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.

Categories: Canada Stratford

May

Fri

A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

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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.

Categories: Canada Stratford

May

Sat

Antony and Cleopatra – Shakespeare’s Globe

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May 17 @ 4:30 am – Nov 2 @ 5:30 am

Antony and Cleopatra

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Jonathan Munby

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TWO LOVERS ARE BLOWN APART BY LOVE AND WAR

Cleopatra, the alluring and fascinatingly ambiguous Queen of Egypt, has bewitched the great Mark Antony, soldier, campaigner and now one of the three rulers of the Roman Empire. When Antony quarrels with his fellow leaders and throws in his lot with Cleopatra, his infatuation threatens to split the Empire in two.

Roman virtue and Eastern vice, transcendent love and realpolitik combine in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare’s greatest exploration of the conflicting claims of sex and power, all expressed in a tragic poetry of breathtaking beauty and magnificence.

Categories: London Shakespeare's Globe

May

Fri

Shakespeare’s Will, Shakespeare and Co.

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May 23 @ 12:15 am – Aug 24 @ 1:15 am

Shakespeare & Company

May 23–August 24, 2014

Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre

by VERN THIESSEN

directed by DANIELA VERON

featuring KRISTIN WOLD

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Categories: US East Shakespeare & Company

May

Wed

Hay Fever, Stratford, Ontario

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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.