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...student, Bernard A. Wiseblatt '57, decided to run the service after sucessfully planning bus trips to the Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon, Conn., and to the Wellesley Theatre this past summer...
England is the most popular choice of traveling students. Although the deadline has expired for this year's liberal arts courses at Edinburgh, Oxford, and London University, as well as for the Shakepeare seminars at Stratford-on-Avon, many opportunities remain for the summer study...
...drama critics, not noted for the fire of their enthusiasms, have found better reason in the last several weeks to use glowing adjectives than they often do in the course of a whole theatrical season. Objects of their eloquence: Sir Laurence Olivier's Macbeth at Stratford-on-Avon (scheduled to remain in the Stratford Festival repertory until season's end on Nov. 26) and Orson Welles's blank-verse adaptation of Moby Dick at London's Duke of York's Theater...
...newspaper quoted him: "Romeo and Juliet is not a play for aging prima donnas. Juliet should be played by a girl of 14." Producer Peter Brook was only half-serious about wanting a child-Juliet; he was mostly trying to attract attention to his forthcoming season at Stratford-on-Avon's Memorial Theater. But next morning his phone rang and a breathless voice said: "My name is Claire Bloom. It said in the papers that you wanted a girl of 14 to play Juliet...
...speech from Romeo and Juliet. She looked enchanting. More important, she had extraordinary technical equipment." The cast was already filled, but Benthall and Helpmann invented a new walk-on part so that they could keep an eye on Claire. When they took over the 1948 Shakespeare season at Stratford-on-Avon, Claire went along...