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3 itemsCasey and Diana
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As the Toronto AIDS hospice, Casey House, prepares for the historic visit of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1991, residents and staff are inspired to beat the odds as a plague continues to ravage a generation. This potent and moving drama by Nick Green, vividly captures a moment in time when a rebe...
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Wedding Band - Coming Soon
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Coming February 07
From the Stratford Festival's 2023 season, Alice Childress's powerful play Wedding Band, an emotional and revealing portrayal of interracial love, set in South Carolina in the shadow of the First World War and the 1918 flu epidemic, comes to Classroom Connect on February 7. As ... -
4 itemsWomen of the Fur Trade
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Set in eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a reddish river in Treaty One Territory, where three very different women with a preference for 21st-century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love and the hot nerd Louis Riel. In this lively historical sa...
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1 itemIlluminated Text
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Illuminated Text is a Canadian Screen Awards nominated interactive video experience providing a deep-dive into Shakespearean text; in this case, Hamlet. The combination of sound, animation, and bold visuals gives different learning styles different ‘ways in’, in a student-led way.
Illuminated Te...
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4 itemsThe Early Modern Cooking Show
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From the strawberries in Richard III to the funeral baked meats in Hamlet, food pops up in many of Shakespeare's plays. Stratford Festival Executive Chef Kendrick Prins is joined in the kitchen by actor Qasim Khan, with expert commentary by University of Toronto professor of food studies Jeffrey ...
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Cymbeline
The Stratford Festival’s latest production of Cymbeline – one of the hits of the 2024 season. The play fuses romance, comedy and tragedy to create a unique fantasia brimming with mistaken identities and gender-swapping disguises. Cymbeline’s daughter, Innogen, one of Shakespeare’s most celebrated...
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3 itemsRichard II
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In a revolutionary adaptation by Brad Fraser, this Richard is the story of a king who believes that God gives him the right to live above the rules and who ultimately suffers the consequences. The story is embedded in a time of great freedom that is soon crushed - the late 1970s and early '80s: w...
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Movie + 2 extrasR+J
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This radically reimagined version of Shakespeare's romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet invites you into an up-to-the-minute world of sound and music, a world in which the entrenched hostilities of an older generation are challenged by the passions of young people who only want to love.
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7 itemsJust Short of Reality
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Just Short of Reality is a series of shorts that are told through the genres of surrealism, silent film and dance. Co-existing in one neighbourhood, seven individuals are presented with adversity and choice in this allegorical tale.
Through six different chapters taking place in the same 24-hour...
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Movie + 1 extraA Midsummer Night's Dream
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Shakespeare's great comedy of dreaming and desire has it all - spellbound lovers, quarrelling fairies, tradesmen who love amateur theatricals. This is both a deep dive into the realms of the subconscious and a hilarious tribute to the power of the imagination.
The most fundamental techniques of ...
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3 itemsStratford Festival Ghost Tours
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Artists and audiences love the Stratford Festival so much that sometimes they never, ever leave.… Host Roy Lewis tours the darkest depths of Festival sites, examining theatrical superstitions and some of the spooky stories passed on by those who work late at night.
