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It's Adrienne Gould's fourth season at Stratford. In past years, she has played Margot in The Diary of Anne Frank and Jessica, Shylock's daughter, in The Merchant of Venice. In addition to appearing in Gigi, Adrienne plays 24-hour notice please on specialty items The 2003 Stratford Season (some exceptions) 6879 Orchard Lake Rd. in the Boardwalk Plaza 248-626-9110 FESTIVAL THEATRE 6'04270 ITALIAN GRILL Fresh, Affordable, Italian dining. Enjoy our new Spring Menu. William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I William Shakespeare's Pericles William Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost AVON THEATRE Lerner and Loewe's Gigi Rick Whelan's The Hunchback of Notre Dame Noel Coward's Present Laughter TOM PATTERSON THEATRE Drop by during Happy Hour our $2.99 appetizers. Children's Menu available for children 10 and under. Larco's restaurants - family owned for 50 years. As always, we offer Complete Innovative, Gourmet, Italian Dining and Great Service. 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BLOOMFIELD • Just North of Maple William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit Aristophanes' The Birds William Shakespeare's Tivilus and Cressida Anne Chislett's Quiet in the Land STUDIO THEATRE Aeschylus' Agamemnon Jean Giradoux's Electra Jean-Paul Sartre's The Flies Peter Hinton's The Swanne• Princess Charlotte (The Acts ofVenus The 2003 Shaw Festiva Season FESTIVAL THEATRE Bernard Shaw's Misalliance Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters Michael Marc Bouchard's The Coronation Voyage Kaufman and Ferber's The Royal Family ACURA SEASON AT THE COURT HOUSE THEATRE Bernard Shaw's Widowers' Houses Cicely Hamilton's Diana of Dobsons Sean O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars Brian Friel's Afterplay ROYAL GEORGE THEATRE Comden, Green and Coleman's On The Twentieth Century Sharon Pollock's Blood Relations Brecht and Weill's Happy End 3/28 2003 68 lossa.msto 5 , ,mommv.:2114,11W.,46 Jaquenetta, a country wench, in Shakespeare's early come- dy of manners, Love's Labour's Lost, a satire on men's behavior in affairs of the heart. The love of Adrienne's life, onstage and offstage, is Jonathan Goad, who plays Costard, a clown in love with Jaquenetta. They live in Stratford. Adrienne, 28, is a recent graduate of Stratford's Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training, an intensive 15-week program that ended in December. Of 900 appli- cants, 13 actors and one director were chosen to participate. The Gould sisters had a traditional Jewish upbringing and belonged to an Orthodox synagogue. While Jennifer and her family make their home in Toronto now, she enjoys returning to Ottawa and their former synagogue for the major Jewish holidays. Better Late Than Never For veteran Canadian actor Paul Soles, being part of the Stratford family is like a dream come true — but almost 50 years after he began dreaming about it. In the late 1950s, when the Stratford Festival first came into being, Soles, already with some act- ing success in semiprofessional theater in nearby London, auditioned for a Stratford production. The director politely told the self-taught actor he wasn't quite ready yet. Soles proved more than ready when a tragic set of circumstances catapulted him into his Stratford debut and the Paul Soles demanding role of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice in 2001. Acclaimed Jewish director and actor Al Waxman, originally slated for the role, died unexpectedly five weeks before the play was scheduled to open. "No Canadian Jewish actor had ever played the part at Stratford, and it was going to be a first," says Soles, who also is Jewish. In his third season at Stratford, this year Soles plays Baptista Minola, the father of two daughters, in Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Baptista, a wealthy businessman, insists that a suitor be found for his difficult and shrewish daughter, Katharina, before he will allow the sweeter and much sought after Bianca to wed. This production is set in the American Southwest in the mid-19th century and couples a rollicking frontier spirit with the ethnicity of Spanish and Italian people who were, historically, among the region's prime settlers. Soles also plays Agrippa in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Priam in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. In addition to the stage, Soles has worked extensively in television, film and his favorite venue, radio. Growing up in Toronto in the 1930s and '40s helped hone the 72-year-old actor's sensitivity as a Jew. Beaches bore signs saying, "no dogs or Jews allowed," and play- ground fights erupted with anti-Semitic overtones. Soles' Judaism is rooted in a strong sense of family. His father was one of 12 children. Today, when the relatives gather for Chanukah and Passover, 116 kinsmen show up for the occasion — and that's just on his father's side. 111 For tickets or information on the Stratford Festival, call (800) 567-1600 or go to the Web site at vvww.stratfordfestival.ca.