The Stratford Festival comes to CBC with spectacular performances of King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, King John and more. The Stratford Festival has been setting the standard for classical theatre in North America for more than 60 years. Since its revolutionary first season in 1953, it has welcomed more than 26 million theatregoers from around the world, people who flock to this small Canadian town for one reason: an unparalleled quality of performance.
Episodes
Stratford Festival Timon of Athens
Timon’s compulsive generosity makes him the most popular man in Athens – until his funds run out. Now, embittered by ingratitude, what will he do when his city comes under attack?
- 2018
- 01:57:41
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/30/2020
Stratford Festival Romeo and Juliet
Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, are embroiled in a long-standing and deadly feud. One night, Romeo, a Montague, gate-crashes a party being given by the Capulets.
- 2018
- 01:57:47
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/13/2020
Stratford Festival The Tempest
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? Staring Martha Henry as Prospero and Michael Blake as Caliban.
- 2019
- 01:57:48
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/13/2020
Stratford Festival Coriolanus
The Stratford Festival's "riveting" and "exhilarating" (The New York Times) production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, directed by genre-defying theatre artist Robert Lepage, explores the age-old tensions that still tear at the heart of democracy. Starring André Sills as Coriolanus.
- 2019
- 01:57:47
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/13/2020
Stratford Festival Macbeth
This Shakespeare favourite is a haunting story of ambition and its dark consequences, where a military hero and his wife conspire to seize the throne of Scotland. Starring Ian Lake as the power-mad Scottish King and Republic of Doyle's Krystin Pellerin as a charming but devious Lady Macbeth, the show was among the festival's top-selling tickets of all time.
- 2017
- 01:55:48
- 15-17
- Added on: 02/13/2018
Stratford Festival Love's Labour's Lost
Four young men swear off women to devote themselves to learning – only to fall for four attractive newcomers. Shakespeare’s language reaches its most virtuosic heights in a vivacious comedy that will dazzle and delight.
- 2017
- 01:55:52
- 15-17
- Added on: 02/13/2018
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