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Women of the Fur Trade
3 items
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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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...
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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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Macbeth
Movie + 2 extras
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... -
Much Ado About Nothing
Movie + 1 extra
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...
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Cymbeline
Movie + 1 extra
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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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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Richard III
Movie
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...
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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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Christopher Plummer and Des McAnuff reflect on The Tempest
In this exclusive interview, we reunited director Des McAnuff and his Prospero, Christopher Plummer.
Plummer stars as the sorcerer Prospero in this spectacular 2010 production, directed by Des McAnuff.