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Since opening in 2022, Tom Patterson Theatre is a part of the yearly festival which showcases Shakespeare plays and other theatre productions. It also has a secondary performance hall. [citation needed] The Stratford Festival provides educational experiences for both students and teachers which includes workshops, meet and greets, and camps. [6]
The Festival was founded as the Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada, by Tom Patterson, a Stratford-native journalist who wanted to revitalize his town's economy by creating a theatre festival dedicated to the works of William Shakespeare, as the town shares the name of Shakespeare's birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
In April 2021, the Stratford Festival announced a season of plays and cabarets, most of which took place under canopies outside the Festival and Tom Patterson Theatres with reduced cast sizes and social distancing. Only Three Tall Women was presented indoors at the Studio Theatre. [10] The 2021 season theme was metamorphosis. [11] Plays
With twenty minutes deftly shorn from it since its Stratford-upon-Avon premiere last year at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the increasingly lickety-split pacing makes it even clearer that the ...
It is directed by Morten Parker for the National Film Board of Canada. [ 1 ] It tells the story of how the small Canadian city of Stratford , on the banks of the Avon River , realized the vision of local journalist Tom Patterson : the creation of a theatre for the staging of the finest Shakespearean drama.
Stratford-upon-Avon and West End (2013-14) [ edit ] In January 2013, the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) announced that it would stage adaptations by Mike Poulton of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in its Winter season in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon beginning previews from 11 December 2013, with press performances on 8 January 2014 ...
Stratford is a city on the Avon River within Perth County in southwestern Ontario, Canada, with a 2021 [3] population of 33,232 in a land area of 30.02 square kilometres (11.59 sq mi). [4] Stratford is the seat of Perth County, which was settled by English, Irish, Scottish and German immigrants, in almost equal numbers, starting in the 1820s ...
Staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the play opened at The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon on 24 September 1985. Directed by Howard Davies, the cast included Lindsay Duncan as the Marquise de Merteuil, Alan Rickman as the Vicomte de Valmont, Juliet Stevenson as Madame de Tourvel, Lesley Manville as Cécile de Volanges, and Sean Baker as the Chevalier Danceny.