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Jul
19
Sat
Christina, The Girl King, Canada
Jul 19 @ 5:00 am – Sep 21 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

Jul 29 – Sept 21, 2014

By Michel Marc Bouchard

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Directed by Vanessa Porteous

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Enigmatic, flamboyant and unpredictable, with a passion for philosophy and the arts, Sweden’s Queen Christina seeks to make her country the most sophisticated in Europe. But her personal aspirations – and her unconventional sexuality – put her profoundly at odds with her culture’s expectations of her, both as a monarch and as a woman.

 

 

 

Jul
31
Thu
The Beaux’ Stratagem, Stratford, Ontario
Jul 31 @ 5:15 am – Oct 11 @ 6:15 am

Stratford Festival

Jul 31 – Oct 11, 2014

By George Farquhar
Directed by Antoni Cimolino

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In a desperate bid to restore their ruined fortunes by pursuing wealthy women, Mr. Archer courts the unhappily married Mrs. Sullen while Mr. Aimwell dallies with her sister-in-law, Dorinda. But the two beaux aren’t the only ones with larcenous designs – nor do they realize that their own hearts might be susceptible to ensnarement.

 

 

Aug
2
Sat
Henry IV, Parts I & II, Shakespeare and Co.
Aug 2 @ 12:15 am – Aug 31 @ 1:15 am

Shakespeare & Company 

August 2–August 31, 2014

Written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

directed by JONATHAN EPSTEIN

featuring MALCOLM INGRAM as Falstaff

 

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Aug
3
Sun
Antony and Cleopatra – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
Aug 3 @ 6:15 am – Sep 20 @ 7:15 am

Antony and Cleopatra – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Gary Griffin


Tom Patterson Theatre

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About The Play

Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a civil conflict that will shake the very foundations of their world.

 

Aug
6
Wed
King Lear, Shakespeare’s Globe
Aug 6 @ 6:45 am – Dec 6 @ 7:45 am

Shakespeare’s Globe Theater

From 6 August (touring UK and USA)

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Old King Lear, weary of royal duties, proposes to break up his kingdom and divide it among his three daughters. But this rash generosity is cruelly repaid and Lear discovers too late the false values by which he has lived – and, in turn, the suffering common to all humanity.

Its tempestuous poetry shot through with touches of humour and moments of heart-rending simplicity, King Lear is one of the deepest artistic explorations of the human condition.

 

Aug
30
Sat
The Comedy of Errors – Shakespeare’s Globe, London
Aug 30 @ 4:45 am – Dec 7 @ 5:45 am

The Comedy of Errors

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Blanche McIntyre

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Take one pair of estranged twin brothers (both called Antipholus), and one pair of estranged twin servants (both called Dromio), keep them in ignorance of each other and throw them into a city with a reputation for sorcery, and you have all the ingredients for theatrical chaos. One Antipholus is astonished by his foreign hospitality; the other enraged by the hostility of his home town. The Dromios, caught between the two, are soundly beaten for obeying all the wrong orders.

Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.

This production will employ Renaissance costumes and staging.