Romancing the Bard
Description
Romancing the Bard offers a look at the Stratford Festival in its first fifty years as it developed from a bold venture driven by vision of a handful of eager enthusiasts to its present status as a multi-million dollar cultural and commercial enterprise. With profiles of Stratford personalities from founder Tyrone Guthrie to current artistic director Richard Monette, it provides glimpses of intrigue and conflict both offstage and on.
The book traces the development of a distinctive Canadian acting style, the soaring costs of production and design, the conflict between artists and moneymen, the external image promoted by publicists or imposed by critics and the changing mandate as the Festival assumes an increasingly populist character.
This is a celebration of a uniquely successful artistic enterprise, and focuses on some of the Festival's finest productions. Illustrated with photographs from the Festival archives.
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Martin Hunter has been a child actor, boy diplomat, university teacher, and arts journalist. His first passion is theatre, where he has worked as an actor, director, writer, and producer. Former artistic director of Hart House Theatre, Hunter has written several plays and CBC Radio dramas and documentaries. He is president of the KM Hunter Charitable Foundation.
Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- The Insubstantial Pageant
- Richard III 1953
- Ready, Aye, Ready
- All's Well That Ends Well 1953
- The Great White Hunter: Guthrie Stalks Talent in Canada
- Oedipus Rex 1954/55
- Medea 2000
- Vision or Vanity? Design at Stratford
- Alice Through the Looking Glass 1994/96
- The Invention of Canadian Acting
- Henry V 1956
- Les Très Riches Années de Jean Gascon
- Tartuffe 1968/2000
- The Cherry Orchard 1965
- Massaging the Mandate
- Glenn 1999
- A Dying Fall: Music at Stratford
- The Threepenny Opera 1972
- The Mikado 1982
- My Fair Lady 1988
- Beauty and the Bean Counters
- Measure for Measure 1975/76
- Stars and Garters
- Private Lives 1978/2001
- The Great Divide
- Hamlet 1957/1976/1986/2000
- King Lear 1964/1979/1996
- Inspired Interpreter or Tyrannosaurus Rex?: The Role of the Director
- A Midsummer Night's Dream 1993
- After Hours
- Timon of Athens 1963/64
- A World Too Wide: Stratford reaches out
- Long Day's Journey Into Night 1994/95
- Keep Your Council: Cultural Politics and Economic Realities
- Love's Labour's Lost 1961/64
- As You Like It 1977/78
- The Taming of the Shrew 1988
- The Cheese Stands Alone
- Camelot 1997
- Pericles 1973/74
- After They've Seen L.A.
- Romeo and Juliet 1960/1987/1990
- Brave New Words
- Colours in the Dark 1967
- Tearing It Apart: The Critics are Heard From
- Elizabeth Rex 2000
- Putting It Together
- Waiting for Godot 1968
- 1996/98
- Whose Show Is It Anyway?
- Twelfth Night 2001
- Acknowledgements
- Photographic Credits
- Index of Theatrical Works
- Index of Proper Names
