David William

David William (24 June 1926 – 28 July 2010)[1] was a British Canadian actor and director.He played Prospero in an outdoor production of The Tempest in the gardens of Worcester College, directed by Nevill Coghill in 1949.He also acted as Hamlet and Richard II in Oxford University Dramatic Society productions.He was artistic director at the New Shakespeare Company at the Open Air Theatre in London, England, from 1962 to 1968, and artistic director of the Stratford Festival[3] in Stratford, Ontario, Canada, from 1990 to 1993.[4][5] During his tenure at Stratford, the Festival produced works by Canadian playwrights Elliott Hayes, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, and John Murrell.
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