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Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData Illinois Shakespeare Festival Fine Arts Summer 1991 1991 Illinois Shakespeare Festival Program School of Theatre and Dance Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/isf Part of the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation School of Theatre and Dance, "1991 Illinois Shakespeare Festival Program" (1991). Illinois Shakespeare Festival. 10. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/isf/10 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Fine Arts at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in Illinois Shakespeare Festival by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Greetings: Dear Shakespeare Festival Patrons: As Governor of Illinois, I am pleased to Barbara and I are looking forward to extend my best wishes to everyone our third Shakespeare Festival sea attending this year's Illinois Shakespeare son. We are proud that Illinois State Festival. University hosts this special event The Shakespeare Festival, which is cele and are pleased to present it at such a brating its 14th season, has received beautiful and appropriate setting as national acclaim for the talent show Ewing Manor. cased in its performances. Those.'who The Festival offers something for have attended past Festivals look for everyone and this year's productions ward to each season with great antici promise to continue the tradition. pation. For those of you who have not We are grateful for your support and attended Festivals in years past, I am Illinois State University enthusiasm for the Shakespeare Fes sure you will find the performance most tival and are certain that you will find Office of the President enjoyable and something you will want this year's series another enjoyable STATE OF ILLINOIS to partake in for many seasons to come. one. i(J)Ft'H'E OJ-' Tl! t: Go,·11-:nR:,,;onR SPRINGFIELD 62706 On behalf of the citizens of Illinois, Regards, please accept my best wishes for a most enjoyable evening. Best regards, m~President Q~~~ Governor A Message from the Artistic Director To our old friends, welcome back! To our Shakespeare's plays are thematically rich and campaign to make acoustical and seating new friends, a very special greeting! And to varied but most of them, in one way or improvements to the Festival theatre; and we all our friends, new and old alike, thank you another, are chronicles of the inward and are beginning post-show discussions this sea for making the Illinois Shakespeare Festival outward journeys of men and women and the son to provide a forum for greater audience part of your summer. discoveries they make (or don't make) along participation. These are modest beginnings the way. These chronicles are about Othello, but we feel confident that in time we will Again this summer the Festival company will Cleopatra, Petruchio and Kate but they are realize fully our plans and goals for the bring to you the poetry, wit, drama, humor, also about you and I and our world today; development of the Festival. These proposed and wisdom that is found in abundance in doubtless they will speak as profoundly to changes and improvements will not, however, the works of William Shakespeare. Even our children as they do to us. take place without major increases in finan though William Shakespeare died in 1616, cial support. To that end, it is our intention nearly 400 years ago, his plays are still pro The Festival is constantly searching for ways to greatly enhance our efforts in fund raising duced today in theatres all over the world in that we might improve our presentation of this year so that we cannot only meet our a multitude of languages for people from all these "chronicles." As the new Artistic new goals but also continue to bring you walks of life. Like any great artist from the Director, I have spent this year developing talented actors, directors, designers, techni past, whether it be Beethoven or Van Gogh, plans for the future of the Festival. Although cians and managerial staff to produce for you Shakespeare speaks to us today not only these plans are too extensive to present here the very finest productions we can. As we because his plays are still theatrically exciting in their entirety, I would like to give you continue to grow and improve our profes and beautiful, but also because they are suf some idea of their nature and scope. I am sional stature we, of course, look to you, our fused with startling, clear and incisive insights proposing changes which affect virtually all audience, for your continued support and into the human condition. Amazingly but areas of the Festival, from the theatre itself, participation; without you there would be no quite simply, William Shakespeare, an to the professionalism of the artistic staff. theatre. Elizabethan, tells us who we are today in the Happily, we have made incursions into some twentieth century; he has looked into the of these areas this season: our acting com Thanks again for coming and enjoy the spirit of man and seen its very center. Few pany this year includes out first professional shows! writers have spoken so poetically and elo "Equity" actor (Mr. Johnny Lee Davenport quently about the truths of the human spirit. as Othello); we are beginning a fund-raising John Sipes ILLINOIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL Othello June 28, July 3, 7, 10, 13, 18, 21, 27, 30, August 2 The Taming of the Shrew June 29, July 2, 5, 11, 14, 17, 19, 23, 25, 28, 31, August 3 Antony & Cleopatra June 30,July 6, 9, 12, 16, 20, 24, 26, August 1, 4 John Sipes John Stefano Peter Guither Alvin Goldfarb Artistic Director Managing Director General Manager Dean, College of Fine Arts The 1991 Illinois Shakespeare Festivai is made possible in part by funding and support provided by the Illinois State University Foundation; the Illinois Arts Council - a state agency; the Illinois Department of Com merce and Community Affairs, Bureau of Tourism; the Town of Normal; State Farm Insurance Companies; Target Stores; and Illinois State University, the College of Fine Arts, the Department of Theatre as well as through individual memberships in the Illinois Shakespeare Society. The Pantagraph Peter returns to the Festival for grant proposals for the Illinois Executive his third season. Before coming Shakespeare Society, and acts as Staff to ISU's Department of Theatre liaison with the University as General Manager and Assis Development Office. In addition, tant Department Chair in 1988, Barbara prepares public relations Peter was the General Manager materials, handles reservations, for the Corning Summer Theatre and is budget coordinator for the in Corning, New York, and Madrigal Dinners. She also assists served as a Theatrical Associate the Dean with College of Fine for Katz Productions in New Arts functions. A native of the York where he worked as liaison Twin Cities, Barbara is the between producers, presenters, granddaughter of former ISU and theatres on- and off president David Felmley. JOHN STEFANO Broadway, including the Broad Managing Director way production of Big River. While on the East Coast, Peter Joining the Festival for his second also served as the Executive season, John, the Theatre Director for the Gregg Smith Department Chairperson, was Singers. Peter received his M.F.A. JOHN SIPES trained in California, where he in Performing Arts Management Artistic Director/Festival received the M.F.A. degree in from Brooklyn College, City Fight Coach/Movement Directing from the University of University of New York, and Coach California, Riverside, and the teaches the Theatre Management Ph.D. from UCLA, where he concentration at ISU. John rejoins the Festival this year wrote his dissertation on Caliban, in his new role as Artistic Direc the monster in Shakespeare's The tor. Currently an ISU Associate Tempest. John was a professional Professor of Theatre, John holds actor in Los Angeles before an M.F.A. from Indiana Univer moving to Southern Methodist ALVIN GOLDFARB sity and a certificate from the University in Dallas as a profes Dean-College of Fine Arts Ecole du Mime d'Etienne sor in 1975. He has directed more Decroux in Paris. A certified than 40 productions in a twenty An ISU faculty member for actor/combatant of the Society of year career, including works by fourteen years, 11Jvin joined the American Fight Directors, John Shakespeare, Beckett, Shaw, Theatre Department in 1977 and serves as Fight Choreographer/ Pinter, Brecht, and Aeschylus, became Department Chair in Movement Coach at ISU and for taught acting, directing, theatre 1981. He assumed the position of the Festival. John played Fluellen history, and musical theatre, and Dean of Fine Arts on September in Henry Vat the Utah continues to perform. Most 1, 1988. Alvin received his Ph.D. Shakespeare Festival, Clov in recently he narrated Peter and from the City University of New Endgame at ISU, and his direct the Wolf and Carnival of the BARBARA FELMLEYFUNK York Graduate Center and prior ing credits include Phaedra for Animals at Illinois State. Festival Executive Director/ to coming to ISU taught at ISU and Romeo and Juliet for the Assistant to the Dean, Queens College, Hunter College, Festival in 1986 and Henry V in College of Fine Arts/ City College of New York, and St. 1989. Last summer he appeared Executive Director, Illinois John's University. Alvin is the co as Brutus in Julius Caesar. John Shakespeare Society author of Living Theatre and recently played Woyzeck in The Theatre: The Lively Art with Red Dress Theatre Company's Barbara, in her seventh year with Edwin Wilson, theatre critic of production of Scenes from the the Festival, coordinates business the Wall Stn:etJournal.