The Merry Wives of Windsor at Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Falstaff is played by long-time Festival star Geraint Wyn Davies and his performance is an unalloyed delight from start to finish. Even so, Tom Rooney almost steals the show with his splendid turn as the might-be cuckolded Ford.
Hosanna at Stratford Shakespeare Festival
Hosanna I was so captivated by Michel Tremblay’s For The Pleasure Of Seeing Her Again at the 2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival that I looked forward to seeing Hosanna, a 1973 play that I gather helped establish his reputation as a major French-Canadian playwright. It turns out I had seen it before. Not this play specifically, […]
The Homecoming at Stratford Shakespeare Festival
The Homecoming Harold Pinter is a playwright of such profound idiosyncrasy that he has his very own adjective – Pinteresque. And if ever there was a Pinter play that deserves that soubriquet it’s The Homecoming, which is being given a top drawer, if somewhat flawed, revival by the Stratford Shakespeare Festival at their downtown Avon […]
Grapes of Wrath At Stratford Shakespeare Festival
This is tough theater to watch but if you can take it (and maybe even if you can’t) it is theater that demands to be seen.