Just to add a bit, she spent three seasons at the Shaw Festival (1971, 1977, 1980), where, in addition to the roles you mentioned, she also played three of Gertrude Lawrence's roles — Louise in We Were Dancing, Jane in Family Album, and Victoria in Shadow Play — in a production of those Tonight at 8:30 plays, Ann Whitefield opposite Ian Richardson in an absolutely uncut five-and-a-half hour Man and Superman (if not at the Shaw Festival, then where?), Epifania in The Millionairess, Lady Corinthia Fanshawe in the rarely produced Press Cuttings, and in the Hungarian play I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, The Royal Hunt.
Her Margery Pinchwife at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1973 won her the kinds of raves every actor dreams of. |
