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...Cambridge Drama Festival has announced that one of its productions this summer will be Macbeth, with Siobhan McKenna as Lady Macbeth. Jose Quintero will direct and Jason Robards, Jr. may play the title role. Miss McKenna and Quintero planted a mountain laurel yesterday, for the benefit of photographers, on the site of the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center, where the Festival will present its season...
...Miss McKenna will appear in at least one other play at the Center besides Macbeth. At a press conference following the tree-planting she said that she hoped the season would open with a comedy, adding that As You Like It and Aristophanes' Lysistrata have received consideration...
Along with Broadway producer Roger L. Stevens, Quintero and Miss McKenna will take part in ceremonies at the theatre site today. The three will then hold a press conference, at which time the name of the CDF's first production will be announced...
...Miss McKenna made a triumphant American debut in the title role of Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan, which opened the CDF summer season at Sanders Theatre in 1956. She returned to the Boston area last year in the leading role of The Rope Dancers...
...understood that Miss McKenna rejected opportunities to perform at other summer festivals and that she chose Boston out of affection for the site of her earlier successes...