ROMEO AND JULIET - Stratford Festival

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OF INTEREST Nobels and Oscars George Bernard Shaw remains the only person to have received both a Nobel Prize for his contribution to literature and an Oscar (Pygmalion, 1938.) ON THE INTERNET For an online downloadable version of the play: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3329 For a good overview of the play and past productions and films, visit Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_and_Cleopatra_%28play%29 ______________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION PERIOD AND SETTING The production will be set in period, during the Roman occupation of Egypt. CASTING Caesar..................................Christopher Plummer Cleopatra.............................Nikki M. James Ftatateeta.............................Diane D’Aquila Rufio ...................................Peter Donaldson Pothinus ..............................Timothy D. Stickney Britannus.............................Steven Sutcliffe Lucius Septimius.................John Vickery Theodotus............................David Collins Ptolemy Dionysus ...............Paul Dunn Iras ......................................Michelle Monteith Achillas ...............................Roy Lewis Apollodorus ........................Gordon S. Miller Charmian.............................Sophia Walker - 28 -
SELECTED ARTISTIC PERSONNEL Christopher Plummer is a legend at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and around the world. He last appeared in Stratford as King Lear in 2002 as part of our 50 th -anniversary celebrations, in a production that later moved to New York. Nikki M. James is a graduate of the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She appeared most recently as Dorothy in Des McAnuff’s remount of The Wiz at the La Jolla Playhouse in La Jolla, California. This is Nikki’s first appearance at the Festival. She will also appear as Juliet. Broadway actress Anika Noni Rose was originally cast as Cleopatra, but scheduling conflicts related to The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency prevented her from coming to Stratford for the season. RUNNING TIME Estimated running time: three hours with one interval. PRODUCTION SPONSORS Production co-sponsors: CIBC World Markets and TSX Group. Peter Donaldson’s performances in the 2008 season are generously supported by the Birmingham family. ______________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950) World-renowned Irish author and playwright George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, the son of grain merchant/civil servant George Carr Shaw and singer Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw (née Gurly). He had two sisters. Shaw was educated in a number of Dublin schools, ending his formal education at the Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School. When he turned twenty, Shaw moved to London, where he lived with his elder sister, his mother and her friend George Vandeleur Lee. Rejecting formal schooling, Shaw taught himself by studying in the reading room of the British Museum. Although he began his career by writing novels (unsuccessful, but later published), Shaw first tasted success as a music and literary critic. He turned to drama, however, and wrote more than sixty plays during his career. His output as a novelist, critic, pamphleteer, essayist and private correspondent was prodigious. He is known to have written more than 250,000 letters! - 29 -
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