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...

The ultimate royal family crisis.

Prince Hamlet (Amaka Umeh)'s father is dead, poisoned by his uncle (Graham Abbey) who has usurped the throne and married his mother, the Queen (Maev Beaty). When the dead King's ghost appears, commanding his son to revenge his foul and most unnatural murder, Ham...

PASSION’S FLAME CONSUMES ALL.
Falling headlong in love, two teenagers defy the long-simmering hatred between their families. But daring to love one's enemy comes with a terrible cost, as the needless sacrifice of young lives brings this heartbreaking story to its tragic conclusion.

By William S...

Cold shoulder? There's a cure for that.

When Helen (Jessica B. Hill) cures the King of France (Ben Carlson) of an ailment that has confounded every other doctor, he grants her lifetime wish: the marital hand of the aristocratic courtier Bertram (Jordin Hall). However, Bertram proves a reluctant ...

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.

R+J is acc...

Shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, and believing her twin brother drowned, Viola adopts male disguise and enters the service of Duke Orsino, only to find herself entangled in a triangle of unrequited love. Meanwhile, in the household of the Countess Olivia, Sir Toby Belch - portrayed by the gre...

Surrender to a haunting story of ambition and its dark consequences, as a military hero and his wife conspire to seize the throne of Scotland.

By William Shakespeare
Directed for the Stage by Antoni Cimolino
Directed for Film by Barry Avrich
Designer - Julie Fox
Lighting Designer - Michael Walto...

His succession plan will slay you.

Charismatic, cunning and utterly ruthless, Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Colm Feore) is the very embodiment of lethal ambition as he maneuvers and murders his way to the throne of England. But once he reaches the top, the only way is down and in Richard's growin...

WHEN THEY ONLY LIKE YOU FOR YOUR MONEY.
Timon's compulsive generosity makes him the most popular man in Athens - until his funds run out. Now, embittered by ingratitude, what will he do when his city comes under attack?

By William Shakespeare
Directed for the Stage by Stephen Ouimette
Directed...

When the rule of a hedonistic and mecurial king is questioned, rebellion, assassination and excommunication ensue, culminating in the chilling attempt to commit an atrocity against a child, whose mother's anguished grief cannot atone for her blinkered ambitions for her son. With commanding perfor...

Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the floodgates to a civil conflict that will shake the...

MISTRESSES OF MISCHIEF.
Pursuing two respectably married women at the same time, a would-be seducer fails to anticipate that his targets will, quite literally, compare notes. Nor has he reckoned on the mischievous spirit in which the wives will use their wits and wiles to teach him the error of ...

A storm at sea brings love into the life of Pericles, Prince of Tyre; another snatches it away. This magical production of Shakespeare's epic tale follows a fairy-tale hero on a miraculous journey as fate guides the wandering hero to one of literature's most poignant reunions. Evan Buliung gives ...

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 ...

He’s fearless on the battlefield – but in the pitfall-laden world of politics, he’s doomed by his contempt for the common people. See Robert Lepage's breathtaking production that explores the age-old tensions that still tear at the heart of democracy.

By William Shakespeare
Directed for the Stag...

WHEN PASSION MEETS POISON.
Undeterred by the differences in their backgrounds and life experiences, Othello and Desdemona defy prejudice to be united in marriage. But deadly malice lurks where the newlyweds least expect it, as the one man Othello trusts the most resolves to destroy their happine...

A Kingdom divided, a family destroyed, the faithful banished and the hateful left to wreak inhuman havoc in the realm. Four hundred years after it was written, King Lear resonates as never before. Starring the incomparable Colm Feore in the role of a lifetime.

By William Shakespeare
Directed for...

Courtship or conquest? The breaking down of a defiant spirit - or a breakthrough that liberates a heart deprived of love? Will you ever see a battle of wills that's fiercer or funnier - or more hotly controversial?

By William Shakespeare
Directed for the Stage by Chris Abraham
Directed for Film ...

The story follows Beatrice and Benedick, two quick-witted and sarcastic individuals who are happily single, but whose friends believe they would make a great romantic match. Set in the Early Modern world, an era of ever-changing attitudes towards marriage and power, the play presents a society at...

Church and state collide when England's king defies papal authority by seeking to divorce his wife, Katherine of Aragon. The consequences will be epochal for the country - and calamitous for the king's adviser, Cardinal Wolsey, who has been playing a dangerous game of his own.

Passion, political...

Christopher Plummer stars as the sorcerer Prospero, former Duke of Milan, in this spectacular 2010 production, directed by Des McAnuff. Marooned with his daughter on a remote island populated only by spirits and the monstrous Caliban, Prospero uses his magical arts to raise a storm at sea, bringi...