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After Douglas Campbell left in 1967, three seasons passed without an artistic director. Managing directors Peter Zeisler and later Donald Schoenbaum produced these seasons, expanding the Guthrie vision by presenting new plays and using other stages.
1970 Season
The Venetian Twins
by Carlo Goldoni
adapted by Robert David MacDonald
directed by Robert David MacDonald
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
by Lonne Elder III
directed by Israel Hicks
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
directed by Philip Minor
A Man’s a Man
by Bertolt Brecht
directed by John Hirsch
A Play
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
adapted by Paul Avila Mayer
directed by Michael Langham
1969 Season
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
directed by Edward Payson Call
The Beauty Part
by S.J. Perelman
directed by Philip Minor
The Homecoming
by Harold Pinter
directed by Joseph Anthony
Mourning Becomes Electra
by Eugene O’Neill
directed by Mel Shapiro
Uncle Vanya
by Anton Chekhov
directed by Tyrone Guthrie
1968 season
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
directed by Robert Lanchester
Sergeant Musgrave’s Dance
by John Arden
directed by Mel Shapiro
The Master Builder
by Henrik Ibsen
adapted by Emlyn Williams
directed by Stephen Porter
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
by Bertolt Brecht
directed by Edward Payson Call
Merton of the Movies
by Marc Connelly & George S. Kaufman
directed by Mel Shapiro
The House of Atreus (revival)
based on Aeschylus’ Oresteia
adapted by John Lewin
directed by Tyrone Guthrie