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STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ontario. Until Oct. 14, Canadians and visitors will get a taste of Russian humor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, with The Merry Wives of Windsor providing the Anglo-Saxon comedy. Richard 111, played by Alan Bates, represents a somewhat darker strain. On July 31, Christopher Plummer appears as Antony, with Zoe Caldwell as his Cleopatra. A new play, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, debuts July...
...bucolic splendor of greenery, the Festival Theater of Stratford, Ont., salutes the eye like the panoplied summer court of a king. The king, of course, is Shakespeare, and the irony is that Stratford serves him rather ill in its current productions of Richard III and The Merry Wives of Windsor. One difficulty with cultural outposts of this sort is that audiences begin to equate their dutifulness with pleasure, and actors and directors tend to become bureaucratic keepers of tinier and tinier dramatic flames. That may be why the Stratford players perform best in a 19th century provincial satire, The Government...
That was all, but it marked the first time that Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, 70, had been invited to a royal function in the 30 years since the Duke, as Edward VIII, had abdicated his throne to marry the nonroyal divorcee. The ceremony over, the Queen left for the Derby at Epsom, and the Windsors flew home-to Paris...
...purely a private family ceremony in memory of Her Majesty my mother," the Duke of Windsor, 72, had explained politely to reporters. Yes and no. As 300 Londoners looked on along the Mall outside Marlborough House, Queen Elizabeth pulled a golden tassel drawing back the curtains over a small plaque on the garden wall: "Queen Mary, 1867-1953." Then she stood on the sidewalk for a few moments chatting with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Earl of Harewood...
Persichetti's Spring Canata, a setting of four poems by e.e. cummings for women's chorus, was in contrast vivid and lively. Vaughn Williams's In Windsor Forest, the most voluptous piece on the program, was also the best performed. Kay Tolbert's crisp solo in "The Conspiracy" and the chorus' rendition of the dreamy meanderings of the "Wedding Chorus" were perfectly natural and uninhibited. So were the two spirituals at the end of the program; Archie Epps in "Ride on King Jesus" created a lilting pulse that was still with me long after the concert. And in Britten...