Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most important event on TV this week is, unfortunately, only available to those who can tune in New York's WNEW or Washington's WTTG. It is the BBC's magnificent production of The War of the Roses. Royal Shakespeare Company Director Peter Hall has lashed Shakespeare's history plays into a single drama more than ten hours long, which will be broadcast in three parts at monthly intervals. Part 1 is presented on Sunday...
...PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE. The inventive direction of Peter Brook and the superb performances of the Royal Shakespeare Company players as madmen in a masque make exciting theater out of Peter Weiss's philosophical drama...
...Olivier was entranced, although he admits that he loathed Look Back in Anger at first sight. "The second time I saw it," he recalls, "the scales descended from my eyes." He went backstage, asked the playwright if there was a part for him in his next work at the Royal Court. Replied Osborne: "I don't know. Possibly." The possibility turned out to be one of Olivier's most remembered roles-the shabby has-been in The Entertainer...
...government nourished the renaissance with money. A government-appointed Arts Council had opened the cash drawers in 1946, now began spending widely; last season alone contributed more than $2.5 million for the dramatic arts. The most spectacular beneficiaries today are also the newest-the National Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...annual grant of $364,000. He has since made it one of the finest stage companies in the world. Among its recent productions: Olivier's first Othello, Coward's Hayfever, Brecht's Mother 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...