Word: aldwych
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British lion may be muted, but Shakespeare still roars. His voice thunders and echoes through the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Coriolanus at London's Aldwych Theater. The play takes place on two fronts, the field of battle and the jugular terrain of class...
...promoter-organizer, touring Europe, Asia and the U.S. to recruit troupes such as the Moscow Art Theater, Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble and the Martha Graham Dance Company for performances in England. In 1964 he founded the World Theater Season, which brought foreign companies to the Aldwych Theater (London home of the Royal Shakespeare Company) every spring for a decade. Two years ago Daubeny won a knighthood for his services to the British theater...
...Bewitched is a difficult play, difficult to stage and difficult to watch, with its share of rough edges. It has had an enormous success d'estime at London's Aldwych Theatre, but as you could guess it's been Travesties that's been packing 'em in. And probably when the producers and the middle men sit down to decide which new plays from London are fit for American consumption, it is Travesties that will seem the more daring, seem the more avant garde, even seem the more effective comment on moral and dramatic issues. These impresarios will be wrong...
...London's Aldwych Theater, the Natal Theater Workshop Company had one of the hits of the season with a Zulu version of Macbeth titled Umabatha. Princess Margaret paid her royal respects to the cast, and any scandal sniffers tempted to read significance into the sometime absence of her husband, Lord Snowdon, might well be discouraged by the catalogue of false rumors about her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, culled from the French press by Jean Marcilly, ex-editor in chief of France Dimanche. In Marcilly's survey, French papers have had the Queen pregnant 92 times, with nine miscarriages...