Stratford Shakespeare Festival season extended until November 8th

From the classics to the contemporary and the comedic to the tragic – in prose and music, the Stratford Shakespeare Festival season continues until November 08th with special offers.

The trials of women are universal captured in the timelessness of Racine’s Phedre, Chekov’s Three Sisters yearning for Moscow, the Lady in Macbeth or Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, directed and performed by the master Brian Bedford.

Sondheim’s early musical genius is presented in the vaudevillian A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Stratford’s universally praised production of West Side Story with Chilina Kennedy and Paul Nolan as Maria and Tony, directed by Gary Griffin.

Shakespeare is strongly represented by two provocative productions – Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Or if satire strikes your fancy, the rarely performed Bartholomew Fair has rousing revelry.

Colm Feore returns as the Laird in Macbeth and the romantic Cyrano de Bergerac in a sumptuous, cinematic production.

For the seeker of contemporary Canadian theatre, there is a trio of plays Zastrozzi, Rice Boy and the premiere of The Trespassers.

Stratford is really the only place in Canada this autumn for commanding and entertaining theatre.