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Harvey Lichtenstein Executive Director ' BAnoBritish Theatre Season David Midland Director of Operations OPERA HOUSE 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 Daniel J. Sullivan Box Office Treasurer Betty Rosendorn Children's Program Administrator The Brooklyn Academy of Music in Sarah Walder Group Sales Representative association William Mintzer Lighting Consultant to BAM with Brooklyn College presents the

The St. Felix Street Corporation, a non-profit organization operating the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Actors Abraham Beame, Honorary Chairman /Paul Lepercq, Chairman/Donald M. Blinken, President/Richard C. Sachs, Treasurer/Harvey Lichtenstein, Secretary and Executive Director/Martin P. Car ier/Barbaralee Company Diamonstein /Donald Elliott/Mrs. Henry Epstein/Seth S. Faison/Richard M. Hexter/William Josephson/W. Barnabas McHenry/Mrs. Evelyn Ortner, ex- officio /Alan J. Patricof/David Picker/William Tobey/Edward L. Weisl, Jr., Administrator P.R.C.A. and Sebastian Leone, Brooklyn Borough in 's President, members ex-off icio. NEXT AT BAM The Actors Company

Wood Demon (eves.) Feb. 16, 17; (mats.) Feb. 17 Knots (eves.) Feb. 21; (mats.) Feb. 16, 23 (eves.) Feb. 22-24; (mats.) Feb. 24 (eves.) Feb. 13-15, 19,20 The Young Vic (eves.) Mar. 6-10, 26, 29, 30, 31; (mats.) Mar. 9, 10, 31 The Way 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 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 of the Blues/Jazz: Danny Kalb, Founder of the Blues Project & his New Blues Band February 24 Merce Cunningham and Dance Company March 1, 2 World Blues/Jazz: Roosevelt Sykes, Blues singer & Pianist March 10 Paul Taylor Dance Company March 14-17, 21-24 tai Blues/Jazz: John Lee Hooker & Chinnock Blues Band March 24 Chamber Music Series: Vermeer String Quartet with Peter Serkin March 31 Directed by David William The Brooklyn Academy of Music gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Adminis- 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 theatre is strictly forbidden. Directory of Facilities and Services British Caledonian Airways Box Office Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, Noon - 9:00pm Official Carrier Monday Noon - 6:00pm Lost and Found: Telephone 636-4100 Lounges and Restrooms: Opera House Ladies: Orchestra and Balcony Levels Men: Mezzanine and Balcony Levels Music Hall February 13, 14, 15, 19, 20 Ladies: Orchestra Level Men: Balcony Level Brooklyn Academy of Music Public Telephones: Main. Lobby, Ashland Place Entrance 11-71 BAM Guide to Dining Out... ! About The Play

Congreve first produced in 1700: of the World was Yet it BROOKLYN'S MOST FABULOUS The Way of his creative powers. at the height and was thirty and too fastidious an artist play. He had become solicited RESTAURANT is his last whose favours he had Daily contempt for a public Open expressed for that general Taste which of it was prepared audience" & Sun. for "little in the palates of our now to be predominant Montague. BREAKFAST seems of the play to the Earl of he wrote in the dedication LUNCH in culture preoccupation with "relevance" Today our suburban civilised and DINNER the classical rebuke of that 'might likewise incur AFTER-THEATRE SNACKS civilising voice. be blamed for failing audience of 1700 can scarcely Yet the its language incorpor- CATERING the play. The brilliance of to assimilate moral judgement retains FOR ALL OCCASIONS ating such intense and sophisticated confound. to Horne and Offices. a power to dazzle and Complete and slottings beloved of Grub The play defies all the categories Banquet Facilities is not Restoration Comedy, since Street and lesser academe. It and to his maker FLATBUSH AVE. EXT II was restored to the throne in 1660 Charles of plot and char- at De Kalb Ave. in 1685. Congreve takes familiar prototypes 2 Blocks from BAM of his observation acter and transforms them by the acuteness Phone: 852-5257 and the glamour of his language. are The intrigues of the Fainalls and Marwood, for example, of croco- conducted with the zeal of ants and the ruthlessness and diles yet they are rooted in recognisable human appetites frustrations. Mrs. Fainall is that rare figure in the drama of . the period, a woman of self-knowledge, dignity and pathos. The stock satiric repertoire is likewise transformed and renewed by that blend of generosity and ridicule with which more deluded characters are presented: Lady Wishfort, vain, greedy yet affectionate and vulnerable; Witwoud and Petulant, the culture-parasites of all narcissistic social and intellectual cliques, so mediocre in their abilities and yet so desparate to escape from backgrounds of futility and flatness. And Sir Wilful: STEP INTO THE PAST... in the midst of a play that celebrates the supremacy of metro- politan and civilised values is thrust a creature whose boorish Before the evening's event at the Academy, enjoy a intransigence seems to threaten their very existence; yet by superb meal in an authentic 'gay nineties' setting. the sheer force of his good intentions he ends up defending them. He and Millamant worship at the same altar of personal S's integrity. Winner of As for Mirabell and Millamant, in them the play reaches the 21 annual kv,k HOLIDAY GAGE AND TOLE summit of its power and beauty. Beneath the glittering sur- Magazial Awards BROOKLYN'S LANDMARK RESTAURANT face of their wit and contention lies a surprising grounds-well esr 372 FULTON ST., BROOKLYN 2 Blocks from Bore Hall TRiangle 5-5181 of passion. Together they can navigate the dangerous currents IWO OPEN 11:30 AM TO 9 PM, SAT. Lit 9:30 Closed Sundays of the way of the world. I - For all Congreve's proud adherence to classical precedent the play also charts a romantic landscape. Its magic is reconcilia- tory; it ends with the triumph of human love. ediaziei ezie David William

Upcoming British Theatre Season Events

oak The Young ir 0 Vic in a Season of Comedy, will present three hits from their repertory, beginning 346 FLATBUSH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, N.Y. on March 6th with The Taming of the Shrew staged in the BAM Opera House. The company two will then open Michel's takes great pleasure in announcing the very special productions in the Lepercq Space, Moliere's Terrence Scapino and engagement of the Norman Fields Duo, with Bryan Torff Rattigan's French Without Tears. Scapino, Frank Dunlop which director on Bass, in its newly created entertainment room. describes as "freely adapted" from Moliere's dia dell'Arte production Comme- "Les Fourberies de Scapin", will March 14th. French Without open on After theatre special menu. Attire: Vogue to Simplicity Tears, opening here on March 15th, 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 What a lovely way to end an evening! season. Vic Opening St. Valentines Nite, Thursday February 14, from 9:00pm 'till The 1:00am; Friday, February 15, 9:00pm 'till 1:00am; Saturday February Royal Shakespeare Company will 16, 9:00pm 'till...; and Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays thereafter. addition present two productions in to Richard II, and Sylvia 'Plath, Robert P. Murphy, Personal Manager of the Norman Fields Duo. BAM which were featured at in January. The company will ductions", present two "anthology pro- The Hollow Crown and Pleasure starring Sir and Repentance, both Michael Redgrave, in repertory April 18 to April 28. The Way of the World About Brooklyn College By William Congreve The British Theatre Season is presented in association with Brook- Director David William lyn College, John W. Kneller, President, without whose vision and support this unique cultural undertaking Designer Karen Mills would not have been possible. As an integral part of the Season at the Brooklyn Acad- Lighting Howard Eldridge emy, members of the Actors Company, the Young Vic, and the Choreographer Geraldine Stephenson Royal Shakespeare Company will simultaneously be in residence at the College's School of the Performing Arts, recently created by the Board of Higher Education of the City of New York. Ac- tors, directors, musicians, and artistic coaching Cast personnel will con- duct seminars, workshops, and offer lectures for students involved in the professional programs in Theatre, Music and Dance. Under Mirabell Edward Petherbridge the direction of Dean Robert Hickock, the school provides a broad 1 Fainall Robin Ellis j range of professionally oriented training programs as well as gen- eral educational programs for non-specialists. In addition, the Billy Robert Eddison school operates the Brooklyn College Center for the Performing Messenger Boy Milton Cadman 1 Arts, one of the finest educational performance facilities in New Witwoud John Tordoff York. The center provides an extensive program of activities, for Chauffeur John Moreno students, faculty, and the general public. Dr. Kneller's strong cul- tural commitment to the Petulant Matthew surrounding community has been further Long enhanced by his appointment of Sir Rudolph Bing as Director of Mrs. Fainall Marian Diamond Cultural Community Programs for the College. Marwood Paola Dionisotti Millamant Mincing Sheila Reid The Actors Company Waitwell Tenniel Evans The Actors Company made its first appearances at Foible Sharon Duce the Festival in 1972. Formed by a group of actors who wished to be Lady Wishfort Margery Mason totally involved in the artistic management of a theatrical organi- Peg Elaine Strickland sation, the Company makes its own policy on the basis of Com- Lady Wishfort's footman Ian Mc Kellen pany meetings and majority decisions. It is a theatrical democracy. Sir Wilfull Witwoud John Woodvine The result has been to break down the barriers between "leading" and "supporting" actors; in the Actors Company all actors play small parts from time to time and all the roles are cast from ex- perienced actors. There has been general Act I scene i A London Club acclaim for the quality scene ii St. James's Park of the productions which have resulted. scene iii Lady Wishfort's Drawing Room After the 1972 Festival, the Actors Company toured nationally Act 2 Lady Wishfort's Drawing Room before giving a six-week season in Cambridge. The group then disbanded to allow members to accept other engagements, but continued to meet to plan their next season. In The action of the play 1973, in spite takes place during the course of of all the pressures on Company members to accept one day. more lucra- tive or prestigious offers, the majority of that same Company assembled for a further season.

There will be one intermission of fifteen minutes. The possibility of a group of actors working together for years rather than weeks is now open. Ensemble theatre of this kind is For the Actors Company taken for granted on the continent but represents a new and ex- citing venture in this country: the consequences are unpredict- Administrator Graham Marchant able. Already the Company is anxious to explore new ways of Company and Stage Manager Clare Fox 1 working together and will this year be presenting studio pro- Master Carpenter Peter Price ductions of two new plays. Deputy Stage Manager Sonja Dosanjh Caroline Blakiston. This is her second season with The Actors Company, Deputy Stage Manager Chris Morley of which she is a founder member. She has made many TV appearances, Deputy Stage Manager (Sound) Willie Cameron the best known of which was as Marjorie Ferrar in The Forsyte Saga. Her Assistant Stage Managers Johanna Adams films include The Magic Christian and Sunday, Bloody Sunday. She has recently been in Misalliance at the and on TV in Wives Patrick Cadell and Daughters and Thirty Minute Theatre as well as a radio series with Milton Cadman Kenneth Williams. She is married to and has a son and a Peter Holt daughter. Keith Oldfield Marian Diamond played the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales on BBC Elaine Strickland 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 Wardrobe Supervisors Maureen Booth Shakespeare Company, playing in The Devils and Becket. She has appeared Janet Mayo at the Traverse Theatre in several productions, including Look Back in Wig Master Tony Brennan Anger and Inadmissible Evidence. Her latest film is Goodbye Gemini with Production Secretary Hadley Michael Redgrave and Judy Geeson. She was a founder member of The Maxine Actors Company. Paola Dionisotti. Trained at the Drama Centre of London. Worked in repertory at Leicester, Liverpool Everyman, Watford and playing Production Credits parts ranging from the title role in Aladdin to Blanche in Streetcar Named Desire. During her year with the Freehold experimental expressionistic Scenery constructed by Michael O'Flaherty Ltd. and painted by theatre group she toured both Britain and the Continent. In London she John Campbell Designs Ltd. Ladies' costumes by Dilys Elstone has been seen in various productions including Titus Andronicus at the and Ralph Dyer. Men's costumes by Michael O'Neill, Arthur Round House and most recently, Sweeney Todd at the Theatre Royal, Davey and Gus Rossdale. Hats by Fiona Willis. Shoes by Gamba. Stratford East. Wigs by Facades. Great Newspapers Reprinted series by Peter Sharon Duce. Has played with repertory companies in Sheffield, York, Way Ltd. Wardrobe Care by Persil. Perfumes and cosmetics Scarborough and with the Bristol Old Vic. In the West. Erki she played by kind permission of Yardley and Helena Rubinstein. Glenfiddich Bella in The Foursome by E. A. Whitehead which transferred from the Whiskey by William Grant & Son Ltd. De Kuyper Cherry Brandy Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. On television she has been seen on by Mathew Clark & Son Ltd. Production photographs by Nigel , Thirty Minute Theatre, the Away From It All series Luckhurst and Donald Cooper. Blackcurrant cordial by Ribena, and in Full House. She plays Carol in the serial Helen, a Woman of Today Turkish cigarettes by Sullivan, Powell & Co. which was networked by London Weekend Television in September. Her latest film is The Tamarind Seed. Robert Eddison in a long career in the theatre has played parts ranging I from to Long John Romeo Shy He Silver, from to lock. appeared II in 1972 with the inaugural tour of the Actors Company, playing Pinchard 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 repertory at Farnham and Nottingham appeared in London in The King Lear 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 in the Menace Series. Several films including Walk a Crooked Path and flew 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 and Richard II and has since acted with a number of companies, notably us! 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 he played Edmund in the Edinburgh Festival King Lear. He "King Lear;' "The Wood Demon" appeared with the Actors Company last year, and has recently been seen in Shaw's Misalliance at the Mermaid Theatre. and "The Way of the World" are Margery Mason joined her mother's company at 14, touring "one night stands" round the Working Men's Clubs of East London. There followed brought to Brooklyn by The a period in weekly repertory companies, then some time with ENSA during the war in the Middle East. During the last eight years she has made many Actors Company. And The TV appearances, notably in the Arnold Wesker Trilogy, the Award-winning John Hopkins Quartet Talking to a Stranger, and as Mrs. Porter in A Family Actors Company is brought to at War. Her films include Charlie Bubbles and The Raging Moon. This is her second season with The Actors Company. America by British Caledonian. Ian Mc Kellen has acted since he graduated from Cambridge in 1961. His West End debut in A Scent of Flowers won him the Clarence Derwent In fact, British Caledonian is Award and a season with the National Theatre Company. A string of successes in London followed-A Lily in Little India, O'Flaherty V.C., their official carrier. If you're Black Comedy and White Liars and the Russian hit The Promise (also on film and Broadway). In 1969 his Richard II and Edward II stormed the going to Britain, shouldn't you Edinburgh Festival and played to a quarter of a million people in Europe and two sell-out seasons in London. His last appearance in London was flytheairlinewith the classy First as Hamlet, after a sixteen-theatre tour at home and abroad. He was a founder-member of the Actors Company in 1972. Since then, he has Class, the cultured theater directed Alastair Sim in A Private Matter in the West End and recorded Graceless Go I and The Recruiting Officer for television. tours, and the service other air- John Moreno was born in France of a theatrical family and learned to juggle, dance, tumble and mime at an early age. Since turning to acting lines hate? Call 212-697- - -- twelve years ago, he has played in several of the leading repertory companies including the 69 Theatre in Manchester and the Meadow Players in Oxford. 3200 or 800-442-5920 or He was Ben Gunn in last year's at the Mermaid Theatre. On television he has appeared in The Troubleshooters, Triton, Dombey see your travel agent. 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. Edward Petherbridge. Played in the Northcott Theatre's Tempest immediately prior to this, his second season with the Actors The airline airlines hate. Company. Prospero was his first Shakespearean lead, not counting Guildenstern in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead which he played for three of his six years at the National Theatre, 1964-70. Among his BRITISH numerous TV parts was the ballroom dancer in Stoppard's After Magritte. 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. CALEDONIAN Sheila Reid is Scottish. Her first London appearances were at the Mermaid, then in the musical Half a Sixpence followed by The Gentle AIRWAYS 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 Playhouse and the 1971 season at Chichester. At the Mermaid he has played the Dauphin in St. Joan and was there recently in Misalliance. This is his second season with The Actors Company. DAILY FROM THE UNITED STATES TO THE John Woodvine is currently appearing in his third series of New Scotland UNITED KINGDOM TO 43 CITIES IN 25 COUNTRIES 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.

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