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Apr
28
Mon
Much Ado About Nothing – Shakespeare’s Globe
Apr 28 @ 12:15 am – Sep 1 @ 1:15 am

Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare’s Globe

Touring Production

 

Claudio loves Hero and Hero Claudio and nothing seems capable of keeping them apart. Claudio’s friend Benedick loves Beatrice and Beatrice Benedick, but (because neither will admit it) nothing seems capable of bringing them together. Only the intrigues of a resentful prince force Benedick to prove his love for Beatrice – by killing his best friend.

Driven along by a romance all the more charming for being in denial, Much Ado About Nothing is a miracle of comic and dramatic suspense and gives us, in the bantering Beatrice and Benedick, one of Shakespeare’s wittiest, most lovable pair of lovers.

Apr
30
Wed
Alice Through the Looking-Glass, Stratford, Ontario
Apr 30 @ 5:00 am – Oct 12 @ 6:00 am

Stratford Festival

April 30 – Oct 12, 2014

By Lewis Carroll

Adapted for the stage by James Reaney
Directed by Jillian Keiley

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Climbing through her living-room mirror, Alice enters a world of wonders populated by such fantastical characters as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the Walrus and the Carpenter – and the fearsome Jabberwock. Children and adults alike will be delighted by this spectacular journey into the topsy-turvy realm of the dreaming mind.

 

 

 

Arden of Faversham, Royal Shakespeare Company
Apr 30 @ 5:15 am – Oct 2 @ 6:15 am

Royal Shakespeare Company

30 April – 2 October 2014

Directed by Polly Findlay

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When wealthy landowner Arden’s suspicions of his wife Alice cheating on him are confirmed, Arden, Alice and her lover find themselves playing a deadly game as a series of would be murderers set off in pursuit of Arden.

Polly Findlay makes her RSC debut to direct this anonymously written thriller.

 

May
5
Mon
King Lear – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare
May 5 @ 6:00 am – Oct 10 @ 7:00 am

King Lear – Stratford, Ontario Shakespeare

by William Shakespeare
Directed by Antoni Cimolino

Festival Theatre

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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.
All’s Well that Ends Well, Shakespeare’s Globe
May 5 @ 6:45 am – May 10 @ 7:45 am

Shakespeare’s Globe Theater

5 – 10 May (performed in Gujarati)

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When Bharatram (Bertram) flees his native Gujarat for Bombay, his mother’s ward Heli (Helena), desperately in love, decides to pursue him. But Bharatram feels differently, and attaches two obstructive conditions to their marriage – conditions he is sure will never be met.

20th-century India stands in for Renaissance France in this joyful, imaginative production of a play that reverses all the usual expectations of Shakespearean comedy.

 

 

May
8
Thu
Man of La Mancha, Stratford, Ontario
May 8 @ 5:00 am – Oct 11 @ 6:00 am

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.