Village Squire, 1975-01, Page 26Kneebone, Bedford, widdoes join
Stratford company for 1975
Casting of major roles for the 1975 Season
at Stratford was announced recently by
William Hutt -Director Festival Stage and
Artistic Director Robin Phillips.
Joining the Festival Acting Company for
the first time will be Tony Award winner
Brian Bedford, as Angelo in Measure for
Measure, Malvolio in Twelfth Night and
Captain Plume in Brecht's Trumpets and
Drums. Since his award winning performance
in School for Wives, Mr. Bedford has
completed a National Tour of Butley in the
U.S. and starred in the American production
of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers at Kennedy
Centre. Recognized as one of the major
theatrical talents of his generation, Mr.
Bedford has been featured at Stratford -On -
Avon and Stratford, Conn. as well as in the
West End and on Broadway. His many
outstanding productions include Private
Lives, with Tammy Grimes: The Knack,
directed by Mike Nichols; and Five Finger
Exercise in London.
Jackie Burroughs, announced earlier for
leading roles in Stratford's Canadian Tour
and Avon Theatre productions of The Two
Gentlemen of Verona and The Comedy of
Errors, will appear as Victoria Balance, a
proper young lady who doesn't mind stooping
to improper disguise to get her man, in
Trumpets and Drums.
Pat Galloway will star as Joan in Shaw's
Saint Joan which is opening production of the
Festival Season. A leading Stratford actress
for several Seasons, Miss Galloway was seen
in 1974 as Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost
and Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid and is
at present with the Manitoba Centre,
appearing as Madame Raevskaya in The
Cherry Orchard.
Gale Garnett, another leading member of
Stratford's Touring Company, will appear in
Arthur Miller's The Crucible which joins the
Avon Theatre repertory mid-July. She will
have the role of Abigail Williams, the young
catalyst in the infamous Salem witch-hunt
around which Miller's powerful drama is
woven. Miss Garnett will. also continue in The
Two Gentlemen and Comedy of Errors when
the Shakespeare productions return to the
Avon Theatre in June.
For his leading lady in his first production
at the Festival Theatre, Artistic Director
Robin Phillips has chosen Martha Henry as
Isabella in Measure for Measure. Miss Henry
will also be featured at the Avon Theatre as
Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible. An actress
whose dramatic skill has brought her high
praise in many Festival productions, Miss
Henry was featured as Thaisa in Pericles and
Constance in King John this past season.
William Hutt will star as Vincentio, Duke of
Venice, in Shakespeare's Measure for
Measure, a role he has performed once before
at Stratford, in the 1969 production. He will
bring his celebrated comic talents to bear on a
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