Actor Bethany Jillard chats about playing the part of The Lady, a role first played by Alice Egerton, the teenaged daughter of the Earl of Bridgewater, and the similarities and differences between preparing for this role from John Milton's Comus and her experience playing Shakespeare’s women.
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As a company member with the Stratford Festival in Canada for five seasons, Bethany’s credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Othello, The Three Musketeers, Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, The Little Years, Dangerous Liaisons and Peter Pan. Regional credits include Othello (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The Seagull, After Miss Julie and the world premiere of Gone with the Wind (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); How It Works, The Little Years and Cake and Dirt (Tarragon Theatre); My Name Is Rachel Corrie (Theatre PANIK); A Man of No Importance (Acting Up Stage Company); That Face (Canadian Stage Company/Nightwood Theatre) and Tough! (Factory Theatre). Her film and television credits include If I Were You with Marcia Gay Harden (Paragraph Pictures), Murdoch Mysteries (Shaftesbury Films), Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (The Movie Network), Rookie Blue (ABC) and I Love You ... But I Lied (Lifetime). She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and The Birmingham Conservatory for classical theatre training. Ms. Jillard moonlights as a singer in the band Notes from Underground alongside her husband, Aaron, who is her rock, her inspiration and her joy.
Music for Comus - Two Morris Dances by William Lawes
Music for Comus - Antic and Corant by William Lawes
Music for Comus - Pavan in d minor by William Lawes
John Milton‘s Comus with music by Henry and William Lawes - Part 2
John Milton‘s Comus with music by Henry and William Lawes - Part 1
Pleasure Might Make Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 8b - Dump Philli
Pleasure Might Make Her Read 8a - Poems and Music for the Sidneys - With how sad steps, o Moone from Astrophel and Stella
Pleasure Might Make Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 7b - The Countess of Pembrokes Funerals
Pleasure Might Make Her Read Poems and Music for the Sidneys 7a - The Dolefull Lay of Clorinda by Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
Pleasure Might Make Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 6b - Sir Phillip Sidneys Lamentacion by Anon.
Pleasure Might Make Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 6a - A Description of the Battle of Zutphen from John Stow's Annals of England pt. 2
Pleasure Might Make Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 5b - The Battell Galyerd by John Dowland
Pleasure Might Make Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 5a - A Description of the Battle of Zutphen from John Stow's Annals of England pt. 1
Pleasure Might Make Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 4b - The Lord Viscount Lisle His Galliard by John Dowland
Pleasure Might Make Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 4a - Forsaken Woods by Robert Sidney, Viscount Lisle
Pleasure Might Cause Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 3b - The Woods so Wilde by William Byrd
Pleasure Might Cause Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 3a - O sweet woodes from The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia
Pleasure Might Cause Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 2 - From The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, As I my little flocke on Ister banke - The Countess of Pembrookes Paradice by Holborne
Pleasure Might Cause Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys 1 - Astrophel and Stella 1, Loving in truth - The Right Honourable the Lady Rich, her Galliard by Dowland
Pleasure Might Cause Her Read - Poems and Music for the Sidneys - Introduction
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