Shakespearean Women: A Theatre Festival (Folger Theatre, 1994)
Folger Theatre presented Shakespearean Women: A Theatre Festival of Famous 19th-century Actresses and The Shakespearean Women They Portrayed from October 5 to November 6, 1994 in the Folger's Elizabethan Theatre. It included three performances.
Wonderful Women
Wonderful Women: A Tour Around America with Ellen Terry and the Only Man She Ever Loved– William Shakespeare opened the Shakespearean Women festival, and played from October 5 to October 9, 1994. The production was devised by Eunice Roberts.
Cast
- Eunie Roberts: Ellen Terry
Staff
- Janet Alexander Griffin, Folger Director of Museum and Public Programs
Production team
- Graham Callan, Director
An Audience with Fanny Kemble
An Audience with Fanny Kemble: An Evening of Reflection with 19th-century Actress, Abolitionist, and Diarist Fanny Kemble was the second performance of the Shakespearean Women festival, and played from October 12 to 16, 1994.
Cast
- Sandi Shackelford
Staff
- Janet Alexander Griffin, Folger Director of Museum and Public Programs
Production team
- Mary Sutton, Staging
Duet
Otho E. Eskin's Duet: The Magical, Mythical Meeting of Legendary Actress Sarah Bernhardt and Rival Eleonora Duse was presented by the Folger Theatre and SCENA Theatre was the final play to be performed at the Shakespearean Women festival. It was performed from October 29 to November 6. 1994.
Cast
- Kerry Waters
- Jennifer Mendenhall
- Kyrztov Lindquist
Staff
- Janet Alexander Griffin, Folger Director of Museum and Public Programs
- Robert McNamara, SCENA Theatre Artistic Director
Production team
- Robert McNamara, Director
- Michael Stepowany, Set Designer
- Lynn Joslin, Lighting Design
- William Pucilowsky, Costume Design
- Steve Jones, Sound Design
- Michael Kramer, Stage Manager
Production, direction and management team
- Marilyn Beery, Assistant Director
- William Fecke, Technical Production Coordinator
- Anna Flye, Technical Production Coordinator
- Julie Ainsworth, Photography
- Gillian Duncan, Running Crew