Word: stratford
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Opening week at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival is always a dramatic marathon. Trumpeters in Elizabethan garb signal curtaintime and send eight plays sprinting off the mark in five days, beginning a five-month competition that often finds the winners and the losers in close contention. Four of this season's entries...
Every festival profits from a conversation piece. Stratford assuredly has one in Virginia, which is based on the life of Virginia Woolf. One may argue that it is not quite a play, since its structure is that of a labyrinthine interior monologue. This will captivate some playgoers and alienate others. Since about 70% of the material in Virginia comes from the letters and diaries of Woolf, Edna O'Brien is at least as much editor as author of the drama. However, she has a deep affinity for her subject and never violates Woolfs tone of voice. In the title...
...Stratford, Conn...
...debate rages over the greatest hockey player of all time. Howie Morenz, the Stratford Streak, has the vote of the turn-of-the-century crowd; Maurice "The Rocket" Richard is the next generation's favorite. There are the Bobbies: Hull, the complete goal scorer, and Orr, with his intangible, but nonetheless real, brilliance. And Gordie...