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Left: Brent Carver as Tevye with members of the "Fiddler on the Roof" company. About Carver, says director Susan Schulman,
"I cast the finest Canadian musical theater person I could find who has the soul for the role."
Right: Al Waxman directs the cast of "The Diary of Anne Frank" "What we are doing here is saying very clearly, 'This only
happened to these people because they are Jews.

Carver was born in Cranbrook, a
small town in British Columbia in
the Canadian Rockies, just north of
Montana and Idaho. The third of
seven children, none of whom is in
show business, Carver has described
himself as shy and a bit of a loner,
characteristics he says are common
to actors.
Though he has reached the pin-
nacle of stardom, the actor's feet
remain firmly on the ground.
"Except for one's-beliefs, everything
we have is temporary. Like the fid-
dler on the roof, it's about balance,"
says Stratford's Tevye.
For Toronto actress Barbara
Barsky, getting the role of Tevye's
wife, Golde, seemed like kismet.
It all started when her husband
of 19 years, composer Marek
Norman, came to Stratford last sea-
son to see one of the final perfor-
mances of his musical, Dracula.
Barsky, who came along for the-
ride, decided to audition for
Fiddler, and the very next day was
offered the role.
Playing Golde marks the Jewish
actress' Stratford debut. She also
will portray the frivolous Lady
Angela in Gilbert and Sullivan's
Patience.
Born and raised in Winnepeg,
Canada, Barsky's original aspira-
tions and training centered around
dancing. When she later discovered
she had a voice as well, she began to
explore the musical world. Favorite
roles include Sara Jane Moore in

Assassins, Joanne in Company and
Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.

to Hagen made her
Broadway debut in 1938 in
The Seagull. Sixty-two years
later, the venerable actress marks
her Stratford debut as Ruth Steiner
in Donald Margulies' Collected
Stories, the role she created Off-
Broadway in 1998.
The play, a Pulitzer Prize finalist
(Margulies won the Pulitzer this
year for his latest play, Dinner with
Friends), is about an aging Jewish
writer ancl.professor named Ruth
Steiner. Her ambitious young pro-
tege, Lisa Morrison, usurps the
story of Steiner's life as the subject
of her runaway first novel. 'It's a
play about betrayal," says Hagen,
whose husky voice hints at her
German roots.
The New York actress says she
was immediately taken with the
script because it deals with a persis-
tent contemporary problem in the
literary world.
In the play, Steiner asserts that
only people who have lived the
Jewish experience have the right to
write about the Jewish experience.
Lisa, who is not Jewish, disagrees.
So does the non-Jewish Hagen, who
believes artists are "non-racial."
"Part of becoming an artist is
learning how to identify with any-
thing or anybody," she says.
Hagen's prodigious gifts as a per-
forming artist, including two Tony

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Awards for The Country Girl in 1950
and Who Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in
1962, are rivaled by her innate gifts as
a teacher. Jack Lemmon, Sigourney
Weaver, Lily Tomlin, Anne Bancroft,
Geraldine Page, Jason Robards,
Matthew Broderick and countless oth-
ers launched their careers at the
Herbert Berghof Studio founded by
Hagen and her late husband and where
she continues to teach since 1947.
Between 1989-98, Hagen taught
acting for the Detroit Council of
the Arts. Two of her students start-
ed area theaters of their own,
including Evelyn Orbach, founder
of the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in
West Bloomfield.
Wherever Hagen journeys, she is
always meeting up with former stu-
dents, even when lying on an oper-
ating table prior to surgery, when a
woman lunged at her, cooing,
"Ooh, Ms. Hagen, I studied with
you."
After Stratford, Hagen and com-
pany are taking Collected Stories to
Montreal. The actress, who turns 81
next month, has no intention of
slowing down.
"When you're on stage, it's such a
joyous experience. It totally fulfills
me when I play." Ill

For more information and tick-
ets, call (800) 567-1600 or go to
the Web site at www.stratford-
festival.on.ca .

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