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Wild Aerial
Movie
Adventure aerialist Sasha Galitzki performs gravity-defying routines in subzero temperatures, blending mountaineering and acrobatics without being “tied in.” Her aerial adventures require immense physicality, sound risk-assessment and unwavering confidence, much like free soloing – only with flip...
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Long Day's Journey into Night Remastered
Set in 1912, Eugene O’Neill’s play, Long Day’s Journey into Night, is the tragic story of the disintegration of the Tyrone family. Patriarch James Tyrone (William Hutt) was once a Broadway actor but is now a miser and an alcoholic. His wife, Mary (Martha Henry), battles a morphine addiction, whic...
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E32: The Critical Role of the Arts in Education | Everyday Forum Podcast
Kathleen Gallagher, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto, and Karen Gilodo, Associate Artistic Director at Young People’s Theatre, engage in a conversation moderated by Lois Adamson, Director of Education at the Stratford Festival. They ...
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Romeo and Juliet (1992)
To celebrate the Stratford Festival’s 40th anniversary, an exceptional production of Romeo and Juliet was staged, directed by Richard Monette and adapted for television by Norman Campbell. It features a young Megan Porter Follows as Juliet and our very own Artistic Director, Antoni Cimolino as Ro...
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E31: The Woman’'s Body with Dr. Jen Gunter | Everyday Forum Podcast
In this episode, join internationally acclaimed physician and author Dr. Jen Gunter in conversation with Festival artist Maev Beaty for a frank and empowering discussion about women’s health and bodies. Known as “Twitter’s resident gynecologist” and “the Internet’s OB/GYN,” the Winnipeg-born auth...
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E30: "The Woman's Voice" with Patsy Rodenburg | Everyday Forum Podcast
In this episode, join world-renowned voice coach and author Patsy Rodenburg in conversation with the Stratford Festival’s former Head of Voice, Janine Pearson, as they explore Rodenburg’s groundbreaking work on women’s empowerment through voice. Drawing on her influential books The Right to Speak...
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E29: In Pursuit of Bears | Everyday Forum Podcast
In this episode, former associate artistic director at Artists Repertory Theatre Jon Kretzu; emeritus research scientist and former resident bear biologist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Dr. Martyn Obbard; and this season’s Leontes Graham Abbey, as moderator, explore Shakespeare’s...
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The Stratford Adventure
Enjoy this Oscar-nominated short that depicts how the little town of Stratford, Ontario created its own Shakespearean theatre and festival.
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30 Minutes, Mister Plummer
This short documentary profiles Canadian actor Christopher Plummer of the Stratford Festival, best known as The Sound of Music's Captain von Trapp. In his dressing room, Plummer dons his make-up and prepares to enter stage as Cyrano de Bergerac.
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everything i wanted to tell you
'everything i wanted to tell you' is an experimental interactive dance film exploring the world of the multiple Dora Award winning theatrical production of the same name. Choreographed by Jessie Garon and developed in collaboration with filmmaker and co-director Slone McGowan, this experience put...
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As You Like It (1983)
Movie
Conflict, disguise, laughter and romantic entanglements—what more could you want from one of Shakespeare's finest pastoral comedies? Voyage from Victorian England to the fantastical Forest of Arden, where laughter, love and friendship await in this archival production featuring Andrew Gillies as ...
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The Madness of King Richard
Madness Of King Richard is a one-hour powerful profile of Richard Monette that goes behind closed doors of a true artist - a performer, a director and a producer that is provocative, controversial and very outspoken. His colourful career has won him acclaim, severe criticism, and the Order of Can...
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Private Flowers
Movie
In 1832, a Canadian infantryman at Fort York was hanged for making love with another man. The victim's rank was Private and his name was Flowers. Private Flowers is a dance film that explores a dark chapter of Canadian 2SLGBTQ+ history.
Directed + Devised by mixed media artist HAUI featuring cho...
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Just a Friend
Movie
Sometimes the hardest part of coming out is not knowing how your loved ones will react. Just a Friend is a story of courage, self-discovery, and the bond between mother and daughter proving that when it comes to family, love is love and fear is forgettable.
Awards:
Toronto Shorts Film Festival...
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CHOREO: The Art of Dance
Movie
“CHOREO: The Art of Dance” introduces young dancers who use movement as a powerful form of artistic expression, blending their skills and creativity to convey messages that go beyond the expected. For these performers, dance is not just an outlet but a pathway to finding their voices, often shape...
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Desync
Movie
Ana, a young Filipina filmmaker, shoots a re-enactment of a fight she once had with her mother - a fight brought on by mutual refusals to communicate. Spurred on by the obsessive need for perfection, Ana “fixes” the fight by rewriting every veiled insult into a chance for forgiveness. As her perf...
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Arrivance: A Journey of Resilience
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What if you leave your life behind, and starting over becomes everything?
“Arrivance: A Journey of Resilience” is a short documentary series that showcases the experiences of immigrant professionals and how they use music as a tool of resilience to overcome all their obstacles in their new life ... -
The Understudy
Movie
The Understudy is a peek-behind-the-curtain story of the theatre world. An understudy actor (Tom Rooney) is called upon last-minute to replace the star of a major stage production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. He is also looking after his young granddaughter (Mia Swaminathan), and has no choice b...
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The Scottish Play
Movie
In 1986 a British amateur Theatre group staged a production of Macbeth that was so disastrous it made international headlines. Forty years later a film-maker tries to figure out what really happened.
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BFI London Film Festival 2023
London Short Film Festival 2023
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Crow's Theatre's Ghost Quartet
Movie
A haunted song cycle about love, death and whisky, Crow’s Theatre’s smash-hit of Dave Malloy’s GHOST QUARTET returns for a special digital Halloween engagement. Four friends drink, tell stories and span seven centuries in this surreal, chamber musical of murder ballads, doo-wop, jazz noise and a ...
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Wedding Band
Movie + 3 extras
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. As Julia, a Black seamstress, and Herman, a white baker, face th...
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Catalyst Theatre's The Invisible
Movie
France. 1940. After months of training and successful missions, The Invisible are sent on one of their most dangerous missions to date. Seven exceptional female operatives risk their lives to fight a dangerous war of sabotage, propaganda and espionage — breaking with decorum and defying expectati...
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Never Doubt I Love
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Performing through words and music inspired by Shakespeare, six characters set forth to put on a successful season of theatre. With plenty of love, heartbreak, and drama along the way, this musical series set at a regional theatre is unlike any other original series produced by the Stratford Fest...
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Everyday Forum Podcast
1 season
A podcast highlighting the best of thought-provoking events with celebrated guest speakers recorded live from the Stratford Festival's Meighen Forum. Each episode expands on popular narrative themes in theatre to magnify and examine how the staging of a play or musical, regardless of its origin o...