Inventory of Photographs of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Ontario, Canada [graphic], 1953-1963

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Inventory of Photographs of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Ontario, Canada [graphic], 1953-1963

Collection number: BANC PIC 1964.025--PIC

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Processed by:
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Date Completed:
ca. 1972
Encoded by:
James Lake and Jamie Jesson
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Collection Summary

Collection Title: Photographs of the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, Ontario, Canada [graphic],
Date (inclusive): 1953-1963
Collection Number: BANC PIC 1964.025--PIC
Creator: Smith, Peter, photographer
Extent: Number of prints: 45
Repository: The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Photographs showing actors, actresses, scenes and stage settings.
Languages Represented: English

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Index to Titles

As You Like It 18
Comedy of Errors 37-39
Coriolanus 26-27
Cyrano de Bergerac 40-41
Hamlet 14-15
Henry V 45
Henry VIII 28-29
Julius Caesar 12-13
King John 20-21
Love's Labour's Lost 30
Macbeth 35-36
Measure for Measure 46
Merchant of Venice 10-11
Midsummer Night's Dream 22-23
Oedipus Rex 8-9
Othello 19
Romeo and Juliet 24-25
Taming of the Shrew 7, 33-34
Tempest 31-32
Troilus and Cressida 42-44
Twelfth Night 16
Winter's Tale 17

1

View of the original tent theatre, 1953.

2

Artist's conception of interior of Avon Theatre, opening 1964.

3

View of the west side of the theater, n.d.

4

Arrival of opening night audience, n.d.

5

Stage of the Stratford Festival Theatre

 

Brian Jackson, designer

 

Tanya Moiseiwitsch, designer

 

Michael Langham, artistic director.

6

View of the 2,258 seat auditorium

7

Taming of the Shrew, 1954

 

William Needles as Petruchio

 

Barbara Chilcott as Katharina

 

Measure for Measure, 1954. See no. 46.

8-9

Oedipus Rex, 1955

 

Douglas Campbell as Oedipus

 

Eleanor Stuart as Jocasta

 

Robert Goodier as Creon

10-11

The Merchant of Venice, 1955

 

Frances Hyland as Portia

 

Frederick Valk as Shylock

 

Don Harron as Bassanio

12-13

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

See no. 45
14-15

Hamlet, 1957

 

Frances Hyland as Ophelia

 

Christopher Plummer as Hamlet

 

Joy Lafleur as Queen Gertrude

16

Twelfth Night, 1957

 

Lloyd Bochner as Orsino

 

Siobhan Gerussi as Feste

17

Winter's Tale, 1958

 

Eileen Herlie as Paulina

 

Charmion King as Hermoine

 

Sydney Sturgess as Emilia

 

Deborah Turnbull as Anne

18

As You Like It, 1959

 

Irene Worth as Rosalind

19

Othello, 1959.

 

Douglas Campbell as Othello

 

Douglas Rain as Iago

 

William Sylvester as Cassio

20-21

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

22-23

A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1960

 

Max Helpmann as Theseus

 

Deborah Cass as Titania

 

Tony van Bridge as Bottom

24-25

Romeo and Juliet, 1960

 

Julie Harris as Juliet

 

Tony van Bridge as Friar Laurence

26-27

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

28-29

Henry VIII, 1961

 

Douglass Campbell as Henry VIII

 

Kate Reid as Queen Katharine

 

Christine Bennett as Patience

 

Mervyn Blake as Griffith

30

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

31-32

The Tempest, 1962

 

William Hutt as Prospero

 

Max Helpmann as Alonso

 

William Needles as Gonzalo

33-34

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

35-36

Macbeth, 1962

 

Christopher Plummer as Macbeth

 

Kate Reid as Lady Macbeth

37-39

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

40-41

Cyrano de Bergerac, 1963

 

John Colicos as Cyrano

 

Eric Christmas as Ragueneau

 

William Hutt as Carbon de Castel Jaloux

 

William Needles as Montfleury

42-44

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

45

Henry V, 1956

 

Christopher Plummer as Henry V

 

Ginette Letondal as Katharine

46

Measure for Measure, 1954

 

Frances Hyland as Isabella

 

Lloyd Bochner as the Duke

 

James Mason as Angelo