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1970s

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PERFORMANCE HISTORY

1970

  • FALL: Performances of scenes from Much Ado About Nothing on ritual and misnoting, as well as varations on scenes from As You Like It and The Man of Mode

1971

  • SUMMER: A Festival of Scenes from Shakespeare

1972

  • SPRING: Scenes from nine plays on the topic, "Fools, Beggars, Madmen, and Mon­sters."

  • SUMMER: Scenes from six plays on the topic, "The Illusions of Play, Dream, Life."

1973

  • SUMMER: The Tempest* & Scenes from seven plays on topic, "The Play of Love and Power."

1974

  • SPRING: King Lear*

  • SUMMER: A Midsummer Night's Dream* & Scenes from eight plays on topic, "Deception and Disguise in Shakespeare."

1975

  • SPRING: Selection of scenes: “Shakespeare and The Comedy of Wit and Manners"

  • SUMMER: Much Ado About Nothing* & Scenes from nine plays on topic "Role-playing and Rhetoric in Shakespeare."

1976

  • SPRING: "Role-playing and the Theme of Identity in Shakespeare" - Selection of Scenes and Songs from Shakespeare

  • SUMMER: As You Like It* & "In praise of folly" - A Programme of Scenes from Shakespeare

1977

  • SPRING: The Tempest

  • SUMMER: The Comedy of Errors*, The Merchant of Venice*, The Taming of the Shrew*

1978

  • SPRING: Selected Scenes from six selected plays

  • SUMMER: Love's Labour’s Lost*, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet*

1979

  • SPRING: Selected Scenes from five plays

  • SUMMER: As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing

* - first time perfomed at Winedale