The Stratford Festival of Canada, a popular summer destination for Midwesterners, has announced its 2015 season, themed around “eureka” moments, which it defines not unlike how Oprah Winfrey defined “Aha!” moments.
Unsurprisingly, given the theme, the 2015 season includes William Shakespeare's “Hamlet” (to be directed by artistic director Antoni Cimolino), along with Shakespeare's “The Taming of the Shrew,” to be directed by Chris Abraham. The British director John Caird will helm his first Stratford production, Shakespeare's “Love's Labour's Lost.”
In the Tom Patterson Theatre, Scott Wentworth will direct “Pericles.” Cimolino also will direct Ben Jonson's rarely seen piece, “The Alchemist.”
Musicals include two Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein classics: “The Sound of Music,” directed by Donna Feore, and “Carousel,” directed by Susan D. Schulman.
Other shows on the slate include Oliver Goldsmith's 18th century comedy “She Stoops to Conquer,” directed by Martha Henry; “The Diary of Anne Frank,” directed by Jillian Keiley; Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex,” directed by Daniel Brooks; and Friedrich Durrenmatt's “The Physicists,” directed by Miles Potter. New works slated for the small Studio Theatre include “Possible Worlds” by Mitchell Cushman and “The Last Wife” by Kate Hennig.
Tickets go sale to the public in January;
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