Word: stratford-on-avon
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...south leads to Warwick and its castle, one of Europe's best-preserved medieval fortresses. The venturesome wayfarer might try the Zetland Arms Pub below St. Mary's Church, with clean rooms and the best breakfast in town for $11 a guest. Less than ten miles south is Stratford-on-Avon. Will Shakespeare is remembered shabbily in a lot of curio shoppes, but magnificently upheld by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Stratford Hilton (yes, Ophelia, there is a Stratford Hilton) and the Shakespeare charge about $65 a night for two. However, a room costs an unbelievable $12 at the Strathedon...
Married. Brian Priestman, 45, English-born conductor of the Denver Symphony Orchestra and former musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Theater at Stratford-on-Avon; and Mary-Ford Stockton McClave; both for the first time; in Berkeley, Calif...
...putting on a powdered wig and 18th century rig over his own prime ministerial paunch. Sevareid also read up on the subject for a month, but wore his usual mid-20th century suit for the filming, which took place in Wroxton Abbey, North's ancestral home, near Stratford-on-Avon...
Full House. To bring out the play's down-to-earthness, Hall filmed it not in a studio but in a tangled English wood located only twelve miles from Stratford-on-Avon. Though it rained continuously, Hall and his shivering actors tramped for six weeks through the forest with hand-held cameras-"they give a sense of breathing," says Hall-trying to capture what he calls "that wet, steaming, glistening quality that only an English summer can have...
...PLAYERS. Anne and Will of Stratford-on-Avon have a very bad marriage. She nags; he drinks, wenches and poaches. Out of this dubious material, the genius of Western dramatic literature emerges-though one would never know how from William Gibson's meandering fustian. Anne Bancroft does not help with her Bronx-housewife intonations, but Frank Langella speaks a convincing pseudo-Elizabethan line and conveys the anguish of a young man torn between his responsibilities...