TORONTO —Stage actress Barbara Chilcott, a driving force in Canada’s theatre scene for more than half a century, has died. “She was a pioneer — a real national treasure who forged a path for lots of female actors to come after her,” he said. She returned to Canada in 1950 and performed on CBC Radio before joining her brothers Murray Davis and Donald Davis in their summer theatre company, Straw Hat Players. Her brothers also founded the Crest Theatre in 1953, for which she played Viola in Twelfth Night, Antigone in Antigone, and Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra. “Everybody who was anybody acted at the Crest Theatre,” Scoular explained.

Source: CBC News January 03, 2022 02:15 UTC