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Volume 11 Number 1 / Spring 1990

Stratford's First Young Company

Submitted
May 13, 2008
Published
1990-01-01

Abstract

The first so-called 'Young Company' at the Stratford Festival was founded in 1975 by the incoming Artistic Director, Robin Phillips. This essay describes the brief history of that loosely-defined company and analyses their productions of The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Comedy of Errors in 1975 and of Hamlet and The Tempest in 1976, the Festival's first productions of Shakespeare at the Avon Theatre. La première «Jeune Compagnie» ainsi appelée à Stratford fut fondée en 1975 par le nouveau Directeur artistique du Festival, Robin Phillips. Cet article esquisse la brève histoire de cette compagnie au mandat très souple, tout en analysant ses premières productions shakespeariennes à l'Avon Theatre, soit The Two Gentlemen of Verona et The Comedy of Errors en 1975, et en 1976 Hamlet et The Tempest.