Village Squire, 1974-12, Page 23Joan on June 9. William Hutt, Stratford's Director -Festival
Stage, will direct the production. Following in June 10 and 11 will
be Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure with the latter
directed by Robin Phillips.
In his first Season as Artistic Director of the Stratford Festival,
Mr. Phillips will direct four productions. In addition to Measure,
he is directing The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Comedy of
Errors, both of which will have toured in Canada prior to the
Season opening, and Bertolt Brecht's Trumpets and Drums, the
fourth Festival Theatre production which joins the repertory
mid -J uly.
Saint Joan is the first Shaw play to be staged by the Festival. .
As befits a work by the irreverent, urbane and witty GBS, it is an
unusual treatment of the Joan story, stripping away the romance
and mystery that have grown around the historical figure to
portray what Shaw himself called "the sane and shrewd country
girl" who rode at the head of France's army, winning a crown for
her king and martyrdom for herself.
Two favourites from among Shakespeare's works, Twelfth
Night and Measure for Measure are thought to have been written
within five years of each other but the mood of the poet is vastly
different in the two works. The first has been called "the
happiest and one of the loveliest of all Shakespeare's plays"
while the second is a penetrating study of justice, using sexuality
as the pivot around which the plot revolves.
Brecht's Trumpets and Drums is an adaptation of Farquhar's
Restoration comedy, The Recruiting Officer with the action
brought forward to the time of the American War of
Independence. The playwright added music and songs to the
original, producing a hilariously biting attack on fake patriotism
and. the self-interest underlying much of the jingoism of war.
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