The Tanya Stage
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Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino celebrates the Festival Theatre's thrust stage, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch for Stratford's first season in 1953, and restored to its original configuration for 2013.
The heart of any theatre is its stage, and nowhere is this truer than here in Stratford.
For our 2013 season, we are restoring the Festival stage to reflect Tanya Moiseiwitsch's original design. For the first time since the mid-1970s, three productions at the Festival Theatre -- Romeo and Juliet, The Three Musketeers and The Merchant of Venice -- will share the same stage configuration.
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