Women Who Shaped Stratford | Women's History Month
In honour of International Women’s Day, StratFest@Home celebrates the remarkable women who have helped and continue to help define the Stratford Festival stage. From inspiring stories to unforgettable character portrayals, this collection honours Maev Beaty, Lucy Peacock, Antonette Rudder, Seana McKenna, Jessica B. Hill, Sara Topham, among others – the wonderful artists whose talent has left an indelible mark on Canadian theatre.
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Wedding Band
The stellar work - written with great precision and powerful storytelling by Alice Childress - gives an emotional portrayal of a relationship between a Black seamstress, Julia, and a white baker, Herman, in the shadow of the First World War and the 1918 flu epidemic in Charleston, South Carolina....
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All's Well That Ends Well
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 ...
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Women Of The Fur Trade
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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The Winter's Tale
A Stratford Festival Original Stage Production
“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 ...
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The Tanya Stage
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.
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The Meighen Forum Presents: Woman Rising
In this time that sees more women writers being produced and celebrated, acclaimed playwrights Kate Hennig, Hannah Moscovitch and Anusree Roy discuss their journeys as writers in Canada and what being women has meant to them in that role at the various stages of their careers.
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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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Cymbeline
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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Much Ado About Nothing
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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Romeo and Juliet
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. -
The Tempest
Movie + 4 extras
FORGIVE AND BE FREE.
In Shakespeare's great drama of loss and reconciliation, a long-deposed ruler uses magical arts to bring within her power the enemies who robbed her of her throne and marooned her on a remote island. But what revenge does she mean to take?By William Shakespeare
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The Wars Remastered
Movie + 1 extra
Based on Timothy Findley's acclaimed novel, the film follows Robert Ross (Brent Carver), a nineteen-year-old Canadian living a protected life with his family in an affluent Toronto suburb. He enlists in World War I after the death of his intellectually disabled sister (Ann-Marie MacDonald) in an ...