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...newest artistic venture, the Santa Fe Festival Theater, opened last week. Set in a deftly remodeled former armory, the theater was conceived as "part of an American Salzburg" by Producing Director Thomas Kahn Gardner, 30, Executive Director Christopher Beach, 30, and Associate Director Robert Wojewodski, 31. The three met in 1975, when they were working backstage at the Santa Fe Opera...
Originally, Gardner wanted to reach out to the Hispanic half of the community by opening with Garcia Lorca's revenge tragedy of rural Spain, Blood Wedding, with five performances in Spanish. He planned to follow with John O'Keeffe's 1791 English comedy, Wild Oats. "Those thoughts," says Gardner, "came from sitting in west Greenwich Village apartments, not New Mexico. I assumed that because of the opera and the chamber festival, the audience would be sophisticated. When I talked to people about what they wanted to see, everybody, but absolutely everybody, said Neil Simon. I found...
...Gardner and his colleagues may have been right to start with something safe. But they may also have established audience expectations of straightforward revelry that Terra Nova will confound. If the Festival Theater is eventually to stand with the opera and the chamber festival, it must play even farces for their fullest meaning-and surely must lift its audience beyond farce. -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Martha Smilgis/Santa...
LICENSE RENEWED by John Gardner Marek; 285 pages...
...License Renewed, Gardner...