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__ AKE,: Ont, (CP) —* The
Shaw Festival opens its 21st
seasoh May 26 with a‘ new |
_ exploratory approach. to
George: ‘Bernard Shaw's
. ~ Pygmalion and ‘eight other -
. ~ productions designed to
 ‘tlekle.the eye and the mind’:
as well’ as the funny bone.-
: Christopher: - Newton,
‘entering. his third year a5
artistic director with afresh
7 reappointment for a further.
-. two years, started ‘moving -
_ the. -festival » into. new
* directions last neason: witha.
, production’.of Saint: Joan.
. that .broke with. tradition:-
, and: ‘upset. some romantic:

" Shaw purists, *

He also. mounted a radical .
treatment | ‘of. the. ‘classic’,
Camille story,: ‘and: stirred”

_ UB. controvery with a sar- -
” done: . Russian ‘drama, The:
Suicide; : .

:_sBut: ‘the: featival last:
“Beason still had its farces >
~ and ‘Shavisn comedies, as.
, Will 1982 with Too True to be
Goad, The Music Cure, See
- How They.Run, and The
‘Singular Life of Albert’
. Nobbs:: It is: repeating’ .

“” Camille, and will produce ©
. another ‘musical,’ The —
= 2. Desert. Song. i
-,°. “Lés Ballets Jazz will be
"> baek ‘again: from Montreal:
: “in late August. :
Ve #To top it; all, the festival
5 ’ will open what is considered
- the: ‘Breatest theatrical :
-” romance ever written. —<.

Cyrano. de Bergerac; : by

‘Edmond Rostand —on ‘Aug.
- 0 with’ the largest cast In-

Shaw Festival history. The
. play'calls for a-cast of 50,

' . -and Newton himself plans to’
“double: Ins “minor~ roles to:
“swell ‘out the rinks,

- . “My own:taste in theatre. 2
i, is. -not. wildly’ avant-garde,

~ you know, but it in a little bit:

: ahead of those..who -have -

» observed the festival in the

. past," **" Newton said in an

‘interview duririg a break in -

~ rehearsals, “1 think. the.

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+» ~~ festival. is. coming. into .-.:.

: ‘ ; » balance: between ‘new
We "Taveras < ‘We can” explore, -~
"and. what. ‘ts: easily’ ats,
: _cessible and fun.’
~"'4°What Weare ‘doing with *
ae a ‘PYamalion: is exactly what
‘ _ + we'should be doing. We are
: 5 Shaw: festival, after ally.”

“Lifer of

‘area ce i”
has ¢ brought i.

actor ~ playing G.B.S.

. himéelf as narrator. °

“Tt Is as though we are
privileged to be Jnside
‘Shaw’, "8 head as he invents
the * “play,” sald.” the
diminutive: actregs-director
who. has’ an
irreverent approach - to

“version of Pygmalion,
‘which includes most of the
. slandard text hut adds an

About two-thirds of: last
season's acting” company:
has. returned, with Goldie
Semple again playing Marle
Duplessls and Michgel Ball
as Baron de: Varville in
Camille, ‘Beth © Anne Cole.

' will sing in The Desert Song
- and: Nora. McLellan — : last

almost .

classical theatre, though.

she conelders Shaw: and

Shakespeare her greatest

* heroes, °
- Another original Newton,
idea is to develop the old_

, Royal George Theatre, this
‘ year furnished. with new

pocket-sized operetiag. and.
19808: muiicals last year. it

‘had | Rose Marie, “and this |

“year will | present ‘The
Desert: Song. . ‘

The original. Broadway |

‘production. of ‘The. Desert
> Song: had .114..performers,

two live camels and a full]:

orchestra, ‘Shaw's

- production has a cast of 10,
‘and two pianos. .

“Desert Song was a a great!
big epic, What we're. trying -

:to. do is to miniaturize it ~-

-.not just tocut it down, but to.
. think “oF “it. in. a. ‘small

framework ‘that will work
‘well in a lovely little theatre

“"Ilke the Royal George.” ©
-The ~~. Desert Song
«production will tour Ontario

~_ thie fall and winter: as part 7° ~

‘of a * new |

_ seating, ‘into’ a home for .

«

* three-year’ +:

program ‘supported by the

+ province; ‘which. will help

spread. the Shaw Featival-
_ name and encourage: more
people.to come to Niagara. .

- ‘Newton. said ‘the festival -

- hasn't yet tried to. sell itself .

to TV, but there have been

““intaresting - -nibbles” from

‘broadcasters wanting to
record productions. -

‘He would: like to: see the °
_ move -

Shaw: Feétival .
towards a winter program .
iny. Toronto “supplementing

‘experimental : a OX:

’ {ts summer program here. |
“Tt would help .us in every
” way: We. could do more:

ploratory work in’an-urban ;

setting ‘without .: the.

possibility of ‘moving too"

fast for the audience which ©
drives: here from ‘the

‘

‘surrounding. areas”.

‘Pygmalion, Carlie, The ff 5

: Desert. Sdng-and See How [I-

? They Fun all open in the last
. week of May. The Singular -
‘Albert Nobbs ; and .
«be Good open -
at the ‘old ©

year’s’ Joan.af Arc. will’
have the (itts role in H Albert
" Nobbs.

Sandy Webster is back for
his sixth season, to play -
Alfred Doolittle in
Pygmalion “vith: _Frances
Hyland as Mrs,’‘Higgins.

.-Marti Maraden,‘ for many.

years a Jeading lady at the
Stratford: ” Festival, makes ©
her Shaw Festival al debuts

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Roxana. in iCyrano de

Bergeraa.:. as

‘See How’ They "Run ds.

another British farce of the
kind that customarily sells
out in. the’ festival, “and its

‘success ig made: almost.
certain by “the: return of

Heath Lamberts, Niagara's
~~ and the country’s _
favorite ‘clown-comic.

Lamberts also will ‘siar in.
Cyrano,’ opening. in| mid-.

August, a show which likely

will be held ‘over: to open.”
. Fepertory, ‘iri _the .850-seat |
and.

again in the 1989 -sedson.
Newton is proud of having.

east Lamberts as Cyrano in -

" a show that is to be dirécted

by Derek Goldby, marking”

his second year as guest

director from’ Britain. at ©.

- both the Shaw Festival and
the Stratford Festival.

“Cyrano has sort of been

taken over by. leading
men,” . Newton explain

-“Tf’s net: theirs, the Chris
Plummers and the Michael
“Yorks, but it is really .for
character -actors with a

' pomir quality to them like

Heath Lamberts.”

Nobbe will play. at the.
while:

‘Court House:
Pygmalion cofitinues in

Festival “Theatre,
‘Newton gays the connection
and. contrast between the
two" works wilk be ‘in-

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Unlike. Eliza in

Pygmalion, who is. raised - a
“from the gutter by her 9° *
transformation’ . Into‘. 7
duchess-ike lady, Albert =~
Nobbs is. about’ a° woman |. .
who ‘stays. in’ the, gutter.
despite her. ‘attempts. to -
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