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Stage actress Domini Blythe dies at 63 | CBC News Loaded
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STAGE ACTRESS DOMINI BLYTHE DIES AT 63
Domini Blythe, a veteran of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival stage who also
had roles in Canadian film and TV, has died. She was 63.
CBC Arts · Posted: Dec 16, 2010 1:59 PM PST | Last Updated: December 16, 2010
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Domini Blythe, left, as Celia and Maggie Smith as Rosaline in the 1977
production of As You Like It at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Blythe was a
leading lady on the Stratford stage. ((Robert Ragsdale/Stratford Shakespeare
Festival))Domini Blythe, a veteran of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival stage
who also had roles in Canadian film and TV, has died. She was 63.
Blythe died Thursday in Montreal after a battle with cancer.
She was a favourite of former Stratford Shakespeare Festival artistic director
Richard Monette, who lured her to the company in 1975.
At the festival in Stratford, Ont., she played Cecilia in As You Like It
opposite Maggie Smith in 1977, Mistress Ford in The Merry Wives of Windsor
opposite William Hutt in 1978 and Lady McDuff in the 1978 production of Macbeth.
"Perhaps the most beautiful actress of her generation, Domini Blythe met a young
Richard Monette in England as they performed in Oh! Calcutta!," Stratford
general director Antoni Cimolino, who directed her in Twelfth Night in 2001,
said in a statement Thursday.
He called Blythe a "a resourceful actress who played a wide variety of roles in
the Shakespearean canon."
Domini Blythe as Miss Julie in the 1997 production of Miss Julie at Stratford.
((Zoe Dominic/Stratford Shakespeare Festival))Blythe also appeared in the recent
Montreal-set movie The Trotsky as Mrs. Danvers, as well as on TV series such
as Mount Royal, Street Legal and Road to Avonlea.
She appeared on the Stratford stage in 2006 in Fanny Kemble, a one-woman show
about the Anglo-American actress in which she was required play five characters.
The play had been created for her by Peter Hinton, now artistic director of the
National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
In a 2006 interview, Blythe described the aerobics and formal routines that
helped her prepare for demanding performances.
"On the day of the show, I'd do one part of my show and spend an hour and 40
minutes," she said. "I'd find a place on my own and I'd do all the lines
very,very gently, very, very, quickly, without all the thoughts involved and I'd
very gradually warm up my voice in that way."
Blythe said she identified with Kemble because she was a British-born actress
who had spent most of her career in North America.
Blythe was born in Britain in 1947 and trained at the Central School of Speech
and Drama, according to the Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia.
She worked for the Royal Shakespeare Company and also appeared in the
controversial nude production Oh, Calcutta in London's West End in 1970. In
1972, she emigrated to Canada and spent three seasons at the Shaw Festival
before Monette brought her to Stratford.
Domini Blythe plays Mistress Ford to William Hutt's Falstaff in The Merry Wives
of Windsor in 1978. ((Robert Ragsdale/Stratford Shakespeare Festival))In her 11
years there, she also played Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost, Gwendolyn in The
Importance of Being Earnest and Portia in The Merchant of Venice.
She also performed at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, the St. Lawrence Centre
in Toronto and the Grand Theatre in London, Ont.
Blythe left Stratford for screen roles in the 1980s but returned in 2000 for a
series of more mature roles that included Mamita in Gigi, Gertrude opposite a
Hamlet played by Paul Gross and a forbidding Goneril in King Lear. Her last
appearance on the Stratford stage was in 2006 when she played Mistress Quickly
in Henry VI Part 1.
In 1978, she appeared in Stratford's first production of Titus Andronicus and
artistic director Des McAnuff said he plans to dedicate a 2011 production of
Titus Andronicus to her memory.
She is survived by her husband, film director Jean Beaudin; her father, Richard
Blythe; and her brother, Ben Blythe; sister-in-law Andrea Schlieker and their
two children Lily and Phinn.
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