Village Squire, 1979-06, Page 8the heir apparent to the throne of King Henry IV is hardly
considered competent to take over the crown, a fact that worries
even his own father. The play introduces Sir John Falstaff, one of
Shakespeare's most popular characters. Graeme Campbell,
Margot Dionne, Lewis Gordon, Richard Monette, Jennifer
Phipps, Douglas Rain, Stephen Russell and Tom Wood appear.
The next evening will see The Second Part of Henry IV at the
Festival. Peter Moss directs basically the same cast as they
perform Shakespeare's look at the final years of Henry IV's
reign, the continuing education of Prince Hal the exploits of
Falstaff and Shakespeare's look at all aspects of English life.
Earlier the same day Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being
Earnest will be presented at the Avon. It's been a popular part of
the Festival's history. It was presented in both 1975 and 1976
and is being revived this year with Robin Philips as director.
Domini Blythe, Richard Curnock, Eric Donkin, Amelia Hall,
William Hutt, Barry MacGregor, Marti Maraden, William
Needles and Nicholas Pennell make appearances.
The music of Cole Porter is added to the sophisticated
romantic comedy of Philip -Barry to produce a new musical from
old parts called Happy New Year. It's based on Barry's play
Holiday about the world of American high finance and high
society and the interruption brought to it by a brash young man
who wants to marry the daughter of one of the oldest and
wealthies families. It will open at the Avon June 9.
Third Stage, generally reserved in the past for Canadian and
other modern plays will host Shakespeare this year when The
Taming of the Shrew opens July 1. It's Shakespeare's comic and
at times violent look at male-female relationships when a man
who needs a wife courts a shrew who has come to hate men.
Stewart Arnott, Graeme Campbell, Margot Dionne, Maurice
Good and Alicia Jeffery star.
One of Canada's busiest stage actresses comes to Stratford to
play in Edward Bond's The Woman at the Avon from August 7.
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Clare Coulter, who in the last year has scored triumph after
triumph on the stages of Toronto theatre in such plays as Le
Temps d'une Vie, Waiting for the Parade and The Belle of
Amherst was a replacement for Susan Hogan when she had to
drop out of the lineup. This is the North American Premiere of
the play by one of the most controversial playwrights of the era
using the Greek stories of the aftermath of the Trojan War to
Examine ambivalence of personal and collective values.
Also in the production are Max Helpmann, Martha Henry,
William Hutt and Jim McQueen.
Shakespeare's tragedy of a noble and courageous man
destroyed by jealousy. Othello opens August 8 on the Festival
Stage. Domini Blythe. Barbara Budd. Nicholas Pennell, Stephen
Russell and Alan Scarfe star.
Victoria, a new play by Stephen Petch opens August 8 at Third
Stage. It deals with a group from Canada who come to a cabin by
the sea on the American -Mexican border to clear away the family
possessions and try to reconstruct some sense of family feeling.
Cedric Smith, a former member of the Perth County
Conspiracy returns to his old stomping grounds to provide the
music for Kenneth Dyba's new adaptation of Federico Garcia
Lorca's Yerma. Yerma is a story of sexual struggle set in the
closed and often cruel world of rural Spain. Karen Austin, Rod
Beattie, Barbara Budd, Diane D'Aquila, Jennifer Phipps and
Cedric Smith perform the play at the Third Stage from August 25
to Oct. 6.
The crowning touch to the season will be Ustinov in King Lear
which opens Oct. 5 and continues until Nov. 4 at the Avon.
Robin Phillips will direct Ustinov, Frank Maraden, Marti
Maraden, Richard Monette and Douglas Rain in Shakespeare's
look at the tragic old king and through him at the world.
One tip for anyone wanting to attend the Festival this year is to
order tickets as soon as possible. Early reports said ticket sales
have been heavy and tickets for some performances are hard to
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