TheatreObituaryRobin Phillips obituaryBritish actor and director acclaimed for revitalising the Stratford Festival theatre in OntarioRobin Phillips, who has died aged 75, was a golden boy of British theatre in the early part of his career but became, rather like John Neville, something of a king across the water as the most brilliant and successful artistic director of the Stratford Festival, Ontario, in the late 1970s. He revitalised the idyllic Festival theatre over six seasons with a company of young Canadian actors, led by estabished stars such as Maggie Smith, Brian Bedford, Richard Monette, William Hutt and Martha Henry; Smith appeared there, under his direction, as Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra, Judith Bliss in Hay Fever and Rosalind in As You Like It.
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