View of the original tent theatre, 1953.
Artist's conception of interior of Avon Theatre, opening 1964.
View of the west side of the theater, n.d.
Arrival of opening night audience, n.d.
Stage of the Stratford Festival Theatre
Brian Jackson, designer
Tanya Moiseiwitsch, designer
Michael Langham, artistic director.
View of the 2,258 seat auditorium
Taming of the Shrew, 1954
William Needles as Petruchio
Barbara Chilcott as Katharina
Measure for Measure, 1954. See no. 46.
Oedipus Rex, 1955
Douglas Campbell as Oedipus
Eleanor Stuart as Jocasta
Robert Goodier as Creon
The Merchant of Venice, 1955
Frances Hyland as Portia
Frederick Valk as Shylock
Don Harron as Bassanio
Julius Caesar, 1955
Robert Christie as Caesar
Douglas Campbell as Casca
Eric House as Metullus Cimber
Lloyd Bochner as Cassius
Lorne Green as Brutus
William Shatner as Lucius
Henry V, 1956
Additional Note
Hamlet, 1957
Frances Hyland as Ophelia
Christopher Plummer as Hamlet
Joy Lafleur as Queen Gertrude
Twelfth Night, 1957
Lloyd Bochner as Orsino
Siobhan Gerussi as Feste
Winter's Tale, 1958
Eileen Herlie as Paulina
Charmion King as Hermoine
Sydney Sturgess as Emilia
Deborah Turnbull as Anne
As You Like It, 1959
Irene Worth as Rosalind
Othello, 1959.
Douglas Campbell as Othello
Douglas Rain as Iago
William Sylvester as Cassio
King John, 1960
Douglas Rain as King John
Guy Belanger as Peter of Pomphret
Christopher Plummer as Philip the Bastard
Alexis Kanner as the Dauphin
Ann Casson as Constance
Jack Creley as Philip, King of France
Reic Christmas as Pandulph
A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1960
Max Helpmann as Theseus
Deborah Cass as Titania
Tony van Bridge as Bottom
Romeo and Juliet, 1960
Julie Harris as Juliet
Tony van Bridge as Friar Laurence
Coriolanus, 1961
Paul Scofield as Coriolanus
John Colicos as Tullus Aufidius
Hedley Mattingly as Tribune
Douglas Campbell as Menenius
Bernard Behrens as Sicinius
Bruno Gerussi as Brutus
Henry VIII, 1961
Douglass Campbell as Henry VIII
Kate Reid as Queen Katharine
Christine Bennett as Patience
Mervyn Blake as Griffith
Love's Labour's Lost, 1961
Douglas Rain as Boyet
Joy Parker as the Princess
Michael Learned as Katharine
Mary Anderson as Maria
Zoe Caldwell as Rosaline
The Tempest, 1962
William Hutt as Prospero
Max Helpmann as Alonso
William Needles as Gonzalo
Taming of the Shrew, 1962
John Colicos as Petruchio
Eirc Christmas as Grumio
Hugh Webster as Sly
Garric Hagon as Lucentio
Norman Welsh as Vicentio
Toby Robins as Bianca
Mervyn Blake as Baptista
Macbeth, 1962
Christopher Plummer as Macbeth
Kate Reid as Lady Macbeth
Comedy of Errors, 1963
Douglas Rain as Dromio of Syracuse
Peter Donat as Antipholus of Syracuse
William Needles as Solinus
Christine Bennett as the Abbess Aemilia
Tony van Bridge as Aegeon
Kate Reid as Adriana
Martha Henry as Luciana
Amelia Hall as Nell
Cyrano de Bergerac, 1963
John Colicos as Cyrano
Eric Christmas as Ragueneau
William Hutt as Carbon de Castel Jaloux
William Needles as Montfleury
Troilus and Cressida, 1963
Peter Donat as Troilus
Marth Henry as Cressida
Joseph Shaw as Helenus
Hugh Webster as Priam
Kate Reid as Cassandra
John Collicos as Hector
Diana Maddox as Helen
William Hutt as Pandarus
Henry V, 1956
Christopher Plummer as Henry V
Ginette Letondal as Katharine
Measure for Measure, 1954
Frances Hyland as Isabella
Lloyd Bochner as the Duke
James Mason as Angelo