HomeMy WebLinkAboutVillage Squire, 1977-06, Page 26The second play of the 1953 Festival Season was All's Well that Ends Well, directed by
Tyrone Guthrie. In this picture are left: Eric House, centre: Douglas Campbell as Parolles,
and in the rear Robert Goodier and Peter Mews as soldiers in the French arm'. .
Elizabethan stage with balcony, trapdoors,
seven acting levels and nine major
entrances. Changed because of technical
difficulties in the 10th season it was again
changed for the twenty-third season. The
balcony can now be moved to the back,
presenting different staging possibilities.
Besides the Festival Stage there is also
the Avon Theatre. From 1956 until 1963,
the Avon was rented for production from
operas to films. In 1963 the Avon was
purchased by the Festival's Board of
Governors and remodelled with enlarged
stage facilities and an auditorium seating
1,102 people. Designer Tanya Moisei-
witsch altered the interior of the Avon to
keep its new stature as the partner of the
Festival Theatre.
The auditorium was redecorated and the
stage rebuilt in 1975 so that now there was
a modular basic set consisting of one
hundred floor units and six towers. The
new proscenium frame and stepped
stage -apron relate stage and auditorium
more specifically than they were in the
past. Shakespearean plays were first
staged at the Avon in 1975.
A theatre that is used mostly for
workshops for the production of music and
drama. and plays from different countries,
the Third Stage started in the 1971 Festival
season.
Located in the Casino on River Drive, the
Third Stage has been an important Zink
between the Festival's classical work and
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