Word: aldwych
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aldwych is one of the harder theatres in London to get to: if you go by underground, you get off at Holborn and walk a very long block down to the Stand. This is its only disadvantage, however, and counterbalancing that is one overpowering merit: the Aldwych is the London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Perhaps the most salient comment about this group is expressed on the back of every RSC program: "The company is responsible for most of the major Shakespeare productions seen in this country." And one might add, most of the major Shakespeare productions seen...
Last summer the Aldwych produced, among other things, Troilus and Cressida. Troilus and Cressida is supposed to be a "problem play"; indeed, after having tried recently to produce it at the Loch, Dan Seltzer threw up his hands and swore never again to get involved with...
...large red brick building, built in 1932 with funds raised largely in America. It hugs the Avon about a half mile from Trinity Church where Shakespeare is buried. Inside, its floors are noticeably worn down in the doorways, which is not surprising considering that it attracts, together with the Aldwych, well over a million people a year...
...London, Peter Brook's Royal Shakespeare Company opened at the Aldwych Theatre with a jazzy, quasi-musical melange of mixed authorship called US. The title stands for U.S., as well as us, meaning the British; but the show plays more like Marat / Sade Goes to Viet Nam. In a series of unrelated psychedelic scenes, it portrays America's role in the war as hypocritical at best, barbarian at worst...
...Courage. Peter Hall was involved in a similar buskin-strap operation on the Royal Shakespeare Company. Before he took over in 1960, the group had restricted itself to Shakespeare at Stratford on Avon. Today, thanks to a $252,000-a-year subsidy, Hall has added a London theater, the Aldwych, and a year-round company of 110. Marat/Sade is a Royal Shakespeare production...