Antioch Shakespeare Festival: John Lithgow, Robin Lithgow, and Tony Dallas

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🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Over the course of three summers in the 1950s, Arthur Lithgow, Meredith Dallas, and a troupe of actors they’d gathered performed every single one of Shakespeare plays, in rep, at the Antioch Shakespeare Festival, also known as Shakespeare Under the Stars, at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. This podcast episode brings together the children of the festival’s founders to talk about their fathers’ work and its legacy: Tony Dallas, Robin Lithgow, and the Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award-winning actor John Lithgow. John, Robin, and Tony are interviewed by Barbara Bogaev. From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast series. Published June 12, 2018. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This podcast episode, "I Live to Speak My Father’s Words," was produced by Richard Paul. Garland Scott is the associate producer.

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0:00.0	This is Jerry Fyle, speaking to you by tape recording from the Antioch College campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
0:06.9	National attention has been...
0:08.0	It was 1953, the summer, and one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of Shakespeare in America
0:15.0	was going on about 70 miles north of Cincinnati.
0:18.6	Since he has served well for the... What make you of service? I speak of Cincinnati. Since he has served well for the...
0:21.6	What trade you of service?
0:23.6	I speak of that, Jack.
0:25.6	No.
0:26.6	You!
0:27.6	Is this the promise that you made your mother?
0:28.6	No, I pray to...
0:29.6	I know no further let him pronounce the speak for pay and death.
0:32.6	Bagabond eggs are fleeing. From the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is Shakespeare Unlimited.
0:45.4	I'm Michael Whitmore, the Folcher's director.
0:48.5	The summer before, in 1952, 36-year-old Arthur Lithgow, an Antioch Associate Professor of English, had decided
0:57.3	to try something audacious.
0:59.9	He and a troop of actors he'd gathered would perform every single one of Shakespeare's plays
1:05.2	in rep over the course of three summers.
1:07.8	This 1953 summer festival represents the first occasion in modern times when Shakespeare's
1:13.0	seven Greek and Roman plays have been presented in repertory.
1:16.6	In fact, four of them, Trollus and Cressida, Pericles, Tyman of Athens, and Titus Andronicus,
1:22.2	have never before been produced professionally in this country.
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