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Two more theatres get artistic leaders
The cycle of changing theatre artistic
heads in the Western Ontario regional
professional theatres has been completed.
In the past year all but two of the six
professional theatre companies in the
region have had changes in the top
position. Only the Stratford Festival where
Robin Philips has been reported ready to
leave so many times it is news now only
when he says he'll stay, and Centre Stage
in London which seems in danger of
disappearing altogether as each new
season draws around have not seen
changes.
The appointment of a new artistic
director for Theatre London and a new
General Director for Guelph's Road Show
Theatre complete the circle of transitions
that began at the Blyth Summer Festival
and the Huron Country Playhouse earlier
this year.
Succeeding William Hutt as artistic
director at Theatre London will be another
actor familiar at the Stratford Festival
Bernard Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins has
appeared at Theatre London as both a
director and actor, in the former capacity
for Les Belles-Soeurs and in the latter for
Alive in Wonderland, both during the
1976-77 season. A British -born graduate of
the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts he is
currently a professor of drama at Bishop's
University of Lennoxville. Quebec and has
also taught drama at Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute in Toronto and George Brown
College in Toronto.
He will get an early start at Theatre
London. Although he does not take over
until the 1980-81 season he will direct Mr.
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