シャロン・ローレンスさんのインスタグラム写真 - (シャロン・ローレンスInstagram)「The Stratford Festival was shocked and deeply saddened by the news of Christopher Plummer’s death. The theatrical pioneer was a member of the Stratford acting company for 11 seasons between 1956 & 2012. #ChristopherPlummer was our North Star,” said artistic director Antoni Cimolino. “His talent, wit and verve set the highest standards for performance especially that of Shakespeare. One of the Stratford Festival’s most dynamic alumni he graced our stages in roles as diverse as “King Lear,” “Cyrano” and “Barrymore.” His work on screen and stage across the globe made us so proud of him. His support for Stratford was unparalleled as he returned time and again to fondly rejoin his company of players.“We shall not look upon his like again.” Though a Festival pioneer, Mr. Plummer was not part of its initial seasons. Rather his star was rising on Broadway when Artistic Dir Michael Langham called him back to Canada in 1956 to play the title role in the Festival’s landmark production of “Henry V,” which also toured to the Edinburgh Int’l Festival later that year. In 1957, it was his performance as “Hamlet” that heralded the opening of the permanent Festival Theatre. Famously, Mr. Plummer was hospitalized with kidney stones and his understudy, one William Shatner, had to go on. Not wanting to be replaced by anyone,Plummer tried to escape the Stratford Hospital in a morphine haze. He didn’t get out the door. The next day he heard of his understudy’s success, and as he wrote many years later: “I knew then that the SOB was going to be a ‘star.’” When not playing Hamlet that season, Mr. Plummer was appearing as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in “Twelfth Night,” a perfect comic counterpoint. The next year he was Benedick in “Much Ado About Nothing,” Leontes in “The Winter’s Tale,” Bardolph in “Henry IV, Part I.” When he next returned, it was for a mammoth season in 1962, playing the title roles in both “Macbeth” and “Cyrano de Bergerac.” While “Macbeth” was met with mixed reviews – with its supporters as vehement as its detractors – his Cyrano was a triumph. In 2002 he again returned to the Stratford to play King Lear, in a production. For many who saw it, it the definitive Lear.」2月6日 14時30分