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NEXT AT BAM... /, 7 6/ in Anton Chekhov's The Actors Company Wood Demon (eves.) Jan. 29, Feb. 7-10, 12, 16, 17; (mats.) Feb. 10, 17 Knots (eves.) Jan. 30, 31, Feb. 21; (mats.) Feb. 16, 23 (eves.) Feb. 2, 3, 5, 6, 22-24; (mats.) Feb. 3, 6, 24 (eves.) Feb. 13-15, 19, 20 The Young Vic

The Taming of the Shrew (eves.) Mar. 6-10, 26, 29, 30, 31; ti (mats.) Mar. 9, 10, 31 Scapino (eves.) Mar. 12, 13, 17, 19, 22, 23, 27; (mats.) Mar. 17, 23, 30 French Without Tears (eves.) Mar. 15, 16, 20, 21, 24, 28; (mats.) Mar. 16, 24 Wood The Royal Shakespeare Company Hollow Crown (eves.) Apr. 18-20, 27, 28; (mats.) Apr. 19, 28 Pleasure & Repentance (eves.) Apr. 21, 25, 26; (mats.) Apr. 21, 25 Chamber Music: The Orpheus Trio February 3 Demon Blues/Jazz: Big Mama Thornton February 10 Blues/Jazz: Danny Kalb, Founder of the Blues Project & his New Blues Band February 24 Merce Cunningham and Dance Company Directed by David Giles March 1, 2 Blues/Jazz: Roosevelt Sykes, Blues singer & Pianist March 10 Paul Taylor Dance Company March 14-17, 21-24

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1,1 BAM Guide to Dining Out... 0 Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)

Chekhov was born on 17th January, 1860 in the provincial town of Taganrog, the son of a shopkeeper and grandson of a serf. He moved BROOKLYN'S MOST FABULOUS to Moscow in 1879 to join his family and study medicine. As a stu- dent he supported himself by writing short pieces for comic magazines RESTAURANT until he gained his degree in 1884, but he never practised as a doctor. Open Daily In 1886 he published a book of the best of his early humorous stories & Sun. for as a result of which Suvorin, the influential publisher of a conserva- BREAKFAST tive newspaper, invited him to become a regular contributor. For LUNCH the rest of his life his income derived solely from his work as a writer. DINNER For several years Chekhov's writing was greatly influenced by Tolstoy. AFTER-THEATRE SNACKS As he developed his own idiosyncratic literary style in his stories he gradually abandoned Tolstoy's philosophical position for his own rather melancholy view of the human condition, tempered by his CATERING very great sympathy with and sensitivity towards his fellow men. 6E ..THE AKE FOR ALL OCCASIONS It is impossible to tell how much he was affected by his suffering to Homes and Offices. from tuberculosis, the first signs of which appeared in the late 1880g. Complete The first play Chekhov wrote which was produced in his lifetime was Banquet Facilities the full-length tragedy Ivanov; it was immediately followed by a FLATBUSH AVE. EXT series of short farces. The Wood Demon was written in 1889 and is at De Kalb Ave. Chekhov's lightest, funniest full-length play. It was first performed 2 Blocks from BAM in 1896 a few months before The Seagull. Both plays were failures 1 Phone: 852-5257 on their first appearances. Stanislayski reclaimed The Seagull in a heavily tragic production for the Moscow Art Theatre which Chekhov disliked intensely. All his later plays were written in close association with Stanislayski and tend towards a tragic mood, al- though Chekhov always denied that his plays aspired to the status of tragedy. Virtually all of Chekhov's later stories and the last four plays are acknowledged masterpieces. All were written while Chekhov was 470 ill and away from his family and friends. From 1897, the year in a (kb he Vanya-a new version of The Wood Demon titofr -17 \ which finished Uncle with a tightly condensed plot and cast list-he spent his life nursing his health in the South of Russia or in spas abroad. He was married to Olga Knipper, the original Masha in The Three STEP INTO THE PAST... Sisters, but they saw very little of each other as her career kept her in Moscow and St. Petersberg. Chekhov died in 1904 at the tragically Before the evening's event at the Academy, enjoy a early age of forty-three. Perhaps the most appropriate epitaph was superb meal in an authentic 'gay nineties' setting. Maxim Gorky's: "I think that in Anton Chekhov's presence every one involuntarily felt in himself a desire to be simpler, more truth- ful, more one's self..."

Winner of 21 anneal HOLIDAY V GAGE AND LLNER Magazine T Awards BROOKLYN'S LANDMARK RESTAURANT ..eff British Theatre Season ISI , . 372 FULTON ST., BROOKLYN 2 Blocks from Boro Hall TRiangle Ian 5-5181 t. OPEN 11:30 AM TO 9 PM, SAT. til 9:30 Closed Sundays The Actors Company has begun their debut engagement here on January 29th with America's first major production of Chekov's rarely performed Wood Demon. The acclaimed young actor Ian Mc Kellen plays the title role in this exuberant comedy. An adaption of R. D. Laing's Knots, done as a combination circus and side show caiad,ef will follow on January 30th. February 2nd will mark the world ait new King Lear. premiere of the company's major production of The Actors Company will complete its repertory with their delight- ful Edwardian style production of Congreve's black comedy, The Way of the World, opening on February 13th.

The Young Vic in a Season of Comedy, will present three hits from trilrt 0 their repertory, beginning on March 6th with The Taming of the 346 FLATBUSH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, N.Y. Shrew staged in the BAM Opera House. The company will then open two productions in the Lepercq Space, Moliere's Scapino and Michel's takes great pleasure in announcing the very special Terrence Rattigan's French Without Tears. Scapino, which director engagement of the Norman Fields Duo, with Bryan Torff Frank Dunlop describes as "freely adapted" from Moliere's Comme- on Bass, in its newly created entertainment room. dia dell'Arte production "Les Fourberies de Scapin", will open on March 14th. French Without Tears, opening here on March 15th, After theatre special menu. Attire: Vogue to Simplicity was a smash success when originally produced starring Rex Harrison No Cover No Minimum in in 1939 and has been the hit of this year's Young Vic season. What a lovely way to end an evening! Opening St. Valentines Nite, Thursday February 14, from 9:00pm 'till The Royal Shakespeare Company will present two productions in 1:00am; Friday, February 15, 9:00pm 'till 1:00am; Saturday February 16, 9:00pm 'till...; and Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays thereafter. addition to Richard II, and Sylvia Plath, which were featured at Robert P. Murphy, Personal Manager of the Norman Fields Duo. BAM in January. The company will present two "anthology pro- ductions", The Hollow Crown and Pleasure and Repentance, both starring Sir Michael Redgrave, in repertory April 18 to April 28. The Wood Demon About Brooklyn College

By Anton Chekhov The British Theatre Season is presented in association with Brooklyn Translated by Ronald Hingley College, John W. Kneller, President, without whose vision and support this unique cultural undertaking would not have been possible. As an integral part of the Season at the Brooklyn Academy, members of the Director David Giles Actors Company, the Young Vic, and the Royal Shakespeare Company Set Designer Kenneth Mellor will simultaneously be in residence at the College's School of the Costume Designers Stephen and Performing Arts, recently created by the Board of Higher Education Wendy Doncaster of the City of New York. Actors, directors, musicians, and artistic Lighting Howard Eldridge coaching personnel will conduct seminars, workshops, and offer lec- tures for students involved in the professional programs in Theatre, Music and Dance. Under the direction of Dean Robert Hickock, the school provides a broad range of professionally oriented training pro- Cast In Order Of Appearance grams as well as general educational programs for non-specialists. In , addition, the school operates the Brooklyn College Center for the Performing Arts, one of the finest educational performance facilities

, - i in New York. The center provides an extensive program of activities, Julia Sharon Duce for students, faculty, and the general public. Dr. Kneller's strong Leo Zheltukin, her brother John Moreno cultural commitment to the surrounding community has been further Orlovsky John Woodvine enhanced by his appointment of Sir Rudolph Bing as Director of George Voynitsky Tenniel Evans Cultural Community Programs for the College. Dyadin (Waffles) John Tordoff Theodore, Orlovsky's son Robin Ellis The Actors Company VaSSI I 1, Zheltuk servant Milton Cadman Serebryakov Robert Eddison The Actors Company made its first appearances at the Helen, his second wife Marian Diamond Festival in 1972. Formed by a group of actors who wished to be Sonya, his daughter by his first wife Sheila Reid totally involved in the artistic management of a theatrical organi- sation, the Company makes its own policy on the basis of Com- Mme Voynitsky, his first wife's mother Margery Mason pany meetings and majority decisions. It is a theatrical democracy. Khruschov the Wood Demon Ian McKellen The result has been to break down the barriers between "leading" Servant Elaine Strickland and "supporting" actors; in the Actors Company all actors play Simon, worker at Dyadin's Edward Petherbridge small parts from time to time and all the roles are cast from ex- perienced actors. There has been general acclaim for the quality of the productions which have resulted. Act One At Zheltukin's After the 1972 Festival, the Actors Company toured nationally Act Two At Serebryakov's before giving a six-week season in Cambridge. The group then Act Three At Serebryakov's disbanded to allow members to accept other engagements, but Act Four At Dyadin's continued to meet to plan their next season. In 1973, in spite of all the pressures on Company members to accept more lucra- There will be one interval of fifteen minutes between tive or prestigious offers, the majority of that same Company Acts 2 and.3 assembled for a further season. The possibility of a group'of actors working together for years rather than weeks is now open. Ensemble theatre of this kind is taken for granted on the continent but represents a new and ex- For The Actors Company citing venture in this country: the consequences are unpredict- able. Already the Company is anxious to explore new ways of working together and will this year be presenting studio pro- ductions of two new plays. Administrator Graham Marchant . This is her second season with The Actors Company, Company and Stage Manager Clare Fox i of which she is a founder member. She has made many TV appearances, Master Carpenter Peter Price the best known of which was as Marjorie Ferrar in The Forsyte Saga. Her Deputy Stage Manager Sonja Dosanjh ; films include The Magic Christian and Sunday, Bloody Sunday. She has 1. recently been in Misalliance at the and on TV in Wives Deputy Stage Manager Chris Morley and Daughters and Thirty Minute Theatre as well as a radio series with Deputy Stage Manager (Sound) Willie Cameron Kenneth Williams. She is married to Russell Hunter and has a son and a Assistant Stage Managers Johanna Adams daughter. Patrick Cadell Marian Diamond played the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales on BBC Milton Cadman television, and has recently been seen in The Main Chance, Spy Trap and Place in The Sun. Her stage career includes a period with the Royal Peter Holt Shakespeare Company, playing in The Devils and Becket. She has appeared Keith Oldfield at the Traverse Theatre in several productions, including Look Back in Elaine Strickland Anger and Inadmissible Evidence. Her latest film is Goodbye Gemini with Wardrobe Supervisors Maureen Booth Michael Redgrave and Judy Geeson. She was a founder member of The Actors Company. Janet Mayo Paola Dionisotti. Trained at the Drama Centre of London. Worked in Wig Master Tony Brennan repertory at Leicester, Liverpool Everyman, Watford and playing Production Secretary Maxine Hadley parts ranging from the title role in Aladdin to Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire. During her year with the Freehold experimental expressionistic theatre group she toured both Britain and the Continent. In London she has been seen in various productions including Titus Andronicus at the Round House and most recently, Sweeney Todd at the Theatre Royal, Stratford East. Production Credits Sharon Duce. Has played with repertory companies in Sheffield, York, Scenery constructed and painted by the Nottingham Playhouse Workshops. Scarborough and with the Bristol Old Vic. In the West Erid she played Ladies' costumes by lshbel Fox and Jean Read. Men's costumes by Arthur Bella in The Foursome by E. A. Whitehead which transferred from the Davey, Gerrad Scott and Gus Rossdale. Hats by Reggie Hanson. Shoes by Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. On television she has been seen on Gamba. Wigs by Facades. Champagne by courtesy of Moet & Chandon. , Thirty Minute Theatre, the Away From It All series Wardrobe Care by Persil. Production photographs by Nigel Luckhurst and and in Full House. She plays Carol in the serial Helen, a Woman of Today Donald Cooper. Blackcurrant cordial by Ribena. Turkish cigarettes by which was networked by London Weekend Television in September. Her Sullivan, Powell & Co. latest film is The Tamarind Seed. Robert Eddison in a long career in the theatre has played parts ranging from to Long John Silver, from Romeo to Shy lock. He appeared in 1972 with the inaugural tour of the Actors Company, playingPinchard in Ruling the Roost, Bonaventura in 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and Father Akita in The Three Arrows. Since then he has appeared as Father Perfect in a new play by David Turner, The Prodigal Daughter at Colchester, and, most recently, as Babs in Howard Brenton's new play, Magnificence at the Royal Court. Robin Ellis acted at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge, and played in reper- tory at Salisbury, Cheltenham and Nottingham. In the West End, he played Jack Absolute in The Rivals at the Haymarket, Simon in The Real Inspector Hound at the Criterion and Harry Trench in the Edinburgh Festival production of Widowers' Houses at the Royal Court. He is well known to television audiences for his performances in The Moonstone, Elizabeth R, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Owen M.D. . He was a founder member of The Actors Company. Tenniel Evans. Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. After King Lear repertory at Farnham and Nottingham appeared in London in The Unexpected Guest at the Duchess, The Keep and The Restoration of Arnold Middleton at the Royal Court, both of which transferred to the West End. The Photographer, Portrait of Murder and Polonius in the Nottingham Playhouse production of Hamlet which transferred to the . Latest TV includes War & Peace and The Haunting flew in the Menace Series. Several films including Walk a Crooked Path and 10 Rillington Place. Has been in The Navy Lark on radio since it began in 1958. Last year played in all three plays on The Actors Company's first tour Matthew Long. Started his career at the Oxford Playhouse in Volpone us! and Richard II and has since acted with a number of companies, notably at Leicester and Glasgow. He has appeared in many of the popular television series and in the film Zeppelin. He has played several important roles in Cambridge Theatre Company productions. For Prospect Theatre "King Lear;' "The Wood Demon" Company he played Edmund in the Edinburgh Festival King Lear. He appeared with the Actors Company last year, and has recently been seen and "The Way of the World" are in Shaw's Misalliance at the Mermaid Theatre. Margery Mason joined her mother's company at 14, touring "one night brought to Brooklyn by The stands" round the Working Men's Clubs of East London. There followed a period in weekly repertory companies, then some time with ENSA during Actors Company. And The the war in the Middle East. During the last eight years she has made many TV appearances, notably in the Arnold Wesker Trilogy, the Award-winning Actors Company is brought to John Hopkins Quartet Talking to a Stranger, and as Mrs. Porter in A Family at War. Her films include Charlie Bubbles and The Raging Moon. This is America by British Caledonian. her second season with The Actors Company. Ian McKellen has acted since he graduated from Cambridge in 1961. His In fact, British Caledonian is West End debut in A Scent of Flowers won him the Clarence Derwent Award and a season with the National Theatre Company. A string of their official carrier. If you're successes in London followed-A Lily in Little India, O'Flaherty V.C., Black Comedy and White Liars and the Russian hit The Promise (also on going to Britain, shouldn't you film and Broadway). In 1969 his Richard II and Edward II stormed the Edinburgh Festival and played to a quarter of a million people in Europe flytheairline with the classy First and two sell-out seasons in London. His last appearance in London was as Hamlet, after a sixteen-theatre tour at home and abroad. He was a Class, the cultured theater founder-member of the Actors Company in 1972. Since then, he has directed Alastair Sim in A Private Matter in the West End and recorded tours, and the service other air- Graceless Go I and The Recruiting Officer for television. John Moreno was born in France of a theatrical family and learned to ' lines hate? Call 212 -697- juggle, dance, tumble and mime at an early age. Since turning to acting twelve years ago, he has played in several of the leading repertory companies 3200 or 800-442-5920 or including the 69 Theatre in Manchester and the Meadow Players in Oxford. He was Ben Gunn in last year's at the Mermaid Theatre. see your travel agent. On television he has appeared in The Troubleshooters, Triton, Dombey and Son, Hine and Eyeless in Gaza and many others. His films include Chimes at Midnight and Lost Command. He toured with The Actors Company as a founder member. The airline airlines hate. Edward Petherbridge. Played in the Northcottsterna Theatre's Tempest immediately prior to this, his second season with the Actors Company. Prospero was his first Shakespearean lead, not counting Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead which he played BRITISH for three of his six years at the National Theatre, 1964-70. Among his numerous TV parts was the ballroom dancer in Stoppard's After Magritte. CALEDONIAN He won high praise for his Larry Doyle-a partial G.B.S. self-portrait in John Bull's Other Island, at the Mermaid in 1971. Sheila Reid is Scottish. Her first London appearances were at the AIRWAYS Mermaid, then in the musical Half a Sixpence followed by The Gentle Avalanche at the Royal Court. She then joined the National Theatre and was there six years playing many parts; two of which, Natasha in and in , she also played on film. Other films include I Want What I Want and Ingmar Bergman's first English spoken film The Touch. Since leaving the National she has toured twice with the Welsh Theatre Company in Feydeau's Pig In A Poke and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, appeared in several television plays and series-most recently Owen M.D.-and worked in Music Hall. This is her second season with The Actors Company.

John Tordoff . has been with several of the leading repertory companies including Nottingham Playhouse, the Lyceum Edinburgh, the Oxford the 1971 season at Chichester. At the Mermaid he has Playhouse and DAILY FROM THE UNITED STATES TO THE played the Dauphin in St. Joan and was there recently in Misalliance. UNITED KINGDOM TO 43 CITIES IN 25 This is his second season with The Actors Company. COUNTRIES John Woodvine is currently appearing in his third series of New Scotland Yard for London Weekend Television. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and later joined and then the Bristol Old Vic. His West End debut was in Inherit the Wind in 1960. He played many leading roles at the Mermaid Theatre including the title role in and Long John Silver in Treasure Island. He has appeared in some two hundred television productions and his film work includes Ken Russell's The Devils and 's Young Winston.