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Stratford Festival outdoor summer season announced
Six plays and five cabarets will be performed at two canopies this summer from June to September By Glenn Sumi
Apr 7, 2021
This summer, Stratford will perform under canopies at the Festival Theatre (pictured) and the new Tom Patterson Theatre.
Six plays and five cabarets are on the bill for Stratford Festival’s 2021 outdoor season, to be performed – pending health precautions – under canopies starting in late June. All the works share the theme of metamorphosis, which the festival’s artistic director, Antoni Cimolino, says is significant.
“As butterflies shedding their cocoons, we are poised to emerge from this pandemic,” says Cimolino in a press release today.
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The Stratford Festival is transforming, for this summer, into an outdoor festival offering a season of six plays and five cabarets reflecting on the theme of Metamorphosis, with performances held under beautiful canopies that will hark back to the Festival s founding under a tent in 1953. We are hopeful that the current Ontario lockdown and the vaccination program will enable a successful outdoor summer season, says Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino. As butterflies shedding their cocoons, we are poised to emerge from this pandemic.
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From tragedy comes change.
For the Stratford Festival, the tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic not only transformed the way this season’s six plays and five cabarets will be presented, it changed how we see ourselves as individuals, its artistic director days, shining a spotlight on our collective impact on society and the world around us.
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In a way, actors, audiences and the festival as a whole have undergone a kind of metamorphosis over the past year, a concept that Antoni Cimolino said he wanted to reflect in this scaled-down outdoor season’s playbill and casting.
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Despite Ontario being on a so-called “emergency brake” lockdown, the Stratford Festival is going full-speed ahead toward the summer, announcing a comeback season to be presented under custom-made canopies starting in late June.
Thank goodness for that. Artistic director Antoni Cimolino’s unveiling of a six-play, five-cabaret playbill provides much-needed hope for the province’s ravaged theatre industry less than a week after performing arts centres were shut down again, in some places for a fourth time this pandemic, because of a third wave of COVID-19.
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