May
5
Mon
King Lear – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Antoni Cimolino
Directed by Antoni Cimolino
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About the Play
An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
May
8
Thu
Stratford Festival
May 8 – Oct 11, 2014
Written by Dale Wasserman
Directed by Robert McQueen
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Awaiting trial by the Inquisition, poet and playwright Miguel de Cervantes is assailed by his fellow prisoners, who try to seize the manuscript of his masterpiece, Don Quixote. His inspired response: a challenge to join him in staging his stirring tale of Quixote’s obsessive quest to attain an impossible dream.
May
15
Thu
Stratford Festival
May 15 – Sept 21, 2014
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by David Edgar
Directed by Martha Henry
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As the Thirty Years’ War swirls around her, Mother Courage scrapes together a living for herself and her three children by selling provisions to Protestant and Catholic combatants alike. But as she hauls her wagon across the battlefields of Europe, she discovers that the very chaos that sustains her will eventually cost her everything she holds most dear.
May
16
Fri
May 16 @ 6:00 am – Oct 11 @ 7:00 am
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Chris Abraham
Directed by Chris Abraham
Festival Theatre
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About the Play
Threatened with death if she marries against her father’s wishes, Hermia elopes with her lover, Lysander, pursued by rival suitor Demetrius and his spurned admirer, Helena. In the enchanted woods, love’s lunacy reaches its giddiest heights – both for the bewildered couples and for an aspiring actor transformed into the unlikely consort of a fairy queen.
May
21
Wed
King John
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Tim Carroll
Tom Patterson Theatre
May 21 to September 20
Opens May 28
About The Play
War is the inevitable result when the King of France demands that John relinquish his crown in favour of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion and assassination all contribute to a political and personal turmoil that finds devastating expression in an anguished mother’s grief for her son.
War is the inevitable result when the King of France demands that John relinquish his crown in favour of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion and assassination all contribute to a political and personal turmoil that finds devastating expression in an anguished mother’s grief for her son.
May
28
Wed
Stratford Festival
May 28 – Oct 11, 2014
By Noël Coward
Directed by Alisa Palmer
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Stage star Judith Bliss, her novelist husband and their two grown children have each invited houseguests for the weekend. But as the Blisses indulge their artistic eccentricities in a hilarious whirlwind of flirtation and histrionics, the guests begin to wonder if they’ve landed in a madhouse – and if they can survive the weekend with their own wits intact.