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...rich if rather fusty aroma of Victorian tradition permeates the work of North America's most celebrated Shakespeare troupe, Stratford Festival Canada, which is making its first U.S. tour in 13 years, with a repertory of Twelfth Night and King Lear. The shows have played to nearly sold-out houses in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago and Palm Beach, Fla.; are running in Fort Lauderdale for most of January; and will finish in Washington on Feb. 2. Founded in 1953 by Tyrone Guthrie, the Stratford company prides itself on echoing the style of Britain's Old Vic of the 1940s, which...
DIED. Pelle Lindbergh, 26, last season's top goaltender in the National Hockey League, most valuable player for the Philadelphia Flyers and member of the 1980 Swedish Olympic hockey team; from severe brain and spinal-cord injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Stratford, N.J. After celebrating a Flyers' victory at a bar with teammates, Lindbergh, legally drunk, hit a concrete wall on the way home in his Porsche. Said Flyers Coach Mike Keenan, after Lindbergh's family agreed to donate their son's organs for transplant: "It's appropriate. He died making one more save...
Among more conventional stagings of the Bard's work, the R.S.C. offers an electrifying Richard III with Anthony Sher hurtling around the stage as a disabled but untrammeled personification of evil and, at the company's other home in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a darkly funny As You Like It, again dazzlingly directed by Noble. His splendid, spare, Freudian production uses a flowing white sailcloth draped about the stage to represent a snowstorm, a dream-scape, a bower and a marriage tent...
Other supporters of the ordinance point out that driving is not the only potential danger posed by teen drinking. "With alcohol come violence and sexual assault. Most of the rapes we investigate involve alcohol," says Lieutenant Kenneth Bakalar of the Stratford police. "Parents don't even know what is going on in their basements...
Marsha Rosenbaum, director of the national teen substance-abuse organization Safety First, acknowledges that underage drinking is an urgent issue, but she argues that ordinances like the one proposed in Stratford won't resolve the problem. "For the past three decades, we have been trying to get our kids to abstain until they're of age, and we've failed to do that," she says. "If we say they can't drink in our home, they'll just find somewhere else, somewhere more dangerous...