center. He is an MFA graduate of the Brown/Trinity Consortium. 
appeared on Broadway in "Journey's End," which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, and has appeared regionally in plays by Paula Vogel and Mary Zimmerman at the Long Wharf Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Shakespeare Theatre of DC, and the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ. Other noted roles include work at the Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Trinity Repertory Company and the Hangar Theatre. His television credits include guest starring on "Law & Order: SVU". Justin is a graduate of New York University (BFA, Tisch) and the Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium. (MFA). 
Off Broadway: Juliet, Mercutio, Paris, and five others in Theatre Breaking Through Barriers' Romeo and Juliet at Theatre Row; staged readings of Major Barbara, The Devil's Disciple and The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet with Project Shaw at The Players; Tracy in Colorado with Summer Play Festival. Regional: King Lear (Cordelia), Much Ado About Nothing (Hero) at the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; Loves Labor’s Lost (Katherine), Henry V (Alice), Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret) at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival; Cherry Orchard (Anya) at Trinity Rep, Emma (Emma) at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage. Emily also recently completed work as the lead in the short musical film, Manhattan Melody, which will be released this winter. Training: Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium.