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/97,),,ory(3 The Brooklyn Academy of Music 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217 (212)636.4100 BAMBritish Theatre Season Harvey Lichtenstein Executive Director LEPERCQ SPACE David Midland Director of Operations Sharon Rupert Director of Finance Leon Van Dyke Director of Development Charles Ziff Director of Promotion and Audience Development Jane Ward Production Manager Bob Lussier Theatre Manager Shakespeare Daniel J. Sullivan Box Office Treasurer Betty Rosendorn Children's Program Administrator The Brooklyn Academy of Music in Sarah Walder Group Sales Representative association with Brooklyn College William Mintzer Lighting Consultant to BAM flew presents the The St. Felix Street Corporation, a non-profit organization us! operating the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Royal Abraham Beame, Honorary Chairman/Paul Lepercq, Chairmah/Donald M. Blinken, President/Richard C. Sachs, Treasurer/Harvey Lichtenstein, The Royal Shakespeare Secretary and Executive Director/Martin P. Carter/Barbaralee Shakespeare Diamonstein/Donald Elliott/Mrs. Henry Epstein/Seth S. Faison/Richard Company flew British Cal- M. Hexter/William Josephson/W. Barnabas McHenry/Mrs. Evelyn Ortner, ex-officio/Alan J. Patricof/David Picker/William Tobey/Edward L. Weisl, Company edonian to America. In fact, Jr., Administrator P.R.C.A. and Sebastian Leone, Brooklyn Borough British Caledonian is their President, members ex-officio. official carrier. If you're in going to Britain, shouldn't you fly the airline with the British Theatre Season Events classy First Class, the cul- (All performances Tuesday through Sunday) tured theater tours, and the The Royal Shakespeare Company Richard II (eves.) Jan. 9-27; (mats.) Jan. 12,13,17,20,24,27 service other airlines hate? Sylvia Plath (eves.) Jan. 15-27; (mats.) Jan. 20,27 Call 212-697-3200 or Hollow Crown (eves.) Apr. 18-20,27,28; (mats.) Apr. 19,28 Pleasure & Repentance (eves.) Apr. 21,25,26; (mats.) Apr. 21,25 Sylvia 800-442-5920 or see The Actors Company Wood Demon (eves.) Jan. 29, Feb. 7-12,16,17; (mats.) Feb. 10,17 your travel agent. Knots (eves.) Jan. 30,31, Feb. 21; (mats.) Feb. 16,23 King Lear (eves.) Feb. 2 -6, 22 -24; (mats.) Feb. 3,6,24 The Way of the World (eves.) Feb. 13-15,19,20 lath The Young Vic BRITISH The Taming of the Shrew (eves.) Mar. 6-10,26,29,30,31; (mats.) Mar. 9,10,31. CALEDONIAN 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. AIRWAYS Directed by Barry Kyle The airline airlines hate. The Brooklyn Academy of Music gratefully acknowledges the support her of the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council A dramatised setting of writings on the Arts, and the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Adminis- (including her only play Three Women) tration of the City of New York. The Brooklyn Academy building is owned by the City of New York and funds for its maintenance are ad- ministered by the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Administration, Abraham Beame, Mayor, Edward L. Weisl, jr., Administrator. The taking of photographs or the use of recording devices in this British Caledonian Airways theatre is strictly forbidden. Official Carrier DAILY FROM THE UNITED STATES TO THE Directory of Facilities and Services UNITED KINGDOM. TO 43 CITIES IN 25 COUNTRIES. Box Office Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, Noon- 9:OOpm Monday Noon-6:OOpm Lost and Found: Telephone 636-4100 Lounges and Restrooms: Opera House Ladies: Orchestra and Balcony Levels Men: Mezzanine and Balcony Levels Music Hall January 15 through 27, 1974 Ladies: Orchestra Level Men: Balcony Level Brooklyn Academy of Music Public Telephones: Main Lobby, Ashland Place Entrance BRENDA BRUCE The Governors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre RSC Work with RSC includes: Mistress Page in The Merry Wives, Dionyza/the Stratford-upon-Avon, England present the About Brooklyn College Bawd in Pericles, Paulina in The Winter's Tale, Gertrude in Hamlet, Maria in Royal Shakespeare Company Twelfth Night, Irma in The Balcony, Paulina in Enemies, Lady Capulet in Direction Peggy Ashcroft Peter Brook Trevor Nunn The British Theatre Season is presented in association with Brooklyn Romeo and Juliet. Director Trevor Nunn Artistic College, John W. Kneller, President, without whose vision and support Work outside RSC includes: Mlle de Sainte-Euverte in The Waltz of the Consultant Directors Peter Daubeny Peter Hall Toreadors (London 1956), Lily Loudon in What Shall We Tell Caroline? this unique cultural undertaking would not have been possible. As an (London, 1958), Winnie in Happy Days (London 1962), Death of a Teddy integral part of the Season at the Brooklyn Academy, members of the An Bear (TV 1967), Country Matters (TV 1972), Cheri, Owen MD, Artist's Royal Shakespeare Company, the Actors Company and The Young Story, White Queen in Alice Through The Looking Glass (all TV 1973). be School the Married to RSC actor Clement McCallin. Vic will simultaneously in residence at the College's of Cast Performing Arts, recently created by the Board of Higher Education LOUISE JAMESON of the City of New York. Actors, directors, musicians, and artistic Work with RSC includes: Jaquenetta in Love's Labour's Lost, Bianca in The coaching personnel will conduct seminars, workshops, and offer lec- Taming of the Shrew (Stratford 1973), tures for students involved in the professional programs in Theatre, Work outside RSC includes: Maggie Pearson in A Collier's Friday Night 1 Brenda Bruce Music and Dance. Under the direction of Dean Robert Hickock, the (Harrogate 1971), Sister Gisella in Abelard and Heloise (Coventry 1972), Voice school provides a broad range of professionally oriented training pro- Laura in The Glass Menagerie, Penelope Toop in See How They Run, Mother Voice 2 Estelle Kohler grams as well as general educational programs for non-specialists. In Keller in All My Sons, Ruth in Epitaph For George Dillon, Dulcie in The Jameson Boy Friend (all St. Andrew's 1972); Emmerdale Farm (TV 1972), Cider With Voice 3 Louise addition, the school operates the Brooklyn College Center for the Rosie, Tom Brown's Schooldays (both TV 1973). Performing Arts, one of the finest educational performance facilities Directed by Barry Kyle in New York. The center provides an extensive program of activities ESTELLE KOHLER Designed by ....... ......... Gordon Sumpter for students, faculty, and the general public. Dr. Kneller's strong Work with RSC includes: Ophelia, Olivia in Twelfth Night (both 1966), Music composed and cultural commitment to the surrounding community has been further Helena in All's Well, Isabella in Measure For Measure, Silvia in The Two played by ........... Jeremy Barlow enhanced by his appointment of Sir Rudolf Bing as Director of Gentlemen of Verona, Miranda in The Tempest, Beatrice in Exiles, Carmen Harris Cultural Community Programs for the college. in The Balcony, Gwenhwyvar in The Island of the Mighty, Juliet and Rosa- Lighting by Brian line in Love's Labour's Lost. Stage Managed by Peter Sofroniou Work outside RSC includes: Many appearances in South Africa, including Evelyn Foreman in The Tenth Man (Cape Town 1961), Anya in The Cherry Orchard; TV includes Lady Agatha in The Admirable Crichton (New York Act One is about 1 hour 10 minutes. Act Two is about 40 minutes. There is 1968). The Changeling (BBC 1971). Hilary Nash in The Main Chance one intermission of 15 minutes preceding Three Women, which is set in and around a Maternity Ward. (Yorkshire 1972.) British Theatre Season Works by Sylvia Plath used in Act One (in running order): BARRY KYLE "Johnny Panic and the Work with RSC includes: Assistant Director Romeo and Juliet and Love's "Contusion", "Daddy", "The Applicant", The Royal Shakespeare Company will present three productions in Labour's Lost (Stratford 1973). Bible of Dreams"7"Lady Lazarus", "Ariel", "Morning Song", addition to Richard II, including the experimental production Sylvia Work outside RSC includes: Thames Television Trainee Director and later "Tulips", "The Bee Box", "Mothers"', "Nick and the Candlestick", Plath, which opens in the Lepercq Space on January 15. The com- Associate Director Liverpool Playhouse 1969/72. Among plays directed "Lesbos", "Balloons", "Death and Company", "Edge". pany will also close the Season in with two "anthology pro- there: Zoo Story, Look Back in Anger, Saved, In Celebration, Oh What A April Lovely Warl, Happy Family, The Odd Couple, Hadrian VII, Prometheus The manuscripts of these hitherto uncollected works kindly supplied by ductions", The Hollow Crown and Pleasure and Repentance, both Bound (and tour), The Knack, St. Joan, King Lear, Rosencrantz and Olwyn Hughes. starring Sir Michael Redgrave. Guildenstern Are Dead, The Keep, Wait Until Dark, The Investigation; Associate Director York Theatre Royal 1972, where he directed Forget-Me- Not-Lane, Christie-In-Love, The Investigation, and Lord Byron Lives! The Actors Company will begin their debut engagement here on January 29th with America's first major production of Chekov's Demon. The acclaimed young actor Ian GORDON SUMPTER Sylvia Plath is considered by many to be one of this century's major rarely performed Wood Work with RSC includes: Assistant Designer for The Romans (Stratford Mc Kellen plays the title role in this exuberant comedy. An adaption 1972, Aldwych 1973) poets. She was born in 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, where her of R. D. Laing's Knots, done as a combination circus and side show Work outside RSC includes: designed Little Malcolm and worked on US father was a biology professor. She had a brilliant academic career, will on January 30th. February 2nd will mark the world (Bradford Art College 1966/67), worked on Hamlet (Birmingham Rep.1968), and won a Fulbright Scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, follow designer designed Cinderella (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham 1969), assistant where she met and married the poet Ted Hughes.
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