Greystone Theatre - ["Hamlet"]
- A-4956
- Stuk
- Mar. 1972
Three male students in costume on set likely performing [Hamlet].
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Greystone Theatre - ["Hamlet"]
Three male students in costume on set likely performing [Hamlet].
Interior view of seating and curtained walls.
Note on back of image: "The 'Equus' duo, Eric Schneider (left) and Robert John Wright discuss the script of Simon Gray's 'Butley', which played in the Greystone Theatre".
Greystone Theatre - "Right You Are (If You Think You Are)"
Simone Choquer as Signora Cini, Ron Williams as Lamberto Laudisi, and Carol Blenkin as Signora Nenni on stage performing the production of the L. Pirandello play.
Department of Drama - University Players
A crowd of people walk up the steps into a wood-sided building. A poster outside of the building advertises "M.G.M.s Bad Bascomb" starring Margaret O'Brien." university Players on the road.
Department of Drama - Strolling Players
Students in costume standing on a makeshift stage in the Bowl; students standing around the stage in foreground.
Bio/Historical Note: Walter Mills, professor of Drama, established the Strolling Players, a summer arts employment program, in the early 1970s.
Department of Drama - Strolling Players
Students standing on a makeshift stage in the Bowl; students sitting on grass around stage.
Bio/Historical Note: Walter Mills, professor of Drama, established the Strolling Players, a summer arts employment program, in the early 1970s.
Department of Drama - University Players
Five actors on stage in Middle Eastern costume.
Department of Drama - University Players
Two actors on stage in Middle Eastern costume.
Head and shoulders image of Jane Casson, drama instructor in the Department of Drama, actor and a native of England.
Department of Drama - Class in Session
Drama instructor at podium and students seated in bleachers in the new Arena Theatre, Hangar Building.
Department of Drama - Class in Session
Students rehearsing on stage; bleachers and stage lights visible in the new Arena Theatre, Hangar Building.
Greystone Theatre - "The Elephant Man"
Drama students Shelley Adams and Eric Schneider rehearse for "The Elephant Man".
Greystone Theatre - "A Doctor In Spite of Himself"
Murray Edwards (left), Frances Hyland, and two students in costume pose in front of a forest themed backdrop.
Bio/Historical Note: Frances Jean Hyland was born in 1927 in Shaunavon, Saskatchewan. She was raised by her mother's family in Ogema, Saskatchewan. Her mother put herself through teacher's college to support her daughter's acting career. Hyland graduated in 1948 from the University of Saskatchewan with a BA in English. She earned a scholarship to and graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After graduation Hyland made her professional debut in London in 1950, as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire. In 1954 she returned to Canada to perform as Isabella in the Stratford Festival production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. She became a regular at the festival, performing in ten seasons. Her roles there included Isabella (in Measure for Measure), Portia (in The Merchant of Venice), Olivia (in Twelfth Night), Perdita (in The Winter's Tale), Desdemona (in Othello) and Ophelia in (in Hamlet). Hyland directed the Stratford Festival's 1979 production of Othello. She also performed with the Shaw Festival and on Broadway (opposite Tony Perkins in Look Homeward, Angel). On television Hyland co-starred on The Albertans and played Nanny Louisa on Road to Avonlea. Hyland was considered a champion of Canadian actors' campaign for higher status and pay. In 1970 Hyland was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1994, Hyland received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts, for her lifetime contribution to Canadian theatre. Frances Hyland died of respiratory failure following surgery in 2004.
Greystone Theatre - "Candida" and "Picnic"
Top image is a scene from Candida, starring Frances Hyland and directed by Emrys Jones. This play, the inaugural production of the Department of Music, was performed in Convocation Hall in March 1946. Bottom image is a scene from Picnic, was performed at Greystone Theatre in December 1965. Actors (l to r): Don Evanishen, Helen Burton and Eric Peterson.