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Which roles did Orson Welles play in Katharine Cornell’s touring theater company?
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Orson Welles
Orson Welles.
In 1933, Orson Welles was hired to act in Katharine Cornell’s road company, where he performed the following roles:
- Mercutio in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet1
- Marchbanks in George Bernard Shaw’s Candida1
- Octavius Barrett in Rudolf Besier’s The Barretts of Wimpole Street1
Additionally, Welles later made his New York debut as Tybalt in Cornell’s production of Romeo and Juliet in December 1934.1