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The Stratford Festival Story
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Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Catalogue of Productions Title Index Name Index

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Somerset used the latest database techniques to create this comprehensive guide to the renowned Stratford, Ontario (Shakespeare) Festival and its artists.

About the Author

J. ALAN B. SOMERSET is Associate Professor and Chairman of the English Department at the University of Western Ontario. He is author of Halliwell Phillipps' Scrapbooks: An Index, and editor of Four Tudor Interludes and A Play of Love. He also has several articles on theatre to his credit, including Secular Drama in A Companion to the Medieval Theatre (Greenwood Press, 1989).

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?The scholar will applaud the thoroughness of Professor Somerset's research. Every production is catalogued, including much of the ephemera that appears every season as workshops or fringe activities. . . . The Stratford Festival Story is an important addition to the growing literature on the Stratford Festival and Canadian theatre.?-English Studies in Canada

?This chronological listing of personnel and cast, length of run, and selected reviews of every production at the Stratford Festival, was inspired by Michael Mullin's comparable Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: A Catalogue-Index. 1878-1978 (CH, Jan '81). Usefully indexed with all titles and names, the book can offer only the most immediately needed information out of vast, consultable, on-going databases. The 40 printed review sources, for instance, have been culled from an archive, now newly quartered at Stratford, containing some 1,250 sources and 400,000 clippings. Particularly valuable, but in relatively few entries, is an archive note recording the existence of additional production materials such as scripts, music, property and costume sketches, photographs, and videotapes. A random handful of photographs includes one of the extraordinary opening production of Richard III in 1953, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch, and starring Alec Guinness. Intended for reference collections and scholars of the contemporary theatre.?-Choice

"The scholar will applaud the thoroughness of Professor Somerset's research. Every production is catalogued, including much of the ephemera that appears every season as workshops or fringe activities. . . . The Stratford Festival Story is an important addition to the growing literature on the Stratford Festival and Canadian theatre."-English Studies in Canada

"This chronological listing of personnel and cast, length of run, and selected reviews of every production at the Stratford Festival, was inspired by Michael Mullin's comparable Theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon: A Catalogue-Index. 1878-1978 (CH, Jan '81). Usefully indexed with all titles and names, the book can offer only the most immediately needed information out of vast, consultable, on-going databases. The 40 printed review sources, for instance, have been culled from an archive, now newly quartered at Stratford, containing some 1,250 sources and 400,000 clippings. Particularly valuable, but in relatively few entries, is an archive note recording the existence of additional production materials such as scripts, music, property and costume sketches, photographs, and videotapes. A random handful of photographs includes one of the extraordinary opening production of Richard III in 1953, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch, and starring Alec Guinness. Intended for reference collections and scholars of the contemporary theatre."-Choice

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