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Voices of a Siren
Movie
Voices of a Siren is an award-winning performance that has toured internationally. Weaving together monologues, dance, live chanting and visual art, it follows a mystical siren rising from deep waters to guide the audience through four generations of women - their struggles, their silent pain and...
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Golden Lotus
Movie
Golden Lotus is a musical based on the most infamous Chinese novel of all time, Jin Ping Mei. It tells the story of a beautiful and captivating woman caught in a dangerous web of passion, deception, and desire. Set against the dying, war-torn years of Song Dynasty China, this internationally accl...
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Black Ballerina
A filmed performance by award-winning artist Syreeta Hector, exploring race, identity and the world of classical ballet through her own mixed-race experience. Blending ballet with street, contemporary and Indigenous movement, Hector creates a poetic collage of sound and imagery that challenges lo...
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The Winter's Tale
Movie + 1 extra
“The Festival’s best show of 2025” (The New York Post)
Blinded by jealousy, King Leontes falsely accuses his pregnant wife of infidelity, setting into motion a series of catastrophes that will destroy his wife and son and leave his infant daughter abandoned to the elements on a distant island. S...
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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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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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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...