San Francisco Theater: Company of the Golden Hind

A personal account of a Regional Theater during ten years (1951-1961) with enthusiastic audiences in San Francisco and Berkeley. The repertoire ranged from "The Boy Friend" and Bernstein's "Candide" to "Comedy of Errors" and "King Lear" and included chamber productions of Mozart's Operas. The Company of the Golden Hind was among the first ten Regional Theaters which received the very first grants to theaters awarded by the Ford Foundation.. When Brooks Atkinson of "The New York Times" visited San Francisco he gave the Golden Hind production of T.S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral" a rave review in the Times, ending with "...under the arched roof of an old laundry building [The Golden Hind Company] retains poetic exaltation and makes show business look shabbier than ever."