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May
15
Thu
Mother Courage and Her Children, Stratford, Ontario
May 15 @ 5:00 am – Sep 21 @ 6:00 am

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
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
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

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
28
Wed
Hay Fever, Stratford, Ontario
May 28 @ 5:00 am – Oct 11 @ 6:00 am

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.

 

 

 

Jul
11
Fri
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (a chamber play) – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
Jul 11 @ 6:15 am – Sep 20 @ 7:15 am

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (a chamber play) – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

a chamber play

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Peter Sellars

Location to be announced 
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About the Play
Two couples become gods, animals, demons, monsters, children, playthings and, finally, gradually, compassionate, honest, loving adults. Across one intense night of confusion, delusion, repression, permission, forgiveness and release, Shakespeare’s masterpiece moves right into the open heart of our multiple selves and conflicted identities – the only thing that we know for certain in this life is that, along with the climate, we are changing.

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.